Politics
I piled up near 1.2K Lines of quotes this time around :X So I splitted them up by category, and will publish them up as I find time. Today's topic is everyone's favourite... politics.
Politics is usually a topic I don't like talking about as it's rather gloomy. How everyone caters to corporations or themselves and money is more important than anything... perhaps except being reelected, which is just so they can get away with more money. Still, as much as I dislike the topic, the truths and statements I hear about it can be pretty mouth-gaping.
Our opening quote of the night is yet another nice example of why the world hates "America" (which should just be referred to as USA because America is actually a continent larger than USA >.>)
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Re:Zero Sum Game and Education (Score:5, Interesting)
by kocsonya (141716) on Tuesday July 26, @06:35PM (#13171016)
> America is hated largely because we are number one in terms of GDP, freedom, etc. I say let someone else take that spot at the top (at least in GDP) so the rest of the world can hate them for a while.
America is not hated because you have more GDP or freedom than the rest of the world. You are hated because you attack and destroy countries and sovereign governments when your economic interest dictates that, in the name of "liberating" the population (well, the part which you do not kill) while you do not give a hoot about hundreds of thousand dying when there is no money for you in it.
You are hated because you toot around against WMDs whlie you are the largest developers of named WMDs and, in fact, the only one who used nuclear weapons against civilian targets.
You are hated because you refuse to care about the environment because it would hurt your bottom line and the rest of the world suffers from your ignorance. You are hated because you define what "freedom" must mean to the rest of the world: the American Way of Life. Everyone who thinks differently is an enemy of Freedom and Liberty and the enemy of the US of A.
You are hated because you set up dictators when it suits you then try to depose them, with all your military might, when they do not toe the party line any more. Never mind how many people die in both turn and never mind what gets destroyed, as long as weapons sale profits are high enough.
You are not hated but looked down for touting freedom when you had seggregation just 30 years ago, for warning parents that the Origin of Species contains dangerous theories that are not in the Bible, for having a patent system that allows you to patent a way of combing your hair to cover a bald spot, for cranking out movie after movie with no plot but more blood and explosion than a slaghterhouse hit by a Pershing and you call it "culture" but in the same time you have no problem destroying many thousand year old remnants of human history - all in all, that was not American, thus it must have been worthless. You are looked down for being the largest porn manufacturing industry but with an unbelievable hypocricy make nudity a deadly sin. You talk about freedom but ban gay marriages. You talk about women's rights but ban abortus even to an underage rape victim.
The idea that the world envies you is false. It comes from the idea that the US is, by definition, the best. Therefore obviously the world wants to be like the US just evil forces want to stop development and in order to liberate the world in their quest to finally living "our way of life", as your great leader puts it in every speech, you should attack them by economic, political and military needs. The fallacy in the whole ideology is that the rest of the world does not want to live like you. Europe appreciates her own decadent ways you know, with all that culture rubbish and lack of rights to have machine guns but with some rights of not being killed by your fellow citizens. Asia has a culture that is a lot more ancient than even Europe's and they seem to be doing reasonably OK with it, thank you very much. Africa is just too poor to have its priorities around freedom and ideology, they think about the food and water and medication more than their liberty.
Noone would have a problem with the US wanting to lead the world.
The problem is that you do not want to lead, you want to rule.
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In the land of the sheep, the wolves run free? I wonder if the US citizens will ever be really fed up and stand against their governments... maybe not, for all they care, they are perfectly happy sitting in their couchs watching TV and growing fat :X (speaking about majorities here, of course)
The following has to do with security and privacy. Doesn't it bugs you when the government/police demands to know what you are doing at all times? Ever heard the phrase....
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Re:Allow me to be the first (Score:5, Interesting)
by Mattcelt (454751) on Friday July 22, @05:31AM (#13133439)
I wrote about this a while ago. Here's the text:
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Ever heard that one? I work in information security, so I have heard it more than my fair share. I've always hated that reasoning, because I am a little bit paranoid by nature, something which serves me very well in my profession. So my standard response to people who have asked that question near me has been "because I'm paranoid." But that doesn't usually help, since most people who would ask that question see paranoia as a bad thing to begin with. So for a long time I've been trying to come up with a valid, reasoned, and intelligent answer which shoots the holes in the flawed logic that need to be there.
And someone unknowingly provided me with just that answer today. In a conversation about hunting, somebody posted this about prey animals and hunters:
"Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals - they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!"
but in a brilliant (and very funny) retort, someone else said:
"If the're not guilty, why are they running?"
Suddenly it made sense, that nagging thing in the back of my head. The logical reason why a reasonable dose of paranoia is healthy. Because it's one thing to be afraid of the TRUTH. People who commit murder or otherwise deprive others of their Natural Rights are afraid of the TRUTH, because it is the light of TRUTH that will help bring them to justice.
But it's another thing entirely to be afraid of hunters. And all too often, the hunters are the ones proclaiming to be looking for TRUTH. But they are more concerned with removing any obstactles to finding the TRUTH, even when that means bulldozing over people's rights (the right to privacy, the right to anonymity) in their quest for it. And sadly, these people often cannot tell the difference between the appearance of TRUTH and TRUTH itself. And these, the ones who are so convinced they have found the TRUTH that they stop looking for it, are some of the worst oppressors of Natural Rights the world has ever known.
They are the hunters, and it is right and good for the prey to be afraid of the hunters, and to run away from them. Do not be fooled when a hunter says "why are you running from me if you have nothing to hide?" Because having something to hide is not the only reason to be hiding something.
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It's brilliant, is not it? It's not that you have anything to hide, it is that you can't trust the judgement of those who are looking. When the law wants to find a criminal, they will find one dammit, even if there was never a crime... I've heard lots about this happening in the US and how "suspected terrorists" are being shipped away without ever explaining them what are they being charged of, never giving them a trial, never even letting them contact the rest of the world. A Police State is what the USA is becoming step by step... it's scary and I am glad like heck to not be living them when hell break loose. Altough that is just marginally safer than being in some country they might want to invade next....
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Re:Scoreboard (Score:5, Insightful)
by demachina (71715) on Friday July 22, @12:50AM (#13132429)
I'm of the school that this, the war in Iraq, Republican control of every branch of the government, restacking the Supreme court is the greatest thing to happen for democracy and civil liberties in the U.S. in at least 30-40 years.
You see for things to get better they have to get worse, much worse. The problem with America is its government is rotten to the foundation and the American people are completely indifferent and complacent. They ping pong between Republicans and Democrats seeking the lesser evil but finding neither is a lesser evil.
What America needs is a quagmire of a war or two where a lot of their children, friends and neighbors get killed an maimed, one with a draft would be best. What America needs is a newer, bigger Watergate where its exposed that the party in power is abusing its power to hold and expand its power so its becomes obvious we are in velvet gloved dictatorship under a facade of Democracy. We need the FBI and CIA to get even more out of control than they are, presumably after another 9/11 scale attack in the U.S and start rounding up people on a larger scale, torturing them, etc. We need a McCarthyist witch hunt like we got the last time the Republican's held power in Congress, and have it so sicken ordinary people that they will come to their senses and throw out anyone who have so completely lost sight of what our Constitution is supposed to stand for.
We need for this U.S. to turn in to a real police state, for all civil liberties to be eviscerated because its the only way the average American will remember that they had value, why they had value and why they were worth fighting for. American's have had it to easy for to long. They need to experience an old fashioned police state close up so they will remember why they are bad.
The goal is get enough people so disgusted with the status quo they will unite against both parties and start a movement for people and against power brokers, much like the Progressive movement was at the dawn of the 20th century. It could work but not with a bunch of lazy complacent people who could care less if they are living in a velvet gloved police state. That kind of people deserve to live in a police state and would probably be to ignorant to even notice.
To go off on a tangent there was an interesting comment on Charlie Rose recently about the Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court. The worst thing that could happen to the Republicans is for them to stack the court with far right idealogues who will overturn Roe V. Wade. Why because women who used to be 15-20% points for the Democrats and are now split 50-50 and giving the Republicans their power mow. If a Republican stacked supreme court takes away the right to abortion and sentances women to unwanted pregnancies they will turn on the Republicans in droves and drive them out of power. For things to get better they need to get worse.
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For things to get better, they must get worse first, much worst... this phrase holds a weight of truth... like you have no idea. When people ask me on my faith on mankind, it is a pretty gloomy overlook as it is. Many societies seem to be gone beyond salvation, places where greed and corruption rule and ethics is unheard of, those few good people are the ones that suffer the most. Is mankind already doomed? I don't think so... I have faith there's still societies out there that are not that bad, where life is still good. But for these corrupted places... things are not looking good, and they'll never get better until something tragic happens, something so terrible that it forces people to open their eyes and bring change. Like the fall of a civilization... and I sure as heck don't want to be there when it happens.
And now a pair of quotes, that thought are politically related, belong more to the realm of psychology and how to convince people to aid you, no matter what it is you want to do...
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Re:Hmmm. (Score:5, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21, @11:24PM (#13131850)
I think you are looking for this quote...
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
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Re:Hmmm. (Score:5, Informative)
by cdills (879529) on Thursday July 21, @11:51PM (#13132041)
In Howard Zinn's book "Declarations of Independence," he cites a speech by a student at the Harvard Law School in the early 1960's given to a large group of parents and alumni. The student was speaking about current events, and said,
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! Danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order our nation cannot survive."
The crowd applauded the words of the young speaker, and when the crowd hushed, he continued.
"These words were spoken in 1932 by Adolf Hitler."
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And you know.. have you heard of the PATRIOT act of the US? It uses exactly the same weapon to lure people into falling into the government's trap... and if you go against it you are unpatriotic, HEH. I am glad I am not from the US and I don't even have to pretend to be patriotic :P
But while politics are mean and sinester... don't forget his brother... law, which is a lunatic...
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Free Haircuts - A Real Story (Score:4, Interesting)
by airship (242862) on Wednesday July 13, @10:34AM (#13053297)
Recently in Iowa City (my hometown) there was a guest editorial in the local newspaper complaining that allowing the city's firemen to give one another free haircuts deprived local haircutters of their livelihood. The Mayor and the City Council got on it right away and banned the city's firefighters from giving each other haircuts. (True story [press-citizen.com].)
So anything you do for somebody else that could potentially make a profit for anyone who is in business is now illegal? You can't give a buddy a free beer, because that deprives the local bar of business. You can't have friends over for dinner because they might have gone to a restaurant for dinner. Heck, you probably can't even have sex with your significant other, because they might have gone to a prostitute!
I hate the 21st century. I think I'll to out and sue somebody.
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Oh, you have to fair to others... don't share (err, STEAL, as the media likes calling it), don't give gifts, don't be charitative, everyone has to buy their own stuff! Or the economy collapses! OH THE HORROR, please spare me the drama. Heh. It should be a free economy, not a "for corporates" economy... but this is old news, isn't it? Isn't it...
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Notice a common theme here and elsewhere? (Score:4, Insightful)
by kcbrown (7426) on Tuesday July 05, @04:01AM (#12983529)
This guy got fired because the company he worked for disapproves of his beliefs.
You can get (and people have been) fired for doing things on your own time that the company doesn't like.
You can get (and people, like this guy, have been) fired for saying things on your own time that your company doesn't like.
Notice a common theme here? The common theme is that if you work for a company, that company owns you. You are their slave. In exchange for an ever decreasing amount of money for your time, you have to do everything they tell you and demonstrate that you believe everything they want you to believe.
And the government that keeps telling you that it's there to protect your personal liberty? It's nowhere to be found, because it's controlled by the very same people who control the corporations that you are increasingly a slave to.
Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy the ride to the bottom. Soon enough, you won't be allowed to enjoy anything else.
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Isn't it? Fight for your freedom if you dare... if you do you might have problems eating, if you do, you will never have lack of food, even if it costs you your happiness...
Yeah that was way over-dramatic, but it's the truth depending on where you are and how unlucky you turn out to be. Just keep in the watchout and pray you don't end enslaving your soul to someone else's bottom line, your own happiness should go above everything else...
Politics is usually a topic I don't like talking about as it's rather gloomy. How everyone caters to corporations or themselves and money is more important than anything... perhaps except being reelected, which is just so they can get away with more money. Still, as much as I dislike the topic, the truths and statements I hear about it can be pretty mouth-gaping.
Our opening quote of the night is yet another nice example of why the world hates "America" (which should just be referred to as USA because America is actually a continent larger than USA >.>)
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Re:Zero Sum Game and Education (Score:5, Interesting)
by kocsonya (141716) on Tuesday July 26, @06:35PM (#13171016)
> America is hated largely because we are number one in terms of GDP, freedom, etc. I say let someone else take that spot at the top (at least in GDP) so the rest of the world can hate them for a while.
America is not hated because you have more GDP or freedom than the rest of the world. You are hated because you attack and destroy countries and sovereign governments when your economic interest dictates that, in the name of "liberating" the population (well, the part which you do not kill) while you do not give a hoot about hundreds of thousand dying when there is no money for you in it.
You are hated because you toot around against WMDs whlie you are the largest developers of named WMDs and, in fact, the only one who used nuclear weapons against civilian targets.
You are hated because you refuse to care about the environment because it would hurt your bottom line and the rest of the world suffers from your ignorance. You are hated because you define what "freedom" must mean to the rest of the world: the American Way of Life. Everyone who thinks differently is an enemy of Freedom and Liberty and the enemy of the US of A.
You are hated because you set up dictators when it suits you then try to depose them, with all your military might, when they do not toe the party line any more. Never mind how many people die in both turn and never mind what gets destroyed, as long as weapons sale profits are high enough.
You are not hated but looked down for touting freedom when you had seggregation just 30 years ago, for warning parents that the Origin of Species contains dangerous theories that are not in the Bible, for having a patent system that allows you to patent a way of combing your hair to cover a bald spot, for cranking out movie after movie with no plot but more blood and explosion than a slaghterhouse hit by a Pershing and you call it "culture" but in the same time you have no problem destroying many thousand year old remnants of human history - all in all, that was not American, thus it must have been worthless. You are looked down for being the largest porn manufacturing industry but with an unbelievable hypocricy make nudity a deadly sin. You talk about freedom but ban gay marriages. You talk about women's rights but ban abortus even to an underage rape victim.
The idea that the world envies you is false. It comes from the idea that the US is, by definition, the best. Therefore obviously the world wants to be like the US just evil forces want to stop development and in order to liberate the world in their quest to finally living "our way of life", as your great leader puts it in every speech, you should attack them by economic, political and military needs. The fallacy in the whole ideology is that the rest of the world does not want to live like you. Europe appreciates her own decadent ways you know, with all that culture rubbish and lack of rights to have machine guns but with some rights of not being killed by your fellow citizens. Asia has a culture that is a lot more ancient than even Europe's and they seem to be doing reasonably OK with it, thank you very much. Africa is just too poor to have its priorities around freedom and ideology, they think about the food and water and medication more than their liberty.
Noone would have a problem with the US wanting to lead the world.
The problem is that you do not want to lead, you want to rule.
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In the land of the sheep, the wolves run free? I wonder if the US citizens will ever be really fed up and stand against their governments... maybe not, for all they care, they are perfectly happy sitting in their couchs watching TV and growing fat :X (speaking about majorities here, of course)
The following has to do with security and privacy. Doesn't it bugs you when the government/police demands to know what you are doing at all times? Ever heard the phrase....
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Re:Allow me to be the first (Score:5, Interesting)
by Mattcelt (454751) on Friday July 22, @05:31AM (#13133439)
I wrote about this a while ago. Here's the text:
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Ever heard that one? I work in information security, so I have heard it more than my fair share. I've always hated that reasoning, because I am a little bit paranoid by nature, something which serves me very well in my profession. So my standard response to people who have asked that question near me has been "because I'm paranoid." But that doesn't usually help, since most people who would ask that question see paranoia as a bad thing to begin with. So for a long time I've been trying to come up with a valid, reasoned, and intelligent answer which shoots the holes in the flawed logic that need to be there.
And someone unknowingly provided me with just that answer today. In a conversation about hunting, somebody posted this about prey animals and hunters:
"Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals - they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!"
but in a brilliant (and very funny) retort, someone else said:
"If the're not guilty, why are they running?"
Suddenly it made sense, that nagging thing in the back of my head. The logical reason why a reasonable dose of paranoia is healthy. Because it's one thing to be afraid of the TRUTH. People who commit murder or otherwise deprive others of their Natural Rights are afraid of the TRUTH, because it is the light of TRUTH that will help bring them to justice.
But it's another thing entirely to be afraid of hunters. And all too often, the hunters are the ones proclaiming to be looking for TRUTH. But they are more concerned with removing any obstactles to finding the TRUTH, even when that means bulldozing over people's rights (the right to privacy, the right to anonymity) in their quest for it. And sadly, these people often cannot tell the difference between the appearance of TRUTH and TRUTH itself. And these, the ones who are so convinced they have found the TRUTH that they stop looking for it, are some of the worst oppressors of Natural Rights the world has ever known.
They are the hunters, and it is right and good for the prey to be afraid of the hunters, and to run away from them. Do not be fooled when a hunter says "why are you running from me if you have nothing to hide?" Because having something to hide is not the only reason to be hiding something.
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It's brilliant, is not it? It's not that you have anything to hide, it is that you can't trust the judgement of those who are looking. When the law wants to find a criminal, they will find one dammit, even if there was never a crime... I've heard lots about this happening in the US and how "suspected terrorists" are being shipped away without ever explaining them what are they being charged of, never giving them a trial, never even letting them contact the rest of the world. A Police State is what the USA is becoming step by step... it's scary and I am glad like heck to not be living them when hell break loose. Altough that is just marginally safer than being in some country they might want to invade next....
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Re:Scoreboard (Score:5, Insightful)
by demachina (71715) on Friday July 22, @12:50AM (#13132429)
I'm of the school that this, the war in Iraq, Republican control of every branch of the government, restacking the Supreme court is the greatest thing to happen for democracy and civil liberties in the U.S. in at least 30-40 years.
You see for things to get better they have to get worse, much worse. The problem with America is its government is rotten to the foundation and the American people are completely indifferent and complacent. They ping pong between Republicans and Democrats seeking the lesser evil but finding neither is a lesser evil.
What America needs is a quagmire of a war or two where a lot of their children, friends and neighbors get killed an maimed, one with a draft would be best. What America needs is a newer, bigger Watergate where its exposed that the party in power is abusing its power to hold and expand its power so its becomes obvious we are in velvet gloved dictatorship under a facade of Democracy. We need the FBI and CIA to get even more out of control than they are, presumably after another 9/11 scale attack in the U.S and start rounding up people on a larger scale, torturing them, etc. We need a McCarthyist witch hunt like we got the last time the Republican's held power in Congress, and have it so sicken ordinary people that they will come to their senses and throw out anyone who have so completely lost sight of what our Constitution is supposed to stand for.
We need for this U.S. to turn in to a real police state, for all civil liberties to be eviscerated because its the only way the average American will remember that they had value, why they had value and why they were worth fighting for. American's have had it to easy for to long. They need to experience an old fashioned police state close up so they will remember why they are bad.
The goal is get enough people so disgusted with the status quo they will unite against both parties and start a movement for people and against power brokers, much like the Progressive movement was at the dawn of the 20th century. It could work but not with a bunch of lazy complacent people who could care less if they are living in a velvet gloved police state. That kind of people deserve to live in a police state and would probably be to ignorant to even notice.
To go off on a tangent there was an interesting comment on Charlie Rose recently about the Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court. The worst thing that could happen to the Republicans is for them to stack the court with far right idealogues who will overturn Roe V. Wade. Why because women who used to be 15-20% points for the Democrats and are now split 50-50 and giving the Republicans their power mow. If a Republican stacked supreme court takes away the right to abortion and sentances women to unwanted pregnancies they will turn on the Republicans in droves and drive them out of power. For things to get better they need to get worse.
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For things to get better, they must get worse first, much worst... this phrase holds a weight of truth... like you have no idea. When people ask me on my faith on mankind, it is a pretty gloomy overlook as it is. Many societies seem to be gone beyond salvation, places where greed and corruption rule and ethics is unheard of, those few good people are the ones that suffer the most. Is mankind already doomed? I don't think so... I have faith there's still societies out there that are not that bad, where life is still good. But for these corrupted places... things are not looking good, and they'll never get better until something tragic happens, something so terrible that it forces people to open their eyes and bring change. Like the fall of a civilization... and I sure as heck don't want to be there when it happens.
And now a pair of quotes, that thought are politically related, belong more to the realm of psychology and how to convince people to aid you, no matter what it is you want to do...
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Re:Hmmm. (Score:5, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21, @11:24PM (#13131850)
I think you are looking for this quote...
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
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Re:Hmmm. (Score:5, Informative)
by cdills (879529) on Thursday July 21, @11:51PM (#13132041)
In Howard Zinn's book "Declarations of Independence," he cites a speech by a student at the Harvard Law School in the early 1960's given to a large group of parents and alumni. The student was speaking about current events, and said,
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! Danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order our nation cannot survive."
The crowd applauded the words of the young speaker, and when the crowd hushed, he continued.
"These words were spoken in 1932 by Adolf Hitler."
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And you know.. have you heard of the PATRIOT act of the US? It uses exactly the same weapon to lure people into falling into the government's trap... and if you go against it you are unpatriotic, HEH. I am glad I am not from the US and I don't even have to pretend to be patriotic :P
But while politics are mean and sinester... don't forget his brother... law, which is a lunatic...
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Free Haircuts - A Real Story (Score:4, Interesting)
by airship (242862) on Wednesday July 13, @10:34AM (#13053297)
Recently in Iowa City (my hometown) there was a guest editorial in the local newspaper complaining that allowing the city's firemen to give one another free haircuts deprived local haircutters of their livelihood. The Mayor and the City Council got on it right away and banned the city's firefighters from giving each other haircuts. (True story [press-citizen.com].)
So anything you do for somebody else that could potentially make a profit for anyone who is in business is now illegal? You can't give a buddy a free beer, because that deprives the local bar of business. You can't have friends over for dinner because they might have gone to a restaurant for dinner. Heck, you probably can't even have sex with your significant other, because they might have gone to a prostitute!
I hate the 21st century. I think I'll to out and sue somebody.
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Oh, you have to fair to others... don't share (err, STEAL, as the media likes calling it), don't give gifts, don't be charitative, everyone has to buy their own stuff! Or the economy collapses! OH THE HORROR, please spare me the drama. Heh. It should be a free economy, not a "for corporates" economy... but this is old news, isn't it? Isn't it...
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Notice a common theme here and elsewhere? (Score:4, Insightful)
by kcbrown (7426) on Tuesday July 05, @04:01AM (#12983529)
This guy got fired because the company he worked for disapproves of his beliefs.
You can get (and people have been) fired for doing things on your own time that the company doesn't like.
You can get (and people, like this guy, have been) fired for saying things on your own time that your company doesn't like.
Notice a common theme here? The common theme is that if you work for a company, that company owns you. You are their slave. In exchange for an ever decreasing amount of money for your time, you have to do everything they tell you and demonstrate that you believe everything they want you to believe.
And the government that keeps telling you that it's there to protect your personal liberty? It's nowhere to be found, because it's controlled by the very same people who control the corporations that you are increasingly a slave to.
Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy the ride to the bottom. Soon enough, you won't be allowed to enjoy anything else.
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Isn't it? Fight for your freedom if you dare... if you do you might have problems eating, if you do, you will never have lack of food, even if it costs you your happiness...
Yeah that was way over-dramatic, but it's the truth depending on where you are and how unlucky you turn out to be. Just keep in the watchout and pray you don't end enslaving your soul to someone else's bottom line, your own happiness should go above everything else...