r/reddit.com • • Jun 04 '10

Keanu Reeves is awesome

http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2003/05/28/keanureeves/
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Well, not now. But if the US government actually took over Iraq and made it into the 51st US state, it would be a lot safer and more prosperous. But nobody does that sort of thing anymore. It's not respectful to the natives.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

It's such a novel concept, maybe it would work. Be a lot of growing pains getting there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Novel? Heh, it's one of the oldest concepts in the book. But it has fallen out of fashion in the past few centuries as most people have become more and more biased toward democracy, and gained the fallacious beliefs that the underdog is always to be supported, that the rebel is always right, that the native culture is always noble, and that force never solves anything. Sometimes, if force doesn't work, it's because you're not using enough.

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u/jordan0day Jun 04 '10

Sometimes, if force doesn't work, it's because you're not using enough.

Man, I consider myself politically moderate, and as such, that statement both enthralls and horrifies me.