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10-22-2007, 02:08 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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Wow woke up to the largest hijack ever [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] To try and get this back i will try and rephrase the question Do we have a ruling "class" in the United States? [/ QUOTE ] I think its probably true that there are a few people in the world that generally control the media, and by controlling the media they can control thought. By controlling thought, they can control votes. The American people are, unfortunetly, sheeps. They hear people in Canada talk about FREE healthcare and demand it here, not noticing how much higher taxes are in systems like that. (Not to bring healthcare back into it, but it was the first example I thought of) 
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#113
10-22-2007, 02:09 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Wow you say you oppose concentration camps and yet you're IN a concentration camp. OMG I can't believe how hypocritical you are. JUST LEAVE THE CONCENTRATION CAMP if you don't like it. God. [/ QUOTE ] More horribly insulting and mangled analogies... fantastic. [/ QUOTE ] Can you expand on this point? [/ QUOTE ] Your analogy is mangled (concentration camps are impossible to leave, this country is not) and horribly insulting (to people in concentration camps, who you make comparable to living under our government). This is not, in fact, fantastic. I was employing a form of irony known as sarcasm.
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#114
10-22-2007, 02:09 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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the choices for a physics professor are hugely hugely limited [/ QUOTE ] Wait...they don't teach physics at PRIVATE universities?
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#116
10-22-2007, 02:16 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I am a government employee [/ QUOTE ] This is truly astonishing. Reading all your BS about how we should keep everything private, welfare is terrible, fairness is inconceivable, government programs are socialist, blah blah ME ME ME blah blah I have a job with good benefits EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD TOO blah blah blah blah. And then I see that YOU ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT???!!??!! If you think the government is so terrible, and THE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT YOU ENJOY is so terrible, THEN GET THE [censored] OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT!!! Isn't there a famous quote that says something to the effect of: to know something is right, and not do it, is the highest level of cowardice? You "know" the government is wrong, well, do the RIGHT THING according to you and GET OUT! [/ QUOTE ] If you think this ones bad, consider that borodog is a government employee! [/ QUOTE ] The man is a hypocrite. [/ QUOTE ] FYP [/ QUOTE ] More damned if you do, damed if you don't. How many times have statist said that people who don't like the government should "work from within to change the system"? But if you're part of that system, you're a hypocrite. Lose-lose situation imo.
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#117
10-22-2007, 02:16 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Wow you say you oppose concentration camps and yet you're IN a concentration camp. OMG I can't believe how hypocritical you are. JUST LEAVE THE CONCENTRATION CAMP if you don't like it. God. [/ QUOTE ] More horribly insulting and mangled analogies... fantastic. [/ QUOTE ] Can you expand on this point? [/ QUOTE ] Your analogy is mangled (concentration camps are impossible to leave, this country is not) and horribly insulting (to people in concentration camps, who you make comparable to living under our government). This is not, in fact, fantastic. I was employing a form of irony known as sarcasm. [/ QUOTE ] Why is a difference of degree an insult? What authority do you have to speak for people in concentration camps about what they are or are not insulted by? It was possible to leave concentration camps in a similar (though less extreme) way that it is possible to leave the "country" that your property resides in. IE it requires an unreasonable sacrifice on the part of the person wishing to leave. One losing your livelihood, friends family, contacts, property and still being liable for tax "obligations" the other that you accept probably a 10% or less chance of survival. They are both unreasonable impositions.
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#118
10-22-2007, 02:17 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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Wow woke up to the largest hijack ever [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] To try and get this back i will try and rephrase the question Do we have a ruling "class" in the United States? [/ QUOTE ] Assume the answer is yes. Why do you think that which got you into this situation (i.e. representative democracy) is going to get you out of it?
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#119
10-22-2007, 02:17 PM
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I bet all the people reading this forum that were in concentration camps are sooooooo mad right now. [/ QUOTE ] I can't tell if you're just a rude [censored] or if there's a point you are trying to make here, but I'm going to just assume the former.
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#120
10-22-2007, 02:18 PM
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Re: Concentration of Power in the US
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[ QUOTE ] Wow woke up to the largest hijack ever [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] To try and get this back i will try and rephrase the question Do we have a ruling "class" in the United States? [/ QUOTE ] Assume the answer is yes. Why do you think that which got you into this situation (i.e. representative democracy) is going to get you out of it? [/ QUOTE ] You believe representative democracy gave us ruling classes?
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