The General Chit Chat Thread 3

[Tatsujin]

You're all criminals.

Everybody and their mother's a criminal these days.

- The Last of Us

Really? Haven't played it.

Now you know where it's from.

Hell, I could build an atomic bomb if I had the materials... Basic bombs are unbelievably easy. You could build really destructive ones just with basic things you can buy at a home improvement store...

There's no point in bombs though. The radicals are too uneducated to realize that. Bigger internal changes need to be made. All blowing people up will do is enrage them which just results in even worse living conditions for the people they care about. I mean just look at what 9/11 lead to... Multiple countries occupied, tons of death and destruction brought to their homeland, their leaders executed. Our influence is stronger in that region now than ever, and all because they didn't have the forethought to consider what would happen if they used such a small minded immediate reward attack like that.

Though I suppose if the goal was to cripple our economy by sending us into a wild goose chase of a war while also killing thousands of their comrades then well I guess you could say it was a success but I think our economy would have taken the same turn regardless with all the bubbles we have. We're living beyond our means. A war put us in debt but it was the way we've been treating our finances for the past several decades that really caused the problems.

I mean, it's so stupid... all the attacks really did is inconvenience them.

Then again, our response was stupid too. If we really wanted to have a war on terror we should have taken the money we spent on our war machine and instead put it to helping them expand their education system so none of their children are left behind and the quality of education in general being raised and helping the countries in general become less poor so the children have better living conditions. That's how you defeat terror... These radicals, they're an idea. You can't kill an idea with a stick. You can only change it by educating future generations and showing them that such violence is unacceptable in a civilized society, and I say that in passing as they'll naturally learn that themselves through education and proper living conditions. That's what the whole damn problem is...

Well, I guess the radical sects are kind of problematic too but the radical Christians were just as bad, if not worse. Education is the only solution other than mass genocide and last I checked the world has never really been all that in favor of mass genocide.

*sigh* Such a stupid world... None of these moronic simpletons put into office by nothing more than a mere popularity contest can even see something so basic as that. It's pathetic, really. Our election system is so fucking retarded and I mean what did we expect?

We need to move to geniocracy and we need to work on educating the less fortunate and helping the impoverished nations to succeed. That's the only way we're going to move forward as a species. But hell, I have a problem with the whole government structure of the world to begin with. Ugh. So much stupid shit going on that nobody worthwhile can fix since it's always the idiots that get put in power.

Imagine if all the Otakus in the world get together and build a country to themselves with the most advanced robotic technology, weapons for offensive and defensive use. And we tell the world to go fuck themselves and put a nice video on the Internet declaring freedom. America wouldn't like it and to hell with them and the way of their thinking. I still admire how powerful we are as a country and how we boss other countries around and we tell the world what to do. It's pretty funny. But the whole point of this ... no wait, scratch all of that. We should just move to Mars and have a bad ass Internet connection where we can get everything we ever wanted from Earth and build our own cities and countries. I mean, they did that in Mass Effect 3. At least to some extent.

[froody1911]

Now you know where it's from.

It's from my brain, silly. "Everybody and their mother" is a common phrase.

[lololitas]

I wouldn't go as far as geniocracy, but instead go for technocracy. it doesn't value compassion the same way geniocracy does, but if people that know what they are doing are in power (e.g. a foreign minister that actually understands teh framework of foreign countries, a health minister that actually completed a public health master/ MD, etc) then it should result in the most plausible decisions, that will lead to the least damage and the greates advantage in the long term. but then again that genius that no one could stand in class is not going to get elected xD

Well, terrorists probably came about because the infrastructure that could provide education in the countries with terrorists was repeatedly destroyed (Iraq, during the gulf war, gaza strip during intifada). If you for example compare those countries with let's say jordan or syria before it's downfall (the worst thing that ever happened to the arabic countries) these never gave birth to that many radicals.

The stupidity on the arabic side probably also comes about due to the huge amount of children they have (i mean every guy can marry 4 women, and 10-30 children are not uncommon, especially in more conservative families). with that many children it's hard to provide for them all, to educate them all and most of all it's near impossible for all of them to find proper work. At most two children can inheret a family business (if there is one) and the rest has to find jobs for themselves. However instead of turning to jobs they turn to radical groups that put the blame on the west.

Well, I think the ideal government structure would be something along the lines of the EU, just with more legislative power, and not as an alliance of states, but more as a united state. I mean it works pretty well for now^^ and the good thing is since the EU government is somewhat more international and the individual citizens don't care that much about the image of who is in the positions of power, you usually have someone competent doing the decisions (and if not, someone competent will drag the mistaken decision before the court)

[gits]

Now you know where it's from.

It's from my brain, silly. "Everybody and their mother" is a common phrase.

It's not from your brain, the illuminati make you think you thought it up, it was actually all set up by them.

[kurandoinu]

How do you know froody isn't a member?

[Tatsujin]

Now you know where it's from.

It's from my brain, silly. "Everybody and their mother" is a common phrase.

It's not from your brain, the illuminati make you think you thought it up, it was actually all set up by them.

Or he could have seen that scene in The Last of Us and pretended all along over the Internet! It's also not a very common phrase. It's the first time I've ever heard of such a phrase and it was funny when Tommy said it, lol.

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Little Busters' music is not too bad, they're really good.

[gits]

Now you know where it's from.

It's from my brain, silly. "Everybody and their mother" is a common phrase.

It's not from your brain, the illuminati make you think you thought it up, it was actually all set up by them.

Or he could have seen that scene in The Last of Us and pretended all along over the Internet! It's also not a very common phrase. It's the first time I've ever heard of such a phrase and it was funny when Tommy said it, lol.

Nah, I am pretty sure it's the illuminati. Your explanation is way too unlikely to happen.

[Tatsujin]

Now you know where it's from.

It's from my brain, silly. "Everybody and their mother" is a common phrase.

It's not from your brain, the illuminati make you think you thought it up, it was actually all set up by them.

Or he could have seen that scene in The Last of Us and pretended all along over the Internet! It's also not a very common phrase. It's the first time I've ever heard of such a phrase and it was funny when Tommy said it, lol.

Nah, I am pretty sure it's the illuminati. Your explanation is way too unlikely to happen.

I have a better explanation - He's from the country side!

[froody1911]

I do wish you'd stop tacking your own ignorance onto me. It's pathetic.

[kurandoinu]

Frooooody you went before I could say bye

[Tatsujin]

I do wish you'd stop tacking your own ignorance onto me. It's pathetic.

You're not part of this conversation. Only your name is mentioned. So shut up.

[kurandoinu]

Ruuuuuuude

[RayIII]

no manners these kids today

[ThePlaneJet]

This thread = tl;dr

[kurandoinu]

Reading the whole thread would be silly

[ThePlaneJet]

True, but I seriously can't even read half of what you guys type out without tiring myself out. How do you people type out so much?

[kurandoinu]

Most of it's just one or two sentences. The walls of text are quite uncommon tbh.

[RayIII]

what he said

[kurandoinu]

Who?

[Xycolian2332]

lol, science...

That's actually kinda cool. I would consider it.