America, how do you see America in the future

McGentrix wrote:

Back on the drugs already?

Back to the trolling already?

And to think, you were doing so well.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

Back on the drugs already?

Back to the trolling already?

And to think, you were doing so well.

Cycloptichorn

It would seem Roxy did the trolling. Did she add anything of substance to the debate? No she didn't, all she did was critize what Finn said.

Yeah, ignoring your own hypocrisy is usually the right way to go.

Finn's post could make the NY Times Bestseller list for fiction if it were a book. On second thought, perhaps it deserves to be classified as humor.

Why so? All well and good to make the comment, but try and back it up with some detail if you can. Take each point and counter it, if you can.

Maybe Finn needs to spend less time with wealthy Aussies and more time in the real world. Why is it that everything that Finn writes seem to beg for the lead-in "Finn sniffs?"

Good post Finn.

Like Finn sniffs, "Perhaps I'm wrong, but I doubt it. "

Or Finn sniffs, "Americans do not concern themselves with the doings of other nations to the same extent as the citizens of these nations concern themselves with the doings of America, because America is the Big Dog."

Or Finn sniffs, "without any doubt in the minds of serious thinkers..."

In other words, people who are smart as me.

Actually, in other words, people who are roughly as smart as me. Quite a large number of people by the way.

Or Finn sniffs "Come Jan 2009 the US will... have a new president occupying the White House. Can the same be said about Russia and its Kremlin? What about the rest of the world? "

Too bad we don't have a parliamentary style of gubmint, our long national nightmare would be over. Hmmm...not so fast, Bush has already stole two elections.

"Gubmint?" What new affectation of yours does this represent?

Are you suggesting that we will not have a new president in 2009?


Or Finn sniffs "In Australia, illegal immigrants (mostly muslim) are herded into containment camps. "

In the god old USA, we just throw em in good ole fashion jails although being confined in a tent in 110 degree Arizona heat is a loose description of a jail. If we had someone to uphold our Constitution that would be "cruel and unusual punishment." But, as serious thinkers know, our Constitution was piled onto the trash heap six years ago.

Well, jails are the generally accepted habitation for criminals.

There is no way that anyone who believes our constitution was "piled on the trash heap six years ago" can be taken seriously. I'm sorry if this offends you, but it is true. You can rant on and on in your hysterical and hyperbolic way, and since the Constitution has not been trashed, you will suffer no consequences as a result (and rightly so) but the ability to speak freely doesn't imply that what is spoken is to be taken seriously.

Finally Finn sniffs "The same thing goes for the Brits, the French, the Japanese et al. And if the citizens don't, the government had better."

Well Bunky, looks like we are screwed because in the good ole USA the government is the people, least it was up until the Bush-Cheney coup,

What are you actually trying to say here? it makes no sense.

and the people have ceded their power and their government to the thugs who currently occupy the White House. And although I am confident that the long national nightmare will end in 2009, I am not so naive as to count on it as a sure thing.

Sounds serious.

Baldimo wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

Back on the drugs already?

Back to the trolling already?

And to think, you were doing so well.

Cycloptichorn

It would seem Roxy did the trolling. Did she add anything of substance to the debate? No she didn't, all she did was critize what Finn said.

Criticizing what someone has said is adding something to the debate. Criticizing a person directly, and not attempting to address the topic in any fashion, is Trolling.

Cycloptichorn

America was the Big Dog... still is, but it won't be for long. England's position faded, so will America's.


Welcome, China! Welcome, India!

just a suggestion: if you people (all of you) want to call each other names, why not take it to PMs?

That really was just your impression and assumption. Welcome China! merely means welcome to the world stage, among key players.

I don't welcome it with any glee, but I'm also not upset about it in any way. Our standard of living will not decline, our daily lives won't change.... Just as far as America's influence in the world economy and politis goes, that will gradually decline. Not immediately either, that's a matter of a number of decades.

So I don't see it as particularly good news or particularly bad news. It's not any news really. It's a speculation. We can't do more than that.

just a suggestion: if you people (all of you) want to call each other names, why not take it to PMs?