Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Evil, Satanic thought of the day 18
A world war between India, China, and Pakistan would solve a lot of foreign relations and economic problems for the United States.
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Evil, Satanic thought of the day
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
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Let us not forget population. You just listed the 3 of the largest countries in the world by body count. Numbers 1, 2 and 6 to be precise, with approximately 1/3rd of the total world population.
Of course, Pakistan is a rather narrow country. If India overshoots a bit, Iran is on the other side to soften the blow...
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[evil mode]Yeah, well, aren't the green folks always complaining about there being too many billion people on the planet? Economically, that means 1/3rd more for the rest of us.[/evil]
Except for one pesky problem (Score:2)
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Nobody "needs" to see anything. Need is limited to food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, not tourism....
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Nobody "needs" to see anything. Need is limited to food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, not tourism....
Good to know that you're starting to see the validity of socialism... in that, people need: food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, and as such denying them is not just denying human rights, but human necessities...
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Uh, that's also the basis of distributism, which insists that every man *deserves* his own means to produce food and clothing and medical care, on his own plot of ground, in his own house. And to a lesser extent capitalism- but of course, the capitalist side of things is that private ownership of these items can bring great profit......
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Uh, that's also the basis of distributism, which insists that every man *deserves* his own means to produce food and clothing and medical care, on his own plot of ground, in his own house. And to a lesser extent capitalism- but of course, the capitalist side of things is that private ownership of these items can bring great profit......
Right, so I grow my own doctors in my plot of land? Huh? Do I grow my chemo for my cancer on my land? Do I ...
See, this just doesn't make sense. Sure, food and clothing can be produced by one's own hand, but medical care requires expert knowledge...
And capitalism and distributism don't guarantee human needs... they just assert that they cannot be denied from someone. In fact, in Ayn Rand objectivism (extremist capitalism) the assertion is that parasites deserve to be starved to death and removed from existe
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Right, so I grow my own doctors in my plot of land? Huh? Do I grow my chemo for my cancer on my land?
Uh, yes. After all, most chemo is just plant-based herbal remedies.
See, this just doesn't make sense. Sure, food and clothing can be produced by one's own hand, but medical care requires expert knowledge.
And what's wrong with your brain that you can't absorb expert knowledge? I once had a doctor (whose machine I was cleaning of viruses for the 50th time, it seemed) tell m
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Uh, yes. After all, most chemo is just plant-based herbal remedies.
It must be nice in your reality. Send me a postcard, as I won't be following you into schizophrenia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel [wikipedia.org]
Yes, Virginia- in the Pacific Northwest chemo treatments for cancer *grow on trees*.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel [wikipedia.org]
Yes, Virginia- in the Pacific Northwest chemo treatments for cancer *grow on trees*.
So does Aspirin, and Quinine... but isolating those compounds from their constituent plants is easier said than done... not to mention, if I ever need Paclitaxel, I won't have the time to grow it after the fact. I will likely be dead of whatever cancer is killing me before I would ever have any useful amount of Paclitaxel...
Not to mention, would I just be growing every plant with a reasonable usage just on a "just in case" basis? Maybe I might need Paclitaxel, but not everyone will need it in their life tim
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Not to mention, would I just be growing every plant with a reasonable usage just on a "just in case" basis?
Actually, I do. It's a part of permaculture to build a diverse ecology of useful plants, to replace the ones we rip out that aren't useful.
And again, how am I ever to obtain the MRI/CT scans and all that jazz to diagnose myself with cancer, as well as the expert knowledge to understand the results?
You don't need all that stuff for diagnosis, people were diagnosed wit
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Actually, I do. It's a part of permaculture to build a diverse ecology of useful plants, to replace the ones we rip out that aren't useful.
Unlikely.
You don't need all that stuff for diagnosis, people were diagnosed with cancer *LONG* before the medical establishment even had X-Rays.
Yes... and what type of cancer do you have? Will it actually respond well to chemotherapy? Considering that the way chemotherapy works is by poisoning the body just enough that the fast growing cancer will poison itself to death before the patient does himself, how the hell do you suggest that they would ever be able to provide regulated dosages let alone properly isolate the active ingredient.
We would return to the 1600 B.C.E. era descriptions in Egypt regarding cancer: "There is no treatment".
And
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Distributism only differs from socialism by a single layer of indirection. I.e. both involve the state forcibly transferring wealth, it's just in the form in which it's redistributed. I.e. you would be for the state providing food, shelter, etc. or the means to acquire such (i.e. money), and he would be for the state providing the means to the means to acquiring such (i.e. "tools").
Where at least socialism has the decency to completely avoid
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Unlike distributism, which is like ripping my arm off and beating me with it instead of just directly punching me in the face.
The most succinct definition of distributism I've yet heard.
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Also, to be exact- most distributionist schemes involve ONLY inheritance taxes. So it's more like robbing your grave to give your great-grandchild the means to have a life of acquisition equal to yours.
As well I'd like to see... (Score:1)
... a regional war between Israel and anyone who's ever vowed to wipe her off the face of the earth. The way to peace finally in the Middle East is to just get it over with already. Measured response does not work, hasn't worked for decades. Supply Israel with nukes and let it be done. Then Halliburton can go in and build radiation-proof compounds and move staff over there to extract the oil in radiation suits. I'd rather the money go to Americans' jobs. It would be good practice and a learning experience f
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No, let the Israelis BUY their nukes.
I rather like this idea, just as long as the US is allowed to sit it out.