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by notthegov 11y ago
If the FBI really wanted to save lives, they would put governors on every vehicle and make owning a lighter require a license. The lies of the tobacco industry, lead industry and food industry have killed millions of people. And the selfis
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by notthegov 11y ago
Yes. Whenever you fight back against a meaningless misdemeanor, the city attorney and police will vindicatively punish you. It happened to me in a small town. Antonio is a graduate of Wespoint, Stanford and Harvard. There are better more
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by notthegov 11y ago
How much of Morgan Stanley's business is from Primerica, the deceptive MLM company? Primerica bought Smith Barney in 1987 whicu used egregious marketing tactics to build its business. Then Morgan eventually bought them. If anything,
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by notthegov 11y ago
Austin is an interesting town as an example of the flaws of law enforcement. It widely considered this liberal paradise, as noted by the article, but the abuses by the police and city government are like anywhere else. Power corrupts and
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by notthegov 11y ago
This is not true. Just because modern scholars pretend it is, doesn't make it so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_theory
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by notthegov 11y ago
This is highly inappropriate. The argument should be based in principles and philosophies, not in political machinations motivated by a diplomat with a history degree. Denis McDonough is not qualified or educated to understand what he is a
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by notthegov 11y ago
The general idea is that since humans are self-conscious and born with innate natural rights, that these are the rights that can never be taken away unless proven guilty of a crime in a court of law (ideally if there's an actual victim
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by notthegov 11y ago
How does a nation built upon the concept of natural rights in turn deny non-Americans those same innate rights? It is a crime what the NSA is doing. Against Americans, the world and the first principles of governance (i.e. classical libera
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by notthegov 11y ago
How do we distinguish between someone who is an introvert and someone who is socially lazy? Or someone who is quiet and someone who is mean? Also saying everyone is somewhere on the austic spectrum is questionable. I am skeptical of such
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by notthegov 11y ago
There's nothing complex or ambiguous about it. The United States' organic law is based in the acknowledgment of natural rights. Academics can debate if this has any legal enforcement or if the right of revolution is valid, but i
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by notthegov 11y ago
You (and others) misinterpeted my comment and missed the point. I purposely wrote it a bit obtuse as a firewall of sorts. Consider the broader philosophical implications of what I wrote. And proving it was a simulation would explain all t
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by notthegov 11y ago
That's a distortion of what I meant. So respecting natural rights and popular sovereignty are not the right way to serve people? Your perspective on this was the point of Professor Bloom's book, The Closing of the American Mind.
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by notthegov 11y ago
You are probably right, that it means nothing. And I am happy people think this because nothing is meaningless. I believe there is no grand secret to this number or of life. In other words, things are the way they are because we wouldn&#x
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by notthegov 11y ago
DMT is much different than LSD. I have never heard anyone talk about machine elves and LSD. DMT is a legitimate mystery of science and is not a drug in the traditional sense.
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by notthegov 11y ago
This sounds like you are saying truth is relative. Isn't there one best way to serve the people? Which is by protecting tenets of classical liberalism and natural rights; and ideally promoting and defending these ideas elsewhere to p
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by notthegov 11y ago
This is kind of like saying, if Elon Musk doesn't recycle, he isn't helping the world. I don't mind the inherent hypocrisy because you need those jets and to go to Davos in order to influence policy etc in the right directio
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by notthegov 11y ago
I don't need the Supreme Court to tell me what my natural rights are regarding privacy. The answer is to reject this perverse notion of Judicial Review. This is what we should be lobbying for. I do not care what SCOTUS or a private co
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by notthegov 11y ago
He is suggesting that the FBI sees this as an opportunity to set a precedent and doesn't care about the data? If so, in FBI logic, in the future there could be a more legitimate need for Apple to comply because a suspect could have a W
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by notthegov 11y ago
Humanity and biology in general is a precursor to addictive behavior. One of the major reasons people self-medicate, is because they think they are their thoughts. They indulge every whim and emotional impulse as if it is a command line d
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by notthegov 11y ago
I agree, most prefer the lifestyle because A) life is hard and B) they adapt and/or give-up. There are 25,000 homeless in my city. I don't know exact numbers but a lot come here to pursue their dreams and some to escape a bad situ
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by notthegov 11y ago
Where I live, it is more the opposite. People come here with irrational dreams, get on the street, fall into bad things, and then through dehydration, stress and living on the street, they become more irrational, and eventually permanently
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by notthegov 11y ago
Tell that to them, not me. I am just recounting what happened in a corner office with 2 Morgan executives who make about $1 million a year. This is what they claim.
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by notthegov 11y ago
I believe in God and goodness, hope and love. I do not believe in supernatural forces compelling man to be evil. The idea that a judge believes in Satan is absurd and dangerous. And no, it is a tragedy of modern civilization that our Presi
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by notthegov 11y ago
It's hard for me to have respect for an organization that was built by J. Edgar Hoover, a person who did not respect the law or American's rights. The philosophy of corruption and oppression still echoes throughout the FBI. Even
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by notthegov 11y ago
I can't escape the thought of him driving to work and getting all his news only from conservative talk radio. And then declaring he literally believes in Satan. I'm for religious freedom but a Supreme Court judge who literally be
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by notthegov 11y ago
How can internet access be a right? We can have fair access as part of the social contract; we can pass an amendment to exempt it in some special way; we can all agree to use other taxes to support it -- but we can't declare it a righ
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by notthegov 11y ago
Same can be said about children from good backgrounds. What makes Donald Trump's kids 'successful'? I know some extremely privileged people in the early 20s that could do anything, are very attractive, have no worries but l
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by notthegov 11y ago
Federalism.
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by notthegov 11y ago
The only difference is the 50m makes profit with little or no risk. And the consequence of this is consistent inflation, lowering of the purchasing power of dollar, quanitative easing and military keynesianism, along with other things. One
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by notthegov 11y ago
Could you elaborate or suggest any references? It sounds like you are saying something that appears chaotic forms some coherent beautiful image? I know alpha refers to many things but one of those is the fine-structure constant. There&#x27

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