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  1. So I was browsing through the public repo and saw that it seems as though megafauna such as rhinoceri and elephants are planned. I was just curious as to what the intended purpose of these rhinos and elephants that are to be added is. Is it just for aesthetics and more variety, prey items for predators, or will they have an important purpose such as ivory or transport from elephants?

    Also, as elephants and rhinos are generally restricted to tropical or subtropical regions, is it possible that additional megafauna might be included for temperate, arctic, or subarctic regions? Ground sloths would be great. They actually haven't been extinct for long, the last ones died out in the Caribbean around 4,000-3,000 years ago. They were highly adaptable and common, ranging from Canada to Patagonia and everywhere in between. A whole lot of interesting stuff could be done with them. They could browse leaf blocks off, and even tear down small trees.

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    Really cool, but it may be a little bit gross... don't you think so? Collecting the meat like it was snow is pretty brutal! If we can get a way to make it less "gore" I would love to see it in the mod.

    It's no where near as graphic as real life.

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    I think that the already-existing food prep table could be given another purpose as a butchering table. Stone food-prep tables could be required, as they would be much more sterile than the wooden ones. It wouldn't be great to have the meat cuts full of splinters and sawdust knocked off from hacking at the wood with a knife/cleaver.

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  3. As to sex ed, it is highly important, because at that age, trying to totally repress such activities is futile, without virtual imprisonment. As such, they need to be informed on the issue, and know the consequences and risks, as well as how to do it safely.

    It is important, but is certainly not the most important thing anyone will ever learn. And it should not be taught by the government, but privately by parents and/or other private entities, and it should not be taught to young kids. Maybe start at 15 or 16 at the earliest. I will say no more, as this is pretty off topic.

     

    As to the conservatives wanting to return America to how it was when it was "Great", well, that is absurdly subjective. Conservatives used to argue for segregation, before that, slavery, also there have been things such as polygamy, burning witches at the stake (this is similar to the creationism v evolution issue, people not looking at the evidence and thus killing innocents), and more, all of which they are against now. In a 100 years or so, these social issues which we argue about now will be accepted as totally acceptable, and obvious, by both sides. The only question is how long it will take, and what new issues will come up for them to argue about then. As to the "where you could determine your own path in life and do what ever you wanted with your life without anyone holding you down or taking from you.", for the vast majority of the history of the nation that was not true. A massive amount of what people could do was highly dependent on their circumstances. For much of our history, being born female condemned you to a life of being a mother and wife. Only a lucky few could actually do what they wanted. Socially mobility is as high or higher now as it has ever been.

    Let's not forget that it was always the democrats advocating for segregation. Many liberal extremists such as Margaret Sanger even advocated for the eradication of all "inferior" races. There were conservative racists, but the liberal racism always outweighed the conservative racism.

    Slavery was more financial, the rich & elitites in both the north and south supported slavery because it was imperative to their financial well-being. Most poorer people either couldn't care less or did not want slavery. It was never oriented based on conservative vs liberal, those political divides were not really well-defined yet.

    -So creationists are murderers because they have different beliefs than you do, is that what you're saying? Isn't unfair to judge so many people for based on some weird cult stuff that a handful of crazies in a little town in Massachusetts did 400 years ago?

     

    To the examples of leftist extremism; I will not deny that such opinions exist. They do exist, but in small numbers, and much of that is just ignorance or over-reaction, problems which plague both sides of the spectrum. Don't judge all of one side by the few hyper extremest. Such still exist on the right as well, 3 months ago pamphlets from the KKK were distributed on cars 10 miles from where I live. That doesn't mean everyone who is a conservative agrees with their views.

    But most commonplace leftists views are extreme. If ripping apart children, taking peoples' property, affirmative action aka racism, suspension of constitutional rights, etc. are not extreme, then pretty much nothing is.
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  4. Yes, it is that important. It is possibly the most important single bit of education a child/teenager can get.

    Wow. I thought the days where I was baffled by what liberals said were long gone, but I was obviously wrong. I guess liberalism really is a never ending well, or black whole should I say, of utter lunacy.

    "Sex is the most important thing anyone can ever learn."

    -Wow. Just... Wow.

     

    Then I'm afraid I can only disregard your thoughts on anything with basis in more then just subjective opinion.

    Like I said, this thread is not about whether or not the universe created itself out of nothing, so I will not derail it. Basically, I'm not gonna believe in a logical fallacy.

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  5. School != Government.

    Children need to be educated by professionals, and by standards set not by government and/or churches, but by experts. (That step is where is goes wrong most of the time, including here sometimes)

    Parents are generally incapable of providing a proper schooling, so over here, if you want to homeschool your kinds, you have to be certified.

    School also provide an environment where kids can be more then just son/daughter of there parents.

    I don't go to church, so I should not have that social experience? Another example of substituting a proper, neutral environment (at least that is what it should be), by an environment of indoctrination.

    You just think everything should be controlled by the government don't you? Seriously, is there anything you don't think should be controlled by the government? You even think the friggin atmosphere should be controlled by the government.

    -Most parents, especially moms, are professionals at raising and educating children. And I don't believe everyone should be homeschooled. It certainly isn't the right choice for everyone, not for many people, but it is a choice that should always be available and never discouraged.

    -Neutral is neutered. It is meaningless and pointless. You might as well not teach anything at all if it is all neutral. It is void and empty.

    -I never said that homeschooling should be required, it shouldn't be. So no, I don't mean that because you are atheist you shouldn't get social experience. Where did you get that idea?

     

     

    This is exactly what churches do too.

    I mean, teaching creationism instead of evolution? (I don't mind teaching both, in context)

    No proper sex ed, because you have to wait until marriage?

    There is probably more examples, but I hope you see my point.

    Do you really think the government should be teaching sex Ed? Do you really think it is a that important?

    -I am not going to debate creationism v evolutionism in this thread. That is totally off topic. All I will say is that there's scarcely a shred of evidence that would ever convince to believe in evolution.

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  6. No its not completely appropriate. Your nation was also founded on slavery. 3 / 5 of a man. So should the US go back to that too? Nations evolve, just like everything else.

    Also, I shouldn't have to deal with your religion when you serve me in a public institution.

    No it wasn't, that is simply false. Slavery was dying out at the time the Constitution was written. Most of the founding fathers hoped it would be gone soon enough anyway, and they new that if they banned slavery in the Constitution, most of the states wouldn't sign it. Slavery is barely even mentioned int the constitution, and it was never a constitutional right.

    And comparing Christianity to slavery is so bigoted and so wrong in so many levels.

    Its should. There is piles of evidence that is a major cause of indoctrination of children, and it causes negligence towards the public schools. Homeschooling is also not good for your kid's social skills.

    (Private education can be necessary, and it can be done well, but the US isn't an example of such a system.)

    So you think parents shouldn't be allowed to educate their own children. You think children must be educated by the government? This pretty much sums up half of what is wrong with Socialism. Everyone is indoctrinated and raised by the government. Socialism is basically a form of worship of the government in which government is viewed as a deity that provides the people with everything they need and decides every aspect of how they will live their lives, and even controls their minds through the education system.

    It is unacceptable that government runs education anywhere. Unacceptable and appalling. It is in direct opposition to personal freedom, and even a person's right to control what they learn and what they believe. Government must not be involved in education in anyway. That's one of the first things Hiter did, get gov't more involved. He started the Hitler Youth, and indoctrinated countless German children into practical worship of the Nazi Party and NATIONAL SOCIALISM.

    And how could it be negative for a child's social skills? Most homeschooled children are in just as much in contact with children their age as kids that go to school, through church, extracurricular activities, co-ops, etc. Do you really believe that just because they don't go to school, they won't have any social contact? They also have much more family time, and time with their siblings and relatives, which is far more important than even social skills.

    It you can go to jail for not serving a black man, you should go to jail for not serving a gay man. You can't pick and choose with equability, otherwise its meaningless.

    That does certainly not mean you should treat minorities better then the general population, just equally.

    You shouldn't go to jail for turning down people because of race. Yeah, maybe fined or penalized. But sending someone to jail because of that is just stupid. Plus, there are so few racists in America now, that if the public found out someone was doing that, they would probably boycott them and they would quickly go out of business.

    And in most of those cases, they were serving gay people, they just don't want to participate in the gay wedding. So a lawsuit was filed against them. If I owned a business, I would be fine serving gay people, but I would never ever ever cater to a gay wedding. That doesn't mean I should have to serve gay people. It defies religious liberty to force people to violate their religious commitments by making them serve gay people.

    Here's a quote from one of the most vile dictators this world has ever seen, and it has to do with public education. If the government controls education, then it controls all of its people, and controls everything; most likely for very negative purposes. In Nazi Germany, the result was a level killing never before known on this planet. And we're headed for that again, unless we change our ways fast.

    If America hadn't stopped Hitler when we did, he would have quickly built a nearly indestructible socialist state that ran off industrialized slaughter and controlled all of Europe.

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  7. Let me remind you that we (Belgium at least, but as far as I can find most of the EU) have absolute separation of state and church. You are not allowed to show any religious affiliation whatsoever when holding public office. (including secretaries, librarians, ....)

    That is not separation of church and state, that is anti-religious oppression/persecution. Separation of church and state means that the church is not the state and vice versa. It means that there is a state that is not a religious institution; basically just not a theocracy. It does not mean public leaders can't show their religion and that the state can't adopt priciples from a religion. Since America is a Judeo-Christian nation with mostly Judeo-Christian founders and is founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs, we incorporate Judeo-Christian principles, and that is completely appropriate.

    Political extremism is destroying America. But most of that does seem to come from the right wing.

    There is almost zero political extremism coming from the right. We simply want to return America to how it is used to be, a great place where you could determine your own path in life and do what ever you wanted with your life without anyone holding you down or taking from you. Where you can worship and live however you choose, and where no one can order you around. How is that so extreme?

    I've heard leftists say rich people should be guillotined, that mentally ill and physically handicapped people should be shipped off to death camps for euthanization, that northerners are genetically superior to southerners, that gun owners are like ku klux klansmen, that free speech should be done away with, that all southern whites are rabid sub-human mongrels that don't deserve anything, that all constitutional rights should be suspended, that whites should have to pay a white privilege tax, that private education and homeschooling should be banned, that we shouldn't hold elections anymore, that people should go to jail for not catering to homosexuals, that people should get the death penalty for eating meat, and that there should be "abortions" for children up to two years in age. But none of those are really that extreme, now are they?

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  8. Well, I'm agnostic so I don't have any rights? Once you pull religion into an argument about something like this you've lost. Ultimately society gives us rights, and takes them away. (Prohibition?)

    This is just wrong. A right is not really right if it can be taken away. If someone can just tell me "never mind, I decided you don't have that right anymore," then what's the point of even having rights in the first place?

    I hope you know this, but the USA doesn't have nobility, I assume you mean dictator :P . (Which, in my opinion, would in an ideal world be the best form of government for a number of reasons, but we don't live in utopia)

    That was a hypothetical. What made you think I was saying the U.S. had nobility? Lmao.

    I know how the system works, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this, though I'm not a law expert. There is this great series of videos you should watch, if you think congress or the Supreme Court doesn't have the authority to define what a legal marriage is.

    I didn't say that Congress didn't have the authority to define the legal definition of marriage. I said that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to define it. The U.S. is not ruled by a 9-member council of unelected judges that decides everything. The Supreme Court approves or disapproves of laws passed by Congress bass on their constitutionality. They do not tell everyone in the country what they can and can not do and how they must run their lives.

     

    Switzerland isn't part of the EU. Its part of Shenzhen, but that isn't the same thing. I guess you don't quite know what the EU is or how it works, and that's fine, but know what you're arguing about before you get into it.]

    That does ring a bell. Switzerland stays out of pretty much everything. Seems like I chose just about the only major European nation that isn't in the EU.

    When you've been splitting wood all day and you're dead tired it can be kinda hard to keep your facts straight.

      

    The US staved the world from the vile that was The Third Rich, which it helped create in Treaty of Versailles. So, thank you?

    And then in 2008 the US helped collapse the global economy into a hole that the EU is still climbing out of. (I'm not saying its all the US's fault, I'm not a financial expert)

     It seems wrong to blame a whole country for a situation that some of its liberal elites had a hand in creating. And the EU leaders had as big as or an even greater role in the 2008 collapse than the Americans did.

    Yes, the Treaty of Versailles. After we saved Europe's ass the first time in WWI. (No, I don't agree with the Treaty of Versailles, as it established a prototype UN called the League of Nations. It was a complete train wreck, as is the current UN.)

    Woah, I didn't see that coming! Nazi Germany was America's fault?!? Of course! Everything is America's fault! They only saved us twice, and ended the Soviet Union, but yeah, everything is still their fault.

    It totally wasn't Britain's fault. All they did was invite the Nazis to invade various nations. It totally wasn't the USSR's fault. All they did was ally with Nazi Germany. It wasn't the German citizens' faults. All they did was step aside and allow the Nazis to take control, even though they knew it was the wrong thing to do.

    I don't know of any state with unlimited welfare, though some states need a reality check on there budgets.

    The U.S. certainly has de facto unlimited welfare. It may not always be that way on paper, but that's what it ends up being. Many people are on welfare pretty much their whole lives when they are perfectly capable of supporting themselves, they just choose not to.
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  9. Human rights should be inalienable, and they should only be added too. But owning a gun isn't a human right, its a right given to you by your constitution, which is a law. These are The Human Rights. (Which mentions health but not guns.)

    The constitution does not grant rights. A mere piece of paper is not what gives us our liberty. It is natural law and the law of GOD that gives us our rights. The Bill of Rights in the Constitution simply protects and enforces our rights and makes it clear that they can not be taken away.

    If we allow a globalist mafia organization like the UN to dictate our rights, then trust me, we are too far gone to be saved. The UN is a joke. They have no real authority. They can't tell me what my rights are. Rights are useless if it's a council of commie globalists that are granting them to you. If I could be king for a day, the very first thing I would do would be to withdraw the U.S. from the UN and kick them all out of New York. They haven't done a single positive thing in well over 50 years. Anything the UN says in the way of rights is illegitimate, they simply do not have the authority to tell everyone in the world what their life is worth, what their rights are, and how they can live.

    Oh, their Geneva Convention war crimes stuff is just great. It basically says "we're fine with you killing millions of people. You just have to kill exactly how we tell you to kill them. Your taking of human life has to meet UN standards."

    If a human gives you your rights, then a human can just as easily take your rights away. We do not have rights under man's authority but under GOD's.

     

    Also, if you respect that the 'active malitia' doesn't need to be the case because of the Supreme Court, you cannot say that they don't have the authority do define the legal definition of a marriage. That would be the equivalent of only reading all uneven pages of a book.

    I'm taking about the legal contract here, not the religious definition, which should be (and is still) up to the church to decide on.

    Ok so here's the thing. The Supreme Court does not make laws. They approve or disapprove of laws. Congress makes laws. So no they certainly do not have the authority to define marriage, either religious or the legal definition of it.They do not have the authority to make any laws at all. You obviously don't quite understand how America's system of government works. And that's fine, but know what you're arguing about before you get into it.

    And they weren't asserting that the active militia does not need to apply, they were re-affirming it. The second amendment itself clearly states that everyone has the right to bear arms, whether they are in a militia or not. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE infringed."

    And at the time the second amendment was written, "militia" was defined as every able-bodied man in any given area, because they would all ban together to fight when necessary. A militia was not a formal military structure like the national guard, for example. It was a just group of civilians that would protect their community. Thus militia should be interpreted as what it really meant at the time, every able-bodied male citizen who has not committed serious crimes.

     

    I started to read the article, thinking that I was on some sort of official website,

    Generally, I find that the official websites are the ones you can't trust. They're all propaganda, for the most part.

     

    I'll agree that there may be more shootings in Europe then I first thought (I did some proper research) but it still doesn't add up to the USA numbers if you take the EU together a whole.

    If you don't take the EU as a whole, you should also separate the USA into state.

    The EU is a union made up of many different sovereign nations. It is not one big nation. Our states are not independent nations. Switzerland and the U.S. are two different countries. Switzerland and West Virginia are not. Thus, America and Switzerland should be treated equally as two different countries in a statistical analysis such as that article.

     

    Once a great nation, and it saved us during the second world war. Now its just a great place to live if you are rich and have no legal or health issues. I'd love to go and visit (or work/live there) but I would not give up my Citizenship of the European Union.

    Yeah the U.S. saved the world from Germany (now the de facto leader of the EU.) (Yeah, we saved the world from Europe.) And now everyone, especially the nations we helped most, is totally ungrateful and treats like we're the problem when we're not. And the U.S. is still an all around great place to live. It is by far the most free nation on earth, no other country could even be compared to the U.S. in terms of economic and personal freedom. The reason we're declining is because of leftist policies like, for example, gun control and unlimited welfare.

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  10. Ok, so historically the second amendment was a good idea. Maybe. But nowadays it won't protect you against the government, which means that its original purpose is void and it should be modernized. Laws should evolve with the times and "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." hasn't been valid for a long while.

    Our rights never "evolve with the times." Human nature never changes, our rights do not simply get old and outdated. If they did, then there would be no point in having them at all because they wouldn't really be rights. They are always applicable and should always be protected. Everyone has fundamental rights that they are born with, and no entity has the right to take those rights away.

    And yes, as I have already stated, it very much would protect us against the government. Tens of millions of of armed citizens against a couple hundred thousand at most government goons, the couple hundred thousand wouldn't stand a chance. Hell would freeze over before they would become victorious.

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    The website you linked is biased. Its founder is John Richard Lott, Jr. Google him, read all of the first page results (that are not his twitter and own site) and tell me you still trust him.

    Everyone in the world is biased. Bias is a fact of life. Bias is unavoidable.

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  11. This whole thread is just hilarious.

    It just illustrates what it wrong with the USA, and why its not going to get fixed any time soon. We in Europe have issues too, but nowhere near what you are having.

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    Actually, there was a tyrant that was overthrown thanks to the second amendment. Abraham Lincoln.

    While I agree with Lincoln on many issues, especially the abolition of slavery, he was an incredibly brutal person who went far past the limits of the Constitution. He killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in a military campaign against anti-federalism so that the federal government could have more control. Slavery, though it was an issue, was of very little importance during the Civil War, the main idea was to expand the power of the federal government. Lincoln himself was an avowed racist, who started out his presidency by promising to protect slavery. Meanwhile, southern leaders like Thomas Jackson and Robert E. Lee started schools for blacks and freed slaves, respectively.

    Neither side was totally right, both the north and the south had flaws.

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  12. The Blockheads clothing is exactly what I'm aiming for. But surely we have more variety than that, don't we? We have wool, silk, paper, and possibly bark. Plates could drop from squids that can be sewed to any clothing to improve armor and elemental armor.

    The only hard part of a squid's body is the beak. Otherwise they are completely soft-fleshed. Squids do not have plates at all.

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  13. "The problem is that if we were to put the volcanoes in the same time framing as in real life we would never see a volcano eruption in the game."

    I don't know how old you are, but in my lifetime, there's been a new island created near Iceland, Mount St. Helens in the US blew its top, and more recently Mt. Ruapehu in New Zealand had a minor eruption and that volcano in Iceland caused major havoc in the airways...

    These were spread out over an immensely massive area, not like the terra firma craft world. While it is true there is a lot of volcanic activity worldwide, a terra firma craft world is on a tiny scale compared to the real life world. Volcanoes don't occur very frequently, they're rare even in real life. And they often go years, decades, even centuries in between eruptions.
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  14. Waaaaiit, you want everyone to have drones and nuclear weapons? And no, we would lose. That's the scary thing about drones. The people rising up wouldn't really matter. 1000 people with the right equipment could hold off billions of civilians.Look, I made my point, and you proved it. You clearly believe to strongly in your view points to have your mind changed. That's the thing about you guys, you just have faith, not critical thinking. If new information came my way, I would change my opinion. Like when I found out about how much of a monster president Clinton was. And how bad Hilary would be (although not as bad as Trump, God forbid). So I changed my mind after observing facts. You won't change.

    Did I ever say the words "nuclear weapons"? I don't think so. WMD's would be reserved for the federal govt, but there would be fewer of them. Only enough to be effective and keep us safe. If we were to get rid of them entirely, we would be sitting ducks. The threat of mutual destruction saved us during the Cold War. If you don't believe strongly enough in your views to not have your mind changed, then what's the point? You don't truly believe what you're saying if your mind could be changed, you don't hold it in your heart. (I don't mean with everything, we're talking about politics.)

    But your kind is slowly dying out. Education is becoming better, information is more free, more people are realizing how fucking ridiculous the Bible actually is. I hope some day I'll be able to tell stories about the crazy right wing religious nuts to my grandkids, and that they won't believe me. Adios.

    You liberals always blow me away with your exceptional tolerance and intelligent, high-level arguments.(sarcasm) Education is worse now than it has ever been in the history of America. Public schools are utterly worthless. I would never send my kids to a public school. Never. Education was in a better state 200 years ago. The church is as strong as ever, it has survived millennia, against incredible odds. To say that Christianity is dying out now just proves how dillusional you are. Can you say that and truly believe it when over 85% of Americans at least claim to be Christian? Christianity is growing all over the globe.
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  15. Soul vacuums. Souls should be the new coal. Use them to power anything. Just spawn in the grim reaper and tell him to gather souls for you, but don't make him angry, he could take yours!

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  16. Okay so here it goes.

    Wait a minute, you actually think having guns would help us fight the government in a worst case scenario? You're crazy. The government's weapons so far outstrip guns it would be like taking a toothpick into a medieval battle. If the government wanted you dead, you'd already be dead.

    That's why I've said the people need to be as equally armed as the government, or close to it. The government should never have that kind of power while the American people don't. That's a dangerous situation. And the government shouldn't be able to just up and kill anyone when they want to, that's blatantly unconstitutional. And 50 million+ armed Americans + military defectors (most of the army wouldn't side with a federal power-grab) would defeat 100,000 or so federal government goons any day. Never underestimate the power of the American people. We defeated the most powerful army on earth with little more than a couple hundred thousand guys with hunting muskets and a few cannons.

    Also your statement about most corporations being leftist is false. Look at the donation lists for the conservative canidates. It's like a who's who of the richest people in America.

    There's only a handful of truly conservative corporations. Big government and big business are best buds. They cooperate, they ally against the common people. It's how progressive fascism works, that's what we're headed for. And the "conservatives" getting all this money aren't true conservatives. Trust me, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are not conservatives. If one of them were to be the nominee, I wouldn't vote. They're just like the democrats, they've just been bought off by different people.

    Here is what it comes down to. The party system is an elaborate game designed to turn the people against themselves. The real enemy is not conservatives or liberals, it's the 1%. The people who control all the wealth and don't give a flying fuck about the middle class. You talk about Sweden being such a horrible place, but they outstrip us in every category except defense budget and the number of adults who believe in angels.

    People in Sweden have close to no freedom. Sweden's just one of them dime-a-dozen European Union puppet states. I'd rather be deported to Mars than live in Sweden. There's nothing special about them.Why do you hate the rich so much? They worked hard to get there. It's okay to be rich. That's one of the great things about America, you can climb your way up from the bottom without anyone stopping you. That doesn't mean I believe in the rich controlling everything, though. Most of those occupy Wall Street types complaining about the rich wouldn't be complaining if they were one of 'em.

    I'm pretty sure you and I want the same things. Safety for our families. Equal rights to all people, regardless of race, gender, cultural background, religion, or sexual orientation. The ability to make a living wage. Hospitals we can go to without going into debt for the rest of our lives. GOOD education for our children. Quality food, not pumped full of poisons. The right to pursue happiness. Instead of fighting among ourselves, bickering over semantics, we should unite and focus our efforts. Only through cooperation will we create a better future for our children.

    Gays are free to be gay, and to live as they please. And they should be able to, I'm fine with that. But the rest of us, normal people, should not be made to accept their different lifestyle. Gays can not be truly married, marriage is defined as between one man and one woman. That is what marriage has been ever since it has existed. The Supreme Court can't just up and decide to change the previous 10,000 years of human history and toss all our morals out the window. It makes no sense. It defies religious freedom. They can't make people cater to gays.And they definitely shouldn't be able to adopt kids, that just creeps me out. It's like allowing pedophiles to adopt kids. Sexually confused people should never be allowed to have children. And you realize the liberal politicians couldn't care less about the gays. They just want to destroy traditional American culture, because that's the only thing in their way, and allowing gay marriage is one step in that process.
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  17. I would vote for Stephen Colbert :P But i'm no American. Incidentally, senator Elisabeth Warren had a lot to say, convincingly on the topic of Treyflix above.

    I will come up with a detailed response to your comment, Treyflix, when I get the time. I'm so busy right now. But Elizabeth Warren belongs in a mental institution, don't know why she's even allowed to hold public office.
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  18. There's already 4 different types of steel, 3 of them with a color in front of "steel." Adding another wouldn't add much benefit. A lot of people would confuse it with bismuth bronze. :P

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  19. Gun control was brought up. I think gun control in America is complicated because there is a large portion of the population that believe it is their born right to carry or own a gun and because so many of these weapons are already in the country. Guns are dangerous. They're like the nuclear weapon of person-to-person combat; they're definitive and deadly. In some places in America today, people legitimately need weapons to protect themselves, their family and their property from violence. These are honest, hard working, tax paying citizens and strict and blanketing gun laws would put these people in danger. And that's the problem. It's almost like an addiction, and stopping cold turkey is going to send the country into withdrawal (where honest citizens can't get guns and criminals can). There is no way that America could phase out guns in less than a couple decades, in my opinion, and the first step is NOT to ban guns, but to make it harder for criminals to get guns without affecting the good citizens of the country. Purchasing, owning and carrying guns should be more difficult or require a longer process designed to vet people deemed unfit to carry a weapon. Licenses should be required at all times, as is required for driving a car. The honest man that takes the proper safety courses, applies for a license and successfully receives one can be given a gun.Another change that could facilitate gun control (remember, we're not trying to prevent Americans from owning guns, only the criminals in America) is to have gun production designed around a made-to-order situation. A person that has received a gun license can order weapons or ammunition of their choice for delivery. A database will record the serial number of the weapons produced and how much ammo is being purchased. Any weapons found or linked to crimes can be traced to the purchaser, who is deemed the owner of the weapon: selling guns will become a licensed operation to ensure that a gun's serial number is always linked to the current owner. Because gun purchases must be for personal use, we can limit the number of guns that may be purchased in a given time period (no one needs 20 handguns in a 3 month period).I do not believe there is any issue with having records of the guns and ammunition that each citizen purchases- without criminal intent, this information cannot be used to indict anyone- it's just numbers. Later, it could be required that citizens report any times they've discharged their weapons. It could be as simple as "I went hunting with my 12-gauge, serial number XXXXXXX and fired 12 times." Simple, but it lets the government account for how ammo is being used. If someone was circumstantially linked to a crime, all they'd have to do is show that the only ammo they were missing was the ammo they'd reported themselves and they would be off the hook.Really, the system needs to be designed so that good people don't get screwed. If this system screws you, maybe you should rethink what you're doing with your guns.

    Yes but it IS our born right to carry guns and NO ONE can take that away. It is listed right along side free speech, that's how important our framers saw it to be. Any leader that proposes taking away guns should be removed from office ASAP. ANYONE. Dictatorships always start by restricting gun use of the citizens. Hitler did it, Castro did it, Stallin did it, Mao did it, Hugo Chavez did it, the list goes on and on. It should be illegal for Governemnt officials to suggest disarming Americans. Out of the question. If you really think stricter gun-control laws will bring down the murder rates, well I just don't know what to say about that. Do you realize how much gun crime there is in places like Mexico where guns are pretty much outright banned? The worst possible thing you could do to bring down the murder rate is to "control" guns. It's places like Chicago, New York, and DC in America that have the highest gun murder rates. When the criminals know that no one can defend themselves, then everyone is a target. When no one's armed, it's so easy for murders to kill lots of people, because no one can fight back. It'd be easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Kenesaw, Georgia, for example, has a law that requires every head of a household to own at least one firearm. The murder rate has dropped something like 83% since that law was enacted. Gun control disarms the good people and arms the bad people.Criminals never obey gun laws. Do they sell meth, cocaine, etc. at the grocery store? NO! Do people still get those? OBVIOSLY! Just because it is made illegal doesn't mean it will go away. Then, only the people who will misuse it will have it. If the Governemnt knows everyone who owns a gun, and how many they have, well isn't it gonna be so easy for them to just confiscate everyone's guns when the time comes so they can establish their authoritarian regime? This has already effectively been done in places like the UK and Australia. There is no comparison to be made between guns and nuclear weapons. One can potentially kill a few while the other can kill millions. Finally, guns aren't here so we can go hunting with them. At the time the Constitution was written, for most Americans, if you didnt hunt, you starved. Guns were a fact of life, like cars and phones are today. It was obvious that everyone and anyone could own guns. Guns are here (we have the right to have them) in case we ever, God forbid, have to fight our own Governemnt because it has become to authoritarian. Or, in case The Homeland is ever invaded by a foreign army. You'd be a whole lot harder to invade if upwards of 90% of your population was armed, now wouldn't ya? Like I said earlier, the citizens of the United States need to be at least as equally armed as their government. (WMD's such as nukes, gases, and ICBMs would of course be exceptions.)They (the Governemnt) needs to be scared to death of defying the will of the people. We are not there to serve their needs, they are there to serve ours.

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  20. Just a idea, man.

    Darmo was simply asking you a question. He wanted a better idea of how this would work, and so would I. He was not even disagreeing with you, no need to be defensive. I actually think I kind of like this idea.
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  21. I think those are oil rigs.  Check out the difference between N and S Korea.  It's a sad thing that millions of kids today have never seen the Milky Way with their own eyes. :unsure:

    If there was an Earth Day contest amongst countries, North Korea would win every time! :P
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  22. That is just plain wrong. NPR is by far not the most biased media outlet. And they are by no means state owned. NPR is privatly owned and gets most of it's funding from private donations, not state governments.In VA, all state funding for NPR has ended, and the stations are still runing on private donations. They are one of the LEAST biased media outlets avalable, and do an excelent job of having interviews with people from both sides.

    You're right. MSNBC is worse. But who cares about them, they have fewer viewers than the Flat Earth Society has members. In the countless hours I have listened to NPR, I've never heard a single non-liberal reporter, and almost all of their reporters/anchors/hosts whatever are white. I've also only ever heard them interview one or two republican/conservatives. It doesn't represent the public, it represents a handful of liberal elites. It should be renamed "National Propoganda Radio" or something to that effect. Hey, they could even even keep their acronym!

    As for the Incan Empire being built on conquest and bloodshed, how is America any different? We invaded and took places such as California by force, and much more recently used US supported military takeovers in peaceful South American democratic socialist societies to make them into violent, horrid "Capitalistic" dictatorships with masive amounts of killings, no free press and more. The after effects are still being felt. The Incans did take over by force, and then made a concerted effort to assimilate the new teritories into their lands. They weren't perfect, but no nation ever has been, especialy not the USA.

    No one who lives anywhere is a member of the original group that occupied that region. There was always someone else their before them. Before we acquired California, it was the Bear Flag Republic, and before them, Mexico had it, and before them, Spain had it, and before them it was controlled by hundreds of various people groups who were almost constantly clashing and warring with each other for control. Any given area has probably been controlled by dozens of different groups. Even before them, It was controlled by the mastodons, ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Maybe we should give it back to them. Hey, Britain had us before we did. Perhaps, we should re-join them.To suggest that America was built on imperialism, conquest, and bloodshed is ridiculous. Everyone we've had to fight, we've voluntarily given most or all of their land back, and have even helped them rebuild. We are the most peaceful, polite, and merciful nation currently in existence. I'm not saying America is perfect, no country is. But we're by far the best nation in existence. We've done bad things, and I acknowledge that. But we correct ourselves, ask forgiveness, find common ground, and move on. That makes us quite unique.
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