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somercet 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Defund the police" is code. It doesn't mean privatizing the police; it means "more police, more instrusive police, more politicized police, that we won't call police."

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somercet 3 points ago +5 / -2

You're replying to copypasta.

Check the comments above and below you.

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somercet 2 points ago +2 / -0

No need to go bonkers. A safety razor works great, and Feather (a Japanese company) makes the sharpest DE blades around.

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somercet 5 points ago +5 / -0

I would sell my soul to that devil for a better life for me and my family.

You did.

I only wish that the price of your idol worship was limited to you and your family, but that's not how it works, is it? In fact, that's the point:

In economics, this is often known as the problem of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs. Someone who has a million or two to gain lobbies for the issue, but the cost is so dispersed that no one complains. Only years down the road, when there’s a budget crisis, do citizens finally pay attention.

Yeah, without a union, you might only be making $25/hour.

Who can blame you for funneling cash to Obama/Hillary/Biden?

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somercet 1 point ago +11 / -10

Add John F. Kennedy assassination

Just remember: many of those "conspiracy theories" are in fact pushed by other conspirators to create dissension.

If you want to read two books on the Kennedy assassination, I strongly recommend:

  • Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner, 2003. Amazon, Barnes & Noble
  • Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson, 2007. Amazon, Barnes & Noble

The first book is, in effect, the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, showing you how he was definitely the only man in Dallas with the means, motive and opportunity to shoot Kennedy, and who was also ID'ed on the scene by witnesses. (He also took a shot at the chief of the John Birch Society.)

The second book shows you how the first conspiracy theory about JFK's death was promulgated by Jackie Kennedy and The New York Times within 24 hours of the shooting.

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somercet 1 point ago +2 / -1

"Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that 'we are holding our position.' We're not holding anything. Let the [Commies] do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose!"

Conservatism is just an attitude. It's stand-pat-ism.

We need radical action, based upon the ancient verities, but translated forward into the new age.

  1. Right-to-work should be a Federal amendment.
  2. Employer-sponsored (health) insurance was a boondoggle.
  3. ESI led directly to Medicare and Medicaid.
  4. Milton Friedman felt bad about tax withholding. He was wrong.
  5. Withholding is great, so long as you require people to withhold money for medical emergencies/old age.
  6. Health and retirement savings accounts (HRSA) could entirely replace all of ESI/Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare overnight.
  7. HRSA accounts would turn the Federal Reserve into a rump organization that does nothing but buy and sell Treasury bonds again.
  8. Ignore the current health savings accounts, they are entirely inadequate, just another limp-wristed GOP do-nothing maneuver.
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somercet 5 points ago +5 / -0

Have you ever gone "on the bum"?

It means to become homeless, like a hobo.

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somercet 3 points ago +3 / -0

Taxation is not equivalent to stealing.

Well, it's a matter of degree, isn't it?

I mean, a mugging is a mugging, and someone B&E'ing your house and taking everything of value down to your saintly mother's wedding ring is burglary, regardless of how much they took.

But when it comes to taxation, it takes a moment's thought to realize that when the politicians say, let us tax the rich to pay the poor, and then tax half of all the working class make, but return to them only a few pennies for each dollar, then that is theft by fraud, and should never be tolerated.

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somercet 2 points ago +2 / -0

Cringe comment. I smoked weed from 18 to mid-20s, but that just made me a scofflaw, not a political freedom fighter.

I realized I was a classical Liberal when I was 14. But I was a lousy, squishy libertarian until the fall of 2006, * when I was deeply radicalized (and it's only gotten worse since then).

Most people have libertarian leanings, but they, and a lot of self-described Libertarians, are a bunch of damned squishes, almost useless in any fight against the Democrats/Pantifa.

I would love to be wrong about that, but I'm not. Tough. Let's keep red-pilling the normies en masse.

* When the sight of Bush 43 driving the GOP into a bridge abutment nauseated me, and I realized the GOP need to be replaced wholesale, or at least gutted and rebuilt.

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somercet 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, you don't. Obscenity laws did not stop our great-grandparents from viewing or purchasing erotic art, they governed the public display of such.

Back in the days of the Motion Picture Production Code (1934–1968, AKA the Hays Code), people still watched naughty pictures: American B-movies and racy European "cinema." They just went to "art houses" to see them. Hays Code theaters were built around residential neighborhoods (esp. with lots of kids), while the art houses were relegated to seedier neighborhoods.

Obscenity laws did nothing wrong.

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somercet 3 points ago +3 / -0

One distressing quality I've noticed about T_D'ers is a fucking phobia for links, sources, and context. I think it's because a large proportion of the population are lazy boomer fucks I mean, normies, who are so used to having their balls cupped that they just blank out when it comes time to provide sensible, timely information themselves.

https://freekyleusa.com/donate
https://www.givesendgo.com/GUCZ I don't think this is a site that dropped them, but of course, since no one gave the name...

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somercet 5 points ago +5 / -0

If Kyle was an officer of the law, he wouldn't be in this situation.

"Derek Chauvin has entered the chat"

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somercet 31 points ago +31 / -0

Matthew 27:3-8:

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it. And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

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somercet 5 points ago +6 / -1

Too old for him.

"Eight is too late." ― Creepy Joe.

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somercet 2 points ago +2 / -0

That is Chomsky's take on 1960s America. (And a fatuous one.)

Here in the technological vastness of the future, they are shutting down debate entirely.

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somercet 7 points ago +7 / -0

Mostly by the Feds.

And one "fire extinguisher attack." Or it was a stroke. Same diff.

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somercet 4 points ago +4 / -0

Scientific Industrial Complex

No. Eisenhower named it right in the same speech:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Down a couple paras:

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

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