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BUSH WON

 
 
Ender
03:51 / 04.11.04
We are a broken nation, brought to its knees by controversy. Crippled by chaos, cluttered with comprise, and convenience is canned and sold for sex on our streets.
We cant fight crime, or stop hate, we have a tolerable percentage rate, yes, we can speak freely, live how we want to so on and ect. But can we trust eachother? Do we lock doors, and look over shoulders, and in some towns don’t we bar our windows?
I am here to say fuck that! I move for a new America, a place where we work hard for what we have, all of us, no one preying off of anyone else. Look at all the sickness in the world, child molesters, and serial killers, and even just common crime, it goes on everywhere all the time.
People like me get pissed and type some stupid shit into some blog online, and never do another damned thing about it. We read things about how we need to find common ground, things we can all agree on, and run with it, develop a relationship with people we don’t really see eye to eye with, and once trust is formed, deal with sensitive issues.
Look at Cheney and his daughter, he has a relationship with someone he doesn’t agree with, that doesn’t mean he will cave on the issue, but he will ceartanly view it differently because they are not enemies.
I am not saying lets all be best friends and sit around giving each other hand jobs, no, but I am saying we need to start really listening to others and not just ‘wait for our turn to talk’.

I love this country, I love it because I am free to hate it. Is there a way to bring people back together, can we find a way to work with one another(even with bush in office)? Are people willing to try?
 
 
haus of fraser
07:24 / 04.11.04
I think benfox is realising that steve's a 'bush' man...
 
 
Triplets
09:32 / 04.11.04
Dr. Paragraph is calling collect, will you accept the charges?
 
 
Ender
11:30 / 04.11.04
clever, the lines busy, does he make housecalls?
 
 
Ganesh
11:36 / 04.11.04
Is there a way to bring people back together, can we find a way to work together(even with bush in office)? Are people willing to try?

Trying not to trample over the rights of gay people might've been a start, but that one's been shot to Hell. You and Steve can count yourselves lucky that your lovemaking is staunchly heterosexual.
 
 
Sekhmet
16:18 / 04.11.04
Cain't we all just get along?

Don't be hatin'. Benfox is trying to reach out and touch someone.
 
 
Chiropteran
16:26 / 04.11.04
Sekhmet, you're just pouring gasoline on the fire...

~L
 
 
Chiropteran
16:34 / 04.11.04
So, benfox, whaddya have in mind?

It's all good to say "let's all work together," but work on what? I'm not asking this to shoot you down, but to try to look ahead to the next step. What can you (or I, or anyone) do today to, in Rob Breszny's words, kill the Apocalypse?

I know you've taken a bit of a beating since coming to Barbelith, but let's see if we can actually carry on a discussion -- without it always coming back to Steve? (*glares around at certain fellow 'lither's*)

It sounds like you have something to say here - go ahead.

~Lepidopteran
 
 
ibis the being
22:24 / 04.11.04
Still wondering what's behind "door number two," eh? I think you've already got a friend who'll be obliging enough to show you....
 
 
haus of fraser
09:07 / 05.11.04
but let's see if we can actually carry on a discussion -- without it always coming back to Steve?

Come on! it always comes back to Steve...
Who else could this be refering to;

Crippled by chaos, cluttered with comprise, and convenience is canned and sold for sex on our streets.

(**winks back**)
 
 
Ganesh
11:27 / 05.11.04
And who could possibly be the subject of this little nugget of wish-fulfilment?

I am not saying lets all be best friends and sit around giving each other hand jobs

?
 
 
haus of fraser
11:59 / 05.11.04
Do you really give all your best friends handjobs benfox?

On a serious note- the way forward it seems would be to lobby the Bush administration- protest and march- it brought Thatcher down, and its certainly been embarrassing to Blair.

As benfox said- its something you have the right to do in your country.

Lobby back for the loss of basic human rights that the abortion laws seem to be having. Lobby for america to join the rest of the world with Kyoto- use boards like this one to communicate and set up links with others to join Marches and campaigns that let Bush know that there are issues that you care about.

I can go on peace marches in London- sign petitions against the war and offer you my sympathy as a resident of the UK (look at our situation Blair is the left wing candidate- the opposition is a guy called Michael Howard- a facist left over from the thatcher era). But to have a real effect on Bush it must come from the residents of the good ol USA ( i think its pretty much accepted that the Guardians sway the vote tactic backfired)

The way forward is to protest and to shout from the fuckin roof tops- educate the republicans in a non aggressive way as to why certain issues are morally wrong. Good luck I hope you and steve can sort things out... (remember Lepidopteran)

...steve is a bastard! And as long as I hang out with him he will always get first, and second, and third pick, leaving me with the gap toothed girls, who cant help but smile, and dream of him when they are with me!

damn straight he's talking about Steve in this thread- he's a paid up republican and poor Benfox is Democrat through and through - its a crazy thing love...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:17 / 05.11.04
Ah, Love Across the Barricades. Taboo, shameful, so dirty.
 
  
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