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Gridlock doesn't mean that the government doesn't oppress you. It means that the government cannot change oppressive and broken laws. Re: DEA, TSA, etc... Govt bureaucracies seek to expand their mission, influence, and power regardless of who is in power. Aided and abetted by both the Demopublicans...

There is a marketing aspect to the naming such bills, I presume. While this is a marginally relevant question to scoring points in the game of Republicrat vs Demopublican, http://s15.postimage.org/4tfziyvln/spy_vs_spy.jpg I'm curious as to what content in this "Violence against Women" bil...

There comes a point where British austerity is just a coded way of trying to preoccupy a growing underclass with something . Paying them off has led to a generation or two of young Northern English and Scottish men, who have not worked a day in their lives. Taking care of them as a way to avoid sed...

You don't want to diffuse power. You want "gridlock," which means the maintaining the status quo. No. Try paying attention. Diffusing power is not in the cards, specially when folk are inventing their own special versions of justice, rights and such, concentrating power centrally. Gridloc...

How to Buy Your First Gun for Defense Thots? My thoughts are thinking about a first gun makes my head feel like it will explode. The only real question is will it be a 22 or not. Toss a coin and get on with it I guess. Except for CCW and a genuine commitment to extensive practice, I cannot imagine ...

There comes a point where British austerity is just a coded way of trying to preoccupy a growing underclass with something . Paying them off has led to a generation or two of young Northern English and Scottish men, who have not worked a day in their lives. Taking care of them as a way to avoid sed...

Coercion has been bad historically. The powerful coerce the weak. The weak need social justice to enforce their social rights in their social community. Solution? Coercion .* :shock: Leninist pamphleteers famously phrased it as "who, whom?" Which is to say "who may do what to whom?&q...

Austerity, antonym: Code for: Let my grandchildren pay for it. And I thought the bring out the guillotine thingy was social justice ... Unfortunately, looks like your great-grandchildren will be paying for it. http://grandfather-economic-report.com/debt.gif Austerity or not. Indeed. In fact, it mig...

Austerity, antonym: Code for: Let my grandchildren pay for it.

• And I thought the bring out the guillotine thingy was social justice...

Coercion has been bad historically. The powerful coerce the weak. The weak need social justice to enforce their social rights in their social community. Solution? Coercion .* :shock: The weak seek to unite to become powerful to coerce the formerly powerful. The weak console themselves that the reaso...

Tempting to excerpt this, but instead I'll try the color method... (And as I do this, I know that Endo and my worldviews are hopelessly incompatible...) Thank you noddy for having had the trouble of reading what I wrote. Being ignored means either that you are so far off the point that it is a waste...

Gridlock doesn't mean that the government doesn't oppress you. It means that the government cannot change oppressive and broken laws. Re: DEA, TSA, etc... Might be relevant if anybody was actually trying to restrain them. In lieu of that, I will take paralysis in their ability to muck up other thin...

Typhoon wrote:...
POTUS Obama certainly lives completely rent free in Spenglerman's head.

For some of us (dunno about Spengler) the problem is that Obama lives completely rent free in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Growing Gap in Favorable Views of Federal, State Governments ... In the current survey, 51% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of the federal government in Washington, Yawn... ... and just 20% of Republicans. ... Yawn... ... compared with 27% of independents ... :shock: ... Since Barack Obama’s ...

... endo is more open about this, he hates the germanic versions of social justice and wants them hung and shot. :lol: And which version of social justice will win? Germany's or Portugal's? Whichever, I suspect the reason won't be justice, probably something more mundane like economic and military ...

Fascinating thread IMSMO so far.... No, it's not, actually. Trying to delegitimize demands upon society for perceived injustices by relegitimizing the status quo ("Justice is just justice") is an old and quite boring game. It amounts to nothing more than simply upholding the established l...

Enki wrote:The billions of people who use the term social justice meaningfully don't seem to have any problem understanding one another.

Billions?

• Psssst... you're shrieking again.

Enki wrote:Words that don't mean anything don't get used every day.

1) This is incorrect. Social Justice is Justice in a macro sense as applied to large groups of people as opposed to the noun justice, which is just the all-encompassing idea of justice that can be social or individual or whatever, thus the need for the modifying adjective social in order to convey ...

Wrong. The crux of my argument is: 1. The term social justice confers zero marginal intrinsic meaning over the simple word justice . 2. Since the term does not and cannot convey intrinsic meaning, its use is likely as a buzzword, codeword, word game that can be imbued with custom meaning "at ru...

Justice is 'social' in nature, but that doesn't mean anything. Good, we agree. :mrgreen: If I get shot, and the person who shot me gets put on trial and goes to jail. That's justice. ^ Social context. If Jim Crow laws stipulate that a segment of society is inferior and must rely upon inferior servi...

Almost worthless as concealment gear. As soon as another shooter or cop sees you in them, they know you have a gun. In a short time, so will the the thugs. The 5.11 stuff, especially. And Under Armour is probably way too high profile, especially in thug culture. Woolrich might make it under the rad...

New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun Woolrich, a 182-year-old clothing company, describes its new chino pants as an elegant and sturdy fashion statement, with a clean profile and fabric that provides comfort and flexibility. And they are great for hiding a handgun. ... Other companies are ...

Mitt Romney, with nod to Ronald Reagan, asking voters how life has improved under Obama ... At one point, he paid homage to the campaign slogans of both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton in their bids to defeat an incumbent president during economic turmoil . “Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it eas...

In my travels, I came across a discussion of this article: How to Buy Your First Gun for Defense which includes this little passage: ... Most likely you want a handgun. They are small, easy to have in a place where you can get it quickly and easy to operate. Rifles can be very good for home defense ...

A Saiga 12 with a drum mag. Trying to defend against swarms like that, trap-shooting on steroids. ;) I hate to tell you this but most conventional forces would jam these bots immediately with simple EW countermeasures. They are only useful against non conventional forces like they have in Afghanist...