Mighty dishonest of you to change the set to include the entire world, which completely skews the value of the dollar earned in comparison to the market.
In other words, if someone makes $20k but has to pay $4 for a gallon of milk, you can't say they're 8 times better off than someone making $2500 a year and paying $0.50/gallon.
The ironic part is that the SJWs aren't helping the people they claim to be, because universities who cave to pressure and pull stunts like these just get their names added to the "shitcan resumes from these universities" lists almost immediately.
If the police end up caring about the public, then they can't be trusted to act in the interests of those in power when they're told to go bash skulls at a food riot in progress.
That just won't do. To prevent that, animosity must be generated between the police and the people. Psychopathic goons who want to lay a beat-down must be given hiring preference. Unjust court rulings must let police off the hook for their wrongs and overly punish regular folks for even the slightest perceived infractions.
That's how you get the people busy fighting among themselves and ignoring the real problems in our society: bankers/financiers, crooked politicians, and billionaire globalist industrialists.
Governments have CAUSED the so-called population problem. Their pandering to bankers through deficit financing and bailouts, allowing them to steal nearly all of the public's productivity gains have left people with a situation where it is very expensive to raise kids if you're not on welfare. As a result, you're seeing people not having kids until their 30's now, and having *maybe* 2 of them.
Add to this the completely biased court system in western countries that make it absolutely profitable for a woman to get a divorce, leaving the guy eating dog food and living in a dank, rented basement while he pays for her and the kids every needs, while being lucky to get weekend visits with his kids that aren't supervised, is it any wonder that guys have little desire to have kids?
Oh, but now that the baby boomer generation is dying off, and we're normalizing the population trend again, it's this huge fucking problem because of the broken system our corrupt politicians set up that demands infinite growth in a finite world or their fiat system crashes. So let's haul in millions of immigrants as fast as we can to patch up this problem, and in typical government fashion, create a new problem on top of it. Let's not even think about what happens when a critical mass of them stay on welfare and don't contribute to the system, resulting in net-loss to the whole fiasco, making things even worse.
The resulting implosion will be spectacular, to say the least. I'd rather not be around to see it though.
Government is very susceptible to demands that the government expand its powers. They're always looking for ways to hold onto their existing power while grabbing more.
That's why the "progressives" that you mention, in combination with corrupt government, are so harmful to a free society. They're the ones demanding that restrictions be put on free speech so that they can have their safe spaces, and the government is more than willing to take that. They're the ones demanding that people be harassed and fired from their jobs, their livelihoods destroyed, simply because they spoke an alternative viewpoint, or even because they didn't speak out enough in support of their viewpoints (see protests against administrators at these so-called liberal colleges).
While these people are still a small minority, the government is giving them disproportionate regard, simply because it allows them to grab more power. But in the end, it's up to the people to say "no" when the government steps too far out of line, having the responsible individuals removed from power when they have abused that power. That should have happened a long time ago for a lot of power in power. People have let it go on for far too long, and now it's nearly impossible to remove these people from power using the means within the system because the system itself has been perverted to protect these people.
Completely true. The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation, a publicly funded news outlet in Canada) has been filtering comments that don't fit their agenda, or outright closing comments sections on articles when the narrative starts falling apart, risking a backfire of the programming attempt. A number of articles don't even get the comment section from the start, since they know people will point out the bullshit immediately. There was more truth in the comments sections than in the articles in many cases.
I can't find it right now, but there was an opinion article on cbc.ca that was along the lines of "Is it time to remove online comments altogether?" because you "had no right" to them in the first place. Never mind that this is an organization that is funded by taxpayer money, to the tune of about a billion dollars a year.
All systems of government will deteriorate into totalitarian regimes if they are not kept in check by the good people of the country.
Most of the evil that is being committed is being done on a somewhat subtle basis, where the public either doesn't even know about it, or only a few good aspects are presented, while the many far more negative ones are not. It seems people only recognize evil if it's an over-the-top James Bond style villain that's going to directly kill a bunch of people. Conversely, they'll believe someone is evil if the media or government tells them to, even if that person is not. They don't understand insidious plans that mean to do them long-term harm, and any attempt by a non-mainstream outlet to inform them of this is met with derision and attempts to dismiss the claim without actually thinking about it by pulling the "conspiracy theory" card.
In the end, the general public won't try to fix the problem until it is far too late to do so without a complete collapse of the system. In the meantime, the government will whittle away your rights and freedoms while telling you it's for your own good, and you'll be happy to hand them all over on a silver platter.
Maybe not what he thinks, but apparently a lot of people do care what he says, otherwise they wouldn't get so worked up about it and throw childish hissy fits as mentioned in the second paragraph of the summary.
I urge people to do some research on this topic. For most of my life I thought McCarthy was a totalitarian piece of crap, but it turns out he may have been right and that there really were a number of communists that had infiltrated the ranks of the power in the USA at the time.
Doing the right thing for the security of your country is not always a pretty or popular task, especially if the media is against you.
Wouldn't a policy of bombing predominately Islamic countries be a much better way to incite hatred of America among muslims and garner far more extremist support than simply denying immigration? In that case, where's the outrage against Obama? Because that's what he's doing right now.
You're right. Thanks for pointing out that what Carter did was technically worse, because being muslim is a choice, while being Iranian was very likely not a choice, simply because they happened to be born there.
As opposed to fighting the government with your fists? Or just rolling over and becoming a slave, if that's what they want? Seems the smarter one would be the one with the weapon.
Even if you got your dream-come-true wish, and all guns vanished from the face of the Earth except those that were in the hands of police and military, you would still not be safe. You, or your descendants, would soon realize why that right was enshrined in the Constitution. They would realize it when they were beaten/raped/killed by an aggressor of superior strength, or when their government decided to ignore the people's wishes and turn their country into a totalitarian state.
Thank God the founding fathers of your country had more sense than you when it came to knowing what rights the citizens require. Unfortunately, no matter what rules they set about in the Constitution, it still requires citizens who value freedom and justice to stand up and uphold those laws, even in the face of cowards who would discard them for the illusion of safety.
Are knitting needles illegal too? How about cleavers?
What the fuck happened to the world and why are people so shit scared of their own shadows that they feel the need to go crying to the government for yet more authoritarian garbage? They're literally demanding their own prison. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but these fascists are demanding it for everyone else as well, and that has got to stop.
Person claims to be of a specific religion. Specific religion is based on book that says to kill people who won't convert to that religion or malign that religion in any way. There have been many, many instances where people of this religion have committed said killings.
We're supposed to let this person into our country on the hope that they DON'T actually follow their religion's rules?
I'd rather err on the side of caution and assume they will follow their rules. Once they clean up their own house, then we can talk about mingling in ours.
When formerly free countries started passing hate speech laws, I knew it was the beginning of the end. Right now you can see the far-left using censorship and hate speech laws to silence every one of their critics, rather than debate an issue with reason and logic. They will continue to expand the definition in order to include anything they don't like. Hurt someone's feelings? Hate speech.
Wars fought for the freedoms we have, and totalitarians just throw them away when it suits them. Tragic.
"The December 1999 immigration law, according to the Popular Party, was making Spain a destination for illegal immigrants because it offered them K-12 education and medical care on the same basis as Spaniards, as well as political rights such as the right to hold demonstrations and join unions. The Spanish government, in seeking to amend the law, said "no country in the world … offers such rights" to unauthorized migrants, and noted that 6,958 foreigners were apprehended trying to enter southern Spain in the first seven months of 2000, compared to 5,492 in all of 1999."
So Spain definitely had "illegal" immigration. Did they just up and remove all immigration law recently then? Or did they just rename it?
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So what about those in power who have been destroying the economy for over 20 years? Abenomics, anyone?
Where's their punishment? Where's the deterrent?
You mean 7.4 billion.
Mighty dishonest of you to change the set to include the entire world, which completely skews the value of the dollar earned in comparison to the market.
In other words, if someone makes $20k but has to pay $4 for a gallon of milk, you can't say they're 8 times better off than someone making $2500 a year and paying $0.50/gallon.
The ironic part is that the SJWs aren't helping the people they claim to be, because universities who cave to pressure and pull stunts like these just get their names added to the "shitcan resumes from these universities" lists almost immediately.
If the police end up caring about the public, then they can't be trusted to act in the interests of those in power when they're told to go bash skulls at a food riot in progress.
That just won't do. To prevent that, animosity must be generated between the police and the people. Psychopathic goons who want to lay a beat-down must be given hiring preference. Unjust court rulings must let police off the hook for their wrongs and overly punish regular folks for even the slightest perceived infractions.
That's how you get the people busy fighting among themselves and ignoring the real problems in our society: bankers/financiers, crooked politicians, and billionaire globalist industrialists.
How about "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", or "For evil to succeed, good men need only do nothing."
Seems you have forgotten those wise words as well.
Governments have CAUSED the so-called population problem. Their pandering to bankers through deficit financing and bailouts, allowing them to steal nearly all of the public's productivity gains have left people with a situation where it is very expensive to raise kids if you're not on welfare. As a result, you're seeing people not having kids until their 30's now, and having *maybe* 2 of them.
Add to this the completely biased court system in western countries that make it absolutely profitable for a woman to get a divorce, leaving the guy eating dog food and living in a dank, rented basement while he pays for her and the kids every needs, while being lucky to get weekend visits with his kids that aren't supervised, is it any wonder that guys have little desire to have kids?
Oh, but now that the baby boomer generation is dying off, and we're normalizing the population trend again, it's this huge fucking problem because of the broken system our corrupt politicians set up that demands infinite growth in a finite world or their fiat system crashes. So let's haul in millions of immigrants as fast as we can to patch up this problem, and in typical government fashion, create a new problem on top of it. Let's not even think about what happens when a critical mass of them stay on welfare and don't contribute to the system, resulting in net-loss to the whole fiasco, making things even worse.
The resulting implosion will be spectacular, to say the least. I'd rather not be around to see it though.
Government is very susceptible to demands that the government expand its powers. They're always looking for ways to hold onto their existing power while grabbing more.
That's why the "progressives" that you mention, in combination with corrupt government, are so harmful to a free society. They're the ones demanding that restrictions be put on free speech so that they can have their safe spaces, and the government is more than willing to take that. They're the ones demanding that people be harassed and fired from their jobs, their livelihoods destroyed, simply because they spoke an alternative viewpoint, or even because they didn't speak out enough in support of their viewpoints (see protests against administrators at these so-called liberal colleges).
While these people are still a small minority, the government is giving them disproportionate regard, simply because it allows them to grab more power. But in the end, it's up to the people to say "no" when the government steps too far out of line, having the responsible individuals removed from power when they have abused that power. That should have happened a long time ago for a lot of power in power. People have let it go on for far too long, and now it's nearly impossible to remove these people from power using the means within the system because the system itself has been perverted to protect these people.
Completely true. The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation, a publicly funded news outlet in Canada) has been filtering comments that don't fit their agenda, or outright closing comments sections on articles when the narrative starts falling apart, risking a backfire of the programming attempt. A number of articles don't even get the comment section from the start, since they know people will point out the bullshit immediately. There was more truth in the comments sections than in the articles in many cases.
I can't find it right now, but there was an opinion article on cbc.ca that was along the lines of "Is it time to remove online comments altogether?" because you "had no right" to them in the first place. Never mind that this is an organization that is funded by taxpayer money, to the tune of about a billion dollars a year.
All systems of government will deteriorate into totalitarian regimes if they are not kept in check by the good people of the country.
Most of the evil that is being committed is being done on a somewhat subtle basis, where the public either doesn't even know about it, or only a few good aspects are presented, while the many far more negative ones are not. It seems people only recognize evil if it's an over-the-top James Bond style villain that's going to directly kill a bunch of people. Conversely, they'll believe someone is evil if the media or government tells them to, even if that person is not. They don't understand insidious plans that mean to do them long-term harm, and any attempt by a non-mainstream outlet to inform them of this is met with derision and attempts to dismiss the claim without actually thinking about it by pulling the "conspiracy theory" card.
In the end, the general public won't try to fix the problem until it is far too late to do so without a complete collapse of the system. In the meantime, the government will whittle away your rights and freedoms while telling you it's for your own good, and you'll be happy to hand them all over on a silver platter.
Enforcing existing immigration laws, for one.
Maybe not what he thinks, but apparently a lot of people do care what he says, otherwise they wouldn't get so worked up about it and throw childish hissy fits as mentioned in the second paragraph of the summary.
I urge people to do some research on this topic. For most of my life I thought McCarthy was a totalitarian piece of crap, but it turns out he may have been right and that there really were a number of communists that had infiltrated the ranks of the power in the USA at the time.
Doing the right thing for the security of your country is not always a pretty or popular task, especially if the media is against you.
It becomes much more difficult to do so. That's the whole point.
Wouldn't a policy of bombing predominately Islamic countries be a much better way to incite hatred of America among muslims and garner far more extremist support than simply denying immigration? In that case, where's the outrage against Obama? Because that's what he's doing right now.
You're right. Thanks for pointing out that what Carter did was technically worse, because being muslim is a choice, while being Iranian was very likely not a choice, simply because they happened to be born there.
I don't think the boxes quote was meant to condone using the ammo box to prevent someone from using the voting box.
As opposed to fighting the government with your fists? Or just rolling over and becoming a slave, if that's what they want? Seems the smarter one would be the one with the weapon.
Even if you got your dream-come-true wish, and all guns vanished from the face of the Earth except those that were in the hands of police and military, you would still not be safe. You, or your descendants, would soon realize why that right was enshrined in the Constitution. They would realize it when they were beaten/raped/killed by an aggressor of superior strength, or when their government decided to ignore the people's wishes and turn their country into a totalitarian state.
Thank God the founding fathers of your country had more sense than you when it came to knowing what rights the citizens require. Unfortunately, no matter what rules they set about in the Constitution, it still requires citizens who value freedom and justice to stand up and uphold those laws, even in the face of cowards who would discard them for the illusion of safety.
Are knitting needles illegal too? How about cleavers?
What the fuck happened to the world and why are people so shit scared of their own shadows that they feel the need to go crying to the government for yet more authoritarian garbage? They're literally demanding their own prison. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but these fascists are demanding it for everyone else as well, and that has got to stop.
You're confused. It goes like this:
Person claims to be of a specific religion.
Specific religion is based on book that says to kill people who won't convert to that religion or malign that religion in any way.
There have been many, many instances where people of this religion have committed said killings.
We're supposed to let this person into our country on the hope that they DON'T actually follow their religion's rules?
I'd rather err on the side of caution and assume they will follow their rules. Once they clean up their own house, then we can talk about mingling in ours.
In communist Russia, the state controls the corporations, and the banks own the state.
In capitalist America, the corporations control the state, and the banks own the corporations.
How about using the metric system?
When formerly free countries started passing hate speech laws, I knew it was the beginning of the end. Right now you can see the far-left using censorship and hate speech laws to silence every one of their critics, rather than debate an issue with reason and logic. They will continue to expand the definition in order to include anything they don't like. Hurt someone's feelings? Hate speech.
Wars fought for the freedoms we have, and totalitarians just throw them away when it suits them. Tragic.
there is no such thing as "illegal" immigration
From http://migration.ucdavis.edu/m...
"The December 1999 immigration law, according to the Popular Party, was making Spain a destination for illegal immigrants because it offered them K-12 education and medical care on the same basis as Spaniards, as well as political rights such as the right to hold demonstrations and join unions. The Spanish government, in seeking to amend the law, said "no country in the world … offers such rights" to unauthorized migrants, and noted that 6,958 foreigners were apprehended trying to enter southern Spain in the first seven months of 2000, compared to 5,492 in all of 1999."
So Spain definitely had "illegal" immigration. Did they just up and remove all immigration law recently then? Or did they just rename it?