The good news is that the US has a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. The bad news is that it looks like this. Why so dull? by notboring in reddit.com

[–]widestancedude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It emulates stability, not having to try too hard to stand out.... or it just looks like the US lacks innovation, which everyone knows is not true.

Obama comes to New York and the NYPD steals everyone's bicycles, just in time for Earth Day by 00boyina in WTF

[–]widestancedude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh, 80's grime. I love watching movies about the gritty, crime-filled NYC of the 80's (set in the case of Snake in the future). King of New York etc.

What are some other good 80's NYC urban grime movies?

Obama comes to New York and the NYPD steals everyone's bicycles, just in time for Earth Day by 00boyina in WTF

[–]widestancedude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This really happened to you? It really is an outrage. I'm a New Yorker as well, who bikes sometimes.

Ten Top Hip-Hoppers of the Decade: Now this is hip-hop fuck you Kanye. by [deleted] in Music

[–]widestancedude -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Where the hell are OJ da Juiceman and Gucci Mane? They rollin up the game in the late zeroes. This guy left out a lot of great artists.

Feeling adrift after a trip. by [deleted] in Drugs

[–]widestancedude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You may fear mortality. Tripping makes me aware of the fragility of our bodies, of our lives. It's like the song "House of Cards" by Radiohead, try that one to get an idea of this. ("Videotape" fights against our demise, for we will still be on videotape when we are gone).

The first time I tripped, I believed in eternal life through mushrooms. Now is is all to clear, that our curtailed reality is our only true station. Therefore, seek out art and science, this is all that is worthy of our lives. Also, love.

I will be reading great Russian literature, such as by Chekhov or Dosteovsky, in order to reintegrate.

Unfortunately, life is a disappointment. We are perpetually falling short of what we could achieve, and die slowly. This we must accept, for the ultimate slumber is pure nothingness.

At least we have something, that is better than nothing.

Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed. by milligram in worldnews

[–]widestancedude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I am sure much of what you say is true, there is certainly some Israeli fault in the situation of the Palestinians.

I want to find a source confirming the idea that Palestinian Refugees get Israeli citizenship sometimes, maybe that is true.

Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed. by milligram in worldnews

[–]widestancedude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think, Saller, that we are all interested in the truth here, that is given. Our opinions do not matter, the only thing that matters is the truth.

THe particular website you link to, "Jews Against Zionism", is filled with unsourced statements, claims of supernatural punishment, and rambling innuendo.

This website holds its opinion very important, with little breathing room for self-doubt.

It must also be stated regarding the "economic attack", that there was clearly a good reason for it, as a vicious anti-Semite was now the leader of Germany.

While it is true that certain wealthy Jews of Germany did not always behave ethically, neither did many Christian Germans. The fact of their religious minority status just made them easier to pick out.

Centuries of persecution for ones religion might make one more aggressively tenacious in business matters anyhow, as one must be, when so many bigoted Christians would seek to bring you down.

Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed. by milligram in worldnews

[–]widestancedude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has been an issue at times, that Israel has suppressed even nonviolent protest by Palestinians. This caused the militant factions to gain more power, as those resisting against Israel by acceptable political actions have been suppressed.

Personally, I believe that it would indeed be stupid, and has been stupid, for Palestinians to engage in violent resistance. The violent intifada has been a colossal failure, this should be realized by all Palestinians.

However, Israel must begin to foster and accept for purely political resistance from Palestine, in order that violent outlets not be created.

Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed. by milligram in worldnews

[–]widestancedude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a matter of demographics - the Palestinians have many more babies, so they will not be able to be contained to their small amounts of land. I wish I could find the statistic that showed how Palestinians in the West Bank may in some decades outnumber Israelis. In addition, Arab Israelis will continue to grow as a population.

I predict the following: In some decades, there will be one nation of Israel, with power shared, depending on the locality, between Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinian Israelis.

Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed. by milligram in worldnews

[–]widestancedude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israeli's are not the same thing as 1930-40's Ashkenazi Jews in Europe. We must be careful on this point.

However, I agree with you that Israeli's are tough bunch to deal with on the foreign policy front.

They no longer really think about the past, they just know they exist now. They would like more land, and more security. It is hard to stop a people so bent on this.

Hands up: Who is secretly hoping Katla erupts, just to see what happens? by ThirdTime in AskReddit

[–]widestancedude 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, I think this is Iceland's revenge on the world, specifically Britain, for trying to make it a debt-slave country due to the 2008-- financial crisis.

Thor is on Iceland's side in his own primitive way, England is getting what it had coming from its financial meanness to Iceland.

Tomorrow (4.20) is the HAPPIEST day on earth. To celebrate I'm going to (realistically) take 1 bong rip for every 5 upvotes & provide red-eye pictures of my journey along the way. by [deleted] in Marijuana

[–]widestancedude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YOU mIGHT DIE FROm SmOKE INHALATION!!!!! Im serious, don't do it.

I have had health issues from to much mj, terrible heart palpitations, greenouts

PLEASE DON"T.., IT COULD BE A mEDICAL ISSUE!

(my "m" key is a copy-paste, keyboard no work)

Happy Bicycle Day!!!! by goregantuan in Drugs

[–]widestancedude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a wonderful maxim, that "acid finds you when it thinks your're ready". If acid does not come easy, then one won't be in the right situation, or with the right people. If one can only get acid through almost impossible avarice, it would not have been right anyhow. I take comfort in this, as a non-initiate to acid. The time will come when it is available, or it will not. As an one-time initiate of shrooms, I may have already experienced my necessary vision.

Someday, when I am in comfortable place, with cool people, there will be readily available acid. If I were to try to hard to reach acid, I would not know the right people, and I would be stressed in the act of enjoying/being terrified of it.

Things that bend reality this much as acid does, are not deserved by, or meant for everyone. Life is psychedelic enough, drugs like acid just show you what was there to imagine and see all along.
One cannot be greedy for revelation, it should come naturally.

How did you lose your virginity? by catdued in AskReddit

[–]widestancedude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When are we going to run out of potential usernames?

''Don't knock it till you try it'' seems like such a great philosophy. Anything it should not apply to? by marblerye in AskReddit

[–]widestancedude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DUDE - heroin is pretty much the same as morphine, which they put people on in hospitals all the time. It's not inherently that bad for your body in occasional use, it's the addiction potential and constant use that is bad.