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Anti-Tech Protesters Target VC With Vulgar Flyer

Why not solve simple poverty with existing legal and physical infrastructure in our republic, and claim that supply side economics is supposed to be supplying us with better governance at lower cost.
 
The diversity of the different states is what gave America its strength. Now, as the feds gain more control, that is changing.

Actually, if you'll objectively check, the federal government has less real power over our personal lives than at any time since perhaps before the Civil War. For instance, back in WWI, Woodrow Wilson put people - even a congressman IIRC - in jail for years just for speaking out against our involvement in WWI. Then there was slavery, Jim Crow, abolition, women not being allowed to vote, the draft...the list goes on. We're freer today than you think.
 
When "prosperity" only benefits a few people it does not improve the overall quality of life for a community, it can harm it.

Prosperity is earned not taken from one and given to another. That's called socialism.
 
If you want a good laugh, read the lunatic rantings of the protestors.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/06/18753651.php

Here is what they want:

We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.

I wish Google would take them up on this. Small caveat, if the project fails all property therein reverts to Google.
 
If you want a good laugh, read the lunatic rantings of the protestors.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/06/18753651.php

Here is what they want:

We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.


With $3 billion I could build a free rent, free food, free birth control community also. It might last up to three months.
 
You feel the Swedes are doing well because of socialism?

Do you deal exclusively in strawmen? Do you get your rocks off on taking other people's words, changing said words, and then throwing those new, different words back at them?
 
Do you deal exclusively in strawmen? Do you get your rocks off on taking other people's words, changing said words, and then throwing those new, different words back at them?

What did you mean then by "Tell the Swedes that"?
 
What did you mean then by "Tell the Swedes that"?

Sweden practices a good deal of socialism. Has it "failed" there? Simple yes or no question. And when you answer "no," which is the correct answer, then we can move on from this idiotic tangent.
 
Sweden practices a good deal of socialism. Has it "failed" there? Simple yes or no question. And when you answer "no," which is the correct answer, then we can move on from this idiotic tangent.

Lessons From the Swedish Welfare State - WSJ.com

A Scandinavian economist once said to Milton Friedman, ‘In Scandinavia, we have no poverty’. Milton Friedman replied, ‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’.

You may not understand this but culture counts.
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

I don't understand how you're against this. I thought conservatives were all about tradition?
 
I don't understand how you're against this. I thought conservatives were all about tradition?

Perhaps this misunderstanding is why there are many rifts occurring among the American people.
 
They sound like spoiled children...."I want what you have so give it to me or I'll destroy you!"

It sounded more to me like "I want what you have so give it to me so I can destroy you."
 
You need to calm down. They peacefully assembled and protested legally. You can protest from the sidewalk. You're sitting here crying about a group exercising rights because you don't like their message, trying to make it seem like they did wrong because you don't like the message. Well you ain't the queen of England, your word is not law.

This is a consequence of freedom, people will say things you don't like. But you sound just like one of these entitled protestors, crying about his we should infringe upon assembly and protest because you don't like what is being said. I suggest you learn to accept the repercussions of freedom.

You think it is OK for people to vomit on apublic transport vehicle? They all should have been arrested for that and tested for comunicable diseases.
 
Locals can't always improve their jobs, guy. In my home town (which is in the periphery of the boom area), I know single moms that had their rent jack up so much they are hoping that they can become a home owner. That's not an easy task in that housing market. This boom has uprooted a lot of folks that do not or can not have the jobs that pay enough to sustain their living arrangements. There are many parts of North Dakota's economy that cannot keep up with the oil sector and we do not have enough housing to deal with the growth. That's just reality down here.

It sounds like the problem is greedy landlords.
 
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