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Sunday, January 17, 2016
aug 2, 2011
what i've learned from watching the debt deal play out is that the ideal in a democracy is to have three parties, not two, and have the one in the centre in power as often as possible. american democracy has actually misunderstood the dialectic.
thesis: republican
anti-thesis: democrat
synthesis: bi-partisanship.
....wrong....
thesis: right
anti-thesis: left
synthesis: centre
....correct....
if there was a left-wing force exerting pressure on obama, he wouldn't have been able to cave so spectacularly. as it is right now, there's no consequences attached to his behaviour. there's no other option to support..
when you have only two actors on the stage, it's not a dialectic, it's a power struggle. you need three for a dialectic to occur.
starting a new party from scratch will never work. the democrats need to fracture. Progressive Democrats of America need to leave the democratic party and start a new one.
otherwise, the power struggles will continue indefinitely, and no synthesis will ever occur.
what i've learned from watching the debt deal play out is that the ideal in a democracy is to have three parties, not two, and have the one in the centre in power as often as possible. american democracy has actually misunderstood the dialectic.
thesis: republican
anti-thesis: democrat
synthesis: bi-partisanship.
....wrong....
thesis: right
anti-thesis: left
synthesis: centre
....correct....
if there was a left-wing force exerting pressure on obama, he wouldn't have been able to cave so spectacularly. as it is right now, there's no consequences attached to his behaviour. there's no other option to support..
when you have only two actors on the stage, it's not a dialectic, it's a power struggle. you need three for a dialectic to occur.
starting a new party from scratch will never work. the democrats need to fracture. Progressive Democrats of America need to leave the democratic party and start a new one.
otherwise, the power struggles will continue indefinitely, and no synthesis will ever occur.
at
12:13
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
jan, 2012
again. what do we do with veterans? it's not safe to allow them back into our communities.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/02/mount-rainier-shooting.html?cmp=rss
year over year, veterans kill many times more people than terrorists.
this happens over and over and over again.
just stop them from coming back, already.
again. what do we do with veterans? it's not safe to allow them back into our communities.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/02/mount-rainier-shooting.html?cmp=rss
year over year, veterans kill many times more people than terrorists.
this happens over and over and over again.
just stop them from coming back, already.
at
10:17
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
jan 21, 2012
it's really quite orwellian, this term "no fly zone". it really means "zone that is safe for nato bombers to fly in".
it's really quite orwellian, this term "no fly zone". it really means "zone that is safe for nato bombers to fly in".
at
09:08
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
jan 11 2012
don't bring the troops home. i don't want them here.
send them to the arctic, or something.
you want to bring this home? give it a nice pension? take care of it?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/home-j23.shtml
that happens all the time.
they signed up for it. nobody forced them. and, it should be a one-way ticket out of the country.
don't bring the troops home. i don't want them here.
send them to the arctic, or something.
you want to bring this home? give it a nice pension? take care of it?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/home-j23.shtml
that happens all the time.
they signed up for it. nobody forced them. and, it should be a one-way ticket out of the country.
at
08:01
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists
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i support the injection sites. but, heroin addicts fall over and convulse. they're only a threat if they don't get their fix. alcoholics rape people and break stuff. they're a greater threat after they've had their fix.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/10/vancouver-group-pitches-free-booze-to-reduce-rubbing-alcohol-listerine-consumption/
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i support the injection sites. but, heroin addicts fall over and convulse. they're only a threat if they don't get their fix. alcoholics rape people and break stuff. they're a greater threat after they've had their fix.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/10/vancouver-group-pitches-free-booze-to-reduce-rubbing-alcohol-listerine-consumption/
at
07:03
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
sept 19, 2012
so, this is happening, and won't somebody think of the children...
in fact, i think this is a good thing and would like to see it made permanent. hopefully, it lasts long enough that it becomes the norm. i have massive issues with the idea of the school system funding competitive sports.
first, it's competitive, which means it provokes and incites competitive behaviour. i don't want my taxes being spent on something that fosters that kind of behaviour. and, no, i don't want kids; it's not about my kids, it's about the society that i want to live in. i don't want to live in a society that pits individual against individual, team against team, glorifies the idea of 'winning' and ridicules those who 'lose'. if that's the kind of horrible world you want to raise your kids in, the very least you can do is accept responsibility for paying for it yourself. but, you should really be finding less violent ways to get your kids in shape, for the benefit of everybody.
second, we have this huge gender gap in high schools and we can't figure it out. duh? IT'S THE EMPHASIS ON SPORTS, STUPID. you take these young guys, you wake them up at 5 am, you tell them their sexuality depends on how gracefully they can handle a tree branch, you place their very worth as a human on it...and then you wonder why they don't care about school and can't do well in it. could it be that you taught them to skate but didn't teach them to read?
third is money, and i don't mean absolutely. this is a true story: in the ninth grade, they gave me a brand new football helmet, right out of the packaging. yeah, i got coerced; i told people i played left bench. but, also in the ninth grade, i didn't have a functional science textbook, not one amongst the array of battered, decade old texts. i had to keep swapping out half-texts. they were over-enrolled, i was told. does that seem reasonable to you?
sports & religion: out of schools!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/09/17/ottawa-sports-teams-high-school-deadline.html
so, this is happening, and won't somebody think of the children...
in fact, i think this is a good thing and would like to see it made permanent. hopefully, it lasts long enough that it becomes the norm. i have massive issues with the idea of the school system funding competitive sports.
first, it's competitive, which means it provokes and incites competitive behaviour. i don't want my taxes being spent on something that fosters that kind of behaviour. and, no, i don't want kids; it's not about my kids, it's about the society that i want to live in. i don't want to live in a society that pits individual against individual, team against team, glorifies the idea of 'winning' and ridicules those who 'lose'. if that's the kind of horrible world you want to raise your kids in, the very least you can do is accept responsibility for paying for it yourself. but, you should really be finding less violent ways to get your kids in shape, for the benefit of everybody.
second, we have this huge gender gap in high schools and we can't figure it out. duh? IT'S THE EMPHASIS ON SPORTS, STUPID. you take these young guys, you wake them up at 5 am, you tell them their sexuality depends on how gracefully they can handle a tree branch, you place their very worth as a human on it...and then you wonder why they don't care about school and can't do well in it. could it be that you taught them to skate but didn't teach them to read?
third is money, and i don't mean absolutely. this is a true story: in the ninth grade, they gave me a brand new football helmet, right out of the packaging. yeah, i got coerced; i told people i played left bench. but, also in the ninth grade, i didn't have a functional science textbook, not one amongst the array of battered, decade old texts. i had to keep swapping out half-texts. they were over-enrolled, i was told. does that seem reasonable to you?
sports & religion: out of schools!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/09/17/ottawa-sports-teams-high-school-deadline.html
at
06:07
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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