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    Quote Originally Posted by Syn7 View Post
    If he tried to shut down parliament and create a new one that only represented conservatives while simultaneously re-writing the constitution to favour Christian fundamentalists...
    No, he just rigged the election, stacked the unelected senate with his cronies, moved Canada back a century in diplomacy to the time when we were just an armature of Mother England, dismantled our environmental safeguards and started a major campaign to reframe Canadian history from one of the peace-maker to one of the warrior...

    Come to think of it perhaps we should be rebelling in the streets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonM View Post
    No, he just rigged the election, stacked the unelected senate with his cronies, moved Canada back a century in diplomacy to the time when we were just an armature of Mother England, dismantled our environmental safeguards and started a major campaign to reframe Canadian history from one of the peace-maker to one of the warrior...

    Come to think of it perhaps we should be rebelling in the streets.
    Oh, I totally agree. But unless we show up on the hill by the millions, we're gonna simply have to wait for an election. A non confidence vote is out of the question, unfortunately.

    I'm still pissed over our provincial election in BC. Kind of a throw your hands up scenario. Like... come on. How bad do these people have to screw up? How many scandals is too many? How many criminal charges are too many? How many ethics violations are too many? How many voting ethics violations are too many?

    People pigeon hole themselves and just vote the way they always have. It also doesn't help that our conservative(actual) party is called liberal and that they are far more in line with federal conservatives than federal liberals. It's just sad what has happened here. And on top of that we have a waiting to fail petrol state with a douchey conservative government who couldn't balance a budget with solomons gold luring away our talent pool and rendering our population growth entirely dependant on immigration. Not a good look. The one good thing Clark did do was to deny that pipeline. But we all know it will eventually happen. These people have no class, no hustle. Their game is transparent and we still can't take them down. I'll stop here, cause it just never ends.


    But it's still better than Egypt
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    maybe a round of late night emergency debates that lead to nothing will solve this!

    huzzah! to the library! sorry!

    P.S Damn skippy it's better than Egypt.
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    My friends on the inside say the "coup" was necessary. Morsi was on the verge of pulling a Hitler (in terms of power consolidation).

    And by inside, I mean, in Egypt. Egyptians.
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    Isn't giving democracy to savages ironic?

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    Quote Originally Posted by xinyidizi View Post
    Isn't giving democracy to savages ironic?
    savages?

    wtf, they're people.

    Education destroys poverty and low actions.
    THis is what's required. the people of egypt have been under the thumb of dictators, sheiks, occupiers etc. They probably are a pharonic folk and would likely do well within a constitutional monarchy as opposed to a democratic republic which has to come of knowing and free will. It can't be hoisted onto anyone. It is still forming in the USA and they've had it for 237 years!

    so that's worth considering.. But I wouldn't call a country of millions "savages". there are savages everywhere. Even in the most developed societies. Leches, low lifes, reprobates criminal scum, you name it and it's right down your street too.
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    Actually, Egyptians are highly educated and very smart. They've also been around longer than just about anyone else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    Actually, Egyptians are highly educated and very smart. They've also been around longer than just about anyone else.
    middle east is done, too much politics. Africa is the future.

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    So what? Ayman al-Zawahiri is also an educated surgeon. The cultural problems of the Middle East are too complicated. No amount of education and money can make them better.


    Not related to this topic but this wedding ceremony is funny:

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    Quote Originally Posted by xinyidizi View Post
    Isn't giving democracy to savages ironic?
    ur mom is a savage in bed

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    There is no excuse for having a bad society. The general shape of a society is a reflection of how the majority of the people in that society think. A civilized government won't last in an uncivilized society. An uncivilized government also won't last in a civilized society.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xinyidizi View Post
    There is no excuse for having a bad society. The general shape of a society is a reflection of how the majority of the people in that society think. A civilized government won't last in an uncivilized society. An uncivilized government also won't last in a civilized society.
    And you get this info from all your Egyption friends? Because the Egyptians I know are quite intelligent.

    If you judge the culture by it's least desirable elements, the US ain't lookin' good.

    "We beg your pardon, America, because it was not yours to give" - Gil Scott-Heron

    Democracy is not yours to give.

    You wanna talk about uncivilized? Really? Reflections of the majority? You really wanna open that door? W/O structure and stability, the US could and would descend into chaos real fast.

    Most Americans are hard working decent people. The same goes for the rest of the world. You can't paint a whole people with one brush. That is just beyond ignorant.
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    There will be no true democracy in the Middle East unless they learn to separate mosque from state.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syn7 View Post

    You wanna talk about uncivilized? Really? Reflections of the majority? You really wanna open that door? W/O structure and stability, the US could and would descend into chaos real fast.
    In a Hollywood movie yes but in reality no. It's the people who make the structure and believe in it that make it work not the other way around.

    You can give Afghanistan the best structure but if the people are not ready for it as soon as the US stops helping everything will go back to the Taliban era.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xinyidizi View Post
    In a Hollywood movie yes but in reality no. It's the people who make the structure and believe in it that make it work not the other way around.

    You can give Afghanistan the best structure but if the people are not ready for it as soon as the US stops helping everything will go back to the Taliban era.
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