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Originally Posted by FarangBa  Wow, dude... your living in a fantasy world if you think this is even remotely the same as our election woes in 2000. Your comparing an entire government campaign against the will of the people of Iran (by a huge margin with 85% voter turnout) to hanging chads (by retarded elderly people who can't follow instructions) with less than a 1% margin between candidates.
You see, that's the problem with people in our country who really have NO CLUE how things really work anywhere else but here. They want to go and try to compare some friggin travesty in some remote part of the world with some mundane issue here in the states.
That does 2 things: 1) it shows how little respect you have for the humongous strides that have been taken in this country to right all wrongs (of which we are light years ahead of any other country on earth) and.
2) it shows how little respect you actually have for the actual condition of the indigenous people of these other countries.
Most of these people live in extreme poverty (the likes that do not exist anywhere within the borders of our country). They deal with death and destruction everyday. They live with the constant fear of being snatched up by their government (never to be seen again) for simply being accused of something against the state - or Islam by a neighbor who doesn't like them. They face being executed simply because they don't believe the exact same version of Islam as the Mullahs.
This would be like the Baptists being in charge of everything and everyone in the country and then continually executing thousands of Methodists.
We have absolutely nothing like that going on here at all... Ever!
So spare me the wacko comparisons of our poor little lives here in the states with the true terror, genocide, totalitarianism, (true) religious fanaticism, and downright murder that goes on every single day in these foreign countries. |
so do you think that when the populace votes in a president, our electoral system should override what the people want? do you think that it was quizzical that jeb bush was the govenor in a state that his brother just happened to win by illegal means. I mean sure no one got killed and bush made it into office without some sort of military rule, but how can you say that we are so much better than them?