The American War Machine - Why America is fucked up

[Utiltrk]

Well,due to American fat asses we are morally and mentally delayed so we can't use communism. Especially republicans and that goddamn bad website politician guy! :argh:

Hint:He looks like a dumb Italian.

[[GRiM]]

[QUOTE=Utiltrk;30077693]Well,due to American fat asses we are morally and mentally delayed so we can't use communism. Especially republicans and that goddamn bad website politician guy! :argh:

Hint:He looks like a dumb Italian.[/QUOTE]

Uhhhh, your English is bad no offense. So what I got out of that is you think all American's are fat retards and you want to use Communism? For 1, shut the fuck up about stereotypes and 2, who the fuck wants to use Communism?

[shatteredwindow]

I agreed with it till the end with the 9/11 conspiracy shit.

[Mr. Bleak]

Huh, I used to think Joe Rogan was a massive idiot but he has some great points there.

[Meller Yeller]

Well it's not perfect but no place is. I would prefer to live here than any other country but that's just my opinion.

[nerdygamer]

So what can we do about it...

[Vasili]

I don't think Joe understands that every country does this, this is the way things have worked way back to Ancient Rome.

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Another problem I have with him is he is quite the conspirator without a lot of backing to his arguments.

[TripleM]

I love Joe Rogan

[Pseudonym]

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;30051455]In the 18th century, we needed representatives because it was physically impossible to hold nation-wide votes on every issue. Now that we can do this, why the hell aren't we?![/QUOTE]

Because yelling "STOP!" wouldn't instantly undo the decades of increasing dependence we have on the building and designing of weapons that's developed as a result of being one of the two main powers in the Cold War. You have no idea what kind of situation you're dealing with here. It's a lot more than just assholes in Washington saying "I want x let's take it from those guys!"

[Melnek]

I love how people in this thread practically dismiss his entire argument just because it was already made in the past and the fact that he swears from time to time.

You people are seriously grasping at straws here, by the way, "its ok because everyone else does so" is not, in any way a valid argument.

[Jo The Shmo]

[QUOTE=MasterG;30097535]You do realise that if you had a true democracy with every single person voting for or against certain policies, you'd probably have the most racist, unfair and biased country on earth right?[/QUOTE]

I disagree, there's actually a relatively small portion of the population who are complete republican white trash, they just have a loud political voice.
And I didn't mean it like voting on [i]every[/i] issue, but just voting on more things, or at least having a little more control over it.

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[QUOTE=Aredbomb;30093716]Because yelling "STOP!" wouldn't instantly undo the decades of increasing dependence we have on the building and designing of weapons that's developed as a result of being one of the two main powers in the Cold War. You have no idea what kind of situation you're dealing with here. It's a lot more than just assholes in Washington saying "I want x let's take it from those guys!"[/QUOTE]

I don't think it would undo anything, I just think it might help with some of the stupid things that representatives sneak into bills just so they can get re-elected.

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;30098045]
I don't think it would undo anything, I just think it might help with some of the stupid things that representatives sneak into bills just so they can get re-elected.[/QUOTE]

Have you ever read the average law they try to pass in Congress? Nevermind how incomprehensible they are to the average person, who would get to "sum it up" and thus wield [I]considerable[/I] power in making the bill sound like, well, anything they want? There [I]are[/I] people in Congress that already do this, specifically lobbyists. Lobbyists, that ultra-powerful section of bureaucracy that Facepunch loves to say really runs the US, you know [I]what [/I]they do? Information and convenience, the average bill for Congress is something around 20-50 pages of unintelligible lawyer jargon, and the job of the lobbyist is to condense said bill into a 1-2 page summary of what's in the bill. If this effects Congressmen (most of them well-versed in law) imagine what they could do so Joe the Plumber "understands" it?

This reminds me of a bill they wanted Ohio to vote on two years ago, Proposition 8 (it was one where the public voted on it.) [I]Every[/I] single commercial you saw about it was saying how it would cause people to lose jobs and people's lives would be ruined. It was very close to not being passed because of the negative image associated with it (after all, what kind of lawmaker would create something simply to ruin lives?)

What was Proposition 8? It was a bill trying to curtail predatory payday loans that sought out poor families, had them make loans, and sucked them into a cycle of being continually in debt whilst [I]profiting[/I] from their misfortunes at the loaners on hands. A pretty small-time group with a little bit of money was almost able to convince an entire state that what their state government's doing is wrong and that they're in the right. Now imagine that for the entire country voting on a multi-billion dollar issue.

[Zios]

IMO most americans are feeling a rectum discomfort upon finding out they're country is a bully.
in the '70s the US payed idunno how much millions dollars for nepal to make weed and hash illegal.
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The Nepal government 40million$ to make it illegal, 1974 was when the usa govnmt paid them. There used to be legal hash shops in Kathmandu, where you could try the finest hashish in the world, safely and casualy. Once the hash wash made illegal , that put it in the hands of street thugs/heroin addicts. Now the protocol of the unsuspecting tourist , is to walk down the street in Thamel, kathmandu, and get haggled by these heroin dealers trying to sell all of the westerners hash and heroin. Mind you it's not even the "nice" opium that once laced the infamous"TEMPLE BALLS".

Now when a tourist wants hashish, you either have to know a saint, baba, or sadhu or you have to have get it off the streets from the dealers. Once there were around 30 hash shops in Kathamandu all striving to deal the best hash in the world, you could enter into the shop where they had hookahs set up and you could taste many varieties. Safely at your leisure. The signs on the shop once depicted the "quality" and committment of the shop owner.

Perhaps it was too many foreigners smuggling it outa the country into the USA that made the US govnmt bribe the KING OF NEPAL with 40million dollars in 1974. Or maybe it was the Nepalese soccer team that finally got busted trying to smuggle hash into America for the King. But , we all know that when you put the market into the hands of the "BLACK MARKET" bad things will follow.

Now, there must ly a hundred "westerners" in Nepalese Jails waiting for someone to bail them out with some sort of HUGE bribe. gone are days of safely obtaining what was once one of the proudest markets for the Nepalese, the Notorious TEMPLE BALLS. Sure one can still get hash, but it's surely isn't of the quality and casual venue it once used to be.

I am fortunate enough to live in Nepal part time, as an American, with a Nepali wife and a family with a house that we own. I am proud to boast my relations with Nepal , still the politics of 1974 perpetaully make me wonder about the years of the Legal Hashish.

Perhaps one day , like alcohol, this benign substance shall make it into the spot light again and Nepal will regurgitate it's once precious "TEMPLE BALL". Until then, happy hash hunting in Nepal, be careful, and please whatever you do, DO NOT SMUGGLE HASH OUT OF THE COUNTRY!