Berkeley City Council Doing Its Anti-Democracy Bit

[Radar]

Or we could mind our own business, take care of our own problems in our own country instead of meddling in the affairs of other nations, and we could live in peace and prosperity. We could trade freely with all nations and make friends with them, and hope that everyone finds their own way to liberty, freedom, and justice.

We can have a smaller, cheaper, and less intrusive government that doesn't get involved in our daily lives and which still provides an adequate defense for America without overspending on the military and becoming an economic burden for Americans.



Our military spending is 10 times higher than any other country on earth, and is being more than all of the next highest spenders including China, Russia, Great Britain, and most other nations with a large military.

[busterb]

Hello. Anyone wanting to join the jarheads, I sure after 218 post you can find a place other than the one that started this goat roping!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Radar: no strikes accrue to me. I read the Constitution too, and draw conclusions, based on its text and upon our history, much the opposite of yours. Narcissistic bellowings on your part cannot constitute proof.

I reject your reading of our Constitution, and your rationalizations of your xenophobic streak, and your antiglobalism. Narcissists are often selfish, and selfishness keeps oozing out of your sentences.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Narcissists are often selfish, and selfishness keeps oozing out of your sentences.

Imagine that...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

After reading the flensing you gave Radar, I am imagining indeed.

I don't much complain about our large military budget. That's an inevitable concomitant of our generating the "flow of security" into the Non-Integrating Gap, where security is conspicuous by its absence.

There are four essential "flows" that make up the global economy and related endeavors, all pretty inextricably interrelated, though distinguishable: the flow of people, immi- and emigration; the flow of security; the flow of finances/resources; the flow of energy. All these flows about our economic sphere naturally go from where there is an abundance to where there is a, or some, scarcity. The freer these flows, the more smoothly the global economy functions. Mess with any and trouble follows in short order.

[DanaC]

That's an inevitable concomitant of our generating the "flow of security" into the Non-Integrating Gap, where security is conspicuous by its absence.

Wonderful.

[DanaC]

If the flow of finances/resources naturally flow from where there is an abundance to where there is a, or some scarcity.....explain why large chunks of the human population are living in poverty and starvation.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

If the flow of finances/resources naturally flow from where there is an abundance to where there is a, or some scarcity.....explain why large chunks of the human population are living in poverty and starvation.

See my reference to "messing with the flow" -- essentially, it's that in an imperfect world, people fuckin' ruin everything. The natural flows get impeded -- by what? Are the results good or bad? See what I'm driving at? A Socialist economic system has extra, additional chances for people to ruin everything -- an essential reason why I am not a Socialist.

[DanaC]

Socialism doesn't explain the third world.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Socialism doesn't explain the third world.

Socialism creates the third world. It makes everyone poor. It punishes the hard-working and productive and rewards the lazy and inept. Socialism always collapses on itself, and those nations end up begging for money from capitalists nations.

[DanaC]

Ok. And just how much of the third world is communist?

[Radar]

Communist and/or socialist? Probably 80% or more.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Radar

Communist and/or socialist? Probably 80% or more.

False Wacko.


{edit: not worth the effort to argue with narcissists}

[Radar]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

False Wacko.


{edit: not worth the effort to argue with narcissists}

I am indeed a false wacko. You on the other hand are a true wacko.

It's a waste of time to argue with the retarded, so I'll just add you to my ignore list and from now on I can avoid hearing your mind numbing stupidity.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Radar

so I'll just add you to my ignore list and from now on I can avoid hearing your mind numbing stupidity.

There is a God!