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People threaten to kill me all the time. I accept it.
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This is directed to "Boss" and Matthew:
I understand both of your points quite well, but ultimately, I think "Boss" has a greater point, and even though I don't believe he stated it as such, here's how I look at it:
Simply put, nationalism is a step away from racism. While the point about showing respect and not causing a scene simply to cause a scene is spot on, I think Matthew's analogy to a Chinese man bowing and the "Boss" failing to reciprocate the bow is inaccurate. This is an example of one man showing respect to another man directly. Standing for the Pledge is quite different.
Virtually every war in the history of mankind, and definitely all forms of oppression, are created out of a self-vs.-other paradigm. Nationalism only reinforces that self-vs.-other paradigm and in my opinion, it's fucking stupid.
Now, I understand that it takes a very idyllic mindset (and a stubborn one) to cause the scene that the "Boss" did. I'm guilty of this myself and I've done it on a number of occasions, albeit with declining frequency as I grow older. But, the thing is we need people like "Boss" making these kinds of statements. Experience will tame his stubbornness over time. I'm still learning that while there are things about America I loathe, I also still really like myself. Because I am a product of American society, I must be grateful to it -- ALL of it -- at the same time that I want to change it.
Very well stated. +1 |
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Even as a nihilist, Loughner's actions still manage to anger me. Permitting war is one thing but deliberately killing is another.
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We now have direct confirmation of a disruptor in our midst, one who has acquired an almost messianic reputation in the minds of certain people.
Its figure is synonymous with the darkest urges of instinct, ignorance and decay. Some of the worst excesses of the internet have been laid directly at its feet.
And yet unsophisticated minds continue to imbue it with romantic power, giving it such dangerous poetic labels as the One Free Currency, the Opener of the Way.
Let me remind all of you of the dangers of magical thinking.
We have scarcely begun to climb from the dark pit of our species' evolution. Let us not slide backward into oblivion, just as we have finally begun to see the light.
If you see people embezzling funds through this currency, report them.
Civic deeds do not go unrewarded. And contrariwise, complicity with its cause will not go unpunished.
Be wise. Be safe. Be aware.
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...snip...
In less than 10 years, we won't be able to pay the interest on our debt.
America's debt is owed to Americans. If you decide to inflate it away, it will go away and America will still be a fine rich country. Or do you imagine millions of angry grannies will overthrow the state and demand their money back? America's debt is owed to a non-governmental agency called The Federal Reserve. They'll happily destroy the currency while they hold other assets. The Americans? They'll be left with nothing. |
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You aren't making sense. What exactly are you proposing and where do the 10 year olds come in?
People around the world (10 or otherwise) work for lower wages. I suggest Americans should be able to do the same. If somebody wants to assemble product for less than 8 dollars an hour, they should be able to. So you want Americans to start work a lot younger and to earn a lot less. Well since you aren't allowed to own slaves anymore, I suppose its fair enough. I presume you will have a "sound thrashing for sass" clause in your employment contract? It will be worse once things collapse. Ah the inevitable collapse. Any minute now the whole system will come crashing down won't it? In less than 10 years, we won't be able to pay the interest on our debt. |
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You aren't making sense. What exactly are you proposing and where do the 10 year olds come in?
People around the world (10 or otherwise) work for lower wages. I suggest Americans should be able to do the same. If somebody wants to assemble product for less than 8 dollars an hour, they should be able to. So you want Americans to start work a lot younger and to earn a lot less. Well since you aren't allowed to own slaves anymore, I suppose its fair enough. I presume you will have a "sound thrashing for sass" clause in your employment contract? It will be worse once things collapse. |
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You aren't making sense. What exactly are you proposing and where do the 10 year olds come in?
People around the world (10 or otherwise) work for lower wages. I suggest Americans should be able to do the same. If somebody wants to assemble product for less than 8 dollars an hour, they should be able to. |
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...snip...
The question is why should we force 10 year old children in developing countries to subsistence farming and prostitution because American manufacturing workers want 6-figure pension?
Is it your position that you want the US worker to be as poor as the 10 year old? My position is only that people should be able to associate as they please within the purviews of their culture. The ends of this are not entirely definable but they can be considered preferable. If your changes mean a fall in living standards, why should anyone listen to you? Heh, my changes won't. What will result in a fall of living standards is legislation that convinces all of our nation's innovators to move elsewhere, as they are now. |
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...snip...
The question is why should we force 10 year old children in developing countries to subsistence farming and prostitution because American manufacturing workers want 6-figure pension?
Is it your position that you want the US worker to be as poor as the 10 year old? My position is only that people should be able to associate as they please within the purviews of their culture. The ends of this are not entirely definable but they can be considered preferable. |
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A mentally ill killer is not worth calling a bitcoin alumni.
"In conclusion, my ambition - is for informing literate dreamers about a new currency; in a few days, you know I'm conscience dreaming! Thank you!"
He was a broken clock that happened to be right. A very broken clock...
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oooo i get so tired of the
"am I the only one with brains on the planet" posts. You hear it a lot from libertarians.
our country may not be perfect, but lets just say we disagree on weather a country can be made up of 300 million people. Plus we tried it your way back before the great D and before the fed, with low taxes, nearly no regulations, states were powerful... and you want to know something? IT SUCKED FUCKING BALLS FOR MOST OF US. I dont want to be paid in corporate script while I fight with a ten year old for a job.
lol that is brilliant. No it isn't brilliant because in the global job marketplace of which all of you are competing you are ludicrously overpriced compared to that Indian or Bengali 10 year old who is better versed and more responsive then your average American wage slave. Politics is about making life better than it is now. How does reducing the living standards of Americans to that of Indians make life better for Americans? The question is why should we force 10 year old children in developing countries to subsistence farming and prostitution because American manufacturing workers want 6-figure pension? |
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oooo i get so tired of the
"am I the only one with brains on the planet" posts. You hear it a lot from libertarians.
our country may not be perfect, but lets just say we disagree on weather a country can be made up of 300 million people. Plus we tried it your way back before the great D and before the fed, with low taxes, nearly no regulations, states were powerful... and you want to know something? IT SUCKED FUCKING BALLS FOR MOST OF US. I dont want to be paid in corporate script while I fight with a ten year old for a job.
lol that is brilliant. No it isn't brilliant because in the global job marketplace of which all of you are competing you are ludicrously overpriced compared to that Indian or Bengali 10 year old who is better versed and more responsive then your average American wage slave. I'll tell you what's slavery: Forcing innovators to pay absurd wages for people who demand a wasteful cost-of-living. Most of the world can live off less than $50 a month. What first-world welfare queens demand -- far beyond that -- is absurd and has created an overpriced marketplace. We have created an extremely wasteful society and the first-world is suffering as a result. Manufacturers and innovation are leaving for better and more sensible places: Places with actual wealth creation. |
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In Hong Kong, you can get a business permit in less than one day. America is a different story.
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That's just a fraction of the yearly inflation rate. They just don't want anybody cashing-in on their printing press but selected constituents.
Yes, those bad bad men keeping people from printing their own money and stealing trillions of dollars from everyone. Why, we should all be allowed to steal from anyone we please. The people never owned the money in the first place. Money is based on debt, remember? It's printed by The Federal Reserve and given to the people with a charge of interest. Please go to a Ripple community and steal some of the debt (and the purchasing power of that debt) and tell them it's not theft because it's "just debt". Well, that says a lot about Ripple's future as a currency. |
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That's just a fraction of the yearly inflation rate. They just don't want anybody cashing-in on their printing press but selected constituents.
Yes, those bad bad men keeping people from printing their own money and stealing trillions of dollars from everyone. Why, we should all be allowed to steal from anyone we please. The people never owned the money in the first place. Money is based on debt, remember? It's printed by The Federal Reserve and given to the people with a charge of interest. Most of the debt is owed to The Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is owned by various non-governmental organizations including Obama's and Romney's main financial backer Goldman Sachs. So it seems all they stole was fake debt, debt people happen to value. They didn't deny any people anything. They only manufactured fake obligations. It's amazing how something without scarcity can be valued, isn't it? |
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The Constitution allows for the states to secede.
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The original revolution and its respective maintenance were the only wars worth fighting in my book. I don't see benefits coming from anything else.
The right to vote on a federal level is more of a ball-and-chain than a freedom. It allows the many to rob the few and the property holders through a centralized regime. How lovely?
The problem is "the system". There needs to be many systems with various rules of conduct according to their respective cultures.
There is no America. It is a spook. It represents nothing. Cultures do not go that far. Startups, industry and all else can only be represented by the genuinely affected parties.
I support Ron Paul because he represents my goal of dismantling the entire Federal Government. He is not a part of the system; he is against it and so am I.
I am for many different systems for many different people.
One rule respects nobody but its rulers.
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That's just a fraction of the yearly inflation rate. They just don't want anybody cashing-in on their printing press but selected constituents.
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A country is such a spook of an idea especially when an entity or culture can only genuinely represent so many people, let alone 350 million in the United States. Why stand for something so intangible? Why pay any regard to it? Why should I pledge allegiance to anything purportedly above myself?
I refused to stand for the national anthem at a hockey game today and I got nasty looks but isn't that what the United States is supposed to stand for; individual liberty?
...which they received, and in their perception of how generations upon generations of people have given their lives and freedoms... ...to agendas and wars that trampled over the constitution, innocent lives, took away powers from individual states and cultures, that put populations into slavery with debt while stifling economic productivity and innovation. All-in-all for bigotry and totalitarianism through which is now the world's centralized military power. Gotcha. I have even more reason not to stand for an anthem, the pledge and the generations of apathetic sheep that have ruined our world. Both of my grandfather's served in the military. My great-great-grandfather lost his leg in the Civil War. Yes, I find their efforts a waste but I do value them for who they are. |
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