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Serious / Re: Fun fact on child porn [moved from The Flood]
« on: September 19, 2014, 10:18:08 AM »
That doesn't at all prove a causal link.  Also, "As the total number of those who view such images can not be ascertained, the ratio of passive viewing to molestation remains unknown. The report also notes that it is not possible to define the progression from computerized child pornography to physical acts against children."

12902
Serious / Re: Fun fact on child porn [moved from The Flood]
« on: September 19, 2014, 09:53:53 AM »
Sorry Dustin,  but if you're going to say that then nobody will take you seriously.

12903
Serious / Re: Obama goes full foreign aid
« on: September 19, 2014, 02:41:38 AM »

12904
Serious / Re: Imagine the Universe is 13 years old
« on: September 19, 2014, 02:40:55 AM »
Could someone please explain to me how scientists can claim to know all of this, just by using deductive reasoning?
"How do we reach conclusions with logic".

Just leave.

12905
The Flood / Re: List of Users Who Require Hugs.
« on: September 19, 2014, 02:38:55 AM »
Ember requires a hug.

I can reach into his pocket and take back the shekels he stole.

Dirty fucking Jewnigga.

12906
Serious / Re: I think it's time we give up on Africa.
« on: September 19, 2014, 02:34:56 AM »
Solution Alpha: Nuke Africa.

12907
The Flood / Re: So... otthild pooped out an anti christ
« on: September 19, 2014, 01:23:49 AM »
I'm with Verbatim on this one.

That motherfucking kid is ugly as shit, and will lead a life of hell.

12908
Gaming / Re: Who are the real heroes of Skyrim?
« on: September 19, 2014, 01:20:14 AM »
>plebs actually supporting the windclucks

12909
Serious / Re: IT'S OFFICIAL ALEX SALMOND BTFO THE UNION PREVAILS
« on: September 19, 2014, 01:18:16 AM »
>implying north sea oil revenue isn't ridiculously
ridiculously what


RIDICULOUSLY WHAT
Whoops >.>

Volatile.

12910
Serious / Re: IT'S OFFICIAL ALEX SALMOND BTFO THE UNION PREVAILS
« on: September 19, 2014, 01:10:01 AM »
>implying north sea oil revenue isn't ridiculously

12911
Point being Door is pointing out corruption in government but misses the fact that people are manipulable anyway.
I don't think Door's point was that democracy eliminates manipulable-ness or corruption, merely that it minimises it.


12912
Can you do that in somewhere other than Serious?

12913
It seems to be that you've never heard of the concept of memetics.
Well, first of all
>lolricharddawkins

Second of all, don't be cryptic and just say what you mean.

12914
China is Socialist though. Don't feel like arguing any more over it
You don't seem to understand that I'm not disallowing for variations in the form of government. I'm saying China can call itself socialist all it wants, but it simply isn't true according to the people who have even the slightest clue what they're talking about. To limit the definition of "socialism" to the extent that you are not only belies an incredibly jingoistic need to attack the ideology, but it's also to restrict so much as to make your point meaningless in the first place.

I'm also intensely amused by the supposed libertarian taking the Chinese government at its word.

12915
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=gdp%20of%20china
Proves nothing.

Raising total factor productivity by subsidising industry and then throwing away the manufactures will raise GDP, but nobody's better off for it.

12916
Notice how I pointed out to GOVERNMENT, not ECONOMY. And China's economy is still a sub-genre of Socialism. Refer to one of my previous posts

It's Socialist. It's sub-form of Socialism can be whatever but it's still Socialist
You are joking. . . Aren't you?

You're not going to make reference to an entire politico-socio-economic system and then tell me you're only talking about the government.

The Chinese government can flaunt how socialist it "really is" all it wants, it just isn't true. It doesn't fit into a "sub-genre" of socialism, because it fits none of the proper criteria. It is, as I have said and demonstrated to you, State Capitalist. Like I say, being "constitutionally dedicated" to socialism doesn't necessarily make you some sort of socialist.

Just ask Tony Blair.


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Serious / Re: I need to have a talk with my fellow Christians
« on: September 18, 2014, 05:27:17 PM »
>tfw this is in srs

12918
Pollution allows hospitals to create profit off asthma patients. I see no problem.
I know you're being sardonic but it's so mundane as to be banal.

12919
Either way, Kinder's attempts are always foolish.
FTFY.

12920
Nope

And profiting still happens under socialism
. . .

What?
China
If China was socialist you wouldn't have people running around saying that socialism doesn't work.
Except China is Socialist and it proves Socialism doesn't work
China is fast becoming the largest economy in the world.
China's GDP figures aren't necessarily reliable, even disregarding the fact that GDP figures aren't great in the first place.

China's miraculous growth, while admirable, masks a lot of internal debt and the social pressures exerted by the growing middle class.

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Serious / Re: I need to have a talk with my fellow Christians
« on: September 18, 2014, 05:20:41 PM »
I enjoy my philosophy classes this year. Deals much more with the real-world implications of religious authority and secular authority, as well as some nice metaphysics as well.

12922
Yes
Yes it is

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=single-party_socialist_state_of_china

Hell, even under Wikipedia it's government is stated as Single-Party Socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

Do you just read the headlines of newspapers, instead of actually looking at the information properly?

Quote
The socialist market economy is the economic model employed by the People's Republic of China. It is based on the dominance of the state-owned sector and an open-market economy, and has its origins in the Chinese economic reforms introduced under Deng Xiaoping. The ideological rationale is that China is in the primary stage of socialism, an early stage within the socialist mode of production, and therefore has to adapt capitalist techniques to thrive. Despite this, the system has widely been cited as a form of state capitalism.[1][2]

Also, if you thought to follow up on the "socialist state" listing, you'd find this definition:
Quote
The term socialist state (or socialist republic) usually refers to any state that is constitutionally dedicated to the construction of a socialist society.
You could call a British government with Ed Miliband at the helm a socialist state and probably get away with it. It has no descriptive value when it comes to any economic system.


12923
Nope

And profiting still happens under socialism
. . .

What?
China
China is run by a communist party.

They aren't real communists, but at least acknowledge the fucking facts.
China is a Single-Party Socialist nation
No.

No it isn't.

It's "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics".

The last refuge of a dogmatically Marxist State which refuses to acknowledge itself as State capitalist.

12924
Nope

And profiting still happens under socialism
. . .

What?
China
Oh yeah.

That country which isn't fucking socialist.

Good point.

12925
Fucking slow down.

There's no such thing as profit under socialism.

Wages =/= profits.

12926
Nope

And profiting still happens under socialism
. . .

What?

12927
Socialism is usually democratic.
That sort of implicitly assumes that a "democratic" government can't be an authoritarian one.

12928
People are simply jealous of their history of wealth. I believe the reason why they have a huge financial history is because Christians had them attend banks, businesses, etc as Christian beliefs forbid the idea of profiting so  an easy way around is to hire people who share the same God but not the exact same beliefs.
Even more going back is the differences of their monotheistic beliefs against the polytheistic beliefs of
many ancient civilizations centuries ago like Egypt and I believe, if they were around, Phoenicia and maybe Babylon
Does that mean you controverted to socialism or authoritarianism?
Implying the two are mutually exclusive?

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The Flood / Re: HE FUCKING DID IT AGAIN
« on: September 18, 2014, 04:34:06 PM »
Why do you all proceed to make my job so difficult?


It's over, George.

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