Government corruption and wealth disparity

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moonbogg

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I've been to places where we were encouraged to pay traffic tickets at the time that they were given out. You know, to cut down on paperwork. That sort of thing made me tolerate corruption at home even less. It's not enough to be better than some shithole nobody cares about, I want to leave them so far behind that their children can't even hope to catch up.

And that's what's wrong with this country. Attitude like that. You want to take for yourself and leave the world burning in your hateful wake. You claim my thread fails while you fail at basic humanity.
 

Ruptga

Lifer
Aug 3, 2006
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And that's what's wrong with this country. Attitude like that. You want to take for yourself and leave the world burning in your hateful wake. You claim my thread fails while you fail at basic humanity.

They're doing a fine job of burning themselves; there's no need for me to help and I consider it a waste of time. Getting our own shit together would be a much better use of that time. It's not a zero-sum game, we can leave them generations behind without doing anything to slow them down.
 

moonbogg

Lifer
Jan 8, 2011
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They're doing a fine job of burning themselves; there's no need for me to help and I consider it a waste of time. Getting our own shit together would be a much better use of that time. It's not a zero-sum game, we can leave them generations behind without doing anything to slow them down.

Sigh...Just...whatever Ruptga. Just whatever. I can't stay mad at you.
 

norseamd

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The Fourth World refers to

  1. Sub-populations socially excluded from global society;
  2. Hunter-gatherer, nomadic, pastoral, and some subsistence farming peoples living beyond the modern industrial norm.[1]
  3. Sub-populations existing in a First World country, but with the living standards of those of a Third World, or developing country.
 

norseamd

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So ok on my way to the meme geneartor I found this meme which is too good not to pay tribute to. Amazingly it can even tie back into some of what else I have to say.

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