Robert Taylor and idleidolidyll's political debating thread

[jrandom]

You're having a laugh, aren't you?

The Japanese had basically surrendered and the atomic bomb was dropped because America wanted to ensure it was a power to be feared...

Well, fair enough in my books. Everyone was pretty pissed off at the time. I guess the Nips shouldn't have entered the kitchen if they couldn't take the heat.

[Edit: I think the high-level strategic discussion of the question at the time pretty much consisted of "Fuck 'em."]

[The Stranger:Me]

oh yes indeed, there's barely anything more profitable than the killing industry

Those bloody capitalists Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin must have made a truck load.
I still can't help but wonder, how many would have lived or died had either of these fine gentlemen had a bullet in the head at an appropriate time.

[scumdog]

unfortunately that's usually very profitable - except for the killed, that is ..........

Yes, and technology fairly leaps ahead in times of war don't forget..



War? the worlds not happy unless there's a score of 'em going on constantly.

[idleidolidyll]

the second time it was down to black box voting even more than the first (Liebold Systems Inc)

the corporates look after the GOP, they know where the money comes from

[idleidolidyll]

Those bloody capitalists Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin must have made a truck load.
I still can't help but wonder, how many would have lived or died had either of these fine gentlemen had a bullet in the head at an appropriate time.

Pol Pot was supported by the Yanks as was Pinochet

democracy is only relevant to them when it means making bucks for the corporations; they'll happily support dictators and terrorists the rest of the time

[jrandom]

the second time it was down to black box voting even more than the first (Liebold Systems Inc)

Good lord, yes. Speaking as a professional computer programmer who's worked on a handful of security systems, I must say that that company is one of the most pathetic excuses for a responsible technology-engineering organisation that I've ever had the displeasure of hearing about.

[Swoop]

War? the worlds not happy unless there's a score of 'em going on constantly.

With all the greenies wanting to "save the planet" with biofuel crops replacing edible ones, there will be more wars to come.
Some for food resources.
Some for water resources.

[idleidolidyll]

I still can't help but wonder, how many would have lived or died had either of these fine gentlemen had a bullet in the head at an appropriate time.

ditto for Bush 1 and 2, Reagan, Pinochet and plenty more from the west or the right

my other eye is in the back of my head waiting for the evil bastards to try and sneak up on me

[idleidolidyll]

With all the greenies wanting to "save the planet" with biofuel crops replacing edible ones, there will be more wars to come.
Some for food resources.
Some for water resources.

the energy wars have already started and they're not about crops; they're about oil

[idleidolidyll]

for those enamoured of the yanks i suggest googling the School of the Americas: amerika's covert school of assassins which helped ruthless dictators slaughter hundreds of thousands

do some research into the CIA too; a bigger bunch of drug dealers and terrorists does not exist on the planet

[Mr Merde]

As this is a political discussion thread I assume it is for all politics not just those of the USA.

If it is indeed as I suspect could someone kindly answer me this,


When is the dictator dyke going to extract her cranial appendage from the anal orrifices of those tree hugging, sandle wearing agitators, take a real look at the state of the country and deal openly and honestly with us, the people she is supposed to serve not rule?


Merde

[scumdog]

ditto for Bush 1 and 2, Reagan, Pinochet and plenty more from the west or the right

my other eye is in the back of my head waiting for the evil bastards to try and sneak up on me

Plenty more ready to step forwards - different names, same ideas...

And like real life - the one that gets you is the one you didn't see coming - regardless of how guarded you are.

[Swoop]

the energy wars have already started and they're not about crops; they're about oil

Read my post. Not energy resources (that is well underway) but basic human survival elements - food and water. These are wars to come.

[idleidolidyll]

Plenty more ready to step forwards - different names, same ideas...

And like real life - the one that gets you is the one you didn't see coming - regardless of how guarded you are.

indeed; right wing, left wing; it hardly matters except that the right wingers can usually buy the worst weapons

[kelleyb]

I just want to jump in here real quick and say that I think it's cute when people who have probably never been to the US let alone lived in it feel the need to constantly put us down as if we're the entire source of all the world's ills.
Bitch all you want; it won't change a thing.

I'll leave y'all to it.