Yes, as an American, I am concerned about the people fighting for my country abroad.
No, you aren't. That is not even possible. There are no Americans anywhere abroad fighting *for* America. I'm glad I could allay your concerns, but you really should pay more attention in the first place and avoid all the phantom fears the media feeds you.
I'm not concerned one bit about the politicians and generals
Actually, you are. They are, in fact, the only ones you give a shit about, because they're the only ones benefiting from the wars they invented and they're the only ones benefiting from the support *you* are lending to *them* right now while pretending to (or even maybe you're even dumb enough to believe you are) "supporting the troops".
it's the grunts and people out in the field that could suffer from this.
No, their odds of being brought back to the country they betrayed and out of the disaster they created will increase. They did create this disaster too. At the orders of others, yes, but they committed treason by obeying those orders and they declared their enmity for America by enlisting in the first place, so blame is very much theirs to own.
At this point it's not even using this information against me sitting at home in comfort but about the people in Afghanistan and their safety.
Their safety with respect to Afghanis can be assured by leaving Afghanistan. As long as they want to continue supporting the military industrial complex against America, then screw those rabidly anti-American treasonous scum. Their safety is a threat to America.
He's a well-regarded pundit and speechwriter among rabidly anti-American Nazi traitors
FTFY. Being well-regarded in such circles means that decent, honest people of ethics and integrity understand that suicide is his only option to be anything but a liability to anything decent.
I really pity the people who believed that asshole ever had any intention of fulfilling any of his campaign promises.
Huh? He promised to keep up his support for the massive criminally treasonous extensions to FISA prior to being elected. He is keeping his promises to continue the treasonous policies of the Bush administration. Since prior to being elected he already declared his explicit intention to violate the oath of office for the office for which he was running (by supporting criminal spying on Americans) there was never any way any decent American or decent human being could have voted for Obama based solely upon that fact. Voting for him after that is a fundamental shirking of responsibility as a citizen and there is no excuse that can justify such a cowardly action.
The fact that the Republican candidates were ten times the traitors Obama is doesn't excuse his actions, it condemns Republican voters as the rabidly anti-American Nazi scum they are by definition.
EVERY species that has chosen option 1, and every human civilization that has done so (according to Jared Diamond) is...
extinct
No. Exactly the opposite. Every human civilization which has failed to address their increasing impact on their environment *exactly as we're doing right now* has collapsed.
So, yeah, you're a bald-faced liar with zero integrity. I mean you state the exact opposite of the truth as if it's the truth. No way that could be a mistake. You intentionally and maliciously lied with the express intent of misrepresenting Jared Diamond's conclusions for the purpose of deceiving the people reading your posting. That makes you a very bad person. You're contemptible, lacking in even the most basic human decency or ethics. Suicide is the only way you'll ever be anything but a liability to everybody around you. Here's hoping you'll be man enough to do the right thing.
We have a little thing called "Rule of Law" in this country, perhaps you've heard of it?
LOL. I've heard of it and unlike yourself I actually know what it means which is how I know we have nothing of the sort here. The Constitution is the basis of the law in this country and we are not ruled by it. Congress and the President regularly intentionally violate it in order to enact treasonous policies. Hell, Reagan sold fucking crack to America school kids to buy weapons for fascist terrorists to use to murder thousands and he's the biggest hero the Republican party has ever had. Please point out the part of the Constitution that authorises that. How about that part authorising the pres to doctor evidence to start a war? Oh that's right, you can't because you're a fucking delusional partisan hack who is incapable of critical thinking, only repeating dried out old bullshit propaganda you've been fed.
So, no, we don't have the rule of law or anything of the sort. You're dumb as a post for making that claim and dumber still in your pathetic attempt at a defense of that idiotic statement.
I agree, a lot of people see things on the extreams.
No, as pioneered by FOX, the media presents things as extremes, in order to screw over ignorant people. This is known as "manipulation" rather than something which could be described as "people see things".
Sure there are things in the world that are opposites.
And there are things which aren't, but are presented to the easily manipulated as if they were. Often this takes the form of a logical fallacy known as "false dichotomy". This is when...well, never mind. You, yourself, illustrate it far more eloquently than I could:
It is also why I equally dislike the hard evangelical religions who figure most of the world will go to hell. And the far athiests who see's any one with the idea that God could exists as a product of iditocy.
The human beings in the set of hard evangelicals who figure most of the world will go to hell consist of ***Billions*** of people.
The number of atheists who think that, '"anyone with the idea that God could exists", are a product of idiocy' numbers zero to the best of my knowledge. I certainly wouldn't claim that nobody has ever believed... or claimed to believe such a thing, but you'll need at least a hundred million anecdotes to even get on the RADAR. I wish you the best of luck with that. Heck, I wish you luck getting ten.
As paridoxal this statement seems. Normally if you know that someone has a belief or phelosophy different then your own. And you see this person as sub human. Then you are probably a polerized person. No more enlighted then the rest of the public
There is no paradox in your statement. This is known as projection. You are so polarised by your brainwashing that you think that you're making some point and presenting yourself as somewhere in the middle. You're not. You're far out on the fringe and aren't even capable of recognising that fact.
Your argument says that you could look at me and I could shoot you in the face because I didn't like the way you did it. Two extremes...equally valid...The truth is in the middle.
While it *is* polarising, it's the false dichotomy; that you fell for hook, line and sinker while the whole time thinking you were one of the clever ones, that's the issue. Take this as an opportunity to be better at being one of the clever ones if you're not too polarised to even handle critique.
Isn't the whole reason for the military to protect civilians?
Huh?!? No. It's to promote corporate interests at the expense of regular Americans' money and the lives of any foreigners who don't want to be enslaved to said interests.
The only other reason is to conquer other nations but we consider ourselves to be more civilised than that these days.
Wow, did your parents actually have any children who lived? I think you might well be the most naive idiot I've ever even heard of. Seriously, being that completely delusional and out of touch with reality isn't ok. Ever.
Yeah, Jesus never existed, but the delusional shitbags that believe in a fairy tale character are deeply vile scum working to fuck over the world at every opportunity.
If Christians would just all die, then they'd be a lot more like Jesus and far better people. Since they're unable to deal with the real world due to their cowardice and desperate need to live in really inhumanly evil delusions, it's really the only way the could ever be decent people.
... but my fellow Tea Partiers complain pretty loudly, e.g., here:
The fact that you teabagging scum weren't complaining about Bush, that you provide a platform for Palin's delusional ravings, and are composed primarily of Birthers, Obama is a muslim nutters and racists is what gives you no credibility and ensures no intelligent rational people will ever offer any support for your deeply vile racist hate group.
You see, you can claim to support various things, small government etc. but as long as your actions demonstrate your absolute support for the exact opposite of that, you look not just like fools, but deeply deranged, violent and deluded fools and traitors. Palin caters to the primary welfare leeches in America calling them real Americans, wanting to ban books and shove a particularly vile brand of religious delusion into government while pissing in the faces of anybody whop actually does stand up for the constitution and the founding principles of America.
The fact that you've made her the face of your movement proved absolutely that you couldn't possibly stand for what you claim to and that your membership is composed of those too stupid to understand that and too ignorant to have even skimmed the Constitution.
There's a lot of reasons you are despised by *all* of the decent people who do love what this country once claimed to stand for.
A patriotic teabagger who stands for anything positive is a complete impossibility.
If you choose to take Christian vows, then you are also following the Christian bible. Can't really have one without the other, unless you are going to be a complete hypocrite.
*All* Christians are necessarily hypocrites, and none of them follow the bible because it's impossible to do so. Apart from the fact that it contradicts itself on so many levels, you'd end up in prison for life in pretty much any country in the world if you even attempted to obey most of the orders of your god, the evil villain of the bible.
Apart from that, nothing in the bible applies to you unless you're a Hebrew since that god is only the god of the Hebrews as he made clear and hates you as is obvious if you'd ever actually read that disgustingly vile racist hate-screed instead of merely fapping over what it doesn't say.
Seriously, you worship an evil fairy tale monster who we know with 100% certainty wasn't even invented until 1000 years after the pyramids were built. You claim to respect him, but you can't even be bothered to take 5 minutes to see if what's been said about him is true. That isn't respect, love, worship or anything of the sort.
It's cowardice, hypocrisy, lies and delusion with nothing in any way redeeming about it.
Yet government overtly stepping in and bailing out and taking control of auto companies and insurance firms doesn't trigger the definition for you?
Not necessarily. Were the government to nationalise those industries i.e. we the people now *own* them...socialised costs and socialised profits, we're talking Left. If they robbed the people to pay off the owners of those industries, i.e. socialised costs and *privatised* profits (see also private prison industry etc.) that's Right. For example, in the first round of recent bailouts, the Democrats were in favor of bailouts. The Republicans were against them *until they added a hundred million more dollars in completely retarded pork, then they were all for it*. The Democrats are a bog government party. The Republicans are a bigger government party, except they hate spending that could help Americans as a whole and love spending that's handouts for the rich or that blows shit up without providing any value.
What about the practice of lobbying?
Really depends.
See, you have the definition of fascism right, but it looks like you only want to use it when it applies to Republicans, whom you paint with an extremely broad brush as being The Devil Incarnate
No, it doesn't look like that. At all. That would be your inability to understand that a criticism of the actions of one group does not imply support for another group. Republicans are the lunatic fringe of the right wing. Democrats are *mostly* moderate right wing, but who support a few Left wing policies....generally ones which are indisputably superior to the alternative such as universal health care. You're the one who seems to be saying that Right=Republican and Left=Democrat. That just shows your complete ignorance and it's nothing I said.
Until people like you on either "side" start to realize that we're being played not by Republicans or by Democrats but by the entire political class, nothing is going to change for the better. I'm not sure how that's going to happen, with things being so polarized that any member of the opposite party is seen as either an idiot or hell-bent on destroying America.
Again, that's *you* not me. Think about it, Sparky. Because I levelled legitimate criticisms at Republicans you leapt to the idiotic conclusion that I'm a Democrat. I'm not, nor have I ever been. I was 10 when I figured out it's a rigged game, but that doesn't change the fact that the Republicans are rabidly anti-American fascist scum each and every one *by definition*. The Democrats aren't good, but they aren't the ones pushing for legislation to discriminate against groups of people based solely on ignorant hatred like the Repugs with their gay-hatred agenda. They aren't the ones trying to shove religion into government. That one right there goes directly against the most fundamental defining feature of America. The complete and utter rejection of religion as having any role in the government of a free society.
Selling crack to kids in America to buy weapons for terrorists is Republican policy through and through. So much so that they canonized that fascist traitor Ronald Reagan. Even though he set a record for government growth, he's still the hero of so called "fiscal conservatives" demonstrating just how sickeningly depraved and deluded they are. They don't stand for anything, they blindly support their party and decry the Democrats even when they're doing the same things. This certainly happens on both sides, but it's the overriding rule and a defining feature for Republicans. It's not even close to that among Democrats. Night and day.
So, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Democrats which can be made, but none of them are being made because the Repugs are doing nothing but raving about delusional lies like Obama is a muslim, Obama wasn't born in America, Universal health care == death panels and all the rest of the batshit insanity that has come to completely define the Republican party. So when Republicans jump up sc
I guess I don't see a problem? If we came up with a set of physical laws that pretty accurately described all observable phenomena, who cares if they are not both complete and consistent as logical rules or whatever Goedel was showing?
No, I'm pretty sure there isn't one. Physics isn't separate from mathematics in that sense. The rules of mathematics are incomplete in the sense that there are true statements which can not be proven from with in the axiomatic system, but if you're using mathematical theorems which have been proven, to describe physical phenomena then Goedel is irrelevant.
*If* a GUT turns out to rely absolutely on the truth (or falsehood) of the Riemann hypothesis (just for example), *and* the Riemann hypothesis turns out to be undecidable then we might well be boned, but the equations of physics are written in the language of mathematics so as long as you're dealing with mathematics which has been proven, you're not going to run into undecidability issues just because you're using that math for physics.
A comparison of the US even at the height of GWB's stupidity (and that's what it was, whatever the neo-Cons were plotting and planning, they put a simpering moron in the White House) and, say, Mussolini's Italy, suggests that calling GWB a fascist was hyperbole to such a point that you just had to say "Bullshit!"
No, not at all. Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. So secret meetings with the oil and gas companies to set energy policy to their benefit is fascism by definition pure and simple. Your ignorance of the meaning of the word and the Right's attempts to paint the purely right wing (again, by definition) ideology of Fascism as leftist is just lying. The constant demonization of the Left also paints Republicans as adherents of Nazism..again, by definition. "Rabid opposition to the left" *is* Nazism summed up in one sentence and as a pure right wing, purely reactionary ideology, it is a complete description of current Republican ideology.
So, yes, Republicans, each and every one, are Fascist Nazis. You're getting tied up in specific implementation details and demonstrating your inability to reason abstractly or understand general cases or the big picture.
So killing the gays, the handicapped, the Jews, Union supporters and various other groups of "undesirables", and current Republican policy of pushing for rabidly anti-American gay hatred legislation are two specific examples of the general case of promoting hatred of a minority group in order to promote cohesion among the "elite". It's just that America was constructed carefully and specifically to oppose Right wing ideology. "We hold these truths the be self evident that all men are created equal" is a direct statement of complete and utter rejection of Right wing ideology.
If you don't like those definition, too fucking bad. They were invented by Mussolini and Hitler respectively, and are the definitions of the words, common usage is worthless to actually understand the situation as you've clearly demonstrated.
I'm not talking about people living in small towns necessarily, but people who choose to live in exurban areas. If they want to live there, then fine, but there's a cost to having everything you'd get easily in a concentrated living area (even a small town) and they should pay it rather than bitching that there's no high speed internet or mail delivery.
Eliminating all of the subsidies to rural areas (very much including small towns) would be the best possible thing that could happen in America. These are the people constantly whining about taxes (which they don't pay), and welfare leeches (which they are) and demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the most basic economic facts. If, for once,these leeches would actually pay their own way rather than leeching off of the productive, parts of the country then they might at long last start dealing with reality. If only these welfare leeches would grow up and act like responsible adults, then the Republican party would be gone in a day and we'd have a chance (however slim) at developing a responsible fiscal system and have actual honest debate about social policy. As long as we keep paying to maintain these delusional scum in their delusions, we'll keep seeing more of the same insanity and rabid hatred of America that defines them. From pushing religion into government to making up wars based on lies, this all comes down to allowing ignorant, bratty children to believe far out lies about who's paying their bills.
Boot note: The bible actually says "Thou shall not murder."
No, this is light years away from the truth. The bible actually says, "Thou (where the thou in question absolutely must be a Hebrew) may not illegally kill *another Hebrew*. Nothing in the Bible applies to anyone but Hebrews in that sense since the god of the bible is *only* the god of the Hebrews. He was quite clear that there were plenty of other gods running around but those were other people's gods. It's perfectly ok and, in fact considered completely positive for Hebrews to murder, rob, enslave and engage in genocide against anybody not of their tribe. This is what makes the bible the most vile racist hate screed ever written.
So, murder as we define it today is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged according to biblical "morals" with the exception being Hebrew on Hebrew murder.
It certainly does make all Christians and Muslims deeply deluded, self loathing fools though. Worshipping a god who has repeatedly declared his abject hatred of you.
But this does, however, beg the very important question - what do people on Slashdot listen to for their tech tweets?
Seriously, you're so fucking stupid as to demonstrate your complete ignorance of basic English grammar and your contempt thereof and yet post here?
Well, yes, you are a deeply stupid person, and your twattery is valueless mostly beyond compare, but are you so deeply stupid that you still don't recognize that the smartish people you hang around nearby wish you wouldn't?
Seriously, you're a dumb motherfucker and we're sick of dealing with your whiny bitchery.
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Think of all the starving children we could have saved instead.
Think of it as you doing your part to fight overpopulation.
I have this running joke that the only toy my kids will ever have is a block of wood.
All kids love Log!
I'd recommend the Ultra Deluxe Electro Log or perhaps the Log Civil War Hospital Playset.
The one in Highland Park, IL closed last month. I got some good clearance deals.
Yes, as an American, I am concerned about the people fighting for my country abroad.
No, you aren't. That is not even possible. There are no Americans anywhere abroad fighting *for* America.
I'm glad I could allay your concerns, but you really should pay more attention in the first place and avoid all the phantom fears the media feeds you.
I'm not concerned one bit about the politicians and generals
Actually, you are. They are, in fact, the only ones you give a shit about, because they're the only ones benefiting from the wars they invented and they're the only ones benefiting from the support *you* are lending to *them* right now while pretending to (or even maybe you're even dumb enough to believe you are) "supporting the troops".
it's the grunts and people out in the field that could suffer from this.
No, their odds of being brought back to the country they betrayed and out of the disaster they created will increase. They did create this disaster too. At the orders of others, yes, but they committed treason by obeying those orders and they declared their enmity for America by enlisting in the first place, so blame is very much theirs to own.
At this point it's not even using this information against me sitting at home in comfort but about the people in Afghanistan and their safety.
Their safety with respect to Afghanis can be assured by leaving Afghanistan. As long as they want to continue supporting the military industrial complex against America, then screw those rabidly anti-American treasonous scum.
Their safety is a threat to America.
He's a well-regarded pundit and speechwriter among rabidly anti-American Nazi traitors
FTFY.
Being well-regarded in such circles means that decent, honest people of ethics and integrity understand that suicide is his only option to be anything but a liability to anything decent.
I really pity the people who believed that asshole ever had any intention of fulfilling any of his campaign promises.
Huh? He promised to keep up his support for the massive criminally treasonous extensions to FISA prior to being elected. He is keeping his promises to continue the treasonous policies of the Bush administration. Since prior to being elected he already declared his explicit intention to violate the oath of office for the office for which he was running (by supporting criminal spying on Americans) there was never any way any decent American or decent human being could have voted for Obama based solely upon that fact. Voting for him after that is a fundamental shirking of responsibility as a citizen and there is no excuse that can justify such a cowardly action.
The fact that the Republican candidates were ten times the traitors Obama is doesn't excuse his actions, it condemns Republican voters as the rabidly anti-American Nazi scum they are by definition.
Pickup trucks?!?
No, for this the AMC Pacer is going to have to make a comeback.
The Fishbowl was just ahead of its time.
EVERY species that has chosen option 1, and every human civilization that has done so (according to Jared Diamond) is ...
extinct
No. Exactly the opposite. Every human civilization which has failed to address their increasing impact on their environment *exactly as we're doing right now* has collapsed.
So, yeah, you're a bald-faced liar with zero integrity. I mean you state the exact opposite of the truth as if it's the truth. No way that could be a mistake. You intentionally and maliciously lied with the express intent of misrepresenting Jared Diamond's conclusions for the purpose of deceiving the people reading your posting.
That makes you a very bad person. You're contemptible, lacking in even the most basic human decency or ethics.
Suicide is the only way you'll ever be anything but a liability to everybody around you. Here's hoping you'll be man enough to do the right thing.
We have a little thing called "Rule of Law" in this country, perhaps you've heard of it?
LOL. I've heard of it and unlike yourself I actually know what it means which is how I know we have nothing of the sort here.
The Constitution is the basis of the law in this country and we are not ruled by it. Congress and the President regularly intentionally violate it in order to enact treasonous policies. Hell, Reagan sold fucking crack to America school kids to buy weapons for fascist terrorists to use to murder thousands and he's the biggest hero the Republican party has ever had. Please point out the part of the Constitution that authorises that. How about that part authorising the pres to doctor evidence to start a war? Oh that's right, you can't because you're a fucking delusional partisan hack who is incapable of critical thinking, only repeating dried out old bullshit propaganda you've been fed.
So, no, we don't have the rule of law or anything of the sort. You're dumb as a post for making that claim and dumber still in your pathetic attempt at a defense of that idiotic statement.
I agree, a lot of people see things on the extreams.
No, as pioneered by FOX, the media presents things as extremes, in order to screw over ignorant people. This is known as "manipulation" rather than something which could be described as "people see things".
Sure there are things in the world that are opposites.
And there are things which aren't, but are presented to the easily manipulated as if they were. Often this takes the form of a logical fallacy known as "false dichotomy". This is when...well, never mind. You, yourself, illustrate it far more eloquently than I could:
It is also why I equally dislike the hard evangelical religions who figure most of the world will go to hell. And the far athiests who see's any one with the idea that God could exists as a product of iditocy.
The human beings in the set of hard evangelicals who figure most of the world will go to hell consist of ***Billions*** of people.
The number of atheists who think that, '"anyone with the idea that God could exists", are a product of idiocy' numbers zero to the best of my knowledge. I certainly wouldn't claim that nobody has ever believed... or claimed to believe such a thing, but you'll need at least a hundred million anecdotes to even get on the RADAR. I wish you the best of luck with that. Heck, I wish you luck getting ten.
As paridoxal this statement seems. Normally if you know that someone has a belief or phelosophy different then your own. And you see this person as sub human. Then you are probably a polerized person. No more enlighted then the rest of the public
There is no paradox in your statement. This is known as projection. You are so polarised by your brainwashing that you think that you're making some point and presenting yourself as somewhere in the middle. You're not. You're far out on the fringe and aren't even capable of recognising that fact.
Your argument says that you could look at me and I could shoot you in the face because I didn't like the way you did it. Two extremes...equally valid...The truth is in the middle.
While it *is* polarising, it's the false dichotomy; that you fell for hook, line and sinker while the whole time thinking you were one of the clever ones, that's the issue. Take this as an opportunity to be better at being one of the clever ones if you're not too polarised to even handle critique.
Isn't the whole reason for the military to protect civilians?
Huh?!? No. It's to promote corporate interests at the expense of regular Americans' money and the lives of any foreigners who don't want to be enslaved to said interests.
The only other reason is to conquer other nations but we consider ourselves to be more civilised than that these days.
Wow, did your parents actually have any children who lived? I think you might well be the most naive idiot I've ever even heard of. Seriously, being that completely delusional and out of touch with reality isn't ok. Ever.
I showed it to my (now) ex, who wasn't very impressed ;D
Why? Sloppy coding? No comments? Inefficient algorithms?
Here's an example that's a little more conscious: hot chicks. Everybody kisses the ass of the hot chick.
Well, except me. Of course, that's probably why I usually end up fucking them instead of going home alone to spank over them, but that's life ;-)
Yeah, Jesus never existed, but the delusional shitbags that believe in a fairy tale character are deeply vile scum working to fuck over the world at every opportunity.
If Christians would just all die, then they'd be a lot more like Jesus and far better people. Since they're unable to deal with the real world due to their cowardice and desperate need to live in really inhumanly evil delusions, it's really the only way the could ever be decent people.
What have you seen that goes "far" beyond burning another human alive?
Declaring that that plus raping children defines good morality and being a member of the Catholic Church.
... but my fellow Tea Partiers complain pretty loudly, e.g., here:
The fact that you teabagging scum weren't complaining about Bush, that you provide a platform for Palin's delusional ravings, and are composed primarily of Birthers, Obama is a muslim nutters and racists is what gives you no credibility and ensures no intelligent rational people will ever offer any support for your deeply vile racist hate group.
You see, you can claim to support various things, small government etc. but as long as your actions demonstrate your absolute support for the exact opposite of that, you look not just like fools, but deeply deranged, violent and deluded fools and traitors.
Palin caters to the primary welfare leeches in America calling them real Americans, wanting to ban books and shove a particularly vile brand of religious delusion into government while pissing in the faces of anybody whop actually does stand up for the constitution and the founding principles of America.
The fact that you've made her the face of your movement proved absolutely that you couldn't possibly stand for what you claim to and that your membership is composed of those too stupid to understand that and too ignorant to have even skimmed the Constitution.
There's a lot of reasons you are despised by *all* of the decent people who do love what this country once claimed to stand for.
A patriotic teabagger who stands for anything positive is a complete impossibility.
If you choose to take Christian vows, then you are also following the Christian bible. Can't really have one without the other, unless you are going to be a complete hypocrite.
*All* Christians are necessarily hypocrites, and none of them follow the bible because it's impossible to do so. Apart from the fact that it contradicts itself on so many levels, you'd end up in prison for life in pretty much any country in the world if you even attempted to obey most of the orders of your god, the evil villain of the bible.
Apart from that, nothing in the bible applies to you unless you're a Hebrew since that god is only the god of the Hebrews as he made clear and hates you as is obvious if you'd ever actually read that disgustingly vile racist hate-screed instead of merely fapping over what it doesn't say.
Seriously, you worship an evil fairy tale monster who we know with 100% certainty wasn't even invented until 1000 years after the pyramids were built. You claim to respect him, but you can't even be bothered to take 5 minutes to see if what's been said about him is true. That isn't respect, love, worship or anything of the sort.
It's cowardice, hypocrisy, lies and delusion with nothing in any way redeeming about it.
Yet government overtly stepping in and bailing out and taking control of auto companies and insurance firms doesn't trigger the definition for you?
Not necessarily. Were the government to nationalise those industries i.e. we the people now *own* them...socialised costs and socialised profits, we're talking Left. If they robbed the people to pay off the owners of those industries, i.e. socialised costs and *privatised* profits (see also private prison industry etc.) that's Right.
For example, in the first round of recent bailouts, the Democrats were in favor of bailouts. The Republicans were against them *until they added a hundred million more dollars in completely retarded pork, then they were all for it*. The Democrats are a bog government party. The Republicans are a bigger government party, except they hate spending that could help Americans as a whole and love spending that's handouts for the rich or that blows shit up without providing any value.
What about the practice of lobbying?
Really depends.
See, you have the definition of fascism right, but it looks like you only want to use it when it applies to Republicans, whom you paint with an extremely broad brush as being The Devil Incarnate
No, it doesn't look like that. At all. That would be your inability to understand that a criticism of the actions of one group does not imply support for another group.
Republicans are the lunatic fringe of the right wing. Democrats are *mostly* moderate right wing, but who support a few Left wing policies....generally ones which are indisputably superior to the alternative such as universal health care. You're the one who seems to be saying that Right=Republican and Left=Democrat. That just shows your complete ignorance and it's nothing I said.
Until people like you on either "side" start to realize that we're being played not by Republicans or by Democrats but by the entire political class, nothing is going to change for the better. I'm not sure how that's going to happen, with things being so polarized that any member of the opposite party is seen as either an idiot or hell-bent on destroying America.
Again, that's *you* not me. Think about it, Sparky. Because I levelled legitimate criticisms at Republicans you leapt to the idiotic conclusion that I'm a Democrat. I'm not, nor have I ever been. I was 10 when I figured out it's a rigged game, but that doesn't change the fact that the Republicans are rabidly anti-American fascist scum each and every one *by definition*. The Democrats aren't good, but they aren't the ones pushing for legislation to discriminate against groups of people based solely on ignorant hatred like the Repugs with their gay-hatred agenda. They aren't the ones trying to shove religion into government. That one right there goes directly against the most fundamental defining feature of America. The complete and utter rejection of religion as having any role in the government of a free society.
Selling crack to kids in America to buy weapons for terrorists is Republican policy through and through. So much so that they canonized that fascist traitor Ronald Reagan. Even though he set a record for government growth, he's still the hero of so called "fiscal conservatives" demonstrating just how sickeningly depraved and deluded they are. They don't stand for anything, they blindly support their party and decry the Democrats even when they're doing the same things. This certainly happens on both sides, but it's the overriding rule and a defining feature for Republicans. It's not even close to that among Democrats. Night and day.
So, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Democrats which can be made, but none of them are being made because the Repugs are doing nothing but raving about delusional lies like Obama is a muslim, Obama wasn't born in America, Universal health care == death panels and all the rest of the batshit insanity that has come to completely define the Republican party. So when Republicans jump up sc
I guess I don't see a problem? If we came up with a set of physical laws that pretty accurately described all observable phenomena, who cares if they are not both complete and consistent as logical rules or whatever Goedel was showing?
No, I'm pretty sure there isn't one. Physics isn't separate from mathematics in that sense. The rules of mathematics are incomplete in the sense that there are true statements which can not be proven from with in the axiomatic system, but if you're using mathematical theorems which have been proven, to describe physical phenomena then Goedel is irrelevant.
*If* a GUT turns out to rely absolutely on the truth (or falsehood) of the Riemann hypothesis (just for example), *and* the Riemann hypothesis turns out to be undecidable then we might well be boned, but the equations of physics are written in the language of mathematics so as long as you're dealing with mathematics which has been proven, you're not going to run into undecidability issues just because you're using that math for physics.
A comparison of the US even at the height of GWB's stupidity (and that's what it was, whatever the neo-Cons were plotting and planning, they put a simpering moron in the White House) and, say, Mussolini's Italy, suggests that calling GWB a fascist was hyperbole to such a point that you just had to say "Bullshit!"
No, not at all.
Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. So secret meetings with the oil and gas companies to set energy policy to their benefit is fascism by definition pure and simple.
Your ignorance of the meaning of the word and the Right's attempts to paint the purely right wing (again, by definition) ideology of Fascism as leftist is just lying. The constant demonization of the Left also paints Republicans as adherents of Nazism..again, by definition. "Rabid opposition to the left" *is* Nazism summed up in one sentence and as a pure right wing, purely reactionary ideology, it is a complete description of current Republican ideology.
So, yes, Republicans, each and every one, are Fascist Nazis. You're getting tied up in specific implementation details and demonstrating your inability to reason abstractly or understand general cases or the big picture.
So killing the gays, the handicapped, the Jews, Union supporters and various other groups of "undesirables", and current Republican policy of pushing for rabidly anti-American gay hatred legislation are two specific examples of the general case of promoting hatred of a minority group in order to promote cohesion among the "elite".
It's just that America was constructed carefully and specifically to oppose Right wing ideology. "We hold these truths the be self evident that all men are created equal" is a direct statement of complete and utter rejection of Right wing ideology.
If you don't like those definition, too fucking bad. They were invented by Mussolini and Hitler respectively, and are the definitions of the words, common usage is worthless to actually understand the situation as you've clearly demonstrated.
I'm not talking about people living in small towns necessarily, but people who choose to live in exurban areas. If they want to live there, then fine, but there's a cost to having everything you'd get easily in a concentrated living area (even a small town) and they should pay it rather than bitching that there's no high speed internet or mail delivery.
Eliminating all of the subsidies to rural areas (very much including small towns) would be the best possible thing that could happen in America. These are the people constantly whining about taxes (which they don't pay), and welfare leeches (which they are) and demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the most basic economic facts.
If, for once,these leeches would actually pay their own way rather than leeching off of the productive, parts of the country then they might at long last start dealing with reality.
If only these welfare leeches would grow up and act like responsible adults, then the Republican party would be gone in a day and we'd have a chance (however slim) at developing a responsible fiscal system and have actual honest debate about social policy.
As long as we keep paying to maintain these delusional scum in their delusions, we'll keep seeing more of the same insanity and rabid hatred of America that defines them. From pushing religion into government to making up wars based on lies, this all comes down to allowing ignorant, bratty children to believe far out lies about who's paying their bills.
Boot note: The bible actually says "Thou shall not murder."
No, this is light years away from the truth.
The bible actually says, "Thou (where the thou in question absolutely must be a Hebrew) may not illegally kill *another Hebrew*. Nothing in the Bible applies to anyone but Hebrews in that sense since the god of the bible is *only* the god of the Hebrews. He was quite clear that there were plenty of other gods running around but those were other people's gods.
It's perfectly ok and, in fact considered completely positive for Hebrews to murder, rob, enslave and engage in genocide against anybody not of their tribe. This is what makes the bible the most vile racist hate screed ever written.
So, murder as we define it today is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged according to biblical "morals" with the exception being Hebrew on Hebrew murder.
It certainly does make all Christians and Muslims deeply deluded, self loathing fools though. Worshipping a god who has repeatedly declared his abject hatred of you.
Well, that is the definition of right wing politics.
Too bad we surrendered to that shit after beating it in WW2.
Ha, if you're serious at all, thisshould be enough to help ;-)
But this does, however, beg the very important question - what do people on Slashdot listen to for their tech tweets?
Seriously, you're so fucking stupid as to demonstrate your complete ignorance of basic English grammar and your contempt thereof and yet post here?
Well, yes, you are a deeply stupid person, and your twattery is valueless mostly beyond compare, but are you so deeply stupid that you still don't recognize that the smartish people you hang around nearby wish you wouldn't?
Seriously, you're a dumb motherfucker and we're sick of dealing with your whiny bitchery.