Evil is always a good reason to fight

All my thoughts , even the delirious

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[darkschneider1982]

:cod

[redbloodedamerica]

Build the Wall

Every sensible immigration policy has two objectives: 1) to regain control of our borders so that we decide who enters; and 2) to find a humane way to deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants who now live among us.

Start with the second. For both practical and moral reasons, America cannot and will not and should not expel 11 million people.  That leaves us with two choices: ignore them or figure out a way to legalize them. Ignoring them hasn’t worked. But there is also a huge problem with legalization: it creates an irresistible incentive for new illegal immigrants to come.

We say, of course, that this will be the very last, very final, never-again, we’re-not-kidding-this-time amnesty. And everyone knows it’s phony. That’s what was said in 1986, when we passed the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform. It turned out to be the largest legalization program in American history – nearly 3 million people got permanent residency. There was no enforcement. We now have 11 million new illegal immigrants in our midst.

The irony of this whole debate, which bitterly splits the country, is that there is a silver bullet that would not just solve the problem, but also create a national consensus behind it.

A vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new – i.e., future – illegal immigration.

And we can.

The American people are legitimately angry at the price American society has paid due to illegal immigration. But they are also a generous people. Once they are assured that we do indeed control our borders, that anger will abate. A national consensus will emerge. 

Radical border control, followed by radical legalization. No mushy compromise. A solution requires two acts of national will: putting up a wall (along with E-Verify and visa tracking) and absorbing those who broke our laws to come to America.

[redbloodedamerica]

spacemonkeymafia42 said: 

@redbloodedamerica Combatting illegal immigration is fine but we already have border walls placed throughout our border with Mexico. You can’t just make one long continuous wall 1,989 miles long. It would be very difficult and time consuming if you consider the significant structural and geographical challenges

What about this border with Mexico?

No one said it necessarily had to be one long continuous wall (even though the Great Wall of China is a discontinuous wall 5,500 miles long covering difficult terrain.)  There will definitely be some geological and property challenges but I believe most people with property on the border would welcome a physical barrier of some sort.  As Charles Krauthammer said in the video, “…build a barrier. Call it a wall. Call it a fence. Call it what you will. Add cameras and sensors. Add drones. Beef up the patrols. All that matters is that we regain control of the border.”  

To be honest, I’ve only been concerned with the cost and management which could be a huge boondoggle for taxpayers if not done right.  The good news though is that just with Trump in office and reinforcing the laws on the books, illegal immigration is down 76%.

[darkschneider1982]

If the government could do these kind of things right, your site would not exist.

And face it, this wall is a monstruosity. Honestly is  a Mao/Stalin/Clinton level of stupidity   idea . It will cost an incredible amount of money and will not stop immigration or even halt it in a significant way. 

To quote Cato on the matter: “For the full 1,000 miles, Trump’s 30-foot wall (with a 10-foot tunnel barrier) would cost $31.2 billion, according to the best estimate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers—that is $31.2 million per mile. If he only built 500 miles, the cost would be a more manageable, but still shocking $15.1 billion. Two other estimatesplaced the construction cost of the wall in the $25 billion range. Again, these are upfront construction costs, not ongoing maintenance costs, which account for roughly half of all of the fence costs over a decade.”

You would never stand for something like this if the idea had a democratic stamp on it. Not in a million years. You are just being loyal to the boss, and i understand why, but sincerely if this passes the cost for the taxpayers  would be like having elected Jill Stein.

As for the specifics, read this:

https://www.cato.org/blog/border-wall-impractical-expensive-ineffective-plan

Also , in the end, you don’t avoid immigration and the rise of socialism by building a wall, you do it by winning the culture war. If you lose it, no wall is going to save you. And sometime the immigrants can help you win it, especially when they come from socialist countries. To quote Reagan: "Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet." 

[mrs-mccuckquean]

Listening to All of me by John Legend today and broke down a wee bit.

That’s when I realized it’s not a person I crave at all, it’s a feeling, that only a person can provide. I desperately want to be accepted for who I am, the good and the bad. I don’t want to have to control myself, I want to be free, and be loved — just like everyone else I suppose.

Me being a cuckquean is an imperfection I have, or at least society makes me feel that way for wanting to just make others happy, and only want love in return >.< People think only a broken person would feel like this, or a super insecure person – and I’m not sure if they’re right.

It takes damage to stand this far out of society. My urge to give and please comes from my desperation to feel loved, and needed. I’m not sure if that’s how we all are deep down, and I just bring it to the next level — and I don’t know if I’m wrong or if I’m right, but I do know it feels good.

[darkschneider1982]

You are not imperfect. And you should not listen to anybody that tells you otherwise. Especially “society”.

Society tells people a lot of shit to try to make them work their asses day and night. Don’t listen. 

Anyone would be lucky to have a girlfriend like you. There is nothing wrong with wanting to please others and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be loved and accepted.  If it feels good, and it keeps feeling good, then it is good. Just be sure you never end up doing something you really don’t want to do and then resent and regret.

Also remember that we are all insecure deep inside. We become  confident after we are loved, not before.

I give you an hug from Italy. And know that i love your blog and you are already pleasing a lot of people by writing it, me included.

[brianttran-deactivated20120224]

Reblog or your mom will die in 928 seconds.

[ovod0se]

I love my mom.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

sorry followers :(

[whatgracelikes-deactivated20190]

omg im so glad to se so many people love their mummy

[ameriagrae]

Why’re you being mean to my mum?

[larryismyhallelujah-blog]

goddamn it

[lollie-pond-deactivated20150728]

Nope. Googled it. 15 minuets. Nope. Not taking any chances

[steampoweredplayer]

Koop

[twirliest]

This has 1.2 million reblogs … Ps not riskin it

[nathanvj]

1.4 almost ps not risking it

[queenprotein-deactivated2016012]

Fuck this post

[for-what-its-worth1213-deactiva]

Lmao damn tumblr

[shamoyakelly]

I fucking hate you tumblr

[idkloner]

@yungd0nut

[kushandwizdom]

FFS, I’ll never not reblog sorry yeah

[his-high-ness]

Fuck I hate when I see this

[chicasandchainz-deactivated2016]

Fucking tumblr

[sexmebadd]

Hate tumblr

[drugsmami-deactivated20161101]

I hate you

[lilronjohn-deactivated20200811]

UGGHHHH

[amethystafrodite]

This is the actual worst post

[darkschneider1982]

Tumblr sucks

[onceler-vore-fanfic]

[little-king-john-deactivated202]

Presumably you edited out “benevolent governments.” And yeah, sure, maybe there aren’t benevolent corporations either. But the important distinction is that corporations don’t have guns.

[onceler-vore-fanfic]

corporations funding right wing death squads very much disagree

[abolish-everything-deactivated2]

[peteschult-deactivated20191212]

And this thread illustrates the distinction between left anarchism and right “anarchism”/“libertarianism”/“an"CAP.

tl;dr; If you’re a right winger, it doesn’t matter what you call yourself; you’re just a bottom for an abusive, rich fucker.

[omgweatherunderground]

Yeah, you’re just a cock-serving, sissy-faggot who likes to take it up the ass. @redbloodedamerica is prime example of a soy boy, boot-licking, sissy-faggot who likes the eat the shit out of his corporate masters assholes while they piss and shit down his throat. Disgusting. I’d kill myself if I were that much of a cock serving bitch.  

[redbloodedamerica]

States and corporations are the same?

Last time I checked, McDonald’s and Exxon don’t take 30% of my income out of my paychecks at threat of imprisonment.

And @omgweatherunderground, you have always been a contemptible piece of garbage that we have just put up with on this website, but how dare you try to steal SoyBoy from our vernacular.  

[darkschneider1982]

Yes they are. 

They are the same.

They are part of the state because they are created by the state (individuals may ask to the state the privilege to become a corporation, but it is the state that allows them and then create them)  and they receive privileges and benefits from the state that you don’t  have  (and i’m not talking about tax cuts ). 

The corporations  do not pay for the damages they do except for the profit they make and the capital they invest, while you instead pay with everything you have. 

If they are big enough the government intervene to save them when they are failing.  

 They are given monopolies.  

 They are often straightforwardly  founded by the state with your money. 

And they are allowed to engage in activities that you can’t do because “it is too dangerous to have @redbloodedamerica do this, let instead have those  corporations that we decide are safe do it”.

Remember, if the police are the hands of the states, corporations and banks are the legs.

Big goverment = big corporations = big banks.

[redbloodedamerica]

“They are part of the state because they are created by the state”

Well, at least you admit that much.

However, I’ll ask again, who can blatantly steal money from your paycheck at the threat of imprisonment: corporations or the government?

After truthfully answering that question, then you can go back and amend your statement that government and corporations are the same, because they most certainly are not. 

[darkschneider1982]

The government of course, but the point is that right now they are becoming the same thing.

Again, i’m not a fan of socialism, and neither are you, but understand that there are a lot of ways to create a socialist system and they don’t always involve direct redistribution of wealth through violence.

One other way is to create a system where corporations have unfair advantages over people and can do things that they can’t do so that the free market stops working and  big corporations can screw  people using the unfair advantages the state gives them. And then they give a part of the money they unfairly took back to the government or to the politicians in form of contributions to campaigns.

On example of that is the way American ISPs/cable companies are allowed regional monopolies. Or how you can’t collect money from general public unless you create or own a bank ( an entity regulated by the state).  And so on.

In fact, in a free market a big corporation can never exist for too long, it always gets destroyed by competition.  So you know that all big corporations are the result of government meddling.

[onceler-vore-fanfic]

[little-king-john-deactivated202]

Presumably you edited out “benevolent governments.” And yeah, sure, maybe there aren’t benevolent corporations either. But the important distinction is that corporations don’t have guns.

[onceler-vore-fanfic]

corporations funding right wing death squads very much disagree

[abolish-everything-deactivated2]

[peteschult-deactivated20191212]

And this thread illustrates the distinction between left anarchism and right “anarchism”/“libertarianism”/“an"CAP.

tl;dr; If you’re a right winger, it doesn’t matter what you call yourself; you’re just a bottom for an abusive, rich fucker.

[omgweatherunderground]

Yeah, you’re just a cock-serving, sissy-faggot who likes to take it up the ass. @redbloodedamerica is prime example of a soy boy, boot-licking, sissy-faggot who likes the eat the shit out of his corporate masters assholes while they piss and shit down his throat. Disgusting. I’d kill myself if I were that much of a cock serving bitch.  

[redbloodedamerica]

States and corporations are the same?

Last time I checked, McDonald’s and Exxon don’t take 30% of my income out of my paychecks at threat of imprisonment.

And @omgweatherunderground, you have always been a contemptible piece of garbage that we have just put up with on this website, but how dare you try to steal SoyBoy from our vernacular.  

[darkschneider1982]

Yes they are. 

They are the same.

They are part of the state because they are created by the state (individuals may ask to the state the privilege to become a corporation, but it is the state that allows them and then create them)  and they receive privileges and benefits from the state that you don’t  have  (and i’m not talking about tax cuts ). 

The corporations  do not pay for the damages they do except for the profit they make and the capital they invest, while you instead pay with everything you have. 

If they are big enough the government intervene to save them when they are failing.  

 They are given monopolies.  

 They are often straightforwardly  founded by the state with your money. 

And they are allowed to engage in activities that you can’t do because “it is too dangerous to have @redbloodedamerica do this, let instead have those  corporations that we decide are safe do it”.

Remember, if the police are the hands of the states, corporations and banks are the legs.

Big goverment = big corporations = big banks.

[redbloodedamerica]

[iammyfather]

ALL THREE Judges voted against Tump.

[raw-r-evolution]

Trump makes descions regardless if it breaks the law or not.. he think hes supreme overlord lol

If its not lawful, its not lawful..

[redbloodedamerica]

What makes the executive order unlawful?

[darkschneider1982]

The fact that it was created to target muslims. Which he himself declared it would be. We have a lot of evidence of that, starting from his public declarations. And the judges can search the declarations of the president to understand  his true intentions and motives when ruling whether an executive order is legitimate or not.

Also while the president has the power to stop immigration from one country with the purpose to protect the national security, it cannot act to stop a single religion from coming into the country because the constitution doesn’t allow this kind of discrimination. 

Also this is an other case of the government acting where there is no reason to do it. Just look at the data form cato.org: “Trump’s executive order didn’t look at the most dangerous visa categories in recent history but rather singled out all migrants from seven Muslim countries for a temporary 90-day ban and focused the administration’s greatest scrutiny on the refugee program. But despite all of the attention paid to refugees, the chance of being murdered in a terrorist attack by a refugee on U.S. soil is only one in 3.64 billion per year. Only three such murders have ever occurred — all three instances were in the 1970s, and the attackers all came from Cuba.”

Also if you look at the numbers  at Cato.org you will see that Migrants from the seven banned countries have also killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. In fact if you really want an order that could somehow protect the USA, you need to stop  immigration from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

[academiemelusine]

Looking back I don’t see how anybody could take hours out of their lives fruitlessly trying to explain to a person that stealing is wrong and that people have the right to their possessions and not want to fucking kill them and be done with it.

These people do not view the world like well adjusted individuals. They cannot be convinced. They are not moral actors. Arguing with them is a waste of fucking time.

There can be no tolerance.

[i-am-dallas-deactivated20190109]

yeah, if they don’t agree with you they are not moral. clearly private property is the end-all-be-all of epistemology. punch a Nazi

[academiemelusine]

[i-am-dallas-deactivated20190109]

Because if one doesn’t put your ideology ahead of all others, they’re a Marxist. Makes perfect sense. People should take you seriously since you’re so highly educated.

[academiemelusine]

My rights are immutable, get with the program or get out of my helicopter.

[i-am-dallas-deactivated20190109]

What rights? You don’t have any rights. You’re an anarchist. You can’t just declare something as a right because you feel like it. What are you, a fucking progressive?

[academiemelusine]

[redbloodedamerica]

“You don’t have any rights. You’re an anarchist.”

I always knew @i-am-dallas was dumb enough to believe that rights were determined by government.  The guy is a colossal moron.  If you can’t already tell, he’s just making up everything he says to keep the argument going because he gets off on it or something.  Or perhaps he’s just lonely and just looking for attention by lashing out with absurd contentions. 

[darkschneider1982]

I believe that what he wanted to say about rights is that without a state or a government  that has the power to materially enforce them they are nothing more that declarations of principle. So for an anarchist to talk about rights makes no sense. And i believe he is right.

Let me make an example: if tomorrow the congress pass a law saying that the  the solar system will move  from the Milky Way to the Magellanic Cloud , formally it is a law but substantially it is just words with no purpose. The same is true if you have rights  on paper but not in reality because the state is not enforcing them but it is actually ignoring the law and constitution and opposing them . In fact did you know that the constitution of North Korea  grants to the citizens freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial and freedom of religion? It also asserts the right of every citizen to work, education, food, and healthcare.

You can try to argue that the power to defend the rights must not come from a state, that the people can defend by themselves, but i can answer you that, when an organized community start to create rights, that community has just become  a  baby-state. 

You can try to say that you can defend them by yourself, but in that case, if  someone else is stronger than you  and wants to kill you or to imprison you, you have no rights at all.

States and governments exist exactly because they are stronger than individuals and capable of enforcing the rights.  They are necessary--because we need to be secure from force initiated by criminals, terrorists, and foreign invaders.

The concept of universal natural rights,  not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, doesn’t make any sense because a right with no power is just words to the wind and there is not a universal natural power that anyone has from birth. 

[redbloodedamerica]

[the-fountain-ho]

No no guys it’s ~hate~ speech so it’s okay to violently beat people and destroy everything

[afon-afanc]

Nothing wrong with a bit of rioting and property damage if it means a neo-Nazi has to turn tail and run like a coward. These Americans are so backward and oversensitive.

[redbloodedamerica]

No, actually it’s that people like you have the ethical rationale of a herding ungulate, @longrodhardwood.  Once even the slightest notion of fear sets in, without reason or aim you run and trample over others destroying anything and everything in your wake along your frightened impetuous path.

No neo-Nazi turned tail because there was no neo-Nazi to protest in the first place.  So, you’re supporting riots over a fictitious bogeyman.

[darkschneider1982]

I believe that by teaching  ideas like the importance of trigger warnings, compulsory speech and the selection of who is allowed to talk on social media and public spaces and who is not (hint: you and i should  not be allowed) in order to create a perfect society where everybody is happy,  the colleges are creating a fertile ground  to have real Nazis grow ( by the way, nazis were leftists and socialists but nobody seems to remember that).

[winosaur]

https://www.gofundme.com/srfirewood

Stand with Standing Rock. Let’s help complete this campaign!

[libertybill]

Listen, guys, I know this whole thing is supposedly motivated out of concern for the environment, despite the protestors burning tires, a petroleum product, but I the oil that you so dearly do not want to flow is a cleaner form of heat than firewood.

There are good reasons to be opposed to the DAPL, but environmental concerns is not one of them.

[caden]

the problem is that the pipeline runs through a critical water reserve for the tribe. The tribe isn’t just opposed to the general concept of oil, the main fear is of a leak contaminating the water supply (something that’s happened numerous times before). People aren’t doing it out of concern for the environment, they’re doing it out of concern for the lives of the people on that reservation. It generally becomes significantly easier to sympathize with protestors when you have even a basic understanding of why they’re protesting. 

[libertybill]

No, the pipeline runs under a water reserve, 92 feet or greater to be exact.

What the protestors do not understand is that even if the pipeline is stopped, oil must still be moved form the north to the east, through what mechanism is the question. It’s in their best interest that this pipeline is constructed as pipelines are 4.5 times safer than moving oil by freight and therefore least likely to cause contamination.

Most pipeline incidents leak either less than 1 cubic meter of oil or no oil at all and they occur at processing facilities not in the actual pipeline, causing no damage to water sources.

In every year from 2003 to 2013, pipelines experienced fewer occurrences per million barrels of oil equivalent transported than did rail. Overall in this period, rail experienced 0.227 occurrences per million barrels of oil equivalent transported compared to 0.049 for pipelines.

The vast majority of pipeline occurrences—more than 80 per cent—also don’t occur in the actual line pipe. Rather they happen in facilities that are more likely to have secondary containment mechanisms and procedures. But perhaps the most telling statistic regarding pipeline safety is that 99 per cent of pipeline occurrences from 2003 to 2013 didn’t damage the environment.

It would help the protestors to have a basic understanding of what they’re protesting.

[redbloodedamerica]

Facts > Hyperbole

By the way, @big-boss-official, remember that most of the legal and organizational backing for the Standing Rock Sioux has come from environmental activist groups.  EarthJustice, the legal group which has been trying to halt construction of this pipeline and others, is a wacko law group whose sole goal is to end all fossil fuel infrastructure.  And to be perfectly honest, the original reason the Standing Rock Sioux have opposed this, unlike all the other directly effected tribes, is that Energy Transfer Partners did not give in to their financial demands.

Here is my full write-up on the the Dakota Access Pipeline saga.

[darkschneider1982]

I honestly don’t care why they are protesting.  They may have their selfish reasons to do or they may really be concerned about the environment but it doesn’t  matter.What i am very concerned about is they way the government is reacting. 

No matter how stupid the protesters are, police should not be allowed to attack them and hurt them unless they are using violence. Peaceful protest, even a protest where people chant “give us free shit now” and then block roads, should not be subject to excessive violence. I can’t tolerate that the government is allowed to use excessive violence on people just to allow a pipeline to be built. You can arrest them and then you can process them and if they are convicted you can put them into jail but you can’t attack them with cold water in the winter even if that pipeline will be a huge boost to the economy of the country. Individual rights should always prevail on economic reasons and a cop should never be allowed to use excessive force on people . Period.

And also no pipeline, no road, no atomic central and  no prison should be built if local people disagree just because the government wants it to be build.  Even if the locals are blocking everything just to have piece of the pie.  And if they don’t want you to pass, either the government must find an other point to pass or they must not pass at all. 

The point is, if they want to build a prison or a pipeline in my town or near my town, me and the other residents must be capable to say no and if we do  the president in charge  at that moment must stop and go somewhere else.

[redbloodedamerica]

Yeah, well, when an angry mob of people traipses onto private property willing to do damage to said property or even to the people thereon, then the police absolutely have the right to step in and use force to prevent them from doing so.  

Your mistake is believing this was a “peaceful protest.”  It turned violent several times throughout this entire event because large groups of belligerent enthusiastic people are prone to doing some hysterical reckless things when they are caught up in the passion of the moment.

Furthermore, just because one local contingency disagrees with something being built on private property does not give them the right to stop its construction.  The Standing Rock Sioux do not represent the entire county or state’s interest in what infrastructure can be built there.  If small groups in these locations had carte blanche on what can and cannot be built then nothing would be built.

As long as they are respecting private property rights (see: not resorting to  eminent domain) and the company is consulting residents, property owners, and neighbors about their intentions, which Energy Transfer Partners did, then they are doing things through the proper legal channels.

[dadnerdrants]

All of this is moot, as the camp is breaking up, all have been advised to go home. The tribe is back to court, as the severe winter conditions have depleted resources. I stick by the same principle as always, when the feds take the side of big bussiness, and 1st Nations folks are in the way, I trust the little guy. Considering our current Potus Will directly benefit from this pipeline, I fully expect a repeat of Wounded Knee while all the many White so called Libertarians look the other way. Because profit over people.

[redbloodedamerica]

Inconvenient fact of life: the “little guy” is not always justified, correct, or otherwise deserving of your trust.  Such is fallacious logic of social justice warriors.

And comparing this to Wounded Knee is the epitome of hyperbole.  I would expect nothing less from someone dumb enough to use the phrase “profits over people.”  

[darkschneider1982]

But Red, the “big guy” is even less justified and correct that the “little guy” normally. This is something every anti-swj knows.

And the idea that people can’t protest on what is not “private property” but “property of the government” is a very leftist idea i think. 

That said, i am aware that the State Department has found that the environmental impacts and risks from the project are acceptably low , that the climate impacts of the project are nil.  And in general  Keystone is not an existential issue. It’s a 1,179-mile oil pipeline in a nation already crisscrossed by more than 150,000 miles of such pipelines (i took the data from Cato). 

But Red, the issue is not if the protestes are right, it is how much the little guy has the right to protest, even when he is obviously wrong. THIS IS THE ISSUE, just like the right of nazis to speak without getting punched in the face.

In the end, i don’t trust Trump, many people see him as the second coming but i don’t , i believe he is a Democratic Autoritarian Leftist President pretending to be a Republican, and i am scared when  i see him charging the little guys. 

That is my point. 

[winosaur]

https://www.gofundme.com/srfirewood

Stand with Standing Rock. Let’s help complete this campaign!

[libertybill]

Listen, guys, I know this whole thing is supposedly motivated out of concern for the environment, despite the protestors burning tires, a petroleum product, but I the oil that you so dearly do not want to flow is a cleaner form of heat than firewood.

There are good reasons to be opposed to the DAPL, but environmental concerns is not one of them.

[caden]

the problem is that the pipeline runs through a critical water reserve for the tribe. The tribe isn’t just opposed to the general concept of oil, the main fear is of a leak contaminating the water supply (something that’s happened numerous times before). People aren’t doing it out of concern for the environment, they’re doing it out of concern for the lives of the people on that reservation. It generally becomes significantly easier to sympathize with protestors when you have even a basic understanding of why they’re protesting. 

[libertybill]

No, the pipeline runs under a water reserve, 92 feet or greater to be exact.

What the protestors do not understand is that even if the pipeline is stopped, oil must still be moved form the north to the east, through what mechanism is the question. It’s in their best interest that this pipeline is constructed as pipelines are 4.5 times safer than moving oil by freight and therefore least likely to cause contamination.

Most pipeline incidents leak either less than 1 cubic meter of oil or no oil at all and they occur at processing facilities not in the actual pipeline, causing no damage to water sources.

In every year from 2003 to 2013, pipelines experienced fewer occurrences per million barrels of oil equivalent transported than did rail. Overall in this period, rail experienced 0.227 occurrences per million barrels of oil equivalent transported compared to 0.049 for pipelines.

The vast majority of pipeline occurrences—more than 80 per cent—also don’t occur in the actual line pipe. Rather they happen in facilities that are more likely to have secondary containment mechanisms and procedures. But perhaps the most telling statistic regarding pipeline safety is that 99 per cent of pipeline occurrences from 2003 to 2013 didn’t damage the environment.

It would help the protestors to have a basic understanding of what they’re protesting.

[redbloodedamerica]

Facts > Hyperbole

By the way, @big-boss-official, remember that most of the legal and organizational backing for the Standing Rock Sioux has come from environmental activist groups.  EarthJustice, the legal group which has been trying to halt construction of this pipeline and others, is a wacko law group whose sole goal is to end all fossil fuel infrastructure.  And to be perfectly honest, the original reason the Standing Rock Sioux have opposed this, unlike all the other directly effected tribes, is that Energy Transfer Partners did not give in to their financial demands.

Here is my full write-up on the the Dakota Access Pipeline saga.

[darkschneider1982]

I honestly don’t care why they are protesting.  They may have their selfish reasons to do or they may really be concerned about the environment but it doesn’t  matter.What i am very concerned about is they way the government is reacting. 

No matter how stupid the protesters are, police should not be allowed to attack them and hurt them unless they are using violence. Peaceful protest, even a protest where people chant “give us free shit now” and then block roads, should not be subject to excessive violence. I can’t tolerate that the government is allowed to use excessive violence on people just to allow a pipeline to be built. You can arrest them and then you can process them and if they are convicted you can put them into jail but you can’t attack them with cold water in the winter even if that pipeline will be a huge boost to the economy of the country. Individual rights should always prevail on economic reasons and a cop should never be allowed to use excessive force on people . Period.

And also no pipeline, no road, no atomic central and  no prison should be built if local people disagree just because the government wants it to be build.  Even if the locals are blocking everything just to have piece of the pie.  And if they don’t want you to pass, either the government must find an other point to pass or they must not pass at all. 

The point is, if they want to build a prison or a pipeline in my town or near my town, me and the other residents must be capable to say no and if we do  the president in charge  at that moment must stop and go somewhere else.

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[thevoiceof-tok]

Michael Sandel lecture about the Trolley Problem. If there is a difference in our notions about the right action to take, does that mean ethical claims and standards are entirely subjective?

[micdotcom]

Watch: Ahmed Mohamed speaks out about being arrested 

[darkschneider1982]

Bernie Sanders’s Liberty University speech, annotated

He talked. I annotated.

The fact is that, as a libertarian, i disagree with the way he believes the problems he addresses have to be to fixed, because socialism never works. Never.

But guess what? If i had to choose between him and Jeb Bush i will vote him everyday, because it is better to have a declared socialist with true principles that a fake defender of freedom that will drag his own country into wars just to make happy his friends in the military system. 

If i had to  choose between him and Hillary Clinton, i would choose him everyday because it is better to have a declared socialist with true principles that a consumed politician that has all the lobbyists of the country as friends.

So, for now, waiting for someone closer to my ideas, i would vote the best of the politicians with different ideas. 

[darkschneider1982]

County Jerk's Office - Keepin' It Oathy

I love Larry Wilmore. He is the best.

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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed..” #twitter #sandrabland #mlk #quote #staywoke #ifidieinpolicecustody