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[frostyllamas](/u/frostyllamas): ^^original ^^link

&quot;Program&quot; has meant &quot;a schedule of events&quot; for <em>far</em> longer than it has meant &quot;a computer program&quot;.

[NoGodsNoMastersEsq](/u/NoGodsNoMastersEsq): ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

Refusing to serve, whether it be due to your conscience, family concerns, cowardice, laziness, or changing your mind, should not be a crime. Military service is the only job I can think of where it's criminal to quit, and I find that ridiculous. Maybe it should be when you are in the middle of a firefight, and walking away will harm the safety and security of your unit, but otherwise I think you should be able to quit like any other job.

In 1918, the US Supreme Court took up the issue of whether drafted military service was "involuntary servitude" within the meaning of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. They held that it did not but the reasoning is garbage. They didn't deal with it until the last paragraph of the opinion where basically they say "We don't understand how somebody could be so unpatriotic as to view this as involuntary servitude so therefore it isn't."

[rice_krispy_trees](/u/rice_krispy_trees): ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

my point was that given this article, gun control will essentially amount to surveillance.

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**Bongpig

You are probably getting downvotes because your comment does not add to the discussion and everyone that uses the Internet runs across this problem eventually. Region blocking of content has been on Youtube for years.

I suggest you sign up for a VPN provider that has servers based around the world which enables you to get around region it is legal in your country. I use "Private Internet Access". It's cheap enough and works well.

Flytape: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

(Book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics 1094b24)

"We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premisses to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about thigns which are only for the most part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are not better.In the same spirit , therefore, should each type of statement be received; for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning froma matehtmaticisn and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs. (pg. 340 Great Books of the Western World N. 9 Aristotle II Robert Translated by W.D. Ross Maynard Hutchins, Ed. in Chief, 1952)

In fact, this isn't a great translation, but at least it gets the sense right. Notice that the first eight words match the beginning of the spurious quote exactly (actually, the corresponding Greek is just two words, (pepaideumenou esti), one of which (esti) means "it is" and the other one of which (pepaideumenou) is translated "the mark of an educated mind".

The quote in the form it exist by OP is commonly attributed to Aristotle, but in reality only the original Greek can be attributed to him. Any translation in any other language is going to have irregularities. Even modernising into current Greek is going to mis the original intent.

That being said the spirit of the quote is close enough, dumbed down, but close.

Psycon: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

See:

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism​ &amp; Global Order by Noam Chomsky

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

Masters of War: Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years by Clara Nieto, Chris Brandt, Howard Zinn

The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte

Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya by Horace Campbell

Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill

Subverting Syria by Tony Cartalucci

blamenoone: ^^original ^^conspiracy ^^comment ^^link

In one of Richard Feynman's books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" from what I remember, he knew exactly what they were making.

Also, he talks about how he would crack one of the Military leaders safe with top secret documents inside.

hmmmok: ^^original ^^conspiracy ^^comment ^^link

Of course, when are people going to realize that Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations was written at the very beginning of the industrial revolution. Being in the information era the whole premise of the book is completely outdated making the idea of a free market and division of labor and everything else capitalize is based off of null into days world. But again no one I know even keeps up with even the local news.

TORNasunder2: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

War is fought on many fronts. With the Internet information and propaganda has become the front line. Since MSM is completely controlled by TPTB then the Internet has become the battleground for the minds who are still engaged and thinking. Look at it like a mark of prominence.

Take on the mentality of warfare. Read The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Prince by Machiavelli, Propaganda by Edward Bernays. Deception, misdirection, and misinformation are the tools of war. Make no mistake that those who rule us are well versed in the texts I mentioned above.

We've been at war with the TPTB for millennium. I can personally attest that Reddit was a major factor in my awakening. With the Snowden/NSA deluge this subreddit naturally has become a target. I do believe an awakening is occurring. In part because as the narrative and reality move farther apart more and more people see the deception for what it is and are looking for answers.

We are at war, act accordingly. And I say that to you as well as to myself!

archonemis: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

I highly recommend:

&gt;48 Laws of Power - R. Greene

&gt;The Art of War - Sun Tzu [Sam B. Griffin translation]

&gt;Without Conscience - Dr. R. Hare

&gt;Ishmael - D. Quinne

The above books will describe essentially everything that's going on in the world right now.

destraht: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

During the later revolutions in The Shock Doctrine the elite orchestrators became very adept at not killing people. They would simply remove any number of people from society until the transformations had occurred and then those people would be inserted back into a reengineered society that was too weary to offer further resistance.

blacklambgreyfalcon: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

Another big one that comes to mind is the CIA-backed coup of democratically elected President Salvador Allende in Chile in the '70s. It was the major focus of Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine.

No problem dude

hanahou: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

Nice try NSA trying to get me confess on my plan of action.

&gt;“Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Honkeydick: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

It always seems to happen when shit gets really political on the beltway too. The adjuncts of the information war's motivation is to keep the virgin ears from enough proof that, it's a huge lie, and they can not get them back through theatrics, and deception. I have a confession, sometimes when the shit on the top is really great quality info. I find something to troll the obvious psyops with, something of a fishhook, in an attempt to take the pressure off the good stuff. The content may not always be the best, but I would rather take the abuse rather than watch as the noobs get berated. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War OG troll.

Honkeydick: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

I'm not a Republican, or a Tbagger. I don't think you understand the concept, but I'm not a party voter. Before I Read The Art of war I was a Democrat. “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War That one was for you Traivon/nickfrito.

reptiliansentinel: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

Dan Ariely addresses a topic similar to this in Predictably Irrational. Naturally, if these doctors think the drugs/treatments are useful and effective, they'll probably invest in them. So, while they are indeed profiting from this, they genuinely believe that the treatment will help the patient. Admittedly, just because they believe it does not make it so.

curiosity36: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

&gt; Feel bad or good. Your choice.

&gt; Tell that to a starving homeless person and then get back to me.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl (Auschwitz Survivor), Man's Search for Meaning

DenjinJ: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

"If they were truly clever" - if they were truly clever, they might actually be a threat. (They are.) They might even be able to establish some kind of covert mass surveillance system in a way that people don't riot when it's found out.

A block exerpt from Sun Tsu's "The Art of War:"

&gt;The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

&gt;Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

&gt;Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

&gt;Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.

&gt;Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

&gt;Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

&gt; Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it.

&gt;By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march; then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.

Meister_Vargr: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

The Art of War should be taught compulsarily in schools.