Of course it passed. This is the ruling class protecting itself from us. They know well how poorly they represent our interests and we would overthrow them if we had the full story. They would if the situation were reversed. So we must not be allowed to have secrets from them. Of course Labour voted for it. They are all ruling class. They show solidarity with one another and keep us divided and fighting with identity politics. I've recently reread 1984 and one passage sticks out at me.
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
We will trust the government to tell us right from wrong. They are educated, informed people and in this time of deception on every side, who can you trust? Those with higher educations, Master's, Ph.d and so on. All of whom are heavily represented in government. To fear the educated is anti-intellectual.
The Crown Victoria soldiered on because it was the car of choice for police departments. Body on frame construction, cheap and easy to replace damaged body components. Tons of extra electrical power for accessories. A supporting infrastructure that helped this obsolete car continue long past its expiration date. It's a cautionary example of what the power of government buying can do against the forces of progress.
Seriously? You can't imagine Times readers thinking themselves the world's panacea if they were only handed absolute power with no interference from the people? Hell, they jack off to it every day. A government composed of The Smart People in society, empowered to do what they think is right without any restrictions? You really find this unlikely?
It's 2018. I expected that the environmentalist Left would have come up with their human terminator virus at least a decade ago. So where is it? Why haven't they done the Nazis one better and killed all of us deplorables by now? I'm honestly curious.
You neither engaged with my ideas nor refuted my premises. You merely called me names. This is the address hominem logical fallacy. Please try again. Look into the political affiliations of criminals and let us all know if they are Republican or Democrat.
Leftist judges judge not according to something as outdated and stodgy as the law. No. They judge according to their *feelings*. If something gives them a bad feeling, they rule against it. Hell of a way to run a jurisprudence, eh?
When you prove you can't play with others, the adults come and take away your toys. A felony is a very serious crime and it is appropriate to lose some civil rights afterwards, like being able to own a gun. The only reason it's an issue is that people who commit serious crimes are overwhelmingly Democrats. Republicans practice what they preach about being law-abiding. Aside from a few outliers, you simply don't find Republicans committing felonies. However Democrats have a big problem on their side of the aisle with criminals.
Czechoslovakia, China, Italy and Greece were all infiltrated and either overthrown or almost overthrown. France was close. Look up "scientific socialism" to find out why so many intellectuals got on board. They had proven with science that capitalism would collapse and socialism win.
Black people can't think for themselves and things were better when they were ruled by whites. For someone who's not alt-right, you sure have a lot of alt-right opinions.
Elites always have grand plans where we get to do all the dying while they themselves reap the benefits. And people wonder why populism is big these days.
Because the Communist Party has delivered 30 years of nonstop growth? Things are better every day in China. Revolutions happen when the people are not taken are of, the Communists know this well as it's how they got into power in the first place. People can gripe all they want but the Party is delivering the goods. Who would be insane enough to plunge China into chaos? They did chaos already, it didn't work out well for them.
There was a column published in the New York Times that gazed longingly at China and wished they could have the same system here. No messy democracy, no morons protesting, no fake news, just the smart people [Times readers] get to rule society as they see fit. They make the hard decisions that they see as necessary. Decisions we won't like but that someone has to step up and tell us "no". When China decides there will be a road or a bridge somewhere, it just happens. No debate, no citizens council, no environmental impact statements. One can see how elites greatly envy China and wish they could have that here. Oh, the great things they could accomplish without our interference!
The Communists very openly declared their intention to overthrow every government in the world, including the USA, and unite the world under a single governance. This wasn't a secret, it was loudly trumpeted from Moscow. It's one of the reasons they were so terrifying. They had science on their side. It had been proven empirically that their system was better and ours was doomed to failure. That's one reason so many intellectuals got on board and betrayed America. Why stick with a losing team? What, you some kind of moron anti-intellectual science denier?
These "allies" already held us in contempt. We provide their defense for free and they criticize the manner in which we provide it. And who can forget Obama's awful apology tour where he humiliated himself and our nation in front of the world. On purpose. Including bowing to royalty, something Americans don't do. He didn't even regard China as an enemy, what an idiot. Would we even be here without Trump's tough line?
They were criticizing him because he was wrecking the communists who were trying to overthrow the US government with their positions of trust. Just like they did in China. It worked there, why wouldn't it work in America?
Howd you shoehorn Trump in there? WTF we weren't talking about that at ALL. You have TDS or something? Or am I talking to a script?
Got news for ya buddy: free speech is an absolute. You're either free or not. And if you're on the left, you're definitely in favor of censorship and against free speech. Don't believe me? Try speaking out next time you're in a leftist echo chamber and watch how fast you get censored.
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We will trust the government to tell us right from wrong. They are educated, informed people and in this time of deception on every side, who can you trust? Those with higher educations, Master's, Ph.d and so on. All of whom are heavily represented in government. To fear the educated is anti-intellectual.
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The Crown Victoria soldiered on because it was the car of choice for police departments. Body on frame construction, cheap and easy to replace damaged body components. Tons of extra electrical power for accessories. A supporting infrastructure that helped this obsolete car continue long past its expiration date. It's a cautionary example of what the power of government buying can do against the forces of progress.
The filters plug up because they are filtering the dust. It's not some kind of defect. I can't believe people don't understand this.
That's whataboutism, you didn't address the issue of leftist banning. You're not in favor of free speech and never were.
Seriously? You can't imagine Times readers thinking themselves the world's panacea if they were only handed absolute power with no interference from the people? Hell, they jack off to it every day. A government composed of The Smart People in society, empowered to do what they think is right without any restrictions? You really find this unlikely?
It's 2018. I expected that the environmentalist Left would have come up with their human terminator virus at least a decade ago. So where is it? Why haven't they done the Nazis one better and killed all of us deplorables by now? I'm honestly curious.
You neither engaged with my ideas nor refuted my premises. You merely called me names. This is the address hominem logical fallacy. Please try again. Look into the political affiliations of criminals and let us all know if they are Republican or Democrat.
Leftist judges judge not according to something as outdated and stodgy as the law. No. They judge according to their *feelings*. If something gives them a bad feeling, they rule against it. Hell of a way to run a jurisprudence, eh?
Yes, they are taking the capitalist road to achieve socialism. This was Deng Xiaoping in the 80s. Please do try to keep up.
When you prove you can't play with others, the adults come and take away your toys. A felony is a very serious crime and it is appropriate to lose some civil rights afterwards, like being able to own a gun. The only reason it's an issue is that people who commit serious crimes are overwhelmingly Democrats. Republicans practice what they preach about being law-abiding. Aside from a few outliers, you simply don't find Republicans committing felonies. However Democrats have a big problem on their side of the aisle with criminals.
Judges judge according to the law. Not according to what our feelings might be that day. I know that's a weird idea to the far left, but here we are.
Czechoslovakia, China, Italy and Greece were all infiltrated and either overthrown or almost overthrown. France was close. Look up "scientific socialism" to find out why so many intellectuals got on board. They had proven with science that capitalism would collapse and socialism win.
Black people can't think for themselves and things were better when they were ruled by whites. For someone who's not alt-right, you sure have a lot of alt-right opinions.
You don't represent everyone. Classic vegan virtue signalling though - "look how virtuous I am!"
Elites always have grand plans where we get to do all the dying while they themselves reap the benefits. And people wonder why populism is big these days.
Because the Communist Party has delivered 30 years of nonstop growth? Things are better every day in China. Revolutions happen when the people are not taken are of, the Communists know this well as it's how they got into power in the first place. People can gripe all they want but the Party is delivering the goods. Who would be insane enough to plunge China into chaos? They did chaos already, it didn't work out well for them.
There was a column published in the New York Times that gazed longingly at China and wished they could have the same system here. No messy democracy, no morons protesting, no fake news, just the smart people [Times readers] get to rule society as they see fit. They make the hard decisions that they see as necessary. Decisions we won't like but that someone has to step up and tell us "no". When China decides there will be a road or a bridge somewhere, it just happens. No debate, no citizens council, no environmental impact statements. One can see how elites greatly envy China and wish they could have that here. Oh, the great things they could accomplish without our interference!
This is the most nicely dressed up racist comment I've ever seen on Slashdot. The alt-right is getting better. Time to come down on them.
Oh look, an America-hating leftist. How unusual.
The Communists very openly declared their intention to overthrow every government in the world, including the USA, and unite the world under a single governance. This wasn't a secret, it was loudly trumpeted from Moscow. It's one of the reasons they were so terrifying. They had science on their side. It had been proven empirically that their system was better and ours was doomed to failure. That's one reason so many intellectuals got on board and betrayed America. Why stick with a losing team? What, you some kind of moron anti-intellectual science denier?
These "allies" already held us in contempt. We provide their defense for free and they criticize the manner in which we provide it. And who can forget Obama's awful apology tour where he humiliated himself and our nation in front of the world. On purpose. Including bowing to royalty, something Americans don't do. He didn't even regard China as an enemy, what an idiot. Would we even be here without Trump's tough line?
They were criticizing him because he was wrecking the communists who were trying to overthrow the US government with their positions of trust. Just like they did in China. It worked there, why wouldn't it work in America?
Howd you shoehorn Trump in there? WTF we weren't talking about that at ALL. You have TDS or something? Or am I talking to a script?
Got news for ya buddy: free speech is an absolute. You're either free or not. And if you're on the left, you're definitely in favor of censorship and against free speech. Don't believe me? Try speaking out next time you're in a leftist echo chamber and watch how fast you get censored.