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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 16:09:39 GMT
Taxation is theft (sometimes necessary theft)
All drugs should be legalized
The age of consent should be lowered
Government should be downsized to such a drastic extent, that nobody will care who's in office
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 27, 2017 16:15:29 GMT
I agree with your first and fourth points.
As for drugs, I don't support legalizing them but all drug enforcement/legislation needs to be handled at the state level. The federal government should have no involvement at all and that means the DEA should be abolished.
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Post by flasuss on Feb 27, 2017 22:48:26 GMT
I don't live in the US, but agree with most of your points; #3 doesn't teally apply (age of consent in Brazil is 14, and I see no reason to change).
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 28, 2017 16:39:25 GMT
so you want the world of Mad Max. Got it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 19:41:17 GMT
so you want the world of Mad Max. Got it. what mental gymnastics did you have to perform to come to that conclusion?
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Mar 1, 2017 2:50:51 GMT
so you want the world of Mad Max. Got it. You're such a dumb cunt.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 1, 2017 3:28:15 GMT
so you want the world of Mad Max. Got it. what mental gymnastics did you have to perform to come to that conclusion? Concluding that you're an anarchist does not require mental gymnastics.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 4:40:54 GMT
what mental gymnastics did you have to perform to come to that conclusion? Concluding that you're an anarchist does not require mental gymnastics. Well I'm not... so it definitely does.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 1, 2017 9:19:48 GMT
There are only two genders.
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Post by Kirk-Picard on Mar 1, 2017 14:54:37 GMT
so you want the world of Mad Max. Got it. what mental gymnastics did you have to perform to come to that conclusion? Tommen Forever be like
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Post by tobias on Mar 7, 2017 22:45:20 GMT
Merkel's immigration policies are a total disaster (You could probably find a lot of people who agree with me but it's a polarizing matter), mainly because she seemed completely clueless about anything and had total disregard for the consequenses.
Reforms to our culture and the political system are the most important.
Many idealistic, good intenioned choices cause more harm than good (doesn't sound that controversial but going by the state of the world it is).
Voting is one of the less important aspects of politics besides the symbolic act (go and talk it through with all ofyour friends for instance and if you convince at least 2, that's already more than your vote could have done).
Force rarely works, you have to get people to actually want a specific thing. In conclusion many bans are ill-fated and also curriculums in school and much other stuff that relies on force. It has it's uses though.
You can't save the world from your couch.
We kind of need a lil' bit of world saving.
I agree with none of your points but I don't really care that much about that age of consent thing (never heard it discussed in Germany either and no idea what our stance on that is) and I'd like us to legalize canabis at least and to maybe get some programs concerning the others (for instance if addicts could legally buy even the worse drugs but only use them in specific shops designed for that). I still want them to be illegal out in the public though.
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Post by Film Socialism on Mar 8, 2017 6:46:32 GMT
communism>capitalism
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 14:44:05 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 8, 2017 16:51:27 GMT
There's nothing offensive about burning a flag.
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Post by flasuss on Mar 9, 2017 3:10:40 GMT
That's not controversial, it's just stupid.
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Post by tobias on Mar 9, 2017 17:14:10 GMT
That's not controversial, it's just stupid.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 9, 2017 19:58:52 GMT
also, the death penalty should be banned and firearm manufacturers and sellers should be regulated into nonexistence.
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Post by oneflyr on Mar 9, 2017 21:11:40 GMT
There's nothing offensive about burning a flag. Far from offensive, simply stupid.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 21:14:52 GMT
also, the death penalty should be banned and firearm manufacturers and sellers should be regulated into nonexistence. I agree with your first point. As for guns, I strongly disagree. Banning guns makes people far too reliant on government, thereby giving it far too much power. Not to mention all the important practical uses.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 10, 2017 5:14:14 GMT
also, the death penalty should be banned and firearm manufacturers and sellers should be regulated into nonexistence. I agree with your first point. As for guns, I strongly disagree. Banning guns makes people far too reliant on government, thereby giving it far too much power. Not to mention all the important practical uses. Reliant on the government for what? Guns have no practical uses, except for hunting and stress relief at firing ranges. There are plenty of other methods of self-defense that are nonlethal. Every other developed nation with restrictive gun policies are evidence of that. America's gun culture is disgusting to me.
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Post by flasuss on Mar 10, 2017 6:08:05 GMT
I agree with your first point. As for guns, I strongly disagree. Banning guns makes people far too reliant on government, thereby giving it far too much power. Not to mention all the important practical uses. Reliant on the government for what? Guns have no practical uses, except for hunting and stress relief at firing ranges. There are plenty of other methods of self-defense that are nonlethal. Every other developed nation with restrictive gun policies are evidence of that. America's gun culture is disgusting to me. I live in a country (Brazil) that already tried your idea- regulate gun sales to the point is virtually impossible for a regular private citizen to buy guns legally. And no, it hasn't made things any better- Brazil's murder rate is MUCH, MUCH higher than the US and growing. Not only it didn't make anything better, it actually made things worse because it increased the black market. So I can safely say your idea is just non-sense. Also, the "other methods of self-defense that are non-lethal" doesn't help anything if you're being threatened by someone with a(n illegal) gun; or by multiple attackers; or, usually, if simply if your attacker is much larger than you are. There might be some concerns related to animals depending where you live too.
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Post by themoviesinner on Mar 10, 2017 8:49:04 GMT
That's not controversial, it's just stupid. I think a fasle presumption of what communism really is has been established nowadays. The ultimate goal of communism is the common ownership of the means of production, which means that the means of production belong to the people who work them. Now how's that a bad or stupid thing? It definitely doesn't sound as such to me. True communism has never been established. All the so called "communist" countries were either dictatorships or oligarchies, as all the means of production belonged to "The Party" which consisted of a small group of people who didn't even work them, and that contradicts the basic ideology of communism. Communism requires democracy to work, as all decisions require collective choices to be made. The only country in history that tried to establish true communism was Chile during Salvador Allende's reign, but he never managed to finish his work, since he was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet.
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Post by flasuss on Mar 10, 2017 13:31:33 GMT
. True communism has never been established. Oh, the good old "true communism has never been established" thing . This is just a variation of the No True Scotsman fallacy.A communism regime takes over, leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; the communists say "But that isn't TRUE communism" and then proceed to implement communism in another country, which leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; the communists say "But that isn't TRUE communism" and then proceed to implement communism in another country, which leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; and repeat and repeat ad infinitum. Just pathetic.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 10, 2017 14:26:34 GMT
Reliant on the government for what? Guns have no practical uses, except for hunting and stress relief at firing ranges. There are plenty of other methods of self-defense that are nonlethal. Every other developed nation with restrictive gun policies are evidence of that. America's gun culture is disgusting to me. I live in a country (Brazil) that already tried your idea- regulate gun sales to the point is virtually impossible for a regular private citizen to buy guns legally. And no, it hasn't made things any better- Brazil's murder rate is MUCH, MUCH higher than the US and growing. Not only it didn't make anything better, it actually made things worse because it increased the black market. So I can safely say your idea is just non-sense. Brazil is already fucked up in so many ways, of course that kind of approach wouldn't reduce gun homicides. The irony is that America and Brazil's statistics on gun violence are comparable, despite Brazil being far more impoverished and corrupt. South and Central America contain the most violent crime in the world and America competes with them on gun violence stats. That's really sad. A more realistic example would be Australia or the UK. Gun control has worked in virtually every developed nation where its been implemented. Ahh yes, the old "prepare for the worst" justification. First illegal guns would be much harder to acquire if manufacturers were regulated. Manufacturers are at the heart of America's gun problem. And pepper spray is effective at 6 to 8 feet away from the target, so you're about as safe facing multiple or larger assailants with pepper spray than with a gun. Also, pepper spray is much more affordable and accessible to average citizens, and much more convenient to carry. Even if you can make the argument that more guns = more safety, you can't explain away the fact that hundreds of thousands of citizens won't have the inclination or time to purchase a gun and learn how to use it, and making firearms easier to acquire for everyone also means it's easier for unstable and dangerous individuals like Omar Mateen or Kevin James Loibl to legally purchase weapons with the intention of killing innocent people. Gun laws are fairly lax in Orlando, but Mateen didn't meet a barrage of bullets from good guys with guns. That's why to the gun rights advocates, those kinds of tragedies can only be explained away through victim blaming.
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Post by themoviesinner on Mar 10, 2017 15:06:19 GMT
Oh, the good old "true communism has never been established" thing . This is just a variation of the No True Scotsman fallacy.A communism regime takes over, leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; the communists say "But that isn't TRUE communism" and then proceed to implement communism in another country, which leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; the communists say "But that isn't TRUE communism" and then proceed to implement communism in another country, which leads to starvation, dictatorship and genocide; and repeat and repeat ad infinitum. Just pathetic. Have you actually read the works of Marx and Engels? Because your reply just reeks of sciolism. And I actually gave you an example of a regime that actually came close to communism (Salvador Allende's in Chile). All the other so called "communist" regimes had nothing to do with communism. The Soviet Union for instance was a form of oppressive state capitalism, anyone that has the slightest idea of what communism is can tell you that. There's a difference between claiming you are something and actually being something. For example, Kim Jong-un claims to be democratically elected. Does that make him democratically elected? Whether you like it or not communism has never been established and I doubt that it can be established in any effective way, because it requires solidarity and cooperation from every single member of a society.
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