he was riffing on insane clown posse.

>> ^cosmovitelli:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
The logic behind this just doesn't stand up. Several of the things he said clearly did / do have reasons. Unless, has character talking complete arse is contextually important in the film, I'm calling bullshit on this one...

arf
>> ^Kofi:
Magnets, how do they work? No reason!

just for fun;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

>> ^eric3579:

Would it seriously be hard for you not to hit someone?
>> ^MarineGunrock:
Even if it was an old woman, I would literally have to use every iota of willpower I posses to not punch someone in the face if they did that.



Lets see..

If that was me, Having stopped safely and in plenty of time, then being smashed from behind (With no high-seat to just gently rock me as the vehicle moves, most likely causing severe whiplash), being flung off the front of it, and then seeing it totaled underneath a persons car, with bits laying everywhere?

..Yeah, I'd probably have trouble not decking them one, too.

Would it seriously be hard for you not to hit someone?

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Even if it was an old woman, I would literally have to use every iota of willpower I posses to not punch someone in the face if they did that.

Even if it was an old woman, I would literally have to use every iota of willpower I posses to not punch someone in the face if they did that.

Let me give you something more to work with:

xXx xXx Rah! Rah! Rah! Capitalizm sux! Socialism rulez! Capitalism redistributes wealth to the super rich at the expense of the underclasses! Socialism redistributes stagnant wealth from those who hoard to those in need! Long live the proletariat! From each according to his ability! Seize the means of production! Power to the people! This land is your land, this land is my land! 911 is a joke in this town! Barbara Streisand has a posse! Meat is murder! xXx xXx

Better?

>> ^NetRunner:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/GeeSussFreeK" title="member since August 1st, 2008" class="profilelink">GeeSussFreeK I don't really see how that's me fighting a losing battle, so much as you declaring surrender to the idea that mankind will inevitably destroy itself.
I think that's eminently preventable. We just need to grow up, and not really by a whole lot. Just enough not to commit genocide on ourselves.


Weapons have only a part to do with genocide...we were killing each other with sticks long before bullets, and will upgrade to ray guns in time. I am not surrendering, I am saying you're fighting a battle that is not on the same battlefield. And preventing what exactly? Death by knife isn't any more humane than death by gun...and shoot, I would take death by nuke over death by knife any day of the week...except Saturday, that's beer day.

I have been around guns for a long time. When you are in the country and you got a rattlesnake or copper head that you need to get rid of, sometimes it's a little too dangerous for the snake pole. You have no right to say that I can't go get my revolver out and dispatch him with the weapon of my choosing, in so much as your rights are violated. Creating criminals for people who only posses things that can be dangerous is just the liberal version of the drug war. Manufacturing moral crimes where no wrong has taken place. You want tuffer punishments on people who commit crimes, fine, let's talk. No need to punish people whom haven't wronged, akin to the pot head buying nachos.

Okay, wow, I checked the dictionary. "snigger" really is an alternate spelling of snicker.

I thought that word referred to Snorks who are fans of Eminem and Insane Clown Posse.

/Ponders whether he should have left that joke alone.

>> ^tedbater:

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
You do know that the bible calls for similar things right?
All religion is bad.

Really? Where?
Please back statements like this up.


Are you even slightly serious?

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)

Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)

This is just a sampling, should I go on?

@chilaxe, I would agree with mgittle, it doesn't seem like you watched the video.

The idea here isn't so much that we shouldn't allow people who do have the fortune to have been blessed with the ability and inclination to provide value to society to reap rewards from it. Instead it is the observation that perhaps they haven't earned their great wealth due to having merely made better choices as an individual. More than individual choice, it is likely that their wealthy is due more to their pure luck to have been born to the right parents, and into the right environment, and that therefore they shouldn't feel as if they have some special claim to the rewards of their value to society that exceeds all other concerns.

To someone like me, this puts quite eloquently my own intuitive sense that I am not successful because I made better choices in life than other people, as much as it was that I was born to wealthy, intelligent parents who gave me opportunity and genes not available to everyone. If anything, I feel I have failed to live up to the potential they gave me.

It is this basic sense of humility, the sense that my abilities were a gift, some sort of fortunate accident, that drives much of my political and moral views of the world. I do not feel that I, as an individual am superior to others, and therefore deserving of superior reward. Instead, I feel that whatever abilities I posses come with an overriding obligation to use them to help society as much as possible, and that much of the material reward I receive from doing so is another lucky accident, one that I have a fairly weak moral claim to.

In fact I struggle to understand the mentality of people who see themselves as some sort of John Galt, an Atlas who deserves some sort of wealth all out of proportion to the rest of their human kin simply because accidents of birth and circumstance led them to greatness.

This isn't a cry for absolute equality -- those who do serve society to a greater degree do have a reasonable expectation of entitlement to greater reward for their service. But they do not have some absolute, inviolate claim to the wealth they create, especially when faced with the prospect of something like a progressive tax structure designed to aid those who are less blessed.

>> ^Shepppard:

1:12
Just left of center screen.
There's a cop that trips, loses the shield, and falls on their face.
That was totally fucking awesome.
But no, there really was next to no violence in this video. I don't know the whole story.. I don't know if these really were just non-violent protesters, or the ones who are going around burning police cars and wrecking buildings.
We've dropped the ball on this. By no means should we have bid on hosting G20 this year, especially after we just shelled out a lot of money for the Olympics.
Harper should've realized that people would be pissed about our tax money going to both things as it is, not to mention like $57,000 on an indoor lake 100 meters from a REAL lake. And now that this is happening, we don't even have the military here clearing the streets of the violent protesters, just rent-a-cops doing their best, and whatever police force the city can afford to send out.
While I disagree with disbanding a non-violent protest in this manner, at least nobody (except the cop who fell on their face) got hurt.


Canada shelled out 10 Million Dollars in Damages to Maher Arar, justly, I think they didn't have a reason to bid on jack shit for some time.

10 Million Dollars to right a wrong. G20 and jackboots are small fries compared to the shit the Allies get up to these days.

At least Ontario had the balls to pay out. The US didn't do jack shit, except deny the case its day in court.

Alas, my rant is beside the point of this video.

More to the point, though, do you think the Military should be clearing the street of protesters, violent or not? I don't know if Canada has a Posse Comitatus law but it is not the Military's Job to disperse angry citizens. The Military's job is to kill, which is exactly why the Posse Comitatus act exists. It puts soldiers in a very bad place, when they have to act on their own soil. I could argue the same point about Police Actions in sovereign nations, but I'd be arguing against years of Policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act#Recent_legislative_events

Only Snoop Dogg could actually look cooler with a Gummy Bear Posse.

My mind hasn't been this blown since I saw "Miracles" by Insane Clown Posse.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'rocketboom, know your meme, icp, insane clown posse, juggalos, scientists' to 'rocketboom, know your meme, icp, insane clown posse, miracles, juggalos, scientists' - edited by kronosposeidon

The "message" is all over the board, and the way the narrator uses the word "enslavement" reminds me of putting one's hand up to a flashlight beam so the shadow looks huge. Really, if you're going to ramble on about enslavement, start small. You're "enslaved" by your body, you will always need oxygen culled from air. You're "enslaved" by your own belly and the need for food. Except for a few lucky space/moon douchebags, most of us will forever be enslaved by gravity and the earth, never leaving it except to fly to Chicago on peanut-free airliners. You're "enslaved" by your loved ones who demand your time and energy to survive, with no permanent guarantee they will reciprocate. You're "enslaved" by your friends, their opinions, your opinions and the balance of honesty versus hurting feelings needlessly. And so on.

The State is "that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." We know this. The narrator was closest to the current truth when he described governments as mafias. But we've come a long way from the days when tyrants could execute whomever they wished at any time. At least in the "less enslaved" parts of the globe.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --G. Washington.

Modern civilization depends on the one lousy master, or a few masters with powers divided, rather than the whims of 100 million little ones, for when anarchy reigns, the neighbor with the biggest guns and posse wins out. S/he may be benevolent today but not tomorrow. And so ...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

Why do vids like this ultimately fail? Mostly due to vagueness and having no real answers, but mainly because they assume that in every epoch the State is all-powerful and all-knowing, when history proves none of them has it 100% correct, or even 30% correct. Governments rise and fall like tides. Sometimes they have no idea what they're doing, at others they know the right things to do but don't or won't do them for any number of reasons.

So what does this all mean? Relax. Grab a beer. Light up a joint. Per quantum mechanics or string theory or something, you both exist and do not exist right now. You are both free and "enslaved". Have a nice evening. I will, for I have pr0n!

O Me! O Life!

By Walt Whitman

O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I,
and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the
struggle ever renew'd,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see
around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring--What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.
That you are here--that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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