December 2011
44 posts
Taxation is not thievery
christiankeyes:
When something is stolen from you, you never get it back. That’s theft. Someone takes your iPod out of your car one night and you never see it again. You iPod was stolen and you are a victim of petty thievery.
When you are taxed, money is forcefully taken from you. This much is true. But you do get it back. You get it back through public roads and services and what have you. You...
>Anarchists should be against social services...
christiankeyes:
thoseboringpolitics:
Also, the initial “fuck you” was entirely out of line and (I am parroting myself now) makes only enemies instead of friends/sympathizers. Cut it out. You’re doing not a single bit of good with that.
Jesus christ, cut that white knight shit out.
There is no “white knight shit”. I just acknowledge that there is legitimacy in every view point;...
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>Anarchists should be against social services...
anticapitalist:
Fuck you. No. That’s not how it works.
When the state provides services, it’s giving back what it stole from the people. If it exists, and oppresses us, it should at least provide something back.
This is sound logic. I agree with this.
The anarchists I see here on tumblr should consistently follow their own logic. I see them constantly telling libertarians that we should...
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When Murray Rothbard, the father of modern...
communismkills:
a-petro-manifesto:
communismkills:
a-petro-manifesto:
communismkills:
Wait, you’re saying Rothbard created Austrian economics? Only Rothbard? He’s the only one who matters? Just Rothbard alone?
Wow…
That’s beyond stupid.
*modern
Hardly! Austrian economics is only a methodology, not some kind of libertarian economic view. It just so happens that the methodological...
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All of the libertarian hate towards Reagan is...
communismkills:
Considering he actually…
Cut defense spending by the end of his term compared to Carter. Federal spending was 22.9 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 1981, increased somewhat during the middle years of his administration, and declined to 22.1 percent of GDP in fiscal 1989.
Instructed the Fed. Reagan endorsed the reduction in money growth initiated by the Federal...
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“We’re not living under the guidelines of American economic policy,...”
– Irv Homer on May 8, 2009
To be fair, and blunt, Obama sold the country out as well.
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Even though I'm as anti-Fed as the next...
crythias:
communismkills:
I don’t see the point in auditing the Fed.
One of the main functions of the Fed is that it gives loans to banks in order to ease their liquidity. The audit of the Fed would simply show that the Fed gives loans to banks, which is its job. No one should be outraged that the Fed gave loans to banks, unless they don’t know the function of the Fed is to provide loans. The...
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Even Karl fucking Rove is telling House... →
The American families need this payroll tax cut. Republicans using it to play party-politics simply aren’t acting in the nation’s best interests.
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Hmmm...
Let’s all quote a racist newsletter that Ron Paul didn’t write and claim it was written by Ron Paul. It’s a shame people believe such things. I couldn’t even imagine Paul saying these things.
And I don’t even mean that in an ideological sense. I’m trying to imagine the voice and tone and mannerisms of Paul saying, “A mob of black protestors, led by the ‘Rev.’...
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The Historical Jesus...
socialistictendencies:
religiousragings:
notesofapastor:
300 years before His birth, it was predicted Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. Bear in mind there were many “Bethlehems” but the prophet Micah specified which one:
Micah 5:2 (NIV) 2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose...
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Ron Paul introduced a bill in 1984 to allow... →
christiankeyes:
steviemcfly:
STILL TOTALLY NOT RACIST BRO
This is directly from the bill:
Public School Civil Rights Act of 1984 - Eliminates inferior Federal court jurisdiction to issue any order requiring the assignment or transportation of students to public schools on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
It basically wants to stop forced busing — which desegregates...
letterstomycountry asked: That being said, I think the best thing you can do when discussing feminist/gender theory is to be as detailed as possible. I agree that there are many activists in the feminists community who tend to overreact and spit venom at people for perceived error. But keep in mind that this venom, in part, comes from perceived oppression, which in some cases has tangible, negative results for women and...
letterstomycountry asked: Re: your convo w/ tumblr feminists: the conflation of gender and sex, I think, is one of the things that a substantial number of feminist thinkers view as a means of social discrimination. To wit, hermaphrodites are a real (rare) phenomenon. To the extent that one would identify as male or female, that identity will come from their behavior and mannerisms moreso than their dualistic biology. To...
ohno-zombees asked: A question for you: How does one go about rationalizing Ron Paul's belief in smaller government and privacy for the individual with his lack of support for Same Sex Marriage? I've never understood the rationale that says that the state has no place meddling in the lives of its citizens--but that it's completely acceptable to meddle in the lives of -gay- citizens. Surely it has to be...
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Kim Jong Il Dead at 69
This means that potentially Kim Jong-un could succeed his position, and this would be a risk for everyone. Kim Jong-un has been notably more radical and hate-filled than his father. And he might just actually believe that North Koreans can stand a nuclear fallout.
sigma-x asked: That was an amusing back-and-forth you had with those people about gender identity and whatnot. But their rather un-constructive rants at you could perhaps be explained by a little vagueness on your part--I wasn't entirely sure what you meant by "the scientific community" and labeling people as thus. Perhaps a clarification is needed in the definitions (and this is from feminist...
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I'm Stepping Back from Arguing with Feminists
One opinion automatically deserves “you’re a cissexist douchefuck and a shitty person.” No wonder people mainly ignore these views. I’ve been gone from Tumblr too long to have remembered what a trainwreck it is. They don’t understand biology and won’t until they want to.
I’m not going to medically treat you and diagnose you as if you’re a cat when...
sevnm-deactivated20130129 asked: There is no "healthy debate" when we're talking about facts regarding oppression, marginalization, and erasure. You are a person who is privileged by the systems that make things supremely shitty for trans* & gender-variant people, and are very easily lead into accepting everything you've been socialized to believe in without question. Who do you think came up with the...
undercoverterrorist-deactivated asked: Cissexism: the belief that trangender people are inferior to, or less authentic than cissexuals. That's not subjective.
autumn-and-eve-deactivated20120 asked: How does it feel being a cissexist douchebag who erases trans people?
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Apology Post
Earlier today I made a post about how one’s gender is bound to their sex and that biological standards are supreme.
Well with saying that if you have a vagina you are therefor a woman, I also said that you need to have a menstrual cycle to be a woman. And that was horrible of me to say; I forgot the health issues of many that prevent them from having menstrual cycles and also that,...
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derosnec replied to your post: If you have a vagina and a menstrual cycle, you are a woman; likewise, if you have a penis and DON’T have a menstrual cycle, you are a man.
Some women have conditions from birth that screw up their menstrual cycle to the point that it basically doesn’t function… They’re still biologically female.
Very fair point. I should have been a lot more considerate...
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If you have a vagina and a menstrual cycle, you...
It’s biology, folks. I understand that people want to identify as someone else, but I, and most of the world, will identify you by the differences of your organs and the innerworkings of them.
I literally just saw a comment that said, “Every time I see any feminist [post] ‘love your vagina/uterus/period/etc’ type stuff, I get really fucking uncomfortable, because it’s so damn erasing...
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This is not true: "Ron Paul is the only...
wrongpaul:
By the way asshole, Obama ended the war. Ron Paul is incapable of making a sound decision. He has bad ideas and he’s a sneaky liar. Sorry your mad at Obama, but Ron Paul is not the answer to anything but white supremacy.
Obama did NOT end the war. We are withdrawing because of a treaty signed in 2007 by President Bush. The Iraqi leaders made him sign it because they’re...
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The Iraq War is officially over.
noordinarymuslim:
Over 1 trillion dollars spent.
4,486 US troops killed.
Over 1 million Iraqis killed in or as a result of the war.
Over 3 million displaced by the war.
Iraq, once one of the wealthiest and best educated countries in the Arab world is now in shambles. This is the cost of “freedom.” Are we at the part where they thank us yet?
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Anonymous asked: Ron Paul is NOT racist, sexist or...
sanityscraps:
thoseboringpolitics:
sanityscraps:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright...
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Anonymous asked: Ron Paul is NOT racist, sexist or...
sanityscraps:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to...
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have...”
– Ron Paul, because apparently lolibertarians are sensible AND black people are not sensible. (via stfuanarchocapitalists)
Remember when he personally didn’t write this? I do.
(via thoseboringpolitics)
Remember that time when Ron Paul hired an openly racist newsletter writer, but yet it’s not his...
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have...”
– Ron Paul, because apparently lolibertarians are sensible AND black people are not sensible. (via stfuanarchocapitalists)
Remember when he personally didn’t write this? I do.
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Help Ron Paul Meet $1 Million By Tonight For Ads →
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Censorship or Prosperity: A Dichotomy
A short 4 paragraph essay. Originally 5 for a class but edited here and there (and exclusive of a paragraph) so I can post it here.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” writes Orwell in his allegory Animal Farm (representational of Stalinist Russia, an infamous form of a totalitarian state). Ray Bradbury writes of a similar dystopia in his...
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Wherein Michele Bachmann is confronted by an... →
christiankeyes:
cognitivedissonance:
And it’s just as fantastic as it sounds:
Watch the video:
The look of shock on her face is incredible. Elijah is brave little man, and I commend him.
No. I do not think this is fantastic. To put a child up to this. This was clearly done not of the child’s own accord. No. Fuck this.
You can see the mom ask her son “Did you have...
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"MY OPINION" does NOT mean:
thisgingersnapsback:
I am automatically correct!
You’re not allowed to disagree with me or vocalize this disagreement!
Anything you say to me in disagreement is immediately invalid because that’s just your opinion!
Your facts are just your opinion!
I have the right to never be questioned!
I’m just as informed as you are even though I’ve not looked at the facts!
I don’t NEED to look at the...
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a-petro-manifesto:
Paul calls Senate’s bluff, Kills Terrorist Detainee Amendment
By Josiah Ryan - 12/02/11 02:37 PM ET
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday — simply by asking for a recorded vote — managed to kill an amendment that would have clarified that the military can indefinitely detain enemy combatants.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), called the amendment to the floor, explaining it...
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THIS BLOG IS NOT RON PAUL FRIENDLY.
paxamericana:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to any...
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WatchAs shown from the first pseudo-audit, it was much much more than $7.7 trillion.
Which raises the question how could taxpayer money fund even that plus our budgets? Well, it doesn’t. Neither does borrowing. How much did the Fed print? Whatever the amount, it means trouble.
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Egregious Senate Defense Bill Passes 93-7 →
The highly unconstitutional defense bill of $662 billion passed the Senate by a landslide which is, in many opinions, incredibly scary. The Defense Authorization Act still faces an executive veto, but with votes like that, it makes me think it could easily receive the necessary 2/3 override vote.
Which means the only real hope is judicial review. However, this is not really a huge hope at...
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