This is clearly a case of states' rights standing up to the federal government and saying, "to hell with what you say, we're doing what we think is right for us!" This is apparently acceptable because it's being done in Vermont. If it had happened in say, Texas or Arizona, there would be uncomfortable cognitive dissonance, likely culminating in a rationalization that "well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day," or "they did the right thing but for the wrong reasons," as has happened so many times before. Always weird when the advocates of ever-expanding federal power find themselves in this uncomfortable situation. But, Vermont, home of the Bernie's Brownshirts movement, is an acceptable state and if they do it, it must be OK.
Chinese taxi drivers, before ride-sharing, were horrible. They wouldn't stop, didn't want to work during certain times of day - rush hour, of course - charged extra to go anywhere, doubled and tripled up on customers so you'd have to visit several locations before you got to your destination, you name it they did it. The cabs were filthy, the seat belts didn't work (or were dirty and left a stripe on your nice clean clothes), the A/C didn't work, they wouldn't roll up the windows even in the dead of winter.
Now with ride-sharing, you call a car, it's clean and nice, the driver goes exactly where you want to go, and the price is quite reasonable. Driver feedback ensures that unqualified or shitbag drivers get fired quickly. It's a night and day difference, and the people are the real winners.
Indeed, they are a Communist party that has taken the capitalist road to achieve socialism. This is a heresy, and Mao warned against it repeatedly. He imprisoned right-wingers and frequently had them either worked or tortured to death as an example to others. It lasted as long as he lived. After he died that rat-bastard Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people's revolution onto the capitalist road, and China has been fucked ever since.
Always inserting yourselves into the goddamned conversation! It's not always about you! Here we are, having a nice talk about a topic that doesn't include America, and bang. Some American jumps in and changes the fucking subject to her favorite topic. Stop, stop, stop, just STOP. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU
Actually, Hitler did exactly what he said he would. Within 5 years, the German worker and the German intellectual were equals. It wasn't like today where writers and artists shit all over waiters and plumbers.
Reductio ad Hitlerum is sometimes called "playing the Nazi card". According to its critics and proponents, it is a tactic often used to derail arguments, because such comparisons tend to distract and anger the opponent, as Hitler and Nazism have been condemned in the modern Western world.
There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.
There it is again. Where would socialism/marxism/communism BE without the No True Scotsman fallacy? "Well, anyone who would do that is no true socialist!" It would be in the dustbin of history, of course. It just goes to show you the power of a good fallacy, and like Fox Mulder, people just want to believe.
Here are some ideas from a very sharp man who heartily agreed with you, the common people must not be armed. The first one I would say is most important and is applicable everywhere in the world.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'"
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
I don't care what bodily function you're doing, don't let me see it. Gotta shit? Go find a private room. Piss? The same. Vomit? If you can make it...I realize some times you can't. Nobody wants to see any bodily function, really. It's because we all live in this thing called a "society", where we all agree to work together so that we can all live well. What pisses us off the most? When individuals think they're better than everyone else and the rules don't apply to them.
Don't want to live in our society? I've got good news for you: in today's increasingly borderless world, people can migrate freely where they need to. Texas obviously doesn't suit you, so I recommend a country that is governed by a leftist regime that you agree with. Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba are all good choices. Bon voyage! Good luck and you're gonna see a lot of floppy tits right out there on the street along with the shit and piss, it'll be right up your alley.
Work is good? Yeah, that's a socialist idea to the core. What do people think of those who don't or won't work, the so-called useless eaters?
"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we can not use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
-- George Bernard Shaw, famous socialist
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
Funny, you just described socialist countries to a T. There, the only value of a person is how hard he can work. Fail to work to the limit of your ability, and it is considered *stealing* from the state. "Work is dumb"...LOL. Try that and you'll end up in prison with all the right-wingers.
Funny, one of my hobbies is collecting old socialist propaganda posters. Amazing design, vivid colors, really cool stuff. Anyway, know what the most common theme of the messages is? The need for workers to work harder. Shocking, isn't it? The next most common theme is telling workers how great their lives are. Conspicuously absent are messages of hate, calling people cows and mindless drones. They celebrate work and respect the workers who do it. Sobering, isn't it?
Uh, hello? That makes no sense. Right-wingers are the ones who believe in using physical violence to discipline children. Liberals are the ones who say that competition in schools creates 1 winner and 29 losers, leading to badfeels. Thus, every child needs a trophy. This is a well-known phenomenon, it's not like it appeared yesterday. Is this some kind of new Trump Derangement Syndrome, where people freak out and start injecting a politician into completely unrelated topics?
Yes, but you're thinking like an engineer, not an Islamic terrorist. What they like are big, spectacular attacks that happen in the middle of large cities that they've heard of before. If they just wanted to tear up infrastructure and burn down houses...meh they don't even do that in low security countries. They want to destroy Western civilization, not cause traffic jams.
Yes, but the data is right there. These days, if data is easily available but inaccurate, they'll take the faulty data anytime. When it's pointed out that the data is lacking, they'll say, "oh well, them's the breaks, it's easier than actually doing work" and go on like nothing happened.
It's more like ignoring the artists who have, for the last 100 years, used their art to deliberately exclude and belittle the rest of us, while laughing about it and looking down on the little people. Previous to this, art was an integral part of people's lives and was appreciated by pretty much everyone.
Do we not even understand how a wedding cake and MASS MURDER are different? Really? Those are equivalent acts in your mind?
And I can't help but notice that, once again, a leftist is jumping up front and center to defend Islamist killers. Why does this keep on happening? It's like they're allied together in the service of destroying Western civilization.
Yes, they maintained their territorial integrity by invading Karelia. LOL. When you're getting friendly visits from Adolf Hitler you're on the wrong side, period.
It is not a cheap shot to say that the Left has hated the US military since the days of Vietnam if not before. Let's not cry crocodile tears and pretend we care about them, eh? Remember: cowards who hide behind drones and murder civilians. And laugh about it. Shall we do a Google search, or can you do that yourself?
Sigh...OK Mr. Pedantry, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania were in there too. Right along with Finland, who to this day tries to insist they shook the Devil's hand but were only kidding.
Prestigious to join the military! In the USA of 2016!!! WTF, where have you been for the last 50 years? Elites stopped joining the military a long, long time ago and indeed today spit on those who do. The entire Left considers the US military nothing more than cowardly baby-killers. Prestigious...wow there's a screamer. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today.
Way to show how tolerant and open-minded you are. I love the anti-gay slur at the end, too. I suppose all that talk about gay rights was just a bunch of bullshit to piss off badthinkers. Do as I say, not as I do.
Slashdot Mirror
This is clearly a case of states' rights standing up to the federal government and saying, "to hell with what you say, we're doing what we think is right for us!" This is apparently acceptable because it's being done in Vermont. If it had happened in say, Texas or Arizona, there would be uncomfortable cognitive dissonance, likely culminating in a rationalization that "well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day," or "they did the right thing but for the wrong reasons," as has happened so many times before. Always weird when the advocates of ever-expanding federal power find themselves in this uncomfortable situation. But, Vermont, home of the Bernie's Brownshirts movement, is an acceptable state and if they do it, it must be OK.
[citation needed]
Who, exactly, is saying this? Why is this +4 Insightful? It's some idiocy made up as a laughable strawman argument and it's +4 Insightful?
Chinese taxi drivers, before ride-sharing, were horrible. They wouldn't stop, didn't want to work during certain times of day - rush hour, of course - charged extra to go anywhere, doubled and tripled up on customers so you'd have to visit several locations before you got to your destination, you name it they did it. The cabs were filthy, the seat belts didn't work (or were dirty and left a stripe on your nice clean clothes), the A/C didn't work, they wouldn't roll up the windows even in the dead of winter.
Now with ride-sharing, you call a car, it's clean and nice, the driver goes exactly where you want to go, and the price is quite reasonable. Driver feedback ensures that unqualified or shitbag drivers get fired quickly. It's a night and day difference, and the people are the real winners.
Indeed, they are a Communist party that has taken the capitalist road to achieve socialism. This is a heresy, and Mao warned against it repeatedly. He imprisoned right-wingers and frequently had them either worked or tortured to death as an example to others. It lasted as long as he lived. After he died that rat-bastard Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people's revolution onto the capitalist road, and China has been fucked ever since.
Always inserting yourselves into the goddamned conversation! It's not always about you! Here we are, having a nice talk about a topic that doesn't include America, and bang. Some American jumps in and changes the fucking subject to her favorite topic. Stop, stop, stop, just STOP. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU
Actually, Hitler did exactly what he said he would. Within 5 years, the German worker and the German intellectual were equals. It wasn't like today where writers and artists shit all over waiters and plumbers.
There it is again. Where would socialism/marxism/communism BE without the No True Scotsman fallacy? "Well, anyone who would do that is no true socialist!" It would be in the dustbin of history, of course. It just goes to show you the power of a good fallacy, and like Fox Mulder, people just want to believe.
Here are some ideas from a very sharp man who heartily agreed with you, the common people must not be armed. The first one I would say is most important and is applicable everywhere in the world.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'"
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
I don't care what bodily function you're doing, don't let me see it. Gotta shit? Go find a private room. Piss? The same. Vomit? If you can make it...I realize some times you can't. Nobody wants to see any bodily function, really. It's because we all live in this thing called a "society", where we all agree to work together so that we can all live well. What pisses us off the most? When individuals think they're better than everyone else and the rules don't apply to them.
Don't want to live in our society? I've got good news for you: in today's increasingly borderless world, people can migrate freely where they need to. Texas obviously doesn't suit you, so I recommend a country that is governed by a leftist regime that you agree with. Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba are all good choices. Bon voyage! Good luck and you're gonna see a lot of floppy tits right out there on the street along with the shit and piss, it'll be right up your alley.
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
Funny, you just described socialist countries to a T. There, the only value of a person is how hard he can work. Fail to work to the limit of your ability, and it is considered *stealing* from the state. "Work is dumb"...LOL. Try that and you'll end up in prison with all the right-wingers.
Funny, one of my hobbies is collecting old socialist propaganda posters. Amazing design, vivid colors, really cool stuff. Anyway, know what the most common theme of the messages is? The need for workers to work harder. Shocking, isn't it? The next most common theme is telling workers how great their lives are. Conspicuously absent are messages of hate, calling people cows and mindless drones. They celebrate work and respect the workers who do it. Sobering, isn't it?
Uh, hello? That makes no sense. Right-wingers are the ones who believe in using physical violence to discipline children. Liberals are the ones who say that competition in schools creates 1 winner and 29 losers, leading to badfeels. Thus, every child needs a trophy. This is a well-known phenomenon, it's not like it appeared yesterday. Is this some kind of new Trump Derangement Syndrome, where people freak out and start injecting a politician into completely unrelated topics?
Yes, but you're thinking like an engineer, not an Islamic terrorist. What they like are big, spectacular attacks that happen in the middle of large cities that they've heard of before. If they just wanted to tear up infrastructure and burn down houses...meh they don't even do that in low security countries. They want to destroy Western civilization, not cause traffic jams.
Yes, but the data is right there. These days, if data is easily available but inaccurate, they'll take the faulty data anytime. When it's pointed out that the data is lacking, they'll say, "oh well, them's the breaks, it's easier than actually doing work" and go on like nothing happened.
It's more like ignoring the artists who have, for the last 100 years, used their art to deliberately exclude and belittle the rest of us, while laughing about it and looking down on the little people. Previous to this, art was an integral part of people's lives and was appreciated by pretty much everyone.
"Art is dead"
-- Russian dadaists, 1915
They were right.
Do we not even understand how a wedding cake and MASS MURDER are different? Really? Those are equivalent acts in your mind?
And I can't help but notice that, once again, a leftist is jumping up front and center to defend Islamist killers. Why does this keep on happening? It's like they're allied together in the service of destroying Western civilization.
Yes, they maintained their territorial integrity by invading Karelia. LOL. When you're getting friendly visits from Adolf Hitler you're on the wrong side, period.
It is not a cheap shot to say that the Left has hated the US military since the days of Vietnam if not before. Let's not cry crocodile tears and pretend we care about them, eh? Remember: cowards who hide behind drones and murder civilians. And laugh about it. Shall we do a Google search, or can you do that yourself?
Sigh...OK Mr. Pedantry, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania were in there too. Right along with Finland, who to this day tries to insist they shook the Devil's hand but were only kidding.
Whaaa? Look at all the military bases in Germany. Wow, they're all in the area the US was allotted after WWII. What a coincidence! Go to bed, you're drunk.
Prestigious to join the military! In the USA of 2016!!! WTF, where have you been for the last 50 years? Elites stopped joining the military a long, long time ago and indeed today spit on those who do. The entire Left considers the US military nothing more than cowardly baby-killers. Prestigious...wow there's a screamer. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today.
Way to show how tolerant and open-minded you are. I love the anti-gay slur at the end, too. I suppose all that talk about gay rights was just a bunch of bullshit to piss off badthinkers. Do as I say, not as I do.