The UK conservative party is about the same as the US Democrats.

You say that Ghost, but the UK Labour party is almost as right nowadays!

Nope, I'm clean and clear. Silly Nebraskan politics have no mark on me. Thank you Diplomat, thank you. I'm a new man!

Yeah, we've done a good job dragging everybody through our dirt. But it'll come back to us, and that's what REALLY scares me.

figle, I didn't even mention the Labour party!

Okay, it's pretty obvious that Sicarius has chosen to ignore this thread. So, I now will challenge anyone with political views different from mine to argue with me.

Na... I like a challenge.

It's just that you're not very good at this kind of thing.

How about an open challenge to defend his views? That should be challenging enough.

That means you challenge everyone to argue with you. No one has the exact same views on anything as another person does.

dip,

We've played this game before. You challenge everyone to a political debate and when people try to have a rational argument, you either don't respond or completely misunderstand their post and go on some crazy rant.

Give it a rest.

Everytime I start reading diplofool's posts I can feel my brain cell's dying and my IQ dropping... I'm reminded of a song by the Beatles: The (Diplo)Fool on the Hill.

Day after day,
Alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's Diplofool,
And he never gives an answer,

Diplofool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.

Unfortunately the analogy ends there as the fool in the Beatle's song ends up being the wise man, where as Diplofool will always be the fool.

Alright dip, I'll step up to the plate:

Abortion: Mandatory
Gay marriage: Mandatory
Gun control: Given to everyone at ages 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 (larger caliber every year)
Death penalty: Yes, but only by bear/wolf attack
Affirmative action: I hate to admit it, but I agree with you. No.
Iraq/Afghanistan: Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime... Give them nukes.
Pork-barrel spending: Increased
Role of government: Tyrannical
Armed forces: Given to aforementioned countries
NASA: 100% of efforts go to building TIE Fighters
Air travel: Zephyrs
Health care: Alcohol and Band-Aids. That's it.
Taxes: None
Welfare: For everyone.


As you can see we disagree quite a bit. Let the challenge begin!!!

You're all just enabling him right now... you all know that, don't you?

btw rratclif, the X-Wing was a superior machine. You're wrong about NASA. They should make X-Wings. I mean, really, where do you get the idea about TIE fighters. What garbage. lol

Yeah, your post lost all credibility for me because of that.

Plus, TIE fighters can't fly to far from a star destroyer anyway. Since we don't have any of those, I agree with maint;we should build X-Wings.

I figured the TIE fighters didn't need droids to help pilot them, and thus could be made sooner. You can't just jump into making things like X-Wings, you have to take baby steps.

Not joking, I actually thought about that one.

Lol there's a line around the block for people waiting to bash diplomat. Seriously, whenever he does anything, everyone comes out in droves. What about TGM's volunteer thread?

@ Glorious: I'm glad to see my credibility lasted past mandatory abortion.

What if we started with an A-Wing?

lol
huge military and tiny government
so oppressive

X-Wings, all the way. No reason to use TIE fighters.
Unless you wanted TIE fighters for the U.S. and X-Wings for Iraq and Afghanistan, that is... :P

The advantage X-Wings have over TIE fighters is that they can fly within the atmosphere. TIE's are limited to space, so rratclif, the reverse is true. We are closer to inventing X-Wings than TIEs. My friend who loves Star Wars even told me that the Air-Force sent a military representative to debrief George Lucas on his X-Wing design, fearing he may have stumbled across some top secret stuff somewhere by accident. I'm not sure if this is true, but it makes a great story.

Hmmmmmm.... perhaps you're right.

We should increase NASA's funding just in case.

Redirect funding for band-aids to NASA

I think you are right. We need more big guns regardless, and we need to distribute them around the populace to free them from their duties to pay their taxes.