Then, since a little after the turn of the century a trend developed in the world where it is getting less free over time.
It amazes me that someone like you could promote the idea of freedom with a straight face. Your disdain for white working people and your usurpation of their paychecks through massive income taxation increases is as far from freedom as one could ever get.
So there are massive tax increases on working class white people? Sources, please.
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Maxine Waters wrote: ... we start to see at whose mercy disarmed citizens really would find themselves under your policies. ...
Very large numbers of people live in 'disarmed' countries, and are fine that way. I've not noticed that the (in international terms) exceptional ability of Americans to buy military-grade weapons more or less on demand makes them any safer. Rather the reverse in terms of the number of firearms deaths per head of population.
Islamist terrorists seem to kill Americans with no greater difficulty than citizens of less heavily armed countries. (They know they'll die in the end, and they rather seem to look forward to it, don't they?)
I vote for a government. It decides my taxes. If I don't like it, I vote them out next time round. Where do the guns come into it?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Maxine Waters wrote: ... we start to see at whose mercy disarmed citizens really would find themselves under your policies. ...
Very large numbers of people live in 'disarmed' countries, and are fine that way. I've not noticed that the (in international terms) exceptional ability of Americans to buy military-grade weapons more or less on demand makes them any safer. Rather the reverse in terms of the number of firearms deaths per head of population.
Islamist terrorists seem to kill Americans with no greater difficulty than citizens of less heavily armed countries. (They know they'll die in the end, and they rather seem to look forward to it, don't they?)
I vote for a government. It decides my taxes. If I don't like it, I vote them out next time round. Where do the guns come into it?
Guns are like big trucks and Hummers in America. Some of them are actually useful and owned by competent and responsible people. For many others they are a hobby, a prop for their subculture, or a toy in their fantasies.
Then, since a little after the turn of the century a trend developed in the world where it is getting less free over time.
It amazes me that someone like you could promote the idea of freedom with a straight face. Your disdain for white working people and your usurpation of their paychecks through massive income taxation increases is as far from freedom as one could ever get. Couple that with your efforts to destroy law and order with your antipolice rhetoric and championing of black lives matter terrorists and we start to see at whose mercy disarmed citizens really would find themselves under your policies.
The only liberty citizens would ever possess if you had your way is the freedom to bow down and do whatever an arrogant intellectual elite like yourself would command. You think you're more intelligent than everyone else and therefore have the right to appoint yourself as supreme dictator. You're no libertarian inasmuch as the word has anything to do with freedom. See John Stossel if you want to know what real libertarianism is, not EAllusion.
I favor relatively low taxes in comparison to the vast majority of the public. I also favor a small federal government with significantly limited powers to prevent encroachments on private decision making by a self-appointed elite. Since I favor progressive taxation, I think the working class should bear a disproportionately small part of the burden of taxation to fund justified government services, so even to the extent I agree with taxes I think the working class (which includes non-whites) should be spared much of the pain. My disagreement with your Stormfront views, including a whites-only society wherein eugenics used to wipe out "inferior" races is mandated by law, is not "disdain for the white working class." Moreover, your embrace of America's version of Naziism is about as far from a message liberty as humanity gets.
My views on civil liberties and necessary measures to curtail police abuse of power is about as stereotypically libertarian as can possibly be. I'm more a less a carbon copy of Radley Balko on that front. Moreover, there's some obvious tension in your extreme deference to police powers and any false attempt to take up the mantle of liberty against an oppressive government.
If you want to argue that any level of taxation is an attack on "the white working class," then in addition to you being on the fringe of the fringe, one wonders how you plan on paying for the massive police state you also favor.
People like Ajax deserved their fate at Nuremberg. My only hope is that social disapprobation keeps them down enough that it never becomes necessary again.
Also, "western liberalism" includes a huge range of views from Nordic-style socialist democracies to highly capitalist countries like New Zealand.
After a period of rapid expansion in the world, liberalism is on the decline. For those who had unbounded optimism in the upward progress of the liberalization of the world, this is a disheartening turn of events.
Moreover, your embrace of America's version of Naziism is about as far from a message liberty as humanity gets.
Trump supporters fit into your "basket of deplorables," stereotype. These are people that believe in enforcing the border. They don't really embrace the idea of a huge trade deficit with China where we borrow money from them to buy their stuff while producing nothing ourselves as good for America. It's really about race as much as it is about the rule of law and your support of those who try to tear it down. Your hatred extends to people like Sherriff David Clarke as well.
No EAllusion if you had it your way, there would be no freedom.
“There were mothers who took this [Rodney King LA riots] as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes ... They are not crooks.”
This liberal would be about socializing … uh, umm. … Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.
Your disdain for white working people and your usurpation of their paychecks through massive income taxation increases is as far from freedom as one could ever get. Couple that with your efforts to destroy law and order with your antipolice rhetoric and championing of black lives matter terrorists and we start to see at whose mercy disarmed citizens really would find themselves under your policies.
That sounds like it should have been addressed to Kevin Graham instead of EAllusion. But Graham doesn't post around here anymore.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Maxine Waters wrote:No EAllusion if you had it your way, there would be no freedom.
What, none at all?
A country whose citizens address one another in this way has a few problems ...
Maybe we could try to agree on what the essential elements of freedom might be?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Moreover, your embrace of America's version of Naziism is about as far from a message liberty as humanity gets.
Trump supporters fit into your "basket of deplorables," stereotype.
Are we currently pretending that you aren't a routine poster on a white supremacist board who has repeatedly discussed his desire for a racially segregated society enforced by the government, advocated for genocide, and generally speaks in glowing terms about Nazis? Like, I know you abandoned your old alias after you were found out and all, but were not actually pretending that's not you, right?
