well that is certainly reasonable
well that is certainly reasonable
america is not an empire - anon.
right on, new zealand. i'm sure your island's 37 lesbians will be relieved to hear this.Ty wrote:
NZ just legalised same-sex marriage, (about ten minutes ago.) I know it doesn't matter but I just think it's nice so I thought I'd note it. That is all. Go about your more important discussions now.
let us know if you want any help from the mother land, we can send more food parcels.
x x x
you made this post without a single sheep joke?Uzique The Lesser wrote:
right on, new zealand. i'm sure your island's 37 lesbians will be relieved to hear this.Ty wrote:
NZ just legalised same-sex marriage, (about ten minutes ago.) I know it doesn't matter but I just think it's nice so I thought I'd note it. That is all. Go about your more important discussions now.
let us know if you want any help from the mother land, we can send more food parcels.
x x x
disappointed
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
i live on the border to wales, new zealand is the second-rate wales, so no, i will not dignify it with wales' sheep stereotypes.
New Zealand could explode at any moment though, so its far more exciting than Wales.
Fuck Israel
Romney might've pushed for 98% military spending.Macbeth wrote:
well that is certainly reasonable
seriously a first-world country that wants to spend 60% of her wealth on military spending. that's bitching. you could enjoy a cultural or scientific renaissance if that money went to something constructive, rather than destructive.
More ships!unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Romney might've pushed for 98% military spending.Macbeth wrote:
well that is certainly reasonable
We know and we're face-palming (or at least I am). But before we can boost science, we have to kick the jingoists and Christian fundamentalists the fuck out of office.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
seriously a first-world country that wants to spend 60% of her wealth on military spending. that's bitching. you could enjoy a cultural or scientific renaissance if that money went to something constructive, rather than destructive.
Before they ask us to break bread with them.
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:
We know and we're face-palming (or at least I am). But before we can boost science, we have to kick the jingoists and Christian fundamentalists the fuck out of office.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
seriously a first-world country that wants to spend 60% of her wealth on military spending. that's bitching. you could enjoy a cultural or scientific renaissance if that money went to something constructive, rather than destructive.
Before they ask us to break bread with them.
If we stop spending, power vacuums etc. Would be nice if our allies picked up their share of the bill.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
i could take that infographic seriously if it wasn't so transparently libertarian
i think what is perhaps more honest is the statement that "if we stop spending [on the military], employment blackholes". the military complex is a huge and reliable sector of employment for people with not much other structure or opportunity. it's also a free-ride into college education. if you drastically cut back on your military/standing army, you'd have an employment crisis, where people who formerly would go into skilled manual professions/industry and manufacture, in fact now have nowhere to go. your military is basically a diverted form of the welfare state.
I think everyone can agree that cutting it back all at once would be disastrous.
lol the Cato Institute.Jay wrote:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
We know and we're face-palming (or at least I am). But before we can boost science, we have to kick the jingoists and Christian fundamentalists the fuck out of office.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
seriously a first-world country that wants to spend 60% of her wealth on military spending. that's bitching. you could enjoy a cultural or scientific renaissance if that money went to something constructive, rather than destructive.
Before they ask us to break bread with them.
If we stop spending, power vacuums etc. Would be nice if our allies picked up their share of the bill.
Their whole mission statement -
Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations.
Libertarian wet dream. Totally unbiased in what they would represent. lol
So America should still keep a large military?
i didn't even have to look up the institutions mission statement... i've read cato it's a very transparent and typically american bit of pretension. classically named think-tanks with very literal and one-dimensional meanings.
Cato was a pretty cool guy, wanted to keep the plebs down and shit.
Et tu, Brute?
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wow
that's overkill, when the knife was bigger . . .
that's overkill, when the knife was bigger . . .
So tougher gun laws failed to pass the Senate.
Why is it the same politicians that want photo ID's and licenses to vote don't think guns could be given similar checks?
Your right to own a gun is better protected than your right to vote it seems.
Why is it the same politicians that want photo ID's and licenses to vote don't think guns could be given similar checks?
Your right to own a gun is better protected than your right to vote it seems.
sad
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