Highspeed rail is B$it

[Jimjam]

Security at an airport is crazy.

“ we don’t want you taking potentially explosive chemicals on a plane of 200 people so we’re gonna make you pour them all away down the same drain in a hall full of maybe 1000s of people”.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Security at an airport is crazy.

“ we don’t want you taking potentially explosive chemicals on a plane of 200 people so we’re gonna make you pour them all away down the same drain in a hall full of maybe 1000s of people”.

This was a metaphor for how awful goverment is to me.

First goverment made it illegal to bring water across security.

Then goverment didn't do anything to stop people on the other side of security from charging $16 for a bottle of water.

This is 110% an example of why goverment sucks and everything they do is bad and dumb and hurts poor people.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is 110% an example of why goverment sucks and everything they do is bad and dumb and hurts poor people.

Says Jib as he sits with his security ensured by his government's military, his bathing/drinking water government-ensured to be safe, his roads that he uses to get everywhere maintained by his government, the money he uses to buy everything secured by his government, his ... you get the idea.

But yeah, everything the government does sucks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Says Jib as he sits with his security ensured by his government's military, his bathing/drinking water government-ensured to be safe, his roads that he uses to get everywhere maintained by his government, the money he uses to buy everything secured by his government, his ... you get the idea.

But yeah, everything the government does sucks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All of that provides is consumerism that makes everyone nilhistic and depressed and angry and eventually it'll invent the AI that kills us all if the machines we built 200 years ago dont already.

I cant wait for all this satanist temptation to be gone and we can go back to living off of and enjoying being a part of the fat of the land.

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[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All of that provides is consumerism that makes everyone nilhistic and depressed and angry and eventually it'll invent the AI that kills us all if the machines we built 200 years ago dont already.

I cant wait for all this satanist temptation to be gone and we can go back to living off of and enjoying being a part of the fat of the land.

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Roads, drinking water, and not getting invaded = "providing consumerism" and "making everyone nihilistic"?

[magnetaress]

Really smart security theater.

I would issue jump suits with shock collars and diapers and strap ppl into their chairs with restraints.. They wouldn't be allowed to bring anything at all. Could just take it a step further and just have auto injection of Ativan via robotic needles. You're there to be transported in order to do your duty keeping the economy going. Not look good. Have fun. Or hydrate. You should have done that before your trip. Flying on a plane is a privilege. It's not a right. Not enumerated. No where does the constitution mention airplanes.

People mad about air travel security theater are really big overgrown babies.

[Jibartik]

Well it did didn't it?

edit:

not getting invaded

Im also curious if you're sponsoring the military industrial complex here...? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well it did didn't it?

edit:

Im also curious if you're sponsoring the military industrial complex here...? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm in favor of a strong American military, but not the military-industrial complex. They're separate things.

One can have a military, have it be managed/regulated by a well-run government, and then have said military only purchase the things it needs, using a competitive bidding process.

Or ... you can have America [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Here we don't regulate things, the corporations are really in charge, and they want to make money so ... you get the military-industrial complex (and trillions of dollars wasted on unnecessary purchases, that essentially amount to those corporations stealing from taxpayers).

[Jibartik]

One can have a military, have it be managed/regulated

Can they? Because they aren't in practice.

Again: all of what you spoke of has resulted in misery death and destruction.

Sorry to say this is true!

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, they can, but guess what, we dont lol!

Again: all of what you spoke of has resulted in misery death and destruction.

Sorry to say this is true!

I think you're oversimplifying. Certainly, history has shown that having a military that's too strong tends to encourage whoever is in control of said military to use it: that's true.

And to some extent the military-industrial complex has existed since long before Eisenhower invoked the term. Back in the revolutionary war, I'm sure the English cannon manufacturers (or warship-makers or whoever) tried to curry favor with the king so that he would buy their cannons/boats/whatever.

But the degree of the problem has waxed and waned. We've had periods with more military graft vs. less, and periods of peace vs. periods of a Bush as president (with Iraq #2 being the strongest example of us getting into a war we had no reason to be in, so that a bunch of rich people could get richer).

You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater though: you can't say "well Bush got us into an unnecessary war, wasting hundreds of American lives and trillions of dollars of American taxpayer money ... therefore we shouldn't have a military or defend ourselves." The answer isn't to go from one extreme to another, it's to have a middle ground, propertly managed, well-run system of government.