First off I want you to direct quote me where as you say "your blog proved you wrong" Secondly where did I say that I don't know anything about European affairs, I'm quit probably the only one here who was worried about the Super Nazi Le Pen vs. More liberal candidate Jacque Chirac (please excuse my spellings). You have a large tendency to misread things (especially mine) and then bitch about things I didn't say or mean. Moreover, I refer to Europe as a single place because they are consolidating into one. If don't believe me? Look at the Euro for instance, and many of there borders are as open as ours with Canada. They are less of countries and more like states. Lastly, by care about anyone else, I meant "give a rat's ass". Europe could care less about 911. Instead their wee-little governments are too busy enforcing stupid laws like 'No Wolfenstein' in Germany, and how France still keeps their homosexuals in concentration camp like cities (at least this is what I have seen on a pbs special quite a while ago), and yet they bitch at us for not having morals. They are the ones who shall burn, by my hand if necessary.
Stalin was evil. He was the greatest mass murderer of the twentieth century. Stalin was just as horrific of a dictator as Hitler. That said, we had to ally with him. That was the only possible way we would have won WWII. That is the only way that Naziism would have been defeated. If Hitler was not stopped, there is no telling how many people he would have killed. There was no doubt that Hitler had his heart set on world domination, and would have eventually brought war to the United States if the United States did not bring war to him. Russia did not pose the great risk to the U.S. and the entire world that Nazi Germany did, and therefore, we had no reason to declare war on Stalin right after Hitler had declared war on us! I do not have one regret with allying with Stalin to stop Hitler, even in retrospect 60 years later. I just wish that we would have taken George S. Patton's advice and marched our army into Moscow as soon as the Nazis were defeated.
There is no great conspiracy to demonize Hitler and make Stalin look like an angel. Their actions speak for themselves. What possible motivation would U.S. propoganda have to make Stalin look good for the last half-century? We did have a little thing called the Cold War, I don't think that Stalin's stock was high back then. Stop looking for those black helicopters andrew. It will just make you go more insane than you already are.
Wow here is a great American tradition that has been repressed for oh about 50 years! America decided to support Stalin and ally with Stalin a man who killed vastly more people than Hitler ever did. Oh yeah that is right, Hitler killed an atrocious number of people mabye about 10 million people. But here is the kicker Stalin killed 20 million through purges, another 20 million through starvation, and about 10 million on top of that through military strategies that revolved around the fact of hurling bodies at the German machine guns. Now why do we think that Hitler was the wourst man of all time and not Stalin?!?!?! American propoghanda. That is why we want to to forget that we allied Stalin and did nothing to prevent him from killing his own people. Anyone who is reading this don't think that I feel sorry for Hitler, my expression to someone who kills 10 million goes un said, but my point is that America does not care about anyone but itself, and if that means supporting a man who kills 50 million people and then fighting against a man who is killing only 1/5 of that number seems ridiculous. So Jesse when you say that Europe only cares about itself, you should try and take a look at our own American history and look at the fact that we have never, not once, in our history done something to benefit another country that would not benefit us 10 fold.
Jesse, that was probally that most ill informed, egocentric, dumbass comment that I have heard in a long ass time. How the hell could you be so stupid . . . dear God. What is funny though is that your blog proved you wrong. By saying that you admit to that fact that you dont' know anything about European affairs and thus you only care about America and since you learn everything from American news you thus are illinformed by America who only gives a shit about itself. Also how can you refer to "Europe" as one single place it is a merely regional location and to say that Europe is only concerned with Europe you are undermining the fact that Europe is incredibly complicated with many nations and ethnicities. And also it might not be so easy to wag your flag so freely if you removed your head from your ass and realized that America isn't the strongest/ best/ greatest country in the world by any way of catergorizing the best.
I just want to say that Europe cares for no one but them selves, and they are too shut out from the rest of the world and too self loving to be of any signifigence. Europe has achieved nothing in the last 300 years and probably will never again. I care not if Europe supports the untied states actions, for Wisconsin is more powerful than the whole carcass of Europe. Europe is a fa?ade, as are their kings, of its former self. Europe sits around whining and never does anything about it. I say nuke Europe, for they will be the damnation of all.
Yeah, I haven't been paying much attention to the news at hand lately, but I was talking to somebody (can't remember who exactly) but we were discussing censorship. It seems to me that ALL censorship is lame ass to the max. Do the censors believe that people are going to realize somebody says shit because the i is missing? This seems ass backwards to me.
Bush is a horrid diplomat and that is the final answer to all of our problems. Bush can't seem to get the world to support what ever we do no matter what we do. In fact he actually had some difficutly putting together a coalition after 9/11, as a lot of Europe were skeptical about him. Our days of doing what ever we wanted with support from other nations are over. If you look back at Clinton's term no matter what he decided to do the majority of Europe was on our side and now with Bush as our president not even our allies are on our side. And what does Bush do in response . . . Gives them the finger! He doesn't understand that America can't exsist without the help of the other nations of the world and there is no way that we could win a war against Europe. This whole cowboy bullshit that Bush tries to put on is screwing America right up the asshole, but instead of possibly reforming what the fuck does he do . . . pushes more and more and more. Straight up he is ruining our country he is like Louis XV in that he has been handed the most prosperous nation in the world, with yes some issues that need (but could be resolved) and yet he has done everything possible to drive a stake through our nation. And this is just foriegn policy . . . look at domestic policy. He is stripping us of civil liberties and he is going to try and take more and more away, plus there is a new patriot act that is spreading around (I hate to do this but it expressess myself quite well) :( ! The whole Iraqy situation, personally I think that Bush is just throwing a bluff that he is going to war because he is really a big pussy. But no matter if it is a bluff or if he actually is going to war, he has handled this situation horribly. By basically giving the finger to the UN and saying "Bah, you guys dont' know what the fuck you are doing" he has alienated every single nation in the world except for two, the only two that aren't in the UN. And you know what Bush if you diss Kofi you have to mess me with next because I will kick the shit out of you if you keep stepping. Look at our relations with France, Germany and Russia. All three of those nations have refused to aide military support for Turkey (to potentially "protect" Turkey from Iraq) through NATO. And besides the fact that NATO is a horrible organization because military alliances only perpetuate more military alliances, this is the first time that NATO has refused to fold like a deck of cards to the US especially on an issue that the US thought to be so important. Bush does not know what is going on period, but specifically he can't fucking realize that America need allies and by giving the finger to all of our allies is not good policy!
Hey Ben I agree we have come a long ways, our technology, health, age of life, everything has improved and most of all the effiency of killing each other. Means for dismembering someone else's body have advanced more than regular technology and i believe that our increase of technology will hit a peak . . . we are on a speed curve. For those who don't know what that is with motors and such speed and torque are plotted on a graph and the graph increase then hits a point and then decreases, therefore the most efficient amount of torque compared to speed is somewhere in the middle. I believe that benefitial technology and destructive technology are going to be plotted on a similar graph. We are still feeling the benefits of technology but soon enough because we are stupid stupid humans we will fuck ourselves.
Gross is dead on about political hacks. Ideolism blinds many to life's realities. It's human nature. However, politics and everyday life should be in different spheres. Because you do not agree with someone, you they are not necessarily evil or a bad person. Most people are well intentioned, but sometimes misguided or delusioned.
I do not agree with your assessment of the human race. I know that it is cool to act all pessimistic and negative towards humanity, but take a look at how far we have come in the last hundred years. One hundred years ago, we were sleeping in our shit, and dying at age 30. The main mode of transportation was a fucking horse, and a common cold was a major cause of death. If we were going to kill ourselves off, we would have done it by now! We have had nukes for 50 years, and haven't managed to destroy the world yet. Even compared to 20 years ago, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R had nukes pointed at each other, the world in in a more peaceful state. With each generation, there are those who preach that humanity is doomed, that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!! It never fucking happens! If we are so damned evil and flawed, how come we aren't all dead yet? Civilization has lasted 7000 years and we have had nukes for 50 years, yet we are not fucking dead! We are better off as time progresses, not worse, and if you look at the big picture your fucking standard doomsday theory holds no fucking weight. God save us all.
If you look at the conservatives and especially republicans the best word to some them up is heartless. (Yeah, yeah I know you all are going to say that you have a conservative friend who is a nice person, but I am using generalizations because this generalazation is true to the vast majority.) The conservatives try as hard as they can to gain as much money as they can, which isn't neccesarly a bad thing, but they do it at the expense of anyone. To conservatives their only goal is money. Look at their opinion of dealing with business "meh let business do what ever they want!" HA! We have all seen that business tries as much as they can to screw their workers out of any money they could ever achieve, and the conservatives agree with that 100 percent. They believe that by increasing minium wage will in fact increase will bring the average pay amoung the nation (O'Reilly Factor). Conservatives = Fucking heartless pigs.
But all of you heartless conservatives that I have hopefully offended, I am now going to start going off on the fuckign libs. The libs and especially the democrats they do not know how to fucking apprioate money at all. Look at our school, they are cutting teachers salaries and laying off teachers, why? To build a fucking fire place - what fucking morons. Also the government spent 150,000,000 on testing how gay people respond to gay porno videos. How the fuck would they respond, holy shit they are gay for gods sake. The libs love to just randomlly throw money at their problems instead of even considering how they could possibly solved. The waste off cash in this country is exhorborant and that is final.
So to basically sum it up "We are fucked." I truly believe that the reason both ends of the spectrum and everything in between will never allow humans to achieve the potential that we can and must, is because God made humans with a flaw . . . they are all fucking evil, self satisfying, morons, with their fucking heads shoved so far up their fucking poverbial asses that the ever seeing the light of day ever again is completley out of the question. People are made to fuck themselves and we shall be screwed until we either get blown up, blow ourselves up, die out, or somehow mutate with the incredible amount of nuclear waste that this planet will probably succum to.
