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DRoseDARs
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"My god, it's full of peas..."
Jul 2002
time: 21:16
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Yes well, that hardly means you have to continue doing it, Fez. |
Me? I've already clearly established the fact that I didn't know Giancarlo was his real name. I was talking about the UN since someone earlier poo-poo'ed it. Giancarlo talked out of his ass, as usual, and I called him on it. He started getting all huffy about being called "Fez" (bear in mind I still didn't know his real name) instead of his real name. I'd just assumed "Fez" and "Giancarlo" were little more than usernames based on the Fez vs. Giancarlo thread some years ago when I first saw his posts. Christ, not everyone types out my username, some abreviate, a few others have even used my real name. They know it only because I've used it in PM's. Hell, I'm almost certain Giancarlo knows it as I have PM'd him before. I don't care which name variant they use, as long as I can clearly tell they're refering to me. In Giancarlo's case, I only had "Fez" and "Giancarlo" to go on. So I didn't check his profile page, whoop-dee-friggin'-doo.  Instead of being a shrill little whiner he could have just said, "My real life name IS Giancarlo, you criminal!  " and just left it at that.
I apologize for causing you sooo much consterpation and mental anguish, and have likely shaved 20 years off your life span through unbearable stress caused by being called Fez. I like you Giancarlo, honestly and truly, but bloody hell take a pill.
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Ted Striker
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United States of America
Jan 1970
time: 21:16
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Most of Sub Saharan Africa has been ****ed for the past 100 years, and continues to be ****ed on a daily basis.
While I do think it's a mistake to judge their quality of life by silly western (American) standards -- how many tvs they have, what kinda cars they drive, do they have a savings account, there are many cases where basic things like clean drinking water are not available!
If you want to help, there are alot of charities that will sponsor a child for you, you can pay them and they'll send the kid to school, make sure he has clothes, food, etc. I would say that's a good plan, at least on a personal level.
I've heard alot of ignorant and silly arguments regarding Africans, like most of the problems there are due to their own mismangement. While there is alot of corruption going on, most African nations have been relatively held out to dry.
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boann
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ice queen colorado
Sep 2000
time: 22:16
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was told this is probably the real problem
the congo being actually a kleptocracy..
kleptocrats routinely ignore economic and social problems in their quest to amass ever more wealth and power. As kleptocrats do not attempt to build or maintain functioning states, or even maintain large security forces for fear of coup d'états, kleptocracies are generally incompetent in the face of social crises, and often collapse into prolonged civil war and anarchy.
Historically, the socio-political environment associated with colonial rule has been particularly conducive to the later creation of kleptocracies, especially in Africa and South America. The creation of a kleptocracy typically results in many years of general hardship and suffering for the vast majority of citizens as civil society and the rule of law distintegrates.
Among the more infamous examples of kleptocratic government were the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under Mobutu Sese Seko, Indonesia under Suharto, Peru under Alberto Fujimori, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milosevic and Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu.
Older examples include the Barbary states of North Africa in the 17th through early 19th centuries, the Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin in modern times.
Less extreme examples are Nationalist China under Chiang Kai-shek, the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos and later under Joseph Estrada, Kazakhstan under Nursultan Nazarbayev and Puerto Rico under Pedro Rosselló.
Some observers use the term 'kleptocracy' to disparage democratic political processes which permit corporations to influence political policy. The use of kleptocracy in this context privileges one form of rent seeking over all others that are a normal concomitant of democracy.
Ralph Nader famously denounced the United States as a kleptocracy during the 2000 US presidential campaign
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08-03-2005 13:28
Wha..?
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