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To the last one, no not really, since all military spending is by the government. I'm not necessarily saying we should try something else because we have to have a military and I don't want to privatise the military (whatever that even means), but I agree that the military industrial complex is corp...

The "one trick" as you call it is the one trick because it gives you the most cash. This cash can then be traded for other things, like machine tools. Early USSR was also a mainly agrarian economy: they tried to shift everything into industry artificially and ended causing a huge famine. T...

I agree, I'm sure if they thought free markets would let them buy more tanks or something they would've tried to promote it. But still, it's difficult to exercise total control over a society without taking a lot of substantive control of the economy. It is important to distinguish between "mar...

I thought people were arguing with me because I said the Nazis weren't free marketeers? I entirely agree that the Nazis and their cartels and nationalised industries were an anti-market movement. Schacht tried to restrain their insanity to at least some extent, and largely failed. He was appointed t...

There's a big difference between and environmentalist and environmental scientist. I am talking about the big pressure groups and political parties like the UK Greens.

He was one relative to the rest of the party.

I think it's pretty clear I used Schacht as the figurehead of the most market liberal wing of the Nazi movement. The fact he was eventually deposed and very near killed says a lot about the Nazis' stance on that, especially as the man was basically a Keynesian anyway. My whole point, explicitly made...

So wait, let me get this straight: shifting a bit away from pure laissez-faire policies results in falling from the level of France and Germany to below-Russian levels. Shifting to a complete command economy in Russia results in overtaking a nation which was above France and Germany at the time. :l...

Then what do you think they are? Do you think they opposed markets or favoured them? Do you think Nazi Germany was more of a free market economy than the Weimar Republic? It's all vacillation and deliberately twisted and misleading statements from you.

I don't see how you can read that book and come out with the conclusion that the Nazis were little proto-Friedmanites. I am beginning to think you're deliberately dishonest.

A tiny minor detail here: The UK used internal passports to prevent the travel of Northern Irish Suspects from 1974 onwards. And we're still doing it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/26/terror-suspects-exile-control-orders Let's not talk about the 'suspects' we've handed over to the Ame...

Also, as claim of fact, no one saw Nazis (full name: National Socialist German Workers' Party) as "pro-market". They were explicitly anti-market, not that that was bad for them as almost all Germans rejected markets in the wake of the depression. All the major parties in Germany in the 19...

We weren't even disagreeing at all! Consider me a grammar nazi; if you can't frame your statements correctly, you will be called on it. The problem isn't that you argued about it, the problem is you implied it had something to do with your point about the causation industrial revolution. Which it d...

It's potentially reasonable to blame the Great Depression on "capitalism". I don't necessarily agree but I will listen to your argument. Blaming it on the Weimar Republic is ridiculous. Germany as a whole, whatever policy it could have adopted, had only very marginal influence on the depre...

You actually believe that children looking for scrap metal to sell is a cultural thing, rather than a result of poverty? Like, people in the crap parts of India or wherever have kids and say, "Gee, I sure hope that I　die while they're still young, and they're forced to search through garbage h...

Nonetheless, I have no qualms saying a society that produces children climbing on garbage heaps searching for scrap metal to sell, or that executes people for being witches, or that embraces internal passports and a secret police, as being inferior to Western civilisation. I am sorry, but for quite...

Did you even read it? I said these are the two logical possibilities, not that even one single person believes either. I think 1. is in fact closest to what you've stated, but you've been too vague and incoherent to tell exactly. Actually, in my post, I suggested a third possibility: that a large a...

The difference is that US's [apparently?] socially widespread but legally suppressed anti-black racism exists in a world where there are no longer explicit apartheid countries left. For misogyny, there are equivalent countries where there are massive formal legal restrictions. It is like comparing ...

CCS, according to the projections, but CCS has never been demonstrated with a large powerplant so it's not entirely known. There have been large scale implementations that could be regarded as prototypes, but only at resource extraction sites. That simplifies things a lot because often the waste gas...

Aside from internal divisions between various white national groups, does anyone know about the USSR's immigration laws? Given that the USSR was richer than most of Africa and fairly well regarded there at the time, it is surprising that the Warsaw Pact remained pretty much entirely mono-racial. Was...

The Third Reich had also been a democracy like 12 years before it collapsed, unless you think the wealth should all disappear overnight. . How ignorant of history are you to not know that the destruction of wealth by the Weimar democracy was what directly caused the rise of the fascist dictatorship...

Japan specifically, does not outlaw women driving, prescribe certain forms of dress, ban from education, etc. I read somewhere it was ranked 11th best country to live in the OECD for women, which while not the best puts it in fairly good company. Will see if I can find the source. Or maybe I am jus...

You're not opposing sexism, shithead. You're expressing xenophobic paranoia towards people immigrating with a certain cultural background, based on nothing but racist and sexist assumptions. East-Asia is also deeply misogynist, but they got your blessing as being "west-like", funny. So, i...

Agreed, I give this man 100x more respect than the masses who never admit they are wrong.

Singular Intellect wrote:Here's a PDF report on solar power versus nuclear.

Just because something is saved in pdf format doesn't make it authoritative. Especially as this seems to be a Microsoft Word document that was converted to pdf. That is not a format even a half-baked journal would accept.