American != Global, maintain context when I use it!
How many times must it be shown on how many threads: the US is ranked between 25 and 55 on every international "free press list".
Then ...
A) What are the criteria of that evaluation?, and ...
B) Show some links to back up this claim
I have defined mine: a press/media not state funded.
Very simple, you get 98% of useless dribble most of the time, but it serves its purpose.
I have yet to find a press/media that is not state funded or controlled.
In fact, they only get shut down, and it's not merely because they have ties to western nations.
As most everyone told Chavez, "why didn't you replace one independent media with a more favorable, but still independent media?"
There are plenty of independent, non-US, non-EU, non-western media outlets, but they are typically not allowed, ironically, outside of western nations (or Internet), even if they are anti-western in general.
Oh the irony of that!
The US has one of the least free presses of all western nations. End of story. That is well known everywhere.
Again ...
A) Define that statement, and ...
B) Give us some links!
I define a free press/media as not government funded or controlled.
I don't know any nation where virtually all of its press/media is not government funded or controlled outside of the US, the UK and select others in decreasing percentage.
The fact that you don't know this kind of illustrates why I don't read the books you tell me to.
Because wherever you got your ideas from - they really haven't given you a picture of the way the whole world works.
I got most of my knowledge from travelling on 4 continents, working (sometimes illegally) in various countries, being homeless, and of course, going to University both in England and USA
Top free press nations I think are... Iceland... Denmark... Sweden... Norway... Ireland... and a bunch of others.
You're having 2 different arguments, one global, one American.
That's just argumentative instead of maintaining the context under discussion.
I don't tell you to read books on American civics to understand the world anymore than I tell non-Americans to read American civics books.
American books on civics don't apply to other forms of government just as much as your views from ignorance apply to how American civics are enacted
as law you must follow as a citizen!
I tell you to read books on American civics so
your ideas won't be laughed at because they are against the organization of our government!
Fox, understand nearly 100% of what you want to do
would take a revolution!
In other words, it would require you to get the public to
invalidate our "Old Documents" as you call them.
You are professing that you are "smarter than the collective wisdom of centuries prior to the American government."
Which is why your statements are laughable and you will
never get more than a minority to agree with you, sans one exception.
Given the declining literacy rate in this nation, it is entirely plausable that you will be able to stage a Marxist like "grassroots effort" based on the same ignorance and lack of caring to understand the American government you sport.
And then you will have your revolution.
Duped? That's a joke. Don't buy into that. That's how America has become the world's superpower. By pretending to be benevolent but stupid, rather than... ruthless and manipulative and brilliant. The leaders, I mean.
Since neither of us have changed the world in any major ways, I don't think you're in a position to tell me how best to change the world.
Not "change the world"
You said you want to change the US, you can start by understanding how it works.
Until then,
you are an utter joke of a citizen (of which I wish you could see otherwise, as you have fair views on women and people in general).
You cannot sit here and lecture people on "what is right" without stopping to realize "just what this 'big illusion; the supermajority of Americans must have."
It's called the American government, and it's based on a set of balances that prevent the people from destroying the nation.
Because the nation is about people, for people, and people left unchecked can quickly undue their own rights, not realizing until it's too late.
This includes the current, on-going issues with this administration, just like the ones before it.
Everything is challenged, everything is put under due process, and many actions, law and other decisions are often ruled "Unconstitutional."
And the only way to keep the US Court from ruling things as "Unconstitutional" is to put an idea under due process and get a supermajority of the American people to agree it needs to be changed.
Because simple majority changes on a whim, due process, supermajorities, rule of law, and a dynamic, but still slowly moving Constitution only sees changes when a lot of people agree over a good amount of time that something is important.
Last line: very hypocritical. I have never changed my point of view because of anything you, or the other board libertarians (4 or 5 of you), have said. That's true. But none of you have ever changed your point of view because of what I have said. So we're in the same boat. Just because I don't agree with a word you say politically doesn't mean I don't hear you. You talk a lot, but I usually read it. Always if it's directed at me or relavant to a discussion I'm participating in. A lot of people tune you out too. Trust me. A lotof people tune politics out in general. But I have changed my point of view from talking to others. Just not you. I think that's why you think I don't listen. Because I have never agreed with (basically) any of your politik. So on your end it looks like, "agree, or thou art an ignorant fool who does not listen", touche. And I won't discuss this with you anymore. If you really want your thread to stick to certain lines of discussion, why stray from them?
I'm telling you that as long as you don't stop to even remotely understand the American government, you will continue to be dumbfounded why
a super-majority DISAGREE with you.
It is also why you will
never be elected to any significant office and you will
never get anything changed.
You are an ignorant citizen who does not value all of the rule of law that protects you from everyone else.
And you don't remotely understand why this nation is very, very different from the other nations you come from.
A nation that would not remotely tolerate your speech, yet our nation at every level, not only allows, but entitles you to share.
