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Originally Posted by dyna mo
you should prolly gain an understanding of what a police state actually is before you go telling others their head is up their ass.
What's truly fucking head up your ass is you posting 40 fukcing minute long retarded anti-american videos while you are supposedly living the live in fucking malaysia.
certainly you have something better to do with your life than become a half-assed ex-patriot that sits around and points his finger at others while claiming how much better your fucking life is now.
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The video wasn't anti-American. I received it in a FaceBook post and watched it on my flight to Bangkok last week - where I didn't have anything better to do at 35,000 feet for 2 hours - and I created this thread a week later after surfing the web this evening while waiting for my staff to close up shop and reading about the violence in Ferguson, MO.
The video explained at the end the militarization of local US police forces by means of training with the Israeli army. Just because I disagree with certain policies of the US government does not make me Anti-American. And I'm not a half-assed ex-pat. I'm a full-assed expat for the time being. I go 100% in anything I do.
I hope the waves were as good as your buds.
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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Btw I'm not seeing the connection between the vid you posted and what you said. Vid is all about Isreal and the plight of the Jews & Palesinians, but your comment is on the US 'police state'.
Please elaborate.
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The first 35 minutes were about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The last five minutes was on point with my contention that local US police forces are being militarized.
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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
doesn't malaysia have the death penalty for measly possession charges out there? wouldn't effect me at all but thats down right medieval.
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Malaysia has a lot of fucked up laws, IMO. Many of their government policies are downright racist against anyone who isn't Malay (as opposed to citizens that are Chinese-Malaysians or Indian Malaysians). But they are what they are. They come out and say: yes, we discriminate against you because you aren't Muslim. You do not have freedom of speech. You will receive the death penalty for possession for more than one ounce of weed. My point is I have respect for a government that isn't afraid to be politically incorrect. I'll take that over a government that reeks of hypocrisy like the US. In the end, they're both the same. It's just one is more up front about it than the other.
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Originally Posted by aka123
Are these the only alternatives?
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Precisely. I take cold comfort in any situation where one says - well, at least we're better than an Islamic state. How about comparing the US to the MANY countries that have better health-care, GNP, pensions, vacations, affordable higher education. For me the yardstick is measured against the best, not the worst.