U.S. Government : Chicken Shit Wealthy Screwing everyone or Patriots?

"land of the free or the privileged?"

that question does not lend itself to an answer of "agree/disagree".

more appropriate options would have been a continuum of free--->privileged.

and as there is no option for "i like turtles" or "labradoodle", i decline to participate.

It's an exorcize in expanding our perceptions.. Participate (options 1- ) or not (option number Nine) but try to expand your dynamics and perceptions.


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Earnest are you alright? You should vote for Paul get on that and then you can do your thing-
Good luck

Ernst said:

It's an exorcize in expanding our perceptions.. Participate (options 1- ) or not (option number Nine) but try to expand your dynamics and perceptions.


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nice try, but just admit you fucked up the poll.

or fuck off. ernst v. 2.0 is infinitely more fuck-offable than ernst v. 1.0

Ernst let me be nice to you on this one for you might have lit a nice phat joint before you made it...you asked is this the land of the free OR the privilage...now your answers would make me choose both of your questions...It would make more sense if you said AND instead of OR ... are we free and privilege ( you can be free AND privilege )

no one will remember this poll tomorrow, try again.

I feel obligated to post this in every Ernest thread, for some reason it's always appropriate.

STFU ernest

so i think we can all agree that ernst has given us yet another screwed up poll, with little or no chance of any useful information being gleaned from the answers provided. this is, however, a wonderful chance for those with such a bent to vent their frustrations at the very idea of privilege and for the rest of us to marvel at the naivete of their cause. after all, we all know that privilege exists, whether it is earned or merely passed from one generation to the next, and that the very point of privilege is to influence the world in a manner that is advantageous to the privileged. poor ernst seems to be rather perturbed over the fact that such influence exists and he is far from alone. what he and those like him seem to have missed is that our government is just as prone as anything else to the influence of the wealthy and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.

instead of bemoaning our fate as mere pawns of the power of wealth, maybe we should instead concentrate on minimizing the dangers of a government influenced by privilege. it would seem the only intelligent step would be to limit the influence of government in our lives. we can rule the marketplace by sheer numbers and our personal freedoms can only be legally infringed on by the state. by allowing government to influence the marketplace, we allow privilege to abscond with a bit more of the power of the people. by allowing government to manipulate our motives through such means as hate crimes legislation and the creation of protected classes, we allow those who influence government into the last refuge of the free man, our minds.

privilege exists, get over it. privilege creates influence, get over that too. instead of whining about the unfairness of what we cannot change, we should quit handing over the power of the individual to the institutions of government and start using it ourselves. i realize that this means we must also take responsibility for our actions and some of you may not be up to the task, but it's a hell of a lot better than weeping over life's inevitabilities.

I think it was Ayn Rand who said " You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality".

NoDrama said:

I think it was Ayn Rand who said " You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality".

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i think it was a politician who said, "if you keep on ignoring the consequences of your actions, they will eventually be blamed on someone else."

undertheice said:

i think it was a politician who said, "if you keep on ignoring the consequences of your actions, they will eventually be blamed on someone else."

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I think it was Aesop who said" We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"