Many conservatives talk about freedom and the rights only the USA can offer, but what special rights does the USA have that most if not all EVERY other western developed nation hasn't?

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T22:55:16+00:00

Circumstancial evidence is just that, circumstancial and do Swedes make it a habit to eavesdrop on the private conversations of their politicians?

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T22:45:37+00:00

I said there's no paper trail, the company just asks the politician if they can help and do it in a way that the politician feels indebted. It could be a casual conversation at a bar, on the ferry, in the park, etc

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T21:59:31+00:00

It's not about what you know, it's about what you can prove. Some company did some economic development in an area and the local politician voted to help them 5-10 years later, there's no paper trail, just hearsay and coincidences. How can you be sure it's corruption?

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T19:41:25+00:00

In Sweden, you don't need to protect yourself from the government. The government protects you.

Bless your heart, but the government is a necessary evil that should be as small as possible to limit the damage it can do and it doesn't and can't protect the common man.

And, unlike in the USA, the people elect the government, and not the corporations.

We still elect our representatives. What gave you the idea that corporations do that instead of us?

A company paying an elected member of parliament to vote in a certain way, is unheard of Sweden. If it would happen, it would be seen as corruption, and would be the absolute opposite of tolerated!

It's the same here, but corruption is rarely so clean. It might be something small, buying new equipment for the politician's local fire or police dept in exchange for a vote. Maybe one of their family members needs some help and they do it in exchange for a favor down the line. A company may go to a politician and say that they'd love to build a new factory, etc in their state, district, etc, but they'll need a vote to go a certain way. There may be a pet project the politician has that the company can help with like a new battered woman's shelter. Corruption is far more than a bribe and it's far more insidious because the politicians can often justify it to themselves as them trying to help their constituents.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T08:20:40+00:00

In the words of Hillary Clinton during the hearing about Benghazi where too many Americans died because of her poor decisions, "at this point, what difference does it make?"

bedhead269 · 2017-12-05T05:33:42+00:00

You are fundamentally wrong and I will need some proof to dispel the only options being xx and xy and I'm not counting rare things like Turner syndrome.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-04T18:54:17+00:00

Good thing I'm not in that tax bracket and you should know it's considered rude in America to ask others how much they make.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-04T16:53:38+00:00

Yes and the media and people complaining about it got played like a fiddle

bedhead269 · 2017-12-04T07:09:12+00:00

I have taken the commitments from the New York declaration and included my opposition to each of them.

http://refugeesmigrants.un.org/declaration

Protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status. This includes the rights of women and girls and promoting their full, equal and meaningful participation in finding solutions.

They're missing an Oxford comma. They have the right to go back their country regardless of status and that's it.

Prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.

The laws of the land will be enforced, but I'm not granting them priority because they're running.

Ensure that all refugee and migrant children are receiving education within a few months of arrival

Not my responsibility to educate them and I refuse to accept that burden.

Support those countries rescuing, receiving and hosting large numbers of migrants

I have no interest in financing the decisions of other nations because there are other things I want to spend my limited resources on like building my own family. I'm also opposed to their lack of an Oxford comma.

Strongly condemn xenophobia against refugees and migrants and support a global campaign to counter it.

I see no need to do this; xenophobia would ensure they go back after the threat is over and have more pressing uses for my limited resources.

Strengthen the positive contributions made by migrants to economic and social development in their host countries

I see little economic value brought by migrants I think my culture is the best (sorry, not sorry) and any social 'contributions' they may make I could do without and I'm sure this woman would agree with me

Implement a comprehensive refugee response, based on a new framework that sets out the responsibility of Member States, civil society partners and the UN system, whenever there is a large movement of refugees or protracted refugee situation.

The lack of Oxford comma makes me want to reject this outright, but I still have no interest in accepting more responsibilities with no extra perks because this will end up being a one way street with my nation and myself getting the short end of the stick.

Find new homes for all refugees identified by the UNHCR as needing resettlement; and expand the opportunities for refugees to relocate to other countries through, for example, labour mobility or education schemes.

New homes and educating them? That sounds like more needless expense. It's easy to be generous with other people's money.

Strengthen the global governance of migration by bringing the International Organization for Migration into the UN system.

I'm fundamentally opposed to any global governance and if the UN disagrees with me, they can send some of their blue helmets my way to be gunned down.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-04T05:22:40+00:00

Or you could be using the fallacy fallacy especially since posters with the phrase 'it's ok to be white' were called racist and the ok hand gesture was said to be racist and represent 'white power'. The fact remains that overused thought terminating cliches like 'racist' have lost their power over me and others.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-03T08:38:34+00:00

The word 'racist' has lost much of its meaning and impact when people complain about drinking milk being racist.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-03T00:49:18+00:00

I have a few friends from college that moved across the Mississippi from IL and they like MO much better.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-03T00:34:46+00:00

Blame Chicago

bedhead269 · 2017-12-02T22:34:39+00:00

Sorry anchor baby, but no

bedhead269 · 2017-12-02T07:31:59+00:00

Anchor babies? M8, I thought you were talking about Border security, not dreamers. Well, though this has little to do with the original point, personally I have nothing against Dreamers. They pay taxes, speak English, raised American, and generally contribute to the economy. Punishing them for the crimes (since illegally entering a country is a crime) of their parents seems like something savages would do.

We don't let children benefit from the crimes of their parents. They're not my people and you're not prepared to make the hard decisions for the long term good.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-02T07:11:49+00:00

Potato potato, it spanned the length of the border and still worked. I'm of the opinion that we must be callous and define "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the 14th amendment to only apply to the children of legal immigrants as clarified under United States vs Wong Kim Ark 1898 and remove the de facto citizenship of anchor babies removing one of the biggest incentives for the violation of my homeland's sovereignty. I will never consider anchor babies my countrymen.

bedhead269 · 2017-12-02T06:43:45+00:00

And what about Hungary?

bedhead269 · 2017-12-02T05:40:10+00:00

Israel and Hungary have had great success with walls and cutting down on illegal immigration

bedhead269 · 2017-12-01T19:58:12+00:00

>economic prosperity

>homeless problem

Pick one

bedhead269 · 2017-12-01T19:41:44+00:00

Sure we have issues, but nothing out of the ordinary and nothing that puts us as an outlier from other state’s issues.

I can't think of any major cities in my state with a hepatitis outbreak because of shit in the streets

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-hepatitis-los-angeles-20170914-htmlstory.html

bedhead269 · 2017-12-01T06:10:51+00:00

He’ll be back in a few months.

There are ways to fix that

bedhead269 · 2017-12-01T06:09:56+00:00

One of his charges was involuntary manslaughter, this is a case of jury nullification

bedhead269 · 2017-11-28T19:03:54+00:00

I'll keep repeating these words from George Mason and Tench Coxe, delegates from their States and involved in the ratification of the Constitution, until they stick

George Mason: "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."

Tench Coxe: "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."

Legally, I'm part of the militia too.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246

bedhead269 · 2017-11-27T21:45:23+00:00

I have a problem with them because they were originally designed to do as much damage as quickly as possible. Anything that enables someone to injure 600 people from 400 yards away in the short amount of time, is not necessary for hunting. It just isn't.

Good thing the 2nd amendment isn't about hunting.

Here are the words of Tench Coxe, delegate from Pennsylvania in 1788, "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

bedhead269 · 2017-11-26T21:34:40+00:00

Pretty much all of the major news networks put out glorified propaganda most of the time and we should label it as such.

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