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South Park Creators Have A New Film
Vince C writes "Trey Parker and Matt Stone are back to filmmaking again. No, it is not a South Park movie and no they are not acting. In fact, it is a totally different media... marionettes. Yep! Puppets folks. They are making Team America:World Police. If you liked the original Thunderbirds and hate the live action remake but also love comedy sticking it to our current government then you are going to love Matt and Trey's new project. Trailer and more info at the movie's site."
I am disturbed at how you use the term conservatives/liberatarians. We're not like them! Libertarians look to reduce the size of the government, and conservatives want to reduce the size of the government except for the military. Neither us, nor them, have succeed to date, although we haven't been given a chance.
Libertarian thought is loved and embraced on slashdot.
Conservative thought is moderated as flamebait. I guess the community produces only what the community wants to hear.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
It's the only thing the;ve done right, and the only thing they will ever do right. They need to make new episodes.
because both "sides" in politics are, for the most part, composed of reasonable people
I would amend that as "composed of unreasonable people". Seems to make a whole lot more sense.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Sorry, pal, but "conservative" is defined as anything that protects the status quo. On this basis, Libertarian philosophy, which idealizes economic rights at the cost of social and human rights, is one of the most conservative political viewpoints out there. It's sole function is to justify the growing inequality and social polarization between rich and poor.
Libertarians claim to support individual rights, yet they are obsessed with destroying the federal US government, an institution that has successfully safeguarded individual rights and democracy over the last 200 years. Libertarians proudly support corporations, many of which are massive collectivist organisations that treat individuals like dispensable components. Libertarians have a religious belief in the power of the "free market", which even economists realize fails in many circumstances.
Liberatiarians are really, at core, no different from communists. Communists want everything in the hands of one institution: the government. Libertarians want everything in the hands of another: the market. Both are profoundly anti-democratic.
I don't think you know what Communism is. Your attempt to reduce the situation to a nice single line compare and contrast therefore fails.
"Actually, I consider myself a pragmatic libertarian, in that, I vote republican."
I can see this...Libretarians are generally more attached to the republicans for some reason...
"Basically libertarians have to choose whether they care more about social issues (then vote democrat) or economic issues (then vote republican). Or throw your vote away (vote libertarian)."
Ok, now this is where I don't get it? Vote Republican for the economic issues? Did you not understand what the last 3 Republican administrations have done? I'm not saying anything is wrong with them...I thought Reagan was a great president all in all and George, Father of the King, wasn't half bad (he wasn't half good either).
All in all, none of these guys did anything for the economic side of the Republican party. George the First put us on course for doubling our debt. What? No new taxes? This was *AFTER* the cold war was fought and won. I can forgive Reagan for his part in it, because it was because of the final push of his spending that finally killed the former soviet republics (he shouldn't get all the credit as most conservatives give him -- if it weren't for him, it would have taken another 10 years, but they would have gotten to the same place).
But now, King George...he was the whole reason I finally got off my ass and switched political affiliations. Pragmatically, Clinton has done more for the economy than the Republicans have in my lifetime (be that only 30 some years). A liberal cocksuckee that didn't give a fuck about religion that pissed off all the social conservatives because of his philanderings. The lowest growth in gov't in the last 50 years.
And quite honestly, even with Bushie's tax cuts, I'm still paying a lot more towards the gov't. Mainly because I'm not doing my gawd given part of having a dozen children and raising them in a socially conservative way. Its amazing that having a child is now no longer a personal choice, but one that has to be shared with the rest of the country. I pay more per child to go to school than any one in my state that has children (well on average).
In my state, they claim it costs around $750 to put a child through public education. Bushie past a law early on that gives parents a $500 discount. Lets see, if you just take the one issue, the now spend $250 per child towards my $750. I don't want to hear any bullshit that it costs more to raise a child -- thats a personal choice. Remember -- we are talking purely from a libertarian standpoint -- nothing else.
So, what *HAVE* the republicans done from a economic standpoint that would make Libertarians happy? Nothing. They have their own social programs that are getting spent even if they don't want to call it that. Its welfare for folks that make personal choices.
I don't ever want to hear Bushie talk about smaller gov'ts...I'm starting to think he was brought up in one of those one two many types of languages, but inversely proportioned because the every time he says smaller, it means more gov't agencies replicating what others are already doing.
So...if you want to vote Republican for the social issues, you have my respect (I don't understand it, but I respect it). If you want hard economics, get someone in like Clinton again and put a rotating list of chubby chicks under his desk.
There's still a difference.
Republicans believe in spending government money to advance the interests of rich people. They get us to go along with it by saying it'll trickle down.
Democrats believe in spending government money to advance the interests of everyone. This upsets Republicans because when you spread the money around like that, it helps a lot of people a little, but nobody gets rich.
That seems to be a pretty accurate description of how each side spends money. Let's face it - the Republicans say they are all for reducing the size of government, but they grow it instead.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
I would certainly hope that ANY President, when told that his contry is under attack, would immediately excuse himself from whatever photo-op he is involved in. It is his responsibility, more than anyone else in the country, to gather information, talk to other high-ranking officials, develop a plan, and put it into action. The fact that he did nothing for seven minutes is simply inexcusable to me and belies an apalling lack of leadership.
Even more galling is are the lame excuses for the delay. "Not wanting to alarm the children" is absurd, he could have -- and should have -- simply said that there was something that he needed to attend to and exused himself. Not a single child would have been alarmed in the least.
As far as Kerry's war record...are you sure you really want to start comparing it against that of Bush? Doesn't seem like he'll stack up well there.
As far as your use of the word "slander", that would require the information to be known false and intended to cause harm. Can you demonstrate either of those in Kerry's testimony?
The NYT was right to ignore those Swiftboat Liers. "There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam... three officers and 15 crew members," said Mr Rood. "Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened... One is John Kerry... who won a Silver Star for what happened... I am the other."
The Swiftboat guys are still sore a Kerry for starting an Anti-Vietnam War group. They are not a credible source.
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