democracy is not mob rule. really. i leave it to your boundless intelligence as to why, as i don't have the time nor patience nor the intellectual charity in a comment board to explain the obvious to you
so thank you for demolishing the idea of mob rule, but when you'd like to say something intelligent about democracy, get back to me
and finally, if you have so little faith in democracy, however logically incoherent your reasons why, why don't you go live in an autocracy. gee, i don't see you packing. i wonder why. maybe its because you like shooting your ignorant mouth off, which isn't really tolerated in autocracies
also, thanks for insulting the recently killed in germany, moronic asshole
although true of all the low countries, belgium is yet more cold and clammy and humid than the netherlands. this means people generally have a lot of mucus build up in their airways. so in belgium they speak their dutch with a more gutteral, throaty idiom
canadians are rural country bumpkins who have nothing serious or pressing to discuss so they ramble on and on and "eh" this and "aboot" that and pretty soon you lost track of what you were interested in or talking about so you zip up your parka because the sun is going down (it just rose an hour ago!) and you just go just go and click any link to pass the time...yes, what i just wrote is retarded
but we're talking about national culture and character informing website design, which, to me, is an equally retarded subject matter
as your post aptly demonstrates: the connection is not weak or tenuous, it is nonexistent
the rules of the game are this: protect your secrets. be constantly paranoid about evolving threats. protect against those threats and anything else you can imagine. once you've locked every door you can possibly conceive of 5 different ways, then look for more doors and make 6 different locks. rinse and repeat
this game is called the game of national security. there is no sympathy if china loses its national secrets. there is no sympathy if russia loses its national secrets. why do you think there should be any sympathy about fairplay and decency if the usa loses its national secrets?
"its not fair"
not fair? is there or has there ever been anything fair in the game of national secrets?
if you don't protect your secrets, and they get out, guess what? you lose. simple as that. no other recourse, no blame game
whining about whoever released the secrets, wherever they were hosted, and whoever reported on them, etc., is completely besides the point and marks you as insufficient in character for the nature of the hardcore game you are commenting on
we are not talking about the civil behavior of government officials or your reputation in high school. arenas where concepts such as fairplay, decency, reciprocity, trust, etc., have valid meaning. we are talking about the game of national secrets. nothing matters except vigilance
that means you take responsibility for the integrity and the maintenance of your secrets, and if they are released, then you, and you alone, have failed, and no one else is to blame, because such a blame game is completely besides the point: you can't put the genie back in the bottle, so the game is completely over at the point of release of secrets
so stop whining. or admit you don't have the stomach for such a hardcore game, and go comment on an easier game
but you have absolutely zero right to complain and no basis to complain, because you clearly do not understand the hardcore nature of the game you are commenting on
you mention release, catharsis, as a valid psychological goal, and the chinese are so smart to see that
well, voting, participating in your government, is an equally valid form of release, but of political anxiety rather than sexual anxiety. but the chinese don't do that. so whatever sexual anxiety they are allowing to be released leading to social stability is way, way more than outclassed by the political instability they don't allow to be released, thus making their political system fragile and weak, thus completely undermining their social stability as well
yes: autocracy is weak. when the rulers submit to the opinion of the ruled, in the eyes of the ruled, the government is legitimate. when the people think their government is legitimate, they trust it, and social stability results (and education, security, prosperity, happiness, etc.: everything else becomes possible)
of course, in the west, you see all sorts of distrust of the government freely and loudly expressed. but that's because such expression of distrust is freely ALLOWED, and thus, BURNED OFF, released, expunged, and expelled
in an autocratic system, meanwhile, that distrust still exists, but it is not released. it builds up, like a pressure cooker. the leaders of china are constantly playing defense, constantly worrying about every little spark turning into a major fire. and the job keeps getting harder and harder, because the fuel, the people ready to express their anger, constantly builds. there will be a flashpoint, someday, until and unless china finds the ultimate release valve: democracy
the reality is that, in ALL countries, over time, the people's faith in their government decays. certainly, propaganda, and lingering faith and glory from the days of revolution help to instill a little faith in government, but distrust always builds over time, everywhere, and if there is no way to refill that well of trust (such as with voting), then trust and legitimacy will eventually run dry
democracy has plenty of weaknesses, its very messy and noisy and obnoxious, for one. china meanwhile favors "harmony": a false placid lie of everyone being content. which is complete bullshit. everyone has complaints. rather than the truth of constant grudges and anger, as freely allowed, in the west. there's your release that is really needed
democracy's greatest strength is that it constantly renews the people's faith in their government, and thus, democracies are stable. all other forms of government: theocracy, monarchy, autcracy, whatever: legitimacy is derived from god, or genetic lineage, or whoever has all the guns. but these sources of legitimacy have nothing to do with what the people THINK is legitimate, and what the people who are ruled THINK is really the only thing that matters as to if your government survives or not. god doesn't care, genetic lineage is a fairy tale, and you can't shoot everyone. therefore all governments besides democracy are much more fragile and prone to revolution
democracy, in fact, hardly ever has revolutions (unless it is badly corrupt, and therefore not really a democracy anymore), because democracy, in effect, through voting, has INSTITUTIONALIZED revolution. revolution is the ultimate release of course. but REAL revolutions are messy and destructive affairs, and you never really know who is going to be the final leader in the end, so that form of release is very dangerous
the institutionalized form of messy, loud, constantly frothing freely stated hatred and distrust of government, in the west, has the paradoxical attribute of making western governments very stable: there's nothing to build upon the distrust and anger if it is constantly being released, rather than bottled up, and reserved, for serious revolutionary activity. in this way, democracies are stronger and stabler than autocracies
if china ever becomes a democracy, it will truly rule the world, because on all other factors, china really is the strongest. however, if china
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
WE. THE. PEOPLE.
your government is not an alien entity come to rape your daughters, lay egg cases in your cranial cavity, or turn you into a duracell battery. your government is YOU
YOU can hold it accountable by VOTING
if your fellow citizens DON'T WANT these programs you dislike, they vote out the guys who put it in, and the programs GO AWAY
but if your fellow citizens WANT these programs and consider it sensible, then the program stay, and you as the MINORITY VOICE have no right to exert your MINORITY opinion over hte MAJORITY
and then your job is to SHUT UP and ACCEPT what the DEMOCRACY HAS SAID
because the alternative is WORSE: the opinion of the few foisted on the majority. your opinion is in the MINORITY, so YOU LOSE. then maybe you should examine why your philosophy is WRONG: police work is more than just cops cracking skulls on street corners. it is also REGULATING OUR FINANCIAL INDUSTRY. REGULATING OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY: POLICE WORK. that you WANT to pay for, for without this "bureaucracy" you get oil spills every month
CLEAN UP your government, don't REDUCE IT. then all the abuses you hate come back a hundred fold
group A: only the sick and old have health insurance. premiums are expensive. because they are SICK and OLD
the uninsured 22 year old making $20K breaks his arm. he has $50 in his bank account. he can't afford it. the hospital bills him, he ignores the bills. the hospital bills the state, because we can't afford our hospitals to go bankrupt. this goes on ALL THE TIME IN THE USA MORON
group B: EVERYONE has to have health insurance. premiums are low. BECAUSE THE YOUNG HARDLY GET SICK. hospitals are healthy. the focus is on PREVENTATIVE medicine rather than emergency medicine. that diabetes gets caught sooner (and cheaper). that heart condition gets caught sooner (and cheaper)
feel me yet retard?
WAKE
THE
FUCK
UP
YOU
PROPAGANDIZED
IGNORANT
ASSHOLE
you and low iq twatstains like yourself ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY
i want BETTER healthcare for LESS money, and thats what healthcare reform is you ignorant useless motherfucker
i guess traditional white conservatives think of them as liberal only because white conservatives don't know what to make of dem scary black people
its just xenophobia: the "other" is always an agglomeration of everything outside your experience, everything you fear and hate, even if logically the grouping makes no sense
the europeans have better healthcare and pay less for it
why?
because its MANDATORY
in the usa, only those who are sick or old buy it. so it stays expensive. the perfectly healthy 20 year old with no health insurance: he breaks his arm, who pays for that? do you let him go untreated? see why our system sucks yet?
"Has it occurred to you that many of us might not want these services or, if we do want them, we prefer NOT to pay as much for them as the Europeans do?"
do you support the idea of a driver without driver's insurance? no? good. do you understand why? SAME LOGIC APPLIES TO HEALTHCARE, YOU LOW IQ ASSHOLE
the us healthcare system is economically flawed. it MUST be universal, or it is MORE EXPENSIVE for LOWER QUALITY. simple motherfucking economics. solid truth. solid reality
the next time you walk by a man bleeding on the street, ask him if he has $100,000 in the bank to go to the hospital
if he says no, make sure you walk on, or you betray your beliefs
i'm glad you hate poor folk. that makes you really awesome
my ideology is not about no incentive to work. my ideology is about not letting people suffer because they can't afford THE BASICS. not play station 3s, not cadillac escalades, but DIABETES TREATMENT. or HEART MEDICINE. get it asshole?
apparently, your belief is "don't have the money? then hurry up and die"
so go move to haiti. you'll fit right in. because that country is the end result of your "i got mine, fuck you" crass selfishness. you take care of your society, and you GET RICHER. or you spend your money fighting off the poor who just want to eat. you are not an island, the money in your bank account is merely an abstract reflection of the richness of the society around you. you work hard, you invest in your community, and you are a rich man. or you horde every nickel you grab like a greedy slut, and you deny anyone around the simplest of compassion, and you get an ugly mean society full of suffering. you will not define my society, i will. becaus ei care about it. and if you won't pay your fair share for the riches you derive from the bounty of your society, i will make sure you fucking do. get it you greedy asshole?
i'd call what you believe an ideology, but even if you dress a whore up in a nice dress, she's still a whore. likewise, you don't have a philosophy or an ideology. all you have is lizardlike slimy greed
you suck, and you are my enemy, and you will not destroy my country, twatstain
nobody had a plan or willpower to fix the ridiculously expensive unresponsive system except the democrats in 2009
yes or no?
you figure the rest out, idiot
as for hate:
yes, i hate you. because you are destroying this country. because you are not a free thinking individual, you are a radio personality and faux news propaganda-addled asshole arguing against your fellow citizens, and for corporations. you're a slave, and you don't even know it, and all you do is argue for your own continued slavery. and you and those like you are my eternal enemy, because what you stand for will turn this great country into haiti, whether you realize it or not, that's the end result of your ideology. if i and others who realize the truth defeat your propagandized ignorance, then this country will be saved. that really is the fucking truth
every abuse by government you decry, does not happen in haiti. instead, those same abuses, and a hundred thousand worse abuses, happen on every street corner, by thugs and mafia instead
fact, whether you realize it or not: make government small, and a power vacuum will exist that will be filled by entities that are not accountable to you. being not accountable to you, there is no recourse when they abuse you. that really is the truth. someday you will wake up and realize and stop working so damn hard to destroy this country
we don't need nuclear industry regulation, we can just sue the nuclear industry into oblivion after they chernobylize a couple hundred thousand acres for 100,000 years!
we don't need food and drug industry regulation, we can just sue a food or drug industry into oblivion after a couple hundred kids die of tainted food or drugs!
we don't need school regulation, we can just sue the schools into oblivion after our kids wind up being abused idiots!
feel me yet?
the price of no regulation is the destruction of things that cannot be made up monetarily after the fact. you can't put a price on everything, especially something like the goddamn gulf of mexico. there's only one gulf of mexico, friend. put a price on the destruction of that ecosystem and tourist industry. its more than you can get in a courtroom, even from the oil industry, and some of it, like unique species, is priceless. no court case after the fact will bring some things back
furthermore, wouldn't it be better and cheaper for the companies themselves to spend the $20 million to comply with regulations rather than $20 billion to clean up a large oceanic body?
that's why we have regulations. in fact, bad regulations, and shoddy regulators, are still better than no regulations or regulators at all. you have to set standards, or standards WILL be broken. and some of the damage that can be done CANNOT be fixed monetarily with a lawsuit after the fact
we need to CLEAN UP government. we need regulations. we need taxes to pay for regulators and a functioning strong central government. meanwhile, DESTROYING government, which so many tea party and libertarian morons are so intent on doing, is clearly, CLEARLY, much, much worse. think HAITI, retards: that's the end result of libertarian and tea party ideology, whether you idiots realize it or not
His statement came after Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) asked about a Washington Post article that reported that dozens of former Interior officials had crossed over into the oil industry and that three out of four industry lobbyists had once worked for the federal government.
The rate is more than double the norm in Washington, where industries recruit about 30 percent of their lobbyists from the government, according to data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. With more than 600 registered lobbyists, the industry has among the biggest and most powerful contingents in Washington, The Post reported.
the lobbyists, the interior officials, the corporate assholes: all the same people
all the same smoochy same golf hole playing same bar attending backslapping crowd of assholes
that's why we had the disaster in the gulf
you can pass all the regulations you want, it doesn't matter if the ones who are supposed to be policing the industry ARE the industry
you're a genuinely ignorant slave, proud of your ignorance, proud of your closed mind
fact: europe surpasses the usa on a number of measures of quality of life, due to their focus on social justice rather than maximizing corporate profit
but it involves this scary word to you, "socialism", which propaganda has effectively turned, in your brain, into "scary bogeyman i can't think about logically"
why is the concept of quality of life for the average man such an invalid goal in your mind? why is the quality of your own life, the numbers of hours a week you work, the health benefits you receive, the weeks of vacation you receive... why are these concepts something you work your damndest to fight?
THAT'S what socialism is, retard: A FOCUS ON THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE
you are a propagandized fool, and you and those who are propagandized sheep like you are destroying this great country, and as a proud patriotic american, i will not let you hordes of radio parsonality demagogue listening, fake news watching ignorants ruin the united states of america with, your minds bought and paid for by corporate propaganda, and too fucking stupid to realize you are being used, against your own self-interest
"It is in the very nature of governments that they serve their own will. They are their own master and answer only to themselves. Elections just change the names involved."
you are either one hilarious troll or you are seriously fucking retarded
YOU ELECT YOUR GOVERNMENT moron. you LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. that MEANS SOMETHING, something IMPORTANT
when you diminish the power of the government, you create a power vacuum that is filled by corporations
the government must be the most powerful thing in the room. all you are arguing for is corporations being the most powerful thing in the room. list every abuse you can see and can imagine by the government. now add a few more, and remove any ability for recourse, and that's what happens when the corporations are the most powerful thing in the room
if you don't understand that, you really don't understand what the hell is going on. really
there is the government. and then there are corporations. if your mind can't understand that those are two separate things,and that only one of them works with your interests in mind, then your mind and your opinions are useless and logically incoherent
and will fight for what is right and genuinely american, because i love my country
the hordes of low iq partisans will not claim and destroy my country in the name of the corporations that have purchased their dim minds with radio personality demagogues and cable news propaganda. i will ensure that my country exists for the people, by the people, as the founders originally intended. not for the corporations, by the corporations, with dimwits as their tools, fighting for their own enslavement
" you have set up a target that is irresistible for corporations and/or wealthy special interests to attempt to seize control of"
to me, this is like saying it is the fault of the really hot chick that she got raped, not the rapist
corporations are raping our government. i think we can both agree on this. but you, fantastically, see the corporations as helpless to do anything but rape, the poor little things, and the government is evil because it can be raped
we need to remove the infection of corporate money in the government. we do this with laws. this is the only solution possible. do you honestly have a better one?
and would you STOP blaming the government for being infected by corporations. the corporations are the enemy, not your government. what other tool do you believe the average citizen has against the power of the corporation?
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democracy is not mob rule. really. i leave it to your boundless intelligence as to why, as i don't have the time nor patience nor the intellectual charity in a comment board to explain the obvious to you
so thank you for demolishing the idea of mob rule, but when you'd like to say something intelligent about democracy, get back to me
and finally, if you have so little faith in democracy, however logically incoherent your reasons why, why don't you go live in an autocracy. gee, i don't see you packing. i wonder why. maybe its because you like shooting your ignorant mouth off, which isn't really tolerated in autocracies
also, thanks for insulting the recently killed in germany, moronic asshole
although true of all the low countries, belgium is yet more cold and clammy and humid than the netherlands. this means people generally have a lot of mucus build up in their airways. so in belgium they speak their dutch with a more gutteral, throaty idiom
thus, they speak "phlegmish"
canadians are rural country bumpkins who have nothing serious or pressing to discuss so they ramble on and on and "eh" this and "aboot" that and pretty soon you lost track of what you were interested in or talking about so you zip up your parka because the sun is going down (it just rose an hour ago!) and you just go just go and click any link to pass the time ...yes, what i just wrote is retarded
but we're talking about national culture and character informing website design, which, to me, is an equally retarded subject matter
as your post aptly demonstrates: the connection is not weak or tenuous, it is nonexistent
the rules of the game are this: protect your secrets. be constantly paranoid about evolving threats. protect against those threats and anything else you can imagine. once you've locked every door you can possibly conceive of 5 different ways, then look for more doors and make 6 different locks. rinse and repeat
this game is called the game of national security. there is no sympathy if china loses its national secrets. there is no sympathy if russia loses its national secrets. why do you think there should be any sympathy about fairplay and decency if the usa loses its national secrets?
"its not fair"
not fair? is there or has there ever been anything fair in the game of national secrets?
if you don't protect your secrets, and they get out, guess what? you lose. simple as that. no other recourse, no blame game
whining about whoever released the secrets, wherever they were hosted, and whoever reported on them, etc., is completely besides the point and marks you as insufficient in character for the nature of the hardcore game you are commenting on
we are not talking about the civil behavior of government officials or your reputation in high school. arenas where concepts such as fairplay, decency, reciprocity, trust, etc., have valid meaning. we are talking about the game of national secrets. nothing matters except vigilance
that means you take responsibility for the integrity and the maintenance of your secrets, and if they are released, then you, and you alone, have failed, and no one else is to blame, because such a blame game is completely besides the point: you can't put the genie back in the bottle, so the game is completely over at the point of release of secrets
so stop whining. or admit you don't have the stomach for such a hardcore game, and go comment on an easier game
but you have absolutely zero right to complain and no basis to complain, because you clearly do not understand the hardcore nature of the game you are commenting on
they would allow people to vote
you mention release, catharsis, as a valid psychological goal, and the chinese are so smart to see that
well, voting, participating in your government, is an equally valid form of release, but of political anxiety rather than sexual anxiety. but the chinese don't do that. so whatever sexual anxiety they are allowing to be released leading to social stability is way, way more than outclassed by the political instability they don't allow to be released, thus making their political system fragile and weak, thus completely undermining their social stability as well
yes: autocracy is weak. when the rulers submit to the opinion of the ruled, in the eyes of the ruled, the government is legitimate. when the people think their government is legitimate, they trust it, and social stability results (and education, security, prosperity, happiness, etc.: everything else becomes possible)
of course, in the west, you see all sorts of distrust of the government freely and loudly expressed. but that's because such expression of distrust is freely ALLOWED, and thus, BURNED OFF, released, expunged, and expelled
in an autocratic system, meanwhile, that distrust still exists, but it is not released. it builds up, like a pressure cooker. the leaders of china are constantly playing defense, constantly worrying about every little spark turning into a major fire. and the job keeps getting harder and harder, because the fuel, the people ready to express their anger, constantly builds. there will be a flashpoint, someday, until and unless china finds the ultimate release valve: democracy
the reality is that, in ALL countries, over time, the people's faith in their government decays. certainly, propaganda, and lingering faith and glory from the days of revolution help to instill a little faith in government, but distrust always builds over time, everywhere, and if there is no way to refill that well of trust (such as with voting), then trust and legitimacy will eventually run dry
democracy has plenty of weaknesses, its very messy and noisy and obnoxious, for one. china meanwhile favors "harmony": a false placid lie of everyone being content. which is complete bullshit. everyone has complaints. rather than the truth of constant grudges and anger, as freely allowed, in the west. there's your release that is really needed
democracy's greatest strength is that it constantly renews the people's faith in their government, and thus, democracies are stable. all other forms of government: theocracy, monarchy, autcracy, whatever: legitimacy is derived from god, or genetic lineage, or whoever has all the guns. but these sources of legitimacy have nothing to do with what the people THINK is legitimate, and what the people who are ruled THINK is really the only thing that matters as to if your government survives or not. god doesn't care, genetic lineage is a fairy tale, and you can't shoot everyone. therefore all governments besides democracy are much more fragile and prone to revolution
democracy, in fact, hardly ever has revolutions (unless it is badly corrupt, and therefore not really a democracy anymore), because democracy, in effect, through voting, has INSTITUTIONALIZED revolution. revolution is the ultimate release of course. but REAL revolutions are messy and destructive affairs, and you never really know who is going to be the final leader in the end, so that form of release is very dangerous
the institutionalized form of messy, loud, constantly frothing freely stated hatred and distrust of government, in the west, has the paradoxical attribute of making western governments very stable: there's nothing to build upon the distrust and anger if it is constantly being released, rather than bottled up, and reserved, for serious revolutionary activity. in this way, democracies are stronger and stabler than autocracies
if china ever becomes a democracy, it will truly rule the world, because on all other factors, china really is the strongest. however, if china
you can't see a predator, but he shows up on infrared
with this tech, you don't show up on infrared, but you can still be seen
maybe this tech will finally allow for a lasting peace with the predator alien race via mutual incomprehension
guy is laying on the street with a broken arm. he has no money in his bank account, he has no health insurance
"Or in other words, you want to take what I have worked hard for, by force, and spend it on yourself."
do you leave him there with a broken arm?
let us hear you articulate your social darwinist vision for american society, selfish asshole, LET'S HEAR YOUR SAY THE REALITY OF YOUR SELFISHNESS
out with it asshole: do you walk by the guy in the street? do you?
"Or in other words, you want to take what I have worked hard for, by force, and spend it on yourself."
LET'S HEAR YOU SAY IT YOU SELFISH IGNORANT ASSHOLE
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
WE. THE. PEOPLE.
your government is not an alien entity come to rape your daughters, lay egg cases in your cranial cavity, or turn you into a duracell battery. your government is YOU
YOU can hold it accountable by VOTING
if your fellow citizens DON'T WANT these programs you dislike, they vote out the guys who put it in, and the programs GO AWAY
but if your fellow citizens WANT these programs and consider it sensible, then the program stay, and you as the MINORITY VOICE have no right to exert your MINORITY opinion over hte MAJORITY
and then your job is to SHUT UP and ACCEPT what the DEMOCRACY HAS SAID
because the alternative is WORSE: the opinion of the few foisted on the majority. your opinion is in the MINORITY, so YOU LOSE. then maybe you should examine why your philosophy is WRONG: police work is more than just cops cracking skulls on street corners. it is also REGULATING OUR FINANCIAL INDUSTRY. REGULATING OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY: POLICE WORK. that you WANT to pay for, for without this "bureaucracy" you get oil spills every month
CLEAN UP your government, don't REDUCE IT. then all the abuses you hate come back a hundred fold
that's the truth motherfucker
group A: only the sick and old have health insurance. premiums are expensive. because they are SICK and OLD
the uninsured 22 year old making $20K breaks his arm. he has $50 in his bank account. he can't afford it. the hospital bills him, he ignores the bills. the hospital bills the state, because we can't afford our hospitals to go bankrupt. this goes on ALL THE TIME IN THE USA MORON
group B: EVERYONE has to have health insurance. premiums are low. BECAUSE THE YOUNG HARDLY GET SICK. hospitals are healthy. the focus is on PREVENTATIVE medicine rather than emergency medicine. that diabetes gets caught sooner (and cheaper). that heart condition gets caught sooner (and cheaper)
feel me yet retard?
WAKE
THE
FUCK
UP
YOU
PROPAGANDIZED
IGNORANT
ASSHOLE
you and low iq twatstains like yourself ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY
i want BETTER healthcare for LESS money, and thats what healthcare reform is you ignorant useless motherfucker
seriously. listen to their beliefs
i guess traditional white conservatives think of them as liberal only because white conservatives don't know what to make of dem scary black people
its just xenophobia: the "other" is always an agglomeration of everything outside your experience, everything you fear and hate, even if logically the grouping makes no sense
the europeans have better healthcare and pay less for it
why?
because its MANDATORY
in the usa, only those who are sick or old buy it. so it stays expensive. the perfectly healthy 20 year old with no health insurance: he breaks his arm, who pays for that? do you let him go untreated? see why our system sucks yet?
"Has it occurred to you that many of us might not want these services or, if we do want them, we prefer NOT to pay as much for them as the Europeans do?"
do you support the idea of a driver without driver's insurance? no? good. do you understand why? SAME LOGIC APPLIES TO HEALTHCARE, YOU LOW IQ ASSHOLE
the us healthcare system is economically flawed. it MUST be universal, or it is MORE EXPENSIVE for LOWER QUALITY. simple motherfucking economics. solid truth. solid reality
wake up from your propaganda, you ignorant slave
the next time you walk by a man bleeding on the street, ask him if he has $100,000 in the bank to go to the hospital
if he says no, make sure you walk on, or you betray your beliefs
i'm glad you hate poor folk. that makes you really awesome
my ideology is not about no incentive to work. my ideology is about not letting people suffer because they can't afford THE BASICS. not play station 3s, not cadillac escalades, but DIABETES TREATMENT. or HEART MEDICINE. get it asshole?
apparently, your belief is "don't have the money? then hurry up and die"
so go move to haiti. you'll fit right in. because that country is the end result of your "i got mine, fuck you" crass selfishness. you take care of your society, and you GET RICHER. or you spend your money fighting off the poor who just want to eat. you are not an island, the money in your bank account is merely an abstract reflection of the richness of the society around you. you work hard, you invest in your community, and you are a rich man. or you horde every nickel you grab like a greedy slut, and you deny anyone around the simplest of compassion, and you get an ugly mean society full of suffering. you will not define my society, i will. becaus ei care about it. and if you won't pay your fair share for the riches you derive from the bounty of your society, i will make sure you fucking do. get it you greedy asshole?
i'd call what you believe an ideology, but even if you dress a whore up in a nice dress, she's still a whore. likewise, you don't have a philosophy or an ideology. all you have is lizardlike slimy greed
you suck, and you are my enemy, and you will not destroy my country, twatstain
you need healthcare insurance
yes or no?
the healthcare system needs to be reformed
yes or no?
nobody had a plan or willpower to fix the ridiculously expensive unresponsive system except the democrats in 2009
yes or no?
you figure the rest out, idiot
as for hate:
yes, i hate you. because you are destroying this country. because you are not a free thinking individual, you are a radio personality and faux news propaganda-addled asshole arguing against your fellow citizens, and for corporations. you're a slave, and you don't even know it, and all you do is argue for your own continued slavery. and you and those like you are my eternal enemy, because what you stand for will turn this great country into haiti, whether you realize it or not, that's the end result of your ideology. if i and others who realize the truth defeat your propagandized ignorance, then this country will be saved. that really is the fucking truth
its a libertarian utopia
every abuse by government you decry, does not happen in haiti. instead, those same abuses, and a hundred thousand worse abuses, happen on every street corner, by thugs and mafia instead
fact, whether you realize it or not: make government small, and a power vacuum will exist that will be filled by entities that are not accountable to you. being not accountable to you, there is no recourse when they abuse you. that really is the truth. someday you will wake up and realize and stop working so damn hard to destroy this country
we don't need nuclear industry regulation, we can just sue the nuclear industry into oblivion after they chernobylize a couple hundred thousand acres for 100,000 years!
we don't need food and drug industry regulation, we can just sue a food or drug industry into oblivion after a couple hundred kids die of tainted food or drugs!
we don't need school regulation, we can just sue the schools into oblivion after our kids wind up being abused idiots!
feel me yet?
the price of no regulation is the destruction of things that cannot be made up monetarily after the fact. you can't put a price on everything, especially something like the goddamn gulf of mexico. there's only one gulf of mexico, friend. put a price on the destruction of that ecosystem and tourist industry. its more than you can get in a courtroom, even from the oil industry, and some of it, like unique species, is priceless. no court case after the fact will bring some things back
furthermore, wouldn't it be better and cheaper for the companies themselves to spend the $20 million to comply with regulations rather than $20 billion to clean up a large oceanic body?
that's why we have regulations. in fact, bad regulations, and shoddy regulators, are still better than no regulations or regulators at all. you have to set standards, or standards WILL be broken. and some of the damage that can be done CANNOT be fixed monetarily with a lawsuit after the fact
we need to CLEAN UP government. we need regulations. we need taxes to pay for regulators and a functioning strong central government. meanwhile, DESTROYING government, which so many tea party and libertarian morons are so intent on doing, is clearly, CLEARLY, much, much worse. think HAITI, retards: that's the end result of libertarian and tea party ideology, whether you idiots realize it or not
the regulations don't matter in this case. i'm glad you admit we need some regulations, but the real issue here is regulator==regulated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072205133.html?hpid=topnews
the lobbyists, the interior officials, the corporate assholes: all the same people
all the same smoochy same golf hole playing same bar attending backslapping crowd of assholes
that's why we had the disaster in the gulf
you can pass all the regulations you want, it doesn't matter if the ones who are supposed to be policing the industry ARE the industry
R2D2 just walks up to any ATM, opens a panel, sticks an interface in, twists a few times, and takes all the cash he wants
he's also good at shutting down trash compactors
no disintegrations
very good job at aping words
now can you THINK FOR ONCE IN YOUR PATHETIC LIFE, you fucking monkey slave?
to me, you are a slave, proud of his slavery and ignorance
you're a tool, and you are propagandized and being used
time to wake up, tool
you're a genuinely ignorant slave, proud of your ignorance, proud of your closed mind
fact: europe surpasses the usa on a number of measures of quality of life, due to their focus on social justice rather than maximizing corporate profit
but it involves this scary word to you, "socialism", which propaganda has effectively turned, in your brain, into "scary bogeyman i can't think about logically"
why is the concept of quality of life for the average man such an invalid goal in your mind? why is the quality of your own life, the numbers of hours a week you work, the health benefits you receive, the weeks of vacation you receive... why are these concepts something you work your damndest to fight?
THAT'S what socialism is, retard: A FOCUS ON THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE
you are a propagandized fool, and you and those who are propagandized sheep like you are destroying this great country, and as a proud patriotic american, i will not let you hordes of radio parsonality demagogue listening, fake news watching ignorants ruin the united states of america with, your minds bought and paid for by corporate propaganda, and too fucking stupid to realize you are being used, against your own self-interest
"It is in the very nature of governments that they serve their own will. They are their own master and answer only to themselves. Elections just change the names involved."
you are either one hilarious troll or you are seriously fucking retarded
YOU ELECT YOUR GOVERNMENT moron. you LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. that MEANS SOMETHING, something IMPORTANT
a perfectly health 20 year old can break his arm
therefore, you are pretty much forced to buy their products
furthermore, you defined communism, not socialism
when you diminish the power of the government, you create a power vacuum that is filled by corporations
the government must be the most powerful thing in the room. all you are arguing for is corporations being the most powerful thing in the room. list every abuse you can see and can imagine by the government. now add a few more, and remove any ability for recourse, and that's what happens when the corporations are the most powerful thing in the room
if you don't understand that, you really don't understand what the hell is going on. really
there is the government. and then there are corporations. if your mind can't understand that those are two separate things,and that only one of them works with your interests in mind, then your mind and your opinions are useless and logically incoherent
and will fight for what is right and genuinely american, because i love my country
the hordes of low iq partisans will not claim and destroy my country in the name of the corporations that have purchased their dim minds with radio personality demagogues and cable news propaganda. i will ensure that my country exists for the people, by the people, as the founders originally intended. not for the corporations, by the corporations, with dimwits as their tools, fighting for their own enslavement
" you have set up a target that is irresistible for corporations and/or wealthy special interests to attempt to seize control of"
to me, this is like saying it is the fault of the really hot chick that she got raped, not the rapist
corporations are raping our government. i think we can both agree on this. but you, fantastically, see the corporations as helpless to do anything but rape, the poor little things, and the government is evil because it can be raped
we need to remove the infection of corporate money in the government. we do this with laws. this is the only solution possible. do you honestly have a better one?
and would you STOP blaming the government for being infected by corporations. the corporations are the enemy, not your government. what other tool do you believe the average citizen has against the power of the corporation?