If my neighbor is stockpiling guns, and I'm not, and constantly talking like they want to use 'em, then I must assume they're planning an attack. I would be a fool to assume otherwise.
And that's exactly what right-wing gun nuts tend to do.
People who stockpile weapons are planning to use them. It isn't rocket-science.
I think that one's politics tracks one's personality. And leftists sort of by definition want more communal control and less individual decision making. In other words, they think that there should be more rules, and that they should make those rules, which means that they think they are are right and other people are wrong, or evil, or stupid.
Some things, like economics and social dynamics, are so complex and chaotic that nobody can understand them. That doesn't stop leftists from thinking they should assert control of those things. The result is unintended consequences. Some systems are better left alone.
The California forest fires, and the homeless crisis, are unintended consequences of people taking charge, making rules, spending public money, being wrong, making things worse, and doubling down on failure.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
There are plenty of things as a left-libertarian I think there should be fewer rules about. They don't sit well with the US right which as of late tends to be staunchly authoritarian, wants larger police budgets, larger military budgets, locked-down borders, and the government up the ass of everyone's life who isn't white & wealthy.
I wasn't born to lick police boots. Sorry, not sorry. Must be the Scots-Irish half.
"Sarah Sanders, now a FoxNews talking head, on war powers: 'I can?t think of anything dumber than allowing Congress to take over our foreign policy ? The last thing we want to do is push powers into Congress? hands and take them away from the president.? (How could James Madison have gotten it so wrong!)"
Sarah Sanders can't understand the Constitution it's too complex
The homeless "crisis" is among other reasons a consequence of decades of massive deficit spending in an attempt to prop up a faltering global empire (see military spending, above.) Keeping on spending money on credit and keeping interest rates low for decades debases the currency! it makes da people who aren't consistently getting paid more money year over year to do the same job go broke, see?
It's not just a matter of "spending public money" they're spending money they don't even have.
Nope, that's bitrex.
-- No deal? No problem! :-D
I would reach the same conclusion.
But no, they don't talk like they want to use them.
Nor are gun "collectors" even a very large group.
Is your neighbor stockpiling guns? And planning to use them?
The ones that you invent, so that you can have someone to fear and hate.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Some people like guns, as machines. I think they are cool.
And some people think they have a right to protect themselves and their families from burglers and such.
I know some gun owners, who are nice, moral, generous, very careful people who want to be able to defend themselves if required.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
The definition of "leftists" involved is clearly one written by right-winge rs of the James Arthur kind, who find it convenient to claim that all left- wing opinions can be conflated with "communism" despite the fact that Karl Marx and the proto-communists got thrown out of the international socialist movement in
1871. Their perceived error was to endorse the "leading role of the party" which the rest of the socialist movement rejected as undemocratic and likel y to lead to tyranny, as indeed it did in Stalin's Russia.Leftist think that society should be run in a way that works for every memb er of society. Having the government make all the decisions isn't going to deliver that, and modern socialist governments are perfectly happy with a w ell regulated free market - some communal control, but a situation where th e less well off end up with enough money to have more choices than they wou ld if the rich had most of it (as they do in the US at the moment).
The was the error implicit in Karl Marx's enthusiasm for the leading role o f the party. The international socialist movement rejected it back in 1871, but John Larkin isn't aware of this.
Free markets degenerate into cartels and monopolies if left entirely alone .
The US introduced anti-trust legislation in 1890 and followed it up with mo re in 1914. John Larkin's argument is clearly ill-informed.
John Larkin has strange ideas about how chaotic systems work. It's perfectl y possible to stop them going off in unfortunate directions while leaving t hem free to explore more benign areas of the solution space.
That's what a regulated free market does. The USA isn't all that good at it because it lets organisations spend money on lobbyists who try to influenc e the regulations to suit the organisations paying the lobbyists.
The Californian and Australian forest fires are - to a large extent - conse quences of people being free to sell fossil carbon as fuel which get burnt and adds CO2 to an atmosphere which already has more greenhouses gases than suits us.
Fuel reduction burns might - and at least in Australia, have - made them le ss catastrophic than they might have been, but higher average temperatures make forests more inflammable, and that's an unintended consequence of digg ing up lots of fossil carbon and selling it as fuel.
John Larkin doesn't know enough to be able to recognise bad decisions when he sees them, which leaves him happier with Donald Trump and right-wing pol itics than he ought to be.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
That's silly, but that's Cursitor Doom - an imperceptive and gullible twit.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
could
There are many folks posting without a name. Usenet IS anonymous, idiot.
YOU chose to use your name. I see YOU and IDIOTS like you calling me names. Funny how the others that use a nym instead of their name do not suffer the BABY BULLSHIT retards like you attempt to put me through.
You are the exact kind of person deserving of a shillelagh correction. You are a dumb chump, you dung hump. So I should just call you "The Hump" because getting over you is easy.
John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Pathetic presumptions, both.
John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You make up stupid shit about folks and believe it as truth. You are just as bad as the Trumpanzee dumbfuck you have been standing behind.
Rod Serling did not roll over in his grave, he flat EXPLODED!
It is true that the bulk of suburban Trump supporters around my age are the type of guy that thinks getting "wicked fahkin' wasted" and pooping on someone's driveway is a cool prank, getting their third DUI and having their Mom bail them out makes a good "war story", and generally behaving like a 8 year old in a 45 y/o man's body like their hero for attention is a great way for their greying middle-age twice-divorced and skipping-out-on-child-support ass to behave as they can't find anything better to do with their time. many of them are ripping off workman's comp and SSDI so they can get high popping pills.
bunch of fails blaming everyone but themselves for their problems.
How about designing some electronics? It pays better.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
John Larkin gets away with developing and evolving his products. That seems to pay pretty well too.
Finding people to buy them is an essential part of the trick, and John only got successful on his third try - or so he has told us.
He doesn't seem to think he was producing any less inspired products in the first two attempts, so it may not be the design content that made the difference.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
A news article reported that this freak was arrested in Dec 2019 for abusing prescription drugs, and in Jan 2020 for traffic violations.
But not convicted?
Working for Bernie Sanders wouldn't make you popular with right-wing nitwits, and the police do tend to have that kind of mindset. Harassing people whose politics they don't like is definitely standard operating procedure.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Probably the first nice thing you have ever said to me.
Looks like Russian propaganda to me. They are starting early this time.
John
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