Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:37 PM wrote: *>Trump did well enough on economics via job production. * Not even close! Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover who had fewer people employed on the last day of his presidency than there were on the first, and that was 90 years ago. And with

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:19 PM wrote: Well all that is really nice Spud my boy, but you didn't really answer my question, in whose hands should the immense power that will exist in the future be placed? If it's not in the government or in corporations or super rich individuals then I can't

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Well, as we have seen economic troubles come and go. My historical, not hysterical is you bounce back much quicker with capital investment and less so with "Companies too big to Fail," aka Crony Capitalism. If you wish vengeance upon the Oligarchy (I am not reading this from you in past

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Thanks for asking, let me check my teleprompter.. I mistrust the boards of directors that fund the campaigns in the US.  Technological power, some of it, may actually undermine these boards of directors.  Specifically, 3D printing of products, and eventually Drexler's nano-manufacturing, J.

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 9/1/2021 7:43 AM, John Clark wrote: True, theother choice, besides getting out, was to just keep doing what we've been doing for the last 20 years for another 20 years and hope things will be different.  I note that Albert Einstein once said "/Insanity is doing the same thing over and

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
The only question that matters Telmo, is if the allegations of Islamists attacking your women is true? Thus, it then becomes a criminal matter and even though I view your politicians and police covering for the attackers, it ain't good, results wise. It's either true or false in each case. It's

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Understood John, its not a matter of blandness or famousness, or generating influence under a nom d' guerre, it's simply a minor level of safety and there's not much to it. To be a libertarian one must turn down Big government goodies, because 'A government that governs least, governs best,'

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread Henrik Ohrstrom
> > >> > > *my goal would have been to make the Jihadists risk-averse. * >> > > Killing someone who don't mind getting killed 'cause it is a win for him (crapload of virgins etc) is not really doing you any good. My ancestor's (maybe yours too? ) behaviour with enough religious and cultural

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread John Clark
I have another question to ask Mr. Spudboy100. Today great power exists in the world, and every bit of that power is controlled by a government, a corporation, or an individual. Due to technological improvements, in the future even more power will exist, but you have said you think government

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:36 PM wrote: *If your team even breathes on a kuffar, I will damage your civilization in > a hideous manner. My method (being junior Napoleon) if they failed to > listen, which they would have, would invoke a level of "my" brutality not > seen since the Christmas

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:17 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> You are a total DNC supporter* Actually for most of my life I was a registered Republican, but I officially changed my affiliation from Republican to Democrat on August 3 2011, the day

Re: The American Taliban

2021-09-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
Am Mi, 1. Sep 2021, um 02:53, schrieb spudboy...@aol.com: > https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/vernor-vinge/true-names-and-other-dangers.htm > > > To be honest using one's true name was something I was paranoid about for a > long time, and yeah, that shows in my character and writing. I