as long as the corporations are reigned in and controlled
otherwise the search for more profit by any means leads to the progressive impoverishment of the masses. at some point, a revolution occurs, the original idealists are shoved aside, and power is taken by the usual douchebags who appeal to the usual nationalist prejudices. as putin shows, nationalism demands imperial adventures to stay alive. put two major regions like that next to each other: china-russia, russia-europe, india-china, etc... and you get a major war
so corporations need to be kept on a leash and the average person has to feel secure, and you are correct: no more major wars. because corporations will pay to keep a lid on the usual pettiness that lead to pointless wars like in the past
but corporations allowed to vacuum up profit at the detriment of the common man and you get social destabilization, revolution, and then some years later a napoleon, a stalin, a mao, and all the usual mass murdering adventures that come with such assholes
if you live in a country outside the USA, and your biggest privacy concern is the NSA, you're a moron: your own country is doing everything the NSA is doing, and in many countries, far worse. obviously, they can also abuse you a lot easier than the USA can. and they do
again: i don't have a problem with americans complaining about the NSA. americans SHOULD complain about the NSA. but i do have a problem with other countries complaining about the NSA when they do the same or worse
Desolate Kerguelen Island is antipodal to an area of thinly inhabited plains on the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana.
Absurdists, comedians, clowns, and satirists in real life politics makes sense.
Because, for example here in the USA, where mainstream politics and media can be a fucking corrupt disgusting joke, it's the comedians at The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Last Week Tonight that make real genuine insightful political impact.
You get joke candidates. You get people voting for "Daffy Duck."
So you can force people to go to the polls, but you can't force them to care.
I think a better approach would be to make the voting day a federal mandatory holiday. Shops closed too.
Sure, some people will just play video games all day, but at least they can't use excuses like "I had to work" to shirk their civic duty.
And it is a duty. People died so you could vote. People are dying today for the right to vote. And to just ignore the luxury of voting, to live in a country where you get to pick the leaders? For laziness and cynicism? "The people in charge don't represent me so why should I vote"...they don't represent you BECAUSE you don't vote, moron. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
In fact: make it Veterans Day. November 11.
What better way to honor those who died for this country than to show you care by voting? And if you say "in some wars they died so I could vote but in other wars it was just imperialist bullshit"... well then vote, moron, so we don't have legislators and presidents who want to start imperialist wars. Do you understand the purpose of voting now?
You can't combat all low IQ alienation, but you don't have to respect it.
Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy and participation in government, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (open content), information privacy, transparency, freedom of information, anti-corruption and network neutrality.
...
partly because the traditionally liberal parties have switched over to a more non-liberal fascist line.
yeah this marks you as somebody who knows nothing at all. why are you commenting on something you don't understand?
fascism has a specific historical meaning (and a tiny inconsequential fringe political meaning today)
fascism has nothing to do with mainstream liberal or conservative political organizations in any western country
so any liberal who calls conservatives fascists (or calls other liberals fascists just because they aren't radical enough for their tastes), is merely self-identifying as a political moron and socially underdeveloped
it's perfectly ok to disagree with a political movement. but you need to be accurate and specific in your criticisms or your criticisms only serve to discredit your own words and say nothing about the politics you dislike
to yell "fascist" at your political enemies is about as intelligent or mature as calling someone "poopyhead." fascism does not mean "bad word i don't understand"
kind of like conservative morons in the usa who call president obama a socialist or a communist. it only serves to discredit the conservative moron who uses terminology they don't understand
do you want to matter to what you care about? then educate yourself and use accurate terminology. or you only discredit your cause every time you open your mouth by telling the world that people who believe as you do are idiots
apparently heinlein existed in a universe where the rich and powerful don't take advantage of the poor and weak, as has been the case since, gee, all of history and every society
people who believe stuff like that heinlein quote are known by those with money and power as "useful fools" and "good slaves"
i love the constitution. i love the second amendment
it refers to a *well-regulated* militia
which in 18th century speak means well-trained
so if the usa is going to adhere to the second amendment as written, people must be trained in the use of guns as a condition of them having one
not hand them out to any mouth breathing moron who wants one. if you do that, you get a high homicide rate for fucking stupid reasons. oh wait: the usa has exactly that. gee, that's funny. those founding fathers were onto something there
oh, i'm an evil gun grabber? because i'm asking for proper adherence to the second amendment? is there any responsible gun owner who wants to promote irresponsible gun use? so stand behind your beliefs: say it is right to require training. as the fucking second amendment says so
when did the right to bear arms include the "right" of irresponsible untrained assholes to carry guns?
never. if you read the actual fucking second amendment
they did mock. and they were violently murdered. just for mocking
so humor helps, but it is not a valid antidote alone. you can't rely only on humor and nothing more if someone is ready to murder you just for laughing at an idea
what happened to charlie hebdo proves humor alone is not enough. if there is a committed, long term, and serious ideology ready to murder people just for satire, then it is time for a new approach
Michael Walzer asks "Should we tolerate the intolerant?" He notes that most minority religious groups who are the beneficiaries of tolerance are themselves intolerant, at least in some respects. In a tolerant regime, such people may learn to tolerate, or at least to behave "as if they possessed this virtue".[1] Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance. Philosopher John Rawls concludes in A Theory of Justice that a just society must tolerate the intolerant, for otherwise, the society would then itself be intolerant, and thus unjust. However, Rawls also insists, like Popper, that society has a reasonable right of self-preservation that supersedes the principle of tolerance: "While an intolerant sect does not itself have title to complain of intolerance, its freedom should be restricted only when the tolerant sincerely and with reason believe that their own security and that of the institutions of liberty are in danger."[2]
to me it's simple: everything should be free speech, except that speech which calls for the violent removal of free speech
only that should be censored, and there is zero logical contradiction
because to allow free speech to promote the destruction of free speech is self-destruction
like how germany outlaws nazi imagery: to me, an american, this feels like arbitrary censorship incompatible with the idea of a free society. but to a german, what nazism represents is the violent destruction of freedoms. therefore, censoring symbolism which is all about destroying freedom is not a contradiction, because they have first hand experience with what allowing violent freedom destruction actually leads to
intolerance itself, and intolerance of intolerance, are completely opposite concepts. it's not hypocrisy at all
give women empowerment over their own bodies and the choice of when to have a child or not, and you get less hungry mouths to feed
less hungry mouths to feed and you think more about taking care of the precious few mouths you have, rather than killing all of the destructive uneducated hungry mouths ruining your society
Slashdot Mirror
thank you, exactly
as long as the corporations are reigned in and controlled
otherwise the search for more profit by any means leads to the progressive impoverishment of the masses. at some point, a revolution occurs, the original idealists are shoved aside, and power is taken by the usual douchebags who appeal to the usual nationalist prejudices. as putin shows, nationalism demands imperial adventures to stay alive. put two major regions like that next to each other: china-russia, russia-europe, india-china, etc... and you get a major war
so corporations need to be kept on a leash and the average person has to feel secure, and you are correct: no more major wars. because corporations will pay to keep a lid on the usual pettiness that lead to pointless wars like in the past
but corporations allowed to vacuum up profit at the detriment of the common man and you get social destabilization, revolution, and then some years later a napoleon, a stalin, a mao, and all the usual mass murdering adventures that come with such assholes
reddit taken offline?
end. of the. fucking. world.
yup
mandatory voting
And what is your eminent legal opinion of German BND spying on the USA?
The topic is espionage. Not trade tariffs. You're rather naive on this topic.
who, this germany?:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
americans are and should be angry at the NSA
but other countries complaining about the NSA is hypocrisy
if i was german, would i be worried about the NSA? or the BND and the BfV?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
if you live in a country outside the USA, and your biggest privacy concern is the NSA, you're a moron: your own country is doing everything the NSA is doing, and in many countries, far worse. obviously, they can also abuse you a lot easier than the USA can. and they do
again: i don't have a problem with americans complaining about the NSA. americans SHOULD complain about the NSA. but i do have a problem with other countries complaining about the NSA when they do the same or worse
maintaining freedom requires effort. voting, the bare minimum of effort, ensures freedom destroying agendas don't take power
i have an ancestor who fought in the revolution
i also have ancestors from both sides of the civil war
i'll speak for them, thank you very much
those wars, and a few others, like 1812, are about as valid as you get in terms of wars actually fought by the usa in defense of the country
vietnam, and iraq war i and ii, were imperialist adventures. nothing was at stake except power projection
i don't hold that against veterans, they were merely following orders from chickenhawks in washington dc, so i still honor them
but i'll make an exception for you: you can go fuck yourself, because you show no honor for the principles of this country with your hollow cynicism
kerguelen syndrome
Desolate Kerguelen Island is antipodal to an area of thinly inhabited plains on the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the US state of Montana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
that's as good as the usa gets
thank you
What better way to honor those who died for you than to show you exercise the rights they died for by choosing NOT to vote?
i stopped reading there
damn this world is full of morons
Agreed, well said.
And there's been satirical politicians and political comedians who've had success in politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Etc.
Absurdists, comedians, clowns, and satirists in real life politics makes sense.
Because, for example here in the USA, where mainstream politics and media can be a fucking corrupt disgusting joke, it's the comedians at The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Last Week Tonight that make real genuine insightful political impact.
You get joke candidates. You get people voting for "Daffy Duck."
So you can force people to go to the polls, but you can't force them to care.
I think a better approach would be to make the voting day a federal mandatory holiday. Shops closed too.
Sure, some people will just play video games all day, but at least they can't use excuses like "I had to work" to shirk their civic duty.
And it is a duty. People died so you could vote. People are dying today for the right to vote. And to just ignore the luxury of voting, to live in a country where you get to pick the leaders? For laziness and cynicism? "The people in charge don't represent me so why should I vote" ...they don't represent you BECAUSE you don't vote, moron. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
In fact: make it Veterans Day. November 11.
What better way to honor those who died for this country than to show you care by voting? And if you say "in some wars they died so I could vote but in other wars it was just imperialist bullshit"... well then vote, moron, so we don't have legislators and presidents who want to start imperialist wars. Do you understand the purpose of voting now?
You can't combat all low IQ alienation, but you don't have to respect it.
You shouldn't directly assume that the Pirate Party has any politics regarding copyright infringement
you understand what you are talking about
educate yourself about a topic, then speak on a topic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy and participation in government, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (open content), information privacy, transparency, freedom of information, anti-corruption and network neutrality.
...
partly because the traditionally liberal parties have switched over to a more non-liberal fascist line.
yeah this marks you as somebody who knows nothing at all. why are you commenting on something you don't understand?
fascism has a specific historical meaning (and a tiny inconsequential fringe political meaning today)
fascism has nothing to do with mainstream liberal or conservative political organizations in any western country
so any liberal who calls conservatives fascists (or calls other liberals fascists just because they aren't radical enough for their tastes), is merely self-identifying as a political moron and socially underdeveloped
it's perfectly ok to disagree with a political movement. but you need to be accurate and specific in your criticisms or your criticisms only serve to discredit your own words and say nothing about the politics you dislike
to yell "fascist" at your political enemies is about as intelligent or mature as calling someone "poopyhead." fascism does not mean "bad word i don't understand"
kind of like conservative morons in the usa who call president obama a socialist or a communist. it only serves to discredit the conservative moron who uses terminology they don't understand
do you want to matter to what you care about? then educate yourself and use accurate terminology. or you only discredit your cause every time you open your mouth by telling the world that people who believe as you do are idiots
feel free to seed bjork torrents guilt free
what country are you in?
do you want guns easy to get for untrained irresponsible people in your country?
apparently heinlein existed in a universe where the rich and powerful don't take advantage of the poor and weak, as has been the case since, gee, all of history and every society
people who believe stuff like that heinlein quote are known by those with money and power as "useful fools" and "good slaves"
i love the constitution. i love the second amendment
it refers to a *well-regulated* militia
which in 18th century speak means well-trained
so if the usa is going to adhere to the second amendment as written, people must be trained in the use of guns as a condition of them having one
not hand them out to any mouth breathing moron who wants one. if you do that, you get a high homicide rate for fucking stupid reasons. oh wait: the usa has exactly that. gee, that's funny. those founding fathers were onto something there
oh, i'm an evil gun grabber? because i'm asking for proper adherence to the second amendment? is there any responsible gun owner who wants to promote irresponsible gun use? so stand behind your beliefs: say it is right to require training. as the fucking second amendment says so
when did the right to bear arms include the "right" of irresponsible untrained assholes to carry guns?
never. if you read the actual fucking second amendment
censorship of what?
censorship is not valid for pictures of naked ladies or insults to people's prejudices or criticism of the government
censorship is 100% valid for speech which proposes death and violence at specific people
for example: "obama is a poopyhead and i hate him"
ok. do not censor
"we should murder obama"
not ok. censor
they did mock. and they were violently murdered. just for mocking
so humor helps, but it is not a valid antidote alone. you can't rely only on humor and nothing more if someone is ready to murder you just for laughing at an idea
what happened to charlie hebdo proves humor alone is not enough. if there is a committed, long term, and serious ideology ready to murder people just for satire, then it is time for a new approach
humor is not enough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
to me it's simple: everything should be free speech, except that speech which calls for the violent removal of free speech
only that should be censored, and there is zero logical contradiction
because to allow free speech to promote the destruction of free speech is self-destruction
like how germany outlaws nazi imagery: to me, an american, this feels like arbitrary censorship incompatible with the idea of a free society. but to a german, what nazism represents is the violent destruction of freedoms. therefore, censoring symbolism which is all about destroying freedom is not a contradiction, because they have first hand experience with what allowing violent freedom destruction actually leads to
intolerance itself, and intolerance of intolerance, are completely opposite concepts. it's not hypocrisy at all
women's rights and birth control
give women empowerment over their own bodies and the choice of when to have a child or not, and you get less hungry mouths to feed
less hungry mouths to feed and you think more about taking care of the precious few mouths you have, rather than killing all of the destructive uneducated hungry mouths ruining your society
"when losing an argument, change the subject"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
18 Norway
25 Sweden
43 Denmark
67 Finland
comparison:
40 United States
38 United Kingdom
So far more people immigrate to Norway and Sweden per capita than the USA, and about equal with Denmark. Finland lags behind all.
What you want to do is base your opinions on reality and facts rather than bias and ignorance.
so
don't read