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I'm sick and tired of the crappy excuse of some Americans for the overall image of their country. "Have you been here? No? Then STFU!!!"
Consider this metaphor. You meet a few people who have never seen the Ocean. So you show them a movie. They get into their minds how the Ocean looks like. Then you take them into a pool. They manage to cover most of the remaining areas. Of course, a pool isn't (normally) of salty water, so you could fill up a glass with water and salt it, and tell them "This is close to Ocean water". After this process they will irrevocably have a good feel of how's the Ocean, although they've never actually come close of it, right?
About now I decided to bring this into an all-out rant about many things.
1st, Islam I just saw this nifty joke about how people are making a great effort to make Islam look like the Religion of Peace while many of its followers gain prominence by blowing themselves up in the name of Allah.
Starters, they don't blow themselves up in the name of God (Allah= God, why keep the barrier? pure prejudice). They blow themselves up because of their profound hatred against this or that person/people, not because of God. God has nothing to do with the Intifada, and most Palestinians would agree on that. Most Palestinian suicide bombers don't give a crap to the Jihad. They simply live so awfully under Israeli rule they believe it's quite right to take a few Israeli lives. It's the same kind of thinking of pure suicide without homicide involved. "I live like shit. I'm going to die. Why wait?... and if I tell the Hamas I'm willing to die for the Jihad I can get an explosive belt and make my parents happy. And avenge my dead sister/brother/uncle/relatives\friends_of_whatever_kind. so.. what am I waiting for?" As you can see, God is an excuse, same as it was an excuse for the Cruzades.
Then, you want to call Islam some kind of warmonger? Look at Christianity. The Crusades, the massacres of the Byzantine Empire, the Inquisition and the colonizers of the New World.. To get some new examples, Charles Manson's Family, Jim Jones in Jonestown, the Nazis and their modern followers, the NeoNazis all around the World and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. All these examples are based off the Christian faith, as much as Hamas and Hezbollah are based off Islam. A note on Al-Quaeda. Apparently scholars aren't sure if Bin Laden is a Wahhabi or Kharijite, either way, both sect promulgate a return to the origins and strict following of the words of the Quran. Interestingly enough, the Wahhabi sect strictly bans suicide bombings, basing off Mohammed's word. Kharijites however, allow the killing of other less fundamentalist Muslims on the basis that they have betrayed the Word of Mohammad (I assume that's why Bin Laden must be a Kharijite).
One last thing. If Islamic militant organizations are hypocrite because they kill themselves agaisnt Mohammed's word of non-violence and peace, what can be said of the so-called Christian President of the United States of America, who preached an eternal war agaisnt an invisible enemy?
Putin Ex-FSB boss (formerly known as KGB). He now has enough power to be a dictator for the rest of his life (changing the constitution and being re-elected for the rest of his life, or worse
), and his actions like bringing down a few threatening individuals seem to point that way. And guess what, he signed a Non-Agression and Cooperation Treaty with China a few years ago (no one cared at the time... dumb! now they're just signing a new one...) and now he's scheduling massive war games with his Chinese buds, where, guess what, they intervene to help them under a USA counter-invasion on Taiwan. Right at the time the USA has most of its troops deployed in Iraq.. how convenient don't you think ?
Guess what. Putin isn't dumb. He's not goanna start a nuclear war, you know why? Because no one wins a nuclear war. Its arguable if any war is really winnable, but you can get the point. He tried to further cut down the nuclear arsenal with the USA in a new START program, but you said no. So he knows there’s still no way he’s goanna win this thing in the next century. He’s certainly not a good guy, but he’s exactly what Russia needs. These exercises vastly increase the moral. Just thinking of fighting against the USA jump up the hearts of millions of Russians, especially the nostalgics from the Communist Era. That’s why he also allowed back the star for the military, and has claimed the collapse of the Soviet Union a tragedy for Russia. Because when they were called the USSR, they were mighty. At least the World thought of them as one of the two mightiest nations in the World. Even if it was with a negative connotation, everyone loves a little attention. Now they’re eclipsed by Fortress America, and they don’t like it.
And whether or not our democratic hearts like it, his iron fist over the TV and the economy is enjoyable in Russia. As some man with a thousand more lives than I said, “Putin is more liberal than most Russians.”
Last but not least, Fortress Amerika . Whether we like it or not, they’re going to stay here for a long time. Let’s check out, for example, the wannabes for sole hyperpower ruling the World.
The Russian-Chinese Consortium – Both countries are under the iron fist of ruthless powerful men. Both are trying to enlarge their spheres of influence. Both have big nuclear arsenals, essential for “enforcing” peace with potential enemies. One of them has a booming economy, while the other suffers from a prolonged economic recession that is still left unfixed. China alone hasn’t got the technology, and Russia alone hasn’t got the money, and it’s unlikely they decide on some sort of major alliance.
The European Disunion – With the UK and a few other veterans of the EU being one the most sceptics about it, it’s improbable it’ll work. The debate on Turkey is only further aggravating the gap... Germany, the biggest economy of the Euro Zone, is collapsing, along with the Euro itself, now being called as an enemy of economical development, along with the Union itself and its limiting treaties.
So, the wannabes aren’t much good. Even so, let’s dissect the USA. Growing right-wing political section, possible fascist tendencies. Schools are allowed to teach Creationism. Big Brother policies being implemented against an increasingly polarized populace, where the fear of the never-happening attack is fed by a clearly corporate controlled Government. Basically the worst imaginable that can happen both with democracy, western society and capitalism is there.
So why keep them?
As I said, there isn’t a single contestant that has earned the slot. And, all the things that happened there are a direct consequence of so much power accumulated. Any other place where the same power concentration was met, would meet the same difficulties, and probably do worst.
So, there you have it, my explanation for my views on three too discussed topics around here.
Consider this metaphor. You meet a few people who have never seen the Ocean. So you show them a movie. They get into their minds how the Ocean looks like. Then you take them into a pool. They manage to cover most of the remaining areas. Of course, a pool isn't (normally) of salty water, so you could fill up a glass with water and salt it, and tell them "This is close to Ocean water". After this process they will irrevocably have a good feel of how's the Ocean, although they've never actually come close of it, right?
About now I decided to bring this into an all-out rant about many things.
1st, Islam I just saw this nifty joke about how people are making a great effort to make Islam look like the Religion of Peace while many of its followers gain prominence by blowing themselves up in the name of Allah.
Starters, they don't blow themselves up in the name of God (Allah= God, why keep the barrier? pure prejudice). They blow themselves up because of their profound hatred against this or that person/people, not because of God. God has nothing to do with the Intifada, and most Palestinians would agree on that. Most Palestinian suicide bombers don't give a crap to the Jihad. They simply live so awfully under Israeli rule they believe it's quite right to take a few Israeli lives. It's the same kind of thinking of pure suicide without homicide involved. "I live like shit. I'm going to die. Why wait?... and if I tell the Hamas I'm willing to die for the Jihad I can get an explosive belt and make my parents happy. And avenge my dead sister/brother/uncle/relatives\friends_of_whatever_kind. so.. what am I waiting for?" As you can see, God is an excuse, same as it was an excuse for the Cruzades.
Then, you want to call Islam some kind of warmonger? Look at Christianity. The Crusades, the massacres of the Byzantine Empire, the Inquisition and the colonizers of the New World.. To get some new examples, Charles Manson's Family, Jim Jones in Jonestown, the Nazis and their modern followers, the NeoNazis all around the World and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. All these examples are based off the Christian faith, as much as Hamas and Hezbollah are based off Islam. A note on Al-Quaeda. Apparently scholars aren't sure if Bin Laden is a Wahhabi or Kharijite, either way, both sect promulgate a return to the origins and strict following of the words of the Quran. Interestingly enough, the Wahhabi sect strictly bans suicide bombings, basing off Mohammed's word. Kharijites however, allow the killing of other less fundamentalist Muslims on the basis that they have betrayed the Word of Mohammad (I assume that's why Bin Laden must be a Kharijite).
One last thing. If Islamic militant organizations are hypocrite because they kill themselves agaisnt Mohammed's word of non-violence and peace, what can be said of the so-called Christian President of the United States of America, who preached an eternal war agaisnt an invisible enemy?
Putin Ex-FSB boss (formerly known as KGB). He now has enough power to be a dictator for the rest of his life (changing the constitution and being re-elected for the rest of his life, or worse
), and his actions like bringing down a few threatening individuals seem to point that way. And guess what, he signed a Non-Agression and Cooperation Treaty with China a few years ago (no one cared at the time... dumb! now they're just signing a new one...) and now he's scheduling massive war games with his Chinese buds, where, guess what, they intervene to help them under a USA counter-invasion on Taiwan. Right at the time the USA has most of its troops deployed in Iraq.. how convenient don't you think ? Guess what. Putin isn't dumb. He's not goanna start a nuclear war, you know why? Because no one wins a nuclear war. Its arguable if any war is really winnable, but you can get the point. He tried to further cut down the nuclear arsenal with the USA in a new START program, but you said no. So he knows there’s still no way he’s goanna win this thing in the next century. He’s certainly not a good guy, but he’s exactly what Russia needs. These exercises vastly increase the moral. Just thinking of fighting against the USA jump up the hearts of millions of Russians, especially the nostalgics from the Communist Era. That’s why he also allowed back the star for the military, and has claimed the collapse of the Soviet Union a tragedy for Russia. Because when they were called the USSR, they were mighty. At least the World thought of them as one of the two mightiest nations in the World. Even if it was with a negative connotation, everyone loves a little attention. Now they’re eclipsed by Fortress America, and they don’t like it.
And whether or not our democratic hearts like it, his iron fist over the TV and the economy is enjoyable in Russia. As some man with a thousand more lives than I said, “Putin is more liberal than most Russians.”
Last but not least, Fortress Amerika . Whether we like it or not, they’re going to stay here for a long time. Let’s check out, for example, the wannabes for sole hyperpower ruling the World.
The Russian-Chinese Consortium – Both countries are under the iron fist of ruthless powerful men. Both are trying to enlarge their spheres of influence. Both have big nuclear arsenals, essential for “enforcing” peace with potential enemies. One of them has a booming economy, while the other suffers from a prolonged economic recession that is still left unfixed. China alone hasn’t got the technology, and Russia alone hasn’t got the money, and it’s unlikely they decide on some sort of major alliance.
The European Disunion – With the UK and a few other veterans of the EU being one the most sceptics about it, it’s improbable it’ll work. The debate on Turkey is only further aggravating the gap... Germany, the biggest economy of the Euro Zone, is collapsing, along with the Euro itself, now being called as an enemy of economical development, along with the Union itself and its limiting treaties.
So, the wannabes aren’t much good. Even so, let’s dissect the USA. Growing right-wing political section, possible fascist tendencies. Schools are allowed to teach Creationism. Big Brother policies being implemented against an increasingly polarized populace, where the fear of the never-happening attack is fed by a clearly corporate controlled Government. Basically the worst imaginable that can happen both with democracy, western society and capitalism is there.
So why keep them?
As I said, there isn’t a single contestant that has earned the slot. And, all the things that happened there are a direct consequence of so much power accumulated. Any other place where the same power concentration was met, would meet the same difficulties, and probably do worst.
So, there you have it, my explanation for my views on three too discussed topics around here.
