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SIGH. I don't have the time to respond to everything but I'll point out that my statement about Familial communism being successful as evidence that Communism can be very successful and thriving. Almost every single family is dictatorial and communistic. Therefore add about a billion families to you...

Conditioning to change "nature" (I use the term loosely because the example here does not proove that we can condition people to be altruistic or an ideal citizen) has been proven. Example, I believe an experiment with a child called Albert loved fluffy animals like mice and rabbits. Scien...

Let's get one damn thing straight here once and for all. Communism had its chance and it has FAILED MISERABLY. This crap about communism in theory working is a load of useless horseshit. The experiment if over, the jury has decided, the fat lady has sung. Communism was a bad and ineffective idea th...

Water is wet is not a flaw on the part of water. What kind of idiotic metaphor is this? Water is wet, therefore government is not perfect. And in the end, when did I say that government was perfect? IN fact, I recall someone ELSE who was talkign about a "near utopian society". I wonder who...

Which court are you talking about? Because in Europe I hear they have a "guilty until proven innocent" system (hearsay can't say I ever experienced it, but some French people told me :shrug:) YOU bear the burden of proof here, but you have demonstrated nothing. I do not feel that any of my...

Ok. This is the final straw. I regret calling you intelligent because you have utterly failed to meet any standard by your inability to READ. I do not ARGUE for communism. I made that very clear from the first. I have repeatedly stated it over and over again, but for people like you it seems to miss...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi: You may not reply but I will reply to you and excuse your rudeness and subpar behavior. Over 200 years of "semi-prosperity" (what does that mean? becoming a world economic superpower in less than 150 years?) and counting is better than 73 years of oppresion and f...

Even though you are terrbly rude

Evidently, sarcasm and irony are too deep for this crowd. Independant thought has never been my strong point, as I'm also illiterate, and have a small vocabulary. Reread my post, and bear that in mind. Suicide is a great idea. Have I made my point, or do I need some fancy way of separating sarcasm ...

And forgive me for asking but I'm reading your post and i have no idea where IQ is becoming the issue here. I believe you are an intelligent being. I think there are few people who aren't inteligent beings. And I certainly don't descriminate against them because of their ideologies.

To a certain extent free will MUST be limited. To paraphrase a great author, "My right to fling my arms in the air stops where your nose begins". I don't think I'm a genius, but I don't tell you that you lack wisdom, I'm saying that you are not complete in your arguments, that often times,...

The Taiping rebellion is soo funny. I love that part. "I'm Jesus' Brother!" You know what's interesting? How Chiang Kai-Shek was willing to allow Jiang Jieshi to become Emperor. To this day there are a lot of questions about what happened. For example, Jiang Jieshi loved to go into the Imp...

Oh yes I wanted to point out.

Communists crack ALL the eggs, not a few when it comes to brainwashing. But then again the eggs already get cracked. They're just making an omelette instead of scrambled.

Allways with the doublespeak. Humans are not inanimate objects, so "melting" them, especialy against their wishes refers to? As far as materials like semi-condutors being needed, well that's only if you want to make transistors. Vacuum tubes work just fine with NO rare earths, or no ultra...

Norton, I know about what happened in China, it was a tragedy, and many times I really hate Mao for what he did, but it wasn't all his fault (he has executive responsibility but here are some additional information if we with to be objective critics). The main problem with Mao was the eventual godho...

MY sytem works. It has been tested, and is the best model so far. Your system is a dismal failure, producing grief, horror, poverty and misery. " I'll start from your last sentence. Your system has not truly stood the test of time, thats why Athens was eventually conquered, why the Roman Empir...

Commie, yuo seem to have missed what communism is entirely. It is a dictatorship of the proletariat. That is why farmers do not get a say in the government until they are industrialized, that is why at first only the proletariats make the decisions in a despotic manner. What we see is that if EVERYO...

"Let me say here that 3 years of college has made me thoroughly sick of the endless blathering of Marx's apologists here in the 21st century. Nothing that has been said on this thread by the reds is anything I haven't heard or read before: corporations run everything, the United States is just ...

"The biggest problem I see with most "social Engineering" is it is not done by engineers. What would you say to an engineer that promised to build you a miracle product that you could afford, but only if you supply him with a material that is tougher than kevlar, more heat resistant t...

You're statement about disarming the citizens is very interesting when we observe the effects of the red student militants during the cultural revolution. What you observed were thousands of students going up and beating people up because they were "counter revolutionary". Hardly good.

You know an interesting thing about the restriction of the law library. I was in court one day observing a man who chose to represent himself. He was also mentally retarded (not as an insult but this was his mental condition from birth). The entire situation had been an accident and the police had a...

Facism is the only way to go!!!!! MUAHAHAHA.

I don't know about the appeal system, and repeated parole certainly is bad. But when you say that people get out earlier than they'r supposed to, what you are arguing for is that when we give a life sentence, unless new evidence is revealed, that they should stay in the prison for life. This doesn't...

Thank you for your prompt reply Jock. It really depends. If only one person was being greedy(highly hypothetical and unlikely I agree) I don't think they'd last long. I don't think it would create anything but resentment, of course I may be wrong. Looking at it now, unless some sort of anti-greed pi...

This was one of my favorite threads in SB.com (by the way the Warsies are beating the crap out of the trekkies right now so Mike should be happy)

Who would win?