WE ARE NOT AN EMPIRE STOP SAYING THAT! "If anyone finds a continent of indigenous people...

originalpckelly

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:19 PM
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WE ARE NOT AN EMPIRE STOP SAYING THAT! "If anyone finds a continent of indigenous people...

please return them to the front desk. Again, if anyone finds a continent of indigenous people, please return them to the front desk."

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ReliantJ

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:22 PM
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1. Hmm

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rolltideroll

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:29 PM
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2. They should have fought harder

Inventing the wheel also would have helped. It is just what happens when a technologically advanced society meets a vastly less advanced one that is in possession of resources group a wants. It is repeated about every day throughout human history. Find one instance when this is not true.

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ReliantJ

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:39 PM
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6. To play Devil's Advocate

would this apply to holding up a bank with weapons? Lulz. I made a joke

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sofa king

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:36 PM
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3. Hmm. I look up "empire" and I read:

"Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy."

Then I look up "oligarchy" and I read it is:

"A form of government where power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family, military influence or occult spiritual hegemony."

Then I pick up a newspaper and I read:

"Kennedy," "Bush," "Taft," "Udall," "Clinton."

Hmm.

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originalpckelly

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:38 PM
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4. Oh you stop that!

Edited on Wed Mar-04-09 11:39 PM by originalpckelly

WE ARE NOT AN EMPIRE! That information is top secret and protected by executive privilege. If you continue to say it we'll be forced to render you!

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sofa king

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:33 AM
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12. Really?

I would prefer my render to be 3000 x 3000 pixels, with a magenta back light and with a raytraced distant light coming in from the right side. To make it quicker, you can save me as a .png file and paste me as a decal over the background of your choice in Photoshop.

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leftstreet

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:38 PM
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5. Plus, 'oligarchy' sounds cool to say

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hfojvt

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:44 PM
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8. the Tafts are not doing much of anything

and Clinton is pretty new to the scene, circa 1992. And she was beaten by almost a total newcomer.

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Cerridwen

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:39 PM
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7. You are correct. These days we are an occupying army.

That hurt just to type that.

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hfojvt

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:51 PM
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9. a continent of indigenous people?

the dictionary says "indigenous" means "people born in a region". So apparently, that would be me, although I was born half a continent away from where I now sit.

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originalpckelly

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Wed Mar-04-09 11:52 PM
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10. Those native types who used to hang around these parts...

were born here before any Europeans were.

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hfojvt

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:04 AM
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11. so you are talking about people

who've been dead for over 300 years? People born before 1607.

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