One would almost think your government psychotically picks on anyone who disagrees with it or who they disagree with or who the corporations who bankroll them disagree with.
I'm so glad you guys have Piers, and we don't any more.
Though to be fair to him, even though he is somewhat rabidly right-wing by European standards, he does provide an external eye on some of your madnesses, like your Gun Religion.
And you obviously need an external eye kept on you, because it sure as hell wasn't American media exposing all this, or the truth about non-WMDs, etc!
What if 'fake' killing is a good safety valve? What if we learn about real issues by playing instead of doing? Did everyone in the pre-video games generations who played cops 'n' robbers, cowboys and indians, and war against germans go out and kill as well? Those were 'violent' gratuitous.
If no-one knows about psychology, not even the psychologists", then Dr Oz should butt out and only talk on stuff he's good at. Or, if he feels he should weigh in (and interest should be respected) then he should actually quote some science, not make bullshit assertions.
What if someone announced that 95% of all cardiothoracic surgeons leave instruments in their patients? Without any figures/studies or any kind of appropriate standing, would that person be taken seriously? I'm sure Dr Oz would react ith indignation at least to any (unsupported) suggestion that "being an X surgeon means he leaves instruments in his patients". So he should return the professional courtesy.
I also notice that anti-tax libertarians go very quiet when 'consensual relationships and voluntary exchange' means paying people more than minimal (if any) money for their 'freely given' time and labour, and allowing them any actual rights.
Libertarianism. The wet dream of 1%ers everywhere!
Good luck with those voluntary exchanges when invaders come a-callin'.
What are you, a hippy? :)
Seriously, how will you be able to impose US will on the world, taxing them to prop up your economy and citizenry raping the planet without taxes to fund your corporations and military (oh sorry, I already mentioned corporations).
Yes, you'd love it have people 'obsessing' over actually unimportant stuff like copyright instead of important stuff like government-sponsored abuse of power. Oh wait, that's copyright as well.
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And the government needs to be held to at least the same standard.
Laws protecting privacy should apply equally to the government and corporations.
No-one is saying to allow business monitoring only, or let that be unlimited. People also understand government monitoring where actual reasonable suspicion exists, and the laws with full Constitutional safeguards are followed.
Too much since 9/11 has been unconstitutional, from Guantanamo to the current shenanigans. Too much has been immoral, from foreign invasions for private company/military industrial benefit to the persecution of whistleblowers.
America, you are supposed to set a positive example, not convince everyone you are hypocrites and give them ideas for their own repression.
Riiiight, and they were beating paths to the government, demanding that it accept all their data that wsa going to waste and that all their customers needed spied upon.
You have separation of powers for a reason - doesn't make it perfect, but it helps. It does fall apart if all the 'old men' get scared together.
Your Constitution is quite good, as far as it goes (which isn't far enough). It's just it gets ignored too readily in some instances, and too worshipped in others (how come the only 'sacred' amendment is the 2nd?).
It was also very noticeable that anyone who disagreed at the time with the over-reaches at home, and the mass scattergun invasions abroad were guilty of being 'unpatriotic', 'unAmerican', or just sympathising with terrorists. Given how the invasions worked out, are you really so surprised that the government handled the home front this way?
Frankly, it just makes me glad you guys mostly sat out WW2, and weren't in danger of being bombed directly - you'd have probably sterilised the whole of Europe and the entire Pacific Rim in your profligate over-reaction!
Doesn't matter what the terrorists did - you have a choice how you react. Look at the US hysterical over-reaction versus say how Norway responded to Breivik, who makes your home-grown killers look like pussies.
You always have a choice, and it should never involve a loss of liberty and respect for people - or you have a Middle Eastern-style tyranny and the terrorists have one. And they have won so much here.
I think that it is better to do things from mutual respect, not fear. So a government that respects its people is more likely to be respected by its people. All the government should 'fear' is losing their cushy jobs - just like anyone ought to fear if life was actually about consequences of actions.
Which reminds me, all those conservatives who have hard-ons for 'suffer the consequences of your actions/choices' - how come that never seems to involve them and their rich buddies who can destroy economies and lives, and only to the poor and minorities and foreign countries?
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Though to be fair to him, even though he is somewhat rabidly right-wing by European standards, he does provide an external eye on some of your madnesses, like your Gun Religion.
And you obviously need an external eye kept on you, because it sure as hell wasn't American media exposing all this, or the truth about non-WMDs, etc!
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If no-one knows about psychology, not even the psychologists", then Dr Oz should butt out and only talk on stuff he's good at. Or, if he feels he should weigh in (and interest should be respected) then he should actually quote some science, not make bullshit assertions.
What if someone announced that 95% of all cardiothoracic surgeons leave instruments in their patients? Without any figures/studies or any kind of appropriate standing, would that person be taken seriously? I'm sure Dr Oz would react ith indignation at least to any (unsupported) suggestion that "being an X surgeon means he leaves instruments in his patients". So he should return the professional courtesy.
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(Sorry, this was meant to be on this one and not the other. Give us an immediate delete button!)
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Riiiiight.
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Re: He's still in his job because...
Libertarianism. The wet dream of 1%ers everywhere!
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What are you, a hippy? :)
Seriously, how will you be able to impose US will on the world, taxing them to prop up your economy and citizenry raping the planet without taxes to fund your corporations and military (oh sorry, I already mentioned corporations).
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Unless actually part of a well-regulated militia such as the National Guard. Except for all the paranoid psychos who are afraid of that too...
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Forward planning
Whether or not you agree with what he did, this man has cojones...
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Re: Your records ARE being checked -- by private companies
Laws protecting privacy should apply equally to the government and corporations.
No-one is saying to allow business monitoring only, or let that be unlimited. People also understand government monitoring where actual reasonable suspicion exists, and the laws with full Constitutional safeguards are followed.
Too much since 9/11 has been unconstitutional, from Guantanamo to the current shenanigans. Too much has been immoral, from foreign invasions for private company/military industrial benefit to the persecution of whistleblowers.
America, you are supposed to set a positive example, not convince everyone you are hypocrites and give them ideas for their own repression.
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Re: Geeks and Nerds
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Your Constitution is quite good, as far as it goes (which isn't far enough). It's just it gets ignored too readily in some instances, and too worshipped in others (how come the only 'sacred' amendment is the 2nd?).
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Frankly, it just makes me glad you guys mostly sat out WW2, and weren't in danger of being bombed directly - you'd have probably sterilised the whole of Europe and the entire Pacific Rim in your profligate over-reaction!
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You always have a choice, and it should never involve a loss of liberty and respect for people - or you have a Middle Eastern-style tyranny and the terrorists have one. And they have won so much here.
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Which reminds me, all those conservatives who have hard-ons for 'suffer the consequences of your actions/choices' - how come that never seems to involve them and their rich buddies who can destroy economies and lives, and only to the poor and minorities and foreign countries?
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