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Tom, it doesn't say that they're the top 100 people. Just that they are 100 people that are doing a certain thing. There could be 5 million people doing the same thing, and these 100 were picked at random from among them, in no particular order
Wheat, 200 years isn't a long time, and other vibrant cultures have gone into stagnation and decline in very short time periods in the past. I'm not saying this guy has the answers, but it's not completely preposterous either to consider the idea that America could make key mistakes that drop it into decline within a single generation.
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Like Reagans military buildup, warz, pollution, sliding job markets.. etc etc. And as for burning down the white house us Canucks did that, in fact it wasn't even Canadians it was NEWFIES! You let newfies burn down the white house??!! Shame on you!
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quote:If a dog poops on your carpet, you're going to get upset over what it's done to your carpet, not that the dog could create poop.
Wow. It's like a Zen koan. It seems so profound and yet it says absolutely nothing. May I quote this when I want to stun adversaries?
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Wouldn't this list be more aptly titled "100 People That Largely Lack The Power To Either Improve Upon Or Screw Up America, Yet That Certain Radical Conservatives Like To Complain About Nevertheless"?
If there are liberals around who could be classified as capable of "screwing up America", they certainly aren't a bunch of Hollywood actors - whose power seems to be more along the lines of being capable of making successful movies.
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quote:Wheat, 200 years isn't a long time, and other vibrant cultures have gone into stagnation and decline in very short time periods in the past. I'm not saying this guy has the answers, but it's not completely preposterous either to consider the idea that America could make key mistakes that drop it into decline within a single generation.
This is true, although I doubt anybody on that list classifies as screwing up America more or less than their mirrors on the opposite side of the political spectrum, which is to say that I don't think either are doing any permanent damage to America.
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Stewart is right, why is he attacking people with little to no power, and totally leaving alone the people who actually control what happens?
Some of the music industry, hip hop only, really, was perhaps his best defense. The common "bitches and hoes" argument I think is a valid one, that this type of music degrades women and sends negative messages. Yes it does, but his book didn't address 50 Cent, it attacked people like Tim Robbins and Barbara Streisand, who I think everyone in America would agree have little to no power to effect social change on the scale this guy apparently thinks they do.
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