my solution to the world's problems

[imch]

regardless of who is in office there would be a relatively equal amount of and severity of problems. bush is shitty, but that doesn't mean that kerry wouldn't be. for fuck's sake they aren't that far removed from eachother. bush is slightly to the right and kerry slightly to the left--the same is true of their respective parties. both kerry and

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hmm, mass genocide...

[kaiyos]

looks like Bush is already putting your plan into action.

Over 100,000 Iraqis, and no one counting...
I don't know the Afghanistan numbers, and no one counting...
Thousands of Palestinians, but we don't care about them...
Ignoring the tens of thousands in Sudan...
Thousand plus of our own men...
Shitty air and water means the process is speeded up for everyone...
Ignoring AIDS, one in six Africans is it?
Global warming (caused by OIL, yay!) ruining crops less food for everyone but us...
N. Korea's nukes, and we're going about it wrong...
More terrorists wanting to kill us daily...

Wow, my list is irrationally (but truthfully) long. But seriously, we'll get rid of that 5,999,000,000 in no time! Too bad those left won't have much to work with.

Kerry would have been a LITTLE better. Maybe then more kids would have health insurance to deal with the rare breeds of cancer they get in this area.

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[imch]

if kerry were to be better...i stress if...it wouldn't be all that much better. honestly, was kerry going to stop the nation's reliance on oil? was kerry going to stop the "war on terror" (he actually talked of increasing the military's budget as well as continuing this "war")? would terrorists want to kill us any less with a different leader in power? terrorists see america as evil and indulgent (kerry indulgent? never) regardless--with just cause. war and inequality is a fact of life. if bush wasn't making war, someone else would. granted that doesn't by any means make him right. however, to stop the environmental and social and political and economical and religious blights and wrongdoings in the world the human race would have to be eliminated. kerry can't change the human condition, nor do i think that he would have tried. doing so would probably require giving up some of that amazingly excessive surplus of money back home. any president we have will be pretty much the same, maybe a little worse maybe a little better

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[brutalkids]

greco-roman cracks me up, i always think of greco-roman grapeling the lamest form of wrestling ever.

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[imch]

lol

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[kaiyos]

Kerry would have been better, to me, because I believe a liberal fiscal, social and international policy is better. He might not stop the American inability to seperate itself from Capitalism, Christianity, and Imperialism, but he would push for more research on hydrogen fuel cells (thus helping us not be so dependent on oil

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[imch]

i don't think that one shouldn't try. i believe quite the contrary. however, how much am i willing to give up, and how much are you willing to give up in order to change things is a different question. bush is a terrible president, i agree and i in no way support him. however kerry never impressed upon me that he would do any better. i agree that a varying intensity of rulers have existed. bush is certainly more agreeable than saddam. my point was that the very organization we rely on to survive is corrupt. gulu, i am what the terrorists hate and you are too. we are corrupt--did you really have to drive that suv? do i have to smoke? even more,i love my cds and driving and i like to live in a heated/airconditioned house and any number of other things. we could all do with being a little more minimalistic. even still america (and states in general) is structured so that is impossible to survive with any degree of living quality and not be dependent on corporations and a corruptable government--knowing this makes me no less indulgent. so

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[imch]

oh yeah and by the state i mean the government, those in charge, the "elite." the state as separate from the masses.

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[kaiyos]

You make great points, but you're argueing something beyond what I was trying to say. To be blunt, most of what you say isn't argueing against anything I said. Maybe you know that or perhaps I wasn't clear. Keeping in mind I'm no political scientist

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[imch]

things can be made better, but perpetuating the present situation is not what achieves that. and kerry, despite small discrepancies, would like bush push the what isn't the ideal, as you said, yet impossible "happy world order". kerry isn't an idealist because of political suicide, he isn't an idealist because has fallen prey, as we all have, to our luxurious lifestyle and state orientation.

we agreed on the problems, however, we disagree on their root and possibility of their reconciliation.

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[kaiyos]

I just got an e-mail from my English teacher who told me to stop arguing politics online and start working on my writing skills... I think I pissed him off by saying that Palestine belonged to the Palestinians (he's a rabbi).

Now I'm stuck having to write the best paper ever and don't have time to think and respond to what you just said. Your last sentence sums it up quite well though.

Love ya!!

I hate the frats.

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[imch]

i hope the paper goes well. does your professor read your lj?

we should do this again

love
ian

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[kaiyos]

most def.

he doesn't read it- it'd make him mad, since he doesn't think FUCK is a worthwhile word.

<3

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[imch]

hahahahahaha i do. actually not really...it's habitual.