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Cthulhu_Spawn stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
I thought and still think you guys are really cool
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Hello gains!
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Cthulhu_Spawn had this to say about Pirotess:
Hello gains!
I am famous. 
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Optimus Prime:
I am famous.
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Elvish Crack Piper had this to say about Pirotess:
So... your coming here to find people to act like, and the first reply was from. Oh dear, this is going to be funny.
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Elvish Crack Piper was naked while typing this:
So... your coming here to find people to act like, and the first reply was from. Oh dear, this is going to be funny.
Not so much looking for someone to act like, but just looking for people who are intelligent and from who I may learn a few new things. SChool is just too boring to try and learn things that don't interest me.
Welcome, welcome!
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Mr. Parcelan wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
'Sup, dawg. Name and stuff aside, you seem pretty bright. Frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't take anything some dork who can't spell better than me seriously...that's ECP.Welcome, welcome!
Cthulhu_Spawn fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 01:16 PM.
please keep one arm out of the ride at all times.
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Cthulhu_Spawn got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Thank you Parcelan. Hopefully I will become another member of this forums zany antics and not become another nightmare like Somthor.
It's not that hard.
1. Spell properly (you've got that down).
2. Contribute meaningful opinions to what you post (no just throwing articles around).
3. Don't be a putz (you seem to have this down).
It'll be grand.
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Trent had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
hello and welcome.please keep one arm out of the ride at all times.
For your other limbs, watch you legs around Karnaj, he may spread them.
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Random Insanity Generator's account was hax0red to write:
cue Mort and the Bucket o' Acid.
You know what's awesome? The boards have changed quite a bit.
1) Mort no longer does this bucket of acid thing.
2) Maradon doesn't complain about necromancers.
3) Nobody roleplays.
4) You're not accepted anymore.
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Maradon! was naked while typing this:
I complain about socialists instead.
Come live in France, and you'll learn what's wrong with socialism.
For starters, the unions rule everything. There's even a union for university students who were able to close the universities for two months last spring to protest having to actually work to find a job (simplistically speaking).
French people pay nearly half of their income to taxes to support early retirement at age 55 and to have free or low cost healthcare, yet that isn't working so well beneath the surface. Healthcare costs are rising, unemployment though down to 8% or 9% is still above the US's 4-5%, and it reaches 25% in the 18-25 year old age group.
Also, companies can't just stop doing business and fire everyone if they are not making money. If they try, they have to pay for their employees' unemployment benefits + job retraining and other benefits.
Most small business are family owned and operated to get around having employees work only a 35 hour work week leading to a lower quality of service.
Et quelle horreur! People in the movie making business who work a set number of hours in a month are guaranteed to make close to the same amount of money when they are not working and are in between jobs. So they actually get paid to sit on their butts (or nightclubbing or sit on the beach) in between jobs.
But this isn't a politics thread Vernaltemptress fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 06:37 PM.
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Vernaltemptress had this to say about (_|_):
What's wrong with Socialism?Come live in France, and you'll learn what's wrong with socialism.
For starters, the unions rule everything. There's even a union for university students who were able to close the universities for two months last spring to protest having to actually work to find a job (simplistically speaking).
French people pay nearly half of their income to taxes to support early retirement at age 55 and to have free or low cost healthcare, yet that isn't working so well beneath the surface. Healthcare costs are rising, unemployment though down to 8% or 9% is still above the US's 4-5%, and it reaches 25% in the 18-25 year old age group.
Also, companies can't just stop doing business and fire everyone if they are not making money. If they try, they have to pay for their employees' unemployment benefits + job retraining and other benefits.
Most small business are family owned and operated to get around having employees work only a 35 hour work week leading to a lower quality of service.
Et quelle horreur! People in the movie making business who work a set number of hours in a month are guaranteed to make close to the same amount of money when they are not working and are in between jobs. So they actually get paid to sit on their butts (or nightclubbing or sit on the beach) in between jobs.
But this isn't a politics thread
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Cthulhu_Spawn booooze lime pole over bench lick:
I know Vernal. I was just joking around. I now have a better grasp of why socialism in practice is horrendous. Sorry if I made you unnecessarily rant.
Apart from the moral repugnance of a society living in abject slavery, collectivism in any form has historically failed every time it has been implimented on any significant scale. It's failure is accompanied by the ultimate degeneration of the human condition, usually culminating in widespread starvation and death the magnitude of which is only rivaled by certain dark age plagues.
Mugabe, Pol Pot, Castro, Vincente Fox - it's the same story, over and over again.
I try to harbor no real animosity towards collectivists - they only want to improve the human condition just like anybody else. It's just that they don't realize the methods they propose are so horribly misconstrued. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 07:52 PM.
BeauChan fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 07:58 PM.
[edit] and welcome newcomer!
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Cthulhu_Spawning:
So, historically based, socialism and collectivism have failed as hard as countries who have tried to implement true communism in real world practice?
Moreover, socialism, fascism, and communism are functionally equivalent. The differences between the three ideaologies are strictly academic:
In order to impliment socialism, you must first be a fascist, because it is only by force of arms that people will tolerate a collectivist regime running their lives for very long. Socialism is at it's core the belief that a centralized administration knows how to fairly allocate wealth, and that the individual does not. Naturally, individuals will not always agree with this despotic administration, and to ensure obedience this administration must be prepared to shoot those individuals just as Castro shot dissenting librarians and burned books.
As a side note, in establishing a collectivist regime, you also establish a true federal aristocracy with unimpeachable power over the livelihood of the people.
In order to believe that socialism will advance the human condition, you must also believe that communism is the ultimate solution to the human condition, as communism is the ultimate expression of socialism. Marx himself first defined socialism as nothing more than a transitionary step toward communism, and the two ideologies are seperated only by degree. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 08:18 PM.
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Maradon! stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Moreover, socialism, fascism, and communism are functionally equivalent. The differences between the three ideaologies are strictly academic:In order to impliment socialism, you must first be a fascist, because it is only by force of arms that people will tolerate a collectivist regime running their lives for very long. Socialism is at it's core the belief that a centralized administration knows how to fairly allocate wealth, and that the individual does not. Naturally, individuals will not always agree with this despotic administration, and to ensure obedience this administration must be prepared to shoot those individuals just as Castro shot dissenting librarians and burned books.
In order to believe that socialism will advance the human condition, you must also believe that communism is the ultimate solution to the human condition, as communism is the ultimate expression of socialism. Marx himself first defined socialism as nothing more than a transitionary step toward communism, and the two ideologies are seperated only by degree.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Cthulhu_Spawn who doth quote:
Wow, you really know alot about this stuff.
Politics is my forte!
Politics and video games. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-23-2006 at 08:19 PM.
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Maradon! was listening to Cher while typing:
Politics is my forte!
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x--Cthulhu_SpawnO-('-'Q) :
Have you majored in political science or do you plan on becoming a politician? I'm fairly certain that you could help rid this country of corruption if you ran for an office and won.
I have thought about someday running for office of some kind, but of my two passions, I am only really very good at storytelling. I am planning on starting my own game development studio.
Maybe if that pans out I will be rich enough to run for some kind of office, heh.
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Maradon! said this about your mom:
I have thought about someday running for office of some kind, but of my two passions, I am only really very good at storytelling. I am planning on starting my own game development studio.Maybe if that pans out I will be rich enough to run for some kind of office, heh.
