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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,10:24 am |
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No offense taken. No need to apologize.
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Botto 82
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,10:26 am |
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Botto 82
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,10:28 am |
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,11:58 pm |
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I would guess if there were 100 guns in this country or 100 billion the problem would remain basically the same. The Cold War is/was an example. The inept government would limp along barely able to feed itself, much less rise to tyranny. Voters keep it such. Maybe that's a good thing. The percent of crime would fluctuate with the times, with interest groups claiming success or blaming others. The banks with the same choke hold.
When mass murder was no longer vogue crimminals would invent or copy the next method of revenge and disorder. No doubt there would be profits to be made with each new sociopathic idea. Conspiracy nuts would theorize and incite fear, same as now. Weak and corrupt democratic methods would continue to create a system just barely tolerable for the masses, leaving the elite cashing in. With or without a gun fetish basic human behavior would ride Time's waves of Progression or Regression. Weapons are given way too much credit. And way to much blame.
PS And Glad I Left, debate is possible when not hunted down by Troll wolfpacks and torpedoed. ALDF can be dangerous waters. Dam the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
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Botto 82
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A system barely tolerable. There's a concept. The only buffer between how things are now and blood in the streets is the collective of entitlement programs for the poor. And conservatives all but call for the wholesale liquidation of same. Whose side are they on? Not poor people, that's for sure.
If EBT cards and Obamaphones keep riots from happening, so much the better. The only people calling for an end to such things are either no sense of where the real entitlement programs are, or whack jobs that just want to sit back and watch the world burn. But yeah, ending welfare would be that next mass-murder-sparking event here, and the leader who implements it will ultimately find his or her portrait right up there on the same wall as Hitler and Stalin and Mao.
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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,4:25 am |
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(Botto 82 @ Dec. 18 2015,12:32 am)
QUOTE A system barely tolerable. There's a concept. The only buffer between how things are now and blood in the streets is the collective of entitlement programs for the poor. And conservatives all but call for the wholesale liquidation of same. Whose side are they on? Not poor people, that's for sure.
If EBT cards and Obamaphones keep riots from happening, so much the better. The only people calling for an end to such things are either no sense of where the real entitlement programs are, or whack jobs that just want to sit back and watch the world burn. But yeah, ending welfare would be that next mass-murder-sparking event here, and the leader who implements it will ultimately find his or her portrait right up there on the same wall as Hitler and Stalin and Mao.
So quell the masses though welfare, control them with giveaways? That'll work well, at least for a little while 
Will stroke lady if elected (big if) put some truth to the phrase "qu'ils mangent de la brioche"?
How much longer before the "takers" overwhelm the "producers"? Oh the road to socialism is paved with good intentions or in this case bribes.
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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,6:48 am |
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I don't think the future Chief Executive is going to start channeling Marie Antoinette anytime soon. Welfare is the bread in Bread and Circuses.
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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,6:55 am |
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^^yes, I agree with the "bread" thing and Marie Antoinette probably never uttered those words but didn't stroke lady say she was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt back in the 90's?
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