^^ You're looking at the situation from the US perspective. Kurto is saying the UN perspective. It's completely different, and the reason is politically.

The US in general doesn't care about the environment because we can rebuild and afford to take the financial loss. Other countries are much more dependent on environmental factors than we are.

The attitudes are shockingly different. I remember an article where many countries wanted to sign a carbon reduction pledge and the US refused, with some foreign representative chastising the US representative "to either lead, or get out of the way".

In fact, I googled it. It was in Bali, discussing the Kyoto protocol. Undersecretary of
State Paula J. Dobriansky was the person.

Read about it.

The OP reads like a recruitment ad for Al-Quaeda

I would think it seems like the exact reverse.

And your posts read like recruitment ads for Hitler.

Wow, we're good posters.

Alqueda is the new hitler already?

When someone raises hyperbole, I like to go all in.

interesting thread, but i had to stop here. No, it's not.

if u can name a "western thinking" country that supports it's government's plan to build a massive wall guarded by their military to segregate a race of people who live in their country, then you can prove me wrong. but you can't, because western thinking countries stopped being OK with their governments discriminating on the basis of race 50 years ago.

and a MASSIVE LOL to the "FED system no free markets people." that train of thought is dumb, there is no other word for it.

would your view change if central banks were the foundation of the greatest period of prosperity in human history? what if central banks were founded and the standard of living for the average person rose to the highest point in human history? would you still think that way?

yes, because that is exactly what has happened and there's still "ZOMG evil FED!" ppl.

and before you point to booms and busts after the FED was instituted look at the MASSIVE busts in the US during the 1800s and step your economic history game up. what happened when the first Bank of the US was abolished by Jackson? was that a great time to be a farmer?

but obviously the gold standard would solve every economic problem is 2014.

pretty much because their world view (if they ever had one) is intellectually bankrupt, and the average "conservative" has outsourced thinking to inflammatory media personalities.

but since they are white like me and hate gays like me and are still kind of nervous about blacks like me i will vote for whoever they tell me to, even if their policies are most destructive to me.

In the 100 years before 1913 the dollar gained a little in strength.

In the last 100 years the dollar has been raped.

Look around you dude....poverty everywhere....people can't afford ****.

You are intellectually bankrupt like everyone else who votes (conservative or liberal) because you actually think your vote matters. VOTING IS BULL****.

Amazing that smart "intellectuals" like yourselves actually think there is a difference between democrats and republicans and that your LOLVOTE matters.

Get a clue.

Believing your vote doesn't matter is incredibly narcissistic. It's not that your vote doesn't matter, it's that you, yourself, are incredibly insignificant, and voting brings you face to face with that. In reality, voting is a very important thing for you to do, but you have such an exaggerated sense of your own self worth that when you compare what you think your worth is to the inescapable math you see in the value of a vote, you have to tell yourself that voting isn't worth your "oh, so valuable" time to maintain your charade.

I feel like I just got levelled, but if not then LOL

Or maybe in reality your vote really doesn't matter?

Dude, not at all how I'm viewing it.

If we actually had a legitimate system then I would vote no matter how insignificant my vote is when compared to the math of how many votes get casted.

Your congressmen are all bought and paid for whores, your president is a bought and paid for whore. Your watching a ****ing broadway play on capitol hill. There is no difference between the people in the two parties. And it amazes me that pretty smart people like you and others actually think it is all legit! ****ing mind-boggling!

And they are laughing all the way to the bank while the unwashed masses are programmed to argue over stupid **** like Chick-Fil-A v.s the gheys.

Holy crap, you actually made a good post.

Lol at Silver Man calling people unwashed masses. Isnt this the dude that got in a fight with a bathroom attendant for asking him to wipe the piss off his hands before leaving the bathroom?

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You are an idiot for taking my comment of unwashed masses and thinking I'm meaning it literally.

You are talking about something completely unrelated to what I said about politicians being whores and the president being a whore, and your vote not mattering at all, and you aren't responding to it probably because it makes too much sense.

this would be true if you ignore things like-
only one party has fought to bring nationalized health care
If there's any party fighting for the rights of gays, we can all guess which
One party has been fighting for immigration reform, the other not so much
One site tries to enact some regulations that will put some restrictions on companies ability to pollute, the other party not so much.
One party tries to inhibit the ability of minorities to vote, the other tries to insure that everyone can vote easily...

So if you aren't a poor person needing health care, a sick person who can't get insurance due to a pre-existing condition... if you aren't a gay person who wants to marry or adopt children, a gay person who worries about being fired just for being gay, if you think that companies shouldn't be able to dump waste into rivers, if you're a minority and want to be able to vote... if you're not a woman concerned about being able to control your reproductive choices....

If you're none of the above then maybe Silver Man would be right -- the parties are the same! If you're not a sociopath you might see some really relevent differences between the two.

People have already responded and shown why your an idiot on the merits. Im laughing at you for looking down on the "unwashed masses" when you are a vile, racist human being.

Typically the folks claiming that both parties are the same are entirely uneducated.

Imagine the funny looks someone would get if they walked into a gas station and claimed that unleaded and diesel are exactly the same thing, there is no difference between them. This is, of course, completely false. But one or two idiots in the gas station would probably slowly nod their heads and think, "Yeah, he's right!"

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It's a Groundhog Day miracle!

Can we hear about this washroom story? Sounds like something funny actually.

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Not sure what the big deal is about this...

Cramped bathroom, few dudes in there a couple occupying the sinks with a bathroom attendant right there and carrying on a conversation. I don't want to stand there and wait for them to get done washing their hands and then have a bathroom attendant start up a convo with me. And I had planned on washing my hands the next time I went in there but he's chastising me while I am going to the bathroom the 2nd time, so I'm like **** this guy.

Bathroom attendants are weird, it is degrading IMO for a business to even employ one.