LOL. I just noticed you sent me a pm a few hours before you posted your reply here. I don't know what you wrote as you deleted it before I had a chance to read it. My guess is you told me to fuck off but then later decided to play the victim game instead.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:08 amIs there really any need for these snide remarks at my expense? Have I done something to offend you, or has something happened and you are taking your frustrations out on me?
Is this really all about the presidency or is there something else you want to talk about, Jebus?
Should The Senate Be Abolished?
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Yes, I told you to fuck off and then I deleted it because I decided to play the victim game. I also went to the trouble of buying photoshop in order to fake this screenshot of a conversation between myself and Red on a discord server.Jebus wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:26 amLOL. I just noticed you sent me a pm a few hours before you posted your reply here. I don't know what you wrote as you deleted it before I had a chance to read it. My guess is you told me to fuck off but then later decided to play the victim game instead.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:08 amIs there really any need for these snide remarks at my expense? Have I done something to offend you, or has something happened and you are taking your frustrations out on me?
Is this really all about the presidency or is there something else you want to talk about, Jebus?
The reason I did this was because Red and I are members of the Illuminati and your criticisms of the U.S. Presidency are a threat to our conspiracy to take over the world.
It seems we are going to have to find some other way of silencing you. Mwahaha... mwahahahahaa... ahahahahahahaha!!!!
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I was referring to your point about how the President is still one of the top three most powerful people in the country, even without Congress or the Courts.
It's a double edged sword. I don't think it's fair to call it an inherent good or bad if the possibilities of either are present.
You can't do as you please, since the President is not above the law, and, for like the 15th time, can be blocked by the other branches.
Are you aware of the Checks and Balances placed?
This may or may not be true, but maybe we can estimate this.
So are you implying that I haven't studied those eras in history or had conversations about them with others?
Then why didn't you just say you also studied it at a college level, instead of saying you have age over me? Or, are you loosely defining 'college level'?
Okay, now you have to prove that having no President would be better than having one.
Don't you think it'd be more cost effective to just adjust how the Presidency functions, rather than eliminating it altogether? This is reminding me of conversations about anarchism.
With the way politics works in this country, and how everything is framed, roughly both have the same potential.
If it isn't done at the Federal Level, local courts will quickly overturn it.
The President still has to work with the Congress and Courts, and without them, are basically impossible to enforce.
Not to mention, like a lot of laws proposed by Congress, Executive Orders usually take a lot of time to be implemented; Executive Order 9981 wasn't fully implemented until a few years after it is signed.
This sounds like a practical concern.Jebus wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:33 am Very few (if any) countries give away as much power to one person as the U.S. If one were to define a country's success according to the life quality of all its citizens relative to that country's location and amount of natural resources, the most successful countries are those with a wide power base.
There may be biases affecting both of us; I assume you're not too fond of the US?
I'll respond to your other post later.
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@Jebus We'd need an executive branch to have checks and balances on the legislative branch.
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Well, since Jebus deleted my earlier posts due to the images being too big, I'll reiterate my points once more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD_HuA9pbE
It's almost as if your arguments are actually piss poor.
Finally, an image I uploaded of Winston Churchill with the caption "Tell Hitler his Coolmath-Games subscription expires in 2 days" was removed. I shan't upload the image again lest it lead to this post being taken down, but this image was a small one, and the fact that the post was removed demonstrates to me that this was not actually about images being too big.
You could make the argument that this image did not further the discussion, and you'd be right. But then again, this doesn't further the discussion either:
You have not made a single point in favour of having no President at all. In fact, you have praised European countries, many of which are semi-presidential republics. Can you give one example of a successful country with no president at all? I'll wait. The only ones I can think of are constitutional monarchies, and I doubt that you really think that that is any better (unless you do).Jebus wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:21 amSemi-presidential is better than its current form but I would prefer no president at all.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:09 am @Jebus Do you want the United States to become a semi-presidential republic or to have no president at all?
Yes, arguments so good that you don't want to demostrate them. Both Red and I have responded to your points, and you have clearly been online, yet we have heard no response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD_HuA9pbE
It's almost as if your arguments are actually piss poor.
Finally, an image I uploaded of Winston Churchill with the caption "Tell Hitler his Coolmath-Games subscription expires in 2 days" was removed. I shan't upload the image again lest it lead to this post being taken down, but this image was a small one, and the fact that the post was removed demonstrates to me that this was not actually about images being too big.
You could make the argument that this image did not further the discussion, and you'd be right. But then again, this doesn't further the discussion either:
I look forward to hearing your response (or lack thereof)!
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Since you referred me to rule 5 (in a private message), I'd like to refer you to rule 1:
This is a discussion forum. Please come here willing to discuss. This isn't a place to lecture, and then refuse to address others' rational arguments or even answer others' questions. Discussion is founded upon logic, if you don't accept basic logic as valid, there's really nothing for you to do here except lecture, and this isn't the place for it. Again: This is a discussion forum.
Since you referred me to rule 5 (in a private message), I'd like to refer you to rule 1:
This is a discussion forum. Please come here willing to discuss. This isn't a place to lecture, and then refuse to address others' rational arguments or even answer others' questions. Discussion is founded upon logic, if you don't accept basic logic as valid, there's really nothing for you to do here except lecture, and this isn't the place for it. Again: This is a discussion forum.
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Bob, take a telegram. "To @sykkelmannen, Sennet Studios, Hollywood, California. Congrats stop. Have found only person in world with poorer arguments than you stop. Name: Jebus stop. Signed, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz stop". Oh, and put a P.S.: "Please, please, please... stop."
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Anyone is free not to respond if they so choose. Rule 1 refers to forum members who respond to posts without addressing others' arguments.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:20 am @Jebus
Since you referred me to rule 5 (in a private message), I'd like to refer you to rule 1:
This is a discussion forum. Please come here willing to discuss. This isn't a place to lecture, and then refuse to address others' rational arguments or even answer others' questions. Discussion is founded upon logic, if you don't accept basic logic as valid, there's really nothing for you to do here except lecture, and this isn't the place for it. Again: This is a discussion forum.
I will respond once Red responds to my last post. However, nearly all of your points either make little sense or have already been responded to. Please don't waste my time with any more bullshit.
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Literally all of them make a lot of sense and haven't been responded to. If you can give me one example of one point I have made which doesn't fit this criteria I will do my best to do this:However, nearly all of your points either make little sense or have already been responded to.
Define "bullshit".Please don't waste my time with any more bullshit.
Because my idea of bullshit is pretty similar to this:
And to deleting my posts without giving an explanation, and then only giving an explanation once I call you out on it, but the explanation still not making sense for reasons which I have already pointed out.