Quote Of The Day

[Darkwind]

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

Nascar
football
baseball
Soccer
Wrasslin
Porn
Pizza
Beer

who has a lively debate about pizza? haha

Stick around. The people on this forum will argue anything.

 

[Darkwind]

Quote of the Day - 8/26/2017 -

One last one from Chomsky

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Think we should get the word to the left?

He's right with this statement.

 

[JokerX27505]

A similar one to the above

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

--Paul Johnson

The effect of tax cuts in the economy being a prime example. And yet Republicans are getting set to do it again.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. -Thomas Sowell.

 

[JokerX27505]

Quote of the Day - 8/28/2017

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Robert A. Heinlein

or simply Freedom vs Equality