@renatojj may i ask a question?
why is it every time someone disagrees with your position or offers a counter-proposal you take it personally?

re-read many of the posts here concerning your comment.
they are actually agreeing with you in many ways but they diverge when it comes to how they may go about rectifying the situation.

this is basic "politics 101".all politics is..to break it down to its most base definition is "what should we do".
thats all...thats it.

your solution is to limit government and ( i assume) give more powers back on a state and local level.
others have proposed a different approach.
i say let it all build to a head and implode under its own hubris while i sit on my lawn chair and watch it all burn.

who is right?
which is the best path that will benefit all?
well of course you think you are right,otherwise you would not think and perceive things the way you do.

but you appear to be allergic to any contrary ideologies to your ways of perceiving and that my friend is absolutist thinking and it is dangerous.

@aaronfr pointed out (quite correctly) your basic misunderstanding of socialism and i would add that you are using the title of "libertarian" in the bastardized and twisted media-induced definition that has propagated like a disease in america.

i tell people i am a conservative libertarian socialist just to watch their heads explode,and the funny thing is....you most certainly CAN be a conservative-libertarian-socialist.
but if you are weaned on american corporate opnion/commentray news that terminology would make absolutely no sense.which @cosmovitelli alluded to.

you can have a socialist democracy.
you can even have a communist democracy.
because one is a system of government and the other is financial.
here in america we have been bludgeoned into believing that capitalism and democracy go together like peas and carrots.

marx is a GREAT read,as is adam smith,and BOTH have been bastardized here in america because BOTH warned of the perils of communism and capitalism.

here in america we have a supposedly laissez faire approach but in reality america is a corporate socialist state.
where corporations take the risk to gain huuuuuge profits and dump the loss on the general public.
and that my friend is basic socialism.
to big to fail and too big to jail.

and here we come to my main point:
i dont think anyone here is disagreeing with you.
it appears they all see the broken system which favors the wealthy and powerful and are angered that money=free speech.
they just have a different approach on how to fix it,this does not make them stupid nor naive,just different.

i actually agree with you that trying to fix the broken system by using the very system that is broken seems counter-intuitive.
you suggest limiting government.
i suggest letting it burn.
others suggest enforcing the rule of law.
while others may deem it fit to vote a whole new legislature into office.

all different approaches to the same problem.

engage with those that disagree with you because it forces you to re-evaluate and defend your position often and sometimes you may find while in those discussions a new piece of information,a new way of looking at a problem that exposes the weakness in your argument.
the intelligent person will immediately dump the former to adhere to the newer and more succinct paradigm.
the fundamentalist will not and will continue to bang the gong for a defunct ideology.

so dont take it personally when someone disagrees with you.
nobody is here to dehumanize you nor dismiss you.
they may make assumptions based on your commentary but you can clear that up quite easily.

on a side note :@dag is one of the smartest and open minded people i know from the internet.dont judge him too quickly.

"Bang a Gong" for Education!

Tags for this video have been changed from 't rex, bang, a gong, get, it, on, love, fantastic' to 't rex, bang a gong, get it on, love, fantastic' - edited by xxovercastxx

I seriously can't believe that fox are still getting away with saying stuff like "i know there are unfounded rumours about michael jackson and janet jackson being the same person, it's interesting that they've not been seen in a room together"

Seriously, they are literally lying and misleading people on a daily basis. Hell i know there's been political propaganda for years, but this is farcical.

It's like holding your fingers crossed and saying "I think barack obama is a muslim extremist" and then saying NO NO NO i had my fingers crossed.

It's all symbolic. They state whatever lie they care to come up with, and then pretend that's not what they said with a kitch phrase such as "it's interesting". It loses all meaning, why not just bang a gong to express that you're just asking?

Breaking news - Barack Obama holds secret meetings with Osama Bin Laden to arrange the extermination of the population of USA. *Bang a gong*

It's the same as saying "I know there are unfounded rumours about Barack Obama holding secret meetings with Osama Bin Laden to arrange the extermination of the population of USA, and i'm not saying it's true, but he was taken to an undisclosed location and he could have been doing anything down there." It's all symbolic and meaningless, they've just found a clever way of lying.

It's like a 6 year old shouting "fup off!" in a teacher's face. Both of them know he means fuck, but he can't get into trouble.

I love that song so much. Thank you!

In reply to this comment by laura:
*promote for the fact that they did record something other than "Bang A Gong/Get It On", and it was good
...dance...dance...dance...

*promote for the fact that they did record something other than "Bang A Gong/Get It On", and it was good
...dance...dance...dance...

*long but strong, not wrong, smoke a bong, bang a gong.

*bang a gong... sing a song... GET IT ON!

Get it on! BTW, T Rex sifts like dead weight. I guess we're not ready to re-introduce Glam Rock yet...

In reply to this comment by uhohzombies:
Congrats, critttter! Bang a gong!

Congrats, critttter! Bang a gong!

How DARE Issy do a revenge post with ANOTHER Power Station song! And then to add insult to injury, she posted an Arcadia tune to boot!

ARRRGH I was going to submit this!!! BOOOO! Tantrum over. ok, upvote!

I've actually tried to find exactly that, but I can't find a good enough copy. The good copy that I DID find had a disabled embed, dammit!

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
so, toss up their other hit. "Some Like It Hot". that was theirs, right?

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Great cover! ARRRGH I was going to submit this!!! BOOOO! Tantrum over. ok, upvote!

so, toss up their other hit. "Some Like It Hot". that was theirs, right?

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Great cover! ARRRGH I was going to submit this!!! BOOOO! Tantrum over. ok, upvote!

I was actually pretty surprised that you hadn't submitted it by now, knowing how big a fan you are of Duran Duran. I'm glad you recovered from your tantrum.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Great cover! ARRRGH I was going to submit this!!! BOOOO! Tantrum over. ok, upvote!

Yay!

In reply to this comment by silvercord:
Live again!

In reply to this comment by mlx:
awww *dead