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15061
« on: August 03, 2014, 04:24:43 PM »
I know exactly how you feel. . .
15062
« on: August 03, 2014, 04:09:29 PM »
When a UK citizen says "we should have stricter immigration control" they generally mean A) remove the EU backed privilege to move to any country without that country being able to reject you (unless you have a particularly egregious crimes in which case either the parent country wants you back and we send you packing or they don't and we have to stick them in our prisons) and/or B) put a system in place so when people cross the border without identity we don't have to shelter them.
I'm still skeptical. Xenophobia runs deep.
15063
« on: August 03, 2014, 03:45:49 PM »
All data taken from poll results of isidewith.com; I'll only use examples where the stupid opinion is within the majority. I will do UK and US polls (I realise some of these will be more controversial than others). Yes, the judgement of stupidity is, in itself, an opinion. I'll put really controversial ones in italics. Particularly egregious statistics will be emboldened.
UK:
- 63% of voters (79,225) think we shouldn't renew our Trident nuclear weapons system.
- 67% of voters (510,605) think we should enact a stricter immigration policy. 9% of the total, however, think we should admit high-skilled workers, so not all bad.
- 73% of voters (329,513) think we shouldn't leave the EU.
- 50% of voters (375,458) think we should decrease foreign aid spending.
- 50% of voters (378,068) think the NHS shouldn't use private services.
- 63% of voters (320,081) think the government shouldn't make spending cuts.
- 58% of voters (297,510) think we should raise corporation tax.
- 61% of voters (293,301) don't support the use of hydraulic fracking.
- 60% of voters (454,913) think we should abolish tuition fees.
- 65% of voters (492,711) are against the establishment of free schools.
- 62% of voters (466,616) are against the legality of zero-hour contracts.
- 53% of voters (399,498) are for the construction of HS2.
- 52% of voters (391,001) are against the declaration of the London Underground as an essential service.
US:
- 52% of voters (4,706,659) think the government should expand NASA's budget.
- 46% of voters (4,327,247; not a majority, but close enough) support Obamacare.
- 73% of voters (5,959,878) support the death penalty.
- 69% of voters (305,699) think immigrants should be required to learn English.
- 67% of voters (369,087) support tougher immigration controls.
- 81% of voters (788,719) support term limits.
- 53% of voters (4,089,920) support the Patriot Act.
- 52% of voters (1,963,582) are against decriminalising drug use.
- 55% of voters (208,318) don't think the government should give immunity to Edward Snowden.
- 78% of voters (3,051,272) think able-bodied adults on welfare should be forced to work.
- 60% of voters (5,723,850) support a rise in the minimum wage.
- 77% of voters (762,252) think Wall Street execs. should be criminally liable for the 2008 financial crisis.
- 57% of voters (2,493,077) think the government should subsidise farmers.
- 62% of voters (6,232,450) think America should expand off-shore drilling.
- 65% of voters (1,715,066) think the government should subsidise wind power.
15064
« on: August 03, 2014, 02:27:36 PM »
Fucking shit.
15065
« on: August 03, 2014, 01:44:56 PM »
Who needs sleep?
Sleep means getting paid less for me, fuck it
What do you even do?
Design web applications for enterprise clients
Do you enjoy it?
15066
« on: August 03, 2014, 01:14:59 PM »
Seriously I wouldn't want to go to the UK. I've talked to some British people and they tell me it's like the government wrote the laws while referring to 1984.
Just wait a few years. The EU is trying to ban incorrect speech LOL.
Fucking what?
15067
« on: August 03, 2014, 01:14:18 PM »
Who needs sleep?
Sleep means getting paid less for me, fuck it
What do you even do?
15068
« on: August 03, 2014, 12:39:35 PM »
Only Fools And Horses
Blackadder
Breaking Bad
VGHS
Dad's Army
Fringe
Stargate SG1/Atlantis
Top Gear (Obviously British version)
Red Dwarf
/life
You're alright Spr?ngli.
Blackadder, VGHS, Stargate, Top Gear and Red Dwarf are all shit. Especially Red Dwarf.
15069
« on: August 03, 2014, 12:30:07 PM »
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned House of Cards or Dexter.
Two fantastic shows.
15070
« on: August 03, 2014, 11:35:17 AM »
It's not swaying people's personal choice. If that was the case then you wouldn't be seeing homeless and poor people spending their money in order to get some crack or heroin. There's health risks to the public whenever a person smokes or decides to drink too much and drive. If they don't have health insurance then these taxes would offset the medical bills so insurance policies won't rise for everbody else
They can be properly taxed, it's taking a pen out and specifying business in the tax code
Competition isn't being stifled. Products can be imported but it would cost more for it to be. The smartest thing for a company to do is pack up and create thousands of jobs such as production, manager, construction, maintenance, etc
An externality like a person drinking and driving or smoking in public isn't at all solved by taxation. And no, businesses cannot pay tax because only people pay tax. 60% of corporation tax is borne by the workers in the form of lower wages, and the rest being divvied between investment returns and prices. Corporation tax also has a massive deadweight loss, and is incredibly economically inefficient. Yes, exactly, competition is being stifled. For example, the EU currently has agricultural tariffs that stops extra-European competitors from efficiently doing business in the market. There's literally no justification for tariffs. If agricultural produce could be sold by African firms at a cheaper price than the European firms (assuming no tariffs) then everybody would be a lot wealthier. Protectionism is literally economically disgusting; even Paul Krugman supports free trade.
15071
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:35:10 AM »
No joke, when I got to the airports train platform in London yesterday the first thing I heard over the intercom was some bullshit about CCTV was watching and monitoring everything for the purposes if my own safety and protection.
The Orwellion crap was the first thing that came to my mind.
How are you enjoying Our Great Nation?
It's pretty much the US with funny accents, more history, and even shittier drivers.
Seriously, the first night I was here I saw some dude get run over (and die) on the bridge adjacent to the London Bridge and today in was almost hit like 6 times while crossing green light crosswalks.
I have yet to run into a single chav.
You saw a guy die? Fucking kek.
15072
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:24:11 AM »
My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody.
So, I guess a change of pace would be interesting for me. I am a nihilist, so ask me anything relating to that I guess.
A quick definition for the uninformed:
Nihilism (/?na?.?l?z?m/ or /?ni?.?l?z?m/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
AMA means ask me anything. /_-
Your point?
OP reads: AMA me anything
You just sit there and think about how stupid that sounds.
It's a meme.
Have you honestly never seen it before?
It was a joke, since I've seen people here bitching about "AMA me anything"
Perhaps my humor is a bit stale since I'm feeling edgy right now..
 Just like bismuth.
15073
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:23:24 AM »
Are you related to Darth Nihilus?
15074
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:20:50 AM »
My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody.
So, I guess a change of pace would be interesting for me. I am a nihilist, so ask me anything relating to that I guess.
A quick definition for the uninformed:
Nihilism (/?na?.?l?z?m/ or /?ni?.?l?z?m/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
AMA means ask me anything. /_-
Your point?
OP reads: AMA me anything
You just sit there and think about how stupid that sounds.
It's a meme. Have you honestly never seen it before?
15075
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:18:41 AM »
Bad forms of taxation
- Court costs
- Social Security
- Gun registration
- Concealed carry permits
- Income tax
- Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Property Taxes
- Self-Employment Taxes
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Consumption tax
- Gift tax
- Inheritance tax
Okay forms of taxation
- Tolls
- Fishing license
- Hunting permits
- Traffic fines
- Tariffs
- Cigarette tax
- Corporate income tax
- Double taxation
- Federal unemployment tax
- Food service tax
- Gas tax
- Liquor tax
- Public utility tax
- Resort tax
- Sales tax
- School tax
You'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine.
First 2: Not a necessity and can increase health risks of people
Corporate: Corporations are not people
Tariffs: Increases domestic job growth since it's cheaper
You can't seriously call yourself a libertarian and still think taxes should be used to sway people's personal choices. Not to mention, taxation on such goods doesn't stop such behaviour and simply makes people poorer.
If corporations aren't people they can't be properly taxed.
Domestic job growth is meaningless if everybody is poorer because competition is being stifled.
nop
That's an interesting argument you have there.
15076
« on: August 03, 2014, 10:17:34 AM »
My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody.
So, I guess a change of pace would be interesting for me. I am a nihilist, so ask me anything relating to that I guess.
A quick definition for the uninformed:
Nihilism (/?na?.?l?z?m/ or /?ni?.?l?z?m/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
AMA means ask me anything. /_-
Your point?
15077
« on: August 03, 2014, 09:30:44 AM »
DeeJ.
15078
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:40:29 AM »
BtDubs AMA = Ask Me Anything, AMA me Anything = Ask Me Anything me anything
Translation for the uninformed (OP):
You = EmoFGT I've never been an emo; I despise that sub-culture.
You're:
A. Lying
B. Full of shit
C. Emo as fuck
Whatever you say, man.
15079
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:37:01 AM »
BtDubs AMA = Ask Me Anything, AMA me Anything = Ask Me Anything me anything
Translation for the uninformed (OP):
You = EmoFGT I've never been an emo; I despise that sub-culture.
15080
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:36:23 AM »
What type of nihilist are you?
Epistemological, existential and moral.
On the fence when it comes to metaphysics.
you are so full of shit it hurts
here's you favorite song:
No, my favourite song is probably Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas.
15081
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:29:33 AM »
What type of nihilist are you?
Epistemological, existential and moral. On the fence when it comes to metaphysics.
15082
« on: August 03, 2014, 07:04:29 AM »
No joke, when I got to the airports train platform in London yesterday the first thing I heard over the intercom was some bullshit about CCTV was watching and monitoring everything for the purposes if my own safety and protection.
The Orwellion crap was the first thing that came to my mind.
How are you enjoying Our Great Nation?
15083
« on: August 02, 2014, 11:27:13 PM »
Yeah. It's going offline every few minutes.
15084
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:17:55 PM »
It's one of those things you wonder why anyone would label themselves as.
It's not as if one picks and chooses; it's a descriptive measure, not a prescriptive one. So long as you're not fucking retarded.
15085
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:02:17 PM »
Bad forms of taxation
- Court costs
- Social Security
- Gun registration
- Concealed carry permits
- Income tax
- Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Property Taxes
- Self-Employment Taxes
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Consumption tax
- Gift tax
- Inheritance tax
Okay forms of taxation
- Tolls
- Fishing license
- Hunting permits
- Traffic fines
- Tariffs
- Cigarette tax
- Corporate income tax
- Double taxation
- Federal unemployment tax
- Food service tax
- Gas tax
- Liquor tax
- Public utility tax
- Resort tax
- Sales tax
- School tax
You'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine.
First 2: Not a necessity and can increase health risks of people
Corporate: Corporations are not people
Tariffs: Increases domestic job growth since it's cheaper
You can't seriously call yourself a libertarian and still think taxes should be used to sway people's personal choices. Not to mention, taxation on such goods doesn't stop such behaviour and simply makes people poorer. If corporations aren't people they can't be properly taxed. Domestic job growth is meaningless if everybody is poorer because competition is being stifled.
15086
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:00:13 PM »
Nihilism sounds more like objective facts than just a philosophy.
It'd be a bit weird if a philosophy had no factual basis.
15087
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:59:03 PM »
or the fact you think I ever claimed to be insane in the first place. . .
You do it all the time. Your desperate attempts at trying to be edgy are really quite embarrassing.
No, I don't. The only possible explanations for that is that you've never picked up a dictionary, or you actually are insane. As for being edgy? What can I say? I was born with bismuth inside me.
15088
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:52:04 PM »
Wait, that's all Nihilism is? I thought it was some edgy autistic thing. With that definition, I'm a nihilist.
Be sure you aren't an existentialist.
15089
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:46:45 PM »
Bad forms of taxation
- Court costs
- Social Security
- Gun registration
- Concealed carry permits
- Income tax
- Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Property Taxes
- Self-Employment Taxes
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Consumption tax
- Gift tax
- Inheritance tax
Okay forms of taxation
- Tolls
- Fishing license
- Hunting permits
- Traffic fines
- Tariffs
- Cigarette tax
- Corporate income tax
- Double taxation
- Federal unemployment tax
- Food service tax
- Gas tax
- Liquor tax
- Public utility tax
- Resort tax
- Sales tax
- School tax
You'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine.
15090
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:39:45 PM »
#StillPretendingToBeInsane2014
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that you think nihilism is insane, or the fact you think I ever claimed to be insane in the first place. . . You should try stand-up, bro.
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