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8071
« on: January 26, 2015, 02:32:29 PM »
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On a roll here.
8072
« on: January 26, 2015, 02:27:50 PM »
OT: At this point, Greece's economy is going to be fucked for the near future. Might as well give someone else a crack at trying to fix it.
I don't think Wile E. Coyote policies are going to make things better by any measure.
Would any of the candidate's have?
Ha, you've got me there.
8073
« on: January 26, 2015, 02:24:21 PM »
OT: At this point, Greece's economy is going to be fucked for the near future. Might as well give someone else a crack at trying to fix it.
I don't think Wile E. Coyote policies are going to make things better by any measure.
8074
« on: January 26, 2015, 02:20:10 PM »
What's your opinion on austerity verse spending?
It's very contingent, but on the whole austerity is better than fiscal stimulus and austerity is dramatically improved by monetary stimulus done in conjunction with it.
8075
« on: January 26, 2015, 02:14:05 PM »
BBCThe head of Greece's far-left Syriza party, Alexis Tsipras, has been sworn in as prime minister and is set to lead an anti-austerity coalition government.
Turning up for the ceremony without a tie, the leftist took the oath less than 24 hours after winning the general election on an anti-austerity platform.
Earlier, he formed a coalition with the centre-right Independent Greeks.
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker has reminded him of the need to "ensure fiscal responsibility".
Congratulating Mr Tsipras on his election win, Mr Juncker said in a tweet: "The European Commission stands ready to continue assisting Greece in achieving these goals." He also referred to "promoting sustainable jobs and growth".
The Syriza leader has vowed to renegotiate the bailouts, which are worth €240bn (£179bn; $268bn).
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the eurozone finance ministers' group (the Eurogroup), said after a meeting of the group in Brussels that it congratulated the new Greek government on its electoral success and looked forward to working with it.
He said it was too early to comment on the Syriza-led government's policies as they were still being formulated.
The euro recovered from an 11-year low against the US dollar as investors digested what Syriza's victory meant for the eurozone's future. Europe's main share markets also rose - after initial falls - on hopes that a compromise over Greece's bailout terms might be found.
It is likely that investors believe reason will prevail, and Berlin will sanction a write-off of Greece's excessive debts, BBC economics editor Robert Peston reports. Well, this will probably end horribly.
8076
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:34:49 PM »
I love non-uniform days at my school.
All of the year-10s and -11s in tights/yoga pants.
I walk around creaming.
Literally every day at college
My sixth form has a dress code. . . So yeah. Fuck, even on non-uniform days--when we're allowed to wear own clothes too--I wouldn't check out my collegiate peers.
8077
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:29:00 PM »
GIB
8078
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:28:11 PM »
I love non-uniform days at my school.
All of the year-10s and -11s in tights/yoga pants.
I walk around creaming.
8079
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:25:51 PM »
hume was a joke
Only ethically. Guy was great at epistemology though; pretty much set the stage for Karl Popper.
8080
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:20:16 PM »
No Serious talk in my thread, faggots
HUME LOVER
8081
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:19:05 PM »
Philosophy prof doesn't consider him a philosopher and says "he needs to take this university's course on Humes immediately"
Other hostile responses include those from people philosophically opposed to him but I'm sure you understand that
kek hume was a joke at least ethically DOWN WITH THE MAN
8082
« on: January 26, 2015, 01:01:47 PM »
Yeah, I've fapped to pictures of myself nude before.
Taking narcissism to a whole new level 
The level of sexy
8083
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:59:50 PM »
Slash is just the greatest
Silence, Harris Hater.
I don't hate the guy, hell I barely even care about him
But others [including a philosophy prof at my university] are vehemently against him
Why, exactly?
8084
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:56:19 PM »
Yup.
8085
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:48:49 PM »
It would've been funnier if the fly were a raven.
8086
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:47:48 PM »
Yeah, I've fapped to pictures of myself nude before.
8087
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:46:15 PM »
So this thread got out of hand quickly.
8088
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:45:15 PM »
Fuck that I'm taking people with me.
Fuck you. If you want to off yourself, that's your right, but you're a worthless piece of shit if you think you deserve to kill others beforehand.
Not gonna lie, and this isn't condoning Challenger's sentiments, but that's how I'd probably do it. But that's just me.
8089
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:42:25 PM »
Slash is just the greatest
Silence, Harris Hater.
8090
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:42:04 PM »
Lol I nabbed it from a thread on /b/ yesterday
Holy fuck that's brilliant.
8091
« on: January 26, 2015, 12:41:03 PM »
But bae, we haven't even had a drink together yet like we said we would <3
8092
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:59:05 AM »
What about bailouts for banks that are too big to fail? Or how about bailouts for auto companies?
That's a lot trickier. The bailouts in 2008 were largely necessary, at least for the banks. But they could've been prevented by better policy in the first instance.
8093
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:54:52 AM »
Holy shit we really need to stop derailing threads with utterly pointless and banal shit-slinging.
8094
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:52:46 AM »
lol, guess who crreated isis?
the us government
Lol, guess who's wrong? You. ISIS was founded in 1999 by a Jordanian-Iraqi militant.
8095
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:43:47 AM »
Tariffs are utterly fucking retarded. Anybody who opposes free trade just doesn't understand economics.
Raising the price of something artificially to help domestic producers just hurts consumers.
Also, are you sure the steel was Japan and not South Korean?
8096
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:39:14 AM »
alright no need to call my opinion ignorant, i'm just saying the environment plays a bigger role than islam
Firstly, it is. It's ignorant of the facts; that's a literal proposition I'm making. Secondly, Islam conditions the environment these people live in. There isn't some clear partititon between Islam and the environment. Islam IS the main motivation for these people; thinking otherwise is essentially sophistry.
8097
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:36:00 AM »
most of the capitalist countries are the embodiment of corruption.
I'm not going to take you seriously if you insist upon making broad and unsubstantiated claims like that. So I'll put forward my challenge again: name me one instance of genuine corruption resulting from a genuinely capitalist economy that has caused a society-wide downturn.
8098
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:32:38 AM »
not really islamists are a product of their location more than anything else. people who practice actual islam in other parts of the world aren't terrorists
and once again, they don't have to die, they could just as easily be incarcerated or rehabilitated
Um, excuse me? First of all I said Islamists, not terrorists. Second of all, to think fundamentalist Islam doesn't exist outside of the Middle East is shockingly ignorant. When you find a way to gaol or rehabilitate all of the militants and Islamists, come find me.
8099
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:28:57 AM »
create a classless society.
That's not even possible, let alone desirable.
yes it is. just because noone has tried it yet doesn't mean the idea shouldn't be scrapped
Well first of all it should be scrapped because the abolition of economic inequality is pretty much entirely undesirable in the first place. Second of all, it should be scrapped because it promotes idealistic nonsense over rational empiricism. Thirdly, the fact that all of the iterations of these societies have been under exogenous and mitigating circumstances. Finally, it should be scrapped because most of the times it has been tried and hasn't worked it's resulted in unprecedented bloodshed. It doesn't over a desirable or realistic alternative to capitalism in the slightest.
8100
« on: January 26, 2015, 10:23:42 AM »
well, no.. the thing is capitalism is dangerous in the fact that it can sustain itself for roughly 200 years before turning ugly. it builds infrastructure but also sets the bomb to destroy it
All you're doing is spouting cryptic nonsense that doesn't challenge what I'm saying or even make much sense.
What does sustain itself for 200 years before "turning ugly" even mean?
it means that capitalism encourages corruption. and its basically humanely impossible to have pure capitalism due to human nature itself.
the system should just be scrapped if its not realistic
Except it doesn't because, as I already said, most of the most capitalist countries on the planet are largely free of corruption. I bet you can't even name on instance of genuine corruption that has plunged a capitalist economy into decay. So the system which has given 1pc of human history 99pc of its wealth is unrealistic, whereas your ideal of a classless society is realistic? Give me a break.
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