16th February 2003, 10:37 AM
Hey now! Weltall is as republican a fellow as I've known in a long time. He's just having a fun time making fun of himself. It's the latest rage. Drew Cary does it all the time! Really, self depreciating humor is the BEST way to avoid using what you know to be terrible social skills and instead make yourself popular via your own fear of your inadiquacy! Try it!
I gotta say it's sad about the whole teaming thing in our republican democracy (that's actually exactly what our form of government is, since a TRUE democracy is TOTALLY run by the people, like Athens). What's the point of these silly parties anyway? People end up supporting all sorts of stuff they may not agree with just because of a few points they do agree with. You end up with a very limited selection, and often it's the lesser of two evils you end up picking. Now, I know I'm being very cynical here, and I apologize for sounding like some disenfranchised teen (I hate them as much as you :D), but I really think the best way to go about voting is to totally ignore "parties" and to just analyze the candidates on an individual level. Ignore the parties for a moment, and look at exactly what they have stated are their opinions and goals and such. I must say I'm non-partisan lance myself. ABF, you may think I'm republican, but it's just by chance that one party happens to agree with a number of my stances. I'll tell you this, although I've debated the opposite (because I love arguing for the sake of argument), I actually do think the environment should be protected. While I do believe the environment isn't nearly as bad as some say, and while I don't think a few oil pumps would totally ruin a nature reserve (though I could be way off there, I have no idea how much stuff needs to be cut down to make way for a couple drills), I also think that when God sent us to have dominion over the Earth, He never intended for us to be wife beating drunkerds about how we do it. I will also say I do believe it is a bit of ego to say we can so easily destroy it. Even if we do make the planet uninhabitable by US, we just did the Earth a favor right? It can then go onwards to evolve super smart spiders who round up the last mammals as cattle.
I gotta say it's sad about the whole teaming thing in our republican democracy (that's actually exactly what our form of government is, since a TRUE democracy is TOTALLY run by the people, like Athens). What's the point of these silly parties anyway? People end up supporting all sorts of stuff they may not agree with just because of a few points they do agree with. You end up with a very limited selection, and often it's the lesser of two evils you end up picking. Now, I know I'm being very cynical here, and I apologize for sounding like some disenfranchised teen (I hate them as much as you :D), but I really think the best way to go about voting is to totally ignore "parties" and to just analyze the candidates on an individual level. Ignore the parties for a moment, and look at exactly what they have stated are their opinions and goals and such. I must say I'm non-partisan lance myself. ABF, you may think I'm republican, but it's just by chance that one party happens to agree with a number of my stances. I'll tell you this, although I've debated the opposite (because I love arguing for the sake of argument), I actually do think the environment should be protected. While I do believe the environment isn't nearly as bad as some say, and while I don't think a few oil pumps would totally ruin a nature reserve (though I could be way off there, I have no idea how much stuff needs to be cut down to make way for a couple drills), I also think that when God sent us to have dominion over the Earth, He never intended for us to be wife beating drunkerds about how we do it. I will also say I do believe it is a bit of ego to say we can so easily destroy it. Even if we do make the planet uninhabitable by US, we just did the Earth a favor right? It can then go onwards to evolve super smart spiders who round up the last mammals as cattle.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)