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JC 2011 OFF TOPIC thread
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Extremism is when people have no moral guidance when making political decisions, for example Authoritarianism. Libya, under Gaddafi's regime could most definitely be classed as such, but not America, as they are a very democratic nation. I still disagree a lot with their economic policies, especially regarding other countries.Phantom, I kind of knew you would have a say in the topic as well.
By extremist I mean they are friend to everyone, but let's say they line them up, so they can be used when necessary. They will use whats necessary to achieve objectives. Perhaps Russia will be similar in 50-100 years. Now it has too much of an advantage over America.
I'm a spectator of what happens in world politics, and I can't help notocing that America is becoming a little clumsy in it's actions, the most obvious example - Bin Laden.
Also the American sense of pride is a problem. That's not an issue with Obama, because he's quite rational, but the people still think that they have an edge on Europe. Truth is they don't.
And Wikileaks was pretty cool too, somethin like that could only happen to America, that embarassment, it was great:D.
P.S: The movie was grand:D. Another point on it. There was a big boom for neo-nazism after it's release, I think the fascist party in Austria got support of 30% of population. Sick.
Mark, things like that(smart, sarcastic comments) only work on facebook, bad call here.
Or maybe my brain is slowly going to sleep and I'm missing out on something?
On the idea they try to befriend every nation isn't really knavery or deception as much as it is necessity. The USA is one of the planets big gameplayers in global affairs, along with the likes of Russia, China etc., so by default, they try to keep other countries happy and without conflict, not just for their own sake, but for political relations, too. Iran has been a major threat to the USA recently with it's constant development of uranium-based nuclear weapons, something which most definitely imposes fear on all neighbouring countries, yet Americans never threatened to attack, why? Because of the potential damage it could cause on a world wide scale. I'm not calling them saints by any means, because, plainly, they are not.
Obama is too indecisive. It's very difficult to see the mans true intentions in a lot of situations. At times he seems almost passive, yet other times some decisions he makes are completely unjustifiable. The reason America has an "edge" on Europe is because of their potential power. Patritotism is naturally encouraged by this constant false sense of security by it's citizens, too.
I think they'd better watch out for Russia in these upcoming months. With the election coming up in 2012 for Russia, there is now the chance Putin may run for president again, which could be bad, as he is clearly unhappy of how the US is treating (patronising in some cases) them as a nation .
What is scarier is that China and other powers are backing Russias new missile system against the US. Again, I know I'm being a bit vague, but I don't want to harp on about things no one understands. I don't think many 14/15/16 year olds could care less about matters like this.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/us-security-usa-missiles-idUSTRE75E2JZ20110615?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
It's cool though Mixery, I get what you are saying. You might want to know Julian Assange got arrested about 30 hours ago, which is a major blow to Wikileaks. Only house-arrest I guess, but still.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8579350/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assanges-excessive-and-dehumanising-house-arrest.html0 -
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P H A 7V T O M wrote: »Heh no worries. Everyone has abandoned the OT thread since I mentioned politics... Whoops
Nothing wrong with a bit of politics. Might help get that A in CSPE?
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shadowninty wrote: »Stupid?? I ♥ my phone browser
I might use the laptop a bit more now that I fixed my touchpad
Er a sin hogar?
I hated using mine, i kept clicking on the wrong things and it was sooo slow :mad: Though, im getting used to it, so i might use it a bit more :L
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P H A 7V T O M wrote: »You, or did the asian dude in PC World do it for ya?
What was wrong with it?
Meeee So proud of myself ^^
Its hard to explain, see the switch on it is like a slidy thing, and the bit on the inside that made the connection snapped off, so it wasnt turning on :L
So i broke it all apart and poked around at it for a while ended up having to solder a bit back onto it ^^ 0
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