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  • #46
    Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
    Hey, any other Americans feel like we're helplessly living under a crushing dictatorship?
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    • #47
      Originally posted by PLATO View Post
      Yes, but they are much smaller than the U.S. and tend to have more homogeneous populations.
      That might be the solution USA needs.
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      • #48
        Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
        Where are these concentration camps? Why haven't I heard of them? Is it because they inside secret FEMA facilities in Detroit or something?
        Got your augments yet?
        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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        • #49
          Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
          These rankings are unbelievably ****ing stupid. And they're usually (but not always) run by Scandinavians for some reason, as if I give a **** what a bunch of moose ****ers think about my country.

          Anyhow, Mauritius has like 80k people in it and Uruguay maybe 2 million. So I don't really care if small insignificant countries nobody cares about are allegedly more "democratic."
          The Economist isn't Scandanavian.
          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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          • #50
            Originally posted by kentonio View Post
            Erm..




            As described in the report, the democracy index is a kind of weighted average based on the answers of 60 questions, each one with either two or three permitted alternative answers. Most answers are "experts' assessments"; the report does not indicate what kinds of experts, nor their number, nor whether the experts are employees of the Economist Intelligence Unit or independent scholars, nor the nationalities of the experts. Some answers are provided by public-opinion surveys from the respective countries. In the case of countries for which survey results are missing, survey results for similar countries and expert assessments are used in order to fill in gaps.


            A sixty question survey of unknown experts. Hmmm.
            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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            • #51
              I pay too much tax, but then everyone pays too much tax, so I don't really have any complaints. Well the police are *******s sometimes but that's about it.
              I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
              - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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              • #52
                Australia 6th ahead of Canada 8th

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                • #53
                  You might as well be 2 places above Iran.
                  I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
                    Got your augments yet?
                    No
                    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave View Post
                      I don't get it. . . has very strong executive branch of government which can do almost anything it pleases to its citizens.
                      This is a common misconception. The US has a weak executive whose main power is the "bully pulpit" -- i.e., the power of persuasion.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by DanS View Post
                        This is a common misconception. The US has a weak executive whose main power is the "bully pulpit" -- i.e., the power of persuasion.
                        Who said ‘When Congress Refuses to Act, Joe and I Are Going to Act'?
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                        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                        • #57
                          DanS sighting.
                          Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by DanS View Post
                            This is a common misconception. The US has a weak executive whose main power is the "bully pulpit" -- i.e., the power of persuasion.
                            QFT. Obama has managed to stretch the power of the executive relatively far by using regulatory powers congress has explicitly given him, but could revoke at any time. David Cameron or any other European prime minister has far more power over their respective countries than Obama has over the US.
                            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Felch View Post

                              There are about 18,000 late term abortions (after 20 weeks) every year in this country.
                              Those lumps of biomass don't even know they are alive. You call me retarded, yet I'm not assigned some sort of moral privilege to potential beings totally unaware of their own existence.
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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                              • #60
                                Does a baby know it's alive? I don't think it knows it's parents exist unless it sees them.
                                I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                                - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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