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Oh please. You make a ridiculously offensive blanket statement like that and you expect me to wave it off like it's nothing? You obnoxious turd. To whom do you think it is offensive? If to gays, why do you think it is bad to be a superhero? And if to superheroes, why do you think it is bad to be ga...

Putting words into someone's mouth isn't nearly as effective as a direct quote, since obviously lots of people disagree with one another, and either misunderstand or deliberately twist arguments, so that doesn't mean much.

Why these attempts to circumvent the question? I don't get it, why would you want to weasel away from your own opinion on a topic you obviously have strong feelings about? It just looks bad and is counter productive to any kind of dialog. Then to show good form and answer your questions here: 1) Ye...

I think it's fair - I included you saying you don't ultimately support it despite sympathising with the Soviet/East German view, so of course you wouldn't support shooting. I could have simply quoted as "it's undeniable that the FDR and NATO deliberately tried to entice people over from East Be...

Are you saying that no one who is poor is capable of self-improvement? Like for srsly? Why this stalling attempt? You were talking genericly about poverty and poor people, thus you were not talking about a minority of the poor, instead you were talking about generic traits/abilities of the poor, as...

I'm looking for a book recommendation, and thought people here might be able to help. Lately I've been reading Asimov's Guide to the Bible, which is great, but focuses pretty much entirely on the historical context without examining the moral and philosophical interpretations. I'm looking for a book...

I contribute concision.

OKAY,mind explaining WHY obesity is predicted by socio economic status and ZIP codes? Because poverty and excess eating have similar causes: ignorance, lack of self-discipline, low time preference, etc. So ... your argument is that poor are poor because of reasons they themselves can affect? Are yo...

Do you disagree with it, or did you just rather I complimented you on your post instead of making my own?

Nice post, btw, I agree with it.

Nitpicking over Marxist terminology is somewhat less interesting to me than building a scale model of a 100ft matchstick out of regular sized matchsticks, and about as useful to humanity. I also am aware it is what Marxists spend all their time doing, so what the hell, I concede all your points. The...

Specifically, it blocks DOD from spending any FY 13 dollars toward the "production or purchase of an alternative fuel if the cost of producing or purchasing the alternative fuel exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuel," according to the Senate draft. Ah, well that is quite a different...

The island battles are not really indicative, since the Japanese forces were usually cut off from supply, heavily outnumbered, and having little or no heavy equipment or air support. The tendency of the units deployed there to fight to the last man also skews the casualty figures heavily. Typically ...

This "infographic" raises more questions than it answers. What is the "health rating" we are looking at, and how is it calculated? Who is eating at 11pm? In what way is it a "Visualization of 500,000 foods"? One can only wonder.

I'm not a fan of Obama but this is absurd manufactured offence. The wording was indeed sloppy but the meaning inferred was obviously not intended.

These two sentences make no sense when put together. If the third world was full only of people with sub 80 IQs but had US institutions, it would still be 10x as wealthy as it is now. Intelligence only differentiates within a country, between countries it is next to irrelevant. Hey, fucko, in the r...

Incorrect. The socialist state was to be an intermediary condition. Marx's end goal was a situation where the socialist system would become redundant. This is treated in the very first post of mine on this subject. Marx's "anarchism" is just another dialectical dodge, whereby he plays wit...

Oh please. You make a ridiculously offensive blanket statement like that and you expect me to wave it off like it's nothing? You obnoxious turd. To whom do you think it is offensive? If to gays, why do you think it is bad to be a superhero? And if to superheroes, why do you think it is bad to be ga...

Poor countries modernize based on the brainpower of their citizens. Poor countries modernise by having good institutions. Stupid people in countries with good institutions like US earn more than the world average GDPPC. When rich countries poach their brightest citizens away But people are not prop...

I'm talking about the focus of the country involved. You're not a very smart boat, are you? Or perhaps you're inventing things to make yourself look good, but you still look like shit, thinking that poor countries ought to remain poor. Could you rephrase? I don't quite understand what I'm being acc...

People aren't slaves to be used for the betterment of whatever ethnic group they happened to be born into, and their own lives and dreams be damned. That's a horrific view to take. It also doesn't explain why US systemically discriminates even more against people from other developed countries. It's...

Don't waste your time talking back, either. I am an immigration agent Congrats; you're a parasite. Therefore, let's have a little class on visas, immigration, and routes to citizenship. The pertinent legislation is contained in 8 USC and 8 CFR, or the Immigration and Nationality Act. Nonimmigrants ...

If the UK reputes the Schengen Agreement I could be in a bit of bother as I am working in the UK under my Greek passport for the past 5 years. The UK isn't in the Schengen Agreement, but that's not where the residency right comes from. It's more likely they would only stop new entrants, if this ind...

The funny thing is I bet you'd be blabbering about Communist evils if a government nationalized a company and said that "the compensation owed to the executives is of much less value than the goods being produced by the government". However, it's nice to see that you don't really care abo...

The allies did not approach Japan from the South; those campaigns proceeded very slowly and most of south east asia was not retaken until Japan had already essentially lost, having no sea control of the area or supply lines to the mainland. In this universe, it's only viable to fight Japan on land w...

Land wealth is only a small % of global wealth, and even less in developed countries. The question is more like, how is that land more valuable to you, as a modern industrial concern that can employ nearby people and generate some rent for its owners (I don't support expropriation), or as an open fi...