@WatermelonRat  
Okay, fair enough. I shouldn’t have brought it up anyway.

@PwnyBrony32  
That’s debatable, but a quick look at that cracked article’s comment section is enough to make me want to stay FAR away from the argument, so I’ll leave it at that.

@Takashi.0  
All I’m saying is, it should definitely be illegal. You’re literally cutting off something that’s there for A REASON, it protects the glans, keeps it sensitive, and guys who have had it done to them later in life said it was the worst mistake they ever made and they felt way more pleasure before. There is literally no reason for anyone to argue about it, because there is literally NOTHING GOOD OR OKAY ABOUT IT. Sorry for making an example that will surely start flame wars, but it was an example that fit the point I was trying to prove.

@WatermelonRat  
…Why.
 
Just, Why?

@Takashi.0  
A disturbing number of people.

@WatermelonRat  
Who even gives a shit about Circumcision anyway?

@PwnyBrony32  
We already had one flame-bait topic, and you just had to go drag in another one, didn’t you?

I remember something that happened somewhere in the US, I forget which state. They kicked out a lot of illegal immigrants out of their state, I forget which, and the people who kicked them out didn’t want to take over the jobs that “were being taken” and that caused a few local businesses to become bankrupt.
 
They could’ve just made them become citizens instead.

@WatermelonRat  
This really isn’t the land of the free, there’s still idiots trying to drag it back into the dark ages,  
And remember, this is a country where it’s legal to have your son sexually mutilated against his will at birth, something I would do anything to have undone, while it’s still not legal in most states for two people of the same gender to get married.

@WatermelonRat  

@bradzz  
81 billionaires participated in the “giving pledge” to donate at least half of their net worth to charity. Warren Buffet pledged 99%. The prominent super-rich are often surprisingly generous. It’s the middling “cogs in the machine” rich who are often most prone to unethical profiteering. Most Wall Street bankers, for example, don’t even make enough to be considered part of the top 1%.

@WatermelonRat  
Interesting. However one thing I’ve noticed these days is that aside from Bill Gates, you rarely hear about wealthy philanthropists giving away their wealth, which was a common thing to do in the 1800’s with people such as J.D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
 
And there’s the whole finance industry…

@bradzz  
The top one percent, which includes everyone with an income above 500k, control about a third of the country’s wealth. When you extend it to the top twenty percent (which I am a part of, by the way) it becomes about  
85%.
 
The rest of the country isn’t necessarily dirt poor, it should be remembered. Our median income is fourth highest in the world, and the cost of living is lower than in many other first world countries. Income inequality is a problem, but it’s not quite the way it’s sometimes portrayed.

@WatermelonRat  
Wealth distribution, basically. And how they apparently control everything compared to everyone else.

@bradzz  
Depends on what it is they say about them.

@WatermelonRat  
Well I’ve never set foot in the US, so I can’t really say anything.
 
Is it really true what they say about the 1% and 99%?

@PwnyBrony32  
Republic is a form of democracy. The terms aren’t mutually exclusive.  
@bradzz  
I make of it that that author has no freaking clue what he’s talking about, as he refers to killing an active and openly avowed member of al Qaeda as “assassinating dissidents.”
 
I also love how we’re “no longer” the land of the free when we’re freer now than during the vast majority of our history, particularly where women and minorities are concerned.

An interesting article I just read.
 
Make of it what you will.

@WatermelonRat  
I suppose the bad apples are the ones who are always heard. Those do sound like amazing accomplishments. I’ve been thinking of moving to a blue state, somewhere like Coloeado or Minnesota. The states that I know seem to hate a lot of people for no apparent reason, which makes me upset about celebrating independence day.

@WatermelonRat  
Every country has it’s good and bad, nothing is so black-and-white, but the bad things in america and the bad people in america just make some people hate it as a whole. And why do people call the US a democracy, it’s obviously a republic.

@Background Pony  
World’s largest liberal democracy, a world leader in medical research, scientific innovation, and space exploration, largest provider of humanitarian and economic aid, funds about a quarter of the U.N.‘s budget, and home to some of the best universities in the world.
 
Oh no, we’re nothing special.

@Background Pony  
Agreed, and we have every right to feel that way. I don’t want to start ranting, but I really think this country is slowly turning fascist.

This may start a shitstorm, but I honestly don’t feel proud of being american. I don’t think there can be much to be proud of these days. My daily two cents.