Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
It's ironic, because if anything, both Trump and Le Pen are for a powerful government controlling people.
Isn't Liberalism for big government, so that personal freedom can be maintained and protected? I mean if the government doesn't have any power to protect the people, nobody protects them.
You protect democracy by being part of it, by spreading knowledge and understanding of its function so that all can participate. But also through big transparency measures and accountability, so that none that act badly can just get away with it.
I personally don't see the merit in the government being some arbitrary size.
Government needs to be as big or small as it needs to be to function efficiently.
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But Republicans must be small-government. After all, a government has to be very small to fit inside a vagina and make sure no abortions happen without their consent.
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The reason republicans rail against big govt is because big governments require more taxes to fund and R's run on a lower taxes promise. They are not at all interested in it to stop strong men or dictators.
The hypocrisy lies in that they also believe in a massive military to the point we buy weapons of war that we don't need and the military is a huge and expensive function of the govt that taxes pay for but as far as they are concerned should get as much tax money as it wants, just keep throwing money at it... Unless of course you are a former soldier then fuck off.
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On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Exactly what part of building a massive wall, destroying private citizens livelihoods and seizing their property in the process, is small government?
Just look at who is pushing for the globalist agenda in the USA. You can't get bigger than a "global government." The far, far left- like Sanders opposes it but the regular "liberals" we have (Hillary, Obama) are pushing hard for it. Despite most of their convention holding up anti trade agreement signs, they still support it. It shows: their personal agenda > voters. Hey who cares if you lose your job to some global trade agreement. At least Obama and Hillary will get to pat themselves on the back knowing they furthered the globalist agenda.
Most Americans oppose the trade deal (TPP or whatever it is called). We have a representative government, a government "by the people- for the people." Our officials are supposed to be our voice or the voice of our beliefs. The problem we are currently having is that most of our officials seem to forget that as soon as they are elected and just start stubbornly pursuing their own agenda. When most Americans oppose something, our officials should as well.
Most of our elected officials do not come from the same social classes that make up the majority of the American populations. More over most of them have this sense of DC Consensus of what benefits the social classes they come from and consider worthy or important.
TPP is the scourge of many and will blight many, its just those people don't live in NYC or Silicon Valley.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Nobody cares how big the government is, so long as it works and is efficient. This whole notion that the bigger a government is, the less freedoms we have or whatnot is nonsense.
Buzzwords, nothing but buzzwords from this guy.
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Also this. I don't think te government needs to be any defined size. I think there are areas the government should have control: banking, Wall Street, public utilities like Internet, and infrastructure. And arenas I DONT want them in: drugs, pharmaceuticals. Just give me a check list instead of some insipid category.
I swear I lose brain cells reading the idiocy of these threads.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
Those all have to do with the size of government. All of them are examples of big-government solutions, as well as unnecessary government intrusion.Trump supports them all, because he's a strong authoritarian. There is nothing in his rhetoric that would imply that he's in favor of smaller government.