Once again Thomas Sowell nailed it.

When hasn't Sowell nailed it? The man is brilliant.

I think one time when he was about 4 years old he.... nope. My mistake. He nailed it back then as well... :)

I call it "entitled equality."

Years ago I heard the statement, "free people are never equal, and equal people are never free". Far too many people in this country do not value their freedom and in doing so the endanger ours.

We are born equal but the moment you put limits on freedom is the moment we all become equally impoverished. It happens every time it is tried and it is tried more often letting people to make decisions for themselves.

Wrong.

Octavia, I was just using an Octavia-style reply. No need to whine and cry about it.

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I'm surprised that your reply hasn't been flagged and removed yet. Whenever I mention a certain user by name that's usually the result, sometimes accompanied by a day in the penalty box.

You really cannot see that? It is so blindingly true. The entire premise is based on taking from those that have and giving to those who do not have based on some misguided sense of justice. Those who do not have are 100% for this because rather than putting effort into getting whatever themselves they can just have the government steal it for them.

Envy is based entirely on the notion of the haves and the have nots. The problem is when it all boils down to it, the have nots have a lot and the haves just have a little bit more. Basically the idea of equity means if I have one penny more than you then I must have gotten it by exploiting someone and therefore you are entitled to my penny.

Social justice based entirely on envy. Without envy there can be no demand for social justice.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

- Pen Jilette

Also Pen Jilette:

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Lol. Well I am neither Libertarian or Republican. I'm a Constructionalist, a member of the Constitution Party.

When it comes to economic issues, Libertarians are spot on, more so than Republicans. But all the rest of the stuff they sometimes get wrong.

They are two principles that both must be strictly adhered to if the people are ever going to be free. Those are absolute freedom and a strong adherence to morals (self governance). If you take one away you won't be prosperous. If you take both away then civilization is destroyed. The Libertarians seem to eschew morality. Republicans place a lower value on freedom than Libertarians while valuing morality. Democrats want to destroy both freedom and morality.

The Constitution was written for a moral people to ensure their freedom.

What you wrote is one of the best posts I've seen on imgflip, period. Our form of govt requires both freedom and morality, and you nailed what happens when either or both are removed from the calculus.

I never knew Jilette was a libertarian until I came across that quote. It appears to be genuine. And I would imagine that as a Libertarian, you do have to be careful to not appear to be a republican. Their stated philosophies overlap a great deal.

I don't know that I could ever officially join any political party. I share a lot of positions with libertarians, but find their utter lack of ability to form a legitimate political party to be a stumbling block. Plus, we can't just ignore the rest of the world, as they seem to want to do with their indifference to foreign policy issues. Dems and Pubs? Both parties are so hypocritical in terms of stated values versus actual values as to not even be worthy of comment, other than to say it seems pretty clear they're just in it for the power. I will check out your Constitution Party. Who knows, maybe they are the party for me?

Thank you. That was very kind of you to say that. When I left the Republican party I was unaffiliated for a while. I told myself that I was in the George Washington Party because he didn't believe in political parties. I eventually joined the Constitution Party but I am beginning to think that they are just another version of the Republican party. I'm not going to leave the Constitution party any time soon unless they turn corrupt.

I agree a lot with the Libertarians, I'm probably more Libertarian than anything else when it comes to freedom and economic issues.

Glenn Beck used to have Jillette on his TV show frequently. I may have known before I saw Jillette on Beck that he was a Libertarian but Beck and Jillette used to talk about it. Beck is also a Libertarian.

That is an incomplete definition. It comes directly from Karl Marx, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

That "struggle for social justice" IS ENVY. I think since critical race theory has been moved front and center, that no one or not very many people on the left are talking about the "haves and have nots" anymore. It has been changed to the privileged and the under-privileged or whites and non-whites. The goal is still the same, take from one group and give to another and it is all based on envy. That is what the "justice" part is all about. How do you think justice can be served unless there is some type of leveling scheme.

The entire premise of social justice (be it from Marx, the Nazis (yes, the Nazis) or any other group) is based on a lie.

No, you moving from your segregationist Georgia home where your family owned a construction business to the liberal California you claim to hate so much so you can work construction for the goverment was envy.

The struggle for social justice in your former segregationist Georgia home is, by definition, the struggle for social justice, hence why it's called the struggle for social justice because words mean things.

Just idle curiosity here Modda, but The_Knight_Who_Says_Ni did give you all that personal information, right? Or are you just making it up as you go, as a matter of convenience to make your point seem legitimate when it's not, as you so often do?

Hence you moving from state to state instead of staying in Georgia, or wherever in Europe y'all came from?

Fake Pony can't accept a genuine thank you . . . And I know how hard it is for leftists to be funny.

You really don't know many real Christians, so I'll take that question as your own non-sequitur. Either way, mine wasn't truly any of those things since I was essentially stating that, as usual, you are wrong about all things in reality. I would never dream of tangling with you when it comes to magical fake ponies though.

As for "biblical justice", most Christians don't use that term, but at worst it is redundant. You, in your intentional ignorance, try to use the imperfections of Christians to prove your point. No legitimate Christian claims to be perfect, but we do point you to the One Who is.

And since your mommy didn't teach you manners, the normal response to "thank you" is "you're welcome" . . . WWOMD?

"It's not my problem that Christians are unable to demonstrate that their God is real."

Now that right thar is one totally ignurahnt thought process!

It is not up to ANY Christian to demonstrate this to you. YOU are responsible for the condition of your soul, no one else. I don't care if you don't like the manner in which God dictates this get done. (cf. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A21-24&version=ESV )

Romans 1:19-21
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

So they are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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So, whether or not you choose to believe the obvious truth of God's existence changes nothing. You will die one day, something all of you scared little liberals have had to face much sooner than normal with this alleged pandemic (which explains the cult-like adherence to all things Fauxci & CDC), and then you will find it to be too late to be convinced. It is your hard heart that is the problem here- nothing else. "Ever seeing, they do not see, ever hearing, they do not hear" (paraphrase).

You seem to think that you get to set the parameters of how this all works- sad really, the level of ignorant hubris that represents. As may have said before, the very reactions and reasoning of peeps like you and Modda are yet another proof of the prophetic solidity of the Scriptures, specifically your animus towards God and the Truth. I would mock you for all of this were it not for the fact that I was you once. Well, except for the magical pony nonsense, but we all have our odd peccadilloes.

I gave you a short video that deal with the scientific impossibility that life could arise from non-life; this is hard core science, but you choose to ignore it. Nonetheless, it is devastating to your world view. No, the problem isn't with the evidence, it is with your unwillingness to accept it.