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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Lorax' Review: Ec... · 0 replies · +13 points

The amount of total forest area on Earth has not even changed an entire 1 percent since 1950.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - In Memoriam: Andrew Br... · 0 replies · +7 points

I can't believe that he's dead. It's so unexpected.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The New Blacklist: How... · 0 replies · 0 points

This is isolationism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism

...and this is non-interventionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-interventionism

There is a significant difference.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The New Blacklist: How... · 4 replies · 0 points

"A distinction without a difference."

There is plenty of difference. Isolationism means completely isolating our country from the affairs of others. Non-interventionism promotes trading with other nations to build good diplomatic relations. Non-interventionism doesn’t rule out using military force as an option, but uses it only as a last option, to defend ourselves or a close ally. Non-interventionism also advocates giving Congress alone the ability to declare war,as originally specified in the Constitution.

Non-interventionism is merely avoiding interventionism. Interventionism promotes upholding UN resolutions, overthrowing governments and replacing them ones of our own choosing, and other actions not related to our own direct security. Non-interventionism merely advocates avoiding interventionism.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Dispatches from the To... · 0 replies · +8 points

I doubt you do, either.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Dispatches from the To... · 0 replies · +3 points

"I know he's never heard of me, BUT, who is Dan Savage?"

The Man of Bronze. Oh wait - that's Doc Savage. Dan Savage is the Man of Sh**.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Dispatches from the To... · 0 replies · +2 points

Nah, he's a Savage lunatic.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Dispatches from the To... · 0 replies · +3 points

"If that's not the case, we have some oddball people in the world."

There definitely are. I'm not making this stuff up:

One guy firebombed a Taco Bell because he thought there wasn't enough hot sauce on his burrito.

A woman stabbed her husband to death because she thought he may have won the game on Monopoly they been playing by cheating.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The New Blacklist: How... · 6 replies · +1 points

There's a difference between isolationism and non-interventionism. Isolationism is when you do not have any contact with other countries whatsoever. Non-interventionism is when you merely don't force them to do things they don't want to, don't try to overthrow or institute regimes, don't send your soldiers to their countries, and don't get involved in foreign problems and foreign wars.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The New Blacklist: How... · 1 reply · -1 points

"No, it isn't. Propaganda is created by the government for the purpose of influencing/controlling public opinion. This was created by a private company for the purpose of entertaining and making money."

Propaganda does not have to be made by the government. "Act of Valor" was made in hopes of recruiting people to join the SEALS. There's nothing wrong with that. But it is technically recruitment propaganda.

"The rest of your post is tiresome PaulBot nonsense."

If non-interventionist foreign policy such as Ron Paul's is nonsense, then why do over twice as many active-duty soldiers donate to the Ron Paul campaign than to all of the other candidates combined (including Obama, Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum)? And why does Michael Scheuer, former head of the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center, with 22 years of national defense experience, agree with Ron Paul? And how is it that Russell Kirk, one of the greatest conservatives of the last century, believed in non-interventionism?

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