Ty
Mass Media Casualty
+2,398|7061|Noizyland

That's pretty much what Karl Marx reckoned too Alex.

Also John, I think you're confusing Orson Wells and George Orwell which, considering their names, is a pretty easy mistake to make.
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Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6888|132 and Bush

Diesel_dyk wrote:

I for one am glad we're taking the cheaper solution on this one... nothing like blowing another trillion dollars out your ass because you wanna walk like a cowboy. And at least we're not going to get the pitch of a lying door to door salesman on this one.... After all we've learned a bit since the run up to the Iraq war and it goes like this.

[url](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A)[/url]
We went to war because GB wanted to walk like a cowboy? Bush derangement syndrome strikes again. Sometimes I envy the simple world.

ATG even get's it closer than you, and he's a self proclaimed conspiracy nutter. Carter, Reagan, GHB, Clinton, and GWB all helped create a policy that made war an Iraq invasion palatable.
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Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
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JohnG@lt wrote:

ATG wrote:

I just believe that national interest have been superceeded by corporate interests, and because of that America is doomed to be engaged in endless wars.

You gotta remember; both Hugo Chavez and Iminadinnerjacket ( who is not the big cheese, but a spokeshole ) and the governments they claim to lead will see their revenues increase when oil goes to $200.00 a barrel when war breaks out.

I am so cynical I believe that assholes from our nation get together with other assholes from other nations and agree to have controlled low level conflicts that keep the bulk of the masses in fear, paranoia and poverty. 


That is why there is a need for a World Wide Revolution.


It will happen. It may be ten years, or five hundred years from now. But, eventually there will be a one world government for the people, by the people and of the people that curtails mass murder for the sake of profit.


That's all modern conflicts are.
One world government... Yikes. Let me guess, a representative democracy where everyone gets along and butterflies flap in the breeze every time an angel gets its wings? Yes, I want to live in a world where I have no choice of the type of government I wish to live under. I want to live in a world where if indeed it is democracy, my vote counts for nothing against the billions of idiots which inhabit this planet. I wish to live in a world that WILL entrench the rich and powerful and create a permanent aristocracy. I wish for all these things.

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Or an even better quote since you seem to be embracing 1984:

Orson Wells wrote:

‘The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?’
And you wish to turn over all the power in the world to these people. Wake up.
This.

TBH I did not think ATG was the type to wish for consolidated power. It is a disastrous prophecy he predicts.

Ty wrote:

Also John, I think you're confusing Orson Wells and George Orwell which, considering their names, is a pretty easy mistake to make.
inb4 war of the worlds?
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Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5645|London, England

Kmarion wrote:

Ty wrote:

Also John, I think you're confusing Orson Wells and George Orwell which, considering their names, is a pretty easy mistake to make.
inb4 war of the worlds?
I did indeed. I claim it's the cold I have and the nyquil I took stopping my brain functions

Nice catch, thank you.

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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6816|Global Command
I'm just saying, we need professional politicians just like we need professional jurors.

Currently we have whore in the former, and wannabe book authors in the later, or the unemployed.
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5645|London, England

ATG wrote:

I'm just saying, we need professional politicians just like we need professional jurors.

Currently we have whore in the former, and wannabe book authors in the later, or the unemployed.
And you think having a single world government would improve that? Really?

What we really need is more competition between the world governments. Not talking war, I'm talking different societal structures that people can choose which they wish to live under. I wish we could implement something like that here in the US. If a state decided it wanted to go full blown socialist the federal government shouldn't hinder it. Same if a state decided it wanted to go the minarchist route, or whatever other form of government people dream up. Competition creates progress, especially when in my example states have to fight each other for human resources. If they tried starting a war the people would flee and they would end up poor. I prefer this a whole lot more to your single world government idea.

Edit - This is why I get so angry when people here in America talk about becoming more European. I don't want that for any real ideological reasons (though this plays a part as well) but because if I wanted to live in Europe I would tap my grandparents citizenship in Germany or Sweden and move there on my own. I'm old enough to have made the choice to live in this country and to make it more like other countries 'just because' is asinine. I prefer living in this country that celebrates individualism instead of collectivism. Where do I flee if America does really become socialist? Am I going to be chased from country to country for the rest of my life trying to find a place where I can live how I want? This scares me.

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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Red Forman
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solution:


snoop and poop

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Reciprocity
Member
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I don't think atg is advocating for a one-world government.  he's saying it's the inevitable conclusion.

he's simply a pessimarxist.

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Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5645|London, England

Reciprocity wrote:

I don't think atg is advocating for a one-world government.  he's saying it's the inevitable conclusion.

he's simply a pessimarxist.

ATG wrote:

That is why there is a need for a World Wide Revolution.


It will happen. It may be ten years, or five hundred years from now. But, eventually there will be a one world government for the people, by the people and of the people that curtails mass murder for the sake of profit.
He 100% did advocate it.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Reciprocity
Member
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JohnG@lt wrote:

Reciprocity wrote:

I don't think atg is advocating for a one-world government.  he's saying it's the inevitable conclusion.

he's simply a pessimarxist.

ATG wrote:

That is why there is a need for a World Wide Revolution.


It will happen. It may be ten years, or five hundred years from now. But, eventually there will be a one world government for the people, by the people and of the people that curtails mass murder for the sake of profit.
He 100% did advocate it.
I read it more as his cynical resolution for an unfixable system.   Not something he necessarily wants.

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S3v3N
lolwut?
+685|6805|Montucky
We don't need a world wide revolution.  The world needs to be united for the good of humankind.




now that is wishfull thinking..
ATG
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JohnG@lt wrote:

Reciprocity wrote:

I don't think atg is advocating for a one-world government.  he's saying it's the inevitable conclusion.

he's simply a pessimarxist.

ATG wrote:

That is why there is a need for a World Wide Revolution.


It will happen. It may be ten years, or five hundred years from now. But, eventually there will be a one world government for the people, by the people and of the people that curtails mass murder for the sake of profit.
He 100% did advocate it.
I did.

I think we need to do away with money and any sort of a caste system.

I think that without a money system the quest for personal power would be curtailed. If we all knew we had food, shelter, education, healthcare and retirement taken care of we could focus in on important things like sustainable living, mobile communities ( after all, climate change, volcanoes or any number of scenarios can make areas uninhabitable ) and getting the hell off this planet.

There should be no upper class, and no lower class. There should be no mega rich or starvation.


Think about it, what good could be done with the trillions that have been spent killing each other and keeping each other down.







My ideal future very much resembles a Star Trek like society.


Key in a system I imagine is one where there was capital punishment for a wide range of crimes. After murder and child molestation and rape, corruption, bribe taking and insider trading would be punishable by death.





But, don't worry. Rivers of blood will be split before my system is enacted. Billions will be born into and die while in poverty. At some point, perhaps way far in the future, a system such as I describe will be enacted, or humans will perish as a species by our own hand.
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5645|London, England
What is money?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6816|Global Command
Money is a m3thod of making transactions, which leads to hording, power and corruption.


In the impossible utopia I described, there would be no money. The basics would be given to everybody, and everybody would work towards goals that benefited everybody.

Of course you need to have some people who decide what it is that we all worked towards, and I say that is where the genius of the U.S. Constitution comes back in again.

I say America now is that which our forefathers fled from. It is not what the Thomas Jeffersons imagined, it is what's left over from olde Europe imperialistic ambitions and thievery. The American system of regular rotations of peoples in and out of high positions should be perfect, but it has been corrupted by money. The citizen politicians of the old days wouldn't pass stupid laws so much because two years or four years later they would go back to the farm and live under the rules they passed. Now we have " professional " carreer politicians who are under pressure from the moment they decide to run for office to raise money. They trade policy for financial gain, write laws that make themselves immune from the laws they pass, and get caught blatantly taking bribe money all of the time.


Eh, I say fuck 'em.



Take away the money and have people all schooled roughly equally rotate in and out of office every two years. Politics should be more like conscription where it is mandated, and at the end of your service you are done and go back to your life. In some ways, I would admit to having radical socialist leanings. I just don't think there will ever be true socialism as long as there are people able to stay in power forever and a money system that creates vast wealth for some and poverty for others.

I know there's a contradiction there. I said we need professional politicians earlier, and I say we should have no money.

What we need is to have the focus on money negated.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6888|132 and Bush

ATG can you please copy pasta that in the money thread? .. This is getting way off track.
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ATG
Banned
+5,233|6816|Global Command
I disagree sir.

My thoughts on how money effects U.S. policy and imo defines Obamas choices in regards to Iran came before his thread. My posts were in fact, on topic.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

HAHA because the forefathers envisioned a nation without money. That is where we have gone astray.

okay okay now I'm really going to stay away
I was referring the way we set terms and limit how long people can hold high office. Unlike nations that have kings and queens and centuries on entrenched royalty.  The world without money is my vision, and you will thank me when I am dictaor and make this happen post haste.
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6994|67.222.138.85
The forefathers didn't even put a Presidential term limit.

Your Utopia you keep describing has nothing to do with what we should do here and now in the next year about Iran.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6888|132 and Bush

ATG wrote:

I disagree sir.

My thoughts on how money effects U.S. policy and imo defines Obamas choices in regards to Iran came before his thread. My posts were in fact, on topic.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

HAHA because the forefathers envisioned a nation without money. That is where we have gone astray.

okay okay now I'm really going to stay away
I was referring the way we set terms and limit how long people can hold high office. Unlike nations that have kings and queens and centuries on entrenched royalty.  The world without money is my vision, and you will thank me when I am dictaor and make this happen post haste.
Monetary policy can be interjected in nearly every topic here.

There is a MORE RELATIVE topic now.. but whatever.
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ATG
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Flaming_Maniac wrote:

The forefathers didn't even put a Presidential term limit.

Your Utopia you keep describing has nothing to do with what we should do here and now in the next year about Iran.
It does too, you just can't grasp it.

And if what you say about our forefathers is true, why have the terms been mostly four or eight years since Washington?
Mekstizzle
WALKER
+3,611|6908|London, England
Any war with Iran would just make things so much worse for Iraq and Afghanistan, especially Iraq. Things are going good in Iraq now, a war with Iran would just undo all that good, even if Iran are trying to make things hard in Iraq. In the wider context, a war with Iran is stupid.

Israel also positively cannot attack Iran without neighbouring support. They would need one of the Arab countries to give them a corridor to attack Iran, and I just don't see that happening. People always talk about Israel attacking Iran but they can't do it, not on their own. Any war with Iran would step things back big time on the War on Terror.

I would really like to see the fucking A-jod administration go though, the Iranians clearly didn't vote for him. TBH, if they do get bombed to shit. The faggots like A-jod deserve to and that regime deserves to die in a fire.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6888|132 and Bush

No one meaningful is saying war.
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Bradt3hleader
Care [ ] - Don't care [x]
+121|6223
I don't know what to think about this stuff.

I think the U.S. should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan now, they don't really need us in Iraq now or do they?

I mean it's so stupid, the US invades Iraq, and wonder why it's not over when Iraq's neighbor is shipping stuff into Iraq by the truckloads to continue the fighting. Then you've got Afghanistan where the exact same thing is happening, but through Pakistan.

But for some reason we haven't touched Pakistan or Iran.

Can somebody explain all this to me please?
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6816|Global Command
We have dropped tonnes of bombs and rockets inside Pakistan.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6962|Canberra, AUS

Bradt3hleader wrote:

I don't know what to think about this stuff.

I think the U.S. should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan now, they don't really need us in Iraq now or do they?

I mean it's so stupid, the US invades Iraq, and wonder why it's not over when Iraq's neighbor is shipping stuff into Iraq by the truckloads to continue the fighting. Then you've got Afghanistan where the exact same thing is happening, but through Pakistan.

But for some reason we haven't touched Pakistan or Iran.

Can somebody explain all this to me please?
Hey if you want to go fight a war then fight away... the rest of us prefer not to.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
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Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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ATG wrote:

They threaten to shut the Straits of Hormuz constantly.
Only in response to western meddling.
They were assisting the resistance in Iraq and building devices that killed our soldiers.
Supposedly, no actual evidence was actually put forward. Still, the US paid Iraq to kill Iranians, what do you expect?
They openly say that Israel should be wiped off the map.
Not our problem.
They have a history of violations of international arms laws and treaties.
Who doesn't?
They have a fanatical leadership that believes in a Biblical clash with the West and dooms day rewards.
And the US has a fanatical leadership (on and off) which believes in a biblical clash and doomsday rewards - hence the unquestioning support for Israel.
Fuck Israel

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