George Takei did a TED talk about growing up in one of those camps*, and it's amazing how his dad tells him to stay a patriot because this imprisonment was against the American ideal, and it would end.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBKBFAPwNc
12-24-2017 01:57 AM
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George Takei did a TED talk about growing up in one of those camps*, and it's amazing how his dad tells him to stay a patriot because this imprisonment was against the American ideal, and it would end. | |
12-24-2017 07:58 AM
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No one here is trying to spin anything. I thought I made it clear that I'm not defending the practice of internment camps. |
12-24-2017 09:34 AM
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12-24-2017 12:52 PM
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how did nobody go to prison for that? are there loopholes in the law? |
12-24-2017 02:43 PM
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What law lol | |
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12-24-2017 02:50 PM
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George Takei recently tried to blame Russian bots for why he confessed to sexually assaulting multiple men on the Howard Stern show. | |
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12-24-2017 02:57 PM
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12-26-2017 08:43 AM
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12-26-2017 09:13 AM
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12-26-2017 02:55 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...nder-fire.html |
01-02-2018 03:53 PM
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This is an old story, but a common one in my area. Always sparks a lively debate about the government, how it spends its money, what it's responsibilities are, and how it compensates itself. |
01-05-2018 10:15 AM
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Fox News confirms that gay death camps are on hold until at least second-term. So chill spoon |
01-17-2018 09:48 AM
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Re: Thread Title | |
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01-17-2018 10:41 AM
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Observations can only inform us of what happens, not why it happens. | |
01-17-2018 12:37 PM
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Wrong. If someone kicks me in the balls, and I see them do it, I immediately observe why my balls hurt. | |
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01-17-2018 01:34 PM
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Humility is not the same as self-loathing. | |
01-17-2018 01:35 PM
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01-17-2018 01:43 PM
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01-17-2018 02:17 PM
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Yeah man, intellect = ignorance.....aliens.....look at all the stars.....do my hands look weird???? |
01-17-2018 02:42 PM
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One thing I will say is a lot of the stuff that characterizes the "left-liberal" zeitgeist doesn't characterize those who post here sympathetic to other things considered left or liberal. |
01-17-2018 02:48 PM
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If we're talking about how to allocate resources, then this: "The way to show government should intervene into personal lives" is a super loaded prompt. You're assuming that society's resources are personally claimed, which is even more radical than assuming they're privately claimed. | |
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01-17-2018 02:55 PM
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Not sure if we're on the same page here or not wuf, but my take is that many of those we identify on the "left" aren't nearly as passionate as they claim to be with regards to socialist economics, redistribution, and their complaints about income inequality. In fact, deep down in places they don't talk about at parties, they believe in meritocracy. Otherwise, they'd all give their money to the government, right? |
01-17-2018 03:19 PM
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The state is funded by use of force. Anarcho-capitalism has the same institutions (essentially) yet they are funded by choice. This is the base distinction between the two. We will always have societies with rules and that is good. The question is who makes the rules and why do they make them. |
01-17-2018 03:20 PM
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01-17-2018 03:25 PM
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Man I remember those participation trophies. Even as a fucking child I was like WTF is this bullshit. |
01-17-2018 03:27 PM
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01-17-2018 04:10 PM
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In this case, the choice of how to allocate resources is held exclusively by people who have access to those resources. Mutually agreed-upon exchanges are made between people who have capital to exchange. It's literally a direct plutocracy. | |
01-17-2018 04:35 PM
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The Indonesian factory worker has the choice to not work in the factory. He has other choices too, and the reason he chooses the factory work is because it makes him better off. |
01-17-2018 06:05 PM
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One problem that crybaby libtards have with any discussion of capitalism is that they don't understand the concept of personal choice because it's too closely related to personal responsibility and not being a massive piece of shit leech on humanity. | |
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01-17-2018 06:38 PM
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There are two views I like that I've seen. |
01-17-2018 06:43 PM
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01-17-2018 06:50 PM
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01-17-2018 06:54 PM
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01-17-2018 06:57 PM
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01-17-2018 07:00 PM
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01-17-2018 07:03 PM
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Note that this narrative is the manifestation that Marxism took on after communism collapsed. |
01-17-2018 08:03 PM
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This entire section makes my point for me. My point was that the Indonesian factory worker has no choice other than to work in the factory or to starve. You pointed out that they had other choices but they're even worse. And you added to what I'd already implied: that even the factory work isn't something always available to them, so their options are often even worse. | |
01-17-2018 09:30 PM
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This is when we ask ourselves one of economist Thomas Sowell's three fundamental questions: Opposed to what? |
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01-18-2018 10:11 AM
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This is how every conversation I get in on FTR turns into 50 paragraph monstrosities that's a blackhole for my whole work week and something I regretted getting into. | |
01-18-2018 10:58 AM
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I missed you, viva. | |
01-18-2018 11:02 AM
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01-18-2018 01:12 PM
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I have laser-like focus on the original subject. East and Southeast Asia have undergone the most drastic increase in economic freedom at the individual level in perhaps all of history, and the results have been phenomenal. They have been rapidly gaining choice. The current circumstances that for many of them are below the West's standards represent them utilizing choice they did not have several years and decades ago. |
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01-18-2018 01:44 PM
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Yeah you're not quite as boring as watching fucking paint dry now. | |
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