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  1. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Some things that the humans do are not very cool. Creating pointless suffering for other beings comes to mind.
  2. durangodawood

    Communism- Socialism

    None of that tells me what is this socialist form of government. What I see instead are countries that have chosen, at least on paper, a commitment to a socialist economic scheme. Obviously getting there is a political goal. But its not indicative of a specific form of government.
  3. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    I do think that is true. Perhaps I just dont see how the word to sum all that up would be "cool".
  4. durangodawood

    Communism- Socialism

    Very interesting analysis. It almost seems like fascism is a more spiritually coercive form of monarchy - enabled by the tools of modern propaganda and surveillance.
  5. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    But I didnt endure too much from 9-11. I wasnt there. I didnt go fight in Afgh afterward - nor did my friends. Airport security got tougher tho. So I guess I suffered.
  6. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    All I have to do is think about the people walking away from the site with a lungful of concrete dust just to die of cancer a few years later and that ruins the "cool".
  7. durangodawood

    Communism- Socialism

    North Korea is essentially a monarchy. What else would we call a hereditary absolutism?
  8. durangodawood

    Communism- Socialism

    Is it? Please describe the socialist form of government.
  9. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Its a whole big discussion and I dont want to get into it. I just needed to chime in because someone had a very common misconception about how the responsibility side of the issue should be framed..... a misconception thats often relied on to invalidate the reparations idea right off the bat.
  10. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Btw arent I supposed to be on extra strength ignore? What does it take anymore when Howard Jones fails?
  11. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Who says it should just be giving out money? Maybe thats a good policy, maybe not. I just chimed in to dispel this idea that reparations is about applying guilt to specific individuals, ethnicities, or locales.
  12. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Exactly! Youre getting it! Responsibility is not sortable into this or that ethnicity or region. Its a USA national collective issue.
  13. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Its my money too. Just like with any collective decision we make about how the nation should spend. Im not even arguing for a reparations policy at all. Im just pointing out what kind of issue it is.
  14. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    As I said, its a collective issue.
  15. durangodawood

    Communism- Socialism

    Capitalism is an economic system - as are communism and socialism. Its fair to ask how many have died as a result of that system, if we're comparing.
  16. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    They are all dead. Those who live there now inherited this collective situation called the USA, or chose to move into it.
  17. durangodawood

    Supreme Court rules in favor of anti-porn law

    I was talking about how the law deals with alcohol for adults. Loads of addiction, yet we've come to find its better to let adults make their own choices in a regulated environment. I was hoping you and I would have a common sense of what human liberty means.
  18. durangodawood

    Supreme Court rules in favor of anti-porn law

    I dont. I mean, of course they arent exactly the same. But close enough to use for comparing govt policies. Dont forget just how addictive alcohol can be. Do we assume adults are reasonable? I dont. But we've determined they are entitled to a certain amount of liberty, which includes...
  19. durangodawood

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    Most of the reparations arguments I hear dont blame this ethnicity or that. They blame the USA as a nation - a collective we are all part of as citizens, which endures beyond the lifetime of any particular person.
  20. durangodawood

    Supreme Court rules in favor of anti-porn law

    We tried removing the producers during prohibition. The results were so "great" that we gave up and decided it was best to let adults choose their own relationship with certain "vices". And distribution would be regulated to protect minors. So.... why?
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