Monday, August 25, 2014
Reasons Why Communism Sucks
Reason #8: Another mushy-headed concept which communists like to harp on is "the means of production." In short, they wanted some excuse that sounded philosophical that would justify stealing factories. But to try to define this is any specific or rational sort of way is impossible.
Again, consider the island analogy. Two people are on an island. One finds a rock and a stick and makes a spear, while the other sits on his butt. The guy with the spear then says, "Hey, I made a spear, and if you can use my spear to get a fish, we can split the fish between us." But as it happens, the other guy is a communist, declares the spear to be "capital" constituting the "means of production," bitches about being oppressed by the other guy's offer, slugs the guy and steals his spear. Because to ACCEPT the guy's perfectly reasonable offer is to accept capitalism.
Yes, you can try to make up some distinction between a spear and a factory, but that distinction will be based on envy and emotion, not actual moral or philosophical principles. If the first guy took two weeks to build a boat, and then offered to let the other guy use it to go catch bigger fish, would the boat-builder be some evil capitalist oppressor? After all, how dare he benefit from the "labor" of the other guy? (Never mind what he had to do to GET the boat.) The other guy neeeeeeeeds a boat to fish! He should seize it, and righteously overthrow the evil oppressors in the name of the collective (which in that case, is just him)!
Or he could choose NOT to be a dumbass, accept capitalism and the concept of private property, take the deal, and BOTH could benefit from the arrangement.-Larken Rose
Sunday, August 24, 2014
"We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency”
The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in the history of the nation because we are—we’re an empire in decline. Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life.-Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit..."
Quote of the Moment
Burning the American flag is an excellent display of the founding principles of Liberty, as you are showing contempt for State.
Getting mad about someone burning the American flag is an excellent display of being a government worshiping faggot that the Founding politicians shot at in 1775.-Tom Jefferson
Cop Hater or Anarchist?
“Do you genuinely hate police or are you an anarchist?” says the officer... Why can't it be both?
Cop Throws a Hissy Fit When This Woman Refuses to Show Her ID
The Good Cop/Bad Cop Question
I've been saying this over and over but thanks to Robert Higgs for saying it better than I could. It's necessary to emphasize this because we keep hearing the idiotic objection that most cops are good guys and the nonsense that "the cops I know personally, have encountered, etc., have been nice and are sweet as pie". Bullshit!
The whole good cop/bad cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone's anecdote about his Uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop. We need only consider the following: (1) a cop's job is to enforce the laws, all of them; (2) many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked; (3) therefore every cop has agreed to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked. There are no good cops.
BDSM Evil
The most active group I had discussions in was one saying women should have no rights. Most posters think that women shouldn’t even have the right to say “no,” when it comes to sex. “A woman should NEVER have the right to say no. It’s her duty to be sexually available to men whenever.” Some say that the only value women have is to be a “cook, maid, and whore to her man.” Viewing women as nothing but property was the reoccurring theme here.-BDSM is abuse and rape culture
Fox News Actually Provides News!
People like to call Fox News "Faux News", and I'm not personally a fan of their version of statist big government pro-military "conservatism". That said, I'm watching the 3 major cable news networks right now, and only Fox is covering the 6.0 earthquake in California that just happened. MSNBC doesn't even run much news on the weekends (they were showing one of their prison shows again), and CNN, well, fuck 'em.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Emancipated Human with Danilo Cuellar on Socialism, Voluntaryism, and more
Socialism, Communism, Democide, Homeschooling, Unschooling, Voluntaryism, Non-Aggression, Property Rights, Self-Ownership, Capitalism, Corporate Fascism, and Initiated Force vs. Voluntary Transactions...
EFF's Cell Phone Guide for Protesters
With major protests in the news again, we decided it's time to update our cell phone guide for protestors. A lot has changed since we last published this report in 2011, for better and for worse. On the one hand, we've learned more about the massive volume of law enforcement requests for cell phone—ranging from location information to actual content—and widespread use of dedicated cell phone surveillance technologies.-Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
Where is Housing
There’s a fundamental reason behind the housing drag: Homeownership hit the skids when homes became a highly leveraged asset class, flipped and laddered by speculators, rather than lived in by normal folks.-Fannie Mae Sledgehammers Housing Forecasts
The Rise of the Caliphate
The Bush Concept had it exactly backwards. Fighting them over there so we would not have to fight them here was only going to inflame the situation, which is exactly what has happened. The West must fight them here so it can leave them alone there. Islam has no place in the West. It must be driven out again, just as it was driven out of Spain and Austria centuries ago. I warned about the rise of the caliphate years ago, to the mocking disbelief of some who genuinely believed the so-called Arab Spring meant the rise of liberal democracy in Araby. Now we're seeing it take shape. The nations of the West will eventually decide it is necessary to ban Islam again, and repatriate Muslims to the House of Submission again, so the sooner it does so, the less bloody the conflict in the House of War will be. One friend of the Foley family said something important. "These savages have got to be stopped. It’s coming West." Only it is not coming West. It began coming West decades ago, and now there are millions of them in the West. What is coming is the Second Reconquista. The West is not going to die. Europe belongs to us.-Fight them over here
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
LBJ on Negroes
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years"-Lyndon Johnson, 1963
h/t to TC
Itching for a war
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is desperate; it is itching for a war in battlefield Ukraine at any cost. Let's start with Pentagon supremo, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has waxed lyrical over the Russian Bear's "threat": "When you see the build-up of Russian troops and the sophistication of those troops, the training of those troops, the heavy military equipment that's being put along that border, of course it's a reality, it's a threat, it's a possibility - absolutely."-NATO is desperate for war
Charles "Sparky" Schulz Draws Charlie Brown
I loved newspaper comic strips when I was a kid, and Peanuts especially. I devoured the paperback book collections of the strips (I would get one every Friday when we went to the store when my dad got paid).
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Part of a thread on a Bret Alan post on Zuckerturd's FascistBook that was removed because (apparently) a "racist" word was used somewhere during the discussion (using the "N word" is the ultimate crime these days, at least if you're white). I guess it means I also can't post excerpts from Huckleberry Finn there.
The last comment is the one I was unable to post. You'll notice from my title that it says it was removed by its owner but it was NOT removed by its "owner" if owner means Bret Alan, so I assume it means instead that Zuckerturd owns all our words on FB.
- Jose Perez What if space aliens came down and jumped in the cops body, took it over and tried to rape you?
- Karla Bruessard words alone no, but violent words followed by the violent action of grabbing someone?
Nikkolas Jakson http://youtu.be/KQ9w1HHRMQw
- Karla Bruessard not for any reason. cops need a reason to detain someone. in my posed scenario there was no reason
- Karla Bruessard I read "getting violent in any way towards an officer will just result in your downfall, so you shouldn't pretend you have the right to harm them." which reads, let the cops treat you howver you want so you don't get harmed. or simply fear them. as cops are emplyed by the government it reasons that you belive we should have a healthy amount of fear of the government.
- Karla Bruessard do you think I only have issue with the mike brown case based on race? I have an issue with the police. the race part is only the shit icing on the crap cake.
- Karla Bruessard I read "getting violent in any way towards an officer will just result in your downfall, so you shouldn't pretend you have the right to harm them." which reads, let the cops treat you howver you want so you don't get harmed. or simply fear them. as cops are emplyed by the government it reasons that you belive we should have a healthy amount of fear of the government.
please address this ^^^ - Nikkolas Jakson " So you think police should just sit there doing nothing, ever?" Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea. "I see that some people have become a bit upset with how the police are conducting themselves recently. They declare that the police need to be...See More
- Nikkolas Jakson Yes, Bret, I know you're a liar and a fascist cop-lover. You're more right-wing on the subject of police than the idiots at Fox News. Maybe you can guest host The O'Reilly Factor when Bill Oh Really goes on vacation.
- Karla Bruessard "In point of fact, getting violent in any way towards an officer will just result in your downfall, so you shouldn't pretend you have the right to harm them."
"You cannot "defend" yourself against an officer. If an officer hits you, your only course of legal recourse in almost every state is to press charges. You cannot just start hitting an officer because they engaged you first."
both of these statements infer you side with the police in this issue. I will bring up more - Karla Bruessard "When the person has demonstrated they are a threat to the public, they could be 300 feet away."
- Nikkolas Jakson You have a moral right to defend yourself against any aggressor, but no, unfortunately in most instances not a legal right in the case of cops, so the prudent thing is to not resist, although Kelly Thomas might not agree: http://www.cbsnews.com/.../kelly-thomas-beating-video.../
www.cbsnews.com
The video was shown in court during a hearing to determine whether Fullerton Pol... See More - Nikkolas Jakson What did I just say? You need some sleep, Bret. Are you stating that there is no moral right to protect yourself when your life is threatened? If someone had shot the officers assaulting Thomas, he'd still be alive.
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