OK.. Let's waste 5 mins and answer the obvious...
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
we dont live in nazi germany.
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Correct - I'm assuming, you live in the US? If so, 10 marks for geography.
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
we live in a democracy that functions just as every other healthy democracy on the planet
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Nope - you used to live in a healthy democracy that fuctions just like others on the planet. Democracies do not imprison people without trial - nor do they condone torture and violate human rights treaties to the point of torturing to organ failure or possible death. They all, without exception, provide certain rights - one is where they provide children with rights universally accepted. Unfortunately US children are not privy to these rights as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Bottom line - please don't confuse the US with "every other healthy democracy", but I'd hope you push forward in obtaining these rights and freedoms you once had and hoped to spread throughout the world. The US has plenty going for it, but fudging the issue does not help and would be inaccuarate. Facts are easier to handle and indisputable.
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
a democracy with parties attempting to appeal to voters by creating monsters to protect them from. that monster might be the threat of unchecked immigration as it is right now in europe or it might be terrorism adn security as it in for the ruling party in the US and predictably, that monster for the party wanting control of the government is the current government.
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Nothing wrong with anyone appealing to anyone on an honest basis and sell themselves by presenting .. excuse the dirty four letter word, "fact" and letting them decide on a vote. We are not talking about fact - we are talking about preying on fear on a questionable basis and inventing edited content and sound track to purvey information that no individual possesses. On that level - it's called lying.
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
like directfiesta, you do it because for you, it simply presents one more opportunity to post a pic of Rumsfeld shaking Saddams hand and to take a bunch of worthless shots with arguments out of context, and subjective ideas presented as fact, simply to affirm your own convictions that the USA is bad.
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Sorry to disappoint you - I don't post nice little pics of personalities like Rumsfeld or Saddam. Is the US "bad"?? You have the conviction that I think they US is "bad"? You are wrong - again. (Assumptions are always a dangerous thing - thought you may know that after recent history with your current leader).
No, I do not believe the US is bad - no country is "bad". People can be bad and I have no doubts, the current US admin are "bad" - not only for the US people, but the world as a whole. This is not exactly an original concept, - but one shared by the majority of the planet. And no, there are not all "jealous of our freedoms" and, yes, they must all be "US bashers"
The remainder of your post is simply the usual troll attack and with the usual droll keywords, "US bashing", "liberal", "bias" blah - tho it's clear never has there been a post of any "bias" on your part - depsite you have an obvious agenda on *something*.
Why do you feel a need to assume a criticism or comment on the lead thread of this post is a personal attack on you or your country? It was not. I don't care what your political beliefs are or where you originate from - you are entitled to your opinion. This, you have stated and loaded it with diversions, but interesting
The subject of the thread was unethical use of material in an attempt to incite fear in a population for the purpose of gaining votes, - nothing more, nothing less.
PS Remember to vote on November 7th - it's still your right