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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 12:12 pm
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| So what is wrong with giving up your free will for the common good of communism as long as you are voluntarily willing to join the communist party? Nothing, but if you disagree with communists, they put a bullet in your head or run you over with tanks. If you think that modern communists are the so... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Cultural Conservatism is baloney. |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 12:08 pm
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| I agree, I very much favor the melting pot over multiculturalism. It seems like the "melting pot" idea works a lot better in the "New World" than the "Old World". In the America's only a tiny minority can really claim to be the "indigenous" culture, namely Native Americans. Europe is different. Tho... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 7:08 pm
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| So what is wrong with giving up your free will for the common good of communism as long as you are voluntarily willing to join the communist party? The challenge are not those who willingly follow the shepherd as his sheep, it is those who refuse to follow the shepherd, who under communism generall... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About taxes |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 7:04 pm
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| 500k worth of services for 1000k is a good deal if it puts people to work who could not make it in the private sector. Getting less than what you pay for is never a good deal. Would you consider it a good deal to get half a big mac for the price of a full one because the guy who made it was mentall... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About taxes |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 7:00 pm
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| Yes, more so emotional then anything, I certainly don't think its workable, but infographics are digestible and if most people have access to it. People would see the budget, and not have to put up with hundreds of millions of excel spreadsheets. I heard someone throw 100 million out as a number, I... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 6:53 pm
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| There is no choice in being a party member or living in accordance with communism even at that level, it's merely assumed a priory that everyone would want to out of their free will. It's the main reason why communism always ends up being totalitarian. I do not pretend that communism is an ideal sy... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 5:46 pm
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| Actually, communism advocates a rule by the party prior to the full transition into a classless society. All members of society ultimately become party members, ergo all members of society have a say in how things are run. I am not a classical communist by any means however the theory does have a c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About taxes |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 5:40 pm
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| Well I think if we raised the middle class's taxes and all government at every level showed exactly where every dollar is spent in the public sector, we would be less willing to go to war or support Obamacare, or pass a medicare prescription plan for the elderly. Its this disconnect of the working ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 5:18 pm
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| As do communism, feudalism, to a degree social democracy (as evidenced by the EU, a non democratically elected ruling board which sovereign governments must follow), anarchism, and just about every other ideology there is. . Communism advocates direct democracy as opposed to parliamentary or repres... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is America heading towards fascism? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 5:08 pm
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| Libertarianism and fascism shares an equal contempt of democracy and the democratic process. As do communism, feudalism, to a degree social democracy (as evidenced by the EU, a non democratically elected ruling board which sovereign governments must follow), anarchism, and just about every other id... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why did someone ever invent guns? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 4:27 pm
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| A gun is a tool, just like a hammer, a nail-gun, a screwdriver, an extension cord, and you know what else all of those things have in common? You can kill someone with them. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does Voting Make You Feel Guilty? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 3:09 pm
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About taxes |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 12:27 pm
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| @Ruveyn and MarketAndChurch, it's a very clever trick though by Government to require someone who is anal enough about his money to sit down and calculate the exact amount of his income/wealth that went to the government to be incinerated. If people got 56% income tax, but nothing else, they'd go ba... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If guns kill people |
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Posted: 05 Nov 2012, 1:25 pm
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Replies: 116
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| [ Gasoline, propane, diesel, charcoal are just flammable. One may create an explosion by mixing with air under some restrictive conditions. The mechanism of doing so is very complicated and often classified. Charcoal can be mixed with Sulfur and saltpeter (potassium nitrate) to make black powder, w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Capitalist Threat |
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Posted: 05 Nov 2012, 12:40 pm
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Replies: 72
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| Seeing as TRPF has been proven inconsistent/wrong that somewhat kills off the Marxist criticism of capitalists as exploiters of workers. It's one of those "Marx criticizes capitalism from the point of view of his own ideology which has proven to be largely internally contradictory." which kind of t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If guns kill people |
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Posted: 05 Nov 2012, 12:20 pm
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| a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun. The same black and white fallacy again. Not every criminals are committed to break ALL laws. Really wit... |
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