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Space05us is offline Space05us
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Nov 2001
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I like it! but Im with DD, why bother hiding it?

Sir Ralph is offline Sir Ralph
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Dec 2001
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I guess I was too subtle for you ignorant foreigners.


If gawky is the same as subtle for you, then yes, you have been incredibly subtle.

And I'm not a foreigner . You are!

problem_child is offline problem_child
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Mar 2000
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  Old Post 17-07-2003 20:08
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I like it! but Im with DD, why bother hiding it?


Like I said before, because the good people of Norway really do believe their country stands for freedom and democracy, and they wouldn't like to think their government that they pay taxes to is basically the whore of corporate interests and the Godfather of oppressive regimes. Who would want to think that about their own country...

The idea that a President, of either party, is always going to have been Bought thuroughly by the corpos by the time they reach office, and the idea that spending five tax dinars to look after one corporate dinar overseas makes absolute sense from the point of view of those corporate interests, or thast risking the lives of soldiers for the commercial gain of major stock-holders makes perfect sense...

Not to mention the whole military thing, who gets paid for building and developing all the tanks and aircraft-carriers? Corporate interests do, who pays for them? Taxpayers do, does the government get to shop around much? No, basically the the government gets screwed in military contracts, but it doesn't matter because the people that run the government and greenlight contracts are corpo-friendly themselves.

Only taxpayers loose out, their infrastructure doesn't get developed, their jobs go overseas to where people have been made cheap (and where corrupt governments and corpos build extraction-infrastructure like mines and motorways and ports, but not b-roads to inter-connect villages, or education and healthcare facilities) and back home in the country of the empire people have to work harder for longer forever chasing the corporations manufactured dreams. The cost of food and housing goes up and up, and everybody runs the big hampster wheel to the globalists tune.

Right, I've gotten far to ranty and Socialist Worker on this one, I'm going to stop now, and not think or post about this kind of thing for at least a few weeks.

Drink Diet Coke.

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
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Dec 2000
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Originally posted by Dissident
*wipes eyes*

I could have swore the thread was titled: best way to disguise an umpire


*wipes tears from eyes*


Which one's best then?

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Gangerolf is offline Gangerolf
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May 2001
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  Old Post 17-07-2003 20:24
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So you're the ruling elite of a big powerful nation,


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Originally posted by problem_child
But this is how Norway does it, and nobody suspects a thing.


something isn't quite right...

methinks you're really talking about the US! (too obvious?)

DaShi is offline DaShi
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Sep 2000
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The best way to disguise an empire is to narrow the definition so much that no nation can fit it then get so horribly offended when anyone tries to fit your nation to it that diplomats risk international incidents by merely muddering it in passing conversation.

Kassiopeia is offline Kassiopeia
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Jul 2001
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quote:
Which one's best then?

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