Meme thread V.19: Guns, bible and apple pie edition.

[Rational Poster]

Check your premise.

My profits aren't yours to spend.

Money taken by force isn't charity. The people taking the money and redistributing it aren't generous because it's not their own money. Theft isn't absolved because the thief did "good" things with the spoils of their crime.

A healthy and wealthy population benefits everyone involved.

The wealth gap is too large. The rich must be taxed to equalize it.

 

[DanSavage]

This is the only attack I can see reported on Western tourists.

Banditry is more common in the region than Islamic terror. It's a secular state and the government has cracked down on Islamists historically.

Yes it is the only attack to be found in the search engines. Yet you wrote that these were the only tourists to die in Tajikistan.

Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.

Like I wrote, cherry-picking the truth that suits your agenda.

The attack was nowhere near ISIS territory in Northern Tajikistan hundreds of miles away from the Afghan border... which itself is hundreds of miles of away from ISIS territory in Afghanistan. Tajikistan has the lowest security risk rating by the US state department.

More cherry-picking. After the attack, State raised the security risk where it remains today (Tajikistan Travel Advisory)

State did have Tajikistan at the lowest at the time of the attack, but raised it immediately afterward.

But, the rating was not the lowest when you wrote the above.

 

[DanSavage]

A healthy and wealthy population benefits everyone involved.

The wealth gap is too large. The rich must be taxed to equalize it.

Thus, the rank communist reveals his true face.

What is the communist solution for those who refuse to work?

 

[Rational Poster]

Thus, the rank communist reveals his true face.

What is the communist solution for those who refuse to work?

No one is refusing to work. Corporations are refusing to pay despite the lowest tax rates in modern history.

It's different. The government needs to advocate for the people again like Teddy did last century.

 

[Rational Poster]

Yes it is the only attack to be found in the search engines. Yet you wrote that these were the only tourists to die in Tajikistan.

Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.

Like I wrote, cherry-picking the truth that suits your agenda.



More cherry-picking. After the attack, State raised the security risk where it remains today (Tajikistan Travel Advisory)

State did have Tajikistan at the lowest at the time of the attack, but raised it immediately afterward.

But, the rating was not the lowest when you wrote the above.

I am well aware the level raised after the attack.

Thus your victim blaming bullshit is just that, bullshit. It was not known to be an unsafe region before the attack occurred, and I think it's highly likely there won't be another attack like it do to the Tajik governments hardline stance.

I'm not cherry picking anything. This is what the story has been from the US State Department.

Unless you can point to another attack on Western tourists in the region, I'm going to assume there isn't one. These types of events are typically well documented.

That's how evidence works my dude. Show me evidence of another terror attack in the region and I'll change my tune in the light of new evidence.

 

[DanSavage]

No one is refusing to work. Corporations are refusing to pay despite the lowest tax rates in modern history.

It's different. The government needs to advocate for the people again like Teddy did last century.

If no one is refusing to work, then why are there so many people on welfare, SNAP, etc.?

Why should corporations support those who refuse to work?

Personally, I think we've got too much government intrusion into our lives. No, what you really want is for the government to have complete control over every aspect of our lives. That's the communist way.

Communists like you believe that you know best for how other should live their lives and you aren't afraid to use the power of the government to compel it.

 

[Rational Poster]

If no one is refusing to work, then why are there so many people on welfare, SNAP, etc.?

Why should corporations support those who refuse to work?

Personally, I think we've got too much government intrusion into our lives. No, what you really want is for the government to have complete control over every aspect of our lives. That's the communist way.

Communists like you believe that you know best for how other should live their lives and you aren't afraid to use the power of the government to compel it.

Employment is a contingent factor for most welfare benefits. People need welfare despite employment because payroll growth has stagnated for the past 30 going on 40 years.

I just want us to be more like France and Germany, that's all.

Your inability to reason without using absolutes is going to hold you back in life.

Almost nothing is binary.

 

[SurferH2O]

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

The wealthy few wouldn't have any profits without the workers and consumers. Everything is connected.

A healthy, educated, and wealthy population benefits the wealthy few. They live longer, require more goods and services, can afford those goods and services, and have a longer opportunity to reach a more wealthy station in life.

We could eliminate the majority of the income tax if the people benefiting the most from society contributed fairly.

They already contribute more than fairly. You're being unreasonable likely as a result of your ignorance.

 

[Rational Poster]

They already contribute more than fairly. You're being unreasonable likely as a result of your ignorance.

They actually contribute less than ever before. Tax rates on individuals and corporations are at all time low.

They also have more money than ever before too.

The only time the wealthy controlled as much of the economy as they do today was immediately prior to the Great Depression.

It is really a shame that in less than a hundred years all the ground the Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and others wrestled from the elites you all have all so willingly returned to them and ceded new ground on top of it.

And now you fight for them too. Really weird.

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Rational Poster]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge

 

[Rational Poster]

I see your dog whistle Nazi.

 

[Sir Galahad]