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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostSo instead of casting shade at you should be aware that it is your own community that is regularly expanding the acronym until it has become an unmanageable jumble. IOW, it's yet another face plant for Tass and starlight.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAfter that word salad we are still left with the fact that it is the gay community itself that is turning the acronym into an alphabet soup jumble and to pretend that is somehow 's fault are asinine.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostIn fairness, the poker of cows does tend to make up mocking variants of said alphabet soup, which is doubtless what starlight is alluding to.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostNot "nonsense"
But, go ahead and do the "rolling your big empty head" thing - that is becoming your trademark. That, and "NONSENSE!!!!!!!!"The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Charles View PostHe is yet to realize that you need to provide reasons not just opinions.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostThat's all he's got, this is why he is reduced to mocking sound-bites so often.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostAbout 3 hours through The Fifth Risk. Well worth reading or listening to and relevant to this topic.
Rick Perry, of course, infamously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy (but couldn't remember its name) until he was appointed by Trump as secretary of the department and discovered it was actually the department of managing nuclear weapons and nuclear contamination. People think the Department of Commerce is about business and economics and don't realize it's actually mostly Weather Forecasting, Patents, and Census administration. And people think the Department of Agriculture is something about farms, and don't realize it's primarily about food assistance programs such as SNAP, and secondarily about helping rural people with housing. And that's only the 3 federal departments covered by the book... 15 exist in total.
I think the existence of libertarianism as a political philosophy in the US (to an extent it doesn't exist in other Western countries) is a product of the profound ignorance of most Americans as to what things their government actually does. If you don't know what the government is doing / assume it isn't doing much, then the question of "why even bother to have a government at all?" seems sensible. So they like "small government". But if you actually were to take the same person down a long check-list of things the government is currently doing, and ask for each individual item whether they thought it should happen or not, you'd get a very different answer, starting with "should the government manage its arsenal of nuclear weapons?" At the end of the checklist, people might still have different ideas about the total size they want government to be, but they'd be fewer morons saying "why don't we just not have a government?""I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostRick Perry, of course, infamously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy (but couldn't remember its name)
until he was appointed by Trump as secretary of the department and discovered it was actually the department of managing nuclear weapons and nuclear contamination.
Sure, Perry changed his mind on getting rid of it, and perhaps there's room for criticism in that about-face, but it wasn't because he somehow wasn't aware of what it did.
I think the existence of libertarianism as a political philosophy in the US (to an extent it doesn't exist in other Western countries) is a product of the profound ignorance of most Americans as to what things their government actually does. If you don't know what the government is doing / assume it isn't doing much, then the question of "why even bother to have a government at all?" seems sensible. So they like "small government". But if you actually were to take the same person down a long check-list of things the government is currently doing, and ask for each individual item whether they thought it should happen or not, you'd get a very different answer, starting with "should the government manage its arsenal of nuclear weapons?" At the end of the checklist, people might still have different ideas about the total size they want government to be, but they'd be fewer morons saying "why don't we just not have a government?"
Also, while there might be some who are unaware that the Department of Energy handles nuclear material in addition to more general energy stuff, most people I've seen actually advocate the abolition of the Department of Energy are aware of it handling nuclear-related matters, they just want that part of it put under a different part of the government's purview (unless we're talking about anarchists, who I assume would want the government to get rid of the nuclear weapons on its way out, but I'll admit I haven't really looked much at the anarchists think, mostly because I don't really care what anarchists think).
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