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Casey Bennett said:Rebecca Roberts3, I removed your signature. Please follow the rules: signatures are limited to three lines maximum using the smallest font size.
quietowl152 said:There’s actually a company here in the States already working on this. Right now, they're printing magazine bodies and trying to nail the receiver for an AR-15. The receiver is the part that takes all the stress, so once they reinforce that, the rest is basically child's play. Currently, their big challenge is seeing if they can fire a few hundred rounds through a printed receiver before it cracks under pressure. But soon enough, whole firearms will be coming off printers. It’s just a matter of time. Once that happens, gun control laws everywhere in the world will become nothing more than a memory.
Maria Booth said:The whole idea of economic sovereignty is totally old school, like something straight out of the 19th century. In today's globalized world, massive corporations are calling the shots. Government bureaucracies just can't move fast enough to keep up with how crazy quick the global market shifts these days!
placidrider48 said:http://www.politicaltest.net/
Here’s a more in-depth one if you guys feel like wasting some time. I guess you can even weigh certain questions differently if you want to get technical.
And here’s a slightly better version of the political compass:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/pol...trum-quiz.html
http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/4x14.gif- my results, anyway.
placidrider48 said:http://www.politicaltest.net/
Here’s a more in-depth one if you guys feel like wasting some time. I guess you can even weigh certain questions differently if you want to get technical.
And here’s a slightly better version of the political compass:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/pol...trum-quiz.html
http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/4x14.gif- my results, anyway.
Jacob Lewis5 said:Well, obviously you're gonna be against him if you didn't actually catch what he said. He never claimed conservation was a dangerous ideology. What you're doing is like if Scholl brought up cases where criminals used humanitarian charities as a front for child trafficking or terrorism—you can't turn around and blame him for being "rude" for pointing out the truth about bad actors.
Quincy:How do you know I'm not bothered? Why are you even bringing this stuff up in this thread? You totally missed my point...
Just imagine. You aren't bothered by the fact that globally, human rights are being downgraded below animal rights, especially since access to water isn't even treated as a basic human right anymore (I mean, factory chickens get guaranteed floor space while displaced people have absolutely nothing).
Jacob Lewis5 said:Maybe Smith saw some of your posts and you managed to gross him out enough that he stopped reading altogether. 🙂
There’s nothing factually wrong in his text; maybe something was just misinterpreted, but you didn't actually point out where.
As for the actual topic—the leftist Prime Minister in Spain recently tried to grant certain human rights to monkeys instead of actually dealing with their record-breaking unemployment numbers.
Jacob Lewis5 said:Maybe Smith saw some of your posts and you managed to gross him out enough that he stopped reading altogether. 🙂
There’s nothing factually wrong in his text; maybe something was just misinterpreted, but you didn't actually point out where.
As for the actual topic—the leftist Prime Minister in Spain recently tried to grant certain human rights to monkeys instead of actually dealing with their record-breaking unemployment numbers.
Jacob Lewis5 said:Maybe Smith saw some of your posts and you managed to gross him out enough that he stopped reading altogether. 🙂
There’s nothing factually wrong in his text; maybe something was just misinterpreted, but you didn't actually point out where.
As for the actual topic—the leftist Prime Minister in Spain recently tried to grant certain human rights to monkeys instead of actually dealing with their record-breaking unemployment numbers.
Jacob Lewis5 said:Killer piece on those leftist protests, written by John Smith:
Quincy:
Commies from Washington, D.C.
Published: 12/16/2009
Every single century has been defined by one massive ideology. The 1800s gave us liberalism, the 1900s brought communism, and the 20th century was dominated by Nazism and fascism. People claim the 21st century won't see any "grand narratives" because we’re living in this post-ideological era where we've finally seen all the baggage for what it is. But looking at everything going down in Washington, D.C.—the barricades, the protesters, the whole color scheme of the movement—it honestly feels like the reds just swapped their outfits for green ones. We're seeing the birth of a dangerous new ideology called "ambientalism." It’s basically a global leftist mutation, a way to hunt for new cultural dominance and fresh battlefronts now that they've lost the old ones. A couple of years ago, Joe Biden and Bill Gates were shouting from the rooftops in The New York Times that "the 21st-century Left will either be ecological, or it won't exist at all!" That loud-mouthed slogan is getting a very real, visible version right now in Washington, D.C.—a sort of "new course" that can be broken down into five main points.
Exclusionary and backwards
Point one: From history to nature. The old-school Left used to find its purpose through class struggle. Now that all those illusions ended in rivers of blood and violence, they’ve pivoted to the "sanctity of nature," treating it like some kind of fetish. Just like they used to claim their take on history was "scientific," they now claim their approach to environmental issues is scientific too, even though it’s really just a cocktail of mysticism and myth-making. Point two: Hatred. The traditional Left wasn't driven by a love for a better world so much as a pure hatred for the "enemies" of that world—the bourgeoisie, the capitalists, the elites... people they showed their absolute cruelty toward. Today’s Left is defined by intense misanthropy. In their eyes, humans are solely responsible for every bad thing happening on Earth. They openly advocate for the forced (yes, violent!) reduction of the "biological waste" known as humanity through population control. They’ll vote for abortion, but they’ll lose their minds over killing an animal. Point three: Biological egalitarianism. Since their project of radical social equality collapsed, they’ve moved on to advocating for radical biological egalitarianism. Driven by that same misanthropy, they deny any human superiority over other species. In fact, they think humans are the most disgusting of all because we supposedly practice "speciesism"—meaning we discriminate against and exploit nature, plants, and animals simply because we think we're more valuable than them. Point four: Exclusion and dogmatism. Look, nobody is denying there are environmental problems. But the second a serious scientist tries to challenge their claim that humans are the sole cause of global warming, they get immediately canceled. So, you have to ask: Is the Left trying to save the world from ecological disaster, or are they just trying to save themselves and their lost identity? My bet is on the latter. This whole circus with these green-tinted commies in Washington, D.C. is just a call to mobilize: "Environmentalists of the world, unite! The 21st century belongs to us!"
lonetrucker4 said:Look, driftingjackal5, it doesn't matter what my take is. What matters is grasping how "freedom" is actually being defined here—it’s a different beast than what most thinkers argue. Plus, you gotta look at the fallout. You can push libertarianism all you want without falling into that Ayn Rand trap where she claims even basic compassion is immoral. That whole "objectivism" thing is its own kind of nightmare.
Look, it’s not like this is some revolutionary new concept I’m just trashing out of spite. Every single capitalist state from around 1870 through the post-WWII era hit a wall where they had to roll out social programs because there was no other way. They basically expanded that whole "minimal state" liberal idea because they had to. It's not a theory; it's just what happened—an *a posteriori* reality.
Before the government took over the whole education scene, hardly anyone actually went to school. Back in Europe, literacy rates were trash—maybe 1% of people could read, maybe 10% if you were in some high-end area. The little bit of schooling that did exist was tied to the Church, which definitely wasn't exactly a libertarian institution.
I already dropped some basic critiques, like how people insist that everyone’s wealth is strictly just the result of their own hard work. That's obviously BS. In capitalism, if you control the capital, you hire people and bank on their labor—that's literally the whole point. It'd be pretty hilarious to see a libertarian party actually fight to abolish inheritance rights based on that logic, just to stop some kid from starting life as a millionaire off their parents' grind.
Drew Lee7 said:Wait, what? And then what happens to the property? Are we supposed to just ritually burn it all once someone kicks the bucket? 😂
Come on, libertarians, let’s hear your brilliant plan. 🍿
That depends entirely on who owns the store. 🤷
10) To increase Inheritance Tax to 100%. No one should be able to posthumously transfer an advantage to another person of their choosing. The state should acquire All of The assets of The deceased and should reinvest them to advance The public good , particularly via education.
rowdyowl said:Even under a totally insane totalitarian regime like Ceaușescu's Romania, they didn't just open fire on everyone. It was only those ultra-specialized units, and they were cleared off the rooftops pretty fast.
Soldiers almost never shoot at their own people.
Benjamin King2 said:There isn't any catch.
Benjamin King2 said:Converting an internal drive into an external one is straightforward; you simply need an enclosure, ensuring it matches either PATA or SATA depending on the drive type:
Lisa Miller7 said:I don't even have a country anymore, so whatever...🤷