ufseagull

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by ufseagull 13y ago
The Fountainhead
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by ufseagull 13y ago
most cops or security guards will do is to tell you to move on, or harass you. my dad lived out of his car in LA for a while, and he said that you need to pick the areas in which you stay carefully - camping in the parking spot of Ralphs in
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by ufseagull 13y ago
try camping in Joshua Tree with a ziplock of peyote buttons and a gallon bottle of cactus juice. I lost my fucking mind there in the desert sand, and then found it two days later, in better condition than when I left it.
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by ufseagull 13y ago
>So again, you just listed a big list of things which don't actually require a covert surveillance program to implement because the whole point of suppressing people is to be rather overt about doing it. No, he just mentioned things
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by ufseagull 13y ago
>our vote actually has meaning; our votes actually change the elected officials, etc. We still can run a socialist candidate (c.f. Kshama Sawant 2013 in Seattle) and they aren't shut down via police action or other hardcore discrimi
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by ufseagull 13y ago
thanks for pointing that out for him, he certainly would not have read that in the wikipedia article on balkanisation that he just read.
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by ufseagull 13y ago
Shut the fuck up before someone wises up and waterboards you.
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by ufseagull 13y ago
Madoffs mistake was to rip off other rich people. How much time will the gentlemen convicted of OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LIBOR MANIPULATION get? Nothing - the only people really suffering there were mortgagees and small to mid size banks.
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by ufseagull 13y ago
but it's not a quest for perfect fairness - rather an attempt to maximise benefits. $300B in a vault, whilst millions starve is pretty obviously unfair, and actually detrimental to society overall. generally, when inequality grows, so
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by ufseagull 13y ago
>What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it. You realise that, especially where I live, one can make tax deductible donations to a wide variety of organisations? I give away t
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by ufseagull 13y ago
As a two time Obama voter and lifetime Democrat, I wish I could agree. However, I just don't share the optimism. There have been many opportunities for him to break through that bubble - it's not like there has complete silence on