Simple facts. Other Western countries have much lower murder rates rates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) despite having far less guns for citizens to defend themselves with precisely because they have so few guns that criminals have a hard time getting their hands on them. Their gun violence rates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) are vastly lower as well of course.
All our guns don't make us safer and probably make us less so.
It's an interesting read but I don't see the connection to what we're talking about. It's essentially comparing spending between New Jersey and other states. I don't see any sort of comparison between private spending and government spending which is what I asked you for a source on.
I'll admit I didn't read any of the source links as I assumed that wouldn't be necessary in this context.
I've said it before and I'll say it again for you. No one (aside for extreme ideologs) cares about the size of the Nazi's government or their economic policies. They have nothing to do with them being one of history's greatest villains. It's their extreme right wing social values of which there is ample historic evidence for that were the problem and I feel I've clearly outlined these issues above.
You apperently arent familiar with Nietzsche, his philosophies, and their influence on the founding of Nazism. I'm also wonderfully entertained by your siting of a halocaust museum as a source but yet you absolutely wont accept the mainstream stance from our academic community that fascism is right wing. Apperently a sited source is only valid if it agrees with your world outlook.
Finally, I have no problems acknowledging the sins of the far Left. Between Mao and Stalin alone the death toll is horrible and they're only the worst of the offenders.
Oh, please, peddle your conspiracy theories elsewhere. It's true the Affordable Care Act isnt working perfectly but you have no evidence that it was designed to fail. You're just making up a fantasy scenario to smear people whose politics you dont like
Also the poor get their healthcare subsidized under Obama Care with many getting access to medicare.
The Nazis were most certainly individualists. Their concept of the super man and their focus on the philosophies of Nietzsche clearly establish that.
Also, blaming big government for the German governments ethnic cleansing is rediculous. Country's go every day without attempting ethnic cleansing. You might as well blame gravity for airplane crashes. Sure, planes would crash less if there was no gravity but planes dont really crash because of gravity, it's either pilot error or mechanical malfunction.
Just because you want everything bad to come from the Left doesnt mean it does.
"And every time they tried to oppose something Obama wanted they were called racist or obstructionist."
And yet the republican party built their last six years of governance on opposing Obama. Mitch McConnell made things pretty clear when he made the Republicans stated goal defeating Democrats rather than governing responsibly. I mean, how many times did congress vote to repeal Obama Care under Obama? A shameful amount of time wasted when so many Americans go bankrupt due to health costs.
Much more like Democrats: We had control of congress for 2 years and passed Obama Care. The presidency is meaningless if the party in power in congress has a clearly stated goal of opposing everything the president supports.
The Republicans can't even keep their own party in order long enough to repeal Obama Care under similar circumstances. Meanwhile more and more people are realizing that "hey, being poor shouldn't mean I should have to go massively in debt just because I'm unlucky enough to get sick".
The Nazi's did not become the villains of history because of the size of their government or their economic policies (which were definitely a mix of state planning and free market). They became the villains of history because of their Right wing social policies. Nationalism, a focus on social order, individualism, and the like are all traits of the Right. A simple look at the Right in any modern liberal democracy of today will show these traits in abundance.
There is no vast conspiracy of intellectuals here, it is you who is trying to redefine fascism.
Because it was the ultimate fad game. When it first came out I'd see countless people walking around outside waving their phones around. A dozen or so restuarants in my area (and i live in the burbs) even gave discounts to various factions as a means of bringing in business. Fast forward to today and my teenage neice and nephew dont have a single friend who still plays and literally every person who i knew who played no longer does.
Wait a second. Sorry I'm super tired because i work 40 hours a week and take care of my dad 40+
Lets talk about your post. You dump a bunch of very specific accusations out there and the only sources you provide are two very generic wilipedia articles that doesnt help with any of it. Sorry but I have neither the time nor the interest in doing all the leg work on this.
So CNN has had to retract a single story about Russia? What's your point? News agencies make mistakes.
Now if they made a habbit of doing that then the case could be made that they're biasly running fake news as far fewer people generally see a retraction then who saw the offending article. Making a single retraction means something though? Gimme a break
Oh good, a single example. You're right then, it's completely impossible to increase funding of a government department without the money all being wasted. That massive over generalization makes perfect sense now.
My dad was an avid cyclist for years. While he had no patience for bicyclists engaging in unsafe practices he passed while driving he was also almost killed a couple of times and was deffinitly roughed up pretty good a number of times because of motorists being an assholes
My point in that story is that you can take pretty much any given group and find a sub group of assholes in it. You've probably passed countless bicyclists operating their bikes just fine and it doesnt register in your long term memory because what's there to remember? What you will remember are the ones who are being assholes.
Making such a broad generalization that bicyclists in general are assholes though just makes you out to be one. It's exactly as productive as the growing habbit of "That idea is of the ideology of the opposition party so it's wrong and evil just like its members".
I'll put it another way since you seemed to have missed my point. None of the main reasons people take mass transit (the reasons people were using it well before eco-froendly was a thing) will change going to battery cars. Shoot, if people want to be eco froendly now that buy a hybrid anyways. There's no game change going on here.
Furthermore, this is the second time you've mentioned high density living versus sprawl. Higher density living makes the maintence of a ton of different types of infastructure so much easier. As a singular example, this is a big part of why American internet infastructure sucks versus other countries, so much more of our country is low density.
If we switched to a sprawl model we'd blow through billions of extra dollars building extra roads, rail, utility, sewage and like infastructure and waste countless hours of peoples lives forcing them into longer and longer commutes. On top of that we'd further destroy and deminish our country's green areas.
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Simple facts. Other Western countries have much lower murder rates rates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) despite having far less guns for citizens to defend themselves with precisely because they have so few guns that criminals have a hard time getting their hands on them. Their gun violence rates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) are vastly lower as well of course.
All our guns don't make us safer and probably make us less so.
It's an interesting read but I don't see the connection to what we're talking about. It's essentially comparing spending between New Jersey and other states. I don't see any sort of comparison between private spending and government spending which is what I asked you for a source on.
I'll admit I didn't read any of the source links as I assumed that wouldn't be necessary in this context.
Give me a source on your 50% please.
So government spending needs oversight. That still doesnt mean government spending = waste.
I've said it before and I'll say it again for you. No one (aside for extreme ideologs) cares about the size of the Nazi's government or their economic policies. They have nothing to do with them being one of history's greatest villains. It's their extreme right wing social values of which there is ample historic evidence for that were the problem and I feel I've clearly outlined these issues above.
You apperently arent familiar with Nietzsche, his philosophies, and their influence on the founding of Nazism. I'm also wonderfully entertained by your siting of a halocaust museum as a source but yet you absolutely wont accept the mainstream stance from our academic community that fascism is right wing. Apperently a sited source is only valid if it agrees with your world outlook.
Finally, I have no problems acknowledging the sins of the far Left. Between Mao and Stalin alone the death toll is horrible and they're only the worst of the offenders.
Oh, please, peddle your conspiracy theories elsewhere. It's true the Affordable Care Act isnt working perfectly but you have no evidence that it was designed to fail. You're just making up a fantasy scenario to smear people whose politics you dont like
Also the poor get their healthcare subsidized under Obama Care with many getting access to medicare.
The Nazis were most certainly individualists. Their concept of the super man and their focus on the philosophies of Nietzsche clearly establish that.
Also, blaming big government for the German governments ethnic cleansing is rediculous. Country's go every day without attempting ethnic cleansing. You might as well blame gravity for airplane crashes. Sure, planes would crash less if there was no gravity but planes dont really crash because of gravity, it's either pilot error or mechanical malfunction.
Just because you want everything bad to come from the Left doesnt mean it does.
See my other post about accountability. I have to interest in doing all the work for you.
"And every time they tried to oppose something Obama wanted they were called racist or obstructionist."
And yet the republican party built their last six years of governance on opposing Obama. Mitch McConnell made things pretty clear when he made the Republicans stated goal defeating Democrats rather than governing responsibly. I mean, how many times did congress vote to repeal Obama Care under Obama? A shameful amount of time wasted when so many Americans go bankrupt due to health costs.
Much more like Democrats: We had control of congress for 2 years and passed Obama Care. The presidency is meaningless if the party in power in congress has a clearly stated goal of opposing everything the president supports.
The Republicans can't even keep their own party in order long enough to repeal Obama Care under similar circumstances. Meanwhile more and more people are realizing that "hey, being poor shouldn't mean I should have to go massively in debt just because I'm unlucky enough to get sick".
The Nazi's did not become the villains of history because of the size of their government or their economic policies (which were definitely a mix of state planning and free market). They became the villains of history because of their Right wing social policies. Nationalism, a focus on social order, individualism, and the like are all traits of the Right. A simple look at the Right in any modern liberal democracy of today will show these traits in abundance.
There is no vast conspiracy of intellectuals here, it is you who is trying to redefine fascism.
You "see people literally everywhere"? Good for you, so do I.
Because it was the ultimate fad game. When it first came out I'd see countless people walking around outside waving their phones around. A dozen or so restuarants in my area (and i live in the burbs) even gave discounts to various factions as a means of bringing in business. Fast forward to today and my teenage neice and nephew dont have a single friend who still plays and literally every person who i knew who played no longer does.
Wow, I cant believe people still play Pokemon Go.
Wait a second. Sorry I'm super tired because i work 40 hours a week and take care of my dad 40+
Lets talk about your post. You dump a bunch of very specific accusations out there and the only sources you provide are two very generic wilipedia articles that doesnt help with any of it. Sorry but I have neither the time nor the interest in doing all the leg work on this.
So they're different from other news organizations how?
No, but i deffinitly see how we're talking about two completely different things.
Maybe read the whole post before posting yourself :) (from the above post)
"This is a special case since the kid needs the drugs already of course."
The above poster ALREADY acknowledged that.
Of course if you follow the sources you end up with a youtube clip of a russian news broadcast that can be translated by youtube for you.
But then again it's much easier to just have an oppinion about something you know nothing about...
So CNN has had to retract a single story about Russia? What's your point? News agencies make mistakes.
Now if they made a habbit of doing that then the case could be made that they're biasly running fake news as far fewer people generally see a retraction then who saw the offending article. Making a single retraction means something though? Gimme a break
How bad they're making me look? How on earth would they be making me look bad?
Also, you must be new to slashdot. There are plenty of topics this happens for around here.
Oh good, a single example. You're right then, it's completely impossible to increase funding of a government department without the money all being wasted. That massive over generalization makes perfect sense now.
My dad was an avid cyclist for years. While he had no patience for bicyclists engaging in unsafe practices he passed while driving he was also almost killed a couple of times and was deffinitly roughed up pretty good a number of times because of motorists being an assholes
My point in that story is that you can take pretty much any given group and find a sub group of assholes in it. You've probably passed countless bicyclists operating their bikes just fine and it doesnt register in your long term memory because what's there to remember? What you will remember are the ones who are being assholes.
Making such a broad generalization that bicyclists in general are assholes though just makes you out to be one. It's exactly as productive as the growing habbit of "That idea is of the ideology of the opposition party so it's wrong and evil just like its members".
I'll put it another way since you seemed to have missed my point. None of the main reasons people take mass transit (the reasons people were using it well before eco-froendly was a thing) will change going to battery cars. Shoot, if people want to be eco froendly now that buy a hybrid anyways. There's no game change going on here.
Furthermore, this is the second time you've mentioned high density living versus sprawl. Higher density living makes the maintence of a ton of different types of infastructure so much easier. As a singular example, this is a big part of why American internet infastructure sucks versus other countries, so much more of our country is low density.
If we switched to a sprawl model we'd blow through billions of extra dollars building extra roads, rail, utility, sewage and like infastructure and waste countless hours of peoples lives forcing them into longer and longer commutes. On top of that we'd further destroy and deminish our country's green areas.