Wow, way to not even read my post. I never said that you were against small government, I said the reason WHY the collectivists adopted the name "liberal" was so that they could convince people like you that they ARE for small government / peoples rights.
I also never said that the word was changed, just that in the United States, it has a different connotation due to one party hijacking the term in order to mislead others as to their intentions. That is why in America it is customary to say "classic liberal" to denote the difference between liberalism pre-DNC hijacking and the modern American usage of the term "liberal".
Just because it's SUPPOSED to be "liberal" to mean small government doesn't mean that's what the word means in the modern USA. You won't force society to change back to the proper usage and your rant only serves to 1) confuse the average person and 2) make you out to be an arrogant prick.
Have you been in the public school system in the last 30 years or so? Where they teach them that government run businesses and redistributing wealth are capitalist and not socialist / communist? Where they teach that no one is responsible for their own actions and that someone else is always responsible for what you do / you're responsible for what someone else does?
Either you're incredibly ignorant of what goes on in public schools or you're one of the ones pushing for this bullshit to be taught.
Actually he IS redistributing wealth, just not as much as you'd like apparently. And I never said he had total control over industries, but he WANTS it and is trying hard to get it (GM, government run health insurance, banks). But hey, why pay attention to his actions when you can make up lies and claim that he's the polar opposite of what he is.
As much as I despise DRM (I've had multiple arguments with employees of different software companies about how DRM is completely unacceptable), I don't see the DRM being the big issue here. I see Apple's policy with the App Store being the main issue and that apps you'll be able to run on it won't really be what people will want to do. I have an iPhone and the overwhelming majority of apps are garbage, and the ones that aren't but are so-so you accept because it's a phone, it's not like it's a big device, so you understand that they'll be inferior. However, since the iPad is so much bigger, I don't see too many people being willing to accept inferior apps when they could spend the same money and get a different tablet (such as HP's Slate) running a full OS that lets them do anything they want.
MLK WAS a communist and Obama IS a socialist (actually given his own comments in interviews, he's probably a communist as well, but he knows that the US would have to transition to socialism first because the populace would never tolerate such a drastic change). Learn what you're talking about before you spout of the bullshit that people like Obama tell you to in order to try to distract you from what they're doing.
Sadly you're one of the many who were brainwashed into thinking that government having total control of industries and redistributing wealth is somehow not socialist / communist.
Having lived in LA most of my life I'd say that fiscal conservatism is common, but on social issues we are fairly secular and liberal.
The laws passed by the state of California don't back up your claims. I'm a classic liberal (so fiscally conservative and socially liberal), and you couldn't pay me to live in California with all the bogus things the state government does.
Well first, it takes just as much faith to believe that everything randomly happened by chance (when it's statistically impossible), but that's a whole different issue. And before you rant about me being a religious nut, no, I don't think that God made everything or that I have the answers, I'm just pointing out that one myth is just as ludicrous as the next.
On to you "point". See, you missed the point of my post - my point was that if we stop brainwashing kids into believing whatever the government says and being mindless drones, then they are free to learn on their own. It won't matter if a school teaches them that babies come from storks because they'd be free to learn on their own (and others would be free to teach them) that it isn't true. Freedom to make your own decisions makes everything else a moot point.
You don't live in the US. In the US that's "classic liberalism" and collectivists are "liberals". They manipulated the change in the meaning of the word so that people such as yourself would think they stand for the polar opposite of what they actually stand for.
I generally agree with your assessment on Tablet PCs becoming more popular and so on, but I have to say the iPad doesn't fall into that category at all. It's not a "computer" in the normal sense -- you can't run a desktop operating system on it. It really is a new category of device.
Only because Apple won't let you. There's nothing (hardware-wise) keeping the iPad from being just like all the other tablets.
The amendments are also intended to emphasize the unalloyed superiority of the “free-enterprise system” over others and the desirability of limited government.
One says publishers should “describe the effects of increasing government regulation and taxation on economic development and business planning.”
Wow, so you mean they'll actually start teaching facts again? Who gives a rats ass about the evolution or religion crap as long as kids will actually understand what happens when you give the government infinite power. It doesn't matter what people are taught about evolution or religion if they're not free to run their own lives.
You heard it right, folks. Most of "Hollywood" is conservative.
Really? I wasn't aware that most of "Hollywood" wasn't making movies for the last 20 years. Either that or you just haven't seen many movies in the last couple of decades or heard the people making, writing, or starring in movies give interviews.
MLK Jr. was a known communist and as such would be welcome by both the modern DNC and most of the modern GOP. Face it, we're essentially a one party system anymore, and that one party is against the citizens of the USA.
Our entire culture is based on Judeo-Christian traditions.
Really? "Jesus waterboards!" "Jesus saves - at CitiBank - so it's God's will to bail them out!" "Jesus healed the sick - so you don't need universal healthcare. You need to PRAY more."
BTW - Jesus never said a word against gays or lesbians. Not one. So do like Jesus would - approve same-sex marriage.
Amusingly, since you always hear about nutcase Republicans pushing for "Jesus would want this", I've heard many die-hard liberals using Jesus to try to claim that Jesus would support communism / socialism, so we should be communist / socialist.
Considering government an enemy is silly and counter-productive.
And being willfully ignorant and pretending that your enemy doesn't exist, because you're terrified of the thought, only leads to being made subservient to your enemy. Every time a tyranny emerges there are apologists like yourself who are so terrified at the thought of someone actually being a horrible person and wanting to harm others that you make all sorts of excuses for why they're really not so bad.
Oh, and your hammer analogy is horribly wrong since a hammer is controlled by you - the government is only controlled by the people when talking about theoretical governments. In reality, the people have very little (and frequently no) control over the government.
You may be fine with being subservient as long as you can make believe that everything is fine. However a large (and rapidly growing) number of people in the US are not happy living in denial and are willing to confront and fight the enemy.
Sometimes there are no options other than violence. Why do you think that there was the American Revolution? Because talking only works if both people are willing to work together. China isn't willing to work with anyone, thus showing that violence is the only way to get them to change.
Lying and saying that anyone who doesn't agree with you is racist / homophobic / whatever is "subjective"? Combine that with the fact that the Democrats also lie and use the same half-truths to incite fear and anger, and they're definitely the greater of two evils.
I guess you missed the part where they buy lots of goods, buy massive amounts of debt, and provide cheap labor. That's a very good incentive for countries to do business with them, especially since politicians think that they can keep racking up debt continually without consequences.
Just because government has a few useful purposes doesn't mean it's still not the enemy. Take this very situation with China - China is the enemy (not just morally, but the fact that they want to dominate the world in every aspect and lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get there), but due to them giving us lots of money and cheap labor, we work with them. The founders of the US realized that government is the enemy of the people and as such designed it to be HIGHLY controlled to try to prevent it from harming the people. Unfortunately, they never counted on how fast corruption would spread through all branches of the government, thereby rendering their plans to protect the people useless.
Seriously, do you think Obama is your enemy? Do you think Harry Reid is your enemy? I don't agree with everything Obama does, but I generally feel he is trying to help the American people.
Yes, they are the enemy of every person who desires freedom and wants to be able to make their own choices. If you think that they honestly want to help the American people, then you really need to start looking at the differences between what he says and what he does. Every day Obama / Reid / Pelosi propose a new way to harm the American people and they count on the majority of people being uneducated enough to let it pass (which is another reason why nothing is ever done about the sad state of American schools, an educated populace is the enemy of the government).
Even if you do a character analysis of Bush (whose policies I generally hated), read his speeches, look at his actions and try to figure out who he really is, it's hard to claim that he wasn't at least trying to help out the American people.
Bush isn't the brightest and he did many immoral things, but yes, at least he genuinely thought he was doing the right thing (though he was wrong). That's the difference though - if you look at Obama's attitude, he's well aware, with that smug grin and demanding that everyone simply do as he says, that he's not doing what's best for the American people, he's doing what's best for empowering the government and reshaping the US into the countries he idolizes (Cuba, USSR, China, etc - and if you look back at his previous comments, you'll see that he does in fact idolize ).
And who would do anything to China? Hm? What country wants to take on that army or risk them nuking everything? If the entire world banded together, we could take on China, but there's still the risk of them nuking everything and then bye-bye human race. Face it, unless we manage to infiltrate China and take over, they call all the shots now.
Democrats and Republicans sorta swapped platforms in the 1960s as a result of the Civil Rights movement).
Not really, the Democrats just got better at hiding their motives. A larger percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than of Democrats. Yet the Democrats get the credit for its passage and the Republicans get blamed for opposing it (which they did not). Republicans get called rascist for refusing to treat African-Americans like children who need to be taken care of.
Bingo. It's also amusing that the Democrats can get away with having a former KKK member in their ranks, yet they call the Republicans racist any time they disagree with them. I despise both parties because they're both fully of lying scum who want to rule with an iron fist and take away our rights (yes, there are a few decent people in each party), but I despise the Democrats more because they not only use more filthy tactics, but they have the media in their pocket proclaiming them to be saints for doing it.
Very true. Dictatorships only work by people allowing themselves to be treated as slaves. Even if it means dying, eventually the dictatorship will fall because when there's no one to lord power over or tax (due to them leaving, going off the grid, or dying fighting), a government cannot exist.
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As an Obama supporter, how can you be surprised by this? It fits his views and policies perfectly.
Wow, way to not even read my post. I never said that you were against small government, I said the reason WHY the collectivists adopted the name "liberal" was so that they could convince people like you that they ARE for small government / peoples rights.
I also never said that the word was changed, just that in the United States, it has a different connotation due to one party hijacking the term in order to mislead others as to their intentions. That is why in America it is customary to say "classic liberal" to denote the difference between liberalism pre-DNC hijacking and the modern American usage of the term "liberal".
Just because it's SUPPOSED to be "liberal" to mean small government doesn't mean that's what the word means in the modern USA. You won't force society to change back to the proper usage and your rant only serves to 1) confuse the average person and 2) make you out to be an arrogant prick.
Have you been in the public school system in the last 30 years or so? Where they teach them that government run businesses and redistributing wealth are capitalist and not socialist / communist? Where they teach that no one is responsible for their own actions and that someone else is always responsible for what you do / you're responsible for what someone else does?
Either you're incredibly ignorant of what goes on in public schools or you're one of the ones pushing for this bullshit to be taught.
Actually he IS redistributing wealth, just not as much as you'd like apparently. And I never said he had total control over industries, but he WANTS it and is trying hard to get it (GM, government run health insurance, banks). But hey, why pay attention to his actions when you can make up lies and claim that he's the polar opposite of what he is.
As much as I despise DRM (I've had multiple arguments with employees of different software companies about how DRM is completely unacceptable), I don't see the DRM being the big issue here. I see Apple's policy with the App Store being the main issue and that apps you'll be able to run on it won't really be what people will want to do. I have an iPhone and the overwhelming majority of apps are garbage, and the ones that aren't but are so-so you accept because it's a phone, it's not like it's a big device, so you understand that they'll be inferior. However, since the iPad is so much bigger, I don't see too many people being willing to accept inferior apps when they could spend the same money and get a different tablet (such as HP's Slate) running a full OS that lets them do anything they want.
MLK WAS a communist and Obama IS a socialist (actually given his own comments in interviews, he's probably a communist as well, but he knows that the US would have to transition to socialism first because the populace would never tolerate such a drastic change). Learn what you're talking about before you spout of the bullshit that people like Obama tell you to in order to try to distract you from what they're doing.
Sadly you're one of the many who were brainwashed into thinking that government having total control of industries and redistributing wealth is somehow not socialist / communist.
Having lived in LA most of my life I'd say that fiscal conservatism is common, but on social issues we are fairly secular and liberal.
The laws passed by the state of California don't back up your claims. I'm a classic liberal (so fiscally conservative and socially liberal), and you couldn't pay me to live in California with all the bogus things the state government does.
Well first, it takes just as much faith to believe that everything randomly happened by chance (when it's statistically impossible), but that's a whole different issue. And before you rant about me being a religious nut, no, I don't think that God made everything or that I have the answers, I'm just pointing out that one myth is just as ludicrous as the next.
On to you "point". See, you missed the point of my post - my point was that if we stop brainwashing kids into believing whatever the government says and being mindless drones, then they are free to learn on their own. It won't matter if a school teaches them that babies come from storks because they'd be free to learn on their own (and others would be free to teach them) that it isn't true. Freedom to make your own decisions makes everything else a moot point.
Enter almost any American school and you'll see for yourself.
You don't live in the US. In the US that's "classic liberalism" and collectivists are "liberals". They manipulated the change in the meaning of the word so that people such as yourself would think they stand for the polar opposite of what they actually stand for.
I generally agree with your assessment on Tablet PCs becoming more popular and so on, but I have to say the iPad doesn't fall into that category at all. It's not a "computer" in the normal sense -- you can't run a desktop operating system on it. It really is a new category of device.
Only because Apple won't let you. There's nothing (hardware-wise) keeping the iPad from being just like all the other tablets.
The amendments are also intended to emphasize the unalloyed superiority of the “free-enterprise system” over others and the desirability of limited government.
One says publishers should “describe the effects of increasing government regulation and taxation on economic development and business planning.”
Wow, so you mean they'll actually start teaching facts again? Who gives a rats ass about the evolution or religion crap as long as kids will actually understand what happens when you give the government infinite power. It doesn't matter what people are taught about evolution or religion if they're not free to run their own lives.
You heard it right, folks. Most of "Hollywood" is conservative.
Really? I wasn't aware that most of "Hollywood" wasn't making movies for the last 20 years. Either that or you just haven't seen many movies in the last couple of decades or heard the people making, writing, or starring in movies give interviews.
Because as wacko as Texas is, it's still closer to how the majority of the country thinks than California or New York.
MLK Jr. was a known communist and as such would be welcome by both the modern DNC and most of the modern GOP. Face it, we're essentially a one party system anymore, and that one party is against the citizens of the USA.
Screw the GOP and the DNC. How about if We the People reclaim our mantle of "government by the people?"
We're not allowed - it's not in the government's best interest for citizens to have control over the government.
Really? "Jesus waterboards!" "Jesus saves - at CitiBank - so it's God's will to bail them out!" "Jesus healed the sick - so you don't need universal healthcare. You need to PRAY more."
BTW - Jesus never said a word against gays or lesbians. Not one. So do like Jesus would - approve same-sex marriage.
Amusingly, since you always hear about nutcase Republicans pushing for "Jesus would want this", I've heard many die-hard liberals using Jesus to try to claim that Jesus would support communism / socialism, so we should be communist / socialist.
Considering government an enemy is silly and counter-productive.
And being willfully ignorant and pretending that your enemy doesn't exist, because you're terrified of the thought, only leads to being made subservient to your enemy. Every time a tyranny emerges there are apologists like yourself who are so terrified at the thought of someone actually being a horrible person and wanting to harm others that you make all sorts of excuses for why they're really not so bad.
Oh, and your hammer analogy is horribly wrong since a hammer is controlled by you - the government is only controlled by the people when talking about theoretical governments. In reality, the people have very little (and frequently no) control over the government.
You may be fine with being subservient as long as you can make believe that everything is fine. However a large (and rapidly growing) number of people in the US are not happy living in denial and are willing to confront and fight the enemy.
Sometimes there are no options other than violence. Why do you think that there was the American Revolution? Because talking only works if both people are willing to work together. China isn't willing to work with anyone, thus showing that violence is the only way to get them to change.
Lying and saying that anyone who doesn't agree with you is racist / homophobic / whatever is "subjective"? Combine that with the fact that the Democrats also lie and use the same half-truths to incite fear and anger, and they're definitely the greater of two evils.
I guess you missed the part where they buy lots of goods, buy massive amounts of debt, and provide cheap labor. That's a very good incentive for countries to do business with them, especially since politicians think that they can keep racking up debt continually without consequences.
Just because government has a few useful purposes doesn't mean it's still not the enemy. Take this very situation with China - China is the enemy (not just morally, but the fact that they want to dominate the world in every aspect and lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get there), but due to them giving us lots of money and cheap labor, we work with them. The founders of the US realized that government is the enemy of the people and as such designed it to be HIGHLY controlled to try to prevent it from harming the people. Unfortunately, they never counted on how fast corruption would spread through all branches of the government, thereby rendering their plans to protect the people useless.
Seriously, do you think Obama is your enemy? Do you think Harry Reid is your enemy? I don't agree with everything Obama does, but I generally feel he is trying to help the American people.
Yes, they are the enemy of every person who desires freedom and wants to be able to make their own choices. If you think that they honestly want to help the American people, then you really need to start looking at the differences between what he says and what he does. Every day Obama / Reid / Pelosi propose a new way to harm the American people and they count on the majority of people being uneducated enough to let it pass (which is another reason why nothing is ever done about the sad state of American schools, an educated populace is the enemy of the government).
Even if you do a character analysis of Bush (whose policies I generally hated), read his speeches, look at his actions and try to figure out who he really is, it's hard to claim that he wasn't at least trying to help out the American people.
Bush isn't the brightest and he did many immoral things, but yes, at least he genuinely thought he was doing the right thing (though he was wrong). That's the difference though - if you look at Obama's attitude, he's well aware, with that smug grin and demanding that everyone simply do as he says, that he's not doing what's best for the American people, he's doing what's best for empowering the government and reshaping the US into the countries he idolizes (Cuba, USSR, China, etc - and if you look back at his previous comments, you'll see that he does in fact idolize ).
And who would do anything to China? Hm? What country wants to take on that army or risk them nuking everything? If the entire world banded together, we could take on China, but there's still the risk of them nuking everything and then bye-bye human race. Face it, unless we manage to infiltrate China and take over, they call all the shots now.
Democrats and Republicans sorta swapped platforms in the 1960s as a result of the Civil Rights movement).
Not really, the Democrats just got better at hiding their motives. A larger percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than of Democrats. Yet the Democrats get the credit for its passage and the Republicans get blamed for opposing it (which they did not). Republicans get called rascist for refusing to treat African-Americans like children who need to be taken care of.
Bingo. It's also amusing that the Democrats can get away with having a former KKK member in their ranks, yet they call the Republicans racist any time they disagree with them. I despise both parties because they're both fully of lying scum who want to rule with an iron fist and take away our rights (yes, there are a few decent people in each party), but I despise the Democrats more because they not only use more filthy tactics, but they have the media in their pocket proclaiming them to be saints for doing it.
Very true. Dictatorships only work by people allowing themselves to be treated as slaves. Even if it means dying, eventually the dictatorship will fall because when there's no one to lord power over or tax (due to them leaving, going off the grid, or dying fighting), a government cannot exist.