How we got to where we are.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Meagain, Sep 25, 2013.

  1. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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  2. Sig

    Sig Senior Member

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    No, I don't. We live in the same country, scratcho. You know this.
     
  3. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    hahaha---no I really didn't. I saw vinland and I----well, you know. (good thing i never claimed to be anything other than a dumb-ass roofer!!).)
     
  4. Sig

    Sig Senior Member

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    ha, fair enough.
     
  5. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Bumpus.
     
  6. Anaximenes

    Anaximenes Senior Member

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    I can't tell in hypocrisy the difference between careless action and misunderstanding the mistakes I could make. I have no errors in judgment, like Obama, as of yet.
     
  7. rjhangover

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    Jesus, is that you? God, what's it like to be perfect? Oh yeah, republican, how silly of me.

    Competition is the art of fucking others out of what they have. That's why I like Hacky Sack, it's a shared effort to try to keep it up, a communal mantra.
     
  8. Anaximenes

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    It's just the constitutionally arranged system of government. Economically it was meant that I, the president of the U.S. make mistakes a right of the good small business and consumer. Information fails good, hey socialist, knowledge.:daisy:
     
  9. rjhangover

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    Either you need a little more punctuation, or we have a POTUS on this forum. Hacky Sack is Socialist knowledge.
     
  10. Anaximenes

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    It's called the president has a lack of transparency. He will get it to us, the common citizen.

    However, the business's invited, I believe, do follow. Democracy shall prevail:eek:
     
  11. rjhangover

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    There's no democracy in heaven. Referring to to your spiritual question in the religion section.
     
  12. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I would like to hear Sig's point by point refutation of this section, because that's the way I remember it.

    And BTW Sig, could you please stop using derogatory names for members who post things you don't agree with. I view that as a personal attack, and it is getting boring.
     
  13. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    :confused:

    that's kinda how I remember living it.
     
  14. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    I'm also confused about how a thread featuring an article that is about a paradigm shift that had a lot of it's genesis in the movements of the sixties turned into yet another fucking "tastes great<:argue:>less filling" discussion about politics?????????

    I think my first post was the only one that grasped and expounded upon the original thought put forth in the article.

    One of the reasons younger individuals don't often quite "get it" about some of the topics in the original article is simply because they were born after the paradigm shift had occurred. ;)
     
  15. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Agreed.
     
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  17. deviate

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    I notice a trend that the only liberal democrats who truly have faith in the things PR rightly espoused.. are the aging hippies, moronic urban youth who haven't experienced anything but a free college education, good job, and partying.. and people who want to exist at the expense of others while being perfectly capable of working and controlling their own fate.

    Most of my generation is seeming to swing rapidly to a libertarian/classical liberal ideology, and that makes me happy.

    Anyone, at this point, who believes in big gov't and centralizing most or all powers into the executive branch is either ill informed, stubborn, or lazy imo.
     
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    Deviate

    Just an aside here to remind you that you said you’d address the criticisms of right wing libertinism in this thread -

    Cliche red herrings against libertarianism
    http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=473288&page=2

    I mean you say here that -
    But as pointed out right wing libertarian ideas seem really deeply flawed and likely to make a bad situation worse and you seem unable to defend them from that charge.

    If followed such flawed ideas are unlikely to have a happy outcome.
     
  19. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Just for the record, I am the product of a poor working class family. I started working at the age of 14, off and on at that time due to school. Paid my own way through five years of college, with no loans, by working one or two jobs at a time while I attended school. I have never accepted food stamps or unemployment. My first professional job paid me wages that placed me below the poverty level for three years. I worked for 35 years in the public sector putting in thousands of hours of uncompensated time. I hold a B.S. and an M. Ed. and I was accepted into a Doctoral program but declined due to finances and family obligations. I saved my money, invested wisely, and am now retired on a modest income which is below the national average.

    I am tired of the continual labeling that goes on around here, so I thought I'd just clarify my bona fides due to statements such as the one below, which I don't completely understand.
     
  20. Sig

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    Well, you are an aging hippie, right? ;)
     
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