[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

i wish fairy tail would go on a permanent break... that series broke my heart, it had such potential.

dercoo

Why hate the Friendship is Magic of Japan,

the series is awesome for what it is, and its great it's kept it core light heart-ed tone after over 300 chp.

I'm sick of shonnen taking themselves too seriously.

i'm sorry but after the tenrojima island arc i just couldn't take the friendship power thing anymore.

[QUOTE="The-Apostle"]Damn racists can go to hell...Nengo_Flow

ever been to europe? it's much worse over there.

[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="jimkabrhel"]

Why do so many of these threads suddenly revert to Lai's unique look on the world? Also the only gay person I know who is completely disinterested in gay rights. Unless Elijah Wood is discussing gay rights. Then it's awesome.

worlock77

I think it's more that you and Zappa have this pig-headed insistence on shoving your philosophies into damn near every thread no matter how irrelevant to the topic being discussed.

i've gotten better...

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]

[QUOTE="Laihendi"] I do not deny that many homosexuals consider it to be highly important. That does not change the fact that legalizing marriage does not give the government any less meaningful control over their lives. They can still be arrested for saying the wrong thing, they still have their money taken from them by force, and from what I understand there are serious government surveillance issues in the UK as well. Also I am not especially interested in the UK. I am just saying that legalizing gay marriage there, or anywhere, is not as big of a deal as many like to make it out to be.Laihendi

Arrested for saying the wrong thing - What the hell are you talking about?

Have your money taken from you by force - What the hell are you talking about?

ever consider that people like the things taxes pay for? and that most are content to deal with things they don't like in exchange for the things they do? this is what countries are based on.

however in the ideal state there would be no taxes as the government would already control all resources.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="one_plum"]

You can only ostracize a group of people for so much before they start rebelling. Society is already divided enough as it is, why create more tension?

one_plum

you aren't ostracizing as much as making sure they never come to exist in the first place ala education and learning trades.

Even in an idealistic scenario where everyone was educated and getting trades jobs, there wouldn't be enough positions to satisfy everyone. Especially right now with a struggling economy, you get the very best who understandably get the positions they worked for, but desirable positions are so saturated that those who are okay or average get lumped in the same class as the underachievers. Here's the real thing that needs to be saved: the middle class... before the middle class and the working/lower class start rebelling in great numbers.

the middle class is the obvious priority, but we can't hold on to anachronistic ways of thinking.

i wish fairy tail would go on a permanent break... that series broke my heart, it had such potential.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="Yangire"]

Or even better you can drop streaming and go with downloads.

Yangire

eew too much work and time.

i'd rather stream.

I rather have my anime not look like a pixilated mess.

it's a good thing most streams don't look like that.

[QUOTE="OrkHammer007"]

Let me see if I got this straight...

You are absolutely fine with leaking information that has the potential to get innocent people hurt or killed.

I hate the fact that PRISM exists, and I loathe the gov't for thinking it was okay to spy on me despite not ever having done anything remotely treasonous, but I do not condone what Snowden by any stretch.

He betrayed information to our enemies (al Qaeda, et al) that will cause them to change their methods of communication, which could make detecting the next terrorist attack harder to detect, and could easily cost innocent civilians their lives.

On top of that, he damaged international relations with nations that are out allies. That will make intelligence sharing even more difficult, and could allow even more terroist atacks.

He is absolutely a traitor, regardless of what you or the Asshole-in-Chief says. Anyone who defends him is just as guilty of that treason.

m0zart

I am absolutely, 100%, ok with someone exposing what our Government is doing behind our backs to its own citizenry. If that puts some folks in danger, then the Government that created this conundrum should be the one to blame as it is the traitorous institution that had to be exposed.

I hope he wins, and I sincerely hope it bothers the hell out of the folks sitting here calling the whistleblower the villain.

No one is supporting the NSA, we hate snowden for the OTHER stuff he did which puts countless people in danger.

but you don't care who dies if you get a little "freedom"

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

in a postindustrial society we should not support unskilled labour. it should be shipped off to other countries or ideally be done by robotics. if you are a healthy American and you only qualify for unskilled labour then you failed and should not be encouraged.

one_plum

You can only ostracize a group of people for so much before they start rebelling. Society is already divided enough as it is, why create more tension?

you aren't ostracizing as much as making sure they never come to exist in the first place ala education and learning trades.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

I am saying that he is an even sh!ttier troll.

coolbeans90

calm down.

i am enjoying this thread. though i'm positive i'm the only serious person here.

I don't think that it is actually possible to have an enjoyable discussion of substance with bad troll personalities acted out by almost equally bad/stupid people behind them.

Or maybe I need more beer.

just to annoy you, here is a relevant Plato quote.

"he was a wise man who invented beer" - Plato