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I have views that could perhaps be seen as odd. Do note that I am not + +
I have views that could perhaps be seen as odd. Do note that I am not a liberal; nor am I a conservative. I do not buy into the traditional socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the political compass two dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described @@ -85,7 +102,8 @@ broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional political and social structures (i.e hating everything). I reject the ressentiment (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and believe not that every man should have no master (for then all would -be weak), but rather that he should be his own master.
+be weak), but rather that he should be his own master (does that even +mean anything? Eh, it sounds nice so who cares).These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each will perhaps be extended in the future.
@@ -111,8 +129,44 @@ do anything by large scale action. As far as the individual is concerned we no longer live in a Republic, but rather in an Plutocracy which is quickly descending into something far worse. - -Upon airing my objections to the current Healthcare Reform bill, I was +asked: did you read the bill? To which I replied with action and read +the official summary of the bill. And now I ask those who asked me if +I had read it: have you read it. I received as a reply an unequivocal: +why should I have to.
+ +Fun fact: it isn't as bad as some people make it seem, but guess what? +It does nothing beneficial to the individual. All it does it require +that anyone over 30 purchase insurance, severely restricts the usage +of Health Savings Accounts (which, may be not so bad—I have no +opinion on their usefulness... but Republicans created them so they +must be evil), and is generally a piece of hey-look-I-did-something +(but nothing goes into effect until I am out of office) +legislation. This has never happened before, obviously. We are on the +surface of Mars now too didn't you know.
+ +Meanwhile there is what amounts to no price controls, an actual ban on +the formation of State run healthcare (until 2017, and then only at +the discretion of the HHS secretary), and token (unfunded) support for +the formation of healthcare cooperatives. There are some taxes on +large drug makers, but the research required by the FDA for drug +approval is tax deductible (and so the larger drug makers can avoid +most of the new taxes, har). And... an excise tax on overly fancy +healthcare plans... more or less, a nice bill that, if it manages to +not be overturned by 2018, will do absolutely nothing one way or the +other.
+ +It is obvious that I am indeed a dirty Nazi redneck terrorist +teabagger Republican piece of shit who hates the poor and black +people. I guess it's time for my white ass to move to Iran and see how +I like it there!
+ + + +Cooperation is better than exploitation. How can one justify an @@ -124,10 +178,10 @@ profit?
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)Corporate power disrupts the functioning of a free society. If the @@ -276,10 +330,10 @@ gives a large corporation much more than this.
-American culture in the early 1900s began to homogenize, and now there @@ -299,8 +353,16 @@ discouraged, and those of us who wish to argue our points with logic are met with the undefeatable enemy of a closed mind that has been exposed to propaganda from birth.
+Poison the well. Burn a strawman.
+ +This is real argument. Real thought.
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