Fox News is biased
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Maybe because the “libertarian party” is just as fractured and tribal as dems and reps?
Tired of the natural cynicism that seems to be prevalent within the party. There are a lot of wackos and non serious fringe thinkers that also pollute the ranks. It felt like a waste of energy.
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So you think anonymous juries should be the norm? Or just when someone on your team would be benefitted?
The judge in the case thinks so.
Death threats from psycho liberals is bad -- capich?
Just case by case common sense probably. We all know if Manafort walks the left wing crazies will be dispersed in no time.
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
If it walks like a lefty wingnut, and talks like a lefty wingnut, it's a lefty wingnut.
Bill oreilly Bernie sanders and toon are registered independents. No one is fooled.
Common sense should NEVER be the deciding factor; too many with too little. If jurors want to speak out, fine; if not, protect their identity and ultimate safety. Hell, I spent 35 years in Dallas and was only seated on one jury, which was a mental competency trial for some crazy Mexican who hijacked a bus in Denton. They took the first 12 warm bodies because smokin' Joe Ozuma (sp) didn't have a freakin' clue about anything....no big deal.
Fast forward, my one and only Tulsa jury duty: The fat bastard violating the curfew law in downtown park as
part of the Occupy douches; gawd only knows how I got selected as one of "6"
. I'm very fearful he'll seekretribution.
This isn't the first or the last time the jury will be anonymous until the conclusion of the trial. Is there some reason the media can't wait until the conclusion of the trial to request the juror info like they normally do?
Irrespective of any possible media motive, it really doesn't seem like a smart idea to release the names of the jurors before the end of the trial considering it's the trial of the guy who was arrested, had his bail revoked, and was charged with witness tampering a few months ago.
So you have no pearls to clutch over how this is unfolding? Harry needs a wellness check....
At least as fractured, I would say that in Oklahoma, it is more.
Snappy comeback, you think of that all by yourself?
You have no clue what a fascist is. You throw it out there for a the same reason you lefty wing nuts use the race card. You can't win an argument so you try to discredit the people who have the better of you.
So predictable.
Next you’ll try to tell us fascism is left on the political spectrum lol
Don’t worry about me, I’m used to being called a wingnut. I gave up on the Libertarian Party when it purged Murray Rothbard from its ranks and decided to practice politics instead of philosophy. The LP is not the same thing as a libertarian (lower case l).I will say this, however, I’m glad pokeabear says he is no longer a libertarian, because I haven’t seen him express a single libertarian sentiment on this board.
So close, you are teetering on the edge of self awareness but the projection is too strong.
Actually the Nazis were fascists, not socialists. There is a difference. Both economic systems, fascism and socialism, represent government takeover of the means of production, so from that standpoint they are both extreme leftist economic policies.
I'm curious what you have reformed into. Libertarianism as a philosophy is hardly insignificant. It has a long and distinguished history, which includes several Nobel Prize winners. As a political movement it most certainly is insignificant. Libertarianism is the opposite of political action. Of course it will be insignificant to those who prefer government coercion to peaceful intercourse.
Definition of fascism
1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocraticgovernment headed by a dictatorialleader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
- early instances of army fascism and brutality
- —J. W. Aldridge
fascist
play \ˈfa-shist also -sist\ noun or adjective, often capitalized
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fascistic
play \fa-ˈshi-stik also -ˈsi-\adjective, often capitalized
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fascistically
play \fa-ˈshi-sti-k(ə-)lē also -ˈsi-\ adverb, often capitalized
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Examples of fascism in a Sentence
- From the first hours of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the propagandists on both sides of the conflict portrayed the struggle in stark, Manichaean language. The totalitarian nature of both regimes made this inevitable. On one side stood Hitler, fascism, the myth of German supremacy; on the other side stood Stalin, communism, and the international proletarian revolution.—Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books, 25 Oct. 2007
- Consider what happened during the crisis of global fascism. At first, even the truth about Hitler was inconvenient. Many in the west hoped the danger would simply go away. —Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
- He collected stories about groups similar to his—Aryans, other Nazis, the KKK. Lately, he'd been flagging many stories from Germany and Eastern Europe, and was quite thrilled with the rise of fascism there. —John Grisham, The Chamber, 1995
- the rise of Fascism in Europe before World War II
fascism
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An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.
The name comes from Italian fascismo, from fascio ‘bundle, political group’, from Latin fascis ‘rod’.
From: fascism in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable »
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The underlying difference between socialism and fascism lies in the ownership of the means of production. Socialism assume ownership in the name of "the people." Fascism assumes control, leaving the ownership in the hands of "private persons." The Nazis told the owners of industry what to produce, how much to produce, when to deliver, etc., but allowed the "owners" to keep the profits. The Nazis were fascists. They called themselves socialists, but they did not implement socialism. The same thing applies to people like Bernie Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. If you read what they advocate they do not call for the government to "own" the means of production. They want to government to direct all activities, but do not call for the government to take companies away from their rightful owners. What they advocate is economic fascism, not socialism. Ironically Trump, by unilaterally implementing tariffs and calling for "protectionism," joins the ranks of economic fascists.
Socialism and fascism are economic policies, not political platforms. They are the economic leg of political platforms. Nazis practiced fascism as an economic policy regardless of what they called themselves. Communists practice socialism as an economic policy. Outside their economic differences, as slight as those differences might be, the rest of their policies are almost identical, and lead to the deaths of millions and the destruction of much infrastructure. The economic strategies are not the same thing, although they lead to the same heinous end.
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property, instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
Do you know how many times this quote gets attributed to Hitler? Do you know how many times it’s misattributed?
So if we are just going by names, the Soviet Union was just a collection of republics, China is a republic, Venezuela is a republic. Maybe we should be weary of Republicans?
Man, both republicans and democrats are trying to turn us into North Korea.
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