i will save you the trouble, they will side with the government.

Go back to blowing the Patriot Act Subby.

No.

FlashHarry: SphericalTime: I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

sadly, most people who throw around words such as 'fascist' and 'socialist' have no idea what they mean.

And often use them interchangeably.

Being legally forced into commerce, by the government, should frighten ALL of you.

Hmm, they didn't bother with the draconian USA Patriot Act when Herr Bush was in charge.

My prediction is the Supreme Court will overturn the Healthcare act in a 5-4 split decision.

Decision due in late June: plenty of time to make it THE campaign issue of 2012.

Giving poor people the right to health sets a bad precedent. The government shouldn't be mandating the insurance I already have.

Yeah, I *much* prefer those big corporations deciding if I can afford or deserve to stay alive, based on how I impact their profit margin. That's what I call FREEDOM!

I bet they find a way to side step.

SphericalTime: cman: Forcing citizens to give money to corporations is called "Fascism". The GOP isnt in control and yet fascism flourishes.

What? No it's not. Read up on Facism. It's basically characterized by a push for a unified nationalistic identity.

I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

"Italian Fascism promotes a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in a corporative associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy."

Cythraul: FlashHarry: SphericalTime: I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

sadly, most people who throw around words such as 'fascist' and 'socialist' have no idea what they mean.

It's a perfectly cromulent use of those terms.


Vocabulary embiggens us all.

Please, SCOTUS, give me back my freedom to die penniless and sick if I'm unlucky with disease!

Wiretapping OK, giving children health care BOOOOOO! FASHIST SOSHOLIST BOOOOO!!!

"Today begins the day?"

I don't know why bootstrappy Republicans hate it so much anyway. Since I'm sure they already buy health insurance it shouldn't affect them, and all it does is force the freeloaders to pay into the system that they already benefit from when they go to the ER for free. In a way it's almost LESS socialist than the current system.

Oh yeah, Obama did it so it must be bad.

What? No it's not. Read up on Facism. It's basically characterized by a push for a unified nationalistic identity.

I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

Yes that's what wikipedia says, but based on my analysis of fark posts, a fascist seems to be anyone who holds a dissenting opinion.

see also douchebag, asshat, farkturd...

jaymanchu: Wiretapping OK, giving children health care BOOOOOO! FASHIST SOSHOLIST BOOOOO!!!


Giving poor children health care is socialism. FTFY.

SphericalTime: cman: Forcing citizens to give money to corporations is called "Fascism". The GOP isnt in control and yet fascism flourishes.

What? No it's not. Read up on Facism. It's basically characterized by a push for a unified nationalistic identity.

I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

It's way more complicated than either of these quick, little descriptions.

My prediction is the Supreme Court will overturn the Healthcare act in a 5-4 split decision.

Decision due in late June: plenty of time to make it THE campaign issue of 2012.

Or they won't making it "THE campaign issue of 2012"_TM

I dunno, you guys. There are about 50 million people in the US who are uninsured right now. If you force them to pay their own way and prices continue to rise as they have been, it could be one hell of a tipping point for American politics.

godofatheist: i will save you the trouble, they will side with the government.

By government, you mean 'republican government' correct?

SphericalTime: cman: Forcing citizens to give money to corporations is called "Fascism". The GOP isnt in control and yet fascism flourishes.

What? No it's not. Read up on Facism. It's basically characterized by a push for a unified nationalistic identity.

I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.


"Totalitarianism where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible." wiki

0bama has whined in the past that he could do more if it wasn't for the pesky balance of power getting in the way.

So, are any judges who receive health care out of government funds going to recuse themselves?

/not holding breath

cameroncrazy1984: FlashHarry: SphericalTime: I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

sadly, most people who throw around words such as 'fascist' and 'socialist' have no idea what they mean.

And often use them interchangeably.

Sometimes they can be used interchangably. They're opposite sides of a coin forged out of authoritarianism, and only differ in regards to who they try to install as President-For-Life (And Often Beyond) and why. Fascists try to control minds, suppressing imagination with an overriding national identity, to make crime and dissent literally unthinkable. Socialists try to control economies with military seizure of all means of production, ostensibly to ensure equal distribution but never realizing that people will always find a way to make themselves more equal than others.

The means may differ, but the intent is the same: eliminating liberty for the sake of authority.

trolltacular headline, subby. well done.

fastfxr: Being legally forced into commerce, by the government, should frighten ALL of you.

Like requiring everyone who drives to buy auto insurance?

/I is scared

Allen. The end.: Fark this. I'm leaving.

Oh? Where you heading? I may have some upsetting news about the healthcare system there.

PrivateCaboose: Ugh, I hate this law. Terrible

How so? How has your life been made worse by the law?

cman: godofatheist: i will save you the trouble, they will side with the government.

I sadly think so, too.

Forcing citizens to give money to corporations is called "Fascism". The GOP isnt in control and yet fascism flourishes.

You mean in the same way they force you to have car insurance? Or in the same way they force you to have a driver's license (that you have to pay for), if you want to drive, or board an airplane? Or in the same way they force you to pay taxes for services you never use anyway?

So the republicans want people to be responsible citizens, except we shouldn't "force" people to be responsible citizens?

Yeah, I get it now.

The *nine* justices?

Wasn't Kagan part of the group that helped develop the law? Wouldn't that be a clear conflict of interest?

Or am I mis-remembering?

cman:
I sadly think so, too.
Forcing citizens to give money to corporations is called "Fascism". The GOP isnt in control and yet fascism flourishes.


I'm imagining (yet somehow I don't think you meant it this way) that this is a call to end corporations and have the government take control of healthcare completely, so we don't have to give corporations any money at all.

FlashHarry: SphericalTime: I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

sadly, most people who throw around words such as 'fascist' and 'socialist' have no idea what they mean.

or Democracy and Communism too =)

cameroncrazy1984: FlashHarry: SphericalTime: I don't know what the correct term that you're searching for is, but it's not Fascism.

sadly, most people who throw around words such as 'fascist' and 'socialist' have no idea what they mean.

And often use them interchangeably.

On the other hand it makes it easier to tell who just parrots what they hear on TV.