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[Skm1091]

you know, with every day, I lose more and more hope in a bright future: no work, less job openings every day I look, and a government that just doesn't give a fuck, and keeps right on screwing us over.

part of me just wants to shut off all outside communication: hopefully if I do it long enough, I'll be declared legally dead, and won't have to pay my loans off.

yeah, that's how depressing the state of the Union Address was. Schiff's words didn't help. yet I know he's right.

You know what I think? I think we should let them spend. The more and faster the better. Once the shit hits the fan and the economy goes bust then they will finally see that they were fools and suffer the consequences.

Sounds hopeless doesn't it? I don't have much hope for the near future either.

[evensgrey]

The situation in the UK might be even worse.  In the summer of 2005, there was an incident where a couple of Special Branch (London Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism unit) guys panicked and killed a random person, and completely blew the entire surveillance operation they were supposed to be conducting.  (And they did it because they didn't know what the people they were interested in looked like, despite Special Branch having photos of everyone they were interested in for the operation available.  Apparently their jobs weren't supposed to involve knowing who they were supposed to be watching.)  There was a rather ham-fisted attempt at a coverup, involving trying to claim that the officers were responding to reports of a man in a bulky coat vaulting the turnstile at the subway entrance and running through the station.  This was completely impossible, since the reports turned out to be about the officers themselves.  (The victim had quite sedately walked into the station, paid his fair properly, bought a newspaper, stepped aboard the train, sat down, started reading...and then two men accosted him, he stood up, one tackled him, and the other emptied his handgun into the guys head at point blank range.)

People in the UK were much more upset about the attempted coverup than the fact their police had started to murder random people in public because the police were being idiots.

I recently learned that the shooter was back on regular duty before the investigation was even completed.  The victim's family was surprised as well, particularly as they learned about this in the context of the next time the guy killed someone.  (The shooter turns out to be a specially trained officer permitted to carry a firearm in his normal duties, unlike most police in the UK who are only armed if assigned unusual duties requiring a firearm.)  The fact he killed someone else soon after is extremely disturbing as well.  Most police officers who kill someone in the line of duty that wasn't the result of the officer completely fucking up don't tend to return to normal duty for a long time afterwards, if ever.

[tnu]

This video is old but its a pure work of art.


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[AnCap Dave]

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Glenn Beck status:
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[X]GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY HE'S GOT HIM IN THE SPINNING TOLD HOLD!


Back story: Glenn Beck recently addressed the new controversial angle of Jack Swagger and Zeb Coulter being these right wing extremists who hate immigrants. He, and many other conservatives, are angry at the fact that this negatively depicts conservatism. Glenn Beck referred to it as "stupid wrestling people." This was their response to Glenn Beck.

[VectorM]

Kinda hard to watch that when they start talking about "Stealin' jerbs"

Oh, shit, just saw past minute 1, sorry about that 

[AnCap Dave]

Kinda hard to watch that when they start talking about "Stealin' jerbs"

Oh, shit, just saw past minute 1, sorry about that 

That's the best part about it. They start off completely in character to set up the whole scenario. Then when they're done, they cut the crap and get the real message out and like total professionals, completely transition back into character.

[Ibrahim90]

That's the best part about it. They start off completely in character to set up the whole scenario. Then when they're done, they cut the crap and get the real message out and like total professionals, completely transition back into character.

well, what they did should be summed up in one word: win.

[tnu]

Ran in to this on Yahoo answers in response to a question about whether criminals register their guns.

Certainly! They also go to the police department and file the plans for their crime.

If the firearm they intend to use in committing their crime of choice is banned by the government they immediately turn that firearm in to the proper authorities.

They also make sure that they have all proper permits to carry their firearms in public.

And if you believe any of that you probably believe that I'm about to be named the Pope of Rome (I ain't even Catholic), while also being named Emperor of the State of New York for life.

[Ibrahim90]

Ran in to this on Yahoo answers in response to a question about whether criminals register their guns.

wait, someone seriously asked if criminals register their guns?

anyways, here's a favorite quote from Ancient China:

"There is lard in the cellar, well fed horses, yet there are starving and dying people in the wilderness. This is feeding men to the beasts!"

-Meng Zi.

(it's about the feudal lords of the time)

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[Ibrahim90]

That guy had some real balls:

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yes, this is Saudi Arabia: yes, this is a single protestor, and yes, he had the guts to do this publicly and openly. he's basically busting the balls of the government.

he's in jail now. goes without saying though.

EDIT: @ REHWR:

don't forget this gem:

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[tnu]

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, — if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
   ---   Benjamin Franklin  Speech to the Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787); reported in James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott (1893), p. 742.

Unnervingly prescient. Even Franklin knew that a constitutional system would inevitably fail like all states that came before it.

[evensgrey]

Unnervingly prescient. Even Franklin knew that a constitutional system would inevitably fail like all states that came before it.

Which one of the Founding Fathers made the remark about it being desirable to have a revolution about once a generation?