02-01-2005 04:26									#91
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Anyway, my predictions (which will probably be laughably wrong):

- Iraq elections are a failure, with boycotting parties, insurgent attacks, accusations of vote fraud and such. Allawi ends up retaining the PM post with a rather dodgy coalition behind him, and it continues to be widely seen that he's just an US prop.

- No new Bushwars (barring unexpectedly strong unrest in N. Korea or Iran), as Iraq will continue to be a handful. Bush will concentrate on enacting domestic agenda.

- Fundamentalist Moslems will engage in more mischief in Europe. Mainstream conservative parties will pick on more and more anti-immigrant theme.

- EU will face setbacks, as the constitution fails in one or more referendums and Turkey's entry is barred.

- Pope dies

- 2005 will finally see the next Nirvana (OMG YOU MEAN IT WASN'T THE LIBERTINES? HOW COULD NME LIE TO ME) and some degree of resurgence of rock. Possibly related to this, the new Muse album will come out and be really, really good.

	02-01-2005 04:45									#92
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi I would think right wing predictions would be more like: - Peace and Sunshine and love break out in Iraq, all problems in the mideast end, America to thank for new democracy - Thanks to tax cuts, the US economy booms and grows a rate of 1000% per year - France surrenders to Al Qaeda, briefly becoming an Islamic state before being nuked by the US. - Homosexuality proved to be a conspiracy started by the UN to destroy religion.

No, that'd be simply nutjob predictions...

	02-01-2005 05:09									#93
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quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo I'm the one in the end who understands what America stands for.

	02-01-2005 05:32									#94
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I think that Bush shall under the pressure of Big Oil and the business establishement end the "foreignt policy adventurism" and shall do foreignt policy much more like his father did it.

In the republican party is currently a low profile conflict going on between the business establisement(they want a foreignt policy like Bush his father did it: right winged but on a rational/ally-friendly way) and the real haviks. I think Bush shall side with the first(they have much more cash and bush his father on their side).

This does NOT mean he shall become much more moderate but it means he shall have a more rational less adventuristic approach. Bush shall spend MUCH more efforts in convincing other nations.

Bush shall set up a well designed pr campaign to get the moderate nations of europe on his side and in all nations except France shall he have some succes. He might even be capable to convince nations like Germany and Belgium to do low risks activities(like sending a few ships) in Iraq or help with the training of Iraqi soldiers. France shall end up in a more isolated position.

Bush his support for the palestain elections(even giving money to the palestain autority) and a recent memo who redefines toture in much more strickt terms are just the begining of his new pr campaign which has as goal: increasing US influence in europe and moderate Islam nations and going back to the Bush senior era US-europe relations.

Most people shall think that I'm completely insane for predicting this. But don't forget that Reagan did a similar foreignt policy shift in his second term (he singed even nuke treaties with the USSR something completely unimaginable in his first term.)

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	02-01-2005 05:37									#95
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quote: The politicalcompass.org now categorizes me as a right libertarian last time I checked. But I dunno (economic: +7.00, social: -1.01)

Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

but this compass sucks.
JP II as left authoritanian close to Arafat, Hussein and Mugabe? C-mon.

	02-01-2005 05:52									#96
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quote: Originally posted by Odin 1. Insugents keep many Sunnis from voting in Iraq, leading to massive unresst in Sunni areas. 2. Yushchenko will be inagurated as President of Ukraine. 3. Russia falls more and more into despotism after another terrorist attack gives Putin an excuse to increase his power. 4. Saddam will get the punishment he deserves, Death. 5. Bin Laden is killed in an attack by the Pakistani army. 6. Chief Justice Reinquist dies. 7. North Korea conducts an above ground nuclear test. 8. Iran is discovered lying about it's promise to the EU to stop uranium enrichment. 9. Serb will continue BAMing about how Yushchenko is a US puppet.

1. Agree
2. Yes
3. Putin is going to be the next Dictator.
4. Good
5. Bin Laden is loved by the Pakistani and they would never kill him or turn him over to the US. We will have take him out by ourselves with a secret mission.
6. So.
7. You better have two bombs if they do that. One to test and one for Insurance against attack by the US and maybe by China for doing a stupid act.
8. Iran is going for the bomb. Question is, will they get it or get taken out by who ever.
9. Better our boy than Putin boy. With us, he can keep his country, with Putin, his country become part of a Greater Russia. Serb surly you can see him walking down that road that will make him the next Great Dear Leader.

	02-01-2005 05:59									#97
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Serb is a communist today who lived in Russia during communism. You really can't expect to level with him.

	02-01-2005 06:02									#98
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He isn't old... He was a child when communism was around.

	02-01-2005 06:29									#99
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Fez and MNG competing to see who is more centrist

Yeah, it is rather silly. I think Fez is just being a silly troll.

I never got a chance to take that test because I had company come over and my two little cousins (kids) started playing games on my computer and took it over for a couple of hours.

But taking that test is silly; there is no point in it. Fez says he's a centrist and I took his word for it. But I tell him I'm the same and he wants to challenge me on it. How laughable is that?

You know what? I have a better idea. I'll just put Fez on Ignore; I'm tired of reading his radical posts. He'll probably do the same to me too, just for calling him Fez.

	02-01-2005 06:34									#100
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quote: Yeah, it is rather silly.

Of course, Fez is more centrist of you. I find a fundy xian claiming he's centrist even funnier than Fez.

	02-01-2005 06:35									#101
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Fez is a fundy atheist

	02-01-2005 06:42									#102
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker quote: Yeah, it is rather silly. Of course, Fez is more centrist of you. I find a fundy xian claiming he's centrist even funnier than Fez.

I am religiously fundamental, but politically centrist. There is a difference.

Please don't start trolling like Fez has done. You wanna make yourself out to be some kind of just like he did?

	02-01-2005 08:00									#103
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As long as we are doing this agoin...

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74

	02-01-2005 11:41									#104
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Oh no, not again...

	02-01-2005 11:48									#105
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Bipolarbear's predictions for the new year.

1: GW will continue to use ebonics despite the perpetual laughter of everyone, even his supporters.

2: Millions will be spent on potato chips and advertising on SuperBowl Sunday

3: Iraq will continue to f*** up in one way or another.

4: Country music will not die :anger:

5: MTV and vh1 will not die :anger:

	04-01-2005 09:21									#106
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Economic Left/Right: 1.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.08

I'm more of a moderate than Giancarlo and NiceGuy!

	08-01-2005 09:09									#107
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bump

I hope this thread wasn't Fezzed to death. The concept is interesting and most of the predictions will turn amusing by 2006.