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This fish does that. Deal with it.
Lotta work for a little guy.
Intellectual Cripple Owned by Common-Sense Semantic
Why do you hate America so much that you would dare to disagree with anything I say?
BBC's Stephen Sackur goes toe-to-toe with Greenwald...
I'd also point out that if Snowden sold that info.....he'd be a traitor who should be hung.
BBC's Stephen Sackur goes toe-to-toe with Greenwald...
You & every Constitutional Law-breaking agent of the NSA
does anyone else think Greenwald is a total scumbag.
The Problem with Civil Obedience
What you guys seem to miss is that someone is going to use "force" on you, no matter what. You have two choices, either you have no control over the people using force over you or you have some control over those people via some democratic means.
Ya'll are like the 60's hippies chanting "give peace a chance, man" without the excuse of being a drug-burnout.
"The politicians are real, the soldiers and police who enforce the politicians’ will are real, the buildings they inhabit are real, the weapons they wield are very real, but their supposed “authority” is not. And without that “authority,” without the right to do what they do, they are nothing but a gang of thugs. The term “government” implies legitimacy– it means the exercise of “authority” over a certain people or place. The way people speak of those in power, calling their commands “laws,” referring to disobedience to them as a “crime,” and so on, implies the right of” government” to rule, and a corresponding obligation on the part of its subjects to obey. Without the right to rule (”authority”), there is no reason to call the entity “government,” and all of the politicians and their mercenaries become utterly indistinguishable from a giant organized crime syndicate, their “laws” no more valid than the threats of muggers and carjackers. And that, in reality, is what every “government” is: an illegitimate gang of thugs, thieves and murderers, masquerading as a rightful ruling body." -Larken Rose
The Problem with Civil Obedience
Sweet Jesus, you and your ilk are out of your fucking minds. You really act as though government is the root of all evil. As though if the mean ole' government will just get out of the way the world will be a happy fun-time place.
FUCK THAT.
I can easily say that without government regulations our industrial complexes would have poisoned us all to death years ago. Take a polluted shithole like Beijing, multiply that by every city in the world, multiply that by how much worse it would be without someone to say "you can't do that"
All your nonsensical libertarian blathering relies on many assumptions:
1. People are rational
2. People aren't evil.
3. The appropriate information will be available to make rational decisions.
4. People that are on the short end of the economic stick won't kill you for food, steal your women for fun, and riot because they can.
5. Industries will compete with one another.
6. Etc.
I really have one question though. In your utopian fantasy. What EXACTLY prevents me from taking everything someone has, by force? Private security? If you can afford it? If you can't?
You know, there was a period of institutional anarchy following the collapse of the Roman Government. All of Europe was effectively ungoverned when Rome fell. You know what that time was called? The fucking DARK AGES.
You're way off, and you clearly haven't read or understood any of the authors named in my comment. Had you developed an informed opinion before spouting off on the basis of the Kool-Aid you've drank, you'd understand that, without government, there'd be no "big guys" to exploit the subsidies and cronyism that are implicit in the original monopoly that is "government."
If you think that some how government (i.e., kleptocrats) are "overseeing things," then you've got some learning to do. The corruption and co-optation of the market is not a "problem" to be "fixed" by the government. It is a direct effect of government. To think otherwise is a fatal conceit, one whose costs get higher by the day.
But, you can believe whatever you want to believe.
"The politicians are real, the soldiers and police who enforce the politicians’ will are real, the buildings they inhabit are real, the weapons they wield are very real, but their supposed “authority” is not. And without that “authority,” without the right to do what they do, they are nothing but a gang of thugs. The term “government” implies legitimacy– it means the exercise of “authority” over a certain people or place. The way people speak of those in power, calling their commands “laws,” referring to disobedience to them as a “crime,” and so on, implies the right of” government” to rule, and a corresponding obligation on the part of its subjects to obey. Without the right to rule (”authority”), there is no reason to call the entity “government,” and all of the politicians and their mercenaries become utterly indistinguishable from a giant organized crime syndicate, their “laws” no more valid than the threats of muggers and carjackers. And that, in reality, is what every “government” is: an illegitimate gang of thugs, thieves and murderers, masquerading as a rightful ruling body." -Larken Rose
the prison industrial complex-the new robber barons
No one should profit off the bondage of others.
Dropping A Bag Of Fake Weed In Public Prank
That's bullshit, they should be dropping real bags of weed.
Teen in Prison for Years Without Being Convicted of Crime
Every single one of our institutions is falling apart at the seams.
Big Budget Hollywood Movie About Noah's Ark with Russel Crow
Sorry but no.
There was no worldwide flood. It's a silly myth. Perhaps you should open your mind to the idea that not everything in your Bible is true, particularly the things that are absurd and utterly impossible, like say, fitting all the worlds species on one boat.
Despite naysayers to the contrary, the Bible is historical and Reliogious fact. People try to claim that events in the Bible didn't happen ... i.e. there wasn't a Jesus (proven that has was born, crucified and that thousands reported seeing him post Crucifixion that even atheist historians agree on), David, Solomon, etc etc
Perhaps you should widen you mind's understanding to consider that perhaps the flood legends/records in ancient civilizations point back all to the common event of a world wide flood.
It is one thing to say that you choose not to follow God and what he stands for (thus Free Will), but don't be intellectually dishonest to claim that what the Bible records didn't happen. The proof continues to be provided and yet people don't believe. Even when Jesus, the Son of God was present and healing people and raising them from the dead, people still chose to turn away and call for his Crucifixion.
Just because you cannot conceive of a way that a world wide flood could happen doesn't make it not so. 200 years ago, we did not have knowledge of flight, DNA etc and the more we learn continues to demonstrate that we intricately complex designed by a Creator, God, and not happenstance. How people can claim evolution and believe in entropy at the same time is mental deceit.
Nobody is getting into these shorts
What total bullshit. I ride the bus to work. Every once in awhile there will be a muslim on board. That doesn't mean we live in a muslim culture.
Going around pretending that rape is somehow accepted or condoned in our society is FUCKING ABSURD. Rape culture indeed, pfft, pull your head out of your ass.
Or:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/12/4549775/nightmare-in-maryville-teens-sexual.html
And the famous one:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/7/hacker_group_anonymous_leaks_chilling_video
Which then was:
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnners-treat-steubenville-rapists-more-sympathetically-todd-akin?vdt=video_tab_block%257Cblock_2
Yeah, good thing we don't hold up rapist as hero's and feel sympathy for their lives being ruined . . . Welcome to the real world.
Nobody is getting into these shorts
"given this rape culture we live in"
What bullshit, you've been reading too much Salon. This isn't the 1960's. No one, outside of the very rightest of the right wing, is going around slut-shaming rape victims.
Bill Moyers | Obamacare: The Republican's Alamo
Stopping Obamacare has never been about the health or economic issues. It has ALWAYS been about stopping Obama. It didn't matter which legislative agenda he chose to pursue, they were going to be there to fight it, apparently to the death...
Guy Fires at Cop During Traffic Stop
Shouldn't have pulled over Omar.
Elevator breaks 22 eggs.
The eggs make this interwebs gold.