What should a community/nation/state (government) provide for citizens?

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Crumb

I think Matlock will allow it.

Red Rider BB Gun and weed ALLOWED.

The list of items/services that it is the conclusively established duty of a community/nation/state (government) to provide for citizens has been expanded accordingly.

[Sock Puppet]

Originally Posted by Henry Quirk

"we have thus far conclusively established that a community/nation/state (government) ought to provide all the following for citizens"

Learn to use the quote function, for fuck's sake. It's not difficult, I promise.

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Does anyone have anything to add before I send the LIST! to the city council of Juggalonia?

-Faygo

-fuckin' magnets (more study is needed to figure out how do they work)

[Stephen Maturin]

Approved and added.

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[Florence Jellem]

What about government-issued fourth husbands, boys? I suppose Flo could use a fourth husband, but I’m not spry enough to go out and find one on my own. Can’t the government step in? It’s OK if he’s impotent, provided he’s not incontinent. No woman wants a bed wetter. He’d better know how to cook, too.

If he is impotent, though, he should be proficient at cunnilingus. Perhaps the federal government could set up a Cunnilingus 
Conservation Corps (CCC) to conserve and perpetuate proper cunnilingus techniques. That nice President Roosevelt did that during the Depression, which really lifted the public’s morale during that dark time. Maybe it’s time to bring back the CCC.

[Henry Quirk]

Perhaps the better question for this crowd is...

What products/services should/ought not be provided by government?

[Florence Jellem]

Originally Posted by Henry Quirk

Perhaps the better question for this crowd is...

What products/services should/ought not be provided by government?

Fourth husbands who are also bed wetters, dear.

[lisarea]

Everything that's not provided by the government should be illegal, and ranch dressing and salsa with corn in it should not be provided by the government.

[Henry Quirk]

What (who) else?

[Henry Quirk]

No 'ranch dressing and salsa with corn' (Food just took a hit): check.

What (who) else?

Hope the shyster is amending his soon-to-be-submitted List.

[ChuckF]

Blame, obviously.

[Stephen Maturin]

The LIST! has been amended to include 4th husbands, incorporating the sine qua nons that Miss Flo specified.

Of course, there will be no list of what a community/nation/state (government) should not provide for citizens, cuz we are Republicans, not Republican'ts.

[Henry Quirk]

everything

and give the other guy the bill

[Crumb]

Oh no, that's clearly going too far. After all, we don't want syphilis.

[Sock Puppet]

Or the Irish.

[The Man]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Or the Irish.

…Aw, prairie shit! Everybody.

[Henry Quirk]

Shit, if the Poliburo designates you as 'test subject' in Tuskegee Testing 2.0 then what 'you' want is irrelevant.

[Corona688]

Originally Posted by Henry Quirk

"You were a little too honest."

I thought honesty was a virtue...*shrug*...I promise to be 'other than' from now on.

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"If you just ignored or missed my question, I'd have asked it again. You specifically told me you had no intention of engaging me or anyone in conversation about your own topic."

As I say: direct me to thread and post(s) in question (so I can see the context) and I'll see what I can do.

here, where the simplest of questions gets a blanket "nope".

Really? then why did you post this...

"I reviewed your posting history and find myself still waiting on the last question I asked you. So I don't think there's any point in honestly engaging you."

...up-thread?

I think it's pretty obvious, but if you want a blow-by-blow breakdown:

• I reviewed your posting history - Just a really quick skim, and one of the newest (at the time) was still a response to me I'd forgotten about, three years old.
• and find myself still waiting on the last question I asked you. -- Your answer was not satisfactory. Specifically, "nope", to a question which wasn't a yes-or-no question.
• So I don't think there's any point in honestly engaging you. -- Or, to paraphrase, "You've lost the benefit of the doubt. A real answer instead of bullshit might have been useful, 3 years ago."

My next reply broken down point form:

• You were a little too honest. -- You read my question and gave me a blanket "nope", some nonsense about the topic being whatever you wanted as if that were an answer to a pretty straightforward question about something else. What can I say to that? You're not required to answer questions about your own topic, I guess, but it really helps. I left.
• If you just ignored or missed my question, I'd have asked it again. -- I really hope this doesn't require further explanation.
• You specifically told me you had no intention of engaging me or anyone in conversation about your own topic. -- To wit, "I'll post whatever I like here. And (because I'm not selfish) you can play too!" -- Not much of a play when your answers have nothing to do with what you're asked.
• That's the problem, not your lack of answer.

[Henry Quirk]

the bigoted, poorly written, lolbertarian, golly-gosh thread - Page 4 - Freethought Forum

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Henry Quirk

Shit, if the Poliburo designates you as 'test subject' in Tuskegee Testing 2.0 then what 'you' want is irrelevant.

Apparently, it was the Communists who experimented on black people, not the anti-Communist US federal government aided by all-American Southern Jim Crow racism.

Also it's "Politburo".

[Ari]

Originally Posted by lisarea

ranch dressing and salsa with corn in it

Corn in salsa can be fine but corn in ranch dressing? What kind of abomination is that?!

[SR71]

I don't want a free pony. Don't be ridiculous. I just need free grass is all.

[Henry Quirk]

"Apparently, it was the Communists who experimented on black people, not the anti-Communist US federal government aided by all-American Southern Jim Crow racism."

*whoosh!* Right over your head.

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@Also it's "Politburo"."

I know...didn't care enough to correct it.

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Or the Irish.

Now WHO can argue with that? - YouTube

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Henry Quirk

"Apparently, it was the Communists who experimented on black people, not the anti-Communist US federal government aided by all-American Southern Jim Crow racism."

*whoosh!* Right over your head.

I think the idea was something like that the government liberals want would have the power to conduct more Tuskegee experiments, or some stupid shit like that, right?