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This is ridiculous to me, but I guess to be 100% fair to all who visit this page, I ought to post this statement up front:
I have made it clear from the outset that I am simply not interested in arguing with people with opposing views over the internet. To disregard that request is, in my view, trollish behavior. "Discussion" is a waste of my time. Every minute I spend "arguing" with someone (who has not arguments, but rather, beliefs) is a minute spent away from poastering, sending emails, making phone calls, trying to raise a little money, and other useful things to advance Occupy/Anon/anti-SOPA, and other progressive movements.
If someone wants to discuss on this page how to advance the goals of Occupy, Anon, anti-SOPA, pro-women, 'green,' etc., or, how to make these poasters more effective (including suggestions and requests), they will be welcomed and their comments will receive a courteous reply. If people want to exchange friendly, admiring, helpful, or even flirtatious, back-and-forths on here, somehow related to the content, that's great. If people want to point out technical problems, or, a possible infringement of someone else's work, I will be most attentive and gentlemanly.
If you want to argue with someone, fine, just do it with someone else, and not here. I am dead-set in my convictions, and I have no interest in trying to persuade you that you should change your beliefs. You can say whatever you want on your own page, but you may not do so here.
Now, as to the BANHAMMER. If you engage in political trolling on this page (defined as arguing with what most would generally consider to be the pro-Occupy, pro-Anon position on the key issues of economic justice, peace, privacy, women's rights, environmentalism, internet freedom, and civil liberties), you will receive the BANHAMMER and be blocked. If you even breathe the names Ayn Rand or Ron Paul or dare to utter any of her or his Objectionable-ist nonsense, you will receive the BANHAMMER and be blocked. I also ban people who express misogynistic, racist, and other reactionary views, or, who express themselves with gross profanity.
I am no one special; I'm simply a guy who knows what he is doing here, why he is doing it, and wishes not to waste precious time that could be better spent fostering a humane democratic revolution around the world. I am not some kind of anti-free speech troglodyte, but rather, really a nice guy, and a great listener. It's just that after a while, one gets to a place where he wishes to be engulfed by the dulcet tones of artistic discourse and to eschew the coarse banter of Squawk Radio.
Capice?
This is as clear as I can possibly be.
I have made it clear from the outset that I am simply not interested in arguing with people with opposing views over the internet. To disregard that request is, in my view, trollish behavior. "Discussion" is a waste of my time. Every minute I spend "arguing" with someone (who has not arguments, but rather, beliefs) is a minute spent away from poastering, sending emails, making phone calls, trying to raise a little money, and other useful things to advance Occupy/Anon/anti-SOPA, and other progressive movements.
If someone wants to discuss on this page how to advance the goals of Occupy, Anon, anti-SOPA, pro-women, 'green,' etc., or, how to make these poasters more effective (including suggestions and requests), they will be welcomed and their comments will receive a courteous reply. If people want to exchange friendly, admiring, helpful, or even flirtatious, back-and-forths on here, somehow related to the content, that's great. If people want to point out technical problems, or, a possible infringement of someone else's work, I will be most attentive and gentlemanly.
If you want to argue with someone, fine, just do it with someone else, and not here. I am dead-set in my convictions, and I have no interest in trying to persuade you that you should change your beliefs. You can say whatever you want on your own page, but you may not do so here.
Now, as to the BANHAMMER. If you engage in political trolling on this page (defined as arguing with what most would generally consider to be the pro-Occupy, pro-Anon position on the key issues of economic justice, peace, privacy, women's rights, environmentalism, internet freedom, and civil liberties), you will receive the BANHAMMER and be blocked. If you even breathe the names Ayn Rand or Ron Paul or dare to utter any of her or his Objectionable-ist nonsense, you will receive the BANHAMMER and be blocked. I also ban people who express misogynistic, racist, and other reactionary views, or, who express themselves with gross profanity.
I am no one special; I'm simply a guy who knows what he is doing here, why he is doing it, and wishes not to waste precious time that could be better spent fostering a humane democratic revolution around the world. I am not some kind of anti-free speech troglodyte, but rather, really a nice guy, and a great listener. It's just that after a while, one gets to a place where he wishes to be engulfed by the dulcet tones of artistic discourse and to eschew the coarse banter of Squawk Radio.
Capice?
This is as clear as I can possibly be.
Bernie Sanders: Democratic Strategy is 'Pathetic'
Senator Bernie Sanders sits down with Salon to talk inequality, the GOP, and whether or not he'll run for president.
by Thomas Frank
SALON Magazine
SUNDAY, SEP 28, 2014 07:00 AM EDT
Bernie Sanders is a legendary political independent from Vermont. Over the years, he has served as mayor of Burlington, the largest city in that state; as a member of the House of Representatives; and (currently) as a United States Senator. We met last week in his office in one of the Senate office buildings in Washington, D.C., and discussed the Clinton years, the way to beat the Right, and whether or not he should run for president in 2016. Needless to say,
Anatomy of the Deep State
billmoyers.com
February 21, 2014
by Mike Lofgren
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo.
– The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more
401(k)s Are Robbery: The Attack on Social Security
JAMES W. RUSSELL
Salon Magazine
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014 02:00 PM EDT
On the eve of the Reagan presidency in 1980, Milton and Rose Friedman published “Free to Choose,” a proposal for gradually phasing out Social Security. The entitlements of retirees would be honored as would the accumulated credits of contributors who had not yet retired. But no new payroll taxes would be collected. The final elimination of Social Security would allow “individuals to provide for their own retirement as they wish.” Among the advantages would be that “it would add to personal saving and so lead to a higher rate of capital formati
What Jesus Really Said About the Poor
On this Christmas Day, it might be nice to remember what Jesus really said about the poor.
Luke 6:20-21 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 'Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. 'Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.'
Luke 4:16-19 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
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