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Communist or socialist?

Socialist 14 22.58%
 
Communist 9 14.52%
 
Just as it is, not free and terrible 26 41.94%
 
Other ( post below0 13 20.97%
 
Total:62
MDMAlliance on 31 May 2013
DevilRising said:

I think some form of "Socialist Democracy", if done well, is the only reasonable way to go, going forward as a race.


Germany is kind of a Socialist Democracy, but recently they haven't been doing as well.  I think what is best changes depending on what's going on within and outside of the country.



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Viper1 on 31 May 2013
spurgeonryan said:

It is not just about this president. All politicians are greedy. I do not know how to fix it. I do not entirely think we should be total communist. But I think a little of everything would help a bunch. Socialist programs are nice to a degree, but lets not go over board with them! Like we are.


Oh, you want to fix politicians?  Simple.   End the career factor, reduce their wages to equal the average annual income of a US citizen, pay is increased or decreased based on the economic tide that they create, remove all corporate campaign funding, remove subsidies, require lobbyists to be audited quarterly and require all bills to be read prior to voting and publsihed online within 5 days of voting.

 

Done.



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Zero999 on 31 May 2013
spurgeonryan said:
BossPuma said:
Zero999 said:

America is not a country so the question is meaninless.


Are you telling me there are other contries than the US in the entire 2 continents of America? Mind Blown

I think most probably realize that I mean the U.S. Not the whole two continents of North and South America.

 

In the U.S, we often just refer to it as America. Even though it is not.

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?



MDMAlliance on 31 May 2013
Zero999 said:
spurgeonryan said:

I think most probably realize that I mean the U.S. Not the whole two continents of North and South America.

 

In the U.S, we often just refer to it as America. Even though it is not.

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?


Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  WRONG.

The definition of a continent is arbitrary enough so it could be one continent, but the way it is commonly accepted is that it is two.  You cannot say that there is "no such thing" when according to some definitions, there are.  Not only to some, but to the most common.



Viper1 on 31 May 2013
Zero999 said:

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?

No, but I know plenty that say Europe and Asia are 2 continents.  And they are separated by what exactly?  The Ural mountains mostly.  Rather arbitrary, wouldn't you say?



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Zero999 on 31 May 2013
Viper1 said:
Zero999 said:

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?

No, but I know plenty that say Europe and Asia are 2 continents.  And they are separated by what exactly?  The Ural mountains mostly.  Rather arbitrary, wouldn't you say?

Europe Asia and Africa are not separeted, they are the same island but i didnt mention because the focus was on America.



Zero999 on 31 May 2013
MDMAlliance said:
Zero999 said:
spurgeonryan said:

I think most probably realize that I mean the U.S. Not the whole two continents of North and South America.

 

In the U.S, we often just refer to it as America. Even though it is not.

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?


Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  WRONG.

The definition of a continent is arbitrary enough so it could be one continent, but the way it is commonly accepted is that it is two.  You cannot say that there is "no such thing" when according to some definitions, there are.  Not only to some, but to the most common.

This US foruns are the first place i see people saying America is two continents, so i don't think it's commonly accepted and even if it is, that's irrelevant. something being commonly accepted has nothing to do with it being correct or not. just like you commonly accept American = United statian, America = USA. it's commonly accepted but doesn't change the fact it's terribly wrong.



Viper1 on 31 May 2013
Zero999 said:
Viper1 said:
Zero999 said:

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?

No, but I know plenty that say Europe and Asia are 2 continents.  And they are separated by what exactly?  The Ural mountains mostly.  Rather arbitrary, wouldn't you say?

Europe Asia and Africa are not separeted, they are the same island but i didnt mention because the focus was on America.

But we call them separate continents, do we not?  Just as we call North and South America separate continents despite being part of the same land mass.



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Viper1 on 31 May 2013
Zero999 said:
MDMAlliance said:
Zero999 said:
spurgeonryan said:

I think most probably realize that I mean the U.S. Not the whole two continents of North and South America.

 

In the U.S, we often just refer to it as America. Even though it is not.

If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?

what do they teach in US schools?


Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  WRONG.

The definition of a continent is arbitrary enough so it could be one continent, but the way it is commonly accepted is that it is two.  You cannot say that there is "no such thing" when according to some definitions, there are.  Not only to some, but to the most common.

This US foruns are the first place i see people saying America is two continents, so i don't think it's commonly accepted and even if it is, that's irrelevant. something being commonly accepted has nothing to do with it being correct or not. just like you commonly accept American = United statian, America = USA. it's commonly accepted but doesn't change the fact it's terribly wrong.

You really think that there is no poltically accepted distinction betwen North and South America?

What geography book did your school use?



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MDMAlliance on 31 May 2013
Zero999 said:
MDMAlliance said:


Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  WRONG.

The definition of a continent is arbitrary enough so it could be one continent, but the way it is commonly accepted is that it is two.  You cannot say that there is "no such thing" when according to some definitions, there are.  Not only to some, but to the most common.

This US foruns are the first place i see people saying America is two continents, so i don't think it's commonly accepted and even if it is, that's irrelevant. something being commonly accepted has nothing to do with it being correct or not. just like you commonly accept American = United statian, America = USA. it's commonly accepted but doesn't change the fact it's terribly wrong.


The fact that the definition of a continent is arbitrary to begin with DOES make "commonly accepted" correct to some degree, even though other examples exist.  
Also, calling someone from the United States American is just like calling people from East Asia Asians.  Not everyone in Asia are called Asians, though.  Get your head out your ass.