RELATIVELY SPEAKING: WE R LOOKING GOOD

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It seems to me,
that we r a lot better off now, than we were when communism or nazism
threatened to enslave the world.

Considering that the American Economic Empire has enslaved much of the third world, Africa, Sth America, Middle East etc…

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During the 3rd World War, communism fell of its own wate,
after we, the freedom lovers, successfully used force to contain it.

...then the freedom lovers of the third world should by this logic, be using force against the US to regain their freedom…

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Killing housands and thousands of human beings might,
in some cases, be something that needs to be done,
but it's not something to be celebrated.

TRIPLE BALONEY !

They should by this reasoning, then celebrate the killing of Americans…

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Even the nazis were human beings,
made of flesh and blood, with similar passions and anxieties to you and I.

If u say so;
( but the commies were much worse ).

…and they should not feel any guilt, for they need not see Americans as human, with the same passions and anxieties as them (in the 3rd world)

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The goal was self defense,
in preservation of our own freedom;

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So wolves kill caribou and both societies become more fit for their environment.

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If the caribou doesn't run he dies.

The more successful road to survival
is not running, but COUNTERATTACKING the predator.

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David attempts to use guns to control his environment.

Yes,
in that a society based upon well armed citizens
is individualistic, with weak n feeble government,
thus insuring n preserving the freedom of the well armed citizens.

In other words,
one of the main uses of pervasively abundant guns
is keeping the government in line,
in addition to criminal predators.
That was the original theory upon which government in America was based.
David

Your post is delusionally inconsistent with known fact.
We have no slaves.

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Your post is delusionally inconsistent with known fact.
We have no slaves.

Ah David, that would depend on your definition of slavery.

Towards the end, I specifically said financial/economic slaves.

At the start I mentioned the American economic empire.

It should be clear enough.

We STILL have no slaves; " economic empire " is a fantasy.

We have no slaves,
and no amount of research is going to give us some SLAVES.
( If it DID, then Southern cotton plantation owners 'd have spent
more time in their libraries. )
David

OmSigDAVID wrote:

We have no slaves,
and no amount of research is going to give us some SLAVES.
( If it DID, then Southern cotton plantation owners 'd have spent
more time in their libraries. )
David

WE HAVE WAGE SLAVES, SLAVERY IS SLAVERY.

All that's happened is an old form of Slavery was replaced by new, more sophisticated, and more 'acceptable' form of slavery.

Whether the topic interests you or not, is of course, entirely up to yourself.

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1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.
3. a drudge: a housekeeping slave.

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PLEASE RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT.

I ratify, reassert, and reallege my statement
as if herein set forth at full length,
but I refuse to retract it.
Your definition is accurate ( hereinabove quoted )
except insofar as it indicates that a bond servant is a slave.
That is historically untrue.

Slaves were, indeed, employed to drudgery in housekeeping.

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i dont work, i cant eat,
i cant buy land, i cant grow food, i cant pay for housing, i cant LIVE.

If u can 't eat, then I can see how u can 't live;
however, I am skeptical, inasmuch have u have shown enuf life
to post your message; I suspect deception.

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i could steal property to grow food to survive, i could steal food,
i could steal money, but then wouldnt that make me a criminal?

It WUD make u a criminal.

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and therfore subject to prosecution?

Yes.

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which would lead to incarceration?

Maybe.

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which would make me a slave anyway...

Yes.
Slavery is practiced in jails n prisons.
Note that this is an exception written into the 13th Amendment.

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therefore i am a wage slave.

A " wage slave " is an oxymoron,
like moist dryness or cold heat.
It wud be only throwing money away to pay a slave; thay need not be paid.

I observe that u have hereinabove alleged that:
" i dont work, i cant eat "; that is inconsistent with your present allegation
of getting wages, unless u get them without working.
Is anyone being DECEPTIVE around here ??

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unless you go by some other definition..?

I go by the original definition.

2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person

slave

• noun 1 historical a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. 2 a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something: a slave to fashion.

• verb work excessively hard.

1. One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household.
2. One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence: "I was still the slave of education and prejudice" Edward Gibbon.
3. One who works extremely hard.
4. A machine or component controlled by another machine or component

Ogionik has a point.

When some 40% of ones time is spent earning money to turn over to the government one could be considered---

A slave.

A discerning consumer of government provided services.

A member of a society that has hired a class of persons qualified to operate services that people cannot individually provide without co-operation.

Ambiguous to say the least But the proposition is not quite as clear cut as David would have it.

There is no free lunch Never has been