He believes in ron paul. You can tell that by reading his posts where he often provides "facts" by linking to youtube videos of that old retired fascist windbag giving speeches that no thinking person would want to listen to. roman_mir is just a modern day fascist, who hopes to make himself a prominent position in a resurrection of fascist ideals so that he can force his way near the top of the very narrow power pyramid.
Make no mistake about it, his goals include fascism for the people.
Fascism is only a form of collectivism, a subset, same as socialism is a form of collectivism.
Not in the way you use the term "collectivism", fascism is not a form of it. Fascism is only the concentration of power into the hands of very few, with ultimate and unquestionable power exerted over the rest. The neo-capitalism that you endorse in your postings is truly only a modern incarnation of fascism, as you want to see an extreme concentration of power into the hands of very few with the rest left no recourse at all.
That is how your church of ron paul aims deliver fascism for the people.
Money. Millions of dollars. That's how you buy silence and it's a very cheap way to get ahead in elections that cost hundreds of millions.
because, of-course, politicians should not only not be prohibited from buying and selling influence, power, and votes they should actually be encouraged to do so. if they are not allowed to do this, then the little people can get in the way and prevent the powerful from pulling the levers and moving this country in the direction that your god wants it to go. this is just a part of your plan to bring more power for the powerful and fascism for the people.
I am actually against most of what government does and against most government taxes.
of-course you are. how dare the government impede on your interest in treating human beings like property that can be bought, sold, and discarded at will. how dare they prevent you from willfully poisoning the public. how dare they prevent you from attempting to bring your religion up to be the new order for the land with a completely unchecked leader-for-life. how dare they prevent you from bringing more power to the powerful and fascism for the people.
No, it doesn't make me happy to force people into anything
you have a record of embracing action that forces people into poverty and other oppressed states.
it makes me unhappy that so many people believe in forcing others into whatever it is they find to be 'moral'
so because you have no moral objection to forcing people into poverty you don't see a problem with the morality of your aims.
I am for individual liberty and freedom for a reason
the reason for freedom being, of-course, to increase power and profit at the top of the economic pyramid. that is how you enslave the masses and bring fascism for the people.
I am interested in building a service that would compile this public record information with other information, that I may come from other sources, like the social media, maybe some private company records, etc. and I would sell this information to the willing employers for a subscription fee. If there is a way to identify the employees that file claims against employers, this information needs to be provided to the employers that are interested in figuring out if they are hiring somebody who is more likely to sue them and then it's their choice to take or not to take this risk.
So you're saying you want to build a service that makes a blacklist of people who employers would not want to hire, so that employers can reject them out-of-hand based on what might or might not even be accurate or relevant information. You would, of course, not make this information accessible to the employees themselves, as it would not be in your interest (as the seller of said service) to allow them the opportunity to know what information is available about them or give them a chance to respond to it.
Wow. Once you couple that with your dream state of uber-fascism where employees can be forced to work 23.9 hours a day for no pay at all, I'm glad I don't live where you want to live.
But of course your dream stat is all about giving more power to the powerful and further suppressing the working class. That is how you aim to deliver fascism for the people.
Libertarian, free market guy in any government? I just hope he is in fact a real libertarian.
What the hell do you know about a "real libertarian"? Your version of libertarianism is just fascism with fancy veneer. It wouldn't do you, or >>99% of the rest of the country, any good to elect someone with your beliefs to power. Your version of libertarianism only brings pain and fascism for the people.
Yep, you nailed him. But there's little difference between crazed and crazy
Crazy people generally can enjoy their craziness without insisting everyone else needs to have it. Crazed people take their craziness as their mission, and that they need to convert the rest of the world to their mindset. It's somewhat the difference between any politician named Bush we've ever known, and Michele Bachmann.
There are a couple of guys at a bar I go to that follow roman's religion, and a guy who thinks I'm a space alien in disguise. They're a lot alike.
Indeed I'm sure they could have an interesting discussion betwixt the lot of them. I am surprised though that any adherent to roman's religion would be willing to drink beer from a bar, I would expect they would find it to be counter to their belief system to consume something that the government has regulated for safety.
Finally however we can see already that we shouldn't count roman out regarding his karma. He has already pulled up his karma to to the point where he can post at least 6 times per day - he was previously capped at once or twice - and he managed that through karma whoring. He still posts at -1 but he can't be far from achieving zero again soon.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
If employees are valuable, companies will want to protect them; otherwise, they won't. Do you not understand how free markets work?
In the current labor market employees have very little value. In roman_mir's fascist fantasy world they have none whatsoever. Hence employers will treat employees with less regard than they afford empty toner cartridges.
Roman_mir is not just crazy, he's crazed. Even more so, he is a devout crazed cult member. He is certain that his mission with his remaining time on earth is to convert the entire world* to his religion, no matter what the cost.
* well, at least enough to the point where his cult can take control of the world by force and sell all the nonbelievers into slavery.
Don't worry, his karma's so deep in the hole no amount of karma-whoring will get him out, and I don't think he's capable of effectively whoring, anyway.
Look back through his comment history and you'll see he has pulled it off before. Look far enough back and you'll also see what he's capable of doing when his karma makes it out of the shitter; I think this guy probably wears out keyboards in a hurry just writing slashdot comments for his church.
The difference between him and Ethanol-Fueled is roman_mir is serious. The man has a few screws loose.
I'm pretty sure he sold all his screws to raise money for his religious movement. If you're not careful he'll remove yours to sell as well.
as long as the silent or vocal majority wants government to regulate, tax, subsidise, print, there won't be anything left for real justice, real equality and real freedom.
That statement makes no sense in regards to the topic of worker deaths. You just put one of your religious mantras at the top so you can come back later and say "that's what I already said" as if it somehow relates.
Workers don't want to die
How would you know? You've shown many times before that you don't give a shit if workers live or die. If you had an employee who died working for you, I expect you'd throw the body in your neighbor's trash and disavow ever having known him as anything else could get in the way of your god-given right to pursue profit.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
However all of the existing regulations, taxes, etc., all that burden prevents companies from growing, from hiring.
They haven't had much trouble replacing the dead guys and bringing more guys in as well. In other words as usual your statement doesn't hold water.
If government was interested in actually lowering unemployment
Why do you give a shit if the government wants lower unemployment? You have said dozens of times here that you support higher unemployment. You're trying to play both sides here to get your karma back out of the shitter.
Stop karma-whoring, roman. It doesn't look any better on you than it does on anyone else. Just try using direct and non-offensive statements to voice your opinion and your fellow cult members (there are plenty of them here on slashdot, even if we exclude your sock puppets) will bring your karma back up for you over time. If you instead insist on lies and insults you will continue to drive away the people who would otherwise chorus back your beliefs.
In other words, you can get your karma back, you just need to be kind to both those who want and those who do not want fascism for the people.
Well of-course they want to use that to spy on you
That is American conservatism, such as what is currently running the country.
They want to know your every thought, not only what you say on the phone or type, but what do you think, what do you feel about things.
That is soviet style fascism, the product of conservatism run amok.
Not only do they want to know what you think, they want to force you to think what they want you to think and nothing else.
That is the product of unrestrained religious fascism. Only one political movement that gets much attention in the US attempts to go in that direction, and you are a member of that movement. Only a cult-like movement with a god-like leader would even dare pursue such a goal.
Only the Church of Ron Paul (TM) so blatantly wishes to deliver more power for the powerful, and fascism for the people.
Just wait for the next generation of employee exploitation. We keep stripping away worker's rights and reinforcing the rights of the "job creators". You will look back fondly at times when we worried about companies tracking their customers when we arrive at a time where companies are working their employees 60 hours a week for 30 hours pay without benefits and able to blacklist them permanently for the most minor of infractions.
Distracting the average American from the real problem is just one step towards establishing fascism for the people.
You gave a link to a Ron Paul propaganda site. Why should it be viewed as being an impartial take on events?
(or anyone that was even passingly familiar with Dr Paul's actions in the house)
I am familiar with Ron Paul's actions in the house. He repeatedly argued against the war on economic grounds. Not once did he argue against it on humanitarian grounds.
It's a straw man, and not even one showing the slightest bit of cleverness.
I'm sorry that you are such a devout follower of Ron Paul that you can't handle people who dare to point out that he is not the greatest person ever to breathe air. The fact of the matter remains, however, that Ron Paul was not concerned with the ethical or humanitarian aspects of war, he was concerned only with the government's ability to pay for it. I will even concede that indeed that was a valid point, and I agree that the Bush administration was full of shit when they claimed that the war would "pay for itself" and "be over quickly", I agreed with those criticisms although they were not my main objection to the war nor were they what Kucinich said against the war.
given the absolute and utter lack of any factual knowledge you have about him,
I have demonstrated knowledge about him already. You have provided a single link to a propaganda site.
My talk with stupid allowance for the day is out, go find someone else to troll
I'm sorry that you are so concerned about making Ron Paul look good that you can't partake in a conversation about his politics with anyone who does not agree with your point of view. Ron Paul is, like many politicians, far from perfect. The fact that you can't even accept that fact shows that you did not enter this discussion wanting to actually have a discussion at all.
No. You provided a link to a site that is dedicated to recruiting more members to the church of ron paul. You then repeated their mantras without concern for the reality of the situation. If you can provide a less disgustingly biased source of "facts" we can have a discussion. Being as any person who has been awake for the past 20 years already knew that Kucinich was opposed to war outright before 9/11 because he opposes war - while Ron Paul opposes war because he doesn't want to fund it with taxes - and yet you claim that somehow Ron Paul was responsible for bringing about a great sea change of congressional opinion, there likely is no point in trying to show you that indeed the sky is blue, gravity is a force that attracts objects to each other, and the earth is more than six thousand years old.
Of course, the blatant disregard of facts is a classic tactic of fascists like ron paul and his followers. Once you can install yourself as the sole arbiter of truth you have far less resistance as you try to deliver power for the wealthy and fascism for the people.
You provided a self-promoting link that gives far more credit to ron paul than he deserves. He didn't convince anyone to change their stance on war, he gathered up people who already opposed it and then took credit for talking with them. On top of that, several of them - Dennis Kucinich in particular - were spoken opponents of the war before him and for markedly different reasons than his own. Ron Paul is a cheap bastard who doesn't care if people die in war, as long as he doesn't have to pay for it. Kucinich in particular is opposed to war outright. Ron Paul might as well take credit for George W Bush being a Christian as he had as much to do with that happening.
What is it that you are crediting Ron Paul with bringing those people together to do? Passing a flags for veterans bill makes for good window dressing but means nothing beyond that. And what exactly did he do differently that brought those people together?
All you have provided so far is a list of names. You could have chosen any number of names at random for that purpose since you haven't bothered to connect them to an action.
The team proposes that with the right training, it could be possible to help psychopaths activate their 'empathy switch', which could bring them a step closer to rehabilitation
- so they are trying to fix something that is not broken... sounds like various treatments for many other non-issues.
Just because psychopaths are a key demographic for expanding your religious movement doesn't mean they are good for society in general.
In what strange upside down universe are all these Democrats "conservative nutjobs?"
Who are all these supposed democrats who Ron Paul worked with? His usual strategy was to ally himself with the most conservative nutjobs in congress, and then try to bring a few of the less nutty ones over to his camp. Since he made the less radical conservatives look slightly less insane by comparison, he called his efforts "bipartisan" and "reaching across the aisle".
And of course, redefining everything they can is just one step of their plan. Once they can convince the country that their craziness is normal, it becomes that much easier to continue on towards unleashing fascism for the people.
The core of this was a cross-party coalition Paul built over his last few years in Congress
How is uniting the hyper-conservative nutjobs with the plain conservative nutjobs an act that qualifies as a "cross-party coalition"?
so in a sense the good Doctor was there
No, I'm quite sure The Doctor was not there in any meaningful way. Ron Paul was, as far as physicians go, a pretty average obstetrician if you go by the number of deliveries / year that he attended in the size of the community he lived and practiced medicine in.
Doesn't he usually oppose everything that involves spending money? Isn't he supposed to be the great champion of civil liberties and The American Way (TM)? Surely, we should be able to count on him to vote to defund the NSA, shouldn't we?
It could also be described as dictating to the customers what they want, more so than ignoring their requests. This works well when your customers only request more of whatever you produce regardless of whether or not it is something they have a need / use for. This indeed works well for gods, as your own god has demonstrated by the way that you endlessly consume his product and insist it is the only product anyone needs.
Well, those who are not aware of history are bound to repeat it.
That is a strange statement from someone who knows as little about history as you, roman.
Looks to me that the people involved should have studied history, real history, real economics and real politics.
You would really do well to take your own advice.
They would have immediately understood that they were trying to implement a communist experiment
Where did you actually grow up? You claim to have lived in the soviet union yet you know essentially nothing about communism. Granted, the USSR leaders up to Gorbachev weren't following anything close to communist ideals - and neither was anyone since Stalin - but you should have at least heard enough from the party to have known what communism wanted to accomplish.
on a smaller scale and it was obviously going to fail
Actually, anyone who knows anything about communism knows that it only works on a small scale. Companies, up to very small states, can implement it successfully. Otherwise it falls apart due to the power vacuum that it creates that will draw in someone to take over the system.
not paying attention to history ends up biting you in the ass.
That is probably the most truthful statement you have ever made. Unfortunately you are willingly ignorant of much of human history and encouraging people to subscribe only to your favorite theology without regards for history. Many other religious movements have told their followers the same and ended up in the same dust bin you are headed towards.
Hell last year we had some dipshit who was a sheriff's deputy leave his loaded and unlocked gun sitting around, and a kid picked it up and killed a woman with it. Would anyone have tagged him as a dangerous owner before?
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He believes in ron paul. You can tell that by reading his posts where he often provides "facts" by linking to youtube videos of that old retired fascist windbag giving speeches that no thinking person would want to listen to. roman_mir is just a modern day fascist, who hopes to make himself a prominent position in a resurrection of fascist ideals so that he can force his way near the top of the very narrow power pyramid.
Make no mistake about it, his goals include fascism for the people.
Fascism is only a form of collectivism, a subset, same as socialism is a form of collectivism.
Not in the way you use the term "collectivism", fascism is not a form of it. Fascism is only the concentration of power into the hands of very few, with ultimate and unquestionable power exerted over the rest. The neo-capitalism that you endorse in your postings is truly only a modern incarnation of fascism, as you want to see an extreme concentration of power into the hands of very few with the rest left no recourse at all.
That is how your church of ron paul aims deliver fascism for the people.
Money. Millions of dollars. That's how you buy silence and it's a very cheap way to get ahead in elections that cost hundreds of millions.
because, of-course, politicians should not only not be prohibited from buying and selling influence, power, and votes they should actually be encouraged to do so. if they are not allowed to do this, then the little people can get in the way and prevent the powerful from pulling the levers and moving this country in the direction that your god wants it to go. this is just a part of your plan to bring more power for the powerful and fascism for the people.
I am actually against most of what government does and against most government taxes.
of-course you are. how dare the government impede on your interest in treating human beings like property that can be bought, sold, and discarded at will. how dare they prevent you from willfully poisoning the public. how dare they prevent you from attempting to bring your religion up to be the new order for the land with a completely unchecked leader-for-life. how dare they prevent you from bringing more power to the powerful and fascism for the people.
No, it doesn't make me happy to force people into anything
you have a record of embracing action that forces people into poverty and other oppressed states.
it makes me unhappy that so many people believe in forcing others into whatever it is they find to be 'moral'
so because you have no moral objection to forcing people into poverty you don't see a problem with the morality of your aims.
I am for individual liberty and freedom for a reason
the reason for freedom being, of-course, to increase power and profit at the top of the economic pyramid. that is how you enslave the masses and bring fascism for the people.
I am interested in building a service that would compile this public record information with other information, that I may come from other sources, like the social media, maybe some private company records, etc. and I would sell this information to the willing employers for a subscription fee. If there is a way to identify the employees that file claims against employers, this information needs to be provided to the employers that are interested in figuring out if they are hiring somebody who is more likely to sue them and then it's their choice to take or not to take this risk.
So you're saying you want to build a service that makes a blacklist of people who employers would not want to hire, so that employers can reject them out-of-hand based on what might or might not even be accurate or relevant information. You would, of course, not make this information accessible to the employees themselves, as it would not be in your interest (as the seller of said service) to allow them the opportunity to know what information is available about them or give them a chance to respond to it.
Wow. Once you couple that with your dream state of uber-fascism where employees can be forced to work 23.9 hours a day for no pay at all, I'm glad I don't live where you want to live.
But of course your dream stat is all about giving more power to the powerful and further suppressing the working class. That is how you aim to deliver fascism for the people.
Libertarian, free market guy in any government? I just hope he is in fact a real libertarian.
What the hell do you know about a "real libertarian"? Your version of libertarianism is just fascism with fancy veneer. It wouldn't do you, or >>99% of the rest of the country, any good to elect someone with your beliefs to power. Your version of libertarianism only brings pain and fascism for the people.
Yep, you nailed him. But there's little difference between crazed and crazy
Crazy people generally can enjoy their craziness without insisting everyone else needs to have it. Crazed people take their craziness as their mission, and that they need to convert the rest of the world to their mindset. It's somewhat the difference between any politician named Bush we've ever known, and Michele Bachmann.
There are a couple of guys at a bar I go to that follow roman's religion, and a guy who thinks I'm a space alien in disguise. They're a lot alike.
Indeed I'm sure they could have an interesting discussion betwixt the lot of them. I am surprised though that any adherent to roman's religion would be willing to drink beer from a bar, I would expect they would find it to be counter to their belief system to consume something that the government has regulated for safety.
Finally however we can see already that we shouldn't count roman out regarding his karma. He has already pulled up his karma to to the point where he can post at least 6 times per day - he was previously capped at once or twice - and he managed that through karma whoring. He still posts at -1 but he can't be far from achieving zero again soon.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
If employees are valuable, companies will want to protect them; otherwise, they won't. Do you not understand how free markets work?
In the current labor market employees have very little value. In roman_mir's fascist fantasy world they have none whatsoever. Hence employers will treat employees with less regard than they afford empty toner cartridges.
I can handle crazy people
Roman_mir is not just crazy, he's crazed. Even more so, he is a devout crazed cult member. He is certain that his mission with his remaining time on earth is to convert the entire world* to his religion, no matter what the cost.
* well, at least enough to the point where his cult can take control of the world by force and sell all the nonbelievers into slavery.
Don't worry, his karma's so deep in the hole no amount of karma-whoring will get him out, and I don't think he's capable of effectively whoring, anyway.
Look back through his comment history and you'll see he has pulled it off before. Look far enough back and you'll also see what he's capable of doing when his karma makes it out of the shitter; I think this guy probably wears out keyboards in a hurry just writing slashdot comments for his church.
The difference between him and Ethanol-Fueled is roman_mir is serious. The man has a few screws loose.
I'm pretty sure he sold all his screws to raise money for his religious movement. If you're not careful he'll remove yours to sell as well.
as long as the silent or vocal majority wants government to regulate, tax, subsidise, print, there won't be anything left for real justice, real equality and real freedom.
That statement makes no sense in regards to the topic of worker deaths. You just put one of your religious mantras at the top so you can come back later and say "that's what I already said" as if it somehow relates.
Workers don't want to die
How would you know? You've shown many times before that you don't give a shit if workers live or die. If you had an employee who died working for you, I expect you'd throw the body in your neighbor's trash and disavow ever having known him as anything else could get in the way of your god-given right to pursue profit.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
However all of the existing regulations, taxes, etc., all that burden prevents companies from growing, from hiring.
They haven't had much trouble replacing the dead guys and bringing more guys in as well. In other words as usual your statement doesn't hold water.
If government was interested in actually lowering unemployment
Why do you give a shit if the government wants lower unemployment? You have said dozens of times here that you support higher unemployment. You're trying to play both sides here to get your karma back out of the shitter.
Stop karma-whoring, roman. It doesn't look any better on you than it does on anyone else. Just try using direct and non-offensive statements to voice your opinion and your fellow cult members (there are plenty of them here on slashdot, even if we exclude your sock puppets) will bring your karma back up for you over time. If you instead insist on lies and insults you will continue to drive away the people who would otherwise chorus back your beliefs.
In other words, you can get your karma back, you just need to be kind to both those who want and those who do not want fascism for the people.
Well of-course they want to use that to spy on you
That is American conservatism, such as what is currently running the country.
They want to know your every thought, not only what you say on the phone or type, but what do you think, what do you feel about things.
That is soviet style fascism, the product of conservatism run amok.
Not only do they want to know what you think, they want to force you to think what they want you to think and nothing else.
That is the product of unrestrained religious fascism. Only one political movement that gets much attention in the US attempts to go in that direction, and you are a member of that movement. Only a cult-like movement with a god-like leader would even dare pursue such a goal.
Only the Church of Ron Paul (TM) so blatantly wishes to deliver more power for the powerful, and fascism for the people.
Just wait for the next generation of employee exploitation. We keep stripping away worker's rights and reinforcing the rights of the "job creators". You will look back fondly at times when we worried about companies tracking their customers when we arrive at a time where companies are working their employees 60 hours a week for 30 hours pay without benefits and able to blacklist them permanently for the most minor of infractions.
Distracting the average American from the real problem is just one step towards establishing fascism for the people.
And anyone that read or watched the link
You gave a link to a Ron Paul propaganda site. Why should it be viewed as being an impartial take on events?
(or anyone that was even passingly familiar with Dr Paul's actions in the house)
I am familiar with Ron Paul's actions in the house. He repeatedly argued against the war on economic grounds. Not once did he argue against it on humanitarian grounds.
It's a straw man, and not even one showing the slightest bit of cleverness.
I'm sorry that you are such a devout follower of Ron Paul that you can't handle people who dare to point out that he is not the greatest person ever to breathe air. The fact of the matter remains, however, that Ron Paul was not concerned with the ethical or humanitarian aspects of war, he was concerned only with the government's ability to pay for it. I will even concede that indeed that was a valid point, and I agree that the Bush administration was full of shit when they claimed that the war would "pay for itself" and "be over quickly", I agreed with those criticisms although they were not my main objection to the war nor were they what Kucinich said against the war.
given the absolute and utter lack of any factual knowledge you have about him,
I have demonstrated knowledge about him already. You have provided a single link to a propaganda site.
My talk with stupid allowance for the day is out, go find someone else to troll
I'm sorry that you are so concerned about making Ron Paul look good that you can't partake in a conversation about his politics with anyone who does not agree with your point of view. Ron Paul is, like many politicians, far from perfect. The fact that you can't even accept that fact shows that you did not enter this discussion wanting to actually have a discussion at all.
No. You provided a link to a site that is dedicated to recruiting more members to the church of ron paul. You then repeated their mantras without concern for the reality of the situation. If you can provide a less disgustingly biased source of "facts" we can have a discussion. Being as any person who has been awake for the past 20 years already knew that Kucinich was opposed to war outright before 9/11 because he opposes war - while Ron Paul opposes war because he doesn't want to fund it with taxes - and yet you claim that somehow Ron Paul was responsible for bringing about a great sea change of congressional opinion, there likely is no point in trying to show you that indeed the sky is blue, gravity is a force that attracts objects to each other, and the earth is more than six thousand years old.
Of course, the blatant disregard of facts is a classic tactic of fascists like ron paul and his followers. Once you can install yourself as the sole arbiter of truth you have far less resistance as you try to deliver power for the wealthy and fascism for the people.
You provided a self-promoting link that gives far more credit to ron paul than he deserves. He didn't convince anyone to change their stance on war, he gathered up people who already opposed it and then took credit for talking with them. On top of that, several of them - Dennis Kucinich in particular - were spoken opponents of the war before him and for markedly different reasons than his own. Ron Paul is a cheap bastard who doesn't care if people die in war, as long as he doesn't have to pay for it. Kucinich in particular is opposed to war outright. Ron Paul might as well take credit for George W Bush being a Christian as he had as much to do with that happening.
What is it that you are crediting Ron Paul with bringing those people together to do? Passing a flags for veterans bill makes for good window dressing but means nothing beyond that. And what exactly did he do differently that brought those people together?
All you have provided so far is a list of names. You could have chosen any number of names at random for that purpose since you haven't bothered to connect them to an action.
The team proposes that with the right training, it could be possible to help psychopaths activate their 'empathy switch', which could bring them a step closer to rehabilitation
- so they are trying to fix something that is not broken... sounds like various treatments for many other non-issues.
Just because psychopaths are a key demographic for expanding your religious movement doesn't mean they are good for society in general.
In what strange upside down universe are all these Democrats "conservative nutjobs?"
Who are all these supposed democrats who Ron Paul worked with? His usual strategy was to ally himself with the most conservative nutjobs in congress, and then try to bring a few of the less nutty ones over to his camp. Since he made the less radical conservatives look slightly less insane by comparison, he called his efforts "bipartisan" and "reaching across the aisle".
And of course, redefining everything they can is just one step of their plan. Once they can convince the country that their craziness is normal, it becomes that much easier to continue on towards unleashing fascism for the people.
The core of this was a cross-party coalition Paul built over his last few years in Congress
How is uniting the hyper-conservative nutjobs with the plain conservative nutjobs an act that qualifies as a "cross-party coalition"?
so in a sense the good Doctor was there
No, I'm quite sure The Doctor was not there in any meaningful way. Ron Paul was, as far as physicians go, a pretty average obstetrician if you go by the number of deliveries / year that he attended in the size of the community he lived and practiced medicine in.
Doesn't he usually oppose everything that involves spending money? Isn't he supposed to be the great champion of civil liberties and The American Way (TM)? Surely, we should be able to count on him to vote to defund the NSA, shouldn't we?
It could also be described as dictating to the customers what they want, more so than ignoring their requests. This works well when your customers only request more of whatever you produce regardless of whether or not it is something they have a need / use for. This indeed works well for gods, as your own god has demonstrated by the way that you endlessly consume his product and insist it is the only product anyone needs.
Well, those who are not aware of history are bound to repeat it.
That is a strange statement from someone who knows as little about history as you, roman.
Looks to me that the people involved should have studied history, real history, real economics and real politics.
You would really do well to take your own advice.
They would have immediately understood that they were trying to implement a communist experiment
Where did you actually grow up? You claim to have lived in the soviet union yet you know essentially nothing about communism. Granted, the USSR leaders up to Gorbachev weren't following anything close to communist ideals - and neither was anyone since Stalin - but you should have at least heard enough from the party to have known what communism wanted to accomplish.
on a smaller scale and it was obviously going to fail
Actually, anyone who knows anything about communism knows that it only works on a small scale. Companies, up to very small states, can implement it successfully. Otherwise it falls apart due to the power vacuum that it creates that will draw in someone to take over the system.
not paying attention to history ends up biting you in the ass.
That is probably the most truthful statement you have ever made. Unfortunately you are willingly ignorant of much of human history and encouraging people to subscribe only to your favorite theology without regards for history. Many other religious movements have told their followers the same and ended up in the same dust bin you are headed towards.
Hell last year we had some dipshit who was a sheriff's deputy leave his loaded and unlocked gun sitting around, and a kid picked it up and killed a woman with it. Would anyone have tagged him as a dangerous owner before?