Appotus Dominus

[carp75]

Here are 10 questions. Feel free to ask your friends if you dont know the answer.... but if you cannot get all 10 correct, you really shouldn't be allowed to vote.

1. Freedom to me is:
a) The freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
b) The freedom to choose between Levi's and Tommy Hilfigger jeans.
c) The freedom to be told how to think.

2. The Federal Reserve Bank is:
a) Federal.
b) a reserve.
c) Neither a or b

3. Habeus Corpus is:
a) The right to defend yourself from an unconstitutional law.
b) The right to remain silent.
c) A right that was taken away from us by President Bush.
d) Both a and c

4. The Patriot Act:
a) Is patriotic.
b) Allowed the government to spy on us in new and advanced ways.
c) Helped the Patriots win a Superbowl

5. What do you think of Republicans vs. Democrats?
a) They are very different
b) They are clearly the only two political parties one should vote for
c) They are basically the same, because they serve the same masters.

6. What do you think is America's current financial situation?
a) The middle class is growing!
b) Who cares? I got minez
c) I'm pretty sure we're broke, but if I really knew I'd throw up right now.

7. What is news to you?
a) A growing number of people every day are realizing we need change.
b) OMG what color bra is Britney wearing today?
c) Watching 30 hours of Michael Vick's legal problems on CNN

8. Which list of "crimes" would you want to see people go to jail for?
a) Murder, Robbery, Rape
b) Speeding, Alcohol, Cigarettes
c) Adultery, Medicinal Marijuana, Prostitution (all forms, including just plain slutty men and women)
d) All of the above! Teach those disgusting people a lesson!

9. Individuals who have been wronged and choose to stand up for themselves:
a) are dirty hippies
b) were once regarded as heroes for bringing about change for the better.
c) are clearly wrong for upsetting the peace, they should learn political correctness.

10. Mainstream media:
a) Always tells you the truth because they have your best interests at heart.
b) tells me only some of the truth to protect me.
c) tells me only some of the truth to protect them.



Argue all you want. There is only one right answer per question.

Warning: This thread was derailed by comments that pointed out the obvious. This was meant to be biased, and they used that meaningless fact about my experiment to denounce it. Not to mention Teklan likes getting under my skin, how ya like it there bro? Bias is all around you, yet you expect me to be free of it? Hah! I was not doing demographics here, therefore I don't have to play by those rules. I was trying to speak to your hearts.
I welcome disagreements if they are more than a sentence-long denouncement of my experiment. While I enjoyed the ranting, I would've rather heard more posts like Healinyou's and Auger's. What I see is people get really on the defensive when their "right to remain neutral" is being threatened. I learned what I needed to over the few opportunities I've had to stir the shit. Was fun









Answers: a, c, d, b, c, c, a, a, b, c
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[Harmful]

guess it is a good thing i dont vote i got 2 wrong......
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[Teklan]

i don't like bias quizzes

[Harmful]

i only did it to humor myself..... sadly it takes something so boring to humor me now days!
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[emenite]

harm laughed when she read your post teklan cause i heard the questions and said almost the same thing so when she saw yours she laughed.

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[brenl]

it is a bit....slanted
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[carp75]

I expected a different type of stupid response from teklan. I was right about the stupid part.

It's really unfortunate that people think of this as biased, and not an eye-opener.. or at least humorous.

And Teklan, seriously, you really are pathetic sometimes. FU <insert word mandaar won't let me use>.
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"Political correctness is as useful to our society as racism"

~Carp

[Teklan]

so when you ask OPINIONATED questions and you say theres only 1 right answer....i'm stupid?

"What do you think..."
"Freedom to me is..."
"What is news to you..."
"What list of crimes do you..."


There is no reason to name call me. I pointed out the bias in your statements and people obviously agreed.

disclaimer: To avoid a useless follow up post to this, i'm not saying ALL questions are opinionated. About half of them are.

[carp75]

Dear tekkiepoo,

Americans should be biased towards freedom... hence the bias in my sarcastic quiz.

If all you can see is the bias, you are missing the point.

Like I told you before, if you dish out your verbal diarrhea you better be ready to take it right back.
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"Political correctness is as useful to our society as racism"

~Carp

[Teklan]

Talk about a paradox. I should have the freedom to choose what I should be leaning for

[carp75]

This was obviously a mistake. My intention was to provoke you all to think about what's happening and what you hold dear to you. Instead you all chose to call me biased.

As hurtful as it seems to me, I guess what you hold dear is very different than what I hold dear.

I must have been raised "wrong" because as a child I loved the fact that our Constitution protected us from oppression and unfair government. Seeing this document being referred to as "a god damned piece of paper" by our current President absolutely hurts me. Here's the actual quotes:

[Gillaian]

I'll vote for who ever makes my Fruity Pebbles taste better.

[Healinyou]

no, cocoa pebbles are better than fruity pebbles
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[Mandaar]

I try to never get into political disputes because I just get upset and upset others. But, down the hatch.

We are going to be a second rate nation within 100 years. China will be the world power and we will pretend to be it's big brother. We will be the last to know what everyone else already knows. We're second rate. Not because of the Government, but because we are soft. Because we have no national will. We're the guy everyone loves to hate. We are loud, obnoxious, and we will cry if you get mad at us.

The truth is that everything carp posted is correct like it or not. You can call it biased. It is. But, that makes it no less true.

The constitution is the basis of our Legal system at a very high level. It's how we run. Or it used to be.

The problem isn't the president, nor is it the legislature it's us. We are the people that have turned the news into pussy entertainment, our politicians into idiots with good haircuts and truly disgusting agendas, and the view of the world to one of amusement when considering us (if not far worse).

It will take a MASSIVE catastrophe to turn this around. We are fat, lazy and largely unintelligent. We're essentially cows. We are too busy grazing to be bothered with what the corrupt are doing.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[emenite]

i honestly don't see why people are getting snippy about this. All he said was it was bias'd....which the original poster has since said it was. No reason for personal attacks folks. That is human nature to see things differently. Not everyone sees the same thing the same way. Different beliefs. different up brings. THAT IS THE FREEDOM. To be able to see interpret and believe what we want. Yes some things are F'd up with the country and government, but It will always be that way. I doubt anyone can find any government of any type that someone can't find something F'd up with it. Can we do something to fix it. Yes and No. You can vote for the person or persons you personally feel will do the best to fix it to the way you like it. But remember someone else that believes what you believe is wrong will be trying to do the same. The people with the most votes on their side win....guess what. That's democracy.
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[carp75]

We are far from a democracy. If we were, the laws that get voted in by the people would not get repealed by the Feds.

If we were a democracy, we would've been able to vote out the Patriot Act.

I wish you all were as obsessed about your country's future as you are about the bias in my post (and mfing britney). Sorry I actually give a crap about people.
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[Mandaar]

Carp, we are a democracy.

We fail in 2 places.


1. WE elect people that are filled with mutton.

2. WE as a large group, do nothing when they do something outrageous.

If we made sufficient noise, change would happen.

[carp75]

After looking it up, it appears we are a "Representative Democracy". I stand behind my belief that we are not at all a "pure democracy".

A pure democracy does not let gov't make new laws behind your back.

It's hard to consider this a democracy when the BIASED media only covers select candidates? If you want REAL BIAS, CHECK OUT CNN, FOX, CBS, and MSNBC, and give me some freakin credit for actually caring.

Voter apathy has ruled our thoughts on the political process for years. Guess what? As a whole we're apathetic because we don't feel represented.

We find ourselves voting for "lesser of two evils". We let evil men and women represent us. Would you all like that to change? Or is evil "cool" now?

You know what evil likes to do? Make a lot of friends and form powerful groups.

It would be nice to see truly good men (like G. Edward Griffin) gain as much of a following as those who have promoted such apathy.

How can I stay silent when the "silent complacent majority" has "democratically" voted in truly evil people?

Here's a link to some G. Edward Griffin material. This is so relevant even though it was written in Dec. 2001. Please give this man the same opportunity you all gave FOX, CBS, etc and check him out

http://www.newswithviews.com/war_on_terror/war_on_terrorism.htm
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"Political correctness is as useful to our society as racism"

~Carp

[Hzath]

I don't like loaded questions. I choose none of the above for most of them.

Question 8 particularly disturbs me. I don't understand why you, or any one person, gets to decide which of those are "crimes" and thus punishable by the government.

[carp75]

Thanks Hz, you missed my point too. I'm not even going to lower myself to argue with such a post.

Guess it was too much truth and not enough humor for you.
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"Political correctness is as useful to our society as racism"

~Carp