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  1. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't trust either corporation or the government to work in my best interests. One has its own agenda combined with special protections under the law and the other is a greedy, bloodsucking parasite on the country. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which is which.

    Attempted cuteness noted, but it's a simple answer to a simple question: capitalism. Capitalism demands both special protections under the law and is a greedy, bloodsucking parasite on the planet. Any more questions?

  2. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems the rest of the paragraph explains the contradiction.

    Not even remotely close.

  3. Re:It makes sense. on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is this is typical libertarian wankery

    FTFY.

  4. Re:The tax man come-ith on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One example from nutjob libertarians

    FTFY. By the same logic, all business are a failure because of Enron, and all capitalism is a failure because of Bernie Madoff.

    Wankers.

  5. Re:It's a matter of time... on Navy Unveils First Active Laser Weapon In Persian Gulf (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    For the same reason missile "defense" shields should be banned: because it gives the side erecting them (the United States) a greater willingness to start a nuclear war, under the impression they can launch a first nuclear strike without having to worry about Mutually Assured Destruction. See also: the trillion dollar upgrade of America's nuclear arsenal, even as Russia cuts it's military budget (already a fraction of NATO's) by 30%

    Duh. Or did you miss the summary where it talks about shooting down drones and missiles?

  6. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well the reason people are more ready to put their trust in private businesses over the government is because if a business tries to screw you over, they have to answer to the government.

    Second part of the sentence seems to contradict the first.

  7. Re: Business climate on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    do his supporters somehow have a sweet spot for Russians or Russian companies?

    Why did Americans turn into McCarthyist, bedwetting cowards when the USSR has been gone for over 25 years?

  8. Re:I notice the American Right wing on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you are projecting with a side order of willful obtuseness.

  9. Re:I notice the American Right wing on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They're in favor of SMALL (ie, less) government

    They're also a fan of local control - until they're not. Almost like they are hacks that use arguments right up until they can be used against them, at which point they are promptly discarded.

  10. And former KKK leader Senator Robert Byrd(D) **remained** a proud Democratic Senator

    Yes, who had an epiphany about the Klan and spent he rest of his life apologizing for and trying to make amends for his days under the hood. As opposed to Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, who went to their graves as Republican Dixiecrats.

    You know this. Why go on fucking that chicken, when you know it makes you look like a complete idiot?

  11. Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and Lee Atwater alone make a delusional liar out of you.

  12. Your non sequiturs make you a McCarthyist dumbfucker.

  13. Cases (or at least "case') of violent beatings are *not* unknown in the US Congress, however.

    Cases where the parties have completely traded places, fifty years ago. You know this - but do go on fucking that formerly dixiecrat, currently Republican chicken.

  14. Othering based on tautologies, that's what. Based on alleged content that has....nothing whatsoever to do with the clip in question.

    Which makes you the asshole, here.

  15. Incorrect. Blackmail is the demanding of money or property

    As if blackmail is limited to either, don't be willfully obtuse or try to redefine words.

  16. And another view

    Sounds like an antivaxxer or young earth creationist wanting their views to be considered, because reasons.

    discovered the originator, investigated their history and alleged they routinely posted anti-Semitic and racist posts

    FTFY. In any case, the allegedly anti-semitic etc posts have nothing to do with the video in question, which makes CNN the asshole here for Othering him, as well as anyone who parrots their demagoguery.

    The guy then contacted CNN and convinced them to withhold his name, they did so but noted that if he continued to be a story of interest due to his postings that they wouldn't withold his name again. There is nothing untoward about that

    Other than your advocation for othering and doxxing, of course.

    Personally I'm torn about this

    No. You're not.

  17. Not in the name of Christianity you moron. That's a big f*cking difference.

    Christianist hypocrisy, dumbfuck. When anyone who happens to be Muslim engages in violence, it's due to his religion - according to you Christofacist hypocrites. As opposed to your Christian leaders, who bomb schools, weddings, funerals, hospitals and torture people. But none of that has anything to do with their religion, because reasons.

  18. Correct the video was what drew their attention however dude was a vile piece of shit advocating for violence against all kinds of groups

    No. That's the media (and their mindless sycophants) trying to Other the guy so they can dismiss him out of hand based on allegations that had nothing to do with the video in question.

    Which makes you the vile piece of shit.

  19. Whats wrong with a WWE exclusive Donny Trump closelining a liberal media outlet?

    That you are so, so, so far divorced from reality that you think CNN is remotely liberal.

  20. I really do wonder how you people are capable of living in the normal world with your obviously skewed and _wrong_ ideas how things work.

    Speaking to your bathroom mirror? What if the guys boss is a Hillbot and fires him because he's 30 seconds late for work on Monday? Or ends up being the target of harassment because democratic partisans Other him for being a 'racist antisemite' and contact his Hillbot boss?

    You know, in the land of the free, where you can be fired for a political bumper sticker

  21. Re:"Threat" is a matter of perspective on CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. CNN didn't ask for money or goods or services.

    So it's not blackmail if rumors are true, and the "Church" of Scientology is blackmailing John Travolta to stay silent about their unsavory practices least they out him as a gay man. Ditto that for the Russian pee conspiracy with regards to Donald Trump.

    Or, you're just being willfully obtuse while trying to redefine the word blackmail.

  22. Hey, instead of getting upset at the deal that the worker agreed to (or that you and I agreed to, presuming that we have jobs) what about just let the worker go into business for himself?

    Or, pull our heads out of Ayn Rand's rotting ass for a few seconds. Starting a business takes money. You think a poor person is going to manifest that money out of sheer force of will? You think a burger flipper at McDonalds can quit and be handed the reigns of a small oil company or baseball team the way George Bush was, despite any track record of competence (or employment in general) to speak of?

  23. Guaranteed health care is the ultimate expression of such force. By right do you have to force a physician to do a thing at some price you decided? It's grossly immoral in any free society.

    Right, in the same way that public roads are a crime against humanity. Randian moron.

  24. Re:Might bee bipartisan... on Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Err....have you actually seen the massive number of high wealth people that are with the "progressive" democrat party these days...?

    Which has....what to do with what? Mike Bloomberg is a Republican. Mike Bloomberg supports abortion and gun control laws. Therefore, gun control and abortion rights are Republican values, if we're just going by party labels used by rich scumbags.

  25. Re:Might bee bipartisan... on Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your description of Capitalism applies perfectly to every Socialist and Communist society I have ever seen.

    Which is obviously zero.