I sense the Force is weak with this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16014203 Yeah, I think Cain's toast.
Episode 3 wasn't too bad, IMO. But 1 left me completely bored and 2 was in desperate need of a finer touch.
I like Shatner. But don't let Shatner direct anything (ex: Star Trek V).
Tiananmen Square was very much indeed a massacre. It's hard push something under the rug as large as that event when a lot of the world's media at...
[IMG] You can show up like this guy at their next protest :P
I won't get into the argument about free speech again (Kalalification and I already went through that on another thread), but I will side with Giggle...
That's absolutely fascinating. I'd love to know what that encounter must have been like, if it actually happened.
Not speech that incites and supports ethnic violence and cleansing. What do you say to the victims that died because of that speech, and the...
Actually, I think there should be boundaries. Racist talk is unacceptable. Pure and simple. I just shared your quote with some German friends...
Democracy functions as long as there are those that believe in democracy in the first place. When you begin to accept parties who do not believe...
This is not the United States. This is Germany. You can take Madisonian ideas about the tyranny of the majority out. They are not applicable,...
Banning a party that is itself undemocratic and authoritarian is not necessarily undemocratic and authoritarian. If the majority of people here...
The NPD are a criminally violent organization, whose ideology has inspired the deaths of nearly a dozen recently, including that of a police officer....
You can't call it a credible opposition party, especially when members connected to that party in ideology and spirit murdered 10 people in the...
The SPD is a Vokspartei here, along with the Christian Democrats, meaning that they are a "peoples party," appealing to the general electorate the...
My heart says Open primary, just to cause electoral chaos with the other party (let's all vote Santorum!) But my brain says Closed. Parties should...
Oh yeah, of course, I don't think Bismarck was a friend of the proles either. He was part of a Prussian elite that looked at the factory workers...
As someone who actually lives in Germany (and knows the history here pretty good), I can say this view is only half true. There's a wider story to...
Which are, in your humble opinion?
In the sense of hardcore socialism? No. In the sense they belong in the Left? Yes. Do they have the same roots? Yes. Did they go different...
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