"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Mason Michaels (05-28-2022)
Orwell likely would have gone from arguing with totalitarians to arguing with the New Right. Today, he would be a perfect guest on Bill Maher's show, expressing concern that progressives are using his works as a cookbook for making omelettes.
I think social democrats and traditionalist conservatives are the two guys at a table in the back of a bar, drinking together because they figure no one else wants to talk.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
I love Italy with full knowledge of their failures. Russia has been infinitely worse at establishing governments than even Italy.
If they can't do it, how can we expect them to do it?
People at an earlier stage of evolution are not those against whom I measure myself, by the way.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
The Provisional government of Russia in 1917 was arguably the most liberal government on the planet to that point in history.
I think capitalism killed incipient democracy in Russia in the 1990s. On the advice of American economic advisors, Russia implemented a radical form of cowboy capitalism in the 1990s, and that was the genesis of the gangster oligarchs. They should have stuck with the gradualist approach of Gorbachev.
People have different definitions of freedom, and I doubt a Russian democracy should it evolve in the generation after ours, will look like ours.
I do not think Chinese, Africans, Arabs, or North Koreans are inferior people for not having a liberal democracy. We Americans got lucky because our heritage and our model was the English constitutional system.
Tranquillus in Exile (05-29-2022)
Matt Dillon (05-29-2022)
Well, I do lean heavily toward your sentiment. Here's one guy's interpretation of Putin and Russia, however...
https://im1776.com/2022/05/24/unders...ladimir-putin/
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
You could have a point, but I don't see it.
I believe that it is a serious human deficiency to be unable to establish liberal democracy.
I also believe that our form of government is perhaps the last example to be used as a model.
It couldn't be more inefficient if it were stuck in quicksand.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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