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3/9/2014 4:00:07 PM
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I realized what's wrong with America.

We're too busy trying to fix the rest of the world instead of solving our own damn problems.

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  • Edited by Martin Septim: 3/9/2014 4:09:44 PM
    [quote]You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.[/quote]

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    • I think you're generally incompetent at both.

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    • sweden has enough kolasås for everyone.

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      • You suck at both

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        Political parties are a bigger problem.

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      • International intervention indirectly helps us with our problems.

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      • Oh, and we're Americans

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      • Nah

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      • that's just scratching the surface brah

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        • Not really. This country only acts in self interest.

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          • No we just need time to re-cooperate but people keep complaining why it's not done yet

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          • That would be about 4th on our list of problems.

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