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sibelian

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13. ... what ... are you TALKING about?

Wed Jul 3, 2013, 07:37 AM

Jul 2013

Are your opinions extracted only from an adolescent, fatalist anti-utopianism?

Is this why you think it's OK for the US to fuck with people? Because there's ooooooo only one alternative that's worse?

I've no idea why you think the entire world needs a quasi-Neanderthal superpower making everything the way it wants it to be. We managed just fine without corporate fascist America in the past. I imagine we'll all manage just fine in the future.

Some of us even have our own governing systems and everything. Some of them - GASP - even made them up all by ourselves out of our own brains because we're oh so clever and we can do things like that! YES. WE HAVE POLITICS TOO!

"oooooh, everything's going to go boom"

You watch too much TV, mate. The world wants a roof over its head and a sarnie, not an infinite procession of neurotic, babyish fatalism.

The default human condition is NOT warfare. The default human condition is, largely speaking, pottering about and minding your own business, yes even the super-exciting United States of America.

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