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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 10, 2011 at 7:56 pm
There is. Don't ally with it.
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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 11, 2011 at 10:42 am
(February 10, 2011 at 6:08 pm)Ashendant Wrote: Of course i forgot USA government is an asshole, sometimes i wish there was a better alternative than ally with it
I wish our government would stop being assholes. This empire they've constructed is neither moral, nor good for Americans, nor good for the world, nor is it even sustainable. Unfortunately, that's not going to change until we wake up and realize how badly we're being lied to. Propaganda is a powerful tool. It's not just Fox but much of the mainstream media is complicit.
There's a huge portion of my fellow Americans who are appallingly misinformed about what the facts are. They live in an alternate reality where there where Saddam has ties to Al Qaida, there are death panels in health care reform and tax cuts for the rich create job growth and pay for themselves (a strategy that has been tried and failed for 30 years now).
To ironically paraphrase Jesus, "forgive us world, we know not what we do."
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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 11, 2011 at 1:57 pm
America is not spectacular... But it's still better than Somalia.
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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 11, 2011 at 11:34 pm
what did Doug Stanhope say? "America being the best is like being the best waitress at Denny's... Just because you're the best doesn't mean you don't have a LOT of work ahead of you..."
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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 12, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Clearly I am making a sweeping generalisation here.
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RE: Egypt leaves the Internet
February 12, 2011 at 4:55 pm
All of New Jersey is a good place to "be from," Padilove... Or as a Jersey boy I once knew said "I grew up there, but if I could pour gas on the whole state and throw a match on the way out..."