The U.S. as seen from a world perspective, politically. Your opinion please!

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well, just like to remind everyone here:

we live on the same earth

[Moridin]

John D.

I am not going to look up the numbers right now, but I will

But just let me throw something your way...Let us say that the US consumes 50% but is responsible for 40% of the emissions, what is that a 5 to 4 ratio, now let's say that another country has .5% of consumption and 1% of emissions, a 1 to 2 ration, therefore less efficient. Are you saying that we should really make that country reduce their emissions, and that we are OK with our 40%? Look at it this way...if the country with 1% of the total reduces their emissions by 100% that is a 1% drop in total emissions, whereas the US would only need to drop their emissions by 2.5% for a 1% drop in world total...do you see what I am getting at? Even though our country is more efficient, it still benefits the world for us to reduce our emissions b/c we can do it much easier.

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[SSJ4Sephiroth]

Originally posted by Liliara: Originally posted by SSJ4Sephiroth: hmm, nice impersonation of the typical American... its a shame that it seems like none of the people who are in power in the States seems to care about that anywhere near how much they put in their pocket. and the political system is so corrupt its not even funny. power is no longer made by the people here, it is bought from corporations who promote the man's campaign until were all too brainwashed to vote for anyone else. im not even gonna start on the media, theres just too much to hate there... I've kept silent as long as I can. I can understand other countries putting America down, but when it comes to my supposed fellow countrymen airing our dirty laundry for the whole world to see, I begin to get irate! I am tired of the so called 'Americans' here putting down our country. If you have problems that are so bad that you feel you need to discuss them with everyone around the world, then you obviously feal that you would have it better somewhere else. My response? GO THERE!!!!!!!! You bring shame to the men who have fought and died to keep America the superpower that it is! I understand not aggreeing with everything that happens here, but keep it among Americans! If you love this country, then keep the family's problems within the family!

however, these are not the family's problems, they are the worlds, problems and i will voice what i truly think about them. im not TOTALLY blaming us for everything, but we ARE a large cause of it. nationalism cant hide the facts, we contribute very much to global warming. our 'bigger and better' business attitude has created more polution, and with that SUV craze, we're just wasting more gas than we have to, and then people complain about gas prices being too high when it was partly their fault to begin with by buying those gas guzzlers!

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It's simple. Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury...What would happen if there was an injury that threatened the very life of the Planet? Think how much energy would be gathered! Ha, ha, ha. And at the center of that injury, wil be me. All that boundless energy will be mine. By merging with the energy of the Planet, I will be come a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet, I will cease to exist as I am now. Only to be reborn as a 'God' to rule over every living soul.


Super Sephiroth, slayer of the Uber Fluffy, and battle co-ordionator and defender of the HADB clan.

Diplomacy is all and well, but HADB is better!

[Rahnid]

Originally posted by Liliara: I've kept silent as long as I can. I can understand other countries putting America down, but when it comes to my supposed fellow countrymen airing our dirty laundry for the whole world to see, I begin to get irate! I am tired of the so called 'Americans' here putting down our country. If you have problems that are so bad that you feel you need to discuss them with everyone around the world, then you obviously feal that you would have it better somewhere else. My response? GO THERE!!!!!!!! You bring shame to the men who have fought and died to keep America the superpower that it is! I understand not aggreeing with everything that happens here, but keep it among Americans! If you love this country, then keep the family's problems within the family!

Please excuse the arggressive nature of what I'm about to say! Liliara I've got your back babe!( by the way...nice pic!!!)I have to admit its been a long time since I've seen quite a collection of morons and retards in one string! I have the right and ability to place a string of letters after my name(not to mention 12 years of PROUD military service) that would make most of your english professors wonder if that many consonants exist. I'm sick of the little faggity a*s opinions of the current state of American foreign policy in the world without a remotely researched view point. The chinese spy plane incident was the fault of the chinese! "A SMALL PROP AIRPLANE IS INCAPABLE OF PROPOSING A THREAT OR EVEN KEEPING UP WITH ANY TURBINE JET DRIVEN AIRCRAFT!" use your brain !!!!! Put your ignorant statements where they belong,.....perhaps in the local high school newspaper! If any Americans are tired of the way things are progressing here, perhaps you should seek out other places to reside and stop disgracing the men and women who have allowed you the right to voice your protests and who have died for a**holes just like you! I am sick of hearing the uneducated views of people who have never felt what it's like to carry a friend who has been killed in the line of duty serving the country that spits on them when they have died to keep "their" right to act like fu*king jerks alive. So any one of you who think for one moment that there is somewhere out there better suited for what life has to offer, I say "pack your SH*T AND GET THE FUC* OUT OF HERE" join up with billy bob what's his face who thinks that socialism is the "WAY" and live happly ever after! Anyway, keep your rude and insulting opinions to yourself!!!!!

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Rahnid

... damnit, man, you gave me a very good impression when I first saw your post. of course, you can get angry, but for what good does it do? I really don't ■■■■■■■ care some of the posts (people) here, neither should you. just relax, man, some people just won't understand. (maybe unless they are in your shoes)

those people also including myself, because I disagree with what you said about plane crash. it is just... what the ■■■■, coola down man.

[Rahnid]

Originally posted by SSJ4Sephiroth: however, these are not the family's problems, they are the worlds, problems and i will voice what i truly think about them. im not TOTALLY blaming us for everything, but we ARE a large cause of it. nationalism cant hide the facts, we contribute very much to global warming. our 'bigger and better' business attitude has created more polution, and with that SUV craze, we're just wasting more gas than we have to, and then people complain about gas prices being too high when it was partly their fault to begin with by buying those gas guzzlers!

Which brings me back to my original thought....

If you think we are causing so many problems in America, move to a country where you think that they do better, and you think that you are better off.

If you don't have the nerve to up and move to another country who has your veiws, then you are basically admitting that you have it better here.

By the way, I was not only speaking to you, but to all Americans here who think it will help to spout off to other countries instead of rectifying the problems within our own government first!



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[Sir Taliesin]

Originally posted by Rahnid: Please excuse the arggressive nature of what I'm about to say! Liliara I've got your back babe!( by the way...nice pic!!!)I have to admit its been a long time since I've seen quite a collection of morons and retards in one string! I have the right and ability to place a string of letters after my name(not to mention 12 years of PROUD military service) that would make most of your english professors wonder if that many consonants exist. I'm sick of the little faggity a*s opinions of the current state of American foreign policy in the world without a remotely researched view point. The chinese spy plane incident was the fault of the chinese! "A SMALL PROP AIRPLANE IS INCAPABLE OF PROPOSING A THREAT OR EVEN KEEPING UP WITH ANY TURBINE JET DRIVEN AIRCRAFT!" use your brain !!!!! Put your ignorant statements where they belong,.....perhaps in the local high school newspaper! If any Americans are tired of the way things are progressing here, perhaps you should seek out other places to reside and stop disgracing the men and women who have allowed you the right to voice your protests and who have died for a**holes just like you! I am sick of hearing the uneducated views of people who have never felt what it's like to carry a friend who has been killed in the line of duty serving the country that spits on them when they have died to keep "their" right to act like fu*king jerks alive. So any one of you who think for one moment that there is somewhere out there better suited for what life has to offer, I say "pack your SH*T AND GET THE FUC* OUT OF HERE" join up with billy bob what's his face who thinks that socialism is the "WAY" and live happly ever after! Anyway, keep your rude and insulting opinions to yourself!!!!!

Whoa Dude! Chill!!! And before you light into me, I also fought for this country, for exactly those same reasons. So everyone had the right to speak up and say what they thought. It doesn't matter if I agree with them or not. For the most part I agree with Magik, Conan and John D., but I also respect Skywalker and the others opinions. That doesn't mean I like their opinions or agree with them. But it is still their right to speak out on things they don't like. There is no need for a flame war here!!!



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Sir Taliesin



If they take my gun can I still use my Axe?

[Moridin]

Originally posted by Rahnid: Please excuse the arggressive nature of what I'm about to say! Liliara I've got your back babe!( by the way...nice pic!!!)I have to admit its been a long time since I've seen quite a collection of morons and retards in one string! I have the right and ability to place a string of letters after my name(not to mention 12 years of PROUD military service) that would make most of your english professors wonder if that many consonants exist. I'm sick of the little faggity a*s opinions of the current state of American foreign policy in the world without a remotely researched view point. The chinese spy plane incident was the fault of the chinese! "A SMALL PROP AIRPLANE IS INCAPABLE OF PROPOSING A THREAT OR EVEN KEEPING UP WITH ANY TURBINE JET DRIVEN AIRCRAFT!" use your brain !!!!! Put your ignorant statements where they belong,.....perhaps in the local high school newspaper! If any Americans are tired of the way things are progressing here, perhaps you should seek out other places to reside and stop disgracing the men and women who have allowed you the right to voice your protests and who have died for a**holes just like you! I am sick of hearing the uneducated views of people who have never felt what it's like to carry a friend who has been killed in the line of duty serving the country that spits on them when they have died to keep "their" right to act like fu*king jerks alive. So any one of you who think for one moment that there is somewhere out there better suited for what life has to offer, I say "pack your SH*T AND GET THE FUC* OUT OF HERE" join up with billy bob what's his face who thinks that socialism is the "WAY" and live happly ever after! Anyway, keep your rude and insulting opinions to yourself!!!!!

Who is uneducated? Can you please explain to me what military service has to do with caring about the world? Can we not live in the US and still critisize it? I have yet to see a single person on this board say the US is a bad place to live. I am thankful for the veterans of all of our wars (btw in my family I have had 1 grandfather, 1 great-uncle, 1 uncle, 2 of my fathers cousins, and one of my cousins die fighting for our freedom!) but does that mean I have to just accept that our President is an idiot? Do we not have the right of citizens to question things?

I can see your anger, but I think it is a bit excessive...next time you come to post a load of s*** like you did, perhaps you should read a little more about the people you are so quick to criticize

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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig
I've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time
Bossman of Better Funny Stuff.....of the Laughing Hyenas!

[SSJ4Sephiroth]

Rahnid, i believe my family has earned the right to live here, and im not leaving anytime soon, just because my opinions are the truth about whats happening. both of my grandfathers fought in world war 2, and one of them spent 4 years in a Japanese internment camp! i believe that more than earns the right for my family to be here for a long, LONG time considering how mistreated prisoners of the Japanese were during WW2. and also, i will not cover up what i truly think just because i want to seem 'patriotic' or something, because i dont lie about things like that. i always tell the truth about what i think. however, that spy plane incident WASNT our fault by a long shot. we've been doing observation missions like that for years, and nothing like that has ever happened before. i dont think that flying straight-on with a chinese fighter was the intent of the crew, it was obviously the fighter's.

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It's simple. Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury...What would happen if there was an injury that threatened the very life of the Planet? Think how much energy would be gathered! Ha, ha, ha. And at the center of that injury, wil be me. All that boundless energy will be mine. By merging with the energy of the Planet, I will be come a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet, I will cease to exist as I am now. Only to be reborn as a 'God' to rule over every living soul.


Super Sephiroth, slayer of the Uber Fluffy, and battle co-ordionator and defender of the HADB clan.

Diplomacy is all and well, but HADB is better!

[250]

man, this sounds like a peasant wisdom, what about black racism?

lets head back to the time when black people were discriminated. they had people like you back then, Rahnid. and what do you say to people who fought against discrimination?

do you tell them to "F*** OFF, pack up and get the f*** out here" because you had fought and bled for this country? while the others had been sitting there bitching because people like you gave them the chance?

History is repeating itself, and truely thankfully, for people like you, Americans can strive for their country's good. dare I say, you and those a$$wholes & retards you named are fighting for the same cause

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