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[PTTG??]

Rough and Ready.

One of those gold rush towns. They still celebrate the succession.

[Pwnzerfaust]

Succession or secession?

[knaveofstaves]

Secession. But not the one you're thinking of. It happened eleven years before shots were fired at Fort Sumter. Small mining town voted itself out of the U.S. for three months, because their gold finds were being taxed and the local government outlawed booze.

Speaking dorfenly, secession was the only option, and they showed great restraint in doing so bloodlessly.

[GlyphGryph]

Sometimes I want to leave the country and live somewhere less fucked up. And then I realize everywhere else is just as fucked.

I've been to other places. Some of that are quite nice and seem significantly less fucked. I mean, they all have their problems, but many of them deal with much smaller and less important problems. Scandinavia and Oceania are both pretty good.

[SalmonGod]

I just want to live somewhere the general culture isn't as obnoxious, willfully ignorant, and complacent.  Having done lots of reading, observing world events, and speaking to people from around the globe daily since age 13... my impression is such places do exist, though I'm not sure where exactly I would best fit in... I just know it isn't here.

[Criptfeind]

You guys are way to cynical.

[Zrk2]

Expect the worst and all your surprises will be happy.

Anyway it's not too fucked up here in Canada.

[Duke 2.0]

 America isn't a bad place when you just stop watching the news, reading the newspaper and interacting with others anonymously, like online sources.

 You find out that, my god, it's just like anywhere else in the world.

 And if you grant anywhere in the world this much coverage of itself the same problems will likely come up.

[Criptfeind]

Expect the worst and all your surprises will be happy.

Yeah. That will totally be worth it when you spend all your time in a misery circle jerk convincing yourself the world is so fucked up and everyone is a dummy.

[Zrk2]

Works fairly well for me.

[Strife26]

Go to fargo, it's nice enough.

[nenjin]

Fargo, aka "Little Canada"

[Ampersand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA

The more I understand the way things work in this country, the less I can convince myself that there is hope for the future.

From the end of World War 2 on, the United States built itself as the antithesis of Communism. No... More the Antithesis of the Soviet Union. As a nation, we labored hard at every turn to reach beyond the reach of the Soviet Union, to fly higher, to build bigger, to fight fiercer, live richer. But, the war never came, and the Soviet Union is gone. The Synthesis arising from the struggle between the two world powers never came, and America remains an Antithesis of a concept that no longer exists.

And so we leap at every shadow, jump at every sound, fearing that The Enemy is hiding just beyond our vision, seeking to destroy us as they had in the past. The labels might change, but the rhetoric is the same, the politics is the same, and hell, even most of the people involved are the same; Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al. We give our children the same sort of education about national and world history you'd expect if there was a fear that they could possibly grow into communist agents in service to the Soviets. We pound into their heads the perfection of the constitution, the perfection of our legal system, the perfection of our political system, and blame any deviation from perfection on the supposed Enemy, until all doubt about America being perfect is drained away and any thought of improving the country is wiped away. We're the good guys, damn it, we're always right.

So when they question the government, they don't actually question the government. They attack and remove individuals without daring to imagine that the system itself is broken. The most outrageous things done by the corporations and government of this country are not the illegal things they do, but the legal ones.

[NobodyPro]

You have to remember that the perception of the communist threat has died down significantly. The new buzz word is terrorist. After 9/11, George Bush practically quoted The Crucible in saying "You're either with us or against us." insinuating that there was no in between. There was the Axis of Evil and the Coalition of the Willing and nobody else. If you weren't a witch, you were witch hunting.

[Ampersand]

What you didn't read was that this isn't about Communism. It's about the idea of The Enemy, which, even after the original enemy is gone, we treat everything that comes the same way as the original.