>> ^honkeytonk73:

>> ^residue:
suddenly: anti-theism
I don't see any previous comments that would have prompted your inane "response"
>> ^honkeytonk73:
We obviously must thank Jesus/God that it didn't impale the driver. Because Jesus/God certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents.


If I had said this, would you have also been as agitated and bothered to post a response? Probably not.
"We obviously must thank Zeus that it didn't impale the driver. Because Zeus certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents."


woaaha, man, you got him good! you totally sniffed him out as a religious wacko!!! hahaahah...but seriously man we don't need to bring zeus into this. not cool.

>> ^residue:

suddenly: anti-theism
I don't see any previous comments that would have prompted your inane "response"
>> ^honkeytonk73:
We obviously must thank Jesus/God that it didn't impale the driver. Because Jesus/God certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents.



If I had said this, would you have also been as agitated and bothered to post a response? Probably not.

"We obviously must thank Zeus that it didn't impale the driver. Because Zeus certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents."

>> ^honkeytonk73:
We obviously must thank Jesus/God that it didn't impale the driver. Because Jesus/God certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents.


Oi, don't hog the bong, pass it along!

suddenly: anti-theism

I don't see any previous comments that would have prompted your inane "response"

>> ^honkeytonk73:

We obviously must thank Jesus/God that it didn't impale the driver. Because Jesus/God certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents.

We obviously must thank Jesus/God that it didn't impale the driver. Because Jesus/God certainly has a magical hand in the prevention, not instigation of accidents.

I actually had a similar experience on the highway years ago. I was behind a couple of cars passing some 18-wheelers when long piece of metal about 4ft long fell off a flatbed truck. I saw the car in front of me swerve left. I saw a black blur coming up at me, and I swerved left too. I thought it was a piece of rubber, but it was a huge chunk of metal. It smashed through my windshield and impaled itself horizontally in my center console and across the passenger seat. A foot to the left and I'd be missing a kidney. If I didn't swerve, I probably would have been cut in half.

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it's all fun and games until someone gets impaled by flying debris.

Enjoyed the video, but really impressed at the title. Normally this would be titled something like "Asian cutey demonstrates epic knife-throwing" or "Hot chick can impale you from across the room". Perhaps "In Communist China, hot chick penetrates you!"

Actually, I kinda like that last one.

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Let it go? He let it go?!?!?

We wear shoes for a reason - the same reason shotguns were invented. To kills spiders and other creatures with more than 4 legs.

If he wonders why he gets massive spiders, it's because he let's them go. If he killed it and impaled it on a screwdriver on the lawn for all to see, they wouldn't come around.

TL;DR

Kidding. That comment was for NetRunner who is always lurking in the shadows of VS, waiting to say I never read anything these days. He gets a thought in his bean and there's no tearing him away from it.

By the way, I'm not avoiding your question, DFT. I'm just not a monkey here to work for the grinder whenever he beckons. Your question "what does 'people have direct control of the market' mean, and how does it specifically translate into either 'stopping a corporate dictatorship' or achieving meaningful change?"

In a free market there would be no corporations. There's a great string of videos from an author that does a great job of explaining the corporations and how they came to power during the Renaissance when monarchs centralized money and created cooperatives for employment. This was contrary to what came before, which was free trade and local competing currencies, which was making the rich poorer and the poor richer. I'll post it in a bit and send you the link.

It's this individual competition within markets that helps people compete, and ultimately makes the rich less rich. This is what I mean by direct control of the market. But it's a complicated issue. First you have to allow pure freedom of currency, trade should be anything desired by both parties trading, and then the market must be unregulated. Government's role is to protect the rights of people, and the courts should serve as an unbiased third party for grievances in a free market.

When I say "it's a complicated issue", you'll undoubtedly come back with "it's always 'if', 'ands' and 'butts' in the Libertarian free market." If I point out the simplicity of it once it's allowed to work, you'll undoubtedly come back with "such a simplistic, naive and nearly supernatural occurrence this free market." It's as if I cannot win for losing with you. Your fallacies are abundant, and very unfair.

Love, your butt buddy, blankfist the impaler.

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my fucking god!

There are so many things wrong with this! I want to impale my face on some rocks! Trust me, this is how fascism will come to be in America. It will be a unified message between corporatists and fundamentalists, and just when the country is bankrupt from printing the money supply into hyperinflation, a pro-national message will unify us all to give up everything: rights, money, property. You will be a ward of the great nation. A god's nation.

In god we trust?! Did she just cite something that's been around for 60 years as proof positive that this is a Christian nation?! Fuck me running. Fuck my balls off. And the sheep will believe it. Soon revisionists will convince us all this is a non-secular society divinely appointed by statuesque gods named Washington and Jefferson, and a mighty cross upon their escutcheon.

These people need to crack a bio or two of the founding fathers before they spew their bile. They'd be very surprised how anti-fundamentalism a lot of them were. These were, for the most part, intellectuals who believed in the principles of the Age of Enlightenment, which is antithetical to her "down home" one-cross-size-fits-all government. Damn.

I'd think the only significant danger is getting clobbered or impaled by one of your skis after you land.

Thanks for the fix on Vlad the Impaler!

>> ^redyellowblue:
Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.


Probably something to do with being more secure in ourselves due to our higher pay, better promotion prospects, and a body with minimal - and largely externalised modifications for reproduction, which can probably be construed as us victimising the fairer sex via soaking up opportunities.