Let's say you're right about Soros (a point I'm not conceding). That would be one rogue billionaire working against the interests of all the other billionaires, right?
Now, if you are at least willing to concede that in general, those with billions upon billions of wealth tend to work towards the preservation of their wealth...... wouldn't Soros be the one case that is not a pattern?
If they can find the "fake" you, they can find the real one. Google and Facebook aren't the only entities that have the capacity to become really, really good at finding your web presence. If they won't, another will.
If one defines a Democrat as standing with a Democratic administration or speaking, voting, and in alignment with the Democratic platform ideals, then he is not.
If one defines a democrat as somebody from Connecticut who needs to be somewhat affiliated with the Democratic Party, then sure, he's a Democrat.
Of course, I'd say that calling Lieberman a Democrat about as honest as saying that Ted Nugent is a vegetarian...
This gets even more interesting when one considers that the government has become the tool of the corporations; that the center of power is in the boardroom, not in the halls of congress nor in the White House.
Really, the corporations are allowing themselves to spy for themselves so that the corporation's tools can have the information to impose corporate will and power.
(No, I don't hate all corporations; what scares me is the concentration of power in the hands of a very few who are not elected. Good things cannot come of this.)
And note that part of this ingrained tendency is to destroy those few who take too much and leave everyone else with insufficient resources. We call it revolution. And in this day and age, when everything is so interdependent on everything else, from transportation to energy to food production to manufacturing to clothing and basic necessities, revolution would not be pretty at all.
I suspect that they are able to overlook the "bat shit crazy" parts just as I and many others were able to overlook the right-of-center Republican that was using the campaign slogan of "Hope And Change" not so long ago...
I suspect that before things change, our generation will have to be vilified as having promoted wasteful values in a resource starved environment and allowing power to become so concentrated in the hands of our corporate masters that the people have lost their voice.
What scares me most, though, is the fact that we are so dependent on our technology and interdependent systems of manufacturing, transportation, food production and all the other bits that go to make up the systems that sustain humanity that if it gets so bad that there's an actual revolution, given the fact that we've already burned through so many resources, it might be impossible to build it back up again.
As a species, we're not in a good place, and those with the power and position don't seem to be willing or able to take us to where we need to be.
So - eight minutes of fear, hate and war mongering have no bearing on what's happening now?
Absolutely Obama hasn't done enough to change things. No doubt about that.
But with that said, Bush and Friends not only set the wheels in motion, but they did everything to ensure that the switches on the tracks were broken and locked into place and that the brake mechanisms were removed.
The problem with Ron Paul is that while he's on the mark about 30-40% of things, he's bat shit crazy about another 50% or so. The remaining 10-20% falls into the "meh" category.
Because to a lot of liberals, it wouldn't matter. But lying about it might well matter. Thus, what is being protested is the fact that Faux is accusing Obama of lying (as well as being a Muslim). They conflate the defense against the accusation of lying and the denial that he is a Muslim, when they are in fact two seperate issues.
So, I'd say that your amusement is probably the sort of mocking attitude that Faux loves to generate. Even if they can't sell you on all their BS, they've managed to change the discussion and argument from what matters to meta arguments about their tactics.
Oh, and for the record: I'm a liberal who doesn't think particularly highly of the Muslim religion. So, please, go easy on the sweeping generalizations.
Note on the whole hashasin thing: the reward for doing a killing was that they got to get high for the rest of their lives. The drug itself wasn't used in anyway during the actual killing.
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The real irony of your statement is this:
Let's say you're right about Soros (a point I'm not conceding). That would be one rogue billionaire working against the interests of all the other billionaires, right?
Now, if you are at least willing to concede that in general, those with billions upon billions of wealth tend to work towards the preservation of their wealth... ... wouldn't Soros be the one case that is not a pattern?
Instead of a bonus driven board of directors?
Obviously, you've never had a serious medical condition.
Wouldn't work.
If they can find the "fake" you, they can find the real one. Google and Facebook aren't the only entities that have the capacity to become really, really good at finding your web presence. If they won't, another will.
If one defines a Democrat as standing with a Democratic administration or speaking, voting, and in alignment with the Democratic platform ideals, then he is not.
If one defines a democrat as somebody from Connecticut who needs to be somewhat affiliated with the Democratic Party, then sure, he's a Democrat.
Of course, I'd say that calling Lieberman a Democrat about as honest as saying that Ted Nugent is a vegetarian...
This gets even more interesting when one considers that the government has become the tool of the corporations; that the center of power is in the boardroom, not in the halls of congress nor in the White House.
Really, the corporations are allowing themselves to spy for themselves so that the corporation's tools can have the information to impose corporate will and power.
(No, I don't hate all corporations; what scares me is the concentration of power in the hands of a very few who are not elected. Good things cannot come of this.)
It's a matter of balance.
And note that part of this ingrained tendency is to destroy those few who take too much and leave everyone else with insufficient resources. We call it revolution. And in this day and age, when everything is so interdependent on everything else, from transportation to energy to food production to manufacturing to clothing and basic necessities, revolution would not be pretty at all.
They've got the data, yes.
But they want to be able to use it openly now.
I suspect that they are able to overlook the "bat shit crazy" parts just as I and many others were able to overlook the right-of-center Republican that was using the campaign slogan of "Hope And Change" not so long ago...
I suspect that before things change, our generation will have to be vilified as having promoted wasteful values in a resource starved environment and allowing power to become so concentrated in the hands of our corporate masters that the people have lost their voice.
What scares me most, though, is the fact that we are so dependent on our technology and interdependent systems of manufacturing, transportation, food production and all the other bits that go to make up the systems that sustain humanity that if it gets so bad that there's an actual revolution, given the fact that we've already burned through so many resources, it might be impossible to build it back up again.
As a species, we're not in a good place, and those with the power and position don't seem to be willing or able to take us to where we need to be.
Note that it's LIEberman and McCain sponsoring these... and here I thought that the Democrats were supposed to be the pawns of Hollywood.
So - eight minutes of fear, hate and war mongering have no bearing on what's happening now?
Absolutely Obama hasn't done enough to change things. No doubt about that.
But with that said, Bush and Friends not only set the wheels in motion, but they did everything to ensure that the switches on the tracks were broken and locked into place and that the brake mechanisms were removed.
The problem with Ron Paul is that while he's on the mark about 30-40% of things, he's bat shit crazy about another 50% or so. The remaining 10-20% falls into the "meh" category.
Party is as party does.
Also - if Democrat != liberal, then what's the point of having a Democratic party?
Or maybe not... after all, they are getting way more theory as opposed to practice, perhaps....
Oh, who am I kidding. This is /.
There are at least 3,141 school districts in the U.S. This is one of them.
Which means that there is an extremely high probability there's even worse.
So - Lord of the Flies was mandatory reading for me in my freshman year, IIRC. And I think I benefited from that. Would you also ban that classic?
You're so clever you must cut yourself on a regular basis.
On the other hand, someone else being famous should not be a blank check for douche baggery either.
The fact that you and many others assume such is their carte blanche to surveil to their hearts content and then some.
Ah - I love the smell of optimism in the morning!
(Or afternoon, as it happens, but it doesn't quite have the same impact...)
Amusing, maybe, but incredibly disingenuous.
Because to a lot of liberals, it wouldn't matter. But lying about it might well matter. Thus, what is being protested is the fact that Faux is accusing Obama of lying (as well as being a Muslim). They conflate the defense against the accusation of lying and the denial that he is a Muslim, when they are in fact two seperate issues.
So, I'd say that your amusement is probably the sort of mocking attitude that Faux loves to generate. Even if they can't sell you on all their BS, they've managed to change the discussion and argument from what matters to meta arguments about their tactics.
Oh, and for the record: I'm a liberal who doesn't think particularly highly of the Muslim religion. So, please, go easy on the sweeping generalizations.
Because well enough copied money does have value, even if illicit.
This "protest" makes their argument for them.
I wouldn't sweat the whole ending posts mid paragraph thing. Sometimes I
... I spend reading articles about tracking things that I track.
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3. Profit!
Note on the whole hashasin thing: the reward for doing a killing was that they got to get high for the rest of their lives. The drug itself wasn't used in anyway during the actual killing.