10/01/10
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[If you are a socialist, please tell that you want to confiscate all business property. Please show me an example of a successful socialist state. Show me a socialist state that does not control their populaton through totalitarian authoritarian control.]
Why does everything have to be so black and white Doug? Realise this - the best governments combine elements of socialism and capitalism.
Extreme capitalism is equally as bad as extreme socialism. Extreme capitalism would lead to no government whatsoever. Who would build the roads? Who would be able to use them? This system has been proven to fail before - we call this monarchism.
This is why I note your complete lack of critical thinking.
10/01/10
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Doug T.
You and the intellectually void bullying Tea Party are an excellent reason to not visit the US. Fortunately, not all yanks are as demented as you.
Your republicans caused the GFC by selling good yanks credit ratings in the ultimate scam. Do you deny this? Your dopey conservatives couldn't hold the scam together long enough to blame it on Obama - eat proverbial.
You support the ultimate scammers and I note that you have a lot to say, but very few people are behind you.
You are anti-intellectual. The Doc's book is excellent, I read it all last night after a day of working in my own business - I was up for 35hrs reading because it was so compelling in how it explains why numbskulls like yourself are incapable of critical thinking.
I support free enterprise, but I also support a fair go for all to have the opportunity to find the way that they can best serve the country. You do not.
Doug, you are the proponent of slavery. It was not socialists who had a legitimised slave trade, it was pricks like yourself, and I betcha that if you could legally own a slave you would.
It brings me great pleasure to know that most intellectuals are soft left people, and you are going to be kept real busy responding with your solo voice to an evergrowing choir that will drown out your silly ideas.
I'm from Australia, and we collectively scoffed at the idea of a tea party in Australia. Australians don't appreciate extremists like yourself.
In Australia, knobs like Doug tried to sink the ALP by badmouthing Rudd through the use of pointed polling and fear of "boat people". This pushed down his polling from a point where he was enormously popular to a point where the ALP caucus had to remove him.
Our ABC (the US doesn't have state media) was stacked with conservatives from the Howard era. With the entire media against the ALP, the ALP still won thanks to some Independents who saw through the haze created by the media, and had faith in Gillard.
Melbourne now has a Green rep, and our senate has a green balance of power as of mid next year.
Doug, you conservatives can't look to Australia for support - we don't like you.
Obama called Gillard first, and I bet the conversation would have been "thank god most Australians are not authoritarian followers.
We don't have a large contingency of right wing religious types here. Most religious types are soft left, as they should be - Jesus definitely was. I know, I went to an Anglican private school in my last 4 years of high school.
I am beyond religion, but I did enjoy every Thursday being read the gospel by our chaplain - they are interesting stories/accounts.
Our banks were well regulated, so I am looking forward to buying $1.20US for $1AU, when usually the exchange operates the opposite way.
Doug, squirm in your hard line delusions of grandeur.
10/01/10
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Don.
A little more background for you to ponder. Paladino is claiming that the press photographer took pictures of his daughter through her window, and chased her across a street to a playground. His daughter is 10 years old.
If some socialist took pictures of my 10 year old daughter through her window, I would also protect her.
This is after his offices were threatened to be bombed by a serial felon earlier this year.
Your silence on the bombing threat is duly noted.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/09/team-paladino-newspaper-puts-d.html
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/96797144.html
10/01/10
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Don.
Thanks for proving that you cannot be part of an adult conversation. You must lie about someone to make a point.
If Paladino threatened to kill someone this would be a crime. He didn't threaten anyone's life. Your statement is a lie.
That's par for the course for a "socialsit" who cannot act like a man and discuss his real intent.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/298325
10/01/10
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Miguel, appreciate the thought, but I didn't ask you to defend me from the troll. I asked you to stop arguing with him. Trolls aren't trying to have a discussion, they're trying to destroy the discussion. If you respond, you help them do so.
I'm curious to see what happens to Carl "crazy racist" Paladino now that he's publicly threatened to kill a reporter he doesn't like. The research would seem to suggest his supporters, far from being put off by his threat of violence, will support him even more intensely.
10/01/10
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Miguel.
If humans are supposed to live like they lived 20,000 years ago, I guess socialism is successful. Yes, socialism is successful at oppressing a group of humans for 20,000 years. Is it your hope that mankind is devoid of progress?
Is this the progressive agenda - to stop human progress?
You see, I have an optimistic view of the world. One in which scientific progress helps solve humanity's problems. One in which life expectancy is increased. One in which your children have a better quality of life than you had. These goals are achieved through capitalism.
Are you afraid of progress?
10/01/10
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Doug...You are grouping him... the fact that someone believes something you fear is no reason to ignore the balance of his work. All systems fail in the extreme. As for socialism...the tribal hunter gatherers have been living with a socialist system for 20k years. Seems pretty successful to me.
10/01/10
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Miguel.
First of all, I didn't put Don in a group. He calls himself a "socialist" and ran for president of the US as a candidate of the Socialist Party, USA. Typical for "socialists", Don can neither support his failed system with proof that it can work, nor will he admit publically that he is a "socialist".
http://www.politics1.com/socialist04a.htm
Then you throw out an outlandish statement that capitalism has failed. Clarify if this is really your position, as I think you just threw it out there as a illogical statement, just to argue.
If you are a socialist, please tell that you want to confiscate all business property. Please show me an example of a successful socialist state. Show me a socialist state that does not control their populaton through totalitarian authoritarian control.
09/30/10
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Doug...once again putting someone in a group so he can ignore them."you endorse socialism which I hate...therefor nothing you say has value"
Capitalism is a failed system...and you are a failure for endorsing it.
Semantically identical...and equally worthless statements.
09/30/10
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Don,
Support your belief that socialism can work.... Its a failed system, and you are a failure for promoting it...
Socialists cannot support their ideas, since they have no basis in fact. You are a true believer in a failed concept. Socialism has never worked. The faith of Socialism is a hoax, full of lies and misery.
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BTW: Calling yourself a "socialist", or Obama calling himself a "Christian", would be a difficult claim to prove by observation. I guess you could wear the Chairman Mao suit, but I still would require more proof. In your model society, a socialist police force can keep records of observations about citizens and throw them in re-education as soon as they display any capitalist tendancies.
This would be equally true of being profiled by Altemeyer as a "RWA".
09/30/10
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Ben: Depends on the belief, and on who's doing the believing. You wouldn't expect a belief in the afterlife to require evidence; that's based on faith. On the other hand, you would expect belief of a simple proposition like "Barack Obama is a Christian" to be settled by observed facts, not values or ideology.
Red: I'm not sure which "Sir" you're addressing. If you're directing your comment at Doug T---please don't. He's the local troll, and his hobby is pulling this discussion off topic.
09/30/10
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Sir,
By all means state your opinion and keep the facts that back it; you have a right to state these contributions, and I consider them valuable to the debate of the bigger picture. But really, as you do this, you may wish to consider keeping yourself in check. You hold such overconfidence that it borders on sheer arrogance. I don't care for how many hits you have on that counter, or how much you say you predicted the changes that occurred. Hold to the facts, not the thrill or the boast.
09/29/10
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Don't you think beliefs are based more on values than evidence and facts?
09/28/10
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The "nones" are those who don't care or have an opinion...NOT the same as the intentionally non-religious.
09/28/10
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So are the "nones" the un-religious enlightened non-RWA ignorant low achievers? Are the the offspring of the atheist socialists who were dropped on their heads? Would these un-labelled persons label themselves "atheist" or "agnostic" if they knew how to google the definition?
I guess that we can conclude that the non-religious: atheist, agnostic or "nothings in particular" have a range of knowledge about world religions which is not significantly different from anglo-saxon Judeo-Christians. Of course the sensationalized news stories will not lead with that gonfalon. It sells more papers to say the irreligious know more about religion than the zealots.
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