government sucks. it is full of abuses and corruption and malfeasance
however, it is simply superior to all of the abuses possible without government, or with weak government
people who talk about a need for government do not love government. they aren't blind to the problems inherent with government. they instead have a wisdom you lack: lack of government or weak government is simply worse than all the problems you have with government. it also doesn't mean we don't clean up government, of course we can do better
in life, many problems are not a choice between "shiny happy clean magic fairy land" and "sulfurous vile dark wicked demon zone"
they are a choice between "slightly gray but not too gray maybe a little more gray" and "slightly gray but not too gray maybe slightly more gray" and "slightly gray but not too gray maybe a little less gray"
you pick the better of a range of choices that all suck, and you have to pick the choice that sucks slightly less, according to complex long term determinations
so choose government, only in this way
welcome to life. bitcoin enthusiasm was fueled by a hatred of sovereign currency and the abuses inherent. and now a bunch of idots are learning the hard way why you still want the *protections* inherent
all these victims clamor for regulators and the police. irony
ah, i'm being accused of accused of carrying on too long. fair enough accusation. but it is coming from someone who makes believes their own posts in tandem don't exist. that's some heavy psychological projection there friend
it just goes and on. mission creep isn't just a problem, it is the essence of the mission
what it really is is law enforcement
in a way there is a "war on murder" and a "war on rape" that will never end and never be won, so it is with terrorism
of course, that's law enforcement: it's never about ending the problem, it's about keeping the cockroaches in check
the problem with the conflicts of today is who is enforcing the law. ideally the law should be the states where the cockroaches congregate. but those states are broken and helpless. in fact, that is why the cockroaches congregate there. so we have to go in and enforce, because otherwise the cockroaches breed, proliferate, then take the battle to our shores. it's either drone strike a shitbag in yemen, or take him down in manhattan. those are our choices
so you think about tactics. the best approach. and the best approach is to strengthen and stabilize these broken states. give the cockroaches no place to breed
i didn't say that was easy. but at least that game has metrics and a finite scope. a huge, difficult scope, but finite
as opposed to open ended forever mission creep
education, infrastructure, good governance, security. expensive, long term, beset with setbacks, grey areas, and uncertainty
yet better than just endlessly drone striking jihadi dirtbags in the sand forever. that will never end unless we stop the conditions that breed them
my meaning was well represented. that an alternative meaning could be construed is a limitation of the language
i really think it is more important for the reader to parse the different meanings before assuming one meaning is the one and true intent
it happens a lot in life. yes, we must be precise in our choice of words, but we're not functioning on all cylinders 24/7, looking at every word choice like a chess move. so it is beholden on the reader/ listener to give the speaker/ writer a little leeway
regardless, i now know why obama speaks with this slow, cerebral, ponderous cadence. he's choosing every word carefully so some hysterical retard somewhere doesn't assume the worst meaning possible
"i knew a guy once who murdered someone and got away with it. therefore we can never criticize any murderer anywhere"
this is your "morality"
when your "morality" means "someone did something bad so someone else should be free of criticism for being bad" (aka, two wrongs make a right) you really don't have any morality at all
it's entirely possible to criticize BOTH bush and obama, for the *separate* things they did wrong. you understand that right? criticizing one does not mean we can't or won't are aren't criticizing the other. what bush did wrong is not linked to what obama did wrong
i agree our government is better than somalia or the philippines. but it's not as good as canada or the nordic countries. we can do better. we have a problem with money corrupting our politics, legally
but you are also correct a lot of americans are whiny and spoiled and can't keep the problems in proportion to the world's other problems. and some are so ignorant and uneducated they actually think no government or weak government, hilariously, is somehow better. when those situations obviously are far far worse than the problems we have now. a lot of americans are very sheltered with very minor, pedestrian problems. everything is a giant temper tantrum and drama, over stupid minor shit compared the kinds of real problems people face elsewhere. spoiled and entitled people
was hospitalized when he forcefully disagreed with the president's authorization
i meant
was {in the hospital at the time} he forcefully disagreed with the president's authorization
i didn't mean
was hospitalized {as a consequence of the other time} he forcefully disagreed with the president's authorization
apologies, there was no bad intent, i just wrote the summary without being aware that my wording made it possible of someone finding a novel secondary meaning
except that it is actually islamophobia you fucking social retard. the only agenda here seems to be your ignorant need to play that down. why is it so important to you to avoid the fucking obvious?
If someone is desiring to kill themselves or others, having a gun around does sometime lead to an uptick in deaths due to guns
actually it does. guns make killing easy. therefore it happens more often
if you have a bunch of hammers lying around a kindergarten class, kids tend to get hit with hammers. if there were no hammers, people would still be getting hit, but the injuries would be hell of a lot less severe
just look at australia or the uk. they actually have higher violence rate than the usa, and lower homicide. i would love to have that in the usa! because a fucking bloody nose or a slashed arm is not a fucking body bag
why does every fucking conflict have to escalate to death asshole? that's what guns do. the ease of access to a gun actually makes conflicts become deadly clashes. that matters. you can't do drive by knifing where 6 bystanders get killed or kill a six year old form across a basketball court with a stray throwing knife. ease of access to guns means senseless deaths that otherwise would not happen
why is it so, so, so important to you for this case not to be islamophobia? why is it so difficult for you to admit that islamophobia exists and is obviously at work here if you have half a fucking brain?
keeping an open mind doesn't mean so open your brains fall out. if you can't see some anti-muslim prejudice at work here, you are being intellectually dishonest
the larger point being that it is so, so, so important to you for this not to be islamophobia. why is it so difficult for you to admit that islamophobia exists and is obviously at work here if you have half a fucking brain?
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wait
you mean there wasn't a general who became a slave, a slave who became a gladiator, a gladiator who defied an empire?
government sucks. it is full of abuses and corruption and malfeasance
however, it is simply superior to all of the abuses possible without government, or with weak government
people who talk about a need for government do not love government. they aren't blind to the problems inherent with government. they instead have a wisdom you lack: lack of government or weak government is simply worse than all the problems you have with government. it also doesn't mean we don't clean up government, of course we can do better
in life, many problems are not a choice between "shiny happy clean magic fairy land" and "sulfurous vile dark wicked demon zone"
they are a choice between "slightly gray but not too gray maybe a little more gray" and "slightly gray but not too gray maybe slightly more gray" and "slightly gray but not too gray maybe a little less gray"
you pick the better of a range of choices that all suck, and you have to pick the choice that sucks slightly less, according to complex long term determinations
so choose government, only in this way
welcome to life. bitcoin enthusiasm was fueled by a hatred of sovereign currency and the abuses inherent. and now a bunch of idots are learning the hard way why you still want the *protections* inherent
all these victims clamor for regulators and the police. irony
it's nice to have stalkers, i guess
what if i am enjoying myself?
i like kicking trolls
ah, i'm being accused of accused of carrying on too long. fair enough accusation. but it is coming from someone who makes believes their own posts in tandem don't exist. that's some heavy psychological projection there friend
ah, a racist grammar nazi
you know you can lose the "grammar" conceit and just be your true self, shitbag
it just goes and on. mission creep isn't just a problem, it is the essence of the mission
what it really is is law enforcement
in a way there is a "war on murder" and a "war on rape" that will never end and never be won, so it is with terrorism
of course, that's law enforcement: it's never about ending the problem, it's about keeping the cockroaches in check
the problem with the conflicts of today is who is enforcing the law. ideally the law should be the states where the cockroaches congregate. but those states are broken and helpless. in fact, that is why the cockroaches congregate there. so we have to go in and enforce, because otherwise the cockroaches breed, proliferate, then take the battle to our shores. it's either drone strike a shitbag in yemen, or take him down in manhattan. those are our choices
so you think about tactics. the best approach. and the best approach is to strengthen and stabilize these broken states. give the cockroaches no place to breed
i didn't say that was easy. but at least that game has metrics and a finite scope. a huge, difficult scope, but finite
as opposed to open ended forever mission creep
education, infrastructure, good governance, security. expensive, long term, beset with setbacks, grey areas, and uncertainty
yet better than just endlessly drone striking jihadi dirtbags in the sand forever. that will never end unless we stop the conditions that breed them
the ambiguity is in the incongruity
of word and phrase
it goes on for days
and the tower of babel is unfazed
you got me
i'm part of the MSM
we try to avoid great internet geniuses like yourself who find us smearmongers and prevent our devious conspiracies from working out
"FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG..."
oh no, the heroes have found us!
fellow lizardmen: abandon plan BlackHand34A for this sector. report back to illuminati headquarters
curses! we cannot defeat these great minds!
well, this isn't a doctoral thesis here
my meaning was well represented. that an alternative meaning could be construed is a limitation of the language
i really think it is more important for the reader to parse the different meanings before assuming one meaning is the one and true intent
it happens a lot in life. yes, we must be precise in our choice of words, but we're not functioning on all cylinders 24/7, looking at every word choice like a chess move. so it is beholden on the reader/ listener to give the speaker/ writer a little leeway
regardless, i now know why obama speaks with this slow, cerebral, ponderous cadence. he's choosing every word carefully so some hysterical retard somewhere doesn't assume the worst meaning possible
when being a grammar nazi asshole, you really have to represent with the good grammar. otherwise it kinda makes you look like a dick AND a hypocrite
"i knew a guy once who murdered someone and got away with it. therefore we can never criticize any murderer anywhere"
this is your "morality"
when your "morality" means "someone did something bad so someone else should be free of criticism for being bad" (aka, two wrongs make a right) you really don't have any morality at all
it's entirely possible to criticize BOTH bush and obama, for the *separate* things they did wrong. you understand that right? criticizing one does not mean we can't or won't are aren't criticizing the other. what bush did wrong is not linked to what obama did wrong
i agree our government is better than somalia or the philippines. but it's not as good as canada or the nordic countries. we can do better. we have a problem with money corrupting our politics, legally
but you are also correct a lot of americans are whiny and spoiled and can't keep the problems in proportion to the world's other problems. and some are so ignorant and uneducated they actually think no government or weak government, hilariously, is somehow better. when those situations obviously are far far worse than the problems we have now. a lot of americans are very sheltered with very minor, pedestrian problems. everything is a giant temper tantrum and drama, over stupid minor shit compared the kinds of real problems people face elsewhere. spoiled and entitled people
yup. that was my fault. bad wording, apologies
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
i'm the submitter
i wrote
i meant
i didn't mean
apologies, there was no bad intent, i just wrote the summary without being aware that my wording made it possible of someone finding a novel secondary meaning
fuck the english language
because it doesn't have a fucking thing to do with this topic
in the gamegate/ fappening thing moot started moderating/ censoring more, and there was a huge blowback
https://encyclopediadramatica....
LOL
moot was probably harassed in ways us mere mortals couldn't even dream of
i would have sold too. anyone would have
most angry users probably protested moot's new moderation in acceptable ways
but, being 4chan, a sizeable amount probably protested in ways we don't even want to know human beings can treat each other short of actual violence
you're not being intellectually honest and therefore resisting a mischaracterization
you're being purposefully intellectually dishonest and avoiding the fucking obvious
it's very very important to you that bigotry not exist and is not a problem. when it obviously fucking is
this desperate double time mental effort of yours to look away from a simple aspect of your reality says something about your character. nothing good
you're a know nothing
except that it is actually islamophobia you fucking social retard. the only agenda here seems to be your ignorant need to play that down. why is it so important to you to avoid the fucking obvious?
actually it does. guns make killing easy. therefore it happens more often
if you have a bunch of hammers lying around a kindergarten class, kids tend to get hit with hammers. if there were no hammers, people would still be getting hit, but the injuries would be hell of a lot less severe
just look at australia or the uk. they actually have higher violence rate than the usa, and lower homicide. i would love to have that in the usa! because a fucking bloody nose or a slashed arm is not a fucking body bag
why does every fucking conflict have to escalate to death asshole? that's what guns do. the ease of access to a gun actually makes conflicts become deadly clashes. that matters. you can't do drive by knifing where 6 bystanders get killed or kill a six year old form across a basketball court with a stray throwing knife. ease of access to guns means senseless deaths that otherwise would not happen
why is it so, so, so important to you for this case not to be islamophobia? why is it so difficult for you to admit that islamophobia exists and is obviously at work here if you have half a fucking brain?
keeping an open mind doesn't mean so open your brains fall out. if you can't see some anti-muslim prejudice at work here, you are being intellectually dishonest
the larger point being that it is so, so, so important to you for this not to be islamophobia. why is it so difficult for you to admit that islamophobia exists and is obviously at work here if you have half a fucking brain?
there is no islamophobia in the usa?
this is your honest position?
where do you blind retards come from?