>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

conspiracy?
Consider the facts:
-Most musicians and artists are liberal.
-The backing band chose to play "America" in a key awkward to the human voice.

Deliberate SABOTAGE? Probably not.


Oh man....yer onto something distpiuafurtdy.....Wonder if he jacked this shit on porpoise??

Anyone with a flimsy, two-octave range can wing that song in any key-

*conspiracy?

Consider the facts:

-Most musicians and artists are liberal.
-The backing band chose to play "America" in a key awkward to the human voice.


Deliberate SABOTAGE? Probably not.

1. I live in Silicon Valley, which is one of the most intense clusters of ambitious and brilliant people in the world. It's easy to move here from the other side of the world and build a network of 1,000 friends in a year just by going to a lot of events and being a smart and nice person.

2. I've watched most of my high school friends do nothing with their lives and become uninteresting people. The only path to massive personal growth and intellectual growth is through building an awesome career that pushes you extremely hard and surrounds you with other awesome people. People who think they're getting a good deal by devoting their life to pleasure and trivialities instead of productivity are sabotaging their human potential.

3. The economy is probably going to decline for the next few or several decades for a number of reasons, so try harder at everything. Build your life. A lot of people are going to experience worsening fortunes in the future and there will be no solution.

>> ^Lolthien:

>> ^chilaxe:
@Yogi
Ha. Well I don't know about tax cuts for the rich.
But the only highly effective solution I've seen for closing academic achievement gaps is to take the kids out of destructive environments and put them in highly academic schools where they're in school doing schoolwork 12 hours a day.
So vouchers might not be a bad idea, instead of forcing kids to attend schools with destructive cultures.
And building an awesome career that contributes a lot to society and makes us rich takes 12 hours a day also, so starting when we're kids seems like a good path out of poverty.

Making kids slog away for 12 hours a day may close the 'academic achievement gap' (or as I like to call it, the 'being good at schoolwork gap'), but how exactly does academic achievement really translate into fulfilling and/or successful careers? Obviously going to an ivy league school is going to get you a better job.. but I'm of the opinion that is mostly due to the contacts you make in school.
And of course, learning to work hard to achieve is a valuable lesson, but would that be any different than having kids learn to whittle trees for 12 hours a day. Teaching critical thinking is a benefit of an education, but would 12 hours of class really help keep a person's mind sharp? Education is important, but forcing kids to sit down for half the day and study seems like the medicine might be worse than the disease...

Joe is making an effort to sabotage Mitt's campaign so he can prop himself up for 2016.

Prediction- Post election there will be speculation that Romney was a liberal plant designed to sabotage the Republican party. This guy isn't just a flip/flopper, he's just a giant flop.

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Yeah, I think this is Canadianese. We've come a long way since those wooden dutch clogs shoved in factory cogs.>> ^Fantomas:

Well, he is Canadian.

You just made my day.
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Push '4' and '7' to hear them argue about pronunciation.

I think we can all agree that this turn of olympics is about as twisted as such an event can be. I can totally understand the need to somehow sabotage that.
However, there is a lot of things wrong with it that are not related to its economic impact which should be far more important to hate about it.

>> ^gorillaman:


Let's say you're paying for the party with other people's money, and you're so fucking arrogant every time something like this happens you act as if you have the moral high ground.

You have to watch both of them side-by-side comparison. They both trac quite well together.
I managed to line the music up on the first try and watched them both through together.

http://videosift.com/video/Beastie-Boys-Sabotage

Thanks dude!
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*quality *doublepromote to #1

Beastie Boys Sabotage

SABOTAGE! 0:06 You can see the dog stop to eat the ExLax the previous trainer dropped!

I didn't..."dems must be stopped at all cost." >> ^VoodooV:

>> ^Grimm:
I'm convinced that most Republicans are not small government, fiscally conservative republicans (even though that's what the whole Tea Party movement is supposed to be about). They are First: Anti-Democrat (everything the dems do is wrong and any thing wrong is their fault), they are Second: Pro-Christian (govt shouldn't tell us how to live our lives...unless it's based on my christian values..then it's OK) and Third: Fiscally conservative in name only (billions/trillions spent on Democrat programs is a waste and destroying the economy and our country and dems must be stopped at all cost. Billions/trillions spent on Republican programs and they turn a blind eye and don't acknowledge that it too is a waste and also destroying our economy).

Don't forget that they're completely willing to sabotage the country just so that Obama looks bad. They don't want the economy to improve...at least not until they can take the credit for it.

>> ^Grimm:

I'm convinced that most Republicans are not small government, fiscally conservative republicans (even though that's what the whole Tea Party movement is supposed to be about). They are First: Anti-Democrat (everything the dems do is wrong and any thing wrong is their fault), they are Second: Pro-Christian (govt shouldn't tell us how to live our lives...unless it's based on my christian values..then it's OK) and Third: Fiscally conservative in name only (billions/trillions spent on Democrat programs is a waste and destroying the economy and our country and dems must be stopped at all cost. Billions/trillions spent on Republican programs and they turn a blind eye and don't acknowledge that it too is a waste and also destroying our economy).


Don't forget that they're completely willing to sabotage the country just so that Obama looks bad. They don't want the economy to improve...at least not until they can take the credit for it.

Well, we know the conservatives love themselves a full-scale war, perhaps Obama will decide to green light a lower-risk, less profitable costly solution, like he did when the S.E.A.L.S. got Bin Laden.

@marinara: Could you really call that a false-flag attack? I understand it's sabotage and covert ops but I think a "false flag" operation literally refers to someone using an enemy flag, somehow physically presented, to disguise themselves. Going in at night in black pajamas, or paying someone else to do it just seems like your basic covert operation.

The only reason I mention it is that I initially thought you might be saying that somehow this "false flag" op in Syria fifty years ago might help convince people that the US would have no problem with something like the "9/11 Conspiracy".