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Old 04-15-2009, 04:59 AM
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Great my browser had an error when I tried to post, so I'll have to retype this. Bleh.

Correction, you have to get into the spar tournament. The part before is a qualification round, where you do have to race to pm or reach a location first or second.

Correction, the main tournament is an elimination tournament. The part before is a qualification round, where you have to get in in order to try and qualify.

I find it ironic that you try to insult me by calling me a communist, and yet here you are suggesting we should limit people. I also find it ironic that you tell me I don't deserve to live in America when I'm stating people should have the freedom to qualify as many times as they get in.

So the fact that we did this in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004 means we totally can't do this in 2009 because classic is.....so much different now?

Let me correct a few things. First off, Karl Marx's theories are the basis of socialism. Communism is a radical spin off of those ideas. Second off, lets put this in context. When you're a peasant farmer in the lower class of society, when a man comes around preaching about everyone being in an equal middle class....aren't you doing to ****ing support it? Communism is one of those ideas that looks great on paper (everyones equal) but doesn't work well in practice. The reason it doesn't work well is that when inexperienced people try to manage a nation's economy...yeah...it doesn't work out. But the notion of everyone being equal appealed to nations with large peasant farmer populations such as China, Russia, and Vietnam. Third off, Chernobyl was in Ukraine. Russian cities got some fallout, but it's not like in Fallout 3. Fourth off, this entire argument is opinionated. People are naturally inclined to think their opinion is correct. I think that Stalin was more influential because his country, Russia, became a super power under his leadership after ww2. It wasn't a superpower before. Stalin's 5 year plans and massive industrialization projects turned a nation of peasant farmers into an industrial power. This industry was instrumental in eventually defeating nazi germany. India, once freed of british control, didn't really go anywhere. Still hasn't. Is a country that kills its people voluntarily in order to maintain control better than a country that involuntarily kills its people out of neglect and thus ignores massive famine? That's up for debate.

Look duda. You think gandhi was more historically influential and I'm not going to convince you otherwise. I think stalin was more historically influential and you're sure as hell not going to convince me otherwise. Let's drop this opinionated portion and focus on the matter at hand.
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