Sure you can 'participate' if you're willing to participate in your own discrimination..this esp applies to the NAACP which really is no better than the KKK.
Why not? There are plenty of clubs today that cater to various cultures and lifestyles, right? There are gay clubs? Irish taverns? Gay parades? The NAACP?
As opposed to the feminist left's attempt to dictate that consent is mens responsibility alone?..or how her body her right her choice is somehow still his responsibility? How about all the policy that's destroying healthy hetero families and marriage (I believe the stat is 50/50 now)? While the religious right wants to use the state to impose toxic culture and behavior, the left does too. Neither is acceptable. A mantra for a free society should include "Live how you want, but don't expect everyone to like you."
I rarely see tolerance in any form from the left.. Their mantra is always about how some other group not on their whitelist is oppressing some group that is.
A church and its community should not be required to accept people who do not comply with its doctrine for the same reason gay people should not be required to associate with them or live by said doctrine. Both populations should tolerate the liberty the other has because it protects the rights of both. This is part of the point of "Liberty and justice for ALL" (not just non white non straight non males). I think people in general need to realize they're not going to be welcome everywhere and not everyone is going to like them.
For me, the line is drawn where some group uses the state to force their lifestyle/belief on others
1. Obviously not reasonable since any government needs funding, esp one with a military that could do that...and no, company towns would just be more authoritarian garbage under a new management...
2. Didn't you just say this? An unfunded government is no government at all, which is anarchy.
what? you're not even making sense. How about instead we have the government work within a budget like everyone else instead of like a 16 year old with the parental credit card? You talk about cronyism? The term 'crony capitalism' comes to mind, you know, the 'capitalists' who use the state to corner the market and impose their social views on us? Why would you want to grow the size of the hammer (and sickle?) they wield? Nothing hurts the poor more than creeping taxation coupled with creeping inflation.
The fantasy is printing more money whenever you run out and hoping the whole thing doesn't drop on your watch, then leaving the debt to the next generation. Your grandfather doesn't sound like a libertarian, he sounds like he's an anarcho capitalist, unless of course you're misrepresenting his views. Personally, I'd like to try for a 10% flat income tax state. That would give them roughly 1998 levels of funding, something like 1.8trillion.. really, that ought to be enough, and should be once the inflation is under control.
Well if libertarian != anarchy or 'within budget', then what would libertarian mean exactly? The former is no government, and the latter implies one. One that works within a budget set by the tolerances of the taxpayers seems best.
I guess I was looking at it in terms of raising national debt. In that regard, both parties have the blame. If the state really wanted to help the poor they would move to pay it off and, ideally, abolish the federal reserve. All needed funding should come from taxes, one tax for each initiative (ie road construction) with no redirection into black hole slush funds.
Obama is NOT fiscally conservative. If he was, he would not have pushed for nationalizing healthcare.
Nah, that was mostly caused by democrats and republicans 'reaching across the aisle' to burn the dollar from both ends and corner the market. This has been SOP for quite awhile.
1. libertarians are not anarchists and do not believe in 'no government.' 2. expecting the government to operate within budget like everyone else is not anarchy. 2. fiorina is likely not libertarian.
I wish some of these social justice types would imagine your story with your employer favoring the white males instead, and then realize the hypocrisy in their politics.
1. Feminists attack, generalize, and stereotype mens character all the time. Apparently this is ok, so why do feminists complain when a specific woman is criticized? 2. Some women are whiners. So are some men. 3. Having people around whose workflow jars with established process creates inefficiency. Ask men who work in nursing how they're treated. Men and women think differently and that's ok. It could very well be that in certain tasks, mixing the sexes is not a good idea. 4. A sex pay gap doesn't exist. That 77% stat is the one they were throwing around in the 70s. It doesn't account for experience, area of the country, and industry type. The bottom line is that women choose to work fewer hours per year. 5. If anything aggressive women are given the benefit of the doubt because they are assumed to be oppressed. Try lodging a complaint against an aggressive woman and you'll lose your job (if you're male). 6. Actually, it's feminists who think men 'act crazy'. They're always calling them rapists. 7. Irrational shaming proves nothing. Irrational shaming with government backing is a threat to liberty.
fwd.us and academia are just several ideological think tanks on the left. murdoch's empire, PNAC, and heritage are on the right. They're all willing to misrepresent the truth for their ideological and financial goals. None of them want the individual to have much say in anything.
1. low latency and high, unsmoothed dpi. It's not just useful for gaming. Some will claim otherwise, but it helps with other software too, esp on high res displays for those of us who don't need our desktops set to fisher price mode in order to see. Per pixel is a requirement simply because it makes using the gui less frustrating during those times when 1 pixel accuracy is needed. 2. good,simple ergonomics. I am sick of these crazy designs that force me to hold the mouse in odd ways. 3. NO ACCELERATION. the 'laser' mice are known for this and I avoid them for that reason. Optical all the way. 4. Construction. A lot of them (including razer products) are built like shit. Stop using so many cheap switches. Have three good ones instead. Stop using cheap plastics that degrade just from holding them. The scroll wheel is another area of brokenness. If you're going to charge $80 for a mouse, why not switch to some other material? 5. no gimmicky software that requires an internet connection to adjust settings. 6. Wired. Wireless mice/keyboards are almost useless from lag. Plus I don't like replacing batteries or having them die during use.
Then it works both ways. If you associate with gay people, those who don't like gay people might choose not to associate with you. Conversely, if you make it clear you don't want to associate with gay people, they will not want to associate with you. The problem here is that the left wants to dictate who has the right of free association and who doesn't.
No one minds the calendar of hunks the women hang up. People who hang posters of things don't usually do it because they hate what's on the poster. Therefore, the argument about 'misogyny' is bullshit. We're so busy teaching everyone to 'check their privilege' all the time that people are starting to see 'misogyny' everywhere. If it was named 'CCUNTS' it would be laughed at by men, secure ones anyway. If women are equals then they should be equally secure not to take offense to 'DICCS' or some poster of a female model.
We've turned the workplace into an oppressive hellhole over this shit.
Penis jokes are not hostile to women. Nor are posters. Anyone offended by a poster should not be taken seriously. It's not like women don't hang up calendars of men in their cubicles. No one cares about that..
There's a growing intolerance for giving people the space to learn because 'safety' has become more important than exposure to graduated life lessons. Driving is one of them. Not letting teens drive just gives us all a bunch of 20 year olds who can't drive.
False dichotomy: Anything that is not anarcho capitalism is not automatically socialism. The state dictating what you may eat with punitive tax is not the same thing as funding the road system.
Guess it depends what actually benefits the middle class at this point. Increasing the debt and then tax to cover the increased inflation hurts the dollar saved from both ends. This harms the middle and lower class more than the few bones they're thrown by the left. Which party is always clamoring to increase spending? Which party carves out exemptions and exceptions for those increases for the wealthy/ruling class? Hint: Voting for either just enables this for another round.
You defend one side or the other as the lesser of two evils when they are both part of the problem. Voting democrat or republican is voting for status quo. Obama and the democrats had 8 years to undo some of the damage. What did he do? He signed the patriot renewal. He could've vetoed it. He could've issued the same kind of 'executive orders' that bush abused to undo a lot of that damage too. He didn't. Instead he enabled it for another round, or even enhanced it. You can hate on bush and co all you want, but obama and hillary are just as much to blame.
Why not? It already controls healthcare funding. It will then want to minimize costs, so it will start dictating what can be eaten and tax people accordingly. Welcome to the radiant socialist future comrade.
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Sure you can 'participate' if you're willing to participate in your own discrimination..this esp applies to the NAACP which really is no better than the KKK.
Why not? There are plenty of clubs today that cater to various cultures and lifestyles, right? There are gay clubs? Irish taverns? Gay parades? The NAACP?
As opposed to the feminist left's attempt to dictate that consent is mens responsibility alone? ..or how her body her right her choice is somehow still his responsibility? How about all the policy that's destroying healthy hetero families and marriage (I believe the stat is 50/50 now)? While the religious right wants to use the state to impose toxic culture and behavior, the left does too. Neither is acceptable. A mantra for a free society should include "Live how you want, but don't expect everyone to like you."
Great, so we don't need affirmative action anymore, right?
I rarely see tolerance in any form from the left.. Their mantra is always about how some other group not on their whitelist is oppressing some group that is.
A church and its community should not be required to accept people who do not comply with its doctrine for the same reason gay people should not be required to associate with them or live by said doctrine. Both populations should tolerate the liberty the other has because it protects the rights of both. This is part of the point of "Liberty and justice for ALL" (not just non white non straight non males). I think people in general need to realize they're not going to be welcome everywhere and not everyone is going to like them.
For me, the line is drawn where some group uses the state to force their lifestyle/belief on others
1. Obviously not reasonable since any government needs funding, esp one with a military that could do that. ..and no, company towns would just be more authoritarian garbage under a new management...
2. Didn't you just say this? An unfunded government is no government at all, which is anarchy.
what? you're not even making sense. How about instead we have the government work within a budget like everyone else instead of like a 16 year old with the parental credit card? You talk about cronyism? The term 'crony capitalism' comes to mind, you know, the 'capitalists' who use the state to corner the market and impose their social views on us? Why would you want to grow the size of the hammer (and sickle?) they wield? Nothing hurts the poor more than creeping taxation coupled with creeping inflation.
The fantasy is printing more money whenever you run out and hoping the whole thing doesn't drop on your watch, then leaving the debt to the next generation. Your grandfather doesn't sound like a libertarian, he sounds like he's an anarcho capitalist, unless of course you're misrepresenting his views. Personally, I'd like to try for a 10% flat income tax state. That would give them roughly 1998 levels of funding, something like 1.8trillion.. really, that ought to be enough, and should be once the inflation is under control.
Well if libertarian != anarchy or 'within budget', then what would libertarian mean exactly? The former is no government, and the latter implies one. One that works within a budget set by the tolerances of the taxpayers seems best.
I guess I was looking at it in terms of raising national debt. In that regard, both parties have the blame. If the state really wanted to help the poor they would move to pay it off and, ideally, abolish the federal reserve. All needed funding should come from taxes, one tax for each initiative (ie road construction) with no redirection into black hole slush funds.
Obama is NOT fiscally conservative. If he was, he would not have pushed for nationalizing healthcare.
Nah, that was mostly caused by democrats and republicans 'reaching across the aisle' to burn the dollar from both ends and corner the market. This has been SOP for quite awhile.
1. libertarians are not anarchists and do not believe in 'no government.'
2. expecting the government to operate within budget like everyone else is not anarchy.
2. fiorina is likely not libertarian.
I wish some of these social justice types would imagine your story with your employer favoring the white males instead, and then realize the hypocrisy in their politics.
1. Feminists attack, generalize, and stereotype mens character all the time. Apparently this is ok, so why do feminists complain when a specific woman is criticized?
2. Some women are whiners. So are some men.
3. Having people around whose workflow jars with established process creates inefficiency. Ask men who work in nursing how they're treated. Men and women think differently and that's ok. It could very well be that in certain tasks, mixing the sexes is not a good idea.
4. A sex pay gap doesn't exist. That 77% stat is the one they were throwing around in the 70s. It doesn't account for experience, area of the country, and industry type. The bottom line is that women choose to work fewer hours per year.
5. If anything aggressive women are given the benefit of the doubt because they are assumed to be oppressed. Try lodging a complaint against an aggressive woman and you'll lose your job (if you're male).
6. Actually, it's feminists who think men 'act crazy'. They're always calling them rapists.
7. Irrational shaming proves nothing. Irrational shaming with government backing is a threat to liberty.
fwd.us and academia are just several ideological think tanks on the left. murdoch's empire, PNAC, and heritage are on the right. They're all willing to misrepresent the truth for their ideological and financial goals. None of them want the individual to have much say in anything.
1. low latency and high, unsmoothed dpi. It's not just useful for gaming. Some will claim otherwise, but it helps with other software too, esp on high res displays for those of us who don't need our desktops set to fisher price mode in order to see. Per pixel is a requirement simply because it makes using the gui less frustrating during those times when 1 pixel accuracy is needed.
2. good,simple ergonomics. I am sick of these crazy designs that force me to hold the mouse in odd ways.
3. NO ACCELERATION. the 'laser' mice are known for this and I avoid them for that reason. Optical all the way.
4. Construction. A lot of them (including razer products) are built like shit. Stop using so many cheap switches. Have three good ones instead. Stop using cheap plastics that degrade just from holding them. The scroll wheel is another area of brokenness. If you're going to charge $80 for a mouse, why not switch to some other material?
5. no gimmicky software that requires an internet connection to adjust settings.
6. Wired. Wireless mice/keyboards are almost useless from lag. Plus I don't like replacing batteries or having them die during use.
Then it works both ways. If you associate with gay people, those who don't like gay people might choose not to associate with you. Conversely, if you make it clear you don't want to associate with gay people, they will not want to associate with you. The problem here is that the left wants to dictate who has the right of free association and who doesn't.
More like a fifth column left wing propaganda thing. There aren't many atomic scientists there anymore. Political activists are all that's left.
No one minds the calendar of hunks the women hang up. People who hang posters of things don't usually do it because they hate what's on the poster. Therefore, the argument about 'misogyny' is bullshit. We're so busy teaching everyone to 'check their privilege' all the time that people are starting to see 'misogyny' everywhere. If it was named 'CCUNTS' it would be laughed at by men, secure ones anyway. If women are equals then they should be equally secure not to take offense to 'DICCS' or some poster of a female model.
We've turned the workplace into an oppressive hellhole over this shit.
or maybe these 'professionals' should show how professional they are by focusing on the task instead of getting offended by dumb shit.
Penis jokes are not hostile to women. Nor are posters. Anyone offended by a poster should not be taken seriously. It's not like women don't hang up calendars of men in their cubicles. No one cares about that..
It's people like you who create the oppressive dystopia the future generation will have to clean up after.
There's a growing intolerance for giving people the space to learn because 'safety' has become more important than exposure to graduated life lessons. Driving is one of them. Not letting teens drive just gives us all a bunch of 20 year olds who can't drive.
It's a lot easier than troweling through binaries with ida pro. Otherwise we have only microsoft's word on the number reported.
False dichotomy: Anything that is not anarcho capitalism is not automatically socialism. The state dictating what you may eat with punitive tax is not the same thing as funding the road system.
Guess it depends what actually benefits the middle class at this point. Increasing the debt and then tax to cover the increased inflation hurts the dollar saved from both ends. This harms the middle and lower class more than the few bones they're thrown by the left. Which party is always clamoring to increase spending? Which party carves out exemptions and exceptions for those increases for the wealthy/ruling class? Hint: Voting for either just enables this for another round.
You defend one side or the other as the lesser of two evils when they are both part of the problem. Voting democrat or republican is voting for status quo. Obama and the democrats had 8 years to undo some of the damage. What did he do? He signed the patriot renewal. He could've vetoed it. He could've issued the same kind of 'executive orders' that bush abused to undo a lot of that damage too. He didn't. Instead he enabled it for another round, or even enhanced it. You can hate on bush and co all you want, but obama and hillary are just as much to blame.
Why not? It already controls healthcare funding. It will then want to minimize costs, so it will start dictating what can be eaten and tax people accordingly. Welcome to the radiant socialist future comrade.