Dictatorship

[quote]Aragorn wrote:

Utterly impossible. The only man who was capable of that since was Washington.
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A bit of a contradiction there, but yes, Washington was a godsend.

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
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And your co-worker was correct. I heard this a lot from people from Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Russia.

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
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And your co-worker was correct. I heard this a lot from people from Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
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A cuban guy I know loves Obama. He also thinks that Castro was great too. One day he’s singing the praises of Castro so I asked him “What the fuck did you go through all of what you did to come here then?”.

He says “Money!”! His wife cleans houses and he’s a damn good welder, but couldn’t make any money in Cuba.

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
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And your co-worker was correct. I heard this a lot from people from Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
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A cuban guy I know loves Obama. He also thinks that Castro was great too. One day he’s singing the praises of Castro so I asked him “What the fuck did you go through all of what you did to come here then?”.

He says “Money!”! His wife cleans houses and he’s a damn good welder, but couldn’t make any money in Cuba.
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Ass Sphincter says what?

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
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And your co-worker was correct. I heard this a lot from people from Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
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A cuban guy I know loves Obama. He also thinks that Castro was great too. One day he’s singing the praises of Castro so I asked him “What the fuck did you go through all of what you did to come here then?”.

He says “Money!”! His wife cleans houses and he’s a damn good welder, but couldn’t make any money in Cuba.
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My dad had a similar sentiment when we came here from Italy.

He was a talented engineer, yet with the taxation, the take home pay was minimal at best. The notion of big families living together over there is more about lack of $$$ more than it is cultural.

Now, the economy is so bad, I have family over there telling me that many kids (who are in their 20’s and 30’s) have had to move back in to their parents homes, with some situations where parents are sleeping in their cars because there is no room in the house.

I trust the expressions of foreigners who fled the very system we are now implementing, more than any bullshit this government is saying.

If you really think about it, believing government will fix things with no actual proof is no different than religious ideology. Except that error, greed, corruption, and downright fucking stupidity associated with human behavior are known to be proven.

[quote]MaximusB wrote:

If you really think about it, believing government will fix things with no actual proof is no different than religious ideology. Except that error, greed, corruption, and downright fucking stupidity associated with human behavior are known to be proven.[/quote]

These features are known to be proven in the monolithic mega-religions as well.

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

Ass Sphincter says what?
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No, he said “Que?”. There was a whole other thing going on with the languages too, but there’s another thread for that.

My preferred form of government is an absolute dictatorship with me in charge.
As everybody secretly thinks.
You might pay lipservice to values such as democracy, ‘hearing the other guy out’, etc. But you don’t really believe them do you? No. Neither do I. If you could have your own dictatorship and run it according to your every whim, you’d do it, wouldn’t you? I sure as hell would. I’d form the union of semitic and teuton socialist republics and shoot anybody I disagreed with.

[quote]Der_Steppenwolfe wrote:
My preferred form of government is an absolute dictatorship with me in charge.
As everybody secretly thinks.
You might pay lipservice to values such as democracy, ‘hearing the other guy out’, etc. But you don’t really believe them do you? No. Neither do I. If you could have your own dictatorship and run it according to your every whim, you’d do it, wouldn’t you? I sure as hell would. I’d form the union of semitic and teuton socialist republics and shoot anybody I disagreed with.[/quote]

Troll…

No, in my mind it makes sense.
My mind is not a place in which you would wish to take a holiday.
Also, I have just bought a bottle of cider for the first time in months.

British people and hard cider are a dangerous combination.

Seriously, though, Steppenwolfe does have a valid point. Every free man and woman is the absolute dictator of his own sovereign republic, with a population of one.

Live your life that way, and you cannot be dominated by any government.

[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Seriously, though, Steppenwolfe does have a valid point. Every free man and woman is the absolute dictator of his own sovereign republic, with a population of one.

Live your life that way, and you cannot be dominated by any government. [/quote]

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
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I had a guy tell me that, I swear to God.

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:

We stated in another thread, Putin seems to be doing a better at leading Russia than Obama does leading the US. One is a dictator, one was elected by the people. Maybe we’re doing it wrong. [/quote]

From Wiki:

“The politics of the Russian Federation takes place in the framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament’s approval. Legislative power is vested in the two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws.”

Yup. Sounds like a dictatorship to me. [/quote]

Interesting thing. I used to work with a guy who was born and raised in communist Ukraine. We sat in the lunchroom watching the Obama campaign on break. After seeing enough, he got as pissed off as I’d ever seen him and started explaining how he’d seen politicians like Obama his whole life, and hoped to god that he didn’t get elected. He was absolutely passionate that if he were elected it would be very bad for this country.
[/quote]

And your co-worker was correct. I heard this a lot from people from Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
[/quote]

A cuban guy I know loves Obama. He also thinks that Castro was great too. One day he’s singing the praises of Castro so I asked him “What the fuck did you go through all of what you did to come here then?”.

He says “Money!”! His wife cleans houses and he’s a damn good welder, but couldn’t make any money in Cuba.
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I also had a Chinese professor tell me that. Our system was better than Communist China because we can make as much as we want and do anything we want as long as you put your mind to it and try. China’s like a huge nanny state.