It's paying for yours.
It's paying for yours.
It seems that just reinforces the previous statement.
That its fucked up?
Yeah, I can get on board with that.
The only time Fox News represents the Majority of Americans is in the South, and there is a reason why we do not take them seriously. With that being said I was born and raised down there and yeah the stupid runs pretty deep there, sadly the people who are capable of rational thought and reason usually leave, like myself. It is a self sustaining cycle of hate, fear and stupidity because each generation is brought up the same. It's sad because there are some very good, decent and honest people from there but everyone gets a bad rap from the large majority of fools like the guy above.
So half of your country agrees with that?
I would say only about 47% percent. And even of that chunk some are smarter than that.
You live in Puerto Rico right? You are pretty much American, you get all the perks without the IRS, oh wait that is a perk too, you just do not get to vote. So it's your country as well.
And before you cop out with, "I'm occupied" or "I never asked for it" then start protesting.
I dare you to find one country where the majority of people are not stupid.
Human condition man.
I suppose having to cut down all services, including education and medical, and having no power to stop the bleeding of jobs because we can't print money so we have to privatize everything to the same Americans companies who have been making out like bandits from our system is a perk to someone, somewhere. And i suppose getting less services than the states because we're not a state yet we're the poorest of all the territories while Israel gets ten times what we get and they're not even a territory is also a perk.
And i suppose we could protest for independence if the FBI haven't been sabotaging the independence movement and helping start a mcarthysm against independence on the island for 3 decades is also a perk for someone.
Ooops, where was I. Oh right, America has some of the craziest conservatives. As it was said before, America thinks anything left of Mussolini is communist.
Independence is to the Puerto Rican people as communism is to the Americans. Thanks for that, by the way.
As in it is never going to happen? Or a bunch of whack jobs think you are on the path? My question then would be if it's so bad in Puetro Rico why not move? Why not move away from the American system? Do not give me that stuck bullshit. If you have the time to play FFXI & or any other computer games + surf the internet shit can't be that bad. Again I believe if enough people were unsatisfied with the way things are there then there would way to many riots/protests/march etc to be "quelled by the FBI" it would more likely be the CIA anyways fucking with Latin America countries is their area of expertise. But it seems people there are happy with the status quo.
I agree that there is a lot of fucked up shit in the states, but do not sit there and just watch Fox news and make a snap judgment. Because I could also make the same snap judgment that all the Puerto Ricans I see up here are either Gangbangers/Drugdealers, women who lay on their backs and spit out babies for Section 8/welfare/WIC, or jobless leeches mooching off the government tit aka my tax dollars.
Either way I'm done arguing over "teh interwebs" it's a fucking waste of time, and no one wins.
Does the FBI currently persecute communists and socialists like they did decades before? Is communism less popular, substantially, than it was before? If the answer is no, and then yes, apply same example. Second, is communism and socialism considered by many in the US to be a bad word? If so, apply the same example.
And how does me being attached to where i was born but not liking American colonialism related? I don't like the American system? Then i want to change it, that's why i'm into politics. As for your protest comment, inaction is habitual of colonized civilizations. The FBI is the one who handles things here, since this is a US territory, not the CIA. I also found it humorous that you make gangbangers and drugdealers the analogs of conservatives, but that is expected when you don't know anything about politics here to make any decent comparisons. The US is a conservative country, your jingoism is well known.
edit: arguing over the internet is a waste of time, especially when you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks for playing.
Move this thread to spam so it gets the attention it deserves.
If you would stop and read what I am saying you would realize we agree on many things. My point was about not making snap decisions about people. You made an over generalization about Americans and I retorted with a stereotypical generalization of Puerto Ricans in New England. You made a comment of Anti Americanism that is pretty popular in some parts of the world, and after eight years of Bush I fully understand why. So I in return made the same type of comment about Puerto Ricans. Setrotypes are fun aren't they.
My point was do not lump all of us Americans into the same boat as Bush and the Republicans. Yeah we've elected Obama and no everything is going to be magical rainbows and fucking gumdrop lolipops, but hey we are working on it, the majority of us American Citizens who took to the polls and voted made our choice and we wanted something different. So yes what I said about people like that Moron from Fox News are the minority now, and hopefully with the right people in the right places maybe things will get better.
Okay fine, generalization my bad.
edit: you can stereotype puerto ricans in the US, most of them are annoying anyway.
Agreed, this is fucking pointless now.
Also Kuya, I thing this is a fun conversation, I enjoy political debate, don't think for a minute this is meant to be mean or trolling. I do enjoy having intellectual debate over topics. I wish I had more time to verbally spar with you, hit me up on AIM sometime if you want to continue this.
Can we snuggle now?
Ryko wants to put something in my mouth, so you'll have to wait.