I've known a couple Egyptian people. One was the stinky girl Awkward mentioned. Another was this guy who has shot and killed in high school, and two other guys who were the stinky girl's cousins. The older one was a complete ******* who thought he was better than people and the other was a pretty cool guy who wants to be a doctor and doesn't believe in evolution.
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"Moris should be here soon to rub it in my face..." -Pizza
Watching the live coverage of this, I don't think I've seen anything like it in my life. It looks a lot like the footage of the Berlin Wall being torn down. Yeah, that happened in my lifetime, but I really don't remember it.
I've known a couple Egyptian people. One was the stinky girl Awkward mentioned. Another was this guy who has shot and killed in high school, and two other guys who were the stinky girl's cousins. The older one was a complete ******* who thought he was better than people and the other was a pretty cool guy who wants to be a doctor and doesn't believe in evolution.
He didn't get shot.
He was sitting in the center of the back seats of a car and didn't wear his seatbelt. They got into an accident and I'm assuming he flew out of the car.
What the hell, I always thought he had been shot. Anyway I remember that same guy got in the face of the gay guy in our class and the gay dude Bossed the **** up and put crazy bass in his voice. I was convinced he would lay him out but the Egyptian guy decided to back off
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"Moris should be here soon to rub it in my face..." -Pizza
What just happened in Egypt was probably the most monumental act of republican virtue that we will ever witness in our lives. Although it's not over yet, I'm amazed that this did not turn into a bloodbath (knock on wood).
What the hell, I always thought he had been shot. Anyway I remember that same guy got in the face of the gay guy in our class and the gay dude Bossed the **** up and put crazy bass in his voice. I was convinced he would lay him out but the Egyptian guy decided to back off
I had 1st period with his friends and they were crying, saying that the other people in the car didn't even have a scratch on them.
And I thought to myself, "Maybe, it's because they had their seatbelt on."
So, not to **** on everyone's parade, but I doubt Egypt is going to do anything good with its democracy. Maybe it being a democracy is slightly better than having an ******* dictator, but I for one don't believe there is any power in democracy. Democracy =/= Freedom. Most of the time, it's the direct opposite.
Democracies are statistically freer, more peaceful, and more prosperous than dictatorships. That is good for 80 million Egyptians, and it's good for us, too.
It is not clear, however, whether Egypt will actually become a legitimate democracy or if it will be an unstable parliament propped up by a strong military that actually calls the shots. There are valid concerns there.
There is no valid concern in asserting that, because you can imagine a nation freer than most democracies in fact are, there is no cause for celebration in the popular overthrow of an authoritarian dictator that has ruled a tremendously influential nation in a highly volatile region for thirty years.