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Which would be your favored candidate for the 2020 Republican Party presidential nomination?

Donald Trump
47
27%
Rocky De La Fuente
5
3%
Joe Walsh
4
2%
Bill Weld
23
13%
Bob Ely
0
No votes
Zoltan Istvan
6
3%
None of the above/other
30
17%
David Hasselhoff
58
34%
 
Total votes : 173

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Chernoslavia
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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:35 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
No they don't. And it doesn't matter if you're okay with it, you're not entitled to other people's possessions. Ever.

That still doesn't mean people are obligated to hand you a free gun.


Sure they do. it really doesn’t matter you think you are being ripped off. Well you have the right to complain about and by all means do.

Unfortunately for you; if/when Universal Health care goes to a vote; you will be in a tiny minority opposing it.


No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Postby The Black Forrest » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:37 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Sure they do. it really doesn’t matter you think you are being ripped off. Well you have the right to complain about and by all means do.

Unfortunately for you; if/when Universal Health care goes to a vote; you will be in a tiny minority opposing it.


No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?


More people are ok with being “ripped off” over access to health care.

Oh I think the idea of universal health care is attractive to far more people then you are willing to admit.
*I am a master proofreader after I click Submit.
* There is actually a War on Christmas. But Christmas started it, with it's unparalleled aggression against the Thanksgiving Holiday, and now Christmas has seized much Lebensraum in November, and are pushing into October. The rest of us seek to repel these invaders, and push them back to the status quo ante bellum Black Friday border. -Trotskylvania
* Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver.
* I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days. - Max Barry talking about Atlas Shrugged

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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:38 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?


More people are ok with being “ripped off” over access to health care.

Oh I think the idea of universal health care is attractive to far more people then you are willing to admit.


And I care about what a majority of people think because?

Again, according to who?
Last edited by Chernoslavia on Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Postby Albrenia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:39 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Sure they do. it really doesn’t matter you think you are being ripped off. Well you have the right to complain about and by all means do.

Unfortunately for you; if/when Universal Health care goes to a vote; you will be in a tiny minority opposing it.


No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.


I know this might be splitting hairs a bit, but in some cases you are most certainly obligated to provide free goods or services to another person. Such as in the case of being a parent, or a more occupational caregiver.

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Postby The Black Forrest » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:43 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
More people are ok with being “ripped off” over access to health care.

Oh I think the idea of universal health care is attractive to far more people then you are willing to admit.


And I care about what a majority of people think because?

Again, according to who?


*shrugs* You seem to care people should be concerned you are being ripped off. Why should they?
*I am a master proofreader after I click Submit.
* There is actually a War on Christmas. But Christmas started it, with it's unparalleled aggression against the Thanksgiving Holiday, and now Christmas has seized much Lebensraum in November, and are pushing into October. The rest of us seek to repel these invaders, and push them back to the status quo ante bellum Black Friday border. -Trotskylvania
* Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver.
* I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days. - Max Barry talking about Atlas Shrugged

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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:43 pm

Albrenia wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.


I know this might be splitting hairs a bit, but in some cases you are most certainly obligated to provide free goods or services to another person. Such as in the case of being a parent, or a more occupational caregiver.


True, but the parent is the one who has brought the child into the world and so neglecting the child and can be considered having killed him/her.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:45 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
And I care about what a majority of people think because?

Again, according to who?


*shrugs* You seem to care people should be concerned you are being ripped off. Why should they?


I am here to disprove the notion that people have a ''right'' to someone else's goods or services. Not argue about what healthcare will do or how many people support it.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Postby The Black Forrest » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:47 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
*shrugs* You seem to care people should be concerned you are being ripped off. Why should they?


I am here to disprove the notion that people have a ''right'' to someone else's goods or services. Not argue about what healthcare will do or how many people support it.


Taxation is theft has been offered since taxation started and will continue long after we are gone.
*I am a master proofreader after I click Submit.
* There is actually a War on Christmas. But Christmas started it, with it's unparalleled aggression against the Thanksgiving Holiday, and now Christmas has seized much Lebensraum in November, and are pushing into October. The rest of us seek to repel these invaders, and push them back to the status quo ante bellum Black Friday border. -Trotskylvania
* Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver.
* I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days. - Max Barry talking about Atlas Shrugged

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:47 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Sure they do. it really doesn’t matter you think you are being ripped off. Well you have the right to complain about and by all means do.

Unfortunately for you; if/when Universal Health care goes to a vote; you will be in a tiny minority opposing it.


No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?

How do you get juries in America? Do you just ask for volunteers?

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Postby The East Marches II » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:48 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
I am here to disprove the notion that people have a ''right'' to someone else's goods or services. Not argue about what healthcare will do or how many people support it.


Taxation is theft has been offered since taxation started and will continue long after we are gone.


That's ok, IL tells me if they privatize the highways it will become not oppression and just a fee :^)

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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:50 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
I am here to disprove the notion that people have a ''right'' to someone else's goods or services. Not argue about what healthcare will do or how many people support it.


Taxation is theft has been offered since taxation started and will continue long after we are gone.

You're missing the point. I am aware that taxes aren't going away anytime soon if at all much like government sanctioned murder, but that doesn't make any of these rights.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Postby Albrenia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:51 pm

The East Marches II wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Taxation is theft has been offered since taxation started and will continue long after we are gone.


That's ok, IL tells me if they privatize the highways it will become not oppression and just a fee :^)


I believe the correct term is a 'toll'. :p

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Postby Cannot think of a name » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:52 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?

How do you get juries in America? Do you just ask for volunteers?

You get a thing in the mail and if you ignore it you get another thing in the mail. I just got my other thing in the mail.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Postby Tarsonis » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:54 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Tarsonis wrote:
That's not how this works.


Hello pot :p

Good to see you again kettle. Give my best to the cutlery.
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Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow"
Thucydides: “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
1 Corinthians 5:12 "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?"
Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow."
T. Stevens: "I don't hold with equality in all things, but I believe in equality under the Law."
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Postby The East Marches II » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:56 pm

Albrenia wrote:
The East Marches II wrote:
That's ok, IL tells me if they privatize the highways it will become not oppression and just a fee :^)


I believe the correct term is a 'toll'. :p


Open Road T(r)olling

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Postby Tarsonis » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:56 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
*shrugs* You seem to care people should be concerned you are being ripped off. Why should they?


I am here to disprove the notion that people have a ''right'' to someone else's goods or services. Not argue about what healthcare will do or how many people support it.


Gideon v Wainwright would say otherwise.
NS Keyboard Warrior since 2005
Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow"
Thucydides: “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
1 Corinthians 5:12 "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?"
Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow."
T. Stevens: "I don't hold with equality in all things, but I believe in equality under the Law."
James I of Aragon "Have you ever considered that our position is Idolatry to the Rabbi?"
Debating Christian Theology with Non-Christians pretty much anybody be like

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Postby New haven america » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:57 pm

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That's all folks~

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Postby The East Marches II » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:58 pm

New haven america wrote:Missouri is a myth.


Fuck I thought they were in Kansas myself. RIP

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:58 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:
Ifreann wrote:How do you get juries in America? Do you just ask for volunteers?

You get a thing in the mail and if you ignore it you get another thing in the mail. I just got my other thing in the mail.

There you have it, folks, jury trials are communism. Innocent people forced to provide a service to accused criminals, and the criminal doesn't even have to pay.

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Postby New haven america » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:59 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
No, they don't. An actual right doesn't violate the rights of others. You can support universal healthcare as much as you like, in reality no one is obligated to hand you any goods or services much less for free.

Tiny minority according to who?

How do you get juries in America? Do you just ask for volunteers?

You get letters in the mail and ignore them for as long as humanly possible.
Human of the male variety
Will accept TGs
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That's all folks~

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Postby The Black Forrest » Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:01 pm

The East Marches II wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:
Taxation is theft has been offered since taxation started and will continue long after we are gone.


That's ok, IL tells me if they privatize the highways it will become not oppression and just a fee :^)


:D. Oh there will still be taxation to build and maintain them. Fees can’t pay for it.
*I am a master proofreader after I click Submit.
* There is actually a War on Christmas. But Christmas started it, with it's unparalleled aggression against the Thanksgiving Holiday, and now Christmas has seized much Lebensraum in November, and are pushing into October. The rest of us seek to repel these invaders, and push them back to the status quo ante bellum Black Friday border. -Trotskylvania
* Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver.
* I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days. - Max Barry talking about Atlas Shrugged

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Postby The East Marches II » Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:02 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
The East Marches II wrote:
That's ok, IL tells me if they privatize the highways it will become not oppression and just a fee :^)


:D. Oh there will still be taxation to build and maintain them. Fees can’t pay for it.


The jokes on us, the owner of the firm used to be an IL politician too. The rogues found a way to game us 3 times!

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Postby Chernoslavia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:03 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:You get a thing in the mail and if you ignore it you get another thing in the mail. I just got my other thing in the mail.

There you have it, folks, jury trials are communism. Innocent people forced to provide a service to accused criminals, and the criminal doesn't even have to pay.


That's a duty. Forcing people to attend jury duty isn't considered a right anywhere in the US.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Democratic Socialists

Postby Tarsonis » Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:07 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:You get a thing in the mail and if you ignore it you get another thing in the mail. I just got my other thing in the mail.

There you have it, folks, jury trials are communism. Innocent people forced to provide a service to accused criminals, and the criminal doesn't even have to pay.


But they're paid. So it's okay.
NS Keyboard Warrior since 2005
Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow"
Thucydides: “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
1 Corinthians 5:12 "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?"
Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow."
T. Stevens: "I don't hold with equality in all things, but I believe in equality under the Law."
James I of Aragon "Have you ever considered that our position is Idolatry to the Rabbi?"
Debating Christian Theology with Non-Christians pretty much anybody be like

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Postby Cannot think of a name » Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:07 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:You get a thing in the mail and if you ignore it you get another thing in the mail. I just got my other thing in the mail.

There you have it, folks, jury trials are communism. Innocent people forced to provide a service to accused criminals, and the criminal doesn't even have to pay.

I think I get $7 a day out of the deal. Not even enough to cover lunch.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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