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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Well, I think conservatives care about the UN because we pay about 25 percent of its dues, it meets on our soil, and operates with impunity. Even after this, it still acts against the interests of the United States. Everyone likes to hear about what they hate. It gets us riled up, and for us political types, we live to get riled up.
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Getting riled up is overrated. It causes one's blood pressure to increase to a point that is unhealthy. What's the point is getting angry about something that seems like it won't change?
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Regarding Homeland Security, it is an imperative part of our country's defense. Secret police? You must be kidding. People are pissed about wire taps. People are pissed about torture accusations. I'd be furious if I ever found out we werent torturing people and tapping their phones. The government is charged with defending this country, and I think they should do it by whatever means needed. People can proclaim about the lack of personal freedoms, but I don't see the government stripping you of much. Chances are, tapping phones are the tip of the iceberg. I'm not worried, because I don't do anything wrong. I don't really think HS or the CIA or the DIA or NSA is concerned about what I say to my mom or girlfriend, unless it ends with "death to the infidels. All praise be to Allah."
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As long as I pay my bills on time, I don't think any agency is interested in me either. My life is rather boring right now... The minute I fail to pay one bill on time and go into collection, is when there is a full investigation into my credit score thru Equifax/Transunion/Experian as to why I am a financial risk to the entire global security...
Have you ever had your identity stolen to the point that there was a crime committed in your name?
Do you have any idea how humiliating and dehumanizing it is?
Eff being innocent till proven guilty, that chit definitely don't work in reality...
Now, imagine what it's like when you are a part of diparaged group and you are a kid with no advocacy or "political connections"...
And you wonder why folks start speaking in code or obscure foreign languages...
What you are wondering is the epistemology that historically happened a long time ago...
There is a reason why you think the way you do and in some ways, the government, which includes your society, forced you to think in a certain way...
Folks tell us we have free will and show us how we do have it... But it was not our will to be born to poor, uneducated mothers, which usually alludes to malnutrition, undeveloped neurological conditions that include fundamental learning motifs. Sure, there are exceptions to EVERY rule. But as long as there is gross neglect of children in a country that purports "freedom and democracy" to all it's citizens, then how can the least among us have a chance in this reality?
Engaging in a life a crime is the uneducated easy way out. But, it puts food on the table for some folks. It's wrong, but a necessay evil...
Some would say that an unprovoked invasion of a rogue country is a necessay evil, too... Some would say that...