16-12-2016, 11:36 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people,"
Kissinger's shameful statement on Chileans irresponsibly electing Salvador Allende which led to the CIA sponsoring a coup d'etat to install the awful Augusto Pinochet who instigated a bloody campaign of torture and repression thereafter.
I have been thinking of this exact quote while pondering the attempt to over turn the US election result.
Except that in any other country, the candidate who got 2.8 million more votes would be the winner. But thanks to our archaic electoral college system, that's not the case.
Yeah, weird system. Seems very undemocratic. But why has it been permitted to stay this way for so long? And why machine voting? Pencil and paper so much more secure.. And it doesn't matter how many votes you have if tptb want you gone you will be gone.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.