>>10
I never understood what you Americunts have against liberals. Where I live, `liberal' is normally used interchangeably with terms such as `modern' and `forward'.
Well, anyway, enjoy your backwards-thinking and economy crisis. I know we'll feel your incompetence impact our own shit soon enough.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 15:33
>>11
Liberals don't have anything against liberals. You've just been reading too many Ann Coulter books. Godless: The Church of Liberalism. How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Really Have To).
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Anonymous2008-10-16 15:51
>>11
It's because liberal means something completely different in the US. American liberals are equivalent to European social democrats.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 16:41
>>13
US American liberals are equivalent to right-wing parties in the EU. Republicans are a non-existent breed.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 20:28
I lol'd against my will at the title of this thread. I feel like of bad about it.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 20:39
You can't compare liberal and conservative across countries, or even time periods in the same country. They are largely meaningless terms.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 21:09
>>16
Yeah, look at today's "conservative"s compared to those of the past.
"Conservative", 1964 - Barry Goldwater
"Conservative", 2004 - W
;_;
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Anonymous2008-10-16 22:23
>>16
The only reason people repeat this is because they don't want to face up to the fact that the American political landscape today is to the right of 1930s Italy.
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Anonymous2008-10-17 1:19
>>19
No, it's because you lack any historical or international context
>>19
Fortunately, 2000's Italy is fastly speeding right of the US, so we won't be there _yet_.
I estimate:
Italy becomes fascist in two years to four years
EU becomes fascist in five years to eight years
US becomes fascist in eight years to ten years
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Anonymous2008-10-17 13:16
>>24
Italy's right is still the US's moderate, and the mainstream right of the rest of the EU is well to the left of US Democrats. If you think the US isn't fascist yet, you're either deluding yourself or you have a naïve view of what fascism actually is (protip: you don't have to gas Jews to be fascist).
And If you think the EU is moving to the right faster than the US is, you're a moron. Though I won't deny that it is indeed moving to the right quickly, and it really is a worrying trend.
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202008-10-17 14:47
>>22 No, it's because you lack any historical or international context Being European and almost certainly older than your grandparents, I don't lack either. European almost certainly older than your grandparents
Old people are probably the most narrow minded people on this planet, so are the Europeans.
>>26
Aren't you a bit too young to be posting here?
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Anonymous2008-10-17 20:07
>>25
The main feature of fascism is state capitalism. Whereas in Italy the state will absorb capital, in the US, capital will have to absorb the state, so it'll take longer.
And really, Italy's already censoring the internet and and the PM owns the media.
Being far right doesn't inherently mean fascist. While the Republicans are very, very fascist-leaning, the democrats are just right economically, but at least somewhat to the left socially.
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Anonymous2008-10-17 22:34
>>28 at least somewhat to the left socially
Somehow being able to marry someone of the same sex doesn't make up for having the rest of your life is controlled by the government.
const void spewBullshit(const int turn)
{
if(turn == 0)
cout<<"My opponent is a terrorist!"<<endl;
else
cout<<"I will bring change to America!"<<endl;
}
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Anonymous2008-10-19 4:46
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void swapTurn(int &turn);
const void spewBullshit(const int turn);
int main()
{
int whoseTurn = 0;
while(true)
{
spewBullshit(whoseTurn);
swapTurn(whoseTurn);
}
}
const void spewBullshit(const int turn)
{
if(turn == 0)
cout<<"My opponent is a terrorist!"<<endl;
else
cout<<"I will bring change to America!"<<endl;
}
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Anonymous2008-10-19 5:56
>>33
Holy hell that code is ugly. And not just because it's sepples.
>>35,36,37 public class TurnDiscriminator // Factory Pattern
{
private static java.util.HashMap storage = new java.util.HashMap() ;
private static int currentTurnKey = 0;
public static TurnSpecifier getTurnSpecifier()
{
TurnSpecifier value = (TurnSpecifier)storage.get(currentTurnKey) ;
if (value == null)
return ZeroTurn.value ;
if (currentTurnKey == 0)
currentTurnKey = 1 ;
else if (currentTurnKey == 1)
currentTurnKey = 0 ;
return value ;
}
public static void register(final String key, final TurnSpecifier value)
{
storage.put(key, value) ; // Should guard against null keys, actually.
}
static
{
ZeroTurn.register() ;
OneTurn.register() ;
}
}
public interface TurnSpecifier
{
int getTurn() ;
}
public class ZeroTurn implements TurnSpecifier // Singleton Pattern
{
public static final ZeroTurn value = new ZeroTurn () ;
private ZeroTurn() { }
public int getTurn()
{
return 0;
}
public static final void register()
{
TurnDiscriminator.register(0, value) ;
}
}
public class OneTurn implements TurnSpecifier // Singleton Pattern
{
public static final OneTurn value = new OneTurn () ;
private OneTurn() { }
public int getTurn()
{
return 1;
}
public static final void register()
{
TurnDiscriminator.register(1, value) ;
}
}
>>38
Nice effort, but where are your Javadocs? Why aren't you using generics and coding to the Map interface, ie. private static java.util.Map<String,TurnSpecifier> storage = new java.util.HashMap<String,TurnSpecifier>();? And why aren't you following the Eclipse Project Coding Conventions and naming your interfaces ITurnSpecifier rather than TurnSpecifier?
And shouldn't your singletons be lazily created upon first access, like so? private static final OneTurn value;
private OneTurn() {}
public OneTurn getInstance() {
if (value == null)
value = new OneTurn();
return value;
}
Sorry, but I'm only giving you 3/10 enterprise points.