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I wish that were the case.
you CANNOT group people into two halves.
You mean, like, the "haves" and "have-nots"?
Every time you say "the left" or "liberal" you sound like a fucking twat. Nobody knows what you mean by "left". Apparently to you it means "wrong", as in the opposite of "right". LOL.
Now now, no need to be profane or anti-fane. YOU may not know what a leftist is but a great many people do know what is meant by 'the left', leftist, socialist, etc. Obviously the term differs slightly from country to country. Both major parties in Britain are socialist; one is more conservative than the other.
The paradigm to replace "right" and "left" is "statist" versus "small-l" libertarian. It's not quite there yet, and in the meantime, "onservatism versus liberalism", or "right vs. left" will do.
I ask you this... where do you classify me? I like small government and nationalised healthcare. Yes you can have both. It doesn't
take much governmental apparatus to collect money and give it to hospitals.
You can have "both", but only for a very limited time, then it's over, and government balloons exponentially. Happens every single time it's been tried.
So am i "right" or "left"?
I don't believe gay marriage is the same as heterosexual marriage. I think abortion should be allowed, but restricted. I think
governments waste huge amounts of money. I think we need a government. I hate evil corporations. I agree with the principle of
property ownership. I love guns but I think they should be banned or at least restricted much more than they are in the USA. I served
in the RAF but I am a pacifist. But I would fight for my family. I opposed the war in Iraq for economic, constitutional and
humanitarian reasons. I hate the BBC, FOX, MOVEON, DISNEY, MTV, TYT, CONSERVAPEDIA, THE NATION, and i find DEMOCRACY
NOW intensely boring and annoying. I am agnostic about god.
SO fucking figure that out. Am I on the right? Or the left?
My interpretation? Generally speaking, I'd say you're left-leaning on most issues. You have an unexamined hostility towards capitalism and corporations, and while you're aware that government is wasteful and corrupt, you'd rather they wield the difference of power rather than 'the people'. You despise the major brands of media influence yet, like all artists, are frustrated because whether you support or oppose The Machine, you're still orbiting its imaginary center.
A pacifist is defined as "a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind." That being the case, you're employing a paradox by stating you'd wound or kill to defend your family. In other words, idealism ends when enemies present viable threats. What I find amusing is, if some wacko outside your window yelled, "I have a gun and I'm going to shoot you!" you wouldn't hesitate to grab your own gun, whether the wacko "proved" he actually had a gun or not. That's not paranoia, it's common sense. But when a wacko like Saddam announces he's got a gun, and he's proven in the past he'll use it indiscriminately, and all your neighbors also believe he will use the gun, the anti-war left would rather you just ignore the situation. WTF.
I think you have a young, unexamined yet comfortable worldview, and though you claim to chortle at "2 opposing sides" you tend to view things in black and white. Iraq good, USA bad. UN good, USA bad. War is always wrong. Torture is always wrong. Corporations are always evil. Those seeking "social justice" are always good and working for the best interest of all and NEVER for self-gain.
And as for your declaration that "inevitable genocide" is "unacceptable"... wow.
To leave Iraq before it's stabilized delivers it unto chaos. The left (statists) have made it clear they don't give a shit about any resulting genocide. Like spoiled children, they want what they want and that's that, don't care about anything else.
Based on your worldview, were I you I'd reach the exact same conclusions about the Iraq war that you have. The difference then, is that I'm taking into account all possible outcomes, not just the ones I'd like to see happen. Had we not taken out Saddam, he'd probably have died at a ripe old age and his thug sons would've taken over and Iraq would still be a backwards hellhole.
Think of it like this dude, although maybe you can twist words into comebacks, maybe you're not actually making a point, you're just "debating"... the way you have been trained to debate, i.e. with 2 sided arguments.
You and many others on the sift want 'wiggle room' for those times uncomfortable facts and logic make themselves known, and this wiggle room is usually provided by suggesting that "no labels apply" or that their unique views exist outside of categorization.
Liberalism is a starting point, not the finish line.
It's kinda like you live in a dictatorship and you have been brainwashed to think like that.
Once your eyes are opened and knowledge and experience received, you can't go back to being a leftist, because you won't be able to 'unsee' the inherent flaws in what amounts to an unworkable and unjust system even less fair than capitalism.
So you don't like "2-sided arguments"...all right then, have you ever gone beyond your own foregone conclusions and considered Iraq just might benefit in the long run, that the US has given them an opportunity to make their fledgling government work and given their people a real shot at self-determination? It's something the UN has never done for any country.
I'm not upset by opposing points of view, and once again, I never picked up a keyboard to change anyone's mind. We're all working thru the thing.
Any Trip Tips in Vancouver, ey? (Travel Talk Post)
Lucky, do you or your Life Companion have any interest in plants, gardening, or really neat fireworks displays? First two would be the Butchart Gardens, last would be the Butchart Gardens on Saturday nights in the summer.
http://www.butchartgardens.com
Just walking around the town is pretty cool, especially at night. Nice thing is we have a really low crime rate as there is no land link to the mainland, so you need to arrive by boat or plane. Our ferries are more like cruiseships ( albeit cheap ones with no staterooms
I would really need to know more about your interests to come up with other recommendations.
Oh, we even have an IMAX.
The Royal BC Museum has a display set up of the last 150 years of history in BC which I hear is quite interesting. It should be a good show as King Tut's loot was the Big Thing a couple years ago. It's kind of a mix of the different museum types, one part of it that's alway impressed me are the lifesize diorama displays of the various epocs and areas of BC.
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
Steve Irwin gets bitten by a python on live TV (1991)
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Pornography Myths (Femme Talk Post)
My problem with your post?
You list a collection of EASILY shot down, ridiculous arguments as if they are things that those of us that are ok with porn believe in. Which makes it really easy to defend your position because you've preset the bar really low on your opponent's side.
I have stated my views on porn on this site a number of times, but they go something like this:
* Pornography, something made to sexually arouse someone is not in any way inherently wrong, how can you suggest that making someone turned on is a bad thing?
* There is a LOT of sleaze and sadness in the porn world. This is my fundamental issue with porn. In a perfect world, all the people involved in the production of porn would be enjoying themselves, would be treated with utmost respect and be unashamed of what they do. In the real world the majority of people involved in it do so because they need the money and couldn't be bothered/haven't had the opportunity to get a 'real' job that pays as well. This really affects my enjoyment of porn because I keep being snapped out of the fantasy when I think of how much the actress (and sometimes the man) is not enjoying herself. There ARE movies which show REAL couples enjoying themselves together in front of a camera with someone they really care for/love, and do so because it turns them on, and these are sensational (well, the idea is, the only one I watched was not great). But the sad truth is that most porn out there features people that would rather be doing something else.
* There is a disturbing trend towards humiliation in porn that I've seen these days. The treatment of women as mere objects to fuck, and to do so in the most savage way possible really, really disturbs me and makes me feel concerned for the general mindset of men at the moment towards women.
* But that doesn't mean that I rule out porn entirely, I enjoy porn, I enjoy adult entertainment, I enjoy it with my wife on occasion and it makes for a fun and erotic time. BUT you have to hunt down the porn that is pro women in the way things happen on screen (women are pleasured, treated well, with respect), shows respect and basically just leads to a great feeling of heightened eroticism. It can help to have a couple explore their fantasies and communicate things they'd like to try. But throw in a bit of humiliation or mistreatment and it can ruin it for everyone as we don't want to see that kind of crap.
Pornography in and of itself is not bad, there is plenty of bad pornography out there, but there's also plenty of good porn too. So I do condemn a lot of porn I've seen snippets of, and lament that there isn't a higher percentage of the type of porn that shows people treating each other with respect in a sexual way. If there was more of that I think the entire industry could be better for it, rather than heading down the track of 'the dirtier, the filthier the better', as that's a path to complete self destruction and they'll just find their position so hard to defend as almost no decent person can defend something which denigrates others so much.
So... there, you got another huge response from me... dang you!
Best f**king music video of 1974
Best f**king music video of 1974
*discard
Goofy Goober Rock
Ghost In The Shell AMV
Clip of the Earth with accompanying music
A plea for amnesty (Humanitarian Talk Post)
You people take the sift to serious. The sift is after all a clustering of binary digits in the vastness of cyberspace. It is a collection of XML, HTML, Data Tables, (C# Java or some other behind language) Transact SQL... I digress.
Any way Choggie(his name makes me think of haggish) will always push the limits of the rules, that is what many of us do, and some of us will break those rules.
Ad Hominem here Beware:
Just because some of you (I wrote it) got offended or hurt by him shows that you care to much for what may be going on in this social experiment.
What in the world is this kid drawing?