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@Outplayz
Income inequality is an essential component to a society that promotes equal opportunity, as some people have more genetic talent, or simply choose to be hyper productive in society, which is the backbone of the progress of any society. These people need to have the freedom to earn more than others.
Making a welfare safety net for the handicapped people who cannot be as productive due to bad DNA is important, but not if it destroys the income inequality that guarantees equal opportunity. The welfare net should also not be exploited by lazy people.
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@Outplayz
Far right people don't believe in authoritarianism. Not a single one of them wants to rewrite the constitution to allow the government to grow uncontrollably. And the ones that do have zero influence on the right, who are sworn to the constitution defending the people from the tyranny of government.
Socialism requires authoritarianism, as productive people won't voluntarily hand over their paycheck to less productive people. There's no Socialist country in history that ever existed without an authoritative tyrannical government.
1984 shows what a dystopian world would be like if the constitution was shredded and people in power were allowed to program the minds of the public. The left's war against the 1st amendment with "hate speech" laws is just the critical 1st step toward this dystopia.
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@Outplayz
Also CNN was predicted by Orwell.
TDS allows the state to control the voters with no accountability.
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@Outplayz
Ministry of truth exists.
And of course it's from the Socialist left wingnut whackos. Just like Orwell predicted.
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@Outplayz
I disagree. As long as you use proper NPC code using approved words like racist, white, and male and avoiding words like muslim, women, and socialism, you won't notice any problem with account restrictions or bans.
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@thett3
A genuine eco-terrorist? Not like that fake Al Gore with his 9 million dollar beachfront mansion?
Savage!
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@Stephen
Or he will win a lawsuit in Canada where they will pay him millions.
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Right now California is enjoying the pinnacle of government control.
But it isn't sustainable. California's water problems are only getting worse with it's 50 million in population. It's inability to construct a 70 billion dollar high speed rail along with the inability to construct new water reservoirs to handle the growing population is more alarming than anything a climate scientist can dream up.
California has a state debt about 10% the size of the national debt. Ouch.
California's regulations ensure they won't be able to provide housing for the growing population. California is now the homeless capital of the USA.
Roads and traffic are terrible. Any metric of infrastructure shows California near the bottom. American middle class is leaving, and the state of the State is only an improvement to economic migrants from the south from already failed socialist dystopias.
All of this makes California look like Venezuela's glory years right before the oil market crash, and believe me, it can take something as trivial as an Amazon type corporation leaving the state to cause the crash.
The real question is whether the other 49 states will bail California out with the provisions of restructuring the State government deregulating the state and allowing freedom back into the state, or will they just build a wall around California as it descends into the Venezuela we see today.
The wall would be far easier and cheaper for America.
The recent push for tourism to California is whimsical if you consider that the most broken of areas depend mainly on tourism revenue to support their economy. Cancun or California? Flip a coin.
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@WyseGui
That's mostly true. Prosecuting someone on the intent of their actions using words only is difficult, and the SCOTUS has struck down nearly all cases involving "Fighting Words"
These battles are mostly waged in the media to polarize the country into good guys and bad guys.
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@thett3
Where can the TDS afflicted go to recover the 2 years of actual news they missed while spending thousands of hours watching CNN?
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@thett3
I hope Barr sits on this till October.
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@Stephen
The whacky thing is how much the MSM left media is willing to embrace such a conservative cult of Muslims just to give the shaft to rural whites.
The enemy of the MSM's enemy is their friend.
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@oromagi
Nah, just killing the radical left who is trying to abolish the 1st amendment with hate speech censorship and state controlled thought crimes.
I'm totally down with that.
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@oromagi
No. turns out that was just two guys getting paid by Russia to stir up shit. I think they’re working on Brexit now. immigration.
If Russia has that much success against the American Socialists..maybe the sane Americans should consider a temporary alliance with Russia to root out the socialist fascists and the globalists.. just like WWII...
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Doesn't the new bill allow cities to collect licensing fees and paperwork that can be used to audit taxes?
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@IlDiavolo
It's the state that's getting screwed with no sales tax or licensing fees.
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@Alec
Nah...he just wants to ignore the science of electricity drop off due to resistance in power lines, making power transfers from day side to night side a pipedream. It's also a problem with solar farms in deserts located far away from cities.
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@ArgentTongue
I'm just saying "renewable" is very misleading. There are all sorts of components that go into a solar panel that are not renewable at all.
In fact, to replace fossil fuel energy will require a substantial drain on the raw materials used for solar panels by at least 2 orders of magnitude, not to mention the fact that EVERY solar panel grid will require a battery grid to supply power at night when electricity is at peak usage, multiplying the raw material shortage and toxic waste by a LOT.
Nuclear energy is the only logical solution for fossil fuel replacement.
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@ArgentTongue
That's actually not true. the amount of fossil fuels required to manufacture the amount of turbines and panels to meet current Electric grid capacity is much more than you think. Toxic waste was just another problem.
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@ArgentTongue
None of the energy sources reliant on the sun (sun creates wind too) are actually renewable. Toxic waste from turbines and panels won't be simply shipped off to China like we could in the 80's. China won't take any of it now.
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@ArgentTongue
Nuclear is superior, if the alarmists can be silenced long enough.
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I would have loved to hear a green day alarmist actually predict the energy industry was going to swap to cheaper and cleaner natural gas and also use coal scrubbing technology on all coal plants, all without government involvement.
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@mustardness
Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Wolf! Wolf!
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@Alec
Al Whore said the coasts were going to be under 10-20 feet of water. Al Gore then bought a 9 million dollar house on the beach.
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@mustardness
You know what happened to the boy that cried wolf one too many times? They threw him to the wolves, and everyone lived happily ever after.
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@keithprosser
Nice argument for genocide.
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The western media is very ethnocentric though. The media elites believe western culture is a global culture that allows equality between all cultures, as ridiculous as it seems, and that tribalism should never exist in western cultures.
This is why they are outraged when tribalism happens in western cultures, and they do their very best to suppress and condemn any form of tribalism in western culture.
What is hilarious is the recent surge among radical left millenials to promote tribalism through indoctrinated critical race theory and intersectionality. The media elites are about to go to war with the radical left now to suppress their tribalistic culture. It's going to be glorious. Thank you Trump for speeding the process up.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
So deep.Are people only killed in numbers of 4 or more only worthy of protection and consideration for intervention?
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Hate speech is a pretext to censorship and legislated thought control.
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@mustardness
Alarmists should get jail time for destabilizing society.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Obama lowered the number to 3 as the definition of mass murders btw.
Most studies use 4 now, as 3 includes too many gang drive-by killings, and those people are oppressed enough as it is.
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@keithprosser
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@mustardness
Do you have a link from Madcow's show that says Boeing was affected by the government shutdown? As far as I know they fund their own Q and A.
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@keithprosser
All progress is a series of gambles.
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It's only shocking when Whites become tribalistic. Whites are by definition supposed to be the cosmic punching bag for all cultures.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Organic pesticides are extremely toxic too. It's funny that people think nature was designed to accommodate humans instead of the other way around. Nature does us no favors, so why worship it?
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America can afford to shave a hundred million off its population as long as it continues to retain the best and the brightest the world has to offer. Economies aren't built on the backs of slave labor anymore. We can get robots to do most of the stuff for us. Most American children never earn a callous on their hands or file a tax return till their mid 20's. Plenty of room to trim the fat. Financing past government spending on the backs of future immigrants and projected native childbirths isn't a stable policy anyway, and will have to be dropped at some point. That's just a simple government overspending calculus that can be fixed with a pen and a phone.
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@Yassine
Sure, just need land and walls and nukes. Population dont matter.
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@secularmerlin
The point he was making is that both parties don't want any changes to the current immigration law because it helps to solidify the status quo where wealthy lobbyists pay off politicians for a steady supply of slave labor.
That's the major reason why Trump couldn't get funding for the wall or changes to Immigration law when he had party control of the Congress in 2016-2018. I'm not even sure that Trump knew how bad it was until his own party stabbed him in the back.
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@secularmerlin
If you are not in favor of tribalism, then you should discourage an immigration policy that does not mandate assimilation.
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@FaustianJustice
Would you be shocked if border patrol officials disagreed with every single point you just raised?
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@coal
Did you mean to end your thought with the word rite? Would be interesting if you actually view critical theory racism as a ritual.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
I bet if he grabbed pussy and ate from the wrong side of a pizza hut crust people would know him.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
If all you just said was not true...why did that infamous "deplorable" comment, which rallied record amounts of rural voters to get out and vote, have such a profound impact on the 2016 election?
It certainly wasn't the Russians....
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@secularmerlin
It's really a shame that the only source for the full remarks is from Fox. Every other media outlet only has 5 minute snippets of the remarks interlaced with opinionated commentary, as if the public is just too braindead to listen to a full 28 minutes of remarks from our president and border officials.
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@secularmerlin
Well yeah i'm no expert on border security either. Did you listen at the press conference this week what the border patrol officials were asking for? Trump has said this week that he isn't going to build a wall if the border patrol thinks something else is more effective like slatted steel beams.
Don't you want people in power like the President and the Congress to listen to the border patrol officials? i think it's in the best interest of the country to listen to these people instead of pretending to know what works and what does not work.
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