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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I was on welfare for a few months once, even had a couple of those brats (but they didn't scream in the grocery store...manners and all) and look what I have managed to accomplish 7401 posts in just over a year!

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Thompsonx
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I thought I made that pretty clear in my post...I am sorry I was not more clear.  The communist/socialist took from the Czar and his thugs what the Czar and his thugs took from their predecessors.  Just as your Queen and every other thug who claims that God says they are divinely ordained to rule.
Your cavalry attack on the American southwest would differ in what functional way from how it was acquired by the U.S.  thompson

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I was on welfare for a few months once, even had a couple of those brats (but they didn't scream in the grocery store...manners and all) and look what I have managed to accomplish 7401 posts in just over a year!

I don't know how you multitask like that, Tigresse. I've done nothing but contribute useless pieces of trivia to these boards in the past THREE years, and all I've got to show for it are 2,660 or so posts.

Snot fur.

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ORIGINAL: luckydog1

MS bearlee, I said it was a very parsed post.  But technically, after there was a USA tribes from the West (having not been conquered yet) would attack and hold territory for short periods.  Don't  intend to imply that they started the wars, but that they periodically held parts (lands that had not been thiers) of the USA, is technically true. 

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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave

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Thompsonx
seeks:
I thought I made that pretty clear in my post...I am sorry I was not more clear.  The communist/socialist took from the Czar and his thugs what the Czar and his thugs took from their predecessors.  Just as your Queen and every other thug who claims that God says they are divinely ordained to rule.
Your cavalry attack on the American southwest would differ in what functional way from how it was acquired by the U.S.  thompson

Thompson it wouldnt differ it at all, that was precisely my point. Its called irony or if you will taking the piss

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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave

Executive Order no 4: Ms Bearlee is to made Squaw of all Squaws in the female division of the Red Eagles.
The western expansion of the US was based on an outrageous theft of land.

Who will be the first to hand back that which is not rightfully theirs.?
Yes you Mr and Mrs average America.

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ORIGINAL: ShaktiSama
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One of the prime fallacies of post-McCarthy America, for example, is the notion that aggression and defense are synonymous.  It was a very, very bad sign when our government changed the named of the Department of War to the Department of Defense, a sign that we were ushering in an age of delusion.
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What is truly frightening and childish about modern Americans is that they can have military bases which span the globe, soldiers stationed in countless countries which should be sovereign states, and they still behave as they are fighting within their own home territory when they lose a soldier in Iraq.

Guess what?  We don't live there.  It is childish to pretend that soldiers lost during acts of imperial aggression are morally identical to those lost defending one's home territory from attack.  
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THIS is the kind of math that you are not able to grasp.  There is a huge difference--at least an order of magnitude--between the force necessary to defend a country from outsiders, versus the force necessary to impose your imperial will on countries across the globe.

And the reason that this math is important is that the obscene and unecessary money spent on US imperialism is what keeps the US tax base from being spent on the health and collective wellbeing of actual US citizens living within the 50 states.

Again.  440 BILLION DOLLARS in Iraq alone.  To achieve what good?
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What if the American people spent their money taking care of themselves, rather than hurting and destroying others?

These are the "socialist" questions.  And condemning people who dare to ask them as "pot-smoking hippies" is incredibly stupid.

You want to cut off your support from the ugliest, fattest, laziest Welfare Momma in the history of the planet Earth?  Cut off the US military-industrial complex.  They're the ones spending 90% of your tax dollars, not the impoverished woman with the squalling brats at the supermarket. 

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ORIGINAL: Loveisallyouneed

Isn't capitalism the economic theory that expects humans who are unable to earn an income should starve to death quietly and without disturbing their neighbours?

Isn't socialism the economic theory that expects humans will commit crimes rather than starve to death, thus it provides for the poorest in society to avoid placing them in that predicament?

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ORIGINAL: luckydog1

Ms bearlee, the Natives were not one nation. 

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ORIGINAL: Zensee
PC thinking? As in being sensitive and polite enough not to use loaded, outmoded, racial labels? Z.

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

A society should be an amplifier for the potiential of all the individuals in it, not an entity in its own right, and not just a scaffolding. A functional approach, rather than a dogmatic one. Given this angle, a lot of things become clear. Amplifying security is achieved in the same way that security always is: prevention, detection, and response. We prevent it by raising people out of the indignity that compels crime, and by other means that are more a matter of fine tuning. We detect it with police and so forth. We respond with consequences that deter the crime in others, while restoring the potential and dignity of the individual (and their contribution to upholding this amplifier of potential) through rehabilitation and such. We never entitle people; we amplify their potential, but it must still be actualized. We don't deprive them of sovereignty, autonomy, accountability and so forth. We don't impose a dogma or agenda, beyond amplifying and arbitrating.

I have a dream today... or, actually, just a thought... but it's one I like.