[Updated at 6: 50 PM] At a prayer vigil for the victims of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama, citing Paul's Letter to the Corinthians, urged a grieving nation, “Do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly, we are being renewed day by day.
Libertarianism seems internally consistent until you come to the realization that there is more than one person in the universe, and as a political philosophy it completely fails to deal with the inevitable conflicts in rights that exist in a plural population.
The other thing that bothers me about most libertarians I've encountered is the way they believe their enshrinement of property rights as being as sacred as the right to life is natural, self-evident and inevitable, when it is none of those things.
<blockquote>the assumptions in the game that one group or another was more cerebral and the other more athletic</blockquote>
Around here, I think we usually call that &quot;racism&quot;. Especially those of us familiar with the fact that the European white supremecists justifying the rape and pillage of an entire continent used exactly those descriptions to claim that this proved that white people were more developed (later, &quot;evolved&quot;) than black people, and therefore it was only right that we got to take all their stuff [ETA: including, of course, their selves].
<blockquote>His last stand was &quot;well, I&#039;m a citizen of the state first, and the US second&quot; which was new to me</blockquote>
I don&#039;t think it&#039;s <em>entirely</em> new to me, but you don&#039;t see it very often because it&#039;s such transparent bullshit. Thanks to the 14th Amendment, one&#039;s US citizenship is enduring; being a &quot;citizen&quot; of a State means that (a) you&#039;re a US citizen, and (b) you live in that State - it&#039;s transient. What&#039;s more, it&#039;s perfectly possible to be a US citizen without being a citizen of any particular State, in that you can be born and raised overseas to a qualifying US citizen parent.
Yet another &quot;get back to what&#039;s in the Consichooshun&quot; moron who doesn&#039;t know the Constitution. Yeah, yeah, I assumed that about your coworker, but tell me I&#039;m wrong...
<blockquote>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States <em>and of the State wherein they reside</em>.</blockquote>
I&#039;m pretty sure I still trust you more to know the difference between a Federation and a Confederation, which is apparently still stumping Baggers.
Yeah, it&#039;s nowhere near true and much everyone who&#039;s ever paid the slightest attention to the issue immediately knows it&#039;s nowhere near true. Whoever pulled that out of their ass knew full well they were pulling it out of their ass, and depended on ignorance and confirmation bias to have it accepted.
Actually I&#039;ve seen it repeated multiple times that not just &quot;most&quot; of the mass shootings of &quot;recent years&quot;, but <em>every single one in the past 30 years</em>, happened where guns were banned. A perfunctory browse of <a href="http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/mass-shootings-map\?page=2" target="_blank">MoJo&#039;s list</a> of the 62 shootings in the last 30 years says no way that&#039;s true in that form.
Libertarianism seems internally consistent until you come to the realization that there is more than one person in the universe, and as a political philosophy it completely fails to deal with the inevitable conflicts in rights that exist in a plural population.
The other thing that bothers me about most libertarians I&#039;ve encountered is the way they believe their enshrinement of property rights as being as sacred as the right to life is natural, self-evident and inevitable, when it is none of those things.
I want to figure out how to be staff/store photographer.
But they each have a black friend, so none of them is racist.
Ah, they must be the &quot;good&quot; kind, then.
<blockquote>the assumptions in the game that one group or another was more cerebral and the other more athletic</blockquote>
Around here, I think we usually call that &quot;racism&quot;. Especially those of us familiar with the fact that the European white supremecists justifying the rape and pillage of an entire continent used exactly those descriptions to claim that this proved that white people were more developed (later, &quot;evolved&quot;) than black people, and therefore it was only right that we got to take all their stuff [ETA: including, of course, their selves].
That first tweeter on theWonkette list just got canned from the team. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/17/alabama-foo...">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/...
No, our Government has a constitutionally protected right to meet there, unfortunately.
They&#039;ll probably get the Bell Bottom Blues.
I&#039;d rather they express their racism by twatting than lynching.
<em>Annnnnnnnd</em> Poe&#039;s Law claims another victim.
Anyone in the approximate color region populated by them Ay-rabs, which is clear proof of being a turrrurst.
<blockquote>His last stand was &quot;well, I&#039;m a citizen of the state first, and the US second&quot; which was new to me</blockquote>
I don&#039;t think it&#039;s <em>entirely</em> new to me, but you don&#039;t see it very often because it&#039;s such transparent bullshit. Thanks to the 14th Amendment, one&#039;s US citizenship is enduring; being a &quot;citizen&quot; of a State means that (a) you&#039;re a US citizen, and (b) you live in that State - it&#039;s transient. What&#039;s more, it&#039;s perfectly possible to be a US citizen without being a citizen of any particular State, in that you can be born and raised overseas to a qualifying US citizen parent.
Yet another &quot;get back to what&#039;s in the Consichooshun&quot; moron who doesn&#039;t know the Constitution. Yeah, yeah, I assumed that about your coworker, but tell me I&#039;m wrong...
<blockquote>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States <em>and of the State wherein they reside</em>.</blockquote>
Start of the 14th Amendment.
I&#039;m pretty sure I still trust you more to know the difference between a Federation and a Confederation, which is apparently still stumping Baggers.
Yeah, it&#039;s nowhere near true and much everyone who&#039;s ever paid the slightest attention to the issue immediately knows it&#039;s nowhere near true. Whoever pulled that out of their ass knew full well they were pulling it out of their ass, and depended on ignorance and confirmation bias to have it accepted.
Actually I&#039;ve seen it repeated multiple times that not just &quot;most&quot; of the mass shootings of &quot;recent years&quot;, but <em>every single one in the past 30 years</em>, happened where guns were banned. A perfunctory browse of <a href="http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/mass-shootings-map\?page=2" target="_blank">MoJo&#039;s list</a> of the 62 shootings in the last 30 years says no way that&#039;s true in that form.