On principle, the goal of libertarianism is simply to preserve individual choice wherever possible.
No. The goal of libertarianism is to remove any roadblocks to exploitation or inherited wealth, while not wanting to pay any taxes on the ill-gotten gains of said inheritance or exploitation.
Yes, but the owners also sell you all the necessary tools and provisions for the hunting trip and give you a reward you based on the outcome. And if you don't kill, you don't eat.
Having literally just returned from a few weeks in Shanghai, I can 100% confirm that San Francisco is MUCH worse than Shanghai. Human feces in doorways doesn't exist in Shanghai. Heroin needles in the parks doesn't exist in Shanghai.
Uh huh. And how much of that is due to evil communisticky programs to provide food and shelter for the homeless?
Yes, better to let them camp right in the middle of your yard, than ship them off! How many homeless do you have living in your house? Why do you not allow it? Is it because - like Pelosi and her compatriots when it comes to illegal aliens - you want all those "undesirables" to have a place, just not YOUR place?
Sounds like the guy who thought it was a cute stunt to take a busload of homeless people to Martin Sheen's place, as the actor has advocated for the homeless, expecting the actor to put up all of said homeless in his basement or tents on his lawn. That person was also a fucking idiot. Asking that everyone have the right a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, and medical care does not mean that you will personally take care of their needs on their personal property.
Left unchecked, unions cause wages to grow to unsustainable levels.
Bullshit. The long term health of the union is utterly dependent on the long term health of the industry that employs it. Which means you don't have "unsustainable" wage increases for the workers. As opposed to corporate executives, who DGAF if they run the company into the ground, either because they plan to move onto the next company in short order or collect enough stock option and bonuses to where they can retire.
I think the libertarian aspects of the Internet stemmed more from the vision early users had of it being this empowering form of communication. All of a sudden, you could talk to someone on the other side of the planet, just as easily (and inexpensively!) as talking to your neighbor next door who got online. Once you're no longer tethered to a long distance phone provider who billed you by the minute for a voice call, based on which country you dialed -- you have a new type of freedom.
And the freedom to go right back to your six figures in student loan debt, and paying five figures in health insurance and deductibles before you get one cent in coverage. And the freedom to move into a cardboard box under a bridge if the capitalist gambles you've taken don't pay off.
And you wonder why millennials compare the shit sandwich that has been handed to them next to the social democracies in Europe, and take a hard pass at the prospect of more shit sandwiches.
However, when the author characterizes the fascist state, listing all those features (economic, social, religious, racial ect.) that we discuss in this tread it turned out that our society, the one we knew so well, the one we lived in every day checks all the boxes that the fascist checked!!!
This is nothing more than the "don't you know Nazis were socialists? It says it right in their name - the National Socialists Party! derp derp" argument with more words. Communism and fascism are polar arguments, and no amount of capitalist propaganda is going to change that fact.
Then your projected ignorance is noted, along with your lack of understanding of who was shot in the Collateral Murder video.
Men openly carrying cameras in an area of active combat are civilians.
FTFY. Those supposed weapons were actually cameras held by reporters, making up two of your three war crimes. But even if they were weapons, that doesn't make the people holding them not civilians. In the first place, you can't tell me with a straight face that you can illegally invade another country, blow the shit out of it's people, government and infrasturture, set off a sectarian civil war, and then call anyone who carries a weapon to defend themselves
Fuck that. Fuck it with a giant dick. Fuck any imperialist nazi sack of crap who says they can illegally invade and occupy a people for bullshit reasons and then police how people choose to defend themsleves.
Wearing civilian clothes does not make them civilians. In fact wearing civilian clothes may make them illegal combatants under international law. Making them legal targets, making them ineligible for treatment as POWs blah blah blah blah blah
Look, imperialist, the UK and the US explicitly allowed the subjects of their illegal, immoral invasion to keep weapons - where they not merciful?
Regarding first responders and journalists, none were identifying themselves as such with any sort of distinctive markings visible at a distance as required.
Fuck your requirements, it wasn't your fucking country, you fucking shit-for-brains. It was no more your business to gun down these people that it's the business of Russian gunships to gun down everyone from cops in Ferguson to the Bundy's in Oregon.
I find your pedantic avoidance to still be obnoxious. The simple, undeniable facts of the matter are that the United States has engaged in torture - including subjecting Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement for the second time now - and Sweden has a legal reason not to extradite Assange to the USA.
Yes, that is a copy and paste, as you are ignoring the international treaties that have been signed right in front of your face. Arguing that signed treaties are nothing more than a suggestion, instead of having the force of law, just to support your unjustifiable authoritarian narrative.
I don't even have words for how ignorant this comment is.
Says the ignoramus ignoring copious citations and screenshots. So a question for you - did getting dropped on the head a child stop hurting for you, after the first dozen times it happened?
Nobody has a completely irrational emotional complex towards one company's products except for you and your fellow hatebois. Everyone else just buys what they want, that does what they want, at the price they are willing to pay.
Just buy what you want that does what you want, at the price you are willing to pay. Not everyone is a moron acting like Zombie Steve Jobs is holding a gun to your head to force you buy an iPhone XS.
However you want to rationalize your emotional feelings for a company and their products that you don't intend to buy. When Samsung released the first large-screen smartphone, I had no use for it whatsoever. Know what I did in response? I bought what I wanted for the price I was willing to pay, from the manufacturer that made and sold it. I didn't whine like a bitch about Samsung's offerings.
Says the Hateboi who whines about walled gardens before playing a manufacturer-approved game on a console. Enjoy your exploding, cracking phones free of Cupertino's evil grasp, hateboi.
Five models of Samsung phones on the first page alone. But like Samsung having to recall an entire line of bomb phones due to faulty battery design, this will be a two day story. Because it's not Apple.
Bendy phones, walled gardens,holding it wrong.... it's only a problem when it's from Cupertino. So this will be a two day news story, like when Samsung had to recall an entire phone model because the batteries were blowing up and starting on fire.
People are more likely to vote for a party that treats them less like shit: Shocking News at 11. It's why blacks voted heavily Republican for a hundred years after the civil war: the other party was much, much more hostile to them and their interests. Although Democrats have tried to out-tough Republicans on the "tough on crime" crap, as evidenced by Bill Clinton and Joe Biden in the 90's.
I find your pedantic avoidance to be obnoxious. The simple, undeniable facts of the matter are that the United States has engaged in torture - including subjecting Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement for the second time now - and Sweden has a legal reason not to extradite Assange to the USA.
I just laid out eighteen ways till Sunday how Assange was right and his haters have no idea wtf they're talking about. With citations. Which means you're like those Russiagate dead enders who would still be insisting Trump was a Putin Puppet if Trump had ICMB's in the air on their way to Moscow.
Speculation: He were probably more worried about being convicted of rape. His narcissistic tendencies combined with PR makes being a "martyr" for many years better than spending a year or so in prison if convicted, add the ridiculous crap about Swedish collaboration with USA plus torture plus death penalty etc. which are obvious bullshit feeding his ego.
Because the Swedes handing people over to the Americans to be tortured? Yeah, that actually happened. Sweden going to great lengths to get someone extradited to Sweden where they are promptly interrogated (for weeks in solitary confinement with no outside contact or even a lawyer) for an alleged crime in another country. Another country they were deported to, which mean that was the plan the entire time - that also happened. The UK police spending millions of pounds on a mere bail jumping case while pressuring Sweden not to drop charges against Assange - yes, that also happened.
Finally, Assange has long offered to return to Sweden voluntarily if the country promised they wouldn't hand Assange over to the United States. A promise that could easily be made, given the fact that Sweden is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, which forbids extraditing prisoners to regimes that practice torture. Regimes like the United States.
So, in summary, Assange was just proven to be right all this time, and his haters should eat shit for throwing journalists under the bus to support criminal leaders and politicians.
So was I. Under international law, it is illegal to target civilians, first responders and journalists. And the war was illegal in the first place as well.
When the Mueller report is published in full, unredacted, then you can be that smarmy.
Nope. I can be that smarmy right now, and for the rest of Russiagater's sad little lives. No charges of collusion, end of story. Sure, the full report may have some mentions of shady financial dealing with everyone from Israel to Bumfuckistan - but those issues were ignored by Democrats while they were busy reanimating Joe McCarthy's rotting corpse - to attack Donald Trump from the right.
WMD were NEVER present - we all knew that. No evidence was ever presented, and it was used as an excuse.
Powell is verklempt that you forgot the little dog and pony show he put on for the UN. Yes, evidence was presented - faked evidence, but it was presented nonetheless.
Here's a tip: Break US law, encouraging people to break into US security systems to obtain top secret data, and then publish everything you find on the US in that data to the world... it's gonna hurt. No country in the world is going to just let that pass, wherever you're based. If you're American, it's treason, if you're not, you're a spy. It's quite simple.
Another tip: that's quite simply authoritarian horseshit, on three levels. First, journalists encourage their sources to provide more information all the time. Two, the Obama Administration had this same "information" eight years ago, and passed on it because it was so weak. The same Obama Administration that prosecuted more whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined under the Espionage Act, times two. Finally, because none of the war criminals and torturers had to suffer any consequences for any of their actions. Anyone who squawks about unathorized intrusions while people who authorized beating innocent people to death walk free can go fucking fuck themselves.
P.S. At least one of the Sweden charges is still open, still within its statute of limitations, and could now be re-opened. Whoops!
If this was ever actually about rape, Sweden would have taken up Assange offer to promise not to hand him over to the United States in return for his voluntary return to Sweden. Even if Assange was lying about said offer, that would mean Ecuador would no longer have a reason to grant him asylum, meaning Assange would shortly be back in their custody regardless, which Whoops means the space between your ears is packed with excrement. Again.
Frankly he has proven himself a liar at every stage
When. When has Assange lied about anything, much less "every stage". Unlike every pundit, media organization and online troll such as yourself, Assange and Wikileaks have a 100% record of authenticity.
But lets go ahead and say Assange was lying about his offer to return to Sweden if the government promised not to hand him over to the United States - if such a promise was made, Ecuador would no longer have a reason to grant Assange asylum, meaning Sweden would have him back in their custody regardless, in short order.
His narcissism and ego have do far more damage to the cause of whistleblowing than anybody ever.
Your mindless character assassination on behalf of a club you'll never be allowed into is noted, shitweasel.
Uh, she got into Harvard just when they were desperate for minority applicants.
Uh, except she never applied to anything as a minority candidate. Aren't you wingers supposed to be big on merit? I don't much care for Warren - because she hasn't actually changed since she was a proud Republican in the Reagan era, she only seems lefty because both parties have gone so very very far to the right - but she is a smart enough and hard working enough person to earn the positions she has held. Bill Clinton is a loathsome person, but even his most deranged haters on the right (he spent both terms pushing right wing policy yet you hate him for it) would have to admit he's a smart person and gifted politician.
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No. The goal of libertarianism is to remove any roadblocks to exploitation or inherited wealth, while not wanting to pay any taxes on the ill-gotten gains of said inheritance or exploitation.
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Uh huh. And how much of that is due to evil communisticky programs to provide food and shelter for the homeless?
Sounds like the guy who thought it was a cute stunt to take a busload of homeless people to Martin Sheen's place, as the actor has advocated for the homeless, expecting the actor to put up all of said homeless in his basement or tents on his lawn. That person was also a fucking idiot. Asking that everyone have the right a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, and medical care does not mean that you will personally take care of their needs on their personal property.
Bullshit. The long term health of the union is utterly dependent on the long term health of the industry that employs it. Which means you don't have "unsustainable" wage increases for the workers. As opposed to corporate executives, who DGAF if they run the company into the ground, either because they plan to move onto the next company in short order or collect enough stock option and bonuses to where they can retire.
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And the freedom to go right back to your six figures in student loan debt, and paying five figures in health insurance and deductibles before you get one cent in coverage. And the freedom to move into a cardboard box under a bridge if the capitalist gambles you've taken don't pay off.
And you wonder why millennials compare the shit sandwich that has been handed to them next to the social democracies in Europe, and take a hard pass at the prospect of more shit sandwiches.
This is nothing more than the "don't you know Nazis were socialists? It says it right in their name - the National Socialists Party! derp derp" argument with more words. Communism and fascism are polar arguments, and no amount of capitalist propaganda is going to change that fact.
Then your projected ignorance is noted, along with your lack of understanding of who was shot in the Collateral Murder video.
FTFY. Those supposed weapons were actually cameras held by reporters, making up two of your three war crimes. But even if they were weapons, that doesn't make the people holding them not civilians. In the first place, you can't tell me with a straight face that you can illegally invade another country, blow the shit out of it's people, government and infrasturture, set off a sectarian civil war, and then call anyone who carries a weapon to defend themselves
Fuck that. Fuck it with a giant dick. Fuck any imperialist nazi sack of crap who says they can illegally invade and occupy a people for bullshit reasons and then police how people choose to defend themsleves.
Look, imperialist, the UK and the US explicitly allowed the subjects of their illegal, immoral invasion to keep weapons - where they not merciful?
Fuck your requirements, it wasn't your fucking country, you fucking shit-for-brains. It was no more your business to gun down these people that it's the business of Russian gunships to gun down everyone from cops in Ferguson to the Bundy's in Oregon.
I find your pedantic avoidance to still be obnoxious. The simple, undeniable facts of the matter are that the United States has engaged in torture - including subjecting Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement for the second time now - and Sweden has a legal reason not to extradite Assange to the USA.
Yes, that is a copy and paste, as you are ignoring the international treaties that have been signed right in front of your face. Arguing that signed treaties are nothing more than a suggestion, instead of having the force of law, just to support your unjustifiable authoritarian narrative.
Says the ignoramus ignoring copious citations and screenshots. So a question for you - did getting dropped on the head a child stop hurting for you, after the first dozen times it happened?
Nobody has a completely irrational emotional complex towards one company's products except for you and your fellow hatebois. Everyone else just buys what they want, that does what they want, at the price they are willing to pay.
Just buy what you want that does what you want, at the price you are willing to pay. Not everyone is a moron acting like Zombie Steve Jobs is holding a gun to your head to force you buy an iPhone XS.
However you want to rationalize your emotional feelings for a company and their products that you don't intend to buy. When Samsung released the first large-screen smartphone, I had no use for it whatsoever. Know what I did in response? I bought what I wanted for the price I was willing to pay, from the manufacturer that made and sold it. I didn't whine like a bitch about Samsung's offerings.
Says the Hateboi who whines about walled gardens before playing a manufacturer-approved game on a console. Enjoy your exploding, cracking phones free of Cupertino's evil grasp, hateboi.
Five models of Samsung phones on the first page alone. But like Samsung having to recall an entire line of bomb phones due to faulty battery design, this will be a two day story. Because it's not Apple.
Bendy phones, walled gardens, holding it wrong.... it's only a problem when it's from Cupertino. So this will be a two day news story, like when Samsung had to recall an entire phone model because the batteries were blowing up and starting on fire.
People are more likely to vote for a party that treats them less like shit: Shocking News at 11. It's why blacks voted heavily Republican for a hundred years after the civil war: the other party was much, much more hostile to them and their interests. Although Democrats have tried to out-tough Republicans on the "tough on crime" crap, as evidenced by Bill Clinton and Joe Biden in the 90's.
I find your pedantic avoidance to be obnoxious. The simple, undeniable facts of the matter are that the United States has engaged in torture - including subjecting Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement for the second time now - and Sweden has a legal reason not to extradite Assange to the USA.
I just laid out eighteen ways till Sunday how Assange was right and his haters have no idea wtf they're talking about. With citations. Which means you're like those Russiagate dead enders who would still be insisting Trump was a Putin Puppet if Trump had ICMB's in the air on their way to Moscow.
For the sake of our species, please don't breed.
Speculation: you're a huge fan of Bari Weiss. You know, the NYT reporter who called Tulsi Gabbard an 'Assad toady' without being able to define or even spell the word.
Because the Swedes handing people over to the Americans to be tortured? Yeah, that actually happened. Sweden going to great lengths to get someone extradited to Sweden where they are promptly interrogated (for weeks in solitary confinement with no outside contact or even a lawyer) for an alleged crime in another country. Another country they were deported to, which mean that was the plan the entire time - that also happened. The UK police spending millions of pounds on a mere bail jumping case while pressuring Sweden not to drop charges against Assange - yes, that also happened.
Finally, Assange has long offered to return to Sweden voluntarily if the country promised they wouldn't hand Assange over to the United States. A promise that could easily be made, given the fact that Sweden is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, which forbids extraditing prisoners to regimes that practice torture. Regimes like the United States.
So, in summary, Assange was just proven to be right all this time, and his haters should eat shit for throwing journalists under the bus to support criminal leaders and politicians.
The GP is referring to international law.
So was I. Under international law, it is illegal to target civilians, first responders and journalists. And the war was illegal in the first place as well.
Nope. I can be that smarmy right now, and for the rest of Russiagater's sad little lives. No charges of collusion, end of story. Sure, the full report may have some mentions of shady financial dealing with everyone from Israel to Bumfuckistan - but those issues were ignored by Democrats while they were busy reanimating Joe McCarthy's rotting corpse - to attack Donald Trump from the right.
Powell is verklempt that you forgot the little dog and pony show he put on for the UN. Yes, evidence was presented - faked evidence, but it was presented nonetheless.
Another tip: that's quite simply authoritarian horseshit, on three levels. First, journalists encourage their sources to provide more information all the time. Two, the Obama Administration had this same "information" eight years ago, and passed on it because it was so weak. The same Obama Administration that prosecuted more whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined under the Espionage Act, times two. Finally, because none of the war criminals and torturers had to suffer any consequences for any of their actions. Anyone who squawks about unathorized intrusions while people who authorized beating innocent people to death walk free can go fucking fuck themselves.
If this was ever actually about rape, Sweden would have taken up Assange offer to promise not to hand him over to the United States in return for his voluntary return to Sweden. Even if Assange was lying about said offer, that would mean Ecuador would no longer have a reason to grant him asylum, meaning Assange would shortly be back in their custody regardless, which Whoops means the space between your ears is packed with excrement. Again.
When. When has Assange lied about anything, much less "every stage". Unlike every pundit, media organization and online troll such as yourself, Assange and Wikileaks have a 100% record of authenticity.
But lets go ahead and say Assange was lying about his offer to return to Sweden if the government promised not to hand him over to the United States - if such a promise was made, Ecuador would no longer have a reason to grant Assange asylum, meaning Sweden would have him back in their custody regardless, in short order.
Your mindless character assassination on behalf of a club you'll never be allowed into is noted, shitweasel.
Boilerplate excuses that were BS years ago. Excuses that can easily be debunked by a few yes or no questions:
1) Is the United States a country known for using torture?
2) Does the UN Convention Against Torture forbid extraditing prisoners to countries that practice torture?
3) Is Sweden a signatory to said treaty?
The answer to each of those questions is of course "yes".
Uh, except she never applied to anything as a minority candidate. Aren't you wingers supposed to be big on merit? I don't much care for Warren - because she hasn't actually changed since she was a proud Republican in the Reagan era, she only seems lefty because both parties have gone so very very far to the right - but she is a smart enough and hard working enough person to earn the positions she has held. Bill Clinton is a loathsome person, but even his most deranged haters on the right (he spent both terms pushing right wing policy yet you hate him for it) would have to admit he's a smart person and gifted politician.