haha wpI presume that much of the vitriol you all seem to be reading in my posts is the result of your own personal bias.
I think this is a fair statement.
03-29-2018 02:50 AM
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03-29-2018 03:15 AM
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03-29-2018 04:49 AM
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This is actually a very good example of what I mean. Yes, I did say that there are probably unnecessarily many countries in the world, there would be several big positives about having less. I think I went even into some detail on why, especially economically, it would make a lot of sense. Your only response was and is to ridicule the idea by strawmen and red herrings. For example, I was not aware that Stalin, Hitler and Mao were ever the elected leaders of a world government. I have definitely not asserted anything about doing things my way, I just objectively looked at the pros of having a more uniform governance, less overhead and vastly larger economies of scale. If I had been in Stalin's place I doubt I would have been able to weed out all the corruption and diminish the power of the oligarchs without any governance education or experience, but on the other hand it's hard to imagine how things could have turned out worse. They might have, but I'm not exactly sure why and how. Your only criticism has been "fascist!" and other indirect ad hominems. | |
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03-29-2018 09:29 AM
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Even if I agreed that it makes economic sense (it doesn't), you still haven't explained how your preferred policy of a single homogenized super government wouldn't lead to starvation, oppression, and massive widespread death. That's what happened whenever someone else tried that. What's your plan? |
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03-29-2018 10:46 AM
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I said let your knowledge of that news agency's bias sink in and color all the other news you get from them. (If I said the other thing, then fine, that's an option, if the news source is particularly terrible, e.g. mainstream sources.) | |
03-29-2018 11:00 AM
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So this philosophical tangent has been nice for forum-filling, but I don't see where you've addressed what was brought up originally as the issue. |
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03-29-2018 09:59 PM
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You're not going to get anywhere with this sort of language and finger pointing. |
03-30-2018 09:07 AM
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Where am I trying to get to? |
03-30-2018 09:13 PM
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I can go on for days about the problems of government, and how those problems escalate as government grows and centralizes. |
03-31-2018 06:40 AM
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Stalin wanted to feed people in his cities. So he went out to the farms, and took all the grain. then the farmers starved to death. |
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04-11-2018 01:30 PM
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Democrats hate science |
04-13-2018 12:46 AM
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04-13-2018 12:50 AM
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04-13-2018 08:52 PM
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Good riddance to a cuck called Ryan |
04-14-2018 04:35 AM
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Rats leaving the sinking ship. | |
04-14-2018 12:48 PM
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What's the sinking ship? |
04-14-2018 01:36 PM
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04-14-2018 01:39 PM
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It also happens to be that your foreign and domestic policy is demonstrably dictated by a TV show, which is hilarious, ironic, tragic and terrible at the same time. | |
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04-14-2018 02:54 PM
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It's gonna be interesting for sure. I don't have a position yet, probably because most of what's out there is not very good analysis. |
04-14-2018 07:21 PM
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It will be interesting to see a blue wave and the reaction of the newly sore losers who were just calling the previous losers sore losers. | |
04-14-2018 08:33 PM
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Sadly for everyone, Trump's best hope now is war. | |
04-14-2018 10:25 PM
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04-14-2018 10:25 PM
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04-15-2018 08:35 AM
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weak sauce demagoguery |
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04-15-2018 12:13 PM
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04-15-2018 12:19 PM
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04-17-2018 11:23 AM
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Agreed. And if someone in power was watching a single news source and "executing their sole advice" it would be a problem. However, if someone merely has their policy leanings influenced by public opinion, or has questions raised that are cogent to policy-making, then it's not a problem. You're conflating the two just so you can create a statement that sounds "true enough" and use it to attack the political opposition. |
04-17-2018 02:07 PM
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First we need to establish he does watch it religously | |
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04-17-2018 02:43 PM
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Why? Was that in dispute? "religiously" is your word. You're using it to conjure up images of inescapable ritual and faith-based reverence. And you're doing that because you feel it makes Donald Trump look stupid, pliable, and brainwash-able. I'm willing to establish that he watches "often", or even "very often". But please leave all that other shit at the door. |
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04-17-2018 07:53 PM
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04-17-2018 09:42 PM
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Nonsense. You know exactly what you were doing. |
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04-24-2018 04:47 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...ignatures.html |
04-27-2018 04:36 AM
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Some commie propaganda for y'all | |
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04-27-2018 08:46 AM
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That "Happiest Country" study is the biggest, smelliest, most disgusting lie going right now. Seriously....it's just garbage. |
04-27-2018 09:30 AM
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04-27-2018 01:28 PM
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Suicide rates per 100,000... | |
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04-27-2018 01:32 PM
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That one was 2005, I found a more recent study though from 2015... | |
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04-27-2018 07:46 PM
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04-27-2018 07:48 PM
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04-27-2018 08:15 PM
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The Pareto distribution is legit. 20% of Fins might do 80% of the good in Finland. If policy is to take a bunch from those 20% and give to the 80%, the average "happiness" might go up. Sounds like a plan! A few problems though: it's not sustainable, and it's incredibly unfair. |
04-27-2018 08:40 PM
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04-27-2018 08:56 PM
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My complaint was with the specific instrument used to measure "happiness" in the first place. They asked people to imagine a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is the worst possible life in your country and 10 is the best possible life in your country. Then they asked people to rate their own life on that scale. |
04-27-2018 09:13 PM
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04-27-2018 09:35 PM
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He hasn't, and he won't. | |
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04-27-2018 10:11 PM
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Are you saying NK won't ever cease its nuclear testing, or that NK won't ever get rid of all of its nukes? |
04-28-2018 09:12 AM
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Economic policy is a reaction / control between what is wanted and what is available, right? | |
04-28-2018 10:07 AM
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04-28-2018 10:27 AM
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04-28-2018 10:35 AM
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I'd say they both do, but after you said what you said I had a sudden realization that we might be talking about two different things. |
04-28-2018 10:47 AM
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The play between what is wanted and what is available is a great way of describing economics in its most fundamental terms. Policy is, as you say, something implemented based on desires and constraints. |
05-23-2018 10:28 AM
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Courage: noun. Fucking a rich guy for personal gain, getting it, and then demanding more money. |
05-29-2018 02:38 PM
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Roseanne's show got some buzz when it first came out. But I haven't heard anyone talk about it since. Probably because it wasn't Hannity-like enough to either engage the right, or piss off the left. |
05-29-2018 04:38 PM
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05-29-2018 09:11 PM
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I can't believe they cancelled Roseanne after Wanda Sykes' racist tweet! She was just the "consulting producer"! |
05-29-2018 10:52 PM
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So......who does steal wallets?? |
05-29-2018 11:17 PM
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06-26-2018 12:15 AM
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06-28-2018 08:40 AM
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I just can't shake the feeling that the entire tone of this story would be 180 degrees different if the driver was black. |
06-28-2018 01:10 PM
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Whites are truly the most oppressed race in the history of america. Maybe ever. | |
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06-28-2018 06:55 PM
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06-28-2018 07:01 PM
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06-28-2018 09:02 PM
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I thought it was from a movie. The girl looks like Emma Roberts, who was fantastic in The Blackcoats Daughter. Turns out it's just from some russian girls instagram. | |
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06-30-2018 05:49 PM
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I like her, she's not taking any shit. | |
07-02-2018 09:07 AM
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07-02-2018 10:40 PM
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Waters 2020! |
07-03-2018 01:35 AM
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She is too old to get pregnant I think. | |
07-03-2018 07:50 AM
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07-03-2018 08:32 PM
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I'd say the media has done more to move people who have acknowledged that the media is trying to mislead them from the Democrats, and also the media has done more to move people who have not acknowledged that the media is trying to mislead them towards the Democrats. |
07-04-2018 01:35 AM
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Wait, how does realizing Fox News is a propaganda machine turn people into R voters? | |
07-04-2018 07:08 AM
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07-04-2018 12:11 PM
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07-04-2018 12:39 PM
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I believe YOU don't want kids to be mistreated, but the actions of your government suggest applying that same moral to EVERYONE is being generous. It's hard to see this as some unintended side effect of immigration policy. It wasn't happening under Obama (at least not on a large scale), but now it's happening under Trump. | |
07-04-2018 12:54 PM
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07-04-2018 12:55 PM
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07-04-2018 12:56 PM
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