[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
It’s not my case to make - you are the navel-gazing anarcho-libertarian (this week) that thinks the state should be involved in hardly anything. Again, I say no problem, practice what you preach and sever your relationship with “the Leviathan”.
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And punish myself because I have only recently come to believe the shortcomings of government. Wouldn’t that be considered more extremist. I am not an extremeist and unfortunately I still owe money that I borrowed with government backing to pay for publicly funded school. Maybe I should pay back all the money I took from the GI Bill too?
No. I am going to continue to play the game. You can read it however you like.
And punish myself because I have only recently come to believe the shortcomings of government. Wouldn’t that be considered more extremist. I am not an extremeist and unfortunately I still owe money that I borrowed with government backing to pay for publicly funded school. Maybe I should pay back all the money I took from the GI Bill too?
No. I am going to continue to play the game. You can read it however you like.[/quote]
No worries - next week you will morph into a true-believin’ Social Democrat after reading some tract on the internet (it is perfection via natural law!), and working for the state would be right in line with your “well-thought about” principles. In that regard, definitely keep your job.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
No worries - next week you will morph into a true-believin’ Social Democrat after reading some tract on the internet (it is perfection via natural law!), and working for the state would be right in line with your “well-thought about” principles. In that regard, definitely keep your job.[/quote]
Actually, I have never identified with any political philosophy. They are all philosophies of control to a greater or lesser degree.
On the one hand I like the idealism of live and let live and on the other hand, pragmatically, I understand that there are people who naturally seek to control others “for their own good” (even in the most innocuous sense). The problem is that part of me feels that these two notions are irreconcilable – what does one do?
“There’s nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today,” he said in the interview. “I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we’re acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon.”
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
This is the best coverage yet:
“There’s nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today,” he said in the interview. “I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we’re acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon.”[/quote]
And yet the WTC was destroyed and the Pentagon was severely damaged…
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
This is the best coverage yet:
“There’s nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today,” he said in the interview. “I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we’re acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon.”
And yet the WTC was destroyed and the Pentagon was severely damaged…[/quote]
And all your military could not prevent it, so it is hardly a good reason to stockpile weapons.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
thunderbolt23 wrote:
Let’s see…Ron Paul believes in absolute free trade, and thinks that no one can hurt the US?
Uhhh…who has hurt us – ever?
Are you really this dense? 9/11 was catastrophic. It killed 3000 people and did great harm to our economy.
I think you should lose your right to vote for this foolishness.[/quote]
So other than turning Americans into a bunch of pussies what has it done to this country?
That was not an attack by a country. We as a country have never been threatened by a country that we did not directly provoke.
Also, it wasn’t catastrophic. It killed less than .001% of the population. A catastrophe would have totally wiped this country off the face of the Earth. It will never happen.
The values of liberty are greater than a mere 3000 people.
[quote]Mick28 wrote:
orion wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
This is the best coverage yet:
“There’s nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today,” he said in the interview. “I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we’re acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon.”
And yet the WTC was destroyed and the Pentagon was severely damaged…
And all your military could not prevent it, so it is hardly a good reason to stockpile weapons.
Are all austrians this naive, or is it just you? Oh wait…I forgot…you’re the jealous one.
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Naive?
If 3000 dead are a “catastrophe” and 2 towers are an “enormous” economic damage and all that was began a “war”, is it not interesting that the most powerful army in history could not prevent it?
More weaponry is hardly the answer and applying old solutions to new problems is what destroys empires.
Also, it wasn’t catastrophic. It killed less than .001% of the population. A catastrophe would have totally wiped this country off the face of the Earth. It will never happen.
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The super volcanoe under Yellowston is overdue.
Might blow up in 10000 years, might blow up tomorrow.
Then there are asteroids, biological weapons and new and exciting ways to fuck up stuff we do not even know about until some genius makes it work.