Hehe. Well I'm 21 and retired. Been retired since I was born. The only way I'll ever have to work is if I mess up on investing my inheritance big time.

BW,

Apparently, the oil drilled and refined in Alaska goes to Japan.

As for Iraq, it needs a dictatorship dependent and loyal to the US. Democracy only works when there is a strong middle class and educated population, things that are absent in Iraq.

As for government, well our Bureaucracy is absurdly inefficient. Aside from reducing government, we also need to whip our bureaucracy in to shape.

Well I'm sure Qaddafi thinks they have model looks. They're his 40 virgins.

> AcevSpades wrote:

> justinian you are a complete meat sack.....

a man is not a slave to a woman... simply is being curtious,
perhaps your inability to see this is why you are experiencing problems. if i re call correctly you started the post "long distance relationships".

maybe you need to look at yourself and change who you are if you want to have success. not try to change other people.

I believe the way that a man treats a woman is dependent on the relationship that they had with their own mother.

I don't recall that thread, although I have at times had long distance relationships. Second, I'm satisfied with my relationships with women, so I don't know what you're talking about. In this thread, I have implied that I disapprove of beautiful women selecting a boyfriend who is a loser over one that has a future ahead of him, and I also do not approve of this nonsense about what a strong man and gentleman is. A man can still be strong and hit a woman, but that does not mean I approve of that either. Furthermore, I also do not approve of a man prioritizing his woman first and giving her his all. We are individuals and as individuals we enter relationships, and healthy relationships involve a give/take exchange. I'll give my woman what's equal in value to what she gives me. I won't be her slave. How can one approve of a man who gives a woman $1,000 a month, takes her out to fancy restaurant every week, cleans her apartment every week, and outright bleeds his wallet dry for her month to month, never to receive anything but her company and gratitude? Though this is an extreme example, this is what Muppet (and I hope unintentionally) is saying. Fact is, I wouldn't do that for any woman, especially not if I'm not getting laid. What Muppet is suggesting is not give/take, but give even if you receive nothing. He implies that you give to your woman and expect nothing in return, and everything she gives you in return amounts to a gift. That kind of thinking is just messed up imo.

Anyhow, how I treat a woman depends on how well she treats me. If she treats me well, I treat her well. If she treats me bad, I'm gone.

Because they at best won't earn more than $20k a year in their entire lives, have bad hygiene, are intellectually dull, like to dominate women, and the only thing they have going for them is that they are good sweet talkers.

Well he is a Socialist. The American elite aren't going to like that very much

Why do beautiful women sleep with losers?

> esa wrote:

> Well,post-modernism has certainly become under assault by conservatives and reactionaries after 9/11.

Yeah, I noticed Christians and Conservatives tend to hate them. However, so do Analytic thinkers, who dominate in US and UK. In the US, Post modernists are usually in the English departments and can be found in media, writing and political careers. However, I wasn't sure if they were more prevalent in Europe, because it seems like they are. I'm glad they are being challenged now though, because they really are full of it.

Hehe, I love how Noam Chomsky, even though he is a liberal, says that Post-modernism is meaningless.

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Personally, I think any kind of competition to Hollywood is good. Let them watch their profits fall! Long live the internet!

Gladiator,

Yes I have my mind set, and it's been set since he started talking about supporting the estate taxes and adding new taxes on investment income. I come from a family where this means I have a lot to lose if he wins. So it's not a matter of not having an open mind, but rather I see him as a big and mean bully who I rejoice when he suffers. My dislike of him is rooted in self-interest, not something arbitrary and silly as you seem to imply. And my dislike of him is very intense, to the point I wish he were to be assassinated.

And because of this hatred, I will believe he's evil and believe in all reports that reinforce his evilness, and am quick to dismiss all those that defend or praise him.

Moreover, if he wins, I will seriously consider moving to another country.