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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Sept 16, 2011 11:26:13 GMT -6
Important warning about Big Brother, or crackpot conspiracy theory? You decide!
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 4, 2011 11:21:15 GMT -6
So Occupy Wall Street has been protesting for some time now, but you may not have heard/read their demands. This is some classic stuff, and should maybe be in the Something Silly thread, but I put it here, cause it's also scary in a silly sort of way; yes, people really think like this. Here's the list in case you don't want to sully your computer by clicking the link: And, since I know you can't wait and are breathless with anticipation... 1. Yeah, because "trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing" had nothing whatsoever to do with the Great Depression... 2. Yeah, because government interference in the healthcare system hasn't had any effect whatsoever on said healthcare system already. I mean, look at other countries, single-payer system has worked so well there! 3. Looking back at #1 and the $20 minimum wage that I didn't mention earlier, uh, does this mean that you get $20 an hour whether you're working or not? Sweet! Nothing but video games and internet porn for me from now on, all day, every day!! 4. Yes! I demand that you teach me so that I can earn good money! $20 an hour, pfft, that just won't cut it. Oh, wait, I won't be working anyway in this utopia. Moving on... 5. That's right, Goddess Earth is being destroyed by man's rapacious drawing of fossil fuels from the Her Most Holy Body. End it now! Replace efficient fossil fuels with inefficient and expensive green energy that, well, doesn't quite work all too good. Supply and demand? Fuck that, this is utopia! 6. Make the rich pay for our roads! (Actually, there are some serious infrastructure problems, but I guarangoddamteeya that these ppl expect the trillion dollars to come from the evil rich. Pop quiz, hotshot, how much money do you think the rich actually have?) 7. Yes! About time we get back to another Goddess Earth demand! Just look back to FDR's New Deal, which did so much to end the Great Depression. What's that, you say? It didn't work? Fuck you, we're talking about Most Holy Goddess Earth!! 8. Bout goddam time, cause-- What? We do? Well I'll be... (Actually, I don't think there's an actual amendment, but c'mon, seriously? How many fucking equality laws do we really need?) 9. No borders! One world government now! Our immigration laws are racist and are enforced far far too strictly, and it needs to stop right now! 10. Yes, international standards! Elections in other countries are always - always - legal and accurate. (Really, the only thing that bothers me about this is the word "international standards." Okay, two words, but yeah.) 11. YYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! FREE HOUSE!!! FREE CAR!!! MORE FREE STUFF THAN I COULD EVER IMAGINE...AND I CAN IMAGINE A LLLLLLOOOOOOOTTTTTTTT!!!1!!!!!!11!! OHMYGODTHISISSOFUCKINGAWESOME!!!!!!!!! 12. Fucking FreeCreditReport.com, God I hate em, they should all be-- What's that? See #11? Hmm... 13. God I love unions. Fucking corporations paying me with fake money that I can only spend at the company store, and everything's so expensive that I have to keep borrowing. It's not fair! I want to be paid in real money! I mean... Oh, for Chrissakes, now what?! Oh. Yeah, I do get paid with real money, don't I. And I should see numbers 1, 2, 3, and 11? Hang on... Ah, good point! Thank you, Mr. Marx! In other news, ESPN running Hank Williams Jr.'s song before Monday Night Football would be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu. Did Bocephus actually just compare Glorious Leader to Der Fuhrer?! I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! (For reference: comparison, analogy.) |
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Post by redshirt on Oct 4, 2011 11:57:58 GMT -6
Sadly most American's are so stupid they think these are good things, or they give you a blank stare cuz they are more interested in who won American Idol than why their country is going to be destroyed in the next 12 months.
The media has been going to the left for decades. Anyone who things they are impartial needs to put their head back in the sand. HWJ is just the latest victim of political correctness.
Sorry for preaching to the choir. It just pissed me off to know we are just months away from having Jew's dying in concentration camps again and most people are clueless.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 4, 2011 13:26:12 GMT -6
The media has been going to the left for decades. Anyone who things they are impartial needs to put their head back in the sand. HWJ is just the latest victim of political correctness. Yeah, I'm a big fan of the First Amendment: say what you want, suffer the consequences. The problem is the PC media decides not only the consequences (by shoving down your throat what gets reported and how it gets reported), but also what you say (the analogy becomes a comparison in this specific case, and many, many gratuitous examples of taking shit out of context). Now, Bocephus didn't exactly make a great analogy (Hitler:Netanyahu::Obama:Boehner, really?), but still. ESPN caved to the idea of political correctness. It was a business decision, and it may have been the right one, unfortunately. But it was definitely a cowardly move. |
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Post by redshirt on Oct 25, 2011 16:49:41 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 27, 2011 13:38:57 GMT -6
Okay, I made it through about an hour of this. I'll admit, I'm not a big Glenn Beck fan. While I may (and most likely do) agree with much of what he has to say, I don't like how he presents it. I find him to be preachy and I don't like his brand of showmanship (although I do like showmanship, just not his). I'm not sure why, but that's how I feel. Having said that, well, hmm. I guess I have no segue.... However, as I was watching this, I got to thinking about my own views on capitalism. (I admit that my thoughts were also influenced by the book series I'm reading: the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I'm on #8, and I must say that it's a really good series. It's no Song of Ice and Fire, but it's every bit as brutal and engaging and all that. Unfortunately, Erikson seems to hate capitalism and obviously believes that the only way a person can get rich and stay that way is by "exploiting the working class" [pretty sure that's a direct quote from the Communist Manifesto] and being an evil bully. I mean, every single character in the book that has money is an evil bully, and most other important characters tend to go on lengthy soliloquies about the exploitative religion of coin...) So, my views on capitalism. If I can provide a service and/or good that somebody else finds valuable, I want to be rewarded for this. If I know that I will be rewarded for my efforts, my efforts will be performed to the best of my ability. The better my rewards, the better my effort. And I can use those rewards to obtain stuff, so the more the rewards, the more the stuff. Now, this stuff may or may not make me happy, but I want the rewards so I can obtain the stuff and therefore find out if it makes me happy. If it does, rock on. If the stuff obtained by my rewards doesn't make me happy, well, I can work to obtain more rewards and use those to obtain more stuff and maybe that will make me happy. And so it goes. Now, you might be thinking, "why can't everybody have an equal amount of rewards, and therefore an equal amount of stuff, and therefore an equal amount of happiness? I love everybody, so everybody should be just as happy as me!" Noble thought, my friend, noble thought. I agree, everybody should be just as happy as everybody else. So how do we do that? Well, everybody needs an equal amount of stuff. Now, before we get carried away, let's define "stuff." By "stuff" I don't mean just material shit. The definition of stuff here is what you can get by rewards you earn by effort. For example, the effort is getting up and going to work every day, the reward is the paycheck you take home on payday, the stuff is your house, your vehicle, hot and cold running water, electricity, the internet, a bigass tv, that video game that came out yesterday, or a couple McRibs and fries (good God I love McRibs!). Or, effort is smiling at the cute girl that comes into work every morning between 7:00 and 7:30 and saying hello, the reward is that she notices you, and the stuff is that she stops to talk to you one day (which then becomes effort is you ask her out, reward is she says okay, and stuff is, well...). So, everybody should have an equal amount of stuff, and therefore an equal amount of happiness. But since some people have more stuff than others (just look around, it's true), should we take stuff from people that have it and give it to those that don't? Well, that would be stealing. Where does the stuff come from? Well, rewards, obviously. So we make sure that everybody has the same amount of rewards; we're not stealing, because we haven't taken anybody's stuff. We can't make sure that everybody puts forth the same amount of effort, but we can control the reward, and therefore, since everybody has the same amount of reward, they will be able to get the same amount of stuff, and therefore - eureka! - the same amount of happiness! Problem solved. But wait. I put forth more effort than Billy Bob, but he gets the same amount of reward that I do. Screw this, I ain't dumb! Imma put forth less effort than Billy Bob; I mean, shit, my reward is the same no matter what! People are smart. Wait, no, people are stupid, but they're not that stupid. Why put forth effort when any effort (even no effort) gains the same amount of reward? Screw that! Problem is, when there is no effort, there is no reward. The latter comes from the former, and without effort, reward (and therefore stuff and therefore happiness) does not exist. You need an example. Okay, let's say that I have a chicken. Every day I feed this chicken and collect its eggs. So I have a chicken, and its eggs, and feed for it. You don't have this stuff. But in our "everybody is happy" world, you're entitled to eggs (and chicken feed and half the chicken, for that matter). You don't get up every morning to feed the chicken or collect its eggs, and yet you get half the eggs. Is that fair? Don't you think that eventually I'll just quit collecting eggs, or feeding the chicken? Or maybe I'll just quit giving you eggs every day? And maybe then you'll get a stick to just take the eggs from me? And maybe then I'll burn your house down in retribution? And maybe then you kill the chicken so nobody gets eggs, and we both die? Or maybe you say, "hey, I'll feed your chicken for half the eggs." And I'm like, "cool." We both put forth effort (my chicken and I collect the eggs, you feed it), we both get rewards (you get eggs, I don't have to feed it), and we both are happy (both get to eat eggs). Win win. Now, me, I admit, I'm lazy. And I won't for a second claim that I deserve any more than I have. But, I've worked for everything I have. My house, my vehicle, all my stuff, I've worked for it. Do I want more? Of course. Have I earned it? No, no I haven't. I haven't earned anything more than what I have. Choices have consequences, and I've made my choices and am suffering the consequences. And that's the problem with the Occutards - they aren't willing to suffer the consequences of their choices. They believe that they are entitled to all the rewards without having to put forth the effort to earn them. They look at the "1%" who have the stuff that they think they should have, and then have the temerity to demand it for themselves. They haven't put forth the effort, they haven't even tried to gain the rewards. It's wealth envy, plain and simple. "He has something I don't and that makes me MAD!!" Buncha spoiled little brats with a shelf full of trophies and ribbons that read "Participant." Aren't you just a special little snowflake... |
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Post by redshirt on Oct 27, 2011 19:30:38 GMT -6
We all agree that the Occutards are mindless zombies. But I think that most people choose to ignore the fact that they are being used by people who are in bed with communist, anarchists, and worst of all radical Islam.
The people on the streets are saying "Eat the Rich". The people pulling the strings and paying the bills are after the destruction of the Western way of life. George Soros has collapsed 6 country's economy's and made billions doing it for Christ's sake.
And anyone who thinks they can get in bed with Radical Muslim's and put them back in the bottle after the dust clears is sadly mistaken. If the protests in the middle east have proven anything its that the Muslim Brotherhood is gaining power by leaps and bounds. Sharia Law will soon be the rule over most of the planet, I just hope to God I'm dead before it happens here. (But I think it will be sooner than that).
/end rant
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Oct 27, 2011 21:04:22 GMT -6
Yeah, was it Egypt that just had an election wherein they instituted Sharia law? Bad as you think it is here right now, wait til the Muslims get their way....
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 11, 2011 11:44:22 GMT -6
I like Herman Cain. But after--how many women is it now, five?--he was repeatedly accused of sexual harassment, I was starting to think, hmm... Where there's smoke there's fire and all that. And then I read this article: www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47438So is this smoke and mirrors, or is there a little substance to it? I dunno, but it was rather interesting, I thought. (And from what I understand, it's much cheaper and easier to pay a settlement than to take sexual harassment to court. Also, a man can be accused of sexual harassment by complimenting a woman if he doesn't do so in just the right way. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.) |
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Post by redshirt on Nov 11, 2011 16:21:04 GMT -6
And the fact that all of these women have ties to some left wing group is strictly a coincidence.
If they were all traumatized by these so-called cases of harassment why are they all coming forward now? I don't buy a bit of it!
Like Cain or not its pretty obvious what is going on here.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 14, 2011 10:28:37 GMT -6
Little over the top, but Frank Miller goes off on occutards. Now, I'm not saying that Mr. Miller is right, but hey, he's right. While the occutards have every right in the world to protest what they want and say what they want, well, come on. Some of what they've said even makes sense (that's a very small percentage of what they've said, btw, maybe like...wait for it...1%, heh). I agree that business in politics sucks, but on the other hand, the government shouldn't have the power to tell anybody what to do with their property (ie, money), and that includes business. Sucks because rich corporations (I feel so, so dirty for having just typed that) can buy their candidates and buy them into office (this may or may not be why Brother Barry is now our Glorious Leader, but I can't prove that). The way to solve this is for voters to educate themselves, hard to do when the government is in charge of education. And, I'm the first to admit, I don't particularly want to educate myself about how the government and all that really works. I'd much rather watch football and pron, and play DnD and video games. We'd rather vote for the guy that speaks well, is good looking, and isn't George Bush ( whoever that happens to be, because, much like Dragonforce, people just have an unreasoning hatred for him). The issues? Wut iz doez? When voting for the next American Idol or who makes it to the Pro Bowl is more important than voting for the people that will make the laws that will govern your life, well, what do you expect. Sorry about that. I really didn't mean to start preaching ("you keep saying that Fezini..."). I just wanted to share a funny thing I saw on the interwebz. And I really don't care if you agree with my politics or not (although, how could you not agree, right?  ); if you disagree, great! Let's debate! Variety is the spice of life, and all that nonsense. But, if you start talking about the OWS protestors as noble revolutionaries fighting for change and the betterment of all mankind, and then proceed to deride the Tea Party as a bunch of hate-mongering racist greedy millionaire bastards who want to destroy the country, I think the facts may be on my side. I mean, I can't remember any stories about the Tea Party loitering, littering, (allegedly) raping, (allegedly) killing, rioting, destroying public property, doing illegal drugs...  QUASI-EDIT: About the "unreasoning hatred for Bush" statement. I should clarify that not all the hatred is unreasoning, just that most everybody I've ever encountered can't define why they hate him (same goes for Palin, but I digress). War for oil? Maybe, but it can't be proven (although, why we went after Saddam instead of bin Laden when we did, I can't figger it; WMDs? Eh, kinda flimsy. I mean, Saddam didn't fly any airplanes into any of our buildings. Not saying he didn't need to be taken out, just that priorities may have been out of order). And anyway, we go to war for stupid reasons all the time (everything since WW2, imo). But the most damning thing is that W doubled the size of government during his two terms. Doubled. A supposed Republican. This is the party that is supposedly more interested in my bedroom than my wallet (although, he did accomplish some stuff on the other half of the agenda; I'm remembering the stem cell research ban. Science, apparently, is overrated). QUASI-EDIT 2: "the government shouldn't have the power to tell anybody what to do with their property (ie, money), and that includes business." If that's the truth, then what's to stop business from buying their government? Well, if the government was only allowed to do what it's allowed to do, it wouldn't matter. Luckily, there is a document that tells the government exactly what it's allowed to do. It's called the Constitution. TL;DR: click link, laugh, ignore rest |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 18, 2011 10:20:14 GMT -6
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Post by redshirt on Nov 18, 2011 12:56:47 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 25, 2011 14:41:50 GMT -6
GASP! Did you hear?! The president didn't mention God in his Thanksgiving speech! I'm shocked and appalled! The nerve! Who the fuck does he think he is! This arrogant bastard has to go! And other nonsense. Seriously? I read this story last night at work and thought, wow, people get bent out of shape over the stupidest things, but what else is new? And then promptly forgot about it. Of course I'm going to forget about it, I mean, it's a non-story. So I go to have Thanksgiving dinner at parents' house today (and actually have a debate about prayer in public school - she for, me against). Friendly debate, everybody happy, good food. (Yeah, they say you shouldn't discuss religion or politics with family, but we do both with my family, it's just how we roll.) When I leave I turn on the radio, and the dude mentions Obama's Thanksgiving speech. I'm like, haha, okay, get on with more important stuff. But he doesn't. He keeps going on and on and on, and I'm like, is this really that important to you? He says that he can't believe that the president wouldn't mention God in his speech, how he deliberately failed to mention Him. What?! A guy calls in and says, "oh, I agree with you, it's disrespectful and and arrogant, and blah blah blah." Huh?! Dude says go to website and see the shocking video of president not saying God in speech. Bwah?! Dude asks what would happen if some impressionable kid saw president not say God in speech and believed president that Thanksgiving was about community. Dude reads speech by George Washington specifically to point out that first president said God no fewer than six times in his speech about making Thanksgiving holiday. (Dude mispronounces "beneficent" during reading.) At one point dude advocates not only prayer in school (prayer specifically to the Judeo-Christian God) and that intelligent design must be taught in schools (mention of actual scientific theory should be discouraged). Yeah, by then I was actually shouting at radio. I have so many problems with this anger at the Brother Barry's speech. So he didn't mention God. SO WHAT!! IT DOESN'T MATTER!! Of all the countless different things you could choose to talk about on Black Friday, you pick this?! I swear to God (heh), these people just refuse to let any word the man says go un-criticized. God knows, there are a ton of things to criticize about Obama, but is this really one of them? Is it that important to you people? I don't give a flying fuck if the guy is Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, a Satanist, or what. It doesn't fucking matter! It's not about the First Amendment, no matter what these yahoos try to say. Prezbo isn't making a point about separation of church and state, he isn't trying to corrupt the youth of America, he isn't trying to destroy Christianity. He's just making a fucking speech, the same exact bullshit speech every president before him has made. Christ! This is why Republicans fail. They're all about liberty, freedom, and personal responsibility until it gets to your morals, faith, and sexuality. Believe whatever you want to believe so long as you believe in God. Do whatever you want so long as it's something we believe in, too. Have sex with whoever you want to so long as it's a member of the opposite sex (and we'd prefer you were married, too). Please stop trying to legislate morality! I swear, the politics in this country is fucked up. Reps will look over at Dems and say how bad they are for the country. But Dems are just the other side of the same damn coin! They're all about liberty, freedom, and personal responsibility until it gets to your money, your health, and your charity. Hire whoever you want to so long as you give preference to minorities. Eat whatever you want so long as we think it's good for you. Help the poor; you have to, and the more you have, the more you can give, and you will give. Well, you know what? You're both bad for the country! You're all a bunch of fucking hypocrites. You've spent so much time towing your party line that it's starting to look like ain't a damn one of you capable of independent or coherent thought. You can't force me to worship anything I don't want to worship, you can't keep me from eating bacon and tater chips, and if I want to get a lap dance from a transvestite truck driver while wearing a diaper made out of the American flag, drinking a pork grease milk shake out of a cup made of pages from the book of Genesis, and anally masturbating with a loaded Colt 1911, I'm going to fucking do it. So yeah, the president didn't mention God in his bullshit Thanksgiving speech. Must be the end of the world. Just shut the fuck up. 
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 30, 2011 1:12:11 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Nov 30, 2011 13:19:04 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 1, 2011 11:37:36 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 9, 2011 13:08:04 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 30, 2011 10:44:18 GMT -6
Now, while I could talk about SOPA (boo, hiss), Michelle's dress (tax dollars, ftw), or the "I'm an illegal and I done been arrested" hotline (tax dollars, ftw, again), I'm not going to. No, today I want to share some hot chicks playing drums. Drummers fascinate me, especially when they're hot chicks. EDIT: Adding another one (dunno if she's good, but, well...): |
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Dec 31, 2011 7:42:55 GMT -6
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Post by redshirt on Dec 31, 2011 11:26:03 GMT -6
Gracias!! I need to make one of those stoves.
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Post by redshirt on Dec 31, 2011 11:35:38 GMT -6
Oh, and you forgot the best one, Bonus: Yes it is a Backstreet Boys song but that's not why we're here is it. |
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Post by Xombie on Jan 1, 2012 10:00:10 GMT -6
the little drummer girls are awesome!!
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Post by rmsgamer on Jan 3, 2012 13:31:31 GMT -6
I concur, sir!!!
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 7, 2012 1:33:55 GMT -6
EDIT: nvm, but yeah
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Post by redshirt on Jan 19, 2012 22:45:44 GMT -6
On a related note, cute girls with a ukulele.
Very nice voice here.
Hey look, boobs.
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 20, 2012 12:13:20 GMT -6
More silliness, but you need to know:
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Jan 28, 2012 6:24:57 GMT -6
More chick drummers!
Good song, but damn does she just look bored playing it:
Another song, I suppose:
And another:
And one from Meytal just cause:
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Post by redshirt on Jan 29, 2012 23:01:50 GMT -6
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Post by Ixos 2: the Sequel on Feb 1, 2012 10:33:44 GMT -6
I was going to remind everybody to vote tomorrow (if you're interested in the R pres nominee) [EDIT: Er, next week, not tomorrow...], but evidently the primary won't mean anything. Not sure why, something about ya can't have yer primary before a certain date, lots of finger pointing, and MO will have a caucus instead? This is ridiculously confusing and needlessly complicated. I'm a reasonably intelligent fellow, and I don't understand these silly rules they've made up for selecting the most powerful man in the world. So many rules for what is basically just a big popularity contest. After all, how many people do you really think actually vote on the issues? Since that's the case (people not voting on the issues since they don't understand them - and I admit that I don't fully understand all the issues, no matter how much I preach; basically, it's like voting for the Hypnotoad - who's propaganda do you like the sound of more? Course, with the Hypnotoad, you don't have much choice... Alright, that's it, the Hypnotoad 2012!)... Uh, where was I? Oh yeah, since that's the case, why not make the contest actually interesting? Instead of the president being an old man who's only skill is kissing enough ass to become well-known enough to actually run for president, the president should be: - The winner of a battle royale - to the death! This would prove that our leader is strong enough (or skilled enough) to handle any shit from any foreign leaders. Who's going to fuck with anybody that killed possibly dozens of rivals with his bare hands (I would prefer gladiatorial style combat, that way instead of people arguing about immigration, foreign policy, the economy, and gay rights, we'd argue about whether a Dimachaerus could beat a Samnite).
- The winner of a gaming tournament featuring various types of games including mental (such as Chess and MtG) and physical (like horse and hackey sack). This would demonstrate both mental and physical capabilities, but prolly wouldn't prove anything about the "issues."
- Bikini contest. Hottest chick wins. The arguments and name calling would be just as dirty and vicious (if not more), but State of the Union addresses by the winner would actually be fun to watch.
Just a few ideas. Actually, now that I think about it, a combination of all three would be my preference - a huge field of hot bikini chicks grind through a gaming tournament, and then the top 16 fight to the death with swords. Dear Lord, that would be awesome. |
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); if you disagree, great! Let's debate! Variety is the spice of life, and all that nonsense. But, if you start talking about the OWS protestors as noble revolutionaries fighting for change and the betterment of all mankind, and then proceed to deride the Tea Party as a bunch of hate-mongering racist greedy millionaire bastards who want to destroy the country, I think the facts may be on my side. I mean, I can't remember any stories about the Tea Party loitering, littering, (allegedly) raping, (allegedly) killing, rioting, destroying public property, doing illegal drugs... 
