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Sure. But then they wouldn't be able to say, "We did not instruct our informants to be there." It's the ol' FVEYs trick: "you illegally spy on our citizens for us, and we'll illegally spy on your citizens for you" aka, scratch my back, I'll scratch yours...

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Very poorly reasoned argument. There was "nationalism" thousands of years before the Jacobins.

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You're right...the worst of both worlds.

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I had United for many years through my employer. It was next to worthless and stupid expensive

Bright flash!

When you no longer have a homogenous, high trust society, that can agree outside the heavy hand of government, that certain behaviors and acts are unacceptable, you have this. And so you end up with either having to tolerate hookers cruising your neighborhood and crackheads shitting in the street, or a heavy handed police state. Diversity is NOT strength

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Uninstructed by the FBI. Try to keep up...

Spotted all over NH tonight.

'Tis the Season for the minor key...

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Ah yes, the Macho Man Randy Savage wing of the Libertarian Party... :tears:

Niall is pissing Scott off. He’s not buying the “I speak refined Queens English, therefore I’m intelligent” crap. Lol…

Happens to be on-topic:

Argentina’s Javier Milei Announces 90% Tax Reduction in 2025 https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/12/11/argentinas-javier-milei-announces-90-tax-reduction-in-2025/ Christian K. Caruzo 11 Dec 2024 President of Argentina Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his administration is preparing a structural tax reform that will eliminate 90 percent of existing taxes in 2025. Milei announced the plan, alongside other policies he seeks to implement in his second year in office, while marking the end of his first. Among them was a plan to negotiate a trade deal with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration once he takes office in January.

It's time to retire this old wives' tale: "That's your economic theory. Our economic theory says different." This is as retarded as having "your physics" and "my physics". Economic theory -- actual economics, as exemplified by the Austrian school -- isn't about opinions. It's about unalterable facts of reality. If you increase the MW, you will increase unemployment, all else equal. That's not an opinion, it's an unalterable fact. Much of the political discourse consists of opinions for which there is no easy method to find out who is right (doesn't mean it's impossible, it's just not easy). But when it comes to basic facts of economics, there are clear and relatively easy answers to be had, all one has to do is read a good book on economics. Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson is a great starting-point and I believe Milei has recommended everyone to read that. The meteoric rise of Argentina on the world stage is a concrete demonstration of this reality -- real economists are not just grumpy apologists for country-club Republicanism which I hate anyway. No, they are explaining the facts of reality, and you can live in denial of reality (and have a collapsing, fiat-money-based, debt-enslaved country)... or you can listen to the truth, accept the unalterable facts of economic reality, and make policy decisions accordingly. This is the same dilemma facing all ~200 nations in the world today. Keep living in denial, if you choose, but you and your people will continue to pay the penalty in the form of ever-increasing destitution. The global plutocracy are the only ones who are winning from the status quo. American elites -- both Democrat and Republican -- have more in common with European elites than with ordinary Americans. This is true for the plutocrat class of every nation. Until this lesson is really absorbed by The People, nothing is ever really going to change. Stop allowing globalism to destroy your economy so that some random precinct governor in South America can add a third yacht to his collection in Barbados. That's where all your "foreign aid" is really going. Yacht collections. WAKE UP

Truly moving. Yes, all believers are united in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether that be through martyrdom or other suffering on the narrow path to Life. Since you love icons, if you haven't heard of Jonathan Pageau, I'm sure you will enjoy his channel:

5000 Haitians dropped into my town is not a "manufactured distraction". Biometric surveillance is not needed to solve this problem.

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I'll try to come back later and reply in detail, but I'll give a quick response here -- I agree that we must measure all branches of the church by the fruit they produce. The problem that I perceive in both Rome and Orthodoxy (as an outside observer), is there is a tendency to just assume "we are the people we are waiting for." As a Reformed Christian, my challenge to both of the main traditional branches of the church is this: What if God's plan includes something more? Something that you didn't think of? Something that is in the Word of God (not a novelty), but which Jesus chose, for his own reasons, not to fully explain to you? This question is not arbitrary, nor is it mere partisanship or apologetics for the Reformation -- it is the four gospels all over again. Who sits in "the seat of Moses" today? (Matt. 23:1 and context) If anyone could be described with that language it would be the Pope and I would include the Patriarchs of Orthodoxy, also. There is no equivalent in Reformed Christianity unless you want to mention the Archbishop of Canterbury, for Anglicans. There is a universal tendency among the leadership of church institutions to assume that God's plan is to make the whole world into church, and heaven is basically church forever. But what does Scripture say?: "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." (Rev. 21:22,23) "No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." (Jer. 31:34) "It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me." (John 6:45)

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