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Trident said:

I want you to be right. Because I so much like reading your reasoning to things?

But I’ve got a hard time thinking that’s it either.

Ha! That’s nice, but I agree I’m probably wrong. It’s all speculation anyway. The point about the population thing didn’t really come straight across either. I’ve never been to a place where 50% of the population was kids (of 230 countries, Gaza ranks an exceptional 225 for median age), but I’ve been places with a lot closer to that than we have in the States. Things are different. A lot different. There are unattended packs of kids everywhere. Like, everywhere, everywhere. Places where kids simply do not belong – yup, it’s their favorite hangout. That’s right, the place with all the broken glass and tetanus nails. And they’re not neglected AFAICT – they’ve all got parents and can find their ways home for dinner and such, and seem happy and well-adjusted. But parents have jobs and school isn’t all day even when it’s in session, and the kids just roam. It’s not logistically possible for a society to directly oversee that many kids with that few adults and still have all the other things going on that a society does. Pack of kids in the middle of a potentially explosive protest? I could see it.

And I’m sure every now and then bad things happen to the kids. I met a girl named Deanna who was absolutely the most whip-smart and endearing girl, maybe about eight or so, traveling in a pack like this. Could have run the world at the rate she was going. She died of pneumonia.

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TV’s Frink said:

I’m sure you do.

Actually, I changed my mind. I think you’re probably right that my sentiment is unAmerican, however, I don’t think being a little unAmerican now and then is necessarily a bad thing.

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I’m pretty sure the term “un-American” is un-American. But I just said it! Ni!

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CatBus said:

I’m pretty sure the term “un-American” is un-American. But I just said it! Ni!

Indeed.

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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CatBus said:

I’m pretty sure the term “un-American” is un-American.

Depends how it’s used.

You don’t vote, then you’re wrong.

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I don’t get why voting is considered so sacred in this country. It isn’t like I’m advocating that people just not pay any attention and not vote. I’m advocating that when you’re handed two candidates that you can’t in good conscience vote for you should follow your conscience and not vote at all, or vote for a third party if you have the time. I actually found our choices to be unAmerican to varying degrees.

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Gotta agree. The more people alienated by major parties the more they must change or go away.

There are things Trump has done that I like. Based only on policies/judges, Trump is better than Clinton. If I stopped there, the choice would be easy. But given issues of character and temperament, among other issues, I couldn’t vote for him in good conscience.

The blue elephant in the room.

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moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t get why voting is considered so sacred in this country. It isn’t like I’m advocating that people just not pay any attention and not vote. I’m advocating that when you’re handed two candidates that you can’t in good conscience vote for you should follow your conscience and not vote at all, or vote for a third party if you have the time. I actually found our choices to be unAmerican to varying degrees.

Did you vote in your local and state races? If so, I’d say that’s much less un-American.

If you didn’t, then go pound sand.

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TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t get why voting is considered so sacred in this country. It isn’t like I’m advocating that people just not pay any attention and not vote. I’m advocating that when you’re handed two candidates that you can’t in good conscience vote for you should follow your conscience and not vote at all, or vote for a third party if you have the time. I actually found our choices to be unAmerican to varying degrees.

Did you vote in your local and state races? If so, I’d say that’s much less un-American.

I actually did vote for the education and treasury representatives for my town.

If you didn’t, then go pound sand.

lawl.

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moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t get why voting is considered so sacred in this country. It isn’t like I’m advocating that people just not pay any attention and not vote. I’m advocating that when you’re handed two candidates that you can’t in good conscience vote for you should follow your conscience and not vote at all, or vote for a third party if you have the time. I actually found our choices to be unAmerican to varying degrees.

Did you vote in your local and state races? If so, I’d say that’s much less un-American.

I actually did vote for the education and treasury representatives for my town.

That’s it?

So no one else was worthy of your vote?

Ok.

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TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t get why voting is considered so sacred in this country. It isn’t like I’m advocating that people just not pay any attention and not vote. I’m advocating that when you’re handed two candidates that you can’t in good conscience vote for you should follow your conscience and not vote at all, or vote for a third party if you have the time. I actually found our choices to be unAmerican to varying degrees.

Did you vote in your local and state races? If so, I’d say that’s much less un-American.

I actually did vote for the education and treasury representatives for my town.

That’s it?

So no one else was worthy of your vote?

Ok.

I voted against the incumbent congressional representatives by mail.

EDIT: I don’t actually remember if I left the president vote blank or if I voted Jill Stein. I definitely didn’t vote Trump, Hillary, or Gary Johnson though.

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It’s looking like North Korea is going to yank the football again. So much for that Nobel Peace prize?

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Where were you in '77?

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I mean is anyone surprised?

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Where were you in '77?

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I am kind of surprised. They usually require a few billion dollars in bribes and materials every decade or so in exchange for good behavior. They were due for a good round of diplomacy payoffs.

But then I guess if you refuse to pay $30,000 to a painter even after a judge orders you to do it, how can you be reasonably expected to scrape together a few billion to pay a guy to stop doing anything?

Then again, maybe the proffered bribe wasn’t big enough, in which case this is all just nuclear-age haggling. And the bribe not being big enough does fit these observations…

I realize my first paragraph is a little vague. “They” refers to the North Korean regime, not ours. I apologize for any confusion.

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I am glad those three guys got released though. (Even if it was the usual NK buttering up ploy.) Hopefully nobody will be dumb enough to visit NK unless they are a diplomat in the future. Hawaii is a far safer place to visit by comparison at the moment.

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Where were you in '77?

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I know. I just didn’t expect googling that specific phrase would actually get a useful result.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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isn’t google amazing! i know that users of this site can be forgiven for not realizing the power of search…

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dahmage said:

isn’t google amazing! i know that users of this site can be forgiven for not realizing the power of search…

But not for lack of capitalization.

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.