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6871
« on: March 10, 2015, 05:41:40 PM »
I came to this thread expecting something about sex.
But no, it's just a provocatively named restaurant.
6872
« on: March 10, 2015, 05:40:49 PM »
FUCKING GOOKS
6873
« on: March 10, 2015, 05:38:35 PM »
You think you live in tyranny? HOLY SHIT LOL
Sorry Door, but ^ The West isn't perfect, but calling it tyrannical is trivialising what it means for tyranny to exist. You're massively lowering your expectations of what classifies as tyranny. If the U.S. is tyrannical, then what the fuck is China, Russia, Iran, Hussein's Iraq, North Korea, Somalia, Taliban Afghanistan and Francoist Spain?
6874
« on: March 10, 2015, 05:01:32 PM »
Suicide is selfish, there is no arguing against that.
Yes there is. Suicide, as a result of depression--which it most often is--is a sort of delusion. It's a problem with somebody's perception, not their willpower.
6875
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:59:51 PM »
There's no such thing as being "overly" patriotic. Either you're a patriot or you're not.
I agree with you here. Being proud of your country's heritage and wanting to preserve the values which make it great =/= being a jingoistic, flag-waving far-righter. It's only recently that I've realised just how attached I am to the United Kingdom, and the values which make it--along with many other Western countries--actually great.
6876
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:24:54 PM »
Sorry, but aren't you non American yourself?
And the whole 'Tea Party running the Republicans' is about as Noelle posting as it gets. Funding doesn't mean running. Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart etc have a lot of ties and funds to the Democrat party, but by no means do they run it.
Not to mention, none of the ten biggest PACs are partisan Republican. Like, two or three have donated to both parties, with the rest being solid Democratic. The Democrats are equally, if not more, in the pockets of the wealthy.
6877
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:14:20 PM »
The recession was in full force before Obama even got into office. What are you talking about? The Recession had also begun to recover under Bush, but I'm not going to attribute the recovery to him because he wasn't responsible for it. Neither has Obama been responsible for the recovery we have seen and has, if anything, somewhat stood in the way with his fiscal stimulus and opposition to natural gas which has pretty much led the recovery. The reason Obama and Bush are both pretty much equally shit when it comes to the Recession however is because they have very little influence, and pretty much any policy they could've implemented would've had--and has had--serious problems. Pretty much all the praise and blame lies on the Federal Reserve.
6878
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:07:25 PM »
We've seen one of the worst recessions in history too.
The Recession was only so bad because of poor government policy on both the Bush and Obama administrations' watch. Both Bush and Obama have been mediocre at best.
6879
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:03:13 PM »
Most cases of suicide are not only cowardly, but selfish as well.
Come at me
If you want my comeback you'll need to scrape it off your mom's tits.
my mom had them removed after a battle with beast cancer
Good.
6880
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:02:38 PM »
Obama and his administration took America out of the gutter.
Hardly. We've seen one of the worst recoveries in history, and that's despite America being the frontrunner globally.
6881
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:58:05 PM »
Most cases of suicide are not only cowardly, but selfish as well.
Come at me
If you want my comeback you'll need to scrape it off your mom's tits.
6882
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:57:20 PM »
>road to world war 3 >oh great, storm clouds gathering >stefan molyneux 
6883
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:49:35 PM »
There's only a few certain circumstances where suicide could be even remotely considered a 'brave' thing to do.
Most cases aren't.
What the fuck are you talking about? Me fetching a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes is not a cowardly act, simply by virtue of it not being brave and vice versa. It's neutral.
6884
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:47:46 PM »
My politics teacher has me drawing up questions for them. 1. Surely the solution to future economic crises is to have stable government policy to increase long-term confidence, and higher capital requirements for banks so they can respond more efficiently the next time a financial crisis strikes. Why do politicians seem to think complex and potentially damaging policies like excessive regulation and financial transaction taxes are the right way to go, when they will probably end up making a recovery more difficult by strangling the banking system?
2. Anti-scientific attitudes are far too common among all of the parties. Advocacy of things like homeopathy, opposition to nuclear energy, xenotransplantation, genetically modified foods and denial of the very existence of anthropogenic global warming cut across party lines and reaches even the ministerial level. Why are our current and potential representatives from all of the parties so scientifically illiterate, and why is nobody doing anything about it?
3. Tolerance is an important cultural and moral value for Britain, but why do politicians seem to be willing to sacrifice the truth in order to not offend people?
4. Government surveillance is growing and the rights of citizens are being eroded. The length of potential detention without trial has grown since the '80s, extra-legal collection of metadata and co-operation with agencies like the NSA is widespread and Scotland Yard has collected the medical information of certain journalists and their families. While some of these measures are necessary for security, when will we say enough is enough?
5. Are you willing to admit that multiculturalism--by promoting competing value systems among a single population--has led to various problems such as tension with the Islamic community and inefficiency in combating the child abuse scandals in Rochdale and Oxfordshire? Ethnicity, of course, is not the problem; the problem is the existence of incompatible ideas of morality.
6. The NHS is dying. We ought to be looking to the systems of the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Singapore for inspiration in how to revitalise the healthcare system; why do politicians encourage this religious attitude towards the NHS by promising to do things like ring-fence funding and raise taxes? Aren't we just prolonging the inevitable death of an inefficient system?
7. Brain drain, capital flight and low levels of high-skilled immigration have led to an under-supply of skilled labour, driving up wages at the top faster than wages at the bottom. Even if you're not in favour of broadly open borders, will you admit that more high-skilled immigration would be massively beneficial for both the economy and remedying inequality? I know most of you are yanks but you can surely help me come up with some general questions.
6885
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:31:50 PM »
Suicide is cowardly.
no no no it isnt thats like calling a schizophrenic person stupid
6886
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:31:00 PM »
Is that it? Really?
I once had my wife walk in on me fucking our daughter. I honestly don't know what surprised her the most. . . The fact that I was fucking our daughter, or that the hospital had let me keep the stillborn.
6887
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:29:50 PM »
why arent you doing the uk version?
I know who I'm voting for anyway.
6888
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:26:02 PM »
I hope the Republicans nominate Rubio, but that seems incredibly unlikely, which is unfortunate given his great taxation proposals. Assuming Rubio is out of the question, I'm actually fairly hopeful for Bush. If somebody like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz get the nomination in the end, I won't be very happy. I could probably tolerate Scott Walker.
There's not much point commenting on the Democratic primaries, though. Clinton's pretty much a sure thing. The only other person who could probably give her a run for her money would be Biden or Kerry, but they won't fuck her up I don't think.
6889
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:18:20 PM »
The Tea Party controls the Republican Party
The Tea Party caucus has been dead for years. People like Reince Priebus, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush will be drifting to the front of the party. For better or worse.
6890
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:13:57 PM »
6891
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:07:47 PM »
guys
its a woman
6892
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:05:22 PM »
die hard christian?
well done
6893
« on: March 10, 2015, 03:02:30 PM »
feel that blood boil
6894
« on: March 10, 2015, 02:25:26 PM »
Adults are smarter. Smarter people need more novelty. Excessive novelty is equal to thrill-seeking and risk-taking. These behaviours are correlated with psychopathy. Psychopaths are addicted to novelty. Psychopaths are the smartest people on the planet. 
6895
« on: March 10, 2015, 01:17:30 PM »
Here are my results. Post a link so we can check out how you answered each question. I got 77pc Libertarian, followed closely by 75pc Republican.
6896
« on: March 10, 2015, 12:52:32 PM »
Does your mother not need to sign the ballot saying that this is, indeed, her vote? We do that in the US on mail-in ballots.
I don't believe so, but I don't see why it'd matter anyway.
I didn't coerce her; me voting by proxy doesn't make it any less her vote too. It's just a shortened version of an alternate timeline where I convinced her to vote UKIP via persuasion.
It's not about the net number of votes being the same, it's about casting a ballot in her name that she didn't fill out.
If you're worried about who marked the ballot with the pen, I made it clear to her that while she was essentially voting on my behalf she must be the one to actually mark it.
6897
« on: March 10, 2015, 12:46:33 PM »
Does your mother not need to sign the ballot saying that this is, indeed, her vote? We do that in the US on mail-in ballots.
I don't believe so, but I don't see why it'd matter anyway. I didn't coerce her; me voting by proxy doesn't make it any less her vote too. It's just a shortened version of an alternate timeline where I convinced her to vote UKIP via persuasion.
6898
« on: March 10, 2015, 12:34:55 PM »
Voting isn't just a right, it's a duty.
I knew my mother wouldn't vote in the election for the European Parliament, so I asked for her ballot and cast my vote for UKIP.
So you're admitting to voter fraud?
Since I didn't do anything to artificially increase the votes for my favoured candidate, or decrease the votes of the opposition, no.
6899
« on: March 10, 2015, 12:17:36 PM »
Voting isn't just a right, it's a duty.
I knew my mother wouldn't vote in the election for the European Parliament, so I asked for her ballot and cast my vote for UKIP.
6900
« on: March 10, 2015, 11:43:56 AM »
A moderate amount of inflation sort of greases the wheels of an economy.
Let's say you run a company, and we're about to hit an economic downturn. Would you rather have zero inflation and have to slash wages by 1pc or 2pc to keep afloat, or would you prefer to have 2pc inflation and then cut wage growth by 1pc or 2pc.
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