Seriously, bro? What a ridiculous retort, considering banks (in their modern form) are state creations. Good luck trying to build an empire on a fiat currency printing press without government.
". . . Half of Earthforce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn how to compromise...which by all rights means I should give you the medal of honor then have you shot."
– Acting President Susanna Luchenko to Captain John Sheridan, 2261.
Don't worry, I'm sure our wonderfully competent amnd benevolent federal government will step in and take over everything and make it better. Because poor quality is always to be blamed on the free market, not past interference by our wise and saintly government. Or at least that's what I was conditioned to believe in school. (A government service.)
Or maybe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0tKl0J-S4 -- The Death of Healthcare, Part 1
Your response to me is only a few lines long, with half of it dedicated to describing the ludicrous hypothetical of a first grader dropping out at 16, and I'm the one who's sans medication?
Child abuse is not universally against the law. Only a small subset of child abuse types are.
It's still legal to:
- yell at your children
- spank your children
- force them go to child prison (aka "school") for 12 years of formative torture
- and don't even get me started on organized religion...
When is google going to ban images of circumcision? Oh, right, they're using a popular-in-this-era-and-politically-acceptable definition of child abuse, rather than a consistent, rationally-derived one.
Truman was trying to end the war between Japan and the U.S. before it could become a long, drawn out ground war costing millions more lives. AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public. Japan did not immediately surrender after the first A-Bomb attack, and that's when the 2nd bomb was used, and only then did Japan surrender. Thank God that Japan did not know that Truman was bluffing his poker hand, or the war could have gone on far longer.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
Enough with the euphemisms. Taxation is merely what the state calls theft when it's the one doing it.
So what you're really saying is "the state is stealing more from me than this other guy; that's not fair; they should steal more from the other guy". Which is fucking nuts.
What you should be saying is "the state is stealing more from me than this other guy; that's not fair; they should steal less from me".
You want to fix problems caused by government laws (the use of force against people who pattern their bits a certain way) by more government laws (more force, this time against people pretending they can own a pattern of bits)?
You cannot reform or even influence the federal government. It is too big, too entrenched, too corrupt. Anyone who claims otherwise is either lying to themselves or to you.
The only practical option is succession. If you live in one of the fifty states, advocate for succession. You can't fight the beast, but you can withdraw your 1/50th of support for it, and when enough other states do the same, the beast will vanish into angry, disbelieving smoke.
We are spending... we still could hit the debt ceiling... our credit rating will drop... we'll finally be forced to pay off some of it...
You keep saying we. Did you personally borrow and spend that money? Is that *your* debt?
As for paying it off, you're naive if you think it's ever going to be paid off, or that the state even *wants* to pay it off, or could if it wanted to.
And even if they did, who's money do you think they're going to use to do it? Yours, that's who's.
If only people would see how much sense secession makes, rather than auto-responding based on their school programming with such stupidity as "the issue of secession was already decided in 1865" and "so you want to go back to slavery?".
"Industry trade groups have no fucking business writing curriculum for children."
Neither does the government. Now that the government controls the schools (a recent development), there's no way to stop this from happening, since you have no practical influence over the actions of your own government.
Here in New Hampshire, home of the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org), that's already happening. We're about to go have a protest next week in Concord against the city PD requesting what is essentially a tank. In the reasons stated on the form they filled out to apply for the DHS grant, they specifically reference "Free Staters" and "Occupy" as potential threats they're worried about -- as justification for getting a fucking TANK.
Every time I see something like this, I flashback to the scene in Farenheit 451 when the government takes over everyone's wall-screen to post pictures of the fugitive (the protagonist) and tell them to go outside and look for him so he can't hide.
Anyone who thinks the government should have this power is not my friend.
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"but can't be easily sold or repurposed"
Bullshit! You know what you have to do to turn it into an airsoft and paintball facility? Put up a sign and a cash register.
Bureaucrats are not entrepreneurial. They have less creativity and drive than an eight year old running a lemonade stand. Don't get your hopes up.
I wish I had mod points. That was so well explained.
Seriously, bro? What a ridiculous retort, considering banks (in their modern form) are state creations. Good luck trying to build an empire on a fiat currency printing press without government.
". . . Half of Earthforce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn how to compromise...which by all rights means I should give you the medal of honor then have you shot."
– Acting President Susanna Luchenko to Captain John Sheridan, 2261.
http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Susanna_Luchenko
I agree with the importance of that TED talk link, and raise you a whole show dedicated to the subject:
http://schoolsucksproject.com/
Firing the guy, ignoring the fact that it's likely impossible, isn't going to solve the problem.
The problem is human beings shouldn't be allowed to have power over other human beings.
Don't worry, I'm sure our wonderfully competent amnd benevolent federal government will step in and take over everything and make it better. Because poor quality is always to be blamed on the free market, not past interference by our wise and saintly government. Or at least that's what I was conditioned to believe in school. (A government service.)
Or maybe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0tKl0J-S4 -- The Death of Healthcare, Part 1
That's wonderful! I hope this becomes a trend.
Your response to me is only a few lines long, with half of it dedicated to describing the ludicrous hypothetical of a first grader dropping out at 16, and I'm the one who's sans medication?
Child abuse is not universally against the law. Only a small subset of child abuse types are.
It's still legal to:
- yell at your children
- spank your children
- force them go to child prison (aka "school") for 12 years of formative torture
- and don't even get me started on organized religion...
When is google going to ban images of circumcision? Oh, right, they're using a popular-in-this-era-and-politically-acceptable definition of child abuse, rather than a consistent, rationally-derived one.
Truman was trying to end the war between Japan and the U.S. before it could become a long, drawn out ground war costing millions more lives. AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public. Japan did not immediately surrender after the first A-Bomb attack, and that's when the 2nd bomb was used, and only then did Japan surrender. Thank God that Japan did not know that Truman was bluffing his poker hand, or the war could have gone on far longer.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
Enough with the euphemisms. Taxation is merely what the state calls theft when it's the one doing it.
So what you're really saying is "the state is stealing more from me than this other guy; that's not fair; they should steal more from the other guy". Which is fucking nuts.
What you should be saying is "the state is stealing more from me than this other guy; that's not fair; they should steal less from me".
It's time for mandatory licensing of older works.
WTF?
You want to fix problems caused by government laws (the use of force against people who pattern their bits a certain way) by more government laws (more force, this time against people pretending they can own a pattern of bits)?
Why not just get rid of the original stupid law?
Wow. Someone is still trying to reach out with logic and real compassion? (as opposed to the fake compassion of socialism)
I fear you're heading for -1 land, considering the /. political demographics...
I think the current administration is down with Mr. Marx. I'm more concerned about them banning Rothbard. :)
Arg! I'm blaming lack of coffee.
s/succession/secession/g
You cannot reform or even influence the federal government. It is too big, too entrenched, too corrupt. Anyone who claims otherwise is either lying to themselves or to you.
The only practical option is succession. If you live in one of the fifty states, advocate for succession. You can't fight the beast, but you can withdraw your 1/50th of support for it, and when enough other states do the same, the beast will vanish into angry, disbelieving smoke.
Nearly every libertarian book, essay, and blog post is just a google search away.
Shakin' my head, man, shakin' my head.
We are spending... we still could hit the debt ceiling... our credit rating will drop... we'll finally be forced to pay off some of it...
You keep saying we. Did you personally borrow and spend that money? Is that *your* debt?
As for paying it off, you're naive if you think it's ever going to be paid off, or that the state even *wants* to pay it off, or could if it wanted to.
And even if they did, who's money do you think they're going to use to do it? Yours, that's who's.
If only people would see how much sense secession makes, rather than auto-responding based on their school programming with such stupidity as "the issue of secession was already decided in 1865" and "so you want to go back to slavery?".
Sigh.
"Industry trade groups have no fucking business writing curriculum for children."
Neither does the government. Now that the government controls the schools (a recent development), there's no way to stop this from happening, since you have no practical influence over the actions of your own government.
Thanks, progressives.
Arg. Just noticed I'm not logged in. Fixed, now.
The above post is mine.
Best terrestrial option:
http://freestateproject.org/
Disclosure: I am early mover #488.
Of course, if you've got space capabilities, by all means.
Here in New Hampshire, home of the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org), that's already happening. We're about to go have a protest next week in Concord against the city PD requesting what is essentially a tank. In the reasons stated on the form they filled out to apply for the DHS grant, they specifically reference "Free Staters" and "Occupy" as potential threats they're worried about -- as justification for getting a fucking TANK.
http://freekeene.com/2013/07/29/concord-pd-requests-a-bearcat-to-deal-with-sovereign-citizens-free-staters-and-occupy-new-hampshire/
Every time I see something like this, I flashback to the scene in Farenheit 451 when the government takes over everyone's wall-screen to post pictures of the fugitive (the protagonist) and tell them to go outside and look for him so he can't hide.
Anyone who thinks the government should have this power is not my friend.