The world doesn't need any more german dictators.Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
You'd have to make me dictator in order to get me to do the job.
And there we have the reason why I don't want the job (and why I really shouldn't have the job)
The world doesn't need any more german dictators.You'd have to make me dictator in order to get me to do the job.
And there we have the reason why I don't want the job (and why I really shouldn't have the job
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I was in a big hurry when I saw that. I'm in a big hurry now, in fact. I'll go back and look at it later.
Why just two people?
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Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I dunno, maybe the jealousy issue thingy!Why just two people?
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Atari bullshit refugee!!
What about Austrian ones?The world doesn't need any more german dictators.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Schwarzenegger 2012!
SARAH 2012!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
That's kind of the joke behind it.
Was very funny during the discussions about Schwarzenegger and whether they should change the constitution to allow foreigners to run for presidency to say:
"Yeah, we Germans are all for you guys to have an Austrian as a president! Worked real fine for us last time!"
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
What's the difference?
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Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
He's the kind of Republican we needed but got Bush and Co. Instead. He'll, he's more like a Democrat these days.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Well, we didn't actually have a German dictator...
So was he Führer of only Austria then?
Such is Life...
He was an Austrian dictator over Germany. Genuinely German dictators we did not have as of yet
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
You're all Teutons, right?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Most of the European royal families are German, so if you use that criteria, most European dictators have been German.He was an Austrian dictator over Germany. Genuinely German dictators we did not have as of yet
Hope is the denial of reality
Monarch != dictator. Sorry, Loki, try again.Most of the European royal families are German, so if you use that criteria, most European dictators have been German.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Well then it's all settled. I have German AND English roots. My mother was adopted so....I could have any link deemed important. My kids have an Austrian gene. My sister is married to a Greek.
Do I get to be Queen now?
Pfft. No. You have to be of a royal lineage. And if you were of a royal lineage, we would all know it by now. Your specialness would be abundantly apparent.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Well, there are several people here who are special. So your point being...?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
They don't glow with divinely appointed authority to lead the masses, do they?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Its like the No True Scotsman fallacy mated with Godwin's law...
. . .
My genealogy books show a clear link to royalty. The fifteenth cousin twice removed from the Earl of Yorkshire. Something like that. But they decided to leave England and make the ocean voyage to the new land of colonies. From what I gather, they weren't making this journey for religious reasons but for prosperity. They just realized the English empire was dying and wanted to spread their wings. They wanted to feel freeeee, not going in island circles. Some would say that's capitalism but I think it was island-phobia, and it's probably genetic.
Do I win now?
Nothing precludes a monarch from being a dictator, especially when imposed from outside.
Hope is the denial of reality
You were equating Feudalism with Dictatorship, don't play dumb. I thought you were oh-so knowledgable in the area of politics?
Seems as if I have to revise that opinion.
I mean, first you give us a false equation, next you try to pose the exception as the general rule.
Or is the Queen of England a dictator? Karl the Great a dictator? Richard Lionheart?
I'd love to see you argue that one with a History professor. He'd probably slap you around a bit with a big fish.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I could put this in a couple of places, but this seems best right now:
Not sure where you all were when Carter gave this speech. Guessing most read about it as history. I don't really remember this speech either, but I do recall the time, the era. Carter was considered a wimpy leftist that most Americans disagreed with, especially on the future of energy. You'd have to know the context at the time too.....new EPA standards, OPEC, oil embargoes, lines for gas, rationed gas based on license plate numbers, a very deep recession, millions of very angry unemployed people.
My parents' opinions mattered at this time, because I was just a young kid who didn't understand much, and it was a test between alliances for wisdom. My folks were Republicans, but then all this shit happened, and my dad died, and I had to think for myself. I still tended to hang on my mom's perspectives, because my whole life was her, her family, her friends. And there was a lot of agreement there, birds of a feather flocking together.
Seeing Carter's speech (plus other things) makes me see things differently tho, in hindsight. Mostly how sad it is that the majority of Americans just couldn't see what energy policy meant. But we ended up fighting a few wars for oil. And here we are at the same point we were in the 70s. Wanting leaders who can take us forward, fighting leaders who can take us forward, because we just don't know....if it will all work out....so we keep doing the same old things that led us to this place. This place we need to move away from. We need to evolve but we're just too skeptical to get out of our own rut.
Can anyone tell me what a dictator is or is not?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
After what I just posted? Fuck you. Go google, you asshole.
Be nice, GGT!
Of course millions of people didn't want the energy policies! Hell, cutting back on oil and gas drilling, along with coal mining, was what put them out of work in the first fucking place!
I absolutely hate getting into this kind of discussion since most here are from large states that don't have the minerals revenue that Wyoming has!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
Oh, so sorry, poor Wyoming? You forget I know what it's like to live in the Rust Belt.Be nice, GGT!
Of course millions of people didn't want the energy policies! Hell, cutting back on oil and gas drilling, along with coal mining, was what put them out of work in the first fucking place!
I absolutely hate getting into this kind of discussion since most here are from large states that don't have the minerals revenue that Wyoming has!
No I don't forget. I also know that a state that is able to provide jobs, especially now, should be looked at as a business example!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
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