Alright I don't know who these leftists you are referring to are but as a socialist I haven't heard anyone defend China or Soviet Russia in the last 20 years.
Support from Western socialists wavered whenever socialist regimes backed off from widespread terror and mass-murder. Support for the USSR peaked in the 1930s, and support for China peaked under Mao in the 1960s.
They are not; don't be so stupid. Free speech is the right to express your opinion; expressing someone else's opinion as if it were your own is being a shill and is already illegal in many contexts, such as in a courtroom.
That is your opinion. Fortunately, the text of Amendment I disagrees with you. It makes no distinction in protecting one's own opinion, and an opinion one is being paid to express.
Really? You have something to support the argument that Standard Oil didnt use standard industrial relations techniques off the time? Because the use of national guard, police units and hired thugs for strike-breaking and general quashing of any attempt at unionized labor by US industrial companies prior to the 60's is pretty well documented. If you have some evidence that S.O was the lone, shining example of good regarding such, then I will happily withdraw all commentary made above:)
The only instances where violence was used against unions in America was when unions were using violence against non-striking workers, and trespassing on or vandalizing private property.
From my understading of history, this should read " A blue collar worker of Standard Oil values not having his legs broken by strike breakers / national guard troops more than the hours he puts in."
We did it your way for 10,000 years. Now it's time to try it our way.
Already been tried. Your "regulated market economy" causes stagnation, and the outright destruction of private property rights in the means of production causes mass-murder.
That telecommunications services are being taxed is not the issue. What is the issue is what percentage of network building expenses were paid for by tax dollars.
America has to wake the hell up and say no to all those fat corporations and say (in the words of the great wizard) "You Shall Not Pass". I mean - we have the technology to turn into cars and motors running on alternative types of energies - we had that technology more than 20 years. Why is the fat fuck the suit - always louder than the suffering masses? Voice out people - let's start our own revolution here - make our children proud of this spineless generation.
Telecommunications infrastructure maintenance fees (TIMFs) are imposed on persons in the business of transmitting, supplying, or furnishing telecommunications and all associated services in Illinois for compensation (i.e., telecommunications retailers).
The Texas Infrastructure Fund was created by the Texas Legislature to ensure that all Texans have access to advanced telecommunications services. The TIF distributes grants and information to public schools, public hospitals, and public libraries in an effort to improve Texas telecommunications technology across the state.
So the money is given to public schools, public hospitals, and public libraries so they can buy telecommunications access.
So far, there is no information on how much tax money is distributed directly to telecoms to build infrastructure, and what percentage of building expenses that money accounts for.
Just because we tend towards libertarianism doesn't mean we're chumps. Many of us have also been around long enough to remember that at the core it isn't the company's infrastructure, it's the public's, developed and paid for with our tax dollars.
What percentage of network infrastructure building expenses were paid for by the government? Under what law? How much in government subsidies were provided to AT&T, Qwest, Verizon, and the other big carriers?
The Wikipedia article does not say that the U.S. supplied Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons.
The Wikipedia article does not say that Donald Rumsfeld had any power over the sale of nuclear reactors to North Korea, which was done as per the 1994 Agreed Framework under the Clinton administration.
The uber responsible goverment of USA sell that chemical weapons to Saddam to take down Islamic Iran Regime in 1980's. That chemical weapons used against Iran and Kurds sell by Rumsfield himself...
One only has to look at the fruits of the space program (from computers
Computers did not come from the space program. The space program consistently used computers that were generations behind the commercial state-of-the-art, and this hasn't changed today.
I find on the best comparisons of Bill Gates to be with Andrew Carnegie. Unfortunately, everyone sees only the "Carnegie libraries," etc. as his legacy. It's easy to forget the strong arm tactics and violence at Homestead.
At Homestead, it was union goons who broke into the steel mill, tried to murder a barge full of replacement workers and the Pinkertons sent to protect them, attempted to burn alive Pinkertons who tried to surrender, and then tortured them after accepting their surrender.
It looks like the Lancet figure that 30% are killed by the US military is reasonable.
As none of these incidents are yet in the database, I have only been able to corroborate the deaths of the firefighters, the Sadr City air strike, which is said to have killed 5, and the Ramadi air strike.
Out of the 232 dead, it is explicitly stated that U.S. forces killed 22. That is 9.5 percent.
Now you need to prove that Bush ordered soldiers to go out and kill civilians, as opposed to civilians being accidentally killed as a consequence of war.
by your logic if im thinking right, you say Bush isn't responsible because the US military did it. But did Saddam actually go over to that town and do the killings himself? he ordered his men to do it, just like bush ordered the army to go into Iraq.
And so did he say "kill these civilians" like Saddam did?
G.W. Bush: 650,000 killings of Iraqi civilians. Sentence?
Nothing. Bush cannot be held responsible for Muslims killing other Muslims, nor are nebulous bullshit studies on "excess mortality" admissible as evidence in court.
Do you have any more deranged statements to share?
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Support from Western socialists wavered whenever socialist regimes backed off from widespread terror and mass-murder. Support for the USSR peaked in the 1930s, and support for China peaked under Mao in the 1960s.
So why did leftists support, lie for, and make excuses for those regimes if they didn't think they were wonderful representations of socialism?
This is a better practice:
If you're not dead, or in jail, you may own guns.
The only instances where violence was used against unions in America was when unions were using violence against non-striking workers, and trespassing on or vandalizing private property.
You have a lousy understanding of history.
Already been tried. Your "regulated market economy" causes stagnation, and the outright destruction of private property rights in the means of production causes mass-murder.
That telecommunications services are being taxed is not the issue. What is the issue is what percentage of network building expenses were paid for by tax dollars.
I think we should start with your company.
And this says that:
Which seems to say that these taxes are directed at telecoms, though they are probably passed along to consumers.
Furthermore, http://www.opc.state.tx.us/Phoneb~1.htm says:
So the money is given to public schools, public hospitals, and public libraries so they can buy telecommunications access.
So far, there is no information on how much tax money is distributed directly to telecoms to build infrastructure, and what percentage of building expenses that money accounts for.
What percentage of network infrastructure building expenses were paid for by the government? Under what law? How much in government subsidies were provided to AT&T, Qwest, Verizon, and the other big carriers?
The Wikipedia article does not say that Donald Rumsfeld had any power over the sale of nuclear reactors to North Korea, which was done as per the 1994 Agreed Framework under the Clinton administration.
Document or retract.
Computers did not come from the space program. The space program consistently used computers that were generations behind the commercial state-of-the-art, and this hasn't changed today.
At Homestead, it was union goons who broke into the steel mill, tried to murder a barge full of replacement workers and the Pinkertons sent to protect them, attempted to burn alive Pinkertons who tried to surrender, and then tortured them after accepting their surrender.
Please provide full transcripts of the criminal trial.
It was pretty clear to me that the grandparent poster was capitalist.
What makes you think he advocates the form of socialism known as fascism?
How many years have you been mentally ill?
And how well they're taken care of indeed!
As none of these incidents are yet in the database, I have only been able to corroborate the deaths of the firefighters, the Sadr City air strike, which is said to have killed 5, and the Ramadi air strike.
Out of the 232 dead, it is explicitly stated that U.S. forces killed 22. That is 9.5 percent.
Now you need to prove that Bush ordered soldiers to go out and kill civilians, as opposed to civilians being accidentally killed as a consequence of war.
Most of the deaths at Iraq Body Count look to be from Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Nothing we should really worry about.
And so did he say "kill these civilians" like Saddam did?
Nothing. Bush cannot be held responsible for Muslims killing other Muslims, nor are nebulous bullshit studies on "excess mortality" admissible as evidence in court.
Do you have any more deranged statements to share?