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Fascism is the rule of passion, usually through brute force. It doesnt seek to justify all manner of treachery, violence, cruelty, unreason, and theft, but rather sees these as both a self-fulfilling end goal for the heroic fascist. To be honest, peaceable, merciful, reasonable, and charitable are owned by the fascists themselves as vices of all liberalistic movements.
Rateria, Anti-Polis
Whatever happened to our resident fascist btw?
I'm not sure if it's because I'm In community college but it's stunning to me how many people can't get by on even basic concepts. I'll have a discussion with someone and they won't know the definition of a fairly basic word or even form a basic syllogism and they're talking about how unjust capitalism is in their next breath. We need to completely dismantle the education system and start over. Free college isn't going to help anything if students Don't know anything before they get there
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii
I know people who say they have ADD, clinical anxiety, deppression, Bipolar disorder, and multiple personality syndrome, yet they still have political opinions. Maybe I want someone a bit more stable reorganizing society?
There's also people I know who'll be like "Head empty, no thought." and proceed to give me opinions on complex geo-political issues.
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Miri Islands
Everyone has opinions. Not everyone has self-awareness and humility.
Narland, Rateria, Miri Islands
Oh damn, youre depressed? Guess we gotta disenfranchise you. All of our parents pulled straws when they decided to get horny, and, well, yours pulled the short one... Better luck next time, pal.
Should have been born into Trumps family, then you could candy your nose at the RNC, give a low-charisma speech, and get resounding applause from the silent-morality.
Rateria
Unironically only those who can pass the citizenship test should be able to vote (muh literacy exams) those were designed to have no correct answers so it's apples to oranges. I literally laughed out loud when half my ADVANCED PLACEMENT US GOVERNMENT CLASS failed the citizenship test (my teacher didn't find this amusing and rightfully so). Apparently in regular classes the failure rate is nearly 90% I mean ffs people don't even know that every state gets 2 senators regardless of population. God forbid you ask anyone how many electoral college votes California gets. The absolute state of the Californian education system
There too busy teaching whypipo are evil
Miri Islands
Ok was moreso commenting on the type of person who has 7 self-diagnosed mental illnesses, but also think their political opinions are undeniable and completely free of bias.
I know you know the type of person I'm talking about. "I have severe anxiety and depression, also BPD and trauma that'd take me years to unpack... Anyways, about Palestine... Wait, WHY AREN'T YOU TAKING ME SERIOUSLY!?"
It's the lack of self-awareness that MAYBE, just maybe, they should revisit an issue as complicated as politics when they're in a better mental space.
In no way was I saying "U depressed? Lol git gud scrub, no suffrage for U."
Miencraft, Rateria
Also, people like that are EASY to indoctrinate, which is why I could guess we're all picturing the same type of person. The type of person who unironically says "Just take money from rich people and give it to poor people so it's fair." and investigated the issue no further.
Miencraft, Rateria, Miri Islands
I see what you mean. Youre not crapping on self-aware people with ADHD or something like that, youre talking about the stereotypical Twitter user whos like Abolish the police, but no civilian needs a gun.
Or as I like to call them twitnits
Rateria
As long as there's some self-awareness it's fine.
"Well, I know I'm prone to paranoid delusions; could that be playing a role in my theory that space goblins have infiltrated the Kremlin?"
Rateria, Anti-Polis
"This is their plan people. These. Are. Demons. Just like the Bible says, it is basically an intergalactic invasion into this space, through people. I'm telling ya, it's what all the ancients said, it's what they warned of, it's what we are dealing with! These are demons. THEY ARE FRICKIN INTERDIMENSIONAL INVADERS, I'LL JUST SAY IT, MAKE FUN OF ME ALL YOU WANT ON CNN OR WHERE EVER. But everyone already innately knows this. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT FREAKIN HUMANS, okay!"
Rateria, Anti-Polis
you for got to add extradimensional with the intergalactic part in the sentence.
I do have to push back. The depths of depravity manifest of our own volition from the deceitfulness of our own hearts doesn't need any demonic/diabolic invasion. We are fully capable deceiving ourselves and of loving the evil/harm/misery that we cause (or allow to be caused on others) without any overwhelming preternatural phenomena. People don't need demons to do evil things, they just need to follow their own vain ambition without fear of God or respect for others.
I do have to push back. The depths of depravity manifest of our own volition from the deceitfulness of our own hearts doesn't need any demonic/diabolic invasion. We are fully capable deceiving ourselves and of loving the evil/harm/misery that we cause (or allow to be caused on others) without any overwhelming preternatural phenomena. People don't need demons to do evil things. We just need to follow our own self-will and vain ambition without fear of God or respect for others.
The United States Of Patriots
I get what you are saying, my post was just a direct quote from Alex Jones.
Narland, Rateria
Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Anti-Polis
ic.
Imho, Alex Jones is like a noisy skittish cross-eyed bellwether always pushing outside the perimeter. He is right just enough times that the wolves want to tear it apart first such that the shepherd needs to pay attention to its bleating. But so wrong so often (it wasn't a wolf, it was a skunk; or it was a weasel; it was a figment of its own imagination, or it was nothing at all) that a shepherd would be sore tempted to put it on the fall BBQ menu (after a suitable replacement is found). Betraying it to the wolves is not an option no matter how much one would want to.
The United States Of Patriots
You have to admit he would make a helluva voice actor.
Narland, Rateria, Anti-Polis
And yes I realize he played himself in A scanner Darkly
Narland, Anti-Polis
Happy to report that the Snake River Stampede went off without a hitch this year. Covid cancelled it last year. We all stood for the national anthem. The only masks were voluntary.
A step-brother went to his wife's family reunion (about 40 people) last week and every adult (except for one couple that had already had it) came down with Covid, even the vaccinated about 25 of them) and mask wearers (most of his wife's kin are leftists). He (step-brother) says that he feels like he'd been hit by a Mack truck. That is pretty significant, as a lesser truck probably wouldn't have put him on bed rest.
Rateria
As a teen, ASD was a favorite story by Phillip K Dick. 1984. Along with 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Minority Report, and Brave New World, it helped arm my thoughts against those teachers that were pushing Socialism, instead of taking responsibility to educate us. My penchant however was for cyberpunk despite its presuppositions.
Hopefully he gets better soon
Rateria
Thank You. He's pretty tough. He is in good health, and has a Peruvian Doctor that thinks the medical science can speak for itself, instead of the politicrats. The Doc prescribed a mix of ivermectin, vitamins, and recommended the use of a a sauna. He should be on his feet in no time.
It's the wife's family members that take medical advise from doctors who follow the lies of the politicians that I am worried about. About half were vaccinated. It shook them up quite a bit.
None of them remembered that the shots were to prevent hospitalization (even I forgot that one), not necessarily to keep one from getting covid. The ones that wont take Vitamin D, Zinc, Ivermectin because "Trump" are about a 1/4 of them. They are all from the next town over, and we all know each other (because ranching and farming communities), grew up physically distant but socially near, and moderately keep in touch despite our political differences.
When a whole county has only 2,500 rural residents (not including the townsfolk) its pretty easy to be acquainted with many of them. Especially during harvest, the county fair, the rodeos, and in scholastic competition.
After typing the word "sauna" in the previous post, all the adverts on NationStates with this browser are now for stand-alone outdoor saunas. I guess it beats all the sheep medication advertisements that I was getting. It definitely beats all the baby diaper adverts -- I still don't know how it targeted that item. Depends[TM] maybe in 10 or 20 years, but Snuggies [TM], never.
Rateria
The last few ads have been womens products and for ABC shows for some reason, and then one All-State ad.
Narland
AdBlock is free
Narland
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Thanks. I have uBlock Origin and NoScript turned off for NationStates and cleanse the caches after each use. I feel that I owe it to Max Berry to give him some revenue for NS.
I utterly despise the direction that the Internet took. They screwed up royally when they opened up what is now the Internet in the manner they did. The intent was for the free-flow of information in case of utter disaster such as full scale nuclear war (big and tactical nukes), not advertise people to death and block them with paywalls. Individuals working in voluntary concord are what make a civilization, not corporate entities working at the pleasure of the state to limit the free flow of information.
Rateria
Re: Student Loan Dept
I think wiping the student loan dept off is a great idea! :P
Everyone who ever took out a loan and paid it back will get that amount given back to them by the endowment of the institution from which they matriculated, matched from the Congressional Pension Fund. .
Those who currently have debt, would be paid off from the endowment fund of the institution from which they matriculate, and matched from the Congressional Pension Fund.
Those who need loans would get it from the endowment of the institution in which they are attending, and matched from the Congressional Pension Fund.
No more money in the endowment and Congressional Pension Fund, no more government meddling in loans.
I like how specific the category for "Trout Fishing Sector" is
Narland
Just joined, nice to meet y'all
Narland, Kumquat Cove, Auxorii, Rateria, Anti-Polis
Welcome to the region, Im Patriarch Wilhelm, the well established religious authority of this region.
Just curious, how did you find this region?
Welcome to Libertatem. Enjoy! If you have any questions, please ask. If you have an opinion feel free to post. We have a resident troll or two to ignore or feed at your leisure.
Hamlet in 2021
To maſke, or not to maſke, that is the Question:
Whether tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outragious Fortune,
Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing maſke them: to double-maſke, to triple-maſke
No more; and by a Maſke, to say we maſke
The Heart-ake, and the thouſand Naturall ſhockes
That Flesh is heyre too? 'Tis a ſociall Dystance
Deuoutly to be wiſh'd. To double-maſk to triple-maſk,
To maſk, perchance to breathe; Aye, there's the rub,
For in that lack of breath, what Delyrium may come,
yada-eth, yada-eth, yada-eth...
(ſ = non-final s)
The United States Of Patriots, Anti-Polis
Welcome, friend.
Kumquat Cove
Long s' use was a little more complicated than just being non final, but I won't pretend to understand all of the rules. Heck I don't understand all of the rules in present day English
Narland
:) The tag was mainly for those who might not know what the long S is. Agreed, it is more complicated than that -- kind of like my first gf. I do not miſs it one bit -- kind of like my firſt gf. I do þink ð eð and þ þorn were worþy keepers, ðough. Only problem is when to use eth or thorn on words that could be pronounced either way.
I got a copy of American Marxism by Mark Levin to read. It is pretty solid with a good bibliography. He is the first writer in a while to go into depth about John Dewey and his radicalism. I recommend peoples put it toward the top of their reading lists.
Miencraft, Kumquat Cove, Suzi Island, Miri Islands
Thanks
A family member just gave a copy to me.
Narland
Levin is typically on point
Miencraft, Narland
Deep philosophical question of import:
Mr. House, NCR, or Legion?
Skaveria
Mr. House
Auxorii, Miri Islands, Unified Individuality
Trick question, the answer is me.
Personally, I would lean towards the NCR more than Mr. House.
The United States Of Patriots
I saw the book being featured when fox was on. I like Levin's monologues so I figure this will be a great read
Narland
Myself>Mr. House>NCR>Legion
Narland, The United States Of Patriots
Mr. House is just feudalism.
Too many libertarians dont know the difference.
Narland
Looks like the left-anarchists of Libertarium realized that we dont play peon for the statists and fanatics that their region is a pawn of (whether they accept it or not)
This is the correct answer
Narland
If we are doing STV:
1. Yesman/ Courier
2. Mr. House,
3. NCR,
4. Legion
5. My Alloidial Freehold Formerly Known as the Republic of Dave =) -- vapormod pending.
Indie because what can be more Murikan?
Mr. House because it provides the least pervasive outcome for the Wasteland, and establishes a buffer between a "conclave" of inept MIC bureaucrats, and a deluded slaver tribe. And who doesn't love it when a plan comes together?
NCR because sometimes I don't want to get shot at every 15 seconds. Also, sending troops to die on outside soil for mere political policy helps me get into the minds of GOP NeoCons, and Corporatists of any party.
Legion last of all, but sometimes siding with illusions of beneficence and supposed noble ideals while enslaving others helps me get into the mind of Leftists Democrats.
;)
Skaveria
Peonage decreases with age until the prostate falls... then there's more and more peonage....
This unironically, but a modern Feudal society is preferable to neo-liberalism. I'd also like to think that property rights could even be enforced post-collapse. I mean he's maintained a permanent residence the entire time, so even a looser abandonment criteria than mine would justify his rule of Vegas.
The developers missed the mark on the Legion. Roman society, even during the high empire, was WAY less brutal than Ceasar's vision. Not to mention Roman slavery was not like the slavery depicted in-game, which is more like American chattel slavery, which I suppose could make sense, considering we're in post-war America.
Narland
Ceasar's Palace Casino gives very little to work with in the way of reimagining Rome anyway. Kind of like reimagining Egypt from the Luxor, or Indochina from the Mandalay. Those would be interesting if not cringeworthy factions for New Vegas.
***Addenda****
My bad. According to Falloutwiki, in game, Edward Sallow (Caesar) came across a cache of history books that he rigorously studied for two whole weeks! It included Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Gallic Wars. That and coming across Vegas' Caesar's Palace.
First part, no.
Second part, I think Caesar says in game that his only knowledge of Rome came from Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Hegal and Fascist authors, etc.
Narland
I don't know, Caesar's invasion of gaul was nothing short of genocidal
Narland
With all the brutishness, intrigue, betrayal, cultural/societal misunderstanding, egos, despotism and general warmongering of both civilizations, it is a wonder that we even made it into the modern age. Had the Gauls won what would it be like today? Would Western Civ be using Greek letters like they did? The world may never know.
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In property, inequality of conditions is the result of force, under whatever name it be disguised: physical and mental force; force of events, chance, fortune; force of accumulated property, &c. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. This damaging equation is repellent to the conscience, and causes merit to complain; for, although it may be the duty of the strong to aid the weak, they prefer to do it out of generosity, they never will endure a comparison. Give them equal opportunities of labor, and equal wages, but never allow their jealousy to be awakened by mutual suspicion of unfaithfulness in the performance of the common task.
Communism is oppression and slavery. Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases, where he pleases, and as much as he pleases. He wishes to dispose of his own time, to be governed only by necessity, to choose his friendships, his recreation, and his discipline; to act from judgment, not by command; to sacrifice himself through selfishness, not through servile obligation. Communism is essentially opposed to the free exercise of our faculties, to our noblest desires, to our deepest feelings. Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name. Now, if we are honest truth-seekers, we shall avoid disputes about words.
Thus, communism violates the sovereignty of the conscience, and equality: the first, by restricting spontaneity of mind and heart, and freedom of thought and action; the second, by placing labor and laziness, skill and stupidity, and even vice and virtue on an equality in point of comfort. For the rest, if property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk.
He also attempts to explain Hegelian dialectics to the character, which would indicate some direct or indirect knowledge of Hegel
Narland
communism is gay
Anti-Polis
Yeah, his mom worked for the Apocalypse faction and he had access to their lieberry. It seems he was intended to be more like a classic underachiever with an gladius to grind and out of his league in the manner of a Greco-Roman tradedy. I haven't played it through in a while.
Rome was based and redpilled
No. Long live the Celts.
Long live the Germans, who proved their superiority by destroying and taking the name of Rome, unlike the Celts whove just been owned by literally everyone else.
eww g*rms
Narland
I was listening to fox and I heard the headline that Andrew Cuomo is facing calls to resign. I was thinking, sweet! He's finally going down for the covid nursing home fiasco! Nope, it's another kavanaugh style rape allegation. My day is ruined
For all you young ones out there, if you ever wondered what it was like in the "Me Generation" of the 1970s when "Progressive" Democrats and "Moderate" GOP Establishment got their way in destroying the foundations of liberty, just hold on to your seats because here it comes again should that so-called "Infrastructure" Bill and the following Budget bill (the most tyrannical in our nation's history) passes.
Ask your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents etc., what it was like. Stagflation, economic malaise, +21% prime interest lending rates, +27% inflation rate, unprecedented underemployment, unemployment, massive welfare fraud, opportunist bureaucrat overreach, awful disco music --Abba excluded, +1/3 of the people relegated to the underground economy (not necessarily a bad thing), etc.
Don't discount the fury of those aggrieved by the loss of their parents and other loved ones from his malfeasance and criminal negiligence. He will eventually receive justice. The wheels may move slowly, but he will get his due in court. The national Democrat Party has abandoned him, and his rivals in the State party are sharpening their knives. It is just a matter of time.
Rateria
Hopefully, but I still have the sneaking suspicion he will get away with it all
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria
Night of the long knives when
Narland
Sometimes evil people do not know when to cut their losses and flee to a place with no extradition treaties and the dollar stretches, like Somalia or Afghanistan whence an evil ex-overlord can drive an oxcart or sweep the streets without notice.
Proud people tend to fight, kick, and protest their innocence all the way down, blaming multitudinous others, and never admitting to wrongs. Innocent people also protest their innocence, but rarely blame everyone and anyone else. Humble people tend not to abuse others. Unfortunately humble people also tend to not run for office.
Anti-Polis
Lol. After typing into a search engine, "What countries do not have extradition treaties with the US?" This browser is getting ads from the LSAC recommending a Law Degree.
Well Cuomo resigned. Will the celebrities who groveled over him take it all back
Rateria, Miri Islands
Knowing the nature of blue states the one to replace him will only be worse
Narland
Scott Walker should be governor again, Damnit.
Thats what Tucker was saying last night
Narland
No. They will quietly forget that flavor of the month, and move onto the next big thing as though it never was. Any outsider bringing up his past be scolded like when middle-school aged popular mean girls (PMG) gang up on the geeky kid who has the temerity to point out the one of their own is a serial stalker with scores of dead family members buried in her basement. How could the geeky kid with no friends or influence be such a jerk for pointing out Mitzy's two main character flaws? Mitzy has so much else going for her besides that.
So many people were wrongfully killed by Go' 'mo's own decrees and direct action and inaction, and so many NYers are so fed up, that they will not stop until he is in tried for his crimes. The Statists will try to deflect or ameliorate but it looks like the families and the friends of the victims are not going to pursue justice all the way through.
It looks like Newsom is the next to go. Larry Elder seems to have gotten some traction (GOP). Paffrath might become a strong Democrat contender. Anyone have an opinion of Jeff Hewitt entering the race?
Narland
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I finally watched a video on modern monetary theory and it seems really dumb. Basically.
1.government spends tons of money
2.government makes useless jobs
3.government takes back huge amounts in taxes
4.this somehow makes feedback loop growing the economy
Somehow this makes lots a jobs without inflation. Not gonna lie, the logic is on par with someone thinking they can plug an extension cord into itself and get unlimited free energy
Narland, Anti-Polis
Quit using logic wrong. They are perfectly logical insofar as described.
If you understand that the cord is the source of electricity, that plugging something into it transfers electricity, then by plugging the cord into itself, you will be creating and transferring unlimited power.
Similarly, if you understand that the government creates wealth (aka, state-printed paper money) then the government can print as much money as possible, distribute the money by creating useless jobs, and then tax everything to get the money back and the government will constantly spread wealth.
The issue is that the government does not, in fact, create wealth. Determining worth is a power that will forever be denied to the state, which will settle with the ability to teach kids the opposite.
Narland, Miri Islands
Keynes: "In the long run, we are all dead."
*Died 80 years ago*
Narland
This is something that always upset me in school. I fortunately had a based econ teacher who explained that money itself is worthless and is merely a universal medium to represent value. The more something costs the more it takes from society to produce. Adding money to the supply will never change how much it takes from society to make a product. If we accept this as true, Keynesian economics falls apart
Narland
Its worse than that. Its is logical for those who want to destroy our free civilization of self-governing individuals and independent businesses, and implement the slavery of Socialism. First they have to break the free market system. Its complicated by its obfuscation, deliberate categorical errors, and repurposed terminology for the sake of their fraud against our lives, liberty and property.
Step 0. a. ) Congress both abdicates its constitutional duty to make nothing but gold and silver a legal tender for the States and to secure credit for the People (Actual US Notes and in emergency Greenbacks to amortize); If they did it constitutionally, every American Citizen would be born with a credit rating in the hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of thousands in debt per person. The larceny of this fraud is perfidious, seditious, and worth lifetime incarceration if not capitol sentence of judgment in a duly constituted court of law. Every citizen's birthright has been robbed from them. Notice how Alaska handles this vs DC.
Step 0. b. ) Instead of printing lawful currency (US Notes, Gold Certs, Silver Certs, US Treasury Notes, etc) Congress unlawfully contracts with a private corporations and foreign entities (Federal Reserve Bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, etc.) to borrow with interest that they call money (federal reserve notes) and credit (IMF instruments) which they obligate the American People and our businesses as instruments of indebtedness to pay back at interest. (Again the fraudulence of this is beyond mere criminality). Congress unlawfully makes it illegal to not use their fiat currency and instruments of fraud. Sound currency and honest banking (as we used to practice them is illegal). The level of criminal extortion is mind-blowing.
Step 0. c. ) Monetizes the incurred debt through credit expansion through government controlled banks that call their assets liabilities and their liabilities assets; announcing in secret meeting allowing prep management to their cronies 90 days before the "little people" learn of the movements. Little people are those who have to prove they do not need a loan in order to get one in the first place and have to put up collateral anyway. For every dollar of collateral used, print 100x the amount of Federal Reserve Notes (which are certificates of indebtedness for imaginary indebtedness to the Fed Res Bank.
Step 1. Congress gets to use fake money and unlawful legislation to create bureaucracies to reward their cronies and have the illusion of directing the economy. Globalists get to use the imaginary credit created through force of law to prop up the banksters and their players at the expense of the small business and middle income earners. It a win / win for the Statists.
Step 2. useles jobs --yep and how.
Step 3. ) Taxes are used to control and set limits on the productivity and rewards of the American People so they stay below the globalist glass ceiling. It is also used within the 12 banking districts to arbitrarily control the interest rates and supply and demand of FRN and Credits, ostensibly control unemployment (no joke -- they really believe this), stop people from trying to be their own businessmen, control them when they are self-employed; discourage wage earners, and foster the welfare state. The arbitrary tax collection is primarily to ameliorate hyperinflation to a trickle (so the debasement of the currency in circulation used as a medium of exchange for actual productivity based on the faith of the constituency isnt shaken; which is then laundered in the American Virgin Islands (no joke); shredded and the indebtedness sold to 3rd parties or reincorporated back into the monetary cycle. Everyone is conformed to the same sociological norm of being a cog in the Statist machine.
4. Its just enough ledger main and relative comparison with this Rhodes-Keynes Socialist Monetary Scheme to distort the actual markets and market indicators as to how badly we are debasing our media of exchange and siphoning off the productivity of actual Citizens. We are all flotsam swirling down a drain, and our chunk of rotten cabbage just happens to be swirling down at a higher level (higher productivity) relative to the others. The purpose of course is to get to the place where the ubermensch takes only from what he minimal needs, and gives one hundred and 20 percent according to his abilities.
Sorry its late, Narland is tired, and I didn't have time to proofread or edit
Miri Islands
For lovers of Liberty it is now or never. If you have never met with, written, called, or emailed your Congressman and Senator now is the time. This Marxist Transformation of America Bill that passed thanks to the 19 GOP quislings is beyond the pale. It is a lie that exerts force and fraud upon every American's right to life, liberty, personhood, and property.
What did US Voters get for electing a Jimmy Carter Democrat for president? -- Jimmy Carter malaise, stagflation, inflation, bankruptcies, and Marxists poised to destroy the greatest beacon of Liberty, prosperity, and good the world has ever seen. No wonder haters of liberty, prosperity, and good will lie, cheat, steal, and murder to extinguish what we have.
in this bill? Slavery, indebtedness, Carter era inflation and record bankruptcies within, and jimmy Carter foreign policy. Afghanistan
I urge everyone to contact their Congressmen (Senators and Representatives) stat, please. I would normally recommend calling the White House, but we have a shell of a presidency run by unaccountable others. Join your local YAL, YAF, TEA Party (real TEA-party not the neocon counterfeits), or other network of Liberty Loving Americans, and take a firm stand now. We barely survived LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Carter with the Rockefeller/O'Neil Congress, we most likely will not survive this.
Miencraft, The United States Of Patriots
No one is better off for fighting in Afghanistan for twenty years except the military-industrial complex and a few sleazy politicians
Narland, Miri Islands
Those Afghans that werent getting genocided by the Taliban were probably doing well... the murders of innocent civilians that didnt occur in the west because the Taliban was too busy directing resources, men, and funds to fighting trained volunteer soldiers in the mountains was probably a benefit as well...
You can disagree with American responses to the mass murder of 3,000 people all you want, but to say there was no good from it is f-cking stupid.
Narland, The United States Of Patriots
Tactically we did well. Logistically we abdicated on our commitment to our own self-evident truths which we profess to believe by letting those who do not believe in American Ideals run our foreign policy at least since Viet-Nam. There should have been 40 years of free flow in trade and culture with entrepreneurs, educators, missionaries, and medical doctors swarming Afghanistan instead of letting the Beltway Elites use it as a playground for their MIC experiments.
We could have had 20 years of manifest intercourse. Where were the academies, voc-tech, and preachers teaching life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to every single man, woman and child? Nowhere to be seen because the DC Elites and their Alphabet Soup of Agencies are ashamed of what America stands for. We could have matriculated a generation of liberty loving Afghani from some of the tribes, instead of leaving them bereft of understanding. But then those same Elites are doing the very same thing to our children here and now leaving the next generation ripe for hostile takeover by those who hate us.
It is far past time to dismantle any and all organs of Washington DC that only pay lip service to the Constitution, and scoff at the principles of liberty and self-governance. The Establishment has shown themselves the enemy of the country and our children. Vote them out. Vote in only those who will be a terror to their evil-doings. What is evil? Evil is that which renders harm or deprivation to any individual's life, liberty, lawfully run business enterprise, and justly gained property.
This looming "infrastructure" bill, failure of the Afghanistan withdrawal, reckless fed monetary policy, medical tyranny, and the sheer cluelessness of our politicians has probably convinced me more than ever that we will NEVER be able to vote our way out of this hole. We need to collapse the whole rotten structure and build anew with strong courageous and principled men leading the charge.
Miencraft, Narland
The cluelessness on one hand and the deviousness on the other. History shows those who are the puppetmasters (deviants) of the clueless (useful tools) know exactly what they are doing.
It seems that the structure is already collapsed. And we need full reformation -- it needs built anew (reformed) with those strong courageous, and principled men of which you speak post haste. In a republic we have several votes, we vote incessantly with the soapbox, the ballotbox, and when reason fails, and evil becomes relentless and intractable, the ammobox (while always utilizing the first two means) even when we are forced to use the third.
If the polling corruption shown in the last election is not fixed by the next Congressional elections, there is no hope that anyone but the establishment candidate will be elected in 2024.
I used to count ballots as a non-partisan with the handheld punchcards. The Australian ballot system was nearly foolproof (and easily guarded against its weak links), which is why the Establishment elites had to convince us to abandoned it for their easily manipulated electronic voting machines. We could tally any election in 2 to 4 hours, out in the open with onlookers verifying our count.
One has to do something deliberately and very wrongly so to get that amount of hanging chads that was proferred in the 2000 election. Don't get me started. If we go back to the strict Australian ballot as revised by the States' judiciaries, there is a chance.
You can argue about when we need to intervene and when we should stay out, but once you are in you need to be really careful when you leave. 'Lest you create a situation far worse than before. We had a skeleton force in Afghanistan already and we were denying people who would like to kill us a valuable staging area. The total cost of keeping troops in Afghanistan each year was like .5% of our budget. I am not sure if the cost-risk analysis favored abandoning a previous victory and handing a country over to people who would love nothing more than to harm us.
Miencraft, Narland
Biden boasted about having the most foreign policy experience of any President in US history. This is what Rhodesian/Socialist Foreign Policy gets us. Saigon and Jimmy Carter all over again. Re: Afghanistan, every single Flag Officer, OIC and whatnot responsible for this clusterfrag need tried for misbehaviour in the face of an enemy at the very least, stripped of their commission and benefits, dishonorably discharged and airdropped into an active volcano.
Miencraft, Miri Islands
Polls have Biden at 60% disapproval rating I think it's closer to 70 at this point
Narland
***rant warning***
Half of the voters wanted the opposite of Trump with Biden and they got it:
Incompetence, rewarding incompetence, inflation, businesses failing, minorities disenfranchised from society, over-regulation strangling us, dependence upon foreign oil once again, Saigon/Viet-Nam all over again, "unforeseen -- by 'open-minded' virtue-signallers who can't see anything because they have their eyes closed and ears closed, but their mouths running full flap") middle-east instability, global humiliation, inflation, idiocracy run amok, stomp on America(ns) first, perpetual invasion.
It is the frigging/freaking/fragging 1970s all over again. All Biden has left to do is give away our sovereign claim on New York Harbor to the Village idiots, or Chicago to "the Outfit," or Portalndia to the AntifaFascists (actually that last one may not be a half-bad idea) ala giving away the Panama Canal.
The only thing we have been spared from is disco (Abba excluded). I am half-expecting the return of skinny-waist trouser.jeans with flaired legs ending in bell-bottoms, faux gold medallion necklaces, and froofy men's shirts where the top button starts at the navel.
***End Rant Warning***
Trump wasn't as liberty loving as I would like, but at least he hated the Establishment corruption as much if not more than myself.
Miri Islands
Lora Logan, an actual journalist has surmised that the Betrayal of Afghanistan by the Establishment Ruling Elite was the desired outcome. This fits the pattern of malice and contempt that Marxian (thinkers who hold to Dialectic Determinism since at least FDRs betrayal of everyone and everything to Stalin at Yalta Conference.
I reluctantly agree with Logan. This isn't incompetence, this is malevolent deficiency by design draped in virtue signalling (broadcasting their self-righteous hypocrisy) and throwing critics off balance with ad hominem attacks. In 6 months the haters of Liberty, Freedom, and Human Dignity have brought us back to how bad it was in 1978 --our leaders were about to capitulate to the Soviet Union -- but moreso because we are more mechanisms of socialism foisted on us than then. Statist/Leftists/Neoliberals/Neoconservatives pretend to care, but what they care about is increasing despotism (controlling others to be like-minded or incapacitated and then subjecting them to perpetual serfdom), by spreading the FUD.
Our Elites hate us, they hate liberty, they hate humanity enough to use others as their playthings. Do no think what that the Establishment Elites did to the Afghani won't do the same to you when they feel the time is right. Join the liberty-loving organization of your choice (and as many as you can be effective in), organize, form committees of correspondence, and pray to God, that He grant us revival, reformation, and restoration. It is later than you think.
Update: My brother had complications from Covid due to pre-existing medical conditions that left him severely weakened. It took him two weeks to recover to his former state. My brother was stuck in the People's Socialist Democrat Irrepublic of Cascadia (western Oregon/western Washington) when it struck. An East Indian physician who used common sense, did his own research, used his own brain, and counselled with other medical experts over the world who do the same put him on an effective regimen combined from UMMH, Houston, and one of the Indians States (idr). Kudos to that doctor for taking a stand against the Statist medicrats who care more about power and control than the principles of virtuous beneficence from Hippocrates to Koop -- it helped to save his life. (I would mention some great ones among us who are Physicians, but I do not want them to get targeted by the Marxists in our midst and destroyed).
My brother sends his thanks for your concern and prayers.
Rateria
IMNSHO, General Milley, et al., need fully tried by the UCMJ, and then if not executed, afterward tried for their crimes against humanity from their malfeasance. The thousands of the Beltway Brats and Poltiical Stooges in the Dept of Defense and Pentagon need removed immediately. What a freaking clusterfrag. Because of them (and their Socialist/Rhodes-ian/MWSD crap foreign policy) our warriors have not won a single war in over 70 years. These lying, perfidious wretches are not worthy of command over our soldiers and sailors, nor let slip to wreak havoc on the peoples of other nations.
Millions are now condemned to barbarism because of the DC Elites treachery. Mass murder, rapes, pillaging and savagery. Hundreds trying to cling to planes and scores falling to their deaths beyond all hope. Scores of young women are so distraught with fear they will willingly offer their babies over razorwire fence for its safety in willing sacrifice of their motherhood. Those in charge must be held accountable.
Glad your brother had a competent and caring doctor who was able to apply the best possible treatment for covid
Narland, Rateria
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