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by fivestar 9y ago
There is nothing unusual about 1x11 these days.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Please provide evidence of "voter suppression" campaigns from the right versus what I consider healthy "positive voter identification" which is a legitimate need given the number of illegal immigrants allowed into the co
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by fivestar 9y ago
They are left wing examples, but I know that during 2003 during the propaganda campaign that got us the second Iraq War that there was an unacknowledged but very real effort of the same size and scope going on initiated by the neocons. I a
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by fivestar 9y ago
I don't think there is. I think the answer is more speech, not less. Having someone who decides is just another form of tyranny as soon as they begin abusing the power, which they will. The elite abuse it every day.
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by fivestar 9y ago
The Sinking of the USS Maine comes to mind--the Yellow Journalists egged the US into a war with Spain over an attack that never took place. Or perhaps it was a false-flag type of deal. We'll never know. The tinkering with public opin
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by fivestar 9y ago
All the items listed in the article are FUD to get you into the dealership so they can upsell you. Oil changes are necessary but not critical to be done unless long overdue. Cheaper to do them yourself or find a reliable shop. Software up
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by fivestar 9y ago
The problem with privatization is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation--look at Russia after the USSR caved in and how oligarchs came to own factories and all kinds of infrastructure simply because of the gold rush moment
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by fivestar 9y ago
You don't absolutely have to get an 'entry level' job--you could be an entrepreneur, for example. Everything is risky. The problem I see with the entry level roles right now is that they all require ~5 years of experience!
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by fivestar 9y ago
Which, when you think about it, makes utterly no sense. They have to buy it from quasi-gangsters on the gray/black market. That puts regular shop owners in a perilous situation. Although I'm not that dramatic to realize that wh
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by fivestar 9y ago
Is there anything drones can't do? All mine seems to do is get stuck in trees.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Spiedies--all over the central region upstate.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Oh dear me!
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by fivestar 9y ago
Insurance is voluntary--you can opt out. I can't opt out of taxes and put that money to other uses. It is am matter of economic freedom of choice.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Loving the downvotes! Hah!
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by fivestar 9y ago
It's not ridiculous as a basis for policy. The idea that the money belongs to the government has to end. I can't figure out "Europe as it actually is." I have concluded that peasants like to be ruled and cradle to grav
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by fivestar 9y ago
I was assured that by now my socks would be addressable.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Palma rifles don't have post front sights. They use adjustable front and rear apertures. You still generally focus on the front sight. All you do with the rear is center up the front in the rear and the target is blurry but centered
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by fivestar 9y ago
Based upon the huge number of surplus police shotguns presently for sale, I suspect that most patrol cars now have rifles in them.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I have not personally been in a gunfight (thankfully) but a couple different people I know have. It went something like this: "Oh shit" followed by the gun being drawn and fired in very close quarters with no aiming whatsoever b
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by fivestar 9y ago
That distinction is lost on me: Either you are voting to strip the wealth of people under the color of law or you aren't.
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by fivestar 9y ago
That still seems like a problem that the market can solve somehow without nationalizing an obscene amount of the US economy. We need to look at the insurance industry from the standpoint of how they are growing profits, who is getting the
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by fivestar 9y ago
When was that? And how much do we know about it outside of a narrative that was written by people with statist tendencies?
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by fivestar 9y ago
That money came out of someone else's pocket! It is not free. The free lunch is what doesn't exist and has never existed.
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by fivestar 9y ago
And if speed limits were set to what people really drive you would see a huge drop off in speeding! People ignore things that are increasingly obviously stupid. Any time a large majority of drivers are ignoring the rules it's an engi
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by fivestar 9y ago
And US health insurance does the same without the high taxes. What is your point?
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by fivestar 9y ago
I don't think the Boomers are the major impediment there--for decades it's been all about one generation and they have done nothing but suck the life out of everyone else while at the same time pulling up all the ladders. Why do y
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by fivestar 9y ago
From the outside looking in, your social welfare system seems ludicrous to me.
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by fivestar 9y ago
All that an 80% tax would do is suck the wealth away to the 1% even faster. No one is minding the store--the money the federal government takes now at 25-33% is mostly wasted on nonsense that benefits the war machine, the healthcare machin
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by fivestar 9y ago
This has little to do with capitalism. More like the corporo-fascist police state we inhabit. In capitalism, Pirate Joe's could open up right next door to Trader Joe's and charge whatever prices they like for the products purchas
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by fivestar 9y ago
It seems like after you buy something at point of sale whatever you do with it is fair game. I can buy Coke from Sam's Club or Costco and sell it in my restaurant. How is what Pirate Joe's did any different?

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