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22 years old
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February 7, 1990
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Oslo
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Pursuing knowledge, it sounds pompous..but yeah..
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My hallmark is excessive use of commas.

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    kababqueen 

    09 Aug 2010 - 20:41
    thanks :)
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    kababqueen 

    05 Aug 2010 - 14:29
    you're totally welcome :) yeah we definitely do learn something new daily. how goes the photography for this week's theme?
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    dreamdeferred 

    07 Jun 2010 - 16:25
    To be fair, I think those hysterias are pretty common the world over. It's just that the size and scope of American power/influence makes our hysteria more pronounced or noticed somehow. Not being defensive or anything :p I also think the pervasiveness of our media makes the formation of movements (sometimes incredibly misinformed movements lol) more frequent. But having said all that I think America has a lot of wonderful qualities and although I'm one of the biggest critics around when it comes to our foreign/domestic policies I think it's a great country. Sometimes embarrassing though haha. Let me ask you this.... I know that xenophobia has been rearing it's ugly head in Europe generally but in Scandinavian countries in particular. Has this been your experience in Norway? I've heard some nightmare stories from some folks in Sweden.... what's it really like? Particularly for Muslims? Peace abayo,
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    dreamdeferred 

    05 Jun 2010 - 12:00
    People conflate socialism with communism and fascism regularly. There's little appreciation for the fact that Milton Friedman's take on capitalism isn't normative and certainly doesn't describe the full range of economic thinking that still falls squarely into the "capitalist" spectrum. So Democrats, who are really not socialist at all (infact we could call them enlightened corporatists) are routinely called socialists and the game continues.
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    dreamdeferred 

    05 Jun 2010 - 12:00
    Haha.... don't be sorry I [U]live[/U] for political discussions! You make a great point about Europe's struggle with communism. I think the unique difference with America was the protracted nature of the Cold War. I mean.... kids were doing drills (ducking under tables) to practice for the eventuality of a nuclear strike as recently as the 80s. So I don't doubt that our country paid a psychological price of sorts for that kind of trauma. I think another thing that contributes to all this was the rise of conservative idealism and the concurrent mobilization of various media to shape it's narrative. When you add to this volatile mix a stunning decline in political and historical knowledge in the general public (not to sound elitist at all... this is well studied) it makes for a pretty grim situation.
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    dreamdeferred 

    05 Jun 2010 - 11:27
    It really drove me crazy when folks call Obama "socialist". It's so wildly inaccurate and absurd. More than anything else it demonstrates the poverty of our political discourse in the States. Socialism has become a kind of epithet to hurl at anyone that doesn't adhere to a conservative reading of political economics. I think it largely stems from our history with anti-communist rhetoric from the Cold War. There's a real mistrust of commies, pinkos and anything that threatens the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" ethos of America. It's pretty demoralizing. But also hilarious.
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    dreamdeferred 

    05 Jun 2010 - 09:01
    :faint: True enough.
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    fny21 

    10 Jan 2010 - 15:58
    indeed she is [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ziQecudK8"]YouTube- Talib Kweli - Ms. Hill[/ame] :faint:
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