Folks, we are heading down the slippery slope of communism . 

Quote:Capatilist vs. Communist Theory on Speech and Press Freedoms

Freedom of information, speech and the press is firmly rooted in the structures of modern western democratic thought.  With limited restrictions, every capitalist democracy has legal provisions protecting these rights.  Even the UN Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the general assembly in 1948 declares "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" (although as Article 19, it comes after the right to hold property, be married and hold a nationality, among others).  As such, western ethics heavily favor the nearly unfettered rights to speech, press and information.  Such rights might be tailored to protect state security from a Lockesian social contract perspective, but a Kantian categorical outlook surely provides for a society in which everyone can speak freely is better to one in which no one can speak freely. 

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/...rship.html

The King has no Clothes....and his minions are outnumbered 100,000 to 1, it's just that the people have not yet had their eyes opened

It would be interesting to find out who this strange group of the public -a vast swathe if one believes the
internet and established media, actually are. I don't mean the bullhorn-carrying protester who stops off
at Starbucks on there way home or regular ranting Tweet-freaks who read something that upsets their
paradigm, I mean devout Communists.

(01-17-2021, 10:43 AM)BIAD Wrote: It would be interesting to find out who this strange group of the public -a vast swathe if one believes the
internet and established media, actually are. I don't mean the bullhorn-carrying protester who stops off
at Starbucks on there way home or regular ranting Tweet-freaks who read something that upsets their
paradigm, I mean devout Communists.

They're around, at least here in the US. Not in the numbers claimed, but they ARE here. I don't know if they still have "Pathfinder Bookstores" in the US or not, but you used to be able to go to one of those and meet all the card-carryin' communists you could stand to meet. I used to live right across the street from one out in Newport News, VA, on the coast. I used to go over and browse the shelves looking for communist guerrilla warfare tracts, and they never, ever knew that I'd just as soon shoot them as look at them. There were some strange, sad, whiny souls in there. I figured that letting them live was punishment enough!

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https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/01/you-ha...more-51433

Interesting commentary from a Dutch ex-pat in Thailand.

Cheers

(01-17-2021, 11:51 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/01/you-ha...more-51433

Interesting commentary from a Dutch ex-pat in Thailand.

Cheers

Yeah ... H Numan ... I wonder if @"727Sky" knows him.

Good article.  Hard to get to though.

Quote:So what will happen? At first, not a lot. Biden will mumble the oath of office. He’s turning senile, but that he can manage. Even if he can’t, that’s what you have a vice president for. From that moment onward, the president will be Kamala Harris. She will rule — with an iron rod. She has to.

Quote:Biden was remarkably vague about what he plans to do once in office. The only thing he wasn’t vague about was taxation. He told his audience many times taxes will go up. That will happen, and a LOT higher than you can visualize in your worst nightmares. You’re going to have Swedish tax rates. On everything. Very soon.

Quote:Again, forget ‘better luck next time’. There won’t be a next time. Once the Supreme Court and the Senate are rigged, that is forever. Sure, there will be new elections. And some (tame) Republican will be allowed to run. Just for appearance sake. But he won’t win. He can’t win. The new system will not allow it.

No one can tell you 2020 wasn't a year of change.

What people need to understand is that there aren't a whole lot of people running our government/. There are less than a thousand elected officials.  Pretty sure there are less the 10,000 SESs (Senior Executive Service).  Half that in General Officers.

I had to go in for surgery on Thursday.  The nurse who did my prep work walked over and closed the door.  Then she absolutely went off in front of me and my wife over the on-going coup.  I didn't prompt her ... she just went right the fuck off.  Made my damned day!!  Murica!!

When the killing starts, I hope people have picked out targets of value.  You can go in and burn the neighborhoods that need burnin' later. Can't let 'the bad guys' get to the bunkers.

Some questions raised...White and male evil and a possible terroist

#NoVolunteers

New hashtag.

Since it appears the U.S. military is no longer interested in defending the Republic against enemies domestic, it is only appropriate that the sons and daughters of conservative families should cease to volunteer for military service.

Biden or Harris will involve us in new wars if only because their policies will be detached from reality to a dangerous degree.

It is perfectly stupid for Americans opposed to this administration to serve in a military that accepted this travesty of an election.

Let the left-wing agitators go die for Biden and Harris.

Oh, that's right ... the left wing agitators are precisely the kind of people who do not volunteer for military service.

Cheers

#NoVolunteers

(01-17-2021, 10:43 AM)BIAD Wrote: It would be interesting to find out who this strange group of the public -a vast swathe if one believes the
internet and established media, actually are. I don't mean the bullhorn-carrying protester who stops off
at Starbucks on there way home or regular ranting Tweet-freaks who read something that upsets their
paradigm, I mean devout Communists.

Just start with the best known in positions of political power. Have a gander at this one. "List of Democratic Socialists of America members who have held office in the United States" in Wikipedia. It's a very long list, but incomplete of course.

Wiki link

(01-19-2021, 10:39 AM)727Sky Wrote: Some questions raised...White and male evil and a possible terroist

My, that certainly disappeared from YouTube quickly! No matter - it's been archived...


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(01-20-2021, 07:36 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: Just start with the best known in positions of political power.
Have a gander at this one. "List of Democratic Socialists of America members who have held office
in the United States" in Wikipedia. It's a very long list, but incomplete of course.

Wiki link

Cheers MSB.

Let's just see how long it is before either the CCP or BidenHarris gives the order for YouTube to remove this:





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I've thought they were a much worse threat for about two decades.

Honestly, though, I can't bring myself to watch the video. It's too depressing.

(01-21-2021, 09:13 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Let's just see how long it is before either the CCP or BidenHarris gives the order for YouTube to remove this.


This is alarming. Especially now that Biden is the President of China America...err...I mean the USA. As an old veteran, I can't describe the feeling I have. The country I served is gone.

(01-21-2021, 11:18 PM)PuppupSuzieQ Wrote:

(01-21-2021, 09:13 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Let's just see how long it is before either the CCP or BidenHarris gives the order for YouTube to remove this.

This is alarming. Especially now that Biden is the President of China America...err...I mean the USA. As an old veteran, I can't describe the feeling I have. The country I served is gone.

I think it is safe to start referring to the former USA as "The Peoples Democratic Republic of America" at this point. I find the CCP current practice of referring to us as "Little China" or "Little Sister" to be in poor taste... I mean, seriously CCP! At least allow us as much dignity to retain as you allowed North Korea to keep!

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I'm new at this, which aparatchik do I report to now?

(01-22-2021, 12:25 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I think it is safe to start referring to the former USA as "The Peoples Democratic Republic of America" at this point. I find the CCP current practice of referring to us as "Little China" or "Little Sister" to be in poor taste... I mean, seriously CCP! At least allow us as much dignity to retain as you allowed North Korea to keep!

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Your post reminded me of this old commercial from back over ten years ago.

I thought it was just political campaigning back then.

It makes me feel a whole different way today.

Just What????? Three days after Biden took office and we have:

Quote:Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese air force

Why now you ask? The CCP knows Biden well do nothing.

Quote:TAIPEI (Reuters) - Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles to “monitor” the incursion, the island’s Defence Ministry said.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has conducted almost daily flights over the waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea in recent months.
However they have generally consisted of just one or two reconnaissance aircraft.
The presence of so many Chinese combat aircraft on this mission - Taiwan said it was made up of eight nuclear-capable H-6K bombers and four J-16 fighter jets - is unusual.
Source

 

(01-23-2021, 05:05 PM)guohua Wrote: Just What????? Three days after Biden took office and we have:

Quote:Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese air force

Why now you ask? The CCP knows Biden well do nothing.

Quote:TAIPEI (Reuters) - Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles to “monitor” the incursion, the island’s Defence Ministry said.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has conducted almost daily flights over the waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea in recent months.
However they have generally consisted of just one or two reconnaissance aircraft.
The presence of so many Chinese combat aircraft on this mission - Taiwan said it was made up of eight nuclear-capable H-6K bombers and four J-16 fighter jets - is unusual.
Source

 

Suicide bombings have resumed in Baghdad too, and I have heard Biden has sent a column of troops into northern Syria as well. America's enemies have suddenly gotten bolder, and know that Biden is going to tie up the military pursuing colonial aims in Syria that it has no business pursuing, so that they will be able to act with impunity. 

Grace just said that he is sending 5000 more troops back to Iraq. My guess is that he will just stage them in Iraq for a Syrian invasion. Just like W Bush started an unnecessary war in Iraq instead of concentrating his attention on Afghanistan out of embarrassment because his daddy got his ass handed to him in the Gulf War by getting halted short of the goal and running home, Biden has to cover the embarrassment of Obama's arming and organizing of ISIS during his reign of terror.

And let's not forget that Biden has green lit the resumption of ISIS infiltration into the US by reversing Trumps order barring travel from terrorist supporting nations to the US...

A military genius Biden ain't.

ETA: Biden also seems intent on manufacturing a "domestic terrorist" threat at home that has not materialized in the real world, but which he will claim he has to commit military resources to all the same. Tyrants for centuries have seen boogie men in the shadows that no one else sees, probably out of paranoia and the need to have an illusory "enemy" to distract their people with. That will serve to thin his resources out even further, and keep them occupied away from the actual threats as a distraction. It will be interesting to see how the military reacts, given the way they were mistreated in the DC Occupation, and with the certain knowledge that they will be abused again wherever Biden sends them.

I wouldn't join the US military in the modern day for love nor money. Not even a lot of love and a lot of money. Not even a lot of love, a lot of money, and a Harley motorcycle.

I wonder what would happen if Russia, in order to protect it's Syrian ally, were to give Biden the domestic enemy he craves by arming up the "domestic terrorists" that Biden sees in every closet and under every bed, and make them real for him?


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