'Muricans have a hard time mindin their business/leaving people alone

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for whom?

Us? still making more money than we ever were before. to take a line from Watchmen: "what happened to the American dream?" "What happened to it? It came true." should we scale back? absolutely. but terrible it is not.

The world as a whole? every major statistic says otherwise. numbers of wars and deaths of all kinds are down. prosperity is up. etc etc.

The ME? I have a hard time arguing this, but it hasn't really gotten all that worse over there. difference is they have started exporting their inter-tribal warfare to the world. did we cause it, sure for the sake of argument. but again it hasn't gotten worse.

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Not all of us have a problem with those things. Those of us who championed Ron Paul's campaign in 2012, and his mostly non-interventionist policies, were called loons and mocked at every corner.
 
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#32
Sex and food, money buys both. Don't have money can't buy either,so crime is the answer to starvation and satisfaction.

The more money you have the more power you have and the more food and sex you can have,everything else is materialistic,we distract ourselves with technology, which isn't needed to live. Trying to make our lives easier makes everyone's lives harder to live. Competition for more food and sex results in destruction of life.
 
#33
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can't be.. the conservatives here love them.

On a small scale socialism can and has worked very well. Especially true when it's voluntary. It's not that that hard to sell a house and move, changing countries not so easy.
 
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don't you hate it when facts get in the way....

even with the upturn we are well below averages.

the data gets even more impressive when you consider this is a percentage. roughly 374 million in 1400 to 6868 million now. (2010).

Population went up more than 18 times what it was, meaning more people rubbing shoulders, more conflicts, yet we aren't seeing an increase. Before the US took over you can see the gradual increase in deaths by war. suddenly after WWII that starts declining even with world population still expanding at faster and faster rates
 
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