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So do you dames really think America would be better off socialist? I gotta hear this! For laughs mostly! Socialism is just as fail as communism! Pretty much the same really! Ha ha! I won't mock though. Speak your mind. You're all smarter than I am book wise. What do you think?

socialism vs. communism vs. capitalism is a good debate topic, but a very heady one ...debating the definitions could be a thread all on its own.

If you say absolutely against socialism, there goes public education (and government assiastance with college), vaccinations and other base preventative health care, police, military, FDA customs checks....

And someone is bound to bring up Ann Rand

Random topic ideas

whether graphic novels should be considered for recognition of literary merit via award?
(officially they aren't since, Neil Gaiman won they changed the rules)


HMO and government coverage of what can be termed elective surgeries such as cosmetic or reconstructive


Where did the Australian or Japanese aborigional people actually come from

Manditory neutering of repeat sex offenders

How has the emergence of a meat-loving deity based religion to prominance has effected the global ecology

I'm a socialist.
My sister lives in Switzerland right now and it gets so tempting to drop everything and take her up on the offer to drop in any time. I'd have a hell of a time learning the language (all I can say right now is thanks for the food, but apparantly my remedial French could hold me over) and it would take some doing to get citizenship but the medical, educational and economic advantages really temp me.
I also like the whole not sacrificing the youth of the country to force your ideals on other countries that America is so big on. How many kids went to the Middle East for warfare rather than college? I'm pretty far from being a pacifist, but it really sickens me the extent to which the USA will destroy its' own in a blowhard pissing match with the non-corporeal ideal of terrorism.
All it's really done is proven that terrorism works.


Hmm...bigger fail: War on Terror or War on Drugs?

You're right, they're not mutually exclusive; unfortunately I was desperate for some kind of topic that people would post in.

Or the Tilight phenomenon:

Harmles bad writing
or
a hallmark of the decline of western civilization, romaticizing abusive, controlling relationships and pedp#ilia and setting feminism back a century?

Hmmmm

War on Terror:
The US strikes fear into its citizens to gain funding and support for terroristic attacks on the Middle East. The US government futher terroizes its citizens by instituting policies violating habius corpus, freedom of speech and privacy, as well as endorsing and practicing racial profiling.

War on Drugs:
Drug using president advocates "just saying no" to drugs while he and his constituants pander to the pharmacutical lobbiests keeping non-pharmacutical treatments from becoming legally practiced, and legalizing HMO restricting coverages to promote drug use and reatrict disclosures of non-drug treatments. Arnold Schartzeneger, (sp?) then drug user, was a one of the major celebrity endorsers.
Also many rockstars, especially of the metal genre, were recruited to do public advisory "we don't need drugs to be cool" commercials, generally filmed while the muscians were on drugs.
They became a running joke


So over all, the War on Drugs increased drug use mainly in the US, but the War on Terror inflicted terror globally.


How did an admitted former drug and steroid user and porn star become governor of Caliornia?
California was much better off with Jerry Brown, the pot smoking nerd, as governor.