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Old 03-18-2016, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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Government is a ruler over you that dictates what you can and can't do. Business offers to serve you in exchange for money. Business has no power over you without the government.

I'm not saying to trust businesses. I'm saying that trusting either to care about you over themselves is naive, so why give anyone power to run your life?
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Old 03-18-2016, 07:37 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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Most intelligent people study history and some, still living, have witnessed the atrocities committed by "government." Tell me why someone should trust an entity that counts the Khmer Rouge and Nazism in its fold, over Walmart and Costco.
Governments are made of people. It's people that you have issue with.
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Old 03-18-2016, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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Governments are made of people. It's people that you have issue with.
People with power over others*
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Old 03-18-2016, 08:22 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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People with power over others*
But people nevertheless. Would you classify drug cartels as private or public entities?
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Old 03-18-2016, 08:57 PM
 
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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Governments are made of people. It's people that you have issue with.
Just leftists! The control freaks. Which side are you on?
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Old 03-18-2016, 09:03 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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Just leftists! The control freaks. Which side are you on?
Have you forgotten about the powerful religious right and their control of your eternal soul? How about the far right fascists and nationalists?
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Old 03-18-2016, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Have you forgotten about the powerful religious right and their control of your eternal soul? How about the far right fascists and nationalists?
But it's the far left that wants all your money.
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Old 03-18-2016, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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But people nevertheless. Would you classify drug cartels as private or public entities?
They're private entities that only exist because of government.
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Old 03-18-2016, 09:12 PM
 
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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Have you forgotten about the powerful religious right and their control of your eternal soul? How about the far right fascists and nationalists?
Dude, you've gone off the deep end. I bet you're the life of a dinner party.
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Old 03-18-2016, 09:18 PM
 
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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Have you forgotten about the powerful religious right and their control of your eternal soul? How about the far right fascists and nationalists?
Let me help your type out with something. Being on the Right and being a Nationalist is a positive.
I'm proud to be American. Apparently you are not.
I'd like to know what the antithesis of Nationalism is in your young mind.
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