Your opinion in the last 25 years-
What was the biggest impact?
The fall of communism or 9/11
The fall of communism or 9/11
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quote:Originally posted by FrancF
What was the biggest impact?
The fall of communism or 9/11
Impact on what? the world? the US? the Moon surface?
I'd say cow flatulence had the biggest impact on Global Warming (tm) and immigration on the US (not just mexican, all together).0 -
communism ain't dead yet! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
I'd say cow flatulence had the biggest impact on Global Warming (tm) and immigration on the US (not just mexican, all together).
Just how does cow flatulence impact immigration? Don0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
I'd say cow flatulence had the biggest impact on Global Warming (tm) and immigration on the US (not just mexican, all together).
Just how does cow flatulence impact immigration? Don
they flock towards the smell of doodoo0 -
quote:Originally posted by slackmason
communism ain't dead yet!
you got that right. it seems as if it's stronger in the US as ever...0 -
Actually the current generation's biggest impact is... All of it's failures!!! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by google.com Define:communism
* An economic theory which stresses that the control of the means of producing economic goods in a society should reside in the hands of those who invest their labor for production. In its ideal form, social classes cease to exist, there is no coercive governmental structures, and everyone lives in abundance without supervision from a ruling class. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels popularized this theory in their 1848 Communist Manifesto.
www.ilstu.edu/class/hist127/terms.html
* Can be understood in two main ways. In the West is usually means the political application of the ideas of Karl Marx (ie Marxism). Political communism is put into effect through political parties. In the 19th century the usualy term such such parties was "Social Democratic" parties. Since the 1920s the name "Communist" has usually, but not always, been used by such parties. ...
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/glossary.htm
* An economic or political system based on the sharing of all work and property by the whole community.
www.bl.uk/services/learning/curriculum/voices/refglos.html
* An economic system in which capital is owned by private government. Contrasts with capitalism.
www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/c.html
* a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a stateless society
www.imuna.org/c2c/app_a.html
* is a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/red/back2.html
* a religious worldview as outlined in ten categories (including theology, philosophy, biology, economics) in Understanding the Times. Its major tenet includes atheism, dialectical materialism, and socialism.
www.summit.org/resource/dictionary/
* a political theory derived from Marxism, advocating a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person is paid and works according to his or her needs and abilities.
teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/hsty3080/3rdYr3080/Cuban/INDEX2.HTML
* Calls itself a form of Socialism, usually based on Marxist theory of dictatorship of the proletariat and the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." in addition to the Socialist belief of public ownership of essential services. Usually includes a political form of Social Darwinism in that Communism, being superior to Capitalism, can only develop by evolving from the inferior and decadent Capitalism of industrialization.
www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/c5encyc.htm
* A governmental system that encourages the elimination of private property and the equitable distribution of goods to the public. A Communist government maintains central control over banking, business, housing, education, industry, medical care, the military, and regional security forces.
www.whitneystewart.com/DXP/Glossary.htm
* A form of socialism proposed by Karl Marx which intends to effect socialist reforms by advocating a revolution of the proletariat.
www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/communist/quotes.html
* Political creed that holds that power should be in the hands of workers; advocates violent overthrow of government to accomplish this aim.
library.thinkquest.org/13915/gather/glossary.htm
* the theory of a classless social system in which all property and means of production are owned in common; socialist theory deriving from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/industry/vocab/
* Communism is an economic system in which all the means of production are government controlled
instruction.blackhawk.tec.wi.us/ghoffarth/economicsglossary.htm
* Any ideology based on pure equaliy of the ownership of all property, a classless social structure, and economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an economic plan that embodies the ideals of the community.
www.information-entertainment.com/Politics/polterms.html
* the political, social, and economic system of certain countries in which the state, governed by a single party without formal opposition, owns all property. control the production and distribution of goods and services, and, to a great extent, control the social and cultural life of the people.
schools.cbe.ab.ca/b628/social/russia/glossary.html
* a political and economic system where the state maintains ownership and control of production facilities
home.ica.net/~drw/glossc-d.htm
* The socioeconomic system where social relations are based upon the equal distribution of income and wealth and state control of the means of production. Not to be confused with a totalitarian political system.
www.sage.edu/academics/schoolofprofessionalstudies/management/programs/definitions.htm
* a political theory attributed to the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Communism is characterized by the common ownership of the means of production. The foundations for full communism were supposed to be laid during a transitional period, known as socialism. The Soviet Union was the first state to be ruled by a communist government, from 1917 to 1991.
media.pearsoncmg.com/intl/ema/uk/0131217666/student/0131217666_glo.html
* A political ideology characterized by a belief in eliminating exploitation through public ownership and central planning of the economy.
www.comune.venezia.it/atlante/documents/glossary/nelson_glossary.htm
* a political and economic system under which productive property is owned by the people of the community collectively through the state.
www.naiadonline.ca/book/01Glossary.htm
* a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
* a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a social and economic system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Do not forget that we are Americans, a big melting pot. We have communist sectors, fascist sectors, dictatorship sectors, monarchy sectors, etc..0 -
Both, since I don't think 9-11 would have occoured without the fall of the Soviet Union. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
quote:Originally posted by FrancF
What was the biggest impact?
The fall of communism or 9/11
Impact on what? the world? the US?
I'd say cow flatulence had the biggest impact on Global Warming (tm) and immigration on the US (not just mexican, all together).
Your choice-0 -
I just had a really wet fart. The biggest impact is on my skivvies. They need to be changed. Actually, they need to be disposed of. In a plastic bag. Sealed. 0 -
It is a simple one.. The internet. 0 -
I'm not smart enough to really compare the two, but it seams to me its hard to compare those two, since the fall of communism wasn't a intentional terrorist attack on the US, on US soil.
Maybe a question might be; what had a bigger impact on the USA
the Attacks on 9-11 or the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The only two times in our history we have really been messed with on our own soil.0 -
quote:Originally posted by divebomb
Maybe a question might be; what had a bigger impact on the USA
the Attacks on 9-11 or the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The only two times in our history we have really been messed with on our own soil.
I guess the British burning Washington, D.C. doesn't count.....[;)]0 -
Yes I suppose that could count also, but as A nation were we fully established at that point in history as a major world power, as we were at the time of both of the bombings. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by divebomb
Maybe a question might be; what had a bigger impact on the USA
the Attacks on 9-11 or the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The only two times in our history we have really been messed with on our own soil.
I guess the British burning Washington, D.C. doesn't count.....[;)]
in the last 25 years? some long years you got [;)]0 -
Oklahoma City bombing was horrifically egregious by nature. An act of terrorism from within and against our own.Certainly changed my opinion of my fellow Americans. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
It is a simple one.. The internet.
I gather you might be right...0 -
Impact? Loss? Change?
The loss of the US citizenship having an intrinsic value to illegals. We are a nation divided waiting for the end since 09-11-2001.0 -
quote:Originally posted by sierrasam
Certainly changed my opinion of my fellow Americans.
How?
and how broad is your brush?0 -
911 hands down. Communism hasn't fallen, it's just regrouping under a new socialism banner. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by divebomb
Maybe a question might be; what had a bigger impact on the USA
the Attacks on 9-11 or the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The only two times in our history we have really been messed with on our own soil.
I guess the British burning Washington, D.C. doesn't count.....[;)]
in the last 25 years? some long years you got [;)]
I guess you think Pearl Harbor was attacked in the last 25 years too.....0 -
okay 25 years your right.[B)]
I went to far back with Pearl Harbor.
I just thought the comparison might be closer; How America reacted and responded as a nation, and what the end result was of our reaction as a nation.0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
I'd say cow flatulence had the biggest impact on Global Warming (tm) and immigration on the US (not just mexican, all together).
Just how does cow flatulence impact immigration? Don
It's all those beans!
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neither.
innovation...
the computer and cell phone.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by divebomb
Maybe a question might be; what had a bigger impact on the USA
the Attacks on 9-11 or the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The only two times in our history we have really been messed with on our own soil.
I guess the British burning Washington, D.C. doesn't count.....[;)]
in the last 25 years? some long years you got [;)]
I guess you think Pearl Harbor was attacked in the last 25 years too.....
I, personally, think that Pearl Harbor attack has never happened, Iraq doesn't exist and WTC attack was planned and executed by these aliens for their amusement:0 -
Well I am thinking on how Europe has changed and the way of life after
communism destroyed Russia/soviet union. Then you have The Fall of the Berlin Wall, which will always be used as a symbol for the end of the Cold War.
Then we have 9/11. And we know what that has led to
Did this open the gate for the middle east conflict that is now changing our way of life?0 -
quote:Originally posted by FrancF
Well I am thinking on how Europe has changed and the way of life after
communism destroyed Russia/soviet union. Then you have The Fall of the Berlin Wall, which will always be used as a symbol for the end of the Cold War.
Then we have 9/11. And we know what that has led to
Did this open the gate for the middle east conflict that is now changing our way of life?
the middle east conflict started roughly 1500 years ago, some historians will argue that was about 500 years ago. What's going on there now is just yet another skirmish. Again, you asked for the last 25 years, I agree with bobski and select-fire -- technological advance has played the biggest role in the world in the last 25 years.0 -
So you think maybe that the fall of the USSR, and the unification of Germany helped propigate the spread of mid eastern terrorists?
I think that is a good possibility.
Maybe the terrorists feel less threatend and more opt to do what they want after such a powerfull nation who shares there borders gives up.
There still crazy and need to be dealt with.0 -
quote:Originally posted by FrancF
What was the biggest impact?
The fall of communism or 9/11
9/11 without a doubt!0 -
quote:Originally posted by divebomb
So you think maybe that the fall of the USSR, and the unification of Germany helped propigate the spread of mid eastern terrorists?
I think that is a good possibility.
Maybe the terrorists feel less threatend and more opt to do what they want after such a powerfull nation who shares there borders gives up.
There still crazy and need to be dealt with.
You have put my thoughts in a nut shell![:D][^] I knew someone could bring it out the right way. Thanks!
This subject was on one of the AM radio talk shows today. What I got from the callers that had left Europe during the cold war that came to the U.S.. Were in fear of the Nuclear/race/war/Government collapse etc.
As one caller put its "911 I can jump the boarder from Mexico or Canada to the US (Comparing the Berlin wall) with out being killed."
"It's the same all over again like in my old country in a way, I need to watch my back from the police to the extremist someone is out to kill for an agenda"
(He said something like that)0
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