And the most corrupt nation is?

Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:27 pm » by **Freeyourmindnow**

kolgoroth wrote:Could Earth be considered just one big nation?

it is the new world order :think:

Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:29 pm » by **E6722maj**

russia

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Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:11 am » by **Noentry**

mrmcnuggets wrote:Asia is where the black market is RUN, as well as the owner of all those poppy fields and weed. They own the industries pumping out fake rollexes, and other knock off merch.

Im glad this was posted, and the U.S is clearly below the top countries in Europe, and Asia.

What is englands number free? I sure would love to see that with all the UK bound us haters out there.

Joint 16th on the list

http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/res ... tryResults

Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:14 am » by **Serendipity**

I think that although we (U.S.) are not high on the list, we certainly should be. As the reigning superpower we are certainly responsible for fostering corruption where it suits our ends and it leads one to the question of who is more corrupt, the corrupted or the corrupter? :think:

Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:09 am » by **Middleman**

kinninigan wrote:your profile pic is a gorilla and you call me racist....maybe you should read ALL OF MY POSTS before you make a statement like that

So I feel positively disposed towards apes and monkeys in general, so what? If it's anything, that's specist, not racist. It's not like I'm for the Western mountain gorillas, but against the Cross River gorillas.

For what it's worth, I didn't call you racist. I chose my words carefully when I said that pic is "kinda racist". I'll admit, I really did laugh out loud when I first saw them 2 or 3 years ago.

It's that whole thing of something being funnier if you feel slightly uneasy about it being funny. :oops:

As for "read ALL OF MY POSTS", it's an interesting question. Can wholly seperate, unconnected things a person says or writes contextualize any specific statement, or work of art?

I'm honestly not sure.

Last week, I watched this stand up bit by Stewart Lee on youtube over and over until it made my head spin, trying to work out whether he is making an actual racist joke about a person with a Chinese accent, or if I'm just too stupid to get the joke.

If you don't know his comedy, he is literally the last person in the world I would imagine to make such a joke. His whole deal is taking the piss out of people who hate political correctness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC13MYcrR4

Is it like indulgences in the pre reformation church? Could Nelson Mandela do or say racist things and have them mitigated by his previous actions?

I don't know, but it's fun to think about.

:cheers:

Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:05 am » by **Rmcampwest**

kolgoroth wrote:Could Earth be considered just one big nation?

Absolutely not! There are far too many cultures, languages, religions and climates to have one nation! I'm sure that I left many things off that list but it's close to nappy time. There cannot be a one world nation until all aspects of our various cultures are combined. Not going to happen in my lifetime or the next 5-10 generations!