Dry lands of Texas? WTF? You know Texas has huge areas of humid swamps? And other areas that are quite temperate, with adequate rainfall ideal for growing crops? You people scare me.
So, we're going to pretend that the FA$T FOOD INDU$TRY makes people eat meat, when every genetic indicator since 50,000 BC tells us to eat meat because it is a bonanza of protein for an otherwise fruit-eating mammal race?
I like your solution - sit around in the dark, with no electricity. After all, it worked for humanity before 1910, why not from 2010 until the rest of time?
First of all, the cost of distributing information is fixed at the cost of distributing information. Those $20 DVDs? Bullshit, those cost $1 at most.
Secondly, have you examined your racism? You are opposing the President of the United States, who is just as peaceful minded as you. If you're opposed to him, you are quite likely a racist. You need to stop doing that. You're wrong.
Because anything that we don't agree with must be a racket. Yes, there is no other way to interpret these events. Anyone who disagrees with me never, repeat never, has a valid reason for doing so. It's always because they're being deceived, or are too stupid, or batshit insane. Never give them the satisfaction of being fellow human beings who might dissent. Yes, it's all about TEH PROFITZ of the gun manufacturers.
Honestly Obama with his intentionally frightening ways has done more for gun sales than any NRA propaganda. You're giving the Right way too much credit for being able to string together coherent sentences. Remember, these are people who are being lied to or are too stupid...and suddenly when we need it, they acquire the ability to be frighteningly effective?
The meat content of commercial sausages is questionable. If you spend money and buy real ones, they're quite good. The problem with commercial sausage is that sausage makes quite an attractive disposal method for all sorts of crap. When you're dealing with tons of beef per day, you need somewhere to put all the bad parts, and that's sausage.
When you start with good meat, sausage can be amazing. Most people never taste it, because they don't bother to spend the money.
Hmm, now where have I seen that idea before...people that need, get what they want...people that can produce, are expected to produce for everyone else. "To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability." I wonder if they ever tried that idea out in real life. Like, in a major country. How would it have turned out? I'm guessing, "pretty damn good" otherwise intelligent people wouldn't advocate for such foolishness.
You know, when you're so into something that you can't even consider different points of view. A piece arrives critical of the Government. It is then somehow a "republican propaganda piece"? And the in house radical conservative trolls? Frickin Soulskill, are you kidding me?
You have to just step back and realize, there are people out there who disagree with me. Their opinions are just as valid as mine, and the fact that someone is criticizing the government doesn't make them a troll. Go into timeout and think about this until you're ready to come back and play with the other children.
Given how large the US government already is, and how it is abusing this power to take over ever-larger parts of society, yes it is quite rational to be highly skeptical when someone suggests that giving this government even more control would be a good thing.
Is it really "misogynous" (sic) to point out that sexual harassment charges are frequently abused? I don't know what's more troubling, the fact that this happens, or the fact that those who speak out about it are silenced.
It is 2014. In the year 2014, we all know that sexual harassment charges are often wildly overblown and nothing but a weapon of revenge. Remember Donglegate?
I love your witch hunt mentality. The guilty ones are out there somewhere, and if we tag a few innocents along the way, that's OK because nobody is innocent. They're all guilty of being men, all men are rapists, and go ahead and throw in race somewhere as well.
Single women will ruthlessly disqualify men due to the tiniest of flaws. It's no wonder they can't find a husband. They'll rationalize it later (he's immature) to defend their fragile psyche. These women are single for a reason, and the reason is inside themselves.
Oh, did that hit a little close to home? What does it say about our elites when they can't take a little (well-placed and accurate) criticism? Why are you using a word like "capitalist" as an epithet?
A quick question: how many corrupt government officials will the Ivy League graduate this year? How many of them will go on to oppress the American people with outrageous, unworkable ideas while all the time enjoying the approval of their own consciences? The Ivy League exists to perpetrate a culture of class warfare and hatred of ordinary folk. Life would be better without it - and yes, I'm including all the scientists and whatnot.
Of course, such a conclusion is poison and cannot be accepted, and normal people who get uppity need to be shown their place with the greatest of rudeness, and a couple of knocks in the head from the mercenary troops, er, I mean private security guards.
Please butt out of our domestic politics. It's none of your goddamn business, and yet foreign politicians know more about state-level politics in America than they do their own provinces.
You know, I tried opposing the government, but then people just like you shouted me down for being a racist. So, which is it, oppose or support? Have we always been at war with Eastasia?
These attitudes persist today. A man used an ATM outside a bank, and the machine made noise but no money came out. His receipt indicated money had been withdrawn from his account, so he used his mobile phone to call the bank and report the problem. He was told there was nothing they could do, could not send anyone to look, etc. He then hung up and called back, reporting that the ATM had spit out too much money. A bank executive and repairman were on the scene in less than five minutes.
Do people REALLY still cling to the myth that the New York Times is not a left-wing newspaper? Puh-leez. We're adults here, people. In this day and age, we're still denying basic facts like this? You don't believe me, do you?
Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them? What sets our ruling class apart from the rest of us?
Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that "we" are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generation's paradigm that "all men are created equal"?
World War I and the chaos at home and abroad that followed it discredited the Progressives in the American people's eyes. Their international schemes had brought blood and promised more. Their domestic management had not improved Americans' lives, but given them a taste of arbitrary government, including Prohibition. The Progressives, for their part, found it fulfilling to attribute the failure of their schemes to the American people's backwardness, to something deeply wrong with America. The American people had failed them because democracy in its American form perpetuated the worst in humanity. Thus Progressives began to look down on the masses, to look on themselves as the vanguard, and to look abroad for examples to emulate.
In Congressional Government (1885) Woodrow Wilson left no doubt: the U.S. Constitution prevents the government from meeting the country's needs by enumerating rights that the government may not infringe. ("Congress shall make no law..." says the First Amendment, typically.) Our electoral system, based on single member districts, empowers individual voters at the expense of "responsible parties." Hence the ruling class's perpetual agenda has been to diminish the role of the citizenry's elected representatives, enhancing that of party leaders as well as of groups willing to partner in the government's plans, and to craft a "living" Constitution in which restrictions on government give way to "positive rights" -- meaning charters of government power.
The ruling class is keener to reform the American people's family and spiritual lives than their economic and civic ones. In no other areas is the ruling class's self-definition so definite, its contempt for opposition so patent, its Kulturkampf so open. It believes that the Christian family (and the Orthodox Jewish one too) is rooted in and perpetuates the ignorance commonly called religion, divisive social prejudices, and repressive gender roles, that it is the greatest barrier to human progress because it looks to its very particular interest -- often defined as mere coherence against outsiders who most often know better. Thus the family prevents its members from playing their proper roles in social reform. Worst of all, it reproduces itself.
At stake are the most important questions: What is the right way for human beings to live? By what standard is anything true or good? Who gets to decide what? Implicit in Wilson's words and explicit in our ruling class's actions is the dismissal, as the ways of outdated "fathers," of the answers that most Americans would give to these questions. This dismissal of the American people's intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others' comprehension.
America's best and brightest believe themselves qualified and duty bound to direct the lives not only of Americans but of foreigners as well. George W. Bush's 2005 inaugural statement that America cannot be free until the whole world is free and hence that America must push and prod mankind to freedom was but an extrapolation of the sentiments of America's Progressive class, first articulated by such as Princeton's Woodrow Wilson and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler. But while the early Progressives expected the rest of the wo
No, it's because in the process of revealing NSA crimes (i.e. spying on Americans) he also blew the lid on basically every NSA overseas operation. Even the ones that weren't illegal at all and that were doing a lot of good. Either you are being deliberately ignorant or...well I can't really see it any other way.
You know that feeling you have right now? Yeah, that's how the rest of us feel whenever one of you NYC morons tests something in your own city and then assumes it goes for the rest of the country. Apparently it's only wrong if other people do it.
I think that anyone, regardless of race, creed, religion, etc, will always have a job publicly supporting the existing power structure.
Isn't that an amazing step forward in egalitarianism? Such a short time ago, someone like her would never have been accepted, no matter what her political views. Pretty cool, eh? Nah, just kidding. Let's keep blaming everything on "white men" LOLZ
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Dry lands of Texas? WTF? You know Texas has huge areas of humid swamps? And other areas that are quite temperate, with adequate rainfall ideal for growing crops? You people scare me.
So, we're going to pretend that the FA$T FOOD INDU$TRY makes people eat meat, when every genetic indicator since 50,000 BC tells us to eat meat because it is a bonanza of protein for an otherwise fruit-eating mammal race?
I like your solution - sit around in the dark, with no electricity. After all, it worked for humanity before 1910, why not from 2010 until the rest of time?
First of all, the cost of distributing information is fixed at the cost of distributing information. Those $20 DVDs? Bullshit, those cost $1 at most.
Secondly, have you examined your racism? You are opposing the President of the United States, who is just as peaceful minded as you. If you're opposed to him, you are quite likely a racist. You need to stop doing that. You're wrong.
If you drink beer from the bottle then you need to stop using words like 'pageantry'.
Because anything that we don't agree with must be a racket. Yes, there is no other way to interpret these events. Anyone who disagrees with me never, repeat never, has a valid reason for doing so. It's always because they're being deceived, or are too stupid, or batshit insane. Never give them the satisfaction of being fellow human beings who might dissent. Yes, it's all about TEH PROFITZ of the gun manufacturers.
Honestly Obama with his intentionally frightening ways has done more for gun sales than any NRA propaganda. You're giving the Right way too much credit for being able to string together coherent sentences. Remember, these are people who are being lied to or are too stupid...and suddenly when we need it, they acquire the ability to be frighteningly effective?
When you start with good meat, sausage can be amazing. Most people never taste it, because they don't bother to spend the money.
Hmm, now where have I seen that idea before...people that need, get what they want...people that can produce, are expected to produce for everyone else. "To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability." I wonder if they ever tried that idea out in real life. Like, in a major country. How would it have turned out? I'm guessing, "pretty damn good" otherwise intelligent people wouldn't advocate for such foolishness.
You have to just step back and realize, there are people out there who disagree with me. Their opinions are just as valid as mine, and the fact that someone is criticizing the government doesn't make them a troll. Go into timeout and think about this until you're ready to come back and play with the other children.
Given how large the US government already is, and how it is abusing this power to take over ever-larger parts of society, yes it is quite rational to be highly skeptical when someone suggests that giving this government even more control would be a good thing.
Is it really "misogynous" (sic) to point out that sexual harassment charges are frequently abused? I don't know what's more troubling, the fact that this happens, or the fact that those who speak out about it are silenced.
I love your witch hunt mentality. The guilty ones are out there somewhere, and if we tag a few innocents along the way, that's OK because nobody is innocent. They're all guilty of being men, all men are rapists, and go ahead and throw in race somewhere as well.
Single women will ruthlessly disqualify men due to the tiniest of flaws. It's no wonder they can't find a husband. They'll rationalize it later (he's immature) to defend their fragile psyche. These women are single for a reason, and the reason is inside themselves.
Are you aware of Godwin's Law? Calling Obama a nazi is not only ridiculous, but racist as well.
It's just not Slashdot without the ad hominem metric flame. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Oh, did that hit a little close to home? What does it say about our elites when they can't take a little (well-placed and accurate) criticism? Why are you using a word like "capitalist" as an epithet?
A quick question: how many corrupt government officials will the Ivy League graduate this year? How many of them will go on to oppress the American people with outrageous, unworkable ideas while all the time enjoying the approval of their own consciences? The Ivy League exists to perpetrate a culture of class warfare and hatred of ordinary folk. Life would be better without it - and yes, I'm including all the scientists and whatnot.
Of course, such a conclusion is poison and cannot be accepted, and normal people who get uppity need to be shown their place with the greatest of rudeness, and a couple of knocks in the head from the mercenary troops, er, I mean private security guards.
Please butt out of our domestic politics. It's none of your goddamn business, and yet foreign politicians know more about state-level politics in America than they do their own provinces.
You know, I tried opposing the government, but then people just like you shouted me down for being a racist. So, which is it, oppose or support? Have we always been at war with Eastasia?
These attitudes persist today. A man used an ATM outside a bank, and the machine made noise but no money came out. His receipt indicated money had been withdrawn from his account, so he used his mobile phone to call the bank and report the problem. He was told there was nothing they could do, could not send anyone to look, etc. He then hung up and called back, reporting that the ATM had spit out too much money. A bank executive and repairman were on the scene in less than five minutes.
Do people REALLY still cling to the myth that the New York Times is not a left-wing newspaper? Puh-leez. We're adults here, people. In this day and age, we're still denying basic facts like this? You don't believe me, do you?
Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
--Source: The New York Times.
Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them? What sets our ruling class apart from the rest of us?
Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that "we" are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generation's paradigm that "all men are created equal"?
World War I and the chaos at home and abroad that followed it discredited the Progressives in the American people's eyes. Their international schemes had brought blood and promised more. Their domestic management had not improved Americans' lives, but given them a taste of arbitrary government, including Prohibition. The Progressives, for their part, found it fulfilling to attribute the failure of their schemes to the American people's backwardness, to something deeply wrong with America. The American people had failed them because democracy in its American form perpetuated the worst in humanity. Thus Progressives began to look down on the masses, to look on themselves as the vanguard, and to look abroad for examples to emulate.
In Congressional Government (1885) Woodrow Wilson left no doubt: the U.S. Constitution prevents the government from meeting the country's needs by enumerating rights that the government may not infringe. ("Congress shall make no law..." says the First Amendment, typically.) Our electoral system, based on single member districts, empowers individual voters at the expense of "responsible parties." Hence the ruling class's perpetual agenda has been to diminish the role of the citizenry's elected representatives, enhancing that of party leaders as well as of groups willing to partner in the government's plans, and to craft a "living" Constitution in which restrictions on government give way to "positive rights" -- meaning charters of government power.
The ruling class is keener to reform the American people's family and spiritual lives than their economic and civic ones. In no other areas is the ruling class's self-definition so definite, its contempt for opposition so patent, its Kulturkampf so open. It believes that the Christian family (and the Orthodox Jewish one too) is rooted in and perpetuates the ignorance commonly called religion, divisive social prejudices, and repressive gender roles, that it is the greatest barrier to human progress because it looks to its very particular interest -- often defined as mere coherence against outsiders who most often know better. Thus the family prevents its members from playing their proper roles in social reform. Worst of all, it reproduces itself.
At stake are the most important questions: What is the right way for human beings to live? By what standard is anything true or good? Who gets to decide what? Implicit in Wilson's words and explicit in our ruling class's actions is the dismissal, as the ways of outdated "fathers," of the answers that most Americans would give to these questions. This dismissal of the American people's intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others' comprehension.
America's best and brightest believe themselves qualified and duty bound to direct the lives not only of Americans but of foreigners as well. George W. Bush's 2005 inaugural statement that America cannot be free until the whole world is free and hence that America must push and prod mankind to freedom was but an extrapolation of the sentiments of America's Progressive class, first articulated by such as Princeton's Woodrow Wilson and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler. But while the early Progressives expected the rest of the wo
No, it's because in the process of revealing NSA crimes (i.e. spying on Americans) he also blew the lid on basically every NSA overseas operation. Even the ones that weren't illegal at all and that were doing a lot of good. Either you are being deliberately ignorant or...well I can't really see it any other way.
The Jon Katz filter. Boy, that brings me back.
You know that feeling you have right now? Yeah, that's how the rest of us feel whenever one of you NYC morons tests something in your own city and then assumes it goes for the rest of the country. Apparently it's only wrong if other people do it.
I think that anyone, regardless of race, creed, religion, etc, will always have a job publicly supporting the existing power structure.
Isn't that an amazing step forward in egalitarianism? Such a short time ago, someone like her would never have been accepted, no matter what her political views. Pretty cool, eh? Nah, just kidding. Let's keep blaming everything on "white men" LOLZ