After nearly 3 years on this site I've come to the ingenious conclusion that discussion on this site absolutely doesn't change one goddamn thing. The right stays right, the left stays left. There is no merging of Ideas, just a constant battle. One side claims to have the answers and the other side does also. It is a constant battle of one-upmanship. Ego VS ego. I've yet to really see one person change their views about anything. I guess you players find this entertaining, but Myself, I find it boring. If there could be some merging, cooperation, or just plain saying, geeze, you know what, I was wrong about that, I could see some value in this "Discourse". But Both sides are so vehemently opposed that it is a fuckfest, like 3rd grade, I know you are but what am I. I now view this site (Politics) as mostly comic structure and intend to drop by occaisionly to comment on a subject, like health care, but the old days of arguing with brickheads are over. Feel free to berate me and my Ideas, "I know you are but what am I"?

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Life is good, the water is sweet. The ground keeps moving beneath my feet.

I'm just wondering...
Do any of you political forum guys grow weed?
I only ever see you all post in the political part of the forum
I don't understand why you wouldn't just join a political forum site instead of just arguing with stoners for years
It doesn't bother me but I just couldn't understand why you would join a marijuana growing site to talk about politics...?

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medicineman i agree. it's a true shame this will never change. a man should never think he knows it all, that's how we got into this mess to begin with.

I had to step back from it all too though. It got to me sooooo bad I couldn't sleep at night and I was always angry. Pulling back a bit from the politics forum helped me out.

And yes I think those of us who are on the politics forum do grow weed. I do and medman did at one time.

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King David was hit by a rock and knocked off his donkey. . . he was not STONED OFF HIS ASS.

your just now coming to this conclusion?

i have known this for a while, i use the internet to voice my opinion, find what the opposition is, and then hopefully develop a counter to any rhetoric that does not support my views

sometimes my views change, but rarely

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honey, i forgot to duck

i do, thats how i found this site

great thing about weed is its tax free, and i hate the IRS

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honey, i forgot to duck

I grow weed and have for a VERY long time. With that said, this political forum is a form of entertainment for me. I also find that it improves my writing ability and clarity of thought. One thing I REALLY enjoy is sticking a red-hot poker into the sacred oxen of guys like Med-'O'Mao. If it weren't for guyz like me in opposition to the statists of this world, we would be living in absolute economic slavery. I mean, SOMEONE has to counter their totalitarian ways, right?

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Liberals are people that will believe anything twice.

Hi med,
Interesting thread.
Being a political junkie and a news hound, I naturally gravitate towards the political forum here at good old RIU.

The clash of different ideas and world views is quite entertaining to me.
I occasionally find an idea which challenges my notion of the way things are.
Unfortunately some of the posters here seem more interested in engaging in a name calling competition instead of a contest of ideas.
I enjoy political discourse from the vantage point of an altered state of consciousness (praise be to ganja).
It is simply entertaining and amusing to me.

I am certainly not a crusader for any cause, I am here simply because I like it!

I also think that the average age of the regular contributors to this forum is substantially higher than the other forums, and being a relative geezer I find this sort of pleasant.

I have been growing my own buds longer than the majority of the RIU members have been alive...(I think)

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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
~ Frank Zappa ~

Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw~

If the entire world would just bend to my will it would all be perfect.

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"If you wanna win, CHEAT! If you lose, start a FIGHT!" - very wise man

med-man, you never seem to understand this:

u'll never find piece of mind in any political discussion until you can scrap this ridiculous "right vs left" battle you have going on in your head

peace out