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Started by Cain, September 13, 2009, 03:10:36 PM

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Quote from: BadBeast on July 14, 2011, 07:12:11 PM
No doubt someone else would have risen to the occasion. Maybe Boris would have challenged Cameron for Party Leader, and ended up PM. Then Mandelson would have waltzed back into the Labour opposition, like butter wouldn't melt in that stinkhole of a mouth of his. Just in time to challenge for Leadership before the next election.

You were right in the first place. We're fucked five ways 'til Friday, whichever contingent of Lizards are currently slithering through the carpeted corridors of Whitehall, and the cold, stone flags of Westminster. I say let's burn the whole fuckin' show down now, and be done with it. Flush those fuckers out like a nest of vampire rats, and feed them to the Belgians. Elect David Icke as King, and cut all ties to the rest of the World. Soon they will forget we are here, and that's the time to strike. From the mists of nowhere, We shall rise, to dominate the World and once more take our rightful place at the helm of Good Ship Empire!  Who's with me on this?  :argh!:

We park our cars in the same garage. I've always maintained that the problems inherent in democracy, which in turn led to the bastard sham that currently masquerades as Democracytm will never be solved by democratic process. Yes I'll grant that it may well be the least evil system we currently have but it's still a pack of shit and the only way to fix it is to burn it to the ground.

Problem is I still don't have a solution that will work and if you did manage to blow the whole shooting match to kindom come, you can bet your ass what happened next would make the third reich look like the fucking Tufty Club. Problem is humanity doesn't work. As a species we're a fucking walking disaster. Paradoxically, it's our crazed, power-mad, lazy, dysfunctional meanness that keeps us in our position as lords and masters of this backwater planet and able to exploit the shit out it's resources til the last drop of clean air has been given a half life.

Personally I'd be all for taking over the whole rock by force and enslaving the whole stupid race, using a mixture of torture and threat and just kicking back and living the high life. It's what they deserve and it'd work better than giving the stupid fucks any say whatsoever in how things are run but, to be perfectly honest, I can't be arsed. maybe when I was a teenager but I'm too old for that shit now.

It's way more fun watching the whole thing go down in flames, all by itself. Kick back, grab a bucket of popcorn and see what happens when the human race reaches the finish line. I used to be bitter, when I thought we had a chance but now I just think it's funny, in a - kicking the crutches out from under a cripple - kinda way.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

BadBeast

Yeah, age brings it's own pragmatism to to the ideals of youth. There's only so long you can keep sprinkling more sugar on the dogshit before the stink gets impossible to ignore. I'd have thought, but obviously some people have no sense of smell.
Or morality. But we give them the power. You won't stop a Tiger from stalking you by throwing lumps of meat at it. . . . They've made the transition from
"Predators, occasionally slay each other in stupid ways" (like the rest of us) to "Apex Predator, predates wholly upon it's own species".

A few strains of that in the genepool go a long fucking way.  That psychodynamic has been around selected bloodlines for long enough to make them a completely different species to Homo Sapiens by now. Time to slay the Dragon? Not me Mate. I got me head cracked enough back in the day to let some other naive example of an hero have a shot.

But today's youth have no fire in them. It's been slowly leached out by a constant onslaught of low level, non specific dread. Piped into every corner of our homes. That shitpump we call TV rinsed the brains of every generation it encountered. Desensitising children using over exposure to screen violence. So the idea of War won't be quite so abhorrent 20 years down the line. Gradually shaping our National identity towards a more submissive and biddable populace.
But you can't just tell people shit like that, the only people who would listen would be sharing the same secure ward. And that's no place to keep the sane ones apart from the rest of the rabble. . . . . Fuck it, give us a bucket of that Popcorn then. Laughing at the stupids isn't really very funny, but a laugh's a laugh, and it's better than the constant, sorry sobbing of the brokens, mourning their own lives, because they're too afraid to live them. . .  Fuck them too. No balls.
Let it all burn, and whatever I can find that isn't ashes at the end of it all, I can call that "mine".        
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Cain

The UK has only ever grudgingly accepted democracy in the first place, usually when overseas democrats were gutting aristocrats or throwing bombs at hereditary leaders.

No other system in the world, to my knowledge, has the Parliamentary whip system, excluding some Commonwealth states.  A three-line whip essentially creates an elected dictatorship, because so long as one party has the majority, it can force through almost any legislation it wants (though not without significant political repurcussions down the road).  A lack of a written constitution gives the Prime Minister extraordinary leeway in a number of situations (incidentally, most of the Royal Perogatives the King used to have, back in the day, were passed onto the office of Prime Minister.  Gordon Brown attempted constitutional reform of these, to a degree, but the Prime Minister is still closer to a President without the checks than a PM in most other systems).  Almost all of our leadership went to the same schools, to the point that you can pretty much guarantee any highly ranked Tory went to Eton, went to Cambridge, joined the Tory Party while in Cambridge and studied PPE (or Modern History), while Labour have a similar lockdown on LSE and Political Science/Economy.  The media are in some kind of twisted incestuous relationship with government, to the point that the only jobs you can get without having some kind of political affiliation giving you a boost are those doing international news, investigative news or financial reporting.

And so on and so forth.

SmokeyMcChickenson

The Left wing and Right wing are attached to the same fucking vulture . And they will pick our corpse clean until  the zombie apocalypse.

Thus Spaketh The Inexhaustible Grace That Wipes All Our Asses.

Cain

Lyndon B Johnson, practicing the noble art of diplomacy, in 1964:

QuoteThen listen to me, Mr. Ambassador, fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good... We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador.  If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitution, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long.

Afterwards, the Greek ambassador sent a coded telegram to the Prime Minister.  Shortly afterwards, he got a phone call from Johnson:

QuoteAre you trying to get yourself into my bad books, Mr. Ambassador? Do you want me to get really angry with you? That was a private conversation me and you had. You had no call putting in all them words I used on you. Watch your step.

Freeky


Juana

 :lulz:

"I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count." - Newt Gingrich

And apparently a good portion of those (he's got well over a million) are fake.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Cain

From Bruschettaboy, a British blogger:

QuoteI just realised that plenty of mainstream US Democrats, having spent the last however long castigating people to the left of them for perceiving some progressive tendencies in the government of Fidel Castro, are now reduced to supporting the re-election of a President who imprisons people without human rights in Cuba, but who has made excellent advances in the field of bringing healthcare to the poor.

BadBeast

Quote from: Cain on August 01, 2011, 01:02:47 PM
Lyndon B Johnson, practicing the noble art of diplomacy, in 1964:

QuoteThen listen to me, Mr. Ambassador, fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good... We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador.  If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitution, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long.

Afterwards, the Greek ambassador sent a coded telegram to the Prime Minister.  Shortly afterwards, he got a phone call from Johnson:

QuoteAre you trying to get yourself into my bad books, Mr. Ambassador? Do you want me to get really angry with you? That was a private conversation me and you had. You had no call putting in all them words I used on you. Watch your step.
And now it turns out Jackie O believes LBJ ordered the assassination of JFK.
But then, it's no surprise that the Job of Premier (whether in a little Banana Republic like Uganda or Zimbabwe, or a major Superpower like the US) tends to attract candidates who fall into the "Sociopathic monster" category.
Especially from the middle of the 20th C, when the post WWII availability of arms co-incided with the West's willingness to sell them them to just about anyone.
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Cramulus

source: http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/000489.html

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


-------------from http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/without-a-doubt/without-a-doubt.html

Juana

"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Cain

It's widely believed that aide was Karl Rove, though those involved will not say for certain.

LMNO

QuoteRick Perry told a 9-year-old boy Thursday that evolution is "a theory that's out there" but that "it's got some gaps in it."

The GOP hopeful's comments came after the boy's mother prompted him to ask Perry whether he believes in evolution. "In Texas we teach both creationism and evolution, because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one's right," Perry told the boy.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/08/18/rick_perry_on_evolution_gop_hopeful_says_theory_has_some_gaps_in.html?wpisrc=twitter_socialflow

Elder Iptuous

good lord. what an embarrassment.
:oops:
i didn't know they actually taught creationism in TX now....

"In Texas we teach both phlogiston and oxidation, because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one's right,"
"In Texas we teach both lamarckism and genetics, because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one's right,"
"In Texas we teach both luminiferous aether and relativity, because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one's right,"

Cain

"In the GOP we advocate theocratic fascism and representative, limited democracy because we believe voters are smart enough to figure out which one's right"?