Why haven't you revolted yet?

[Avenio]

Do you not realize, we are on such a razor's edge that if people stopped working for just 2 or 3 days. Not part of the country, not half, but if 75% or so stopped working for 2 or 3 days. We would crash, that's how close we are.

I daresay that at any strength of the economy if 75% of the workforce stopped working it would cause a fairly substantial nosedive; that's not really indicative of how 'bad' the situation we're in now is.

[Mhykael]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries. AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is. How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Edit: Hell up until Egypt we were still aiding Mubarak...

[Mosasauria]

Do you not realize, we are on such a razor's edge that if people stopped working for just 2 or 3 days. Not part of the country, not half, but if 75% or so stopped working for 2 or 3 days. We would crash, that's how close we are.

That's nice. So what? There is no point revolting if I gain nothing from it. You keep saying we can gain freedom or civil rights. We already have that.

Something tells me this is just another teenage angst.

Trust me: This one is really bad.
And I thought I had plenty of angst...
I guess I just don't put it towards useless stuff like this.

[Lacadaemon]

Freedom of the people from fear, tyranny and oppression?

Basic human rights?

What tyranny? What makes you feel so oppressed? The mandatory education? The food stamps? NASA? What?

NASA is a blatant tool of the NWO.

[Mosasauria]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries. AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is. How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Yes, and Haiti is taking long because it's a fourth world country.
Japan will be able to recover from this within the next year. And no, most of it is not gone. Most of the damage is in Miyagi Prefecture.

[The Pike Dynasty]

Complacency

[New Hayesalia]

I don't see things as revolting. I like them.

[Tokyoni]

The Revolution is my life. The people are my gods. The capitalists are my enemy.

[Mosasauria]

The Revolution is my life. The people are my gods. The capitalists are my enemy.

And what time do you live in?

[Norstal]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries. AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is. How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Edit: Hell up until Egypt we were still aiding Mubarak...

I'd like you to try to maintain the cooling systems in the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant.

No really. I want you to do it. You say that the government is oppressive and that people need to stop working, you try to maintain those reactors.

[Avenio]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries.

Wait, what? Just the northern half of the country, and even then with the most serious areas concentrated along the coastlines, has been affected by the earthquake.

AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is.

We have plenty to give in this sort of situation. The issue isn't that we 'barely have enough to get by', its that our deficit(s) are growing at an unsustainable rate.

How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Disaster aid is a drop in the bucket compared to things like the U.S. military; an increase in disaster aid, especially relatively short-term aid like this (As compared to aid in places like Afghanistan) isn't really going to affect the deficit too too much, in the grand scheme of things.

[Norstal]

The Revolution is my life. The people are my gods. The capitalists are my enemy.

I suppose you'd like to join him in Fukushima too eh?

[Mhykael]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries. AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is. How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Edit: Hell up until Egypt we were still aiding Mubarak...

I'd like you to try to maintain the cooling systems in the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant.

No really. I want you to do it. You say that the government is oppressive and that people need to stop working, you try to maintain those reactors.

They're not going to be able to maintain them anyways. And they know the building inside and out. There's to much structural damage. They're just keeping it from blowing up pretty much, but it's breaking more and more everyday.

[Islamic Hazarastan]

Does total boycott of all foreign (especially US) goods, where possible, count? I guess that's just passive resistance.

[Tokyoni]

The Revolution is my life. The people are my gods. The capitalists are my enemy.

I suppose you'd like to join him in Fukushima too eh?

Fukushima? The power plant? I don't follow...

[Mosasauria]

Ok, so put that into practice. If most of Japan is gone because of the Earthquake/Tsunami and we rely on them for a portion of our goods and services, and so do other countries. AND we're aiding them and we supposedly only have barely enough to get by as it is. How many more natural disasters and middle east protests do you think we're going to be able to dodge. Remember we're still doing stuff in Haiti and other areas that were affected by natural disasters last year.

Edit: Hell up until Egypt we were still aiding Mubarak...

I'd like you to try to maintain the cooling systems in the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant.

No really. I want you to do it. You say that the government is oppressive and that people need to stop working, you try to maintain those reactors.

Watch out; Fukushima will be speaking Ukrainian Russian after he's done with it.

[Norstal]

Trust me: This one is really bad.
And I thought I had plenty of angst...
I guess I just don't put it towards useless stuff like this.

I know. Vaguely describing about one's civil rights being oppressed and other royal nonesuch. Puh-lease.

[Mosasauria]

Trust me: This one is really bad.
And I thought I had plenty of angst...
I guess I just don't put it towards useless stuff like this.

I know. Vaguely describing about one's civil rights being oppressed and other royal nonesuch. Puh-lease.

If one really wanted to use angst, you release it through some cold, hard steel.

[Mhykael]

Ehh.. I have the answer I want anyways more or less. Feel free to derail the thread about marxist communism and places you'd like to send me. I personally gave up faith in people a long time ago...

[Norstal]

They're not going to be able to maintain them anyways. And they know the building inside and out. There's to much structural damage. They're just keeping it from blowing up pretty much, but it's breaking more and more everyday.

Oh tell me wise Nuclear engineer, how doth ye knowst of a nuclear reactor meltdown? And of what interval shall we expect that radiation level to increase, or at what rate of change will the reactions ovetake the control rods? Oh wise Nuclear physicist, how doth thou rescueth people trapped under the fucking rubble without government intervention?

[Mhykael]

I know. Vaguely describing about one's civil rights being oppressed and other royal nonesuch. Puh-lease.

If one really wanted to use angst, you release it through some cold, hard steel.

I'd be careful making statements like that... God forbid someone on Nation States did something like that. It might be considered conspiracy to commit murder.

[Mosasauria]

Ehh.. I have the answer I want anyways more or less. Feel free to derail the thread about marxist communism and places you'd like to send me. I personally gave up faith in people a long time ago...

And you're the kind of person that made me give up my faith in humanity.
Ironic, isn't it?

[Mosasauria]

If one really wanted to use angst, you release it through some cold, hard steel.

I'd be careful making statements like that... God forbid someone on Nation States did something like that. It might be considered conspiracy to commit murder.

What? I'm just saying to go hunting, maybe go to a firing range, or best yet, fishing with steel rods. But a little bit of sword practice doesn't hurt either.

[Mhykael]

They're not going to be able to maintain them anyways. And they know the building inside and out. There's to much structural damage. They're just keeping it from blowing up pretty much, but it's breaking more and more everyday.

Oh tell me wise Nuclear engineer, how doth ye knowst of a nuclear reactor meltdown? And of what interval shall we expect that radiation level to increase, or at what rate of change will the reactions ovetake the control rods? Oh wise Nuclear physicist, how doth thou rescueth people trapped under the fucking rubble without government intervention?

I'm not a nuclear engineer I just pay attention to news media outside the US. I don't know what rate it will happen because like i said I'm not a nuclear physicist. But when 3/5 of the main building are structurally damaged beyond repair and have visable chunks of wall missing.. yeah... Also, You don't rescue people trapped for a week under the rubble without government intervention unless you just have extremely brave citizens.

[Xarithis]

Why haven't you personally revolted yet?

Because the odds of me successfully overthrowing the state and installing my own personal Psychotic Dictatorship are rather slim at this time. Give me a bit.

And things are fine as they are. Why would I want to change what already benefits me?