Does America have more paranoids than average?

[GBU56]

I am wondering if the culture of the US breeds an above average (when compared with other western nations) amount of gun toting paranoid people? Judging from TV and what I see on here, I think it does. There seems to be an awful lot of Americans spewing rhetoric with gun in hand. It doesn't matter what the rhetoric is, although racist groups and christian sects seem to be the most common.

Does anyone else get this impression?

I absolutely do.
It gets you asking yourself what it means to be an American or what Patriotism really is.

Patriotism is all about who can wave more flags and spew out more hate than the other guy.



See the guy below. He's more patriotic than most, as he's wearing an American Flag and has a humongous American Flag behind him! God bless this patriot!


To be a true patriot sort of like Phatscotty, you got to spew out huge amounts of hot air. Hate, fear, GOD! and anything else that might lead to the apocalypse.

[GBU56]

Well when we talked about voter ID before, I did make mention to the fact that I can barely find any examples of any actual voter fraud, while studys on both sides show that the laws would disenfranchise millions of democratic voters. Voter ID was even created as a way to stop blacks from voting.
Basically your laws would stop the less-than-40 illegal votes spread out over a period of years, while eliminating millions of legal minority votes.

63% of blacks support voter ID. Why do you say it will prevent blacks from voting?

Just because voter fraud is almost impossible to prove does not mean it doesn't exist. How many examples are there of people buying a bag of weed? Does that mean it never happens?

None of those excuses (true or false) change the fact that voter ID is a common sense issue, and American's are united on this more than anything else.

Just because voter fraud is almost impossible to prove does not mean it doesn't exist. How many examples are there of people buying a bag of weed? Does that mean it never happens?


Ha-ha-ha-ha, leave it to Scottie to compare voting to marijuana. I demand a drug test of Scottie! There's no way he's NOT under the influence when he posts.

[Juan_Bottom]

And just like that, another thread became Republicans vs Democrats.

I didn't say it was necessarily Republicans VS Democrats that is the root cause, but politics is the root cause and I stand by my reply.

Why do you say it will prevent blacks from voting?

Every time someone mentions Voter I.D. the Democrats start protesting it. Surely you already have heard the answer to your own question. If Voter I.D. was a good idea, then both sides would embrace it. But it's not a good idea, it's a poll tax.

Just because voter fraud is almost impossible to prove does not mean it doesn't exist. How many examples are there of people buying a bag of weed? Does that mean it never happens?

So you admit that you want to create more laws and layers of bureaucracy to prevent a crime that you don't even have any evidence of?

[john9blue]

The same thing is happening today. The New Republican party is a fringe party, and they cannot match the political strength of the Democrats.

wasn't this disproved in 2010?

[Timminz]

(Neither the U.S. nor Canada has a notable culinary culture so we can avoid a comparison there.)

*ha-rumph*

I take it you've never had poutine, a donair, or a beavertail before.

[notyou2]

mmmmm.....donairs.......drooool

[patels shop]

TV probably isn't your best source of information about the state of your society. TV has a fairly well-proven track record of focusing on a small amount of sensational cases rather than giving audiences the bigger, but less sensational, picture. how many psychos have you, your family and friends personally encountered in your day-to-day lives?

the nutjobs that you do have in the US (i would imagine you don't have that many more than other developed nations) are probably motivated by the same things as the nutjobs in other developed countries. they're politically, socially and/or economically disenfranchised and they're not sure how to deal with this, so they either find someone to blame (e.g. immigrants or 'degenerates') or they take the pussy's way out and go down in the biggest ball of flames they can (e.g. the batman guy).

[Juan_Bottom]

The same thing is happening today. The New Republican party is a fringe party, and they cannot match the political strength of the Democrats.

wasn't this disproved in 2010?

If you count the discarded votes from each election, then Gore & Kerry both beat Bush handily.

[john9blue]

The same thing is happening today. The New Republican party is a fringe party, and they cannot match the political strength of the Democrats.

wasn't this disproved in 2010?

If you count the discarded votes from each election, then Gore & Kerry both beat Bush handily.

i also beat bush hand-ily, if you know what i mean.

[nietzsche]

Welcome back barrackattack! I hope the mods give you a break this time.

[notyou2]

NEW RULE.

No multis allowed in my thread.


Carry on.

[john9blue]

so anyway, what makes a person "paranoid"?

my guess is that anyone who doesn't trust their government with their life is considered "paranoid" by the average parasite

[notyou2]

so anyway, what makes a person "paranoid"?

my guess is that anyone who doesn't trust their government with their life is considered "paranoid" by the average parasite

That would be everyone, or the vast majority. Therefore, if the vast majority are paranoids, the few that would trust the government with their life are the only sane people. Know any?