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Has Obama done enough to merit the Nobel Peace Prize?

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FreeSatania
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Postby FreeSatania » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:01 am

Vittos Ordination wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:
New Mitanni wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:I didn't say anything about being an extremist. I just questioned your categorization of Arafat and the USSR as being leftist. That seems fairly absurd, and I assumed you were the typical kool-aid drinking American "Conservative" because of it.


How silly of anyone to characterize the USSR as "leftist". Everyone in Western Europe knows the USSR was a reactionary rightist regime. :roll:

You don't really expect to be taken seriously, do you?

I keep forgetting that it's the upside-down day today. So USSR was rightist. Then regulation-free anarcho-capitlists are the leftists? This is gonna get confusing very fast.


I am a free-market regulation-free anarchist and I am a leftist.

It is not my fault that people cannot differentiate between means and ends.


Your a silly goose that's what you are! :hug:

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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:02 am

FreeSatania wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:
New Mitanni wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:I didn't say anything about being an extremist. I just questioned your categorization of Arafat and the USSR as being leftist. That seems fairly absurd, and I assumed you were the typical kool-aid drinking American "Conservative" because of it.


How silly of anyone to characterize the USSR as "leftist". Everyone in Western Europe knows the USSR was a reactionary rightist regime. :roll:

You don't really expect to be taken seriously, do you?

I keep forgetting that it's the upside-down day today. So USSR was rightist. Then regulation-free anarcho-capitlists are the leftists? This is gonna get confusing very fast.


I am a free-market regulation-free anarchist and I am a leftist.

It is not my fault that people cannot differentiate between means and ends.


Your a silly goose that's what you are! :hug:


And I will keep drinking my high class drinks, you brigand you. 8)
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Postby FreeSatania » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:05 am

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
FreeSatania wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:
New Mitanni wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:I didn't say anything about being an extremist. I just questioned your categorization of Arafat and the USSR as being leftist. That seems fairly absurd, and I assumed you were the typical kool-aid drinking American "Conservative" because of it.


How silly of anyone to characterize the USSR as "leftist". Everyone in Western Europe knows the USSR was a reactionary rightist regime. :roll:

You don't really expect to be taken seriously, do you?

I keep forgetting that it's the upside-down day today. So USSR was rightist. Then regulation-free anarcho-capitlists are the leftists? This is gonna get confusing very fast.


I am a free-market regulation-free anarchist and I am a leftist.

It is not my fault that people cannot differentiate between means and ends.


Your a silly goose that's what you are! :hug:


And I will keep drinking my high class drinks, you brigand you. 8)


Vodka is the drink of the Proletariate.

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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:06 am

FreeSatania wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
FreeSatania wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:
New Mitanni wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:I didn't say anything about being an extremist. I just questioned your categorization of Arafat and the USSR as being leftist. That seems fairly absurd, and I assumed you were the typical kool-aid drinking American "Conservative" because of it.


How silly of anyone to characterize the USSR as "leftist". Everyone in Western Europe knows the USSR was a reactionary rightist regime. :roll:

You don't really expect to be taken seriously, do you?

I keep forgetting that it's the upside-down day today. So USSR was rightist. Then regulation-free anarcho-capitlists are the leftists? This is gonna get confusing very fast.


I am a free-market regulation-free anarchist and I am a leftist.

It is not my fault that people cannot differentiate between means and ends.


Your a silly goose that's what you are! :hug:


And I will keep drinking my high class drinks, you brigand you. 8)


Vodka is the drink of the Proletariate.


Don't you go Andaras on me, boy. :evil:
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Postby Peepelonia » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:07 am

Obama Jugen III wrote:
Peepelonia wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:Actually that definition has been re-adapted only recently and it's incredibly inappropriate. The left ideology is against progress. How they conned the world into calling them progressive all of a sudden is beyond me.


Hahah what rubbish! I don't know how things are in other parts of the word but I can assure you that here in the UK, the left ideology is progressive.

So left is pro-free-trade free-market let-technology-solve-problems-and-keep-government-out-of-the-way in UK? Cause you know.. those things stay in the way of progress.



Well not-with-standing that people are differant I'm firmly on the left and yes I belive in free market, am pro technology, but goverment outta the way, now when hs that ever been a left idea ummm?

There are many things that get in the way of progress.

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Postby Hairless Kitten II » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:07 am

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Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:09 am

Peepelonia wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:
Peepelonia wrote:
Obama Jugen III wrote:Actually that definition has been re-adapted only recently and it's incredibly inappropriate. The left ideology is against progress. How they conned the world into calling them progressive all of a sudden is beyond me.


Hahah what rubbish! I don't know how things are in other parts of the word but I can assure you that here in the UK, the left ideology is progressive.

So left is pro-free-trade free-market let-technology-solve-problems-and-keep-government-out-of-the-way in UK? Cause you know.. those things stay in the way of progress.



Well not-with-standing that people are differant I'm firmly on the left and yes I belive in free market, am pro technology, but goverment outta the way, now when hs that ever been a left idea ummm?

There are many things that get in the way of progress.


Sometimes even progress(economic) can get in the way of progress(social).
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Postby Turkish Federation » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:10 am

The Nobel Committee dissapoints me. A lot.
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Postby Vittos Ordination » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:12 am

FreeSatania wrote:Your a silly goose that's what you are! :hug:


That I am. I am about as silly as geese get.

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Postby Vittos Ordination » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:15 am

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Sometimes even progress(economic) can get in the way of progress(social).


I say that you cannot have one without the other. I am even inclined to say that they are one in the same.

I define economic well-being as the ability to act according to one's own values. That is largely the same as social well-being.

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Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:19 am

Vittos Ordination wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Sometimes even progress(economic) can get in the way of progress(social).


I say that you cannot have one without the other. I am even inclined to say that they are one in the same.

I define economic well-being as the ability to act according to one's own values. That is largely the same as social well-being.


On an individual scale, I agree with you. But often(especially lately), corporatism can approach feudalism in scale. That's not progress.
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Postby Vittos Ordination » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:21 am

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Sometimes even progress(economic) can get in the way of progress(social).


I say that you cannot have one without the other. I am even inclined to say that they are one in the same.

I define economic well-being as the ability to act according to one's own values. That is largely the same as social well-being.


On an individual scale, I agree with you. But often(especially lately), corporatism can approach feudalism in scale. That's not progress.


We are in total agreement.

I tend to only think in terms of the individual.

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Postby Free Soviets » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:21 am

“Dear USia: The last eight years were pretty damn terrifying for the rest of us. Please don’t do that again.”
- Nobel Prize Committee

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Postby Peepelonia » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:28 am

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Sometimes even progress(economic) can get in the way of progress(social).


Indeed LG indeed. Like most of life, things aint that simple huh.

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Postby Vittos Ordination » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:28 am

If Bush had only realized that if he acted like he cared what the rest of the world thought, he could have gotten away with all of it and gotten an award.

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Postby Kurdazistan » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:30 am

And we have the opening of Act 2 of the Obama joke.
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Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:31 am

Vittos Ordination wrote:If Bush had only realized that if he acted like he cared what the rest of the world thought, he could have gotten away with all of it and gotten an award.


He had it made after 9/11. He could've done anything he wanted if he hadn't been such an arrogant bastard about it.
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Postby Snafturi » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:31 am

The Peace Prize always stirs controversy. I didn't expect this year to be any different. I'm actually curious who leaked Obama's name before the announcement.
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Postby West Failure » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:33 am

Snafturi wrote:The Peace Prize always stirs controversy. I didn't expect this year to be any different. I'm actually curious who leaked Obama's name before the announcement.


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Postby Vittos Ordination » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:38 am

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:If Bush had only realized that if he acted like he cared what the rest of the world thought, he could have gotten away with all of it and gotten an award.


He had it made after 9/11. He could've done anything he wanted if he hadn't been such an arrogant bastard about it.


He had that Pax Americana attitude from Wolfowitz and Cheney. Their foreign policy M.O. was "We call the shots, and we don't want anyone questioning it."

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Postby ChevyRocks » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:38 am

I think this picture illustrates my thoughts on the Nobel Prize...

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Postby Snafturi » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:41 am

West Failure wrote:
Snafturi wrote:The Peace Prize always stirs controversy. I didn't expect this year to be any different. I'm actually curious who leaked Obama's name before the announcement.


I will not reveal my sources

Even for a cookie?
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Postby Vervaria » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:41 am

Vittos Ordination wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
Vittos Ordination wrote:If Bush had only realized that if he acted like he cared what the rest of the world thought, he could have gotten away with all of it and gotten an award.


He had it made after 9/11. He could've done anything he wanted if he hadn't been such an arrogant bastard about it.


He had that Pax Americana attitude from Wolfowitz and Cheney. Their foreign policy M.O. was "We call the shots, and we don't want anyone questioning it."

See, Bush didn't actually know squat about foreign policy when he first decided to run for President, and the neocons recognized the opportunity, and managed to get to him and shape his views, and turned him into one of their disciples.
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Postby Ashmoria » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:50 am

Free Soviets wrote:“Dear USia: The last eight years were pretty damn terrifying for the rest of us. Please don’t do that again.”
- Nobel Prize Committee

im thinking that it must be the contrast thing. going from "we dont need no friends, do what we say or we'll kill you all" to "lets talk about this" seems revolutionary.
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Postby You-Gi-Owe » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:53 am

I wonder what Saturday Night Live will do with this new material? :rofl:
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