Baden

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:lol: I worked in a supermarket once. The manager got pissed off at me because I called in sick and went to the pub. Typical frigging capitalist.

I mean burn down the local WalMart. :fire: :cheer:

Exactly. What it's not is "stealing TVs is good!" vs. "stealing TVs is not good!". If we can't get past that I'm going to punch me a @#$*ing wall some...

I can just see you now swinging your beer belly at them like an obese Bruce Lee with tats.

'Parently so. Joining antifa now. As I don't live in a ridiculous country where fighting fascism is terrorism. The negative consequences to that will ...

Being actively against fascism is terrorism now, apparently. So being for fascism is what?

Actually, looking back I did. But the main point is the problem with legitimacy, which hasn't been taken up much because the focus is just on saying t...

I hope we all agree on that re this situation. I doubt it though.

Thanks @"boethius" for helping to clarify some of what I said. When there's a problem about the legitimacy of the state, there's a problem with the le...

Stupid. Quote me where I said I "encourage" looting liquor and TVs from stores or where my morals "demand" stealing from stores. Tired of people who c...

Yes, it does and it's also trolling. So, let me make it very clear. If you want to respond to anyone's posts here, you're going to need to read them f...

Next time you don't read something, don't call it bullshit, makes you look like an idiot.

Honestly, if you look at my posts as a whole, I've made only a couple of rhetorically loaded points and have stuck mostly to a fairly sober line. It a...

It's fair to point out that the "elite" or "powerful" are not such an easily definable group, but, no, I don't mean the middle class. The middle class...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? Go look through my recent posts to see what more specifically I'm suggesting.

You keep saying that but you have demonstrated no ability to quote me and argue against the points I've made, whereas others have and though I don't n...

Yes, and not every one of them needs to be armed. But having organized armed groups to protect them in the face of other organized armed groups (like ...

It's good that there is so much shock and awe that minority communities might organize and defend themselves against being treated like punching bags ...

Why don't you just read what I wrote. Then quote and comment. It's quicker.

Yes, I remember asking what would happen if a black group did that and the response I got was "just the same thing". Sick joke then and even sicker no...

Yep. Your tone was hysterical not your content. I get the opposing argument. But I know if I were living in 1960s-70s Ireland where systemic discrimin...

Well, if conceiving reality is toxic then so be it because this is the way the powerful act as though they conceive. I think you are not so naive as t...

Less guns for everyone would. If they took the guns off the police and the liberty freaks / racists then they could take them off everyone and it woul...

I don't think I'm losing my mind at all. Read through my posts. The only "controversial" thing I've said is that the black community should have a rig...

Twisting your words? I'm just going to leave this here. Your words.

There. Fixed it for you.

No, you didn't, frank. That would require more effort. Seriously, try taking it line by line. Tell me what you disagree with. Show me you understand w...

Yes, I'd love if dumb racist white guys weren't allowed to have guns to hunt down black joggers and that cops weren't torturing black suspects to deat...

Are you even reading my posts? You keep responding to some caricature of everything I say as if you don't have the intelligence to understand what I a...

I want murderers to be stopped with deadly force if necessary. When they get the message that instead of a promotion, their reward is a bullet in the ...

No, it's a great way to stop their people getting killed. You have a right to protect yourselves from murderers, yes?

Yep. Good for him. It's a pity he's in a minority.

Black people need to arm themselves with the most powerful weapons legally available and when they see a cop trying to murder one of their community, ...

The two groups I'm talking about are the elites, i.e. politicians, the donors who buy policy from them, and their apparatchiks in local administration...

Now you're talking. :up:

No, you have to keep your toys in the pram, so I can steal them and call it 'the American Dream'. Rock-a-bye baby...

It's OK, I already know it's the devil because some conservative dickwad on Fox told me so. :lol: :fire:

I was talking about the "free and open" bit. China operates a hybrid system which I'm rather familiar with, having lived there for several years.

BTW, this thread is not about whether capitalism is better than socialism or not. If all you have is to throw around the communism bogeyman, you're of...

They don't have mobile phones in China? Woah...

In your frame in which the rule of law and private property rights are inviolable or where the system responds effectively to appeals to its collectiv...

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Maybe, but you haven't given us much reason to believe this. For example, charges were only made after the rioting began and, in general, it seems wit...

OK, what does it say then? What's the argument? At least provide some of the evidence herein. I'm not here to argue with the authors of the paper.

I'm not going to read a paper you randomly chose from the internet without even reading yourself (unless you're a far quicker reader and a far more ho...

Unless you have evidence for that, we'll consider it just random speculation.

That justification is absurd from a certain perspective. But that perspective is skewed as I said. I don't personally feel that random destruction of ...

OK, that would certainly help.

If you want to quote something in one of my posts you disagree with, go ahead. If you're capable. Because you don't seem to be following what's going ...