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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@RT: No, that's what the definition of private property is. It's absolutely top-down, it's just ridiculous to think otherwise. Private property is identical to state authority. The state owns its territories and so does the corporation. Does the fact that one is called public and the other private magically make the former authoritarian and the latter freedomland? I agree there's no real need to discuss this here though.
Texas lawmakers sent Governor Rick Perry more than $1 billion in proposed business tax cuts
Senate Approves Cut to Food Stamps for Convicted Rapists, Pedophiles, Murderers
edited 27th May '13 4:13:15 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016![]()
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That sounds like a terrible plan in general. So an unemployed, working-class woman muders her husband one day he came drunk and tried to beat her, and now she can't have stamps anymore? All these people with the food stamps, they served their time, and they need the foot stamps. What kinda bullshit is this? They should be left to starve?
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It's populist bullcrap is what it is.
Technically neither rape, child molestation, nor murder would easily put food on their table, so I don't think it's an incentive. Neither would paedophilia for that matter, but paedophilia is not a crime.
edited 27th May '13 4:30:08 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Well that's completely retarded.
Definitely disagree with that.
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Indeed. I will never understand the logic of these people. "They're poor so we'll cut remove the only means by which they can feed themselves thus forcing them to steal for their food! Brilliant idea!"
Also what the hell happens if they have kids? I guess they should just die or not be born into such a shitty family.
edit: I know those don't put food on the table. I'm just saying that they'll do something illegal again because now they're forced to. I didn't mean to imply they would repeat their past crime although I can see how you took it to mean that.
edited 27th May '13 4:31:25 PM by Kostya
Immigrating to the United States may be bad for your health.
No, literally: "A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the parents."
Oregon police could not rescue woman from rape due to budget cuts.
Alex Jones Explains How Government "Weather Weapon" Could Have Been Behind Oklahoma Tornado
Aaaannnndddd Perry decides to call a special session of the Texas state Congress for redistricting.
Like that was a surprise.
Congressmen Propose The Mother Of All Voting Rights Protections
“Most people believe that there already is something in the Constitution that gives people the right to vote, but unfortunately … there is no affirmative right to vote in the Constitution. We have a number of amendments that protect against discrimination in voting, but we don’t have an affirmative right,” Pocan told TPM last week. “Especially in an era … you know, in the last decade especially we’ve just seen a number of these measures to restrict access to voting rights in so many states. … There’s just so many of these that are out there, that it shows the real need that we have.”
The brief amendment would stipulate that “every citizen of the United States, who is of legal voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote in any public election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.” It would also give Congress “the power to enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation.”
I could see states loop-holing past that amendment.
"You have the right to vote as a US citizens....so long as you can prove your a US citizen."
Although even then it would probably still get rid of the Strict photo ID laws
that some states have.
theweird Kiddokun: They are saying Obama made a tornado(and possibly a hurricane) to score PR points by having an efficient response to them(or to distract from the scandals). Please stop trying to apply logic. At that point they're either trolling or looking for any reason to hate Obama, sense be damned.
Drunk Girlfriend: Someone in the chat seemed to think they were talking about a climate monitoring station or something. According to them it was put in a remote part of Alaska so it would be unaffected by human developments, not so it could be a secret doomsday facility.
edited 27th May '13 7:02:45 PM by Kostya
I assume we are talking about Alaska's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
Their no stranger to conspiracy theories. Other entities that have implied that have some sinister intent include Jesse Ventura, the State Legislature of Alaska, and the Parliament of Europe.
edited 27th May '13 7:27:55 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

@ Katsura: Modern Malaysia and Cambodia are Elective Monarchies.
edited 27th May '13 12:46:58 PM by Greenmantle
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