76

(28 replies, posted in Politics)

It's not that they "aren't democratic," it's that they weren't raised and educated to appreciate the freedoms that made America the wealthiest nation on earth.

American voters already have us $50,000 in debt per person, with a Federal Reserve inflated stock market bubble ready to burst. We'll be lucky if we can turn this nation around (toward solvency) already. Illegal immigrant voters who've been getting handouts from our government, viewing it as their friend, and lacking the historical education of how dangerous government is, are not going to help the matter.

77

(48 replies, posted in Politics)

Of course it's illegal. You can't maintain a fascist government over people who can take care of themselves. It'd be ridiculously obvious how oppressive and tyrannical that government was.

Also, if you don't drink the fluoride and other poisons they put in the water, your kids won't be as stupid and docile and easy to control!

78

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

key wrote:

The regulatory committees were supposed to have teeth, in order to insure the protection of consumers.  From what i've seen in the last two years is that democrats usually try to empower these government offices with teeth to deal with companies that don't deal fairly with the consumer or public interests.

Not surprising; it appears that your knowledge of governance in the USA is as horribly lacking as your ability to perform formal logic computations in that 'ol noggin of yours.

Some regulatory agencies are so bad that they require entrenched businesses to vote on whether or not there's a "need" for competition in their areas. Obviously, short of bribes swaying their opinion, they always vote that no, they can handle more business with less competition.

These agencies have plenty of teeth. They're just not aimed at things like "consumer safety" or the other legitimate purposes they were supposedly created to achieve.

The notion that Republicans are the problem and Democrats are "fighting the good fight," so to speak, is laughably ignorant. Both parties are full of corrupt politicians -- that's how the legislation you demonize (supposedly gutting these agencies of "teeth" got passed in the first place. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency for the first two years of Obama's first term.

Did you hear a single word about fixing these problems you blame on Republicans alone? No. In fact, they made exactly these problems (government regulatory agencies protecting entrenched businesses) much worse with the Affordable Care Act!

Key, I'm going to have to ignore you completely. You're like a caricature of the ignorant, yet arrogant know-it-all who is eager to tell you his opinion on things he knows absolutely nothing about. Nobody can be this naive and ignorant, yet so eager to share his nonsensical perceptions. I'm going to presume you're trolling and not encourage you. God help you if you're not.

79

(28 replies, posted in Politics)

Fascists support amnesty is because it means more voters with no knowledge of America's founding principles rooted in individual freedom.

They achieve this by encouraging illegals to enter the US and giving them services with tax dollars. They want illegal immigrants to view the US government as their friends--they must be; they give illegals handouts which don't exist in their home countries! And they're not even citizens here!

Now, if they can get illegals voting rights, goodbye Mr. Educated American who knows what's so great about our freedoms. Democratic governance means that a majority of fascist babies naive enough to believe communist promises can vote fascists right into power.

Their goal is to run America (and its currency) into the ground and to then buy it up (real assets) at rock-bottom prices.

You seem to think this is some sort of America vs Mexico problem--that if Mexicans would just give up their identity, then it'd be okay. I think you are completely misguided. How much Mexican culture illegals do or do not bring with them, or how willing they would be to give up X amount of that culture for citizenship, is irrelevant.

What matters is why major political powers in this country want more of them and want them voting. Anything that draws attention away from this real threat is a distraction and a disservice to America.

I mean, you want people to have to give DNA, fingerprints, and photo IDs to the US government in order to gain citizenship? Funny, because it's unconstitutional for our government to have that data on citizens. Sounds like you've forgotten the big picture.

80

(40 replies, posted in Politics)

key wrote:

Your MAKING the arguement that there is no proof.  And then your also argueing that, your not saying that man may or may not be effecting the planet...

It's perfectly logical that I can accept the possibility that man might be impacting the climate of the planet while being aware that there is no proof [/sound evidence] that man is.

key wrote:

It's one or the other.

You're arguing that it's either NOT POSSIBLE that man is impacting the climate, or it's PROVEN that he does. That's completely irrational and nonsensical.

I'm going to ignore you now. Because I'm too old to respond to children whose parents told them they were special when they failed Introduction to Formal Logic  PHIL101. If you don't have enough sense to know you're incoherent, it'd be a waste of time and energy to respond to your inane ramblings.

81

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

It's already here. It's been moving in for decades. Perhaps a century with the Federal Reserve.

Most regulatory agencies exist almost exclusively to raise the price of entry into markets and keep out competition.

82

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

You are correct. I not only left out some of the harmful effects, but I left out an explanation of how harming the rest of the world also helps these evil people. tongue

But they can already buy the rest of the world without thinking twice it's so cheap. They have to economically collapse America so they can buy it up at rock bottom prices. That's the big prize.

83

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

Agricultural subsidies are not agricultural "protections." They're a way to rob the American people and give a portion of that stolen booty to people who fund campaigns year after year.

They're also a way to artificially inflate the cost of living in the United States in order to keep more people dependent on government handouts.

This comes with the added benefit of many of these people feeling that they're being robbed (because they are). The politicians who are robbing everyone then tell the ignorant trash that it's rich people robbing them, and that the politicians need more power to protect them. Thus, trashy idiots give the politicians who are robbing them even more power to rob them. Slavery is born.

84

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

Why not? The people are dumb enough to elect these trashy, corrupt human beings to high office. Most of them deserve to die as the slaves they are.

Why not get their buddies richer in the process?

This stuff happened under Bush too. It's been going on for decades.

But don't let that stop you. You don't pretend to have any idea what's going on, nor do you pretend to care. You just want to tell us your completely baseless, fear and hate filled ideas.

In this thread you've advocated the execution of the majority of Americans, including yourself. You're clearly insane.

Who's going to arrest them? The DEA which shuts down competition to the cartels in bed with huge banks? The federal prosecutors who let off big banks who launder money for drug cartels?

You want a government controlled by banks profiting from the black market drug trade to... prosecute themselves. Which they've continually declined to do. Which you've never objected to. Which you seem completely unaware of, despite many mainstream news stories on the topic for many years.

You're complicit in electing the corrupt officials who empower these drug cartels. You're advocating your own execution.

This is the type of incoherence that results when you don't read threads before posting spam in them.

"CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel"
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-g … tel-2014-1

This stuff comes out all the time. The fact that you have no idea what to make of it and refuse to comment on it is just more evidence to my suggestion that you know NOTHING about this topic.

Einstein, I've posted arguments with evidence and explanations. All you've done is call me names, refusing to respond to a single thing I've said. If you actually thought I was wrong about something specific you'd call me out on it, I'd link a dozen sources confirming my claims, and you'd look like an ignorant ass. We'd do this until you firmly established that you don't know anything about the topic you've chosen to discuss here.

But you know you're wrong. You know that you know nothing about this topic. That's why you don't have the guts to actually disagree with a single statement I've made. That's why this thread is trolling/spam.

"I HAVE FAITH THAT POT IS SCARY AND SHOULD BE BANNED AND I'M BETTER THAN YOU FOR THIS BELIEF. FAITH TRUMPS FACTS." is not defeating libertarians in a dashing display of rhetorical or logical prowess. It's embarrassing yourself.

88

(40 replies, posted in Politics)

Firetruck, the earth has been getting warmer and colder for eons.

In order for ice to melt and drain to oceans, the ice has to be warmer than previously to melt in the first place. It happening is not evidence of anything. New ice forms every year. New ice melts every year.

There's a lot going on with climate. A lot of moving parts. That interaction involving heat goes on is not noteworthy. It's the norm. It's constant. Overly simplistic explanations of partial systems are evidence of nothing.

I'm open to the idea of man causing climate change. We have a big impact on the earth. If real evidence is discovered, I'll want to know about it. But all of this faith-based fear-mongering by fascists who want to tax carbon is just going to make skeptics like me more skeptical and pay less attention to new studies--one of which, someday, might be legitimate.

Speculation isn't helping anything. It's numbing us to real science.

What's that? You haven't stated disagreement with a single thing I've said?

I clearly referenced the NASA scientist to demonstrate that anecdotal evidence is not worth much, if anything. I clearly explained this in doing so.

I can't have a discussion with you if all you're going to do is spam.

You obviously surround yourself with stupid, trashy, and morally atrocious human beings.

Newsflash: It's not the pot. I personally know a retired NASA scientist (computer programmer) who has smoked pot for decades. I personally know and have witnessed [hundreds more professionals who exhibit NONE of the behavior you attribute to pot].

Since you're clearly surrounded by the trashiest human beings imaginable (short of maybe N. Korea's leadership), let me enlighten you: Most of the world is filled with decent people not remotely like the ones you describe. This includes people who've smoked pot, which, I remind you, more than a hundred million Americans have done.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Key wrote:

There are very few things that will piss me off.

People defending the use of marijuana, saying it doesn't hurt ANYONE, is one of those things where I take great pleasure where I see your ass beaten to a bloody pulp, on the ground, because you tried to steal marijuana from your hookup.  NOTHING gives me greater pleasure, than knowing that a drug user is dead.  GREAT PLEASURE!

And if you do Marijuana, and have children.  I hope your children do marijuana, and i hope they are killed by their own stupidity.  Because people on ANY DRUG, especially those that are ignorant of the TOTAL effects of the drug, deserve to die.

And Spock, if you do drugs, I hope you find yourself on the bad business end of a drug deal, and I hope you die also.  I don't care for marijuana defenders, which means, I don't care for you.

Again, 100% personal raging, 0 response to any point I made whatsoever, 0 statements of disagreement with anything I said.

Drug deals can be dangerous because drugs are illegal; this forces drug deals to be made on the black market where there is no law enforcement, police protection, or civil/criminal prosecution. Drug deals can additionally be dangerous because illegalization has driven up prices, making drugs and the money to purchase them (already black market) more tempting for thieves and robbers.

The danger you wish on my children is a result of the laws you support, not the psychoactive effects of marijuana or any other drug.

Again, you know absolutely nothing about the topic you're raging about. I suspect I have found the source of harm to our society; your clueless support of harmful laws with absolutely no ability to connect these laws to their rational and real effects.

The Yell wrote:

Like the same "licensed professionals" who have 20% of children on speed?

That's because they don't listen to us about denying kids TV and spanking them.

Bad parenting doesn't excuse putting kids on speed. It doesn't make it healthy. It doesn't make it good for children. It doesn't make these drug-pushing "professionals" an "authority" fit to judge what anyone should or should not put in their bodies. It's evidence to the contrary. You miss the point entirely.

The Yell wrote:

No, the record of death from amateur surgery is pretty strong evidence of the value of a licensing board.

You're conflating smoking a joint with amateur surgery. You're so desperate, your argument so nonsensical, that I don't have need to refute it.

The Yell wrote:

All of this smuggling, jail time for users (the victims you're supposedly trying to save),

Na, hang them.

You want to hang everyone to smokes a joint? Yeah, that sounds like a free society worthy of the name America. Again, your argument is so ridiculous that I don't have to provide any argument or evidence to show how ridiculous it is.

You want to kill everyone who smokes a joint. But cigarettes and alcohol, both proven far more addictive and far, far, far more harmful to the human body (and public safety, in the case of drunken driving) than marijuana, are perfectly fine left legal.

Your argument is openly hypocritical. You openly acknowledge that your position is not based on evidence or facts. You openly acknowledge that your position is based on ignorance and fear. I have no need to refute the arguments of someone who doesn't even attempt to make a logical argument to begin with.

You close your post with similar nonsense. "FACT" followed by falsehoods. You're terrified of something you know nothing about. Rather than educate yourself, you're eager to empower and enrich fascists. People like you voting in democratic societies is why we're $50,000 in debt per person, our economy is going to collapse, and why we wage foreign wars with absolutely no excuse of justification.

Hell, blind obedience to tyrants like yours even turns off some people from leading moral and righteous lives altogether. Many people are turned off from the prospect of moral codes at all, or the idea that anyone actually follows them, given such examples of hypocrisy and irrationality.

I don't mean to get personal; my point is that people like you ignorantly supporting fascism is incalculably more harmful to society than anyone smoking a joint. Now that's a fact.

The Yell wrote:

I'll support "medical marijuana" when people take clinical doses from licensed professionals.  That's my stand on opiates.
When Bob snarfs brownies from WeedProz til he "feels better", you're not fooling anybody.

Like the same "licensed professionals" who have 20% of children on speed?

I'm not disagreeing with your general position that mind-altering substances are a big deal, ripe for abuse, and are not to be taken lightly.

But the notion that some government licensing board can, will, or does look out for people's interests/health is ridiculous and flies in the face of all evidence.

They have 20% of children on speed. And you just argued that they should have more control over people's lives. Really strong position you're arguing from there.

Government cannot help idiots from hurting themselves. Giving government and big pharma the reigns to write and enforce laws in the name of our best interests just helps them push soma (that's a Brave New World reference) and keep you in your pen.

It's a fascist argument, not a public safety argument. Nobody is forcing anyone to take this stuff, and people take it even when it's illegal. The laws you support cause harm and don't significantly reduce usage rates (if at all), all the while driving up prices to support our ever-more fascist government.

Our military is the most well-trained, well-armed, well-funded, well-supported (logistically) the world has ever seen. And we know they perform black ops all the time, as is revealed more and more every year that documents of decades-old operations are declassified.

Do you really believe that they couldn't close our borders to large drug shipments if they desired to/were ordered to? Do you really believe they couldn't terrorize and execute drug cartel lords into submission if they desired to/were ordered to?

These guys have stealth drones that can fire rockets into specific windows of buildings, the most sophisticated surveillance satellites on the planet, thousands of agents, and above a billion dollar budget for the ATF alone.

And there are hundreds of billions of dollars to make off of the drug trade business.

All of this smuggling, jail time for users (the victims you're supposedly trying to save), massively increased profits to drug cartels, and loss of life resulting from this huge-money black market for what? A tiny, if any, reduction in usage rates?

Fact: Most people don't use drugs because they don't want to. Fact: Most people who want drugs find and acquire those drugs, regardless of the fact that they're illegal.

The more educated the man, the more silly the "drug war" as a legitimate fight against drug use becomes to him.

Key wrote:

I've seen marijuana users become violent, abusive, and go through withdrawals like any other drug.

Nonsense like this is what holds back society. Legislation based on ignorance. People having strong opinions based on ignorance and fallacious logic a child should not fall prey to.

Anyone exhibiting those symptoms was on other drugs, not just marijuana.

We have tens of millions of cases of evidence to work with to know the truth about marijuana. You're professing your faith in anecdotal evidence--that you saw some weirdo act out once and you think he was on pot.

Maybe he was. But that wasn't what made anyone violent nor caused symptoms of withdrawal. Supposed symptoms of marijuana withdrawl are that it has withdrawal symptoms similar to cigarettes--without anything near cigarettes' level of addiction. Supposedly it can make people irritable and lose sleep for a brief period.

Of course, that's the new, super powerful genetically engineered stuff that didn't exist until recently. Marijuana wasn't remotely this strong decades ago. Demonizing a plant which God put here on this beautiful green earth because of the relatively minor withdrawal effects of smoking a crap ton of its human genetically modified offspring which is 10,000 times more powerful than its natural variants is a pretty remarkable stretch.

There is no common good here, no overarching societal threat that requires laws to protect society, and that's why none of you can provide any such evidence. You haven't even attempted to, let alone done so, in this thread.

That's why references to alcohol upset you so much. It's a very strong example of your hypocrisy and lack of any regard for facts regarding controlled substances. It's far, far, far more harmful to the body and the mind. Fact. It's far, far, far, far more physically addictive. Fact. It impairs motor function and driving ability far, far, far, far, far more. Fact.

And, prohibition of this more harmful substance was such an utter failure that control freaks gave up the attempt to stop its consumption via the legal system.

That's why you hate it when people bring up alcohol. Because it's damn good evidence that you're in the wrong. You're okay with a more harmful (both to the body, to persons interacting with the intoxicated person, and on the road) substance being legal but are opposed to the legal consumption of something which is less harmful in literally every way. This highlights your ignorance, fear, and hypocrisy. This example highlights the fact that your entire position lacks logical argumentation.

The fact is, many nations have legal marijuana consumption and they're not falling apart. In fact, usage rate changes following legalization have been negligible everywhere it's been decriminalized/legalized.

You have no evidence to support your bizarre outlandish claims. You're propagandized and filled with fear because your masters told you to be afraid of the big bad joint monster. You believe Reefer Madness is a documentary. You know nothing about the topic; you're afraid of your ignorance and you take comfort in feeling self-righteous in denouncing others, because the same slave masters who told you to be afraid of marijuana told you you're a better human being than anyone who smokes it. This makes you feel good.

Neither facts nor evidence nor logic ever enters into you forming your opinions. That's why you never respond to evidence like this
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl … e-20121213
proving that the "drug war" is a joke not intended to reduce consumption, but drive up prices. That's why you don't cite any real evidence, but rely solely on anecdotal evidence of your admittedly extremely limited personal experiences to demonize this plant which you know nothing about.

Tens of millions of people smoke marijuana in the USA. More than a hundred million more used to enjoy it for a while. This is why polls are unanimous in trending toward decriminalization and legalization. People have tried it and it's nothing like you fear-mongers (who have never tried it) allege.

Nobody is advocating selling it to children. And nobody denies that being psychologically addicted to it (like video games) is healthy. But then, no psychological addictions are. Considering that it's less addictive than cigarettes and alcohol and far less harmful to the body, you've got no logical argumentation to support your hypocrisy and lack of regard for freedom.

So you call me names. And don't respond to rational evidence and argumentation. Carry on fear-mongering.

Produce an argument? Your post is filled with lies. All I have to do, as I have done, is point this out. I've deflated your completely baseless claims. I don't need to argue anything but that you're lying and absolutely nothing you've stated is true.

You don't know the difference between correlation and causation, and you're attempting to offer me commentary on logical argumentation. Classic Einstein.

I didn't read your whole spam-ridden post, proclaiming to the world how proud of your ignorance you are and how much you desire fascism.

Most of everything you stated is factually false. Incorrect. Ignorant. Wrong.

Einstein wrote:

This is how it is. These are statistics talking. These are facts.

You must be joking.

Einstein wrote:

Libertarians decry any sort of law stopping drug use....

Clearly you meant to say "laws punishing people for using drugs." Since laws aren't stopping drug use. Prohibition and the fact that a majority of Americans have smoked pot are evidence to this point. The fact that a majority of Americans have tried smoking pot also offers insurmountable evidence that literally everything you say about cannabis is false.

Einstein wrote:

Drugs are tested if for potential use for medicine, and discarded if not usable, and those drugs we have found, over decades and centuries, to be addictive have been banned.

Good jokes. Many addictive drugs are prescribed today. Many harmful drugs are prescribed today for disorders that don't exist. It's HUGE money. 20% of kids are on speed. Tell us more about how the AMA is an awesome organization which doesn't peddle addictive drugs to kids! You're 100% factually wrong, and this is a proven fact. But you're okay making things up, so pretend away!

Einstein wrote:

Now libertarians will say that certain drugs are harmless, most often commenting about Marijuana, aka weed, pot, and reefer. They are wrong as I intend to prove.

Followed by ranting about opiates, additionally attributing wars fought over colonization to drugs. Completely off-topic and pointless.

Einstein wrote:

Pot is addictive for some, as I will prove below

False. Your ignorant rantings are not proof. That you had a psycho relative who smoked a joint once doesn't prove that joints make people psycho. The claim suggests that you're psychotic.

Einstein wrote:

and is a gateway drug for some as well.

Completely false claim based on completely fallacious reasoning, as I have already thoroughly refuted on this very forum. Repeating yourself doesn't change the fact that you're lying and your statements are false.

Einstein wrote:

Pot has caused people to accidentally kill, it has caused a lot of theft and harm. It is not a drug that we can take lightly.

As evidenced by what? You want us to take your word from it?

Einstein wrote:

There are those who also complain about alcohol and tobacco. I address those issues below. Needless to say I am prepared for this argument.

You just continually ramble about what you're going to prove and address, but you never do. You just lie and make up figures.

Proving, once again, that there's no limit of what you can convince someone of when they desperately want to feel righteous.

Pot isn't physically addictive. You met idiots with serious psychological problems not caused by cannabis.

That you were homeless is not evidence that it happens to smart people.

It was banned because cannabis has major industrial uses and would compete strongly with textile industries.

The drug war is a joke. It doesn't stop drug use. It makes drugs more expensive so the CIA can make more money selling them. You think the most sophisticated and well funded military in the world is losing to drug cartels? It runs them. No wonder you'll believe anything.

97

(40 replies, posted in Politics)

Great. Just what we need. A guy with faith on the other side to discredit people of logic and evidence.

98

(40 replies, posted in Politics)

Key wrote:

Actually you've shown no proof that man is not effecting the climate.

You're making the claim. The obligation to provide evidence is yours.

You can't prove that there aren't invisible pink bunny rabbits following you around all the time. You don't need to. If I allege that there are, the burden is on me to back up my claim.

Key wrote:

I'm stating if we have the knowledge and technology in order to help the environment and not hinder it, then we should use it to all it's advantages.

We have the technology to alter the environment. We do not have the knowledge to know what "helps" and what hurts such a huge and complex system. This is proven by our lack of a single remotely credible model demonstrating that we have the knowledge. The evidence backs up my skepticism 100%. All you have is arrogant claims.

Key wrote:

Saying that having open tanks at magnesium mines, where rain fall will overflow the tanks and let poisonous waste into our water supply

Completely off-topic. Of course pollution is bad. The fact that pollution is bad is not evidence that man is significantly altering the climate of the earth, let alone in a harmful manner.

The rest of your post is similarly completely off topic.

99

(4 replies, posted in Politics)

It's always a good thing to lock up sick ****s.

But the notion that the only way to combat such abuse is through law enforcement is ridiculous.

Parents need to love and care for their children. People need to want to work and produce and profit and pull themselves out of poverty.

Police forces can only attempt to combat this stuff to some small percentage of success. Especially with abuse happening across international borders. Parents can have 100% success protecting their children. The real solution here is cultural. People need to stop being so trashy. We, as societies, need to stop being so tolerant of trashy behavior. Nothing can protect children from trashy parents.

100

(9 replies, posted in Politics)

Apparently I was mistaken. In my defense, the reason for my mistake had big boobs and a pretty face. My brain and memory lacked oxygen.