Greatest threat of the past 90 years poll

[Freeper]

The choices are communism, terrorism and capitalism.
Try to guess which one is winning in a landslide. 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8859521

bananas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Aug-01-10 02:15 PM
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16. Marijuana prohibition
   
I was going to say nuclear war, but then I remembered that even Carl Sagan, who felt free to speak out against nuclear war, was so terrified by marijuana prohibition that he could only write about it anonymously as "Mr. X":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

Sagan was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered.<45><46> The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of Sagan's works and enhance sensual and intellectual experiences. After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. The publishing of the biography, Carl Sagan: A Life, in 1999 brought media attention to this aspect of Sagan's life.<47><48><49>



   

Yep the biggest threat in the world is not being able to get high legally. 

Tierra_y_Libertad  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Aug-01-10 02:16 PM
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17. American Exceptionalism - We can do no wrong covers a lot of territory.

No you bonehead we do not believe America has always done what is right for example look who is in the white house now. We just don't think the USA sucks like you goons do.

rug  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Aug-01-10 02:36 PM
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32. Excepting terrorism, which has always been a red herring, the poles of the last century are clear.
   
Looking at the past century oblivious to that conflict reduces politics to blather.

Yep terrorism is fake. 

sixmile  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Aug-01-10 02:36 PM
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33. Concentration of wealth
   
and idle money

Tell you what when democratic politicians start redistributing their wealth then we won't need to take from others.

[Bubblehead Ray]

Are they "Accepting" terrorism or "Excepting" terrorism?  I expect that they can't accept any exceptions...  Oh wait... posts like their's would explain the Pot anxiety.

[AllosaursRus]

Hmmmmmmm........wonder why "the One" or the DemonCRap party weren't on the list?

I'd a voted in a heart tick!

[Ballygrl]

OK, this is really getting embarrassing now for Democrats, the average American really needs to read what these kooks say.

[Chris_]

The BFEE makes an appearance...

Octafish  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Aug-01-10 02:19 PM
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21. BFEE   
   
They encompass all three plus Fascism.

For example:

Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

Know your BFEE: Olympic Games Show Who’s Best Friends Forever with Authoritarians and Dictators

Know your BFEE: They Looted Your Nation’s S&Ls for Power and Profit

Know your BFEE: War and Oil are just two longtime Main Lines of Business

Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

[dandi]

I always thought one of the Greatest Threats was Wee Willy Pitt's drunken rage about "sowing our names in salt" or somesuch shit following the AndyScam debacle. I know they were a source of great amusement for quite a while.

Then there was the Fat Che's Little Brothert sub-genius threatening to sue over reprints of his lame cartoons. The "quarantine Fox News" threat deserves a mention, as do many of the alcohol-fueled threats of bodily harm from Redstoneless.

 

[PatriotGame]

Yep the biggest threat in the world is not being able to get high legally. 

Weeeeeell, how how else could Sagan travel to the stars without leaving his backyard treehouse?

[Reality vs DU]

Cleita   (1000+ posts)             Sun Aug-01-10 02:29 PM
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28. Fox News.
   
Propaganda and getting the majority of people to think a certain way for the benefit of a small and powerful majority is the most dangerous threat of all. In the modern era, it's how Hitler, Stalin and Mao controlled their empires. Now we are being controlled by it by making us believe that it's those things in your poll that are threatening us.

A news channel has been the biggest threat in the past 90 years???  They don't call em DUmmies for nothing. 

[Carl]

Deep thought is not one of the primitives stronger traits.

[Reality vs DU]

Deep thought is not one of the primitives stronger traits.

Oh they think it is.  Liberals in general believe they are deep thinkers and more "open minded", thus their superior intelligence.  That is, of course, laughable and absurd.  We have plenty of evidence of their 'superior intelligence' right here at the cave.   

[jukin]

I'll go with lazy shits that think they are soooper smart yet have accomplished nothing other htan expecting others to pay for them while bitching about the very society that allows them their hedonistic ways  for a thousand alex.[/deep inhale]