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« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2007, 12:26:52 pm »
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It is from George Bush being president
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« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2007, 02:02:16 pm »
yeah...one president changed the entire culture of the united states. WE CLEARLY weren't a bunch of self-pleasing, out sourcing, arrogant, stubborn, selfish bastards BEFORE him. noooooo....it was all the fault of one politician with less than average intelligence.  
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« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2007, 06:11:37 pm »
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yeah...one president changed the entire culture of the united states. WE CLEARLY weren't a bunch of self-pleasing, out sourcing, arrogant, stubborn, selfish bastards BEFORE him. noooooo....it was all the fault of one politician with less than average intelligence.  

It's actually hard to tell whether or not the current President (and by extension his administration, policies, and party mates) are sympotmatic of the problem or whether they have them selves served to help create the problem. The way I see it, it's some of both. Though the American people did in fact elect Mr. Bush to the presidency, he ran on a dramatically different platform than what he ever followed, both pre and post 9/11. Many people forget, or weren't old enough in the first place, to recall that Bush ran on a very fiscally responsible domestic policy based platform, but abandoned it very soon after entering office. What many also don't recall is that while campaigning and, even more telling, as governor of Texas Bush was a very eloquent and well rehersed speaker. It is only over time that his public speaking has degraded in such and obvious and, I would argue, purposeful manner.

What you have to see is that when elected, he came off just as well educated as Gore (Though both paled to Nader...) if only more conservative, so at the time there was not such a dramatic groundswell of anti-intellectualism as we see today. I believe it was only after the feeling of anti-intellectualism became more prevelent that the President, in an attempt to connect to the far extreme of his base, also began his gradual dumbing down. When that started of course it became more acceptable for others who, though not as extreme, saught to emulate him and follow 'the party'. Hence the current atmoshphere we have today where exists a highly pervasive sense of anti-intellectualism and an ever larger emphasis on materialism and conspicuous consumption the likes of which we haven't seen since the dawn of yuppieism in the 80's and 90's. During those decades however, while materialism did reign king, so too did intellectual thought. Today it seems we've kept the money-lust and lost the thouht process that helped to check it socially.


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« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2007, 08:43:25 pm »
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War in Iraq

Okay, so Saddam WAS a bad person, and did horrible things. But Bush had really no reason to move into Iraq. Weapons of Mass Destruction my ass. They had NO proof that there were ANY WOMD's. And even if they WERE mistaken, did they pull the troops out afterward? NO!! He made another oxshit excuse to keep the troops in Iraq.

I believe that Bush is the sole cause of America's problems. He is just in Iraq to impress his daddy.
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« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2007, 08:53:55 pm »
Just to impress his daddy? I think all their oil might have been another reason.

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« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2007, 08:55:23 pm »
WAAAAY Off-topic and I lol'd

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« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2007, 08:56:36 pm »
it is all because we are lazy we dont pay attention to detail thats all i think it is

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« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2007, 12:01:47 am »
pinwheel well spoken  

and its mostly the education system guys you can't blame iraq for the teen in mcdonalds being stupid you can however blame the school system

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« Reply #28 on: July 31, 2007, 06:14:24 pm »
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pinwheel well spoken  

and its mostly the education system guys you can't blame iraq for the teen in mcdonalds being stupid you can however blame the school system


The average teen at McDonalds was in school during the Bush and Clinton Presidency and the TC with his wonderful grammar and spelling was in school only During the Clinton Presidency.  The U.S. Intelligence wise has been going down hill for a long time, how else would Bush have been elected?

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« Reply #29 on: July 31, 2007, 11:09:33 pm »
the us is pretty fiercely anti-intellectual. dont you ever notice that you have to dumb things down or pretend not to know something in case you are labeled a "know it all" or "smart alec" or something? you'd think that you'd get rewarded, not punished, for being smart. no, i dont blame it on bush. i blame the "election" of bush on the culture of ignorance.

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« Reply #30 on: July 31, 2007, 11:18:51 pm »
Definatly agreed matt. But lack of knowledge of what a dozen is, is definatly the fault of the school system, which is terrible thanks to probably all politicians. <_<

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« Reply #31 on: July 31, 2007, 11:24:30 pm »
i learned what a dozen was long before i started school. parenting has a lot to do with it too. parenting, school, everything - its a whole culture of ignorance.

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« Reply #32 on: July 31, 2007, 11:28:58 pm »
i suppose this is true. sad. but true....

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« Reply #33 on: August 01, 2007, 05:50:16 pm »
You dumbasses need to talk about politics so well I'll show you all the politics you need to know, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Well here we go, and action.
They say we need more money for education. That's the big answer to everything, education. They say we need more money for books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools, and more testing for the kids, and they'll say, well we tried all of that, and the kids still can't past the tests. Don't worry about that, because we're going to lower the passing grades, and that's what they do in a lot of these schools. They lower the passing grades so more kids can pass - more kids pass, the school looks goods, and the IQ of the country slips another 2 or 3 points. And pretty soon all you'll need to get into college is a fucking pencil.
Got a pencil? Then get the fuck in there it's physics.

Then people wonder why 17 other countries graduate more scientist than we do. Education - politicians use that word, they use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind 3 things: the flag, the bible, and children - no child left behind, no child left behind.
Oh, really it wasn't to long you were talking about giving children a head start. Head start - left behind, someone's losing fucking ground here, but there's a reason. There's a reason for this. There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it'll never ever be fixed - it's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now. The wealthy big business interests that controls things, and makes all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians, they're irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice - you don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and payed for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media, so they control just about all the information you get. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying - lobbying, to get what they want.

Well we know what they want. They want more for themselves, and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want - they don't want a toniculation of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that - that doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people that are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table, and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don't want they. You know what they want? Obedient workers - Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines, and do that paper work. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and vanishing pension that disappear the minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your social security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll get it - they'll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you aint in it. You, and I are not in The Big Club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy.

The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people: white collar, blue collar it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue (these are people of modest being) - continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you - they don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all - at all - at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That's what the owners counted on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it, but say what you want about Americans folks. You can say what you want about Americans. You can call them smart, dumb, ignorant, innocent, naive, gullible, easily led, what ever you want you're guna have to deal with them. You're guna have to deal with them, because you're in the television business. You got the all suicide channel on cable TV. You need these people as viewers. You need people looking in. You got to worry about your ratings. Your going to have to be worrying about sweeps months. Most people know what sweeps months are. They're the more important ratings months of the year where they put on there biggest attractions, and their hottest stars. And try to pump up their ratings a little more. Get their local stations to adjust their advertising rates. You're going to have to compete with the mentality of network television, and I think of an all suicide channel, during sweeps months, you're going to have to go with mass suicides - big public events where hundreds of people all kill themselves at the same time right on live TV.

Now I've been resting with a way to do this. I've been trying been trying to figure this out. I swear to God, this is the truth, I've been trying to figure this part of it out for 6 months now, and I only recent have it so I'm guna tell you about it. Now we're going to have to get lots, and lots of people to kill themselves on demand. How are we guna do this - that's the question. How are we guna get large numbers of people to commit suicide at a time or place of our choosing? And I mean large numbers, because don't forget besides sweeps we're going to have to be thinking about 24 hour a day programming so to make this work we're going to need organization. We need a system. Can't just wait for people to come by the studio all day, drop by, and commit suicide. What we have to do is build up a large pool of hopeless people. Suicide volunteers - people with no hope. People whom society has given up on, fate has given up on, or who have given up on themselves. Rock bottom, dead end totally fucked up people with no hope, and no reason to live.

Have we got our share of them. Think of it was a pyramid, that'll give you a visual fix on it. The pyramid of the hopeless. We're going to start building this pyramid as the very base naturally, and the bottom layer is going to be homeless people. God knows we got plenty of them. Nobody gives a fuck about them. Nobodies got a plan. Nobodies got any money for them. Nobody has a program. Nobody gives a fuck about homeless people. We don't k now how many we have even. We know 500,000 of them are veterans cause we're so good to the veterans in this country, and we know about 1 million to a million and400,000 of them are children so then god knows how many more we got. Totally fucking hopeless. Into the pyramid they go.

Now the next group we're guna put in here, these are the people in prison with these long sentences they've been given. Many of them deserved. I'll grant you that. I'm sure half the people are in prison for the things they really did. That's not a bad average, one out of every two, but nobody gives a shit about these people. Nobody's guna hire them if they do get out. They're never going to get out. Rehabilitation doesn't work, and the judges give them these fucking draconian sentences: 40, 60, 70, 80, 100 year sentences, life term, double life, one guy about a month ago was give three consecutive life term sentences, plus two death penalties. How the fuck do you serve that? Even David Copperfield can't do that shit. In order to do that you would have to be a Hindu. Then you got the people on death row. They aint going anywhere. In the fucking pyramid they go.

Now the next layer, this group is self-selected - self-selected, and bit controversial to some ears I guess. These are these people who claim to be depressed. Okay? Apparently in this land of plenty. This richest nation in the history of the world (we're so proud of saying that). Some super markets have a hundred thousand items in them. We have 19 million americans claiming to be depressed, and some of them take medicine for it. Sometimes the medicine for it makes one of them commit suicide, and that depresses the shit out of the rest of them. Then you only have these people that think they're depressed. They think they're depressed, because they saw the commercial on TV, and the doctor looked like a good guy, the music sounded kind of peppy. And what the fuck? Probably some of these pills would pick me right the fuck up. Totally fucking hopeless mindset - in the fucking pyramid.

Up at the very top we are guna put the people who are truly sick. The terminally ill. Unforchanetly no hope for a lot of them. Hundreds of thousands of them - no cure for what they have. Some of them there's no cure, because no ones looking for one. Aint enough people sick with it, so there's no money in the cure. Then there's people where there's a cure, but they don't have the money for it. Then there's one who can, but they're to far gone. Then there's one who can get the cure, but they have no social means to get to it so these people aint going anywhere - they should be allowed to commit suicide.

Boom!

In the fucking pyramid they go.

Now think of what you got here. Think of yourself as the executive vice president of programming at the all suicide channel. Think of what you have to work with in the pyramid of the hopeless. You have homeless, imprisoned, condemned, depressed, and terminally ill, and I'm going to bet you anything in this depraved culture of ours - bet you anything with the reality show mentality we have that on the all suicide you could get 500 of these hopeless people to hold hands, and jump into the grand canyon. I'll fucking bet you - I'll fucking bet you you can get this done in this country right this now, for money - for money you got to give them something. Oh shit. They're americans, they're for sale, give them a little something. ~George Carlin


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« Reply #34 on: August 01, 2007, 09:51:34 pm »
... i don't even know what to say to that

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« Reply #35 on: August 01, 2007, 10:18:13 pm »
lol comedians.

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« Reply #36 on: August 01, 2007, 10:59:02 pm »
That thing aint a joke, and actually isn't even george carlin's original material. He got that from Lou Dobbs, War Against The Middle class, and I'll tell you what to say to that - lets stop voting from these stupid, worthless, cooperate whore cocksuckers, and, hmm, start voting for normal caring people again. Tada!
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« Reply #37 on: August 01, 2007, 11:12:14 pm »
too much thinking.

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« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2007, 11:57:22 pm »
yes, all our "leaders" are greedy bastards who have set up the system so that nobody else can get in. and yes, education is mainly an exercise in preparing obedient workers. why else would they have bells and punish you for being late? but that doesnt have much to do with people being stupid in their day-to-day activities. i agree with your point, but i dont see why you have to call us "dumbasses" and go off on a tangent.

 


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