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Rikard's avatar

And Saudi, and Egypt, and Israel, and...

Do you ever wonder how much taxes could be dropped in your nation, if you stopped funding nations what doesn't need aid, just to help secure contracts to US businesses?

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libertate's avatar

If we didn't pay taxes, who would bomb the roads?

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It's okay if it's just drones doing the dirty work...

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libertate's avatar

Or when Noble Peace Prize winners shoot up hospitals with AC-130U gunships, blowing some 42 people to bits and dismembering and injuring some 30 others with Gatling guns and 40MM Bofors cannons.

https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth

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John Bowman's avatar

Report immediately for punishment to the Disobedience Governance Board.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Makes me sick.

Just like all the Pulitzers for bald-face lies

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Rikard's avatar

Road death in the US is 12 fatalities per 100 000 citizens in 2021, or 42 915.

Fatalities from guns was 38 390 of which 24 432 were suicides, in 2018 according to the CDC (why is the CDC tallying gun deaths?).

Using progressive logic, we can thus conclude that removing roads and/or private vehicle ownership saves lives. Because who /really/ needs to own a car, apart from very few people working for governement and big corporations?

You should e-mail that line to the White House, see if Team Biden picks it up for Novembah. <honk>

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libertate's avatar

Just what I need, to make it onto another list...

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steve's avatar

Taxes are irrelevant when the government has a money printer.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

What happens if that money printer burns a rod?

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steve's avatar

Hopefully the end of fiat currency and inflation.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

That is the nub of the problem. Don't forget Nixon, et al promised that the suspension of the fiat "fix" was only temporary

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

that's no fun. then there wouldn't be so much unnecessary death in the world.

I thought you liked medieval shit?!

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Rikard's avatar

Well.... I really shouldn't but since it's a morbid interest:

Iron Age is even more hard core. Here are a few examples:

Among the germanic tribes, rape was punished by pounding a blunt stake through the thorax of the offender and into the ground, in such a way as he died slowly.

Prisoners of war, if they were celts or southerners (romans and such) were often drugged with plants giving them hallucinations before being sacrificed; their genitals were cut away in such a manner as to leave a gaping whole into the abdomen through which the entrails were pulled out into a large cauldron. This was done with either flint or bronze knifes. Their screams and ramblings were said to be prophetic.

I usually bring this up when people go overboard re: freedom of worship...

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libertate's avatar

Freedom of worship ends where my junk begins.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh no. I love it when you comment on this stuff.

On my side, I have a morbid fascination learning about a serial killers mindset.

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