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I do not suggest a globalist approach. I suggest regionalism. Regional trade blocs are emerging all across the world, EU, AU, ASEAN, and so on. These ...
January 27, 2019 at 20:46
Is that a threat? I understand the things I'm talking about are sensitive - but given the little I have to lose, and the possibly infinite opportunity...
January 27, 2019 at 18:41
So how much energy does it take to produce aluminium? It's a lot, right! You could use renewable energy to create hydrogen fuel, and burn that to powe...
January 27, 2019 at 17:58
Those are some big claims for a shampoo. They copied that right off the label of "Lilly the Pink's medicinal compound" - but at least had the decency ...
January 27, 2019 at 17:40
I "dunno" - who you're responding to there Jake - maybe me? I haven't read Atlas Shrugged either. I have read this thread, and responded - in my usual...
January 27, 2019 at 17:26
It takes vast amounts of energy to produce aluminium. It would probably be less environmentally damaging just to spray a whole can of hairspray on my ...
January 27, 2019 at 16:55
I agree entirely. I think the problem stems from what is meant by objectivism. It's not objective truth. Rather, it seems to be about isolating the in...
January 27, 2019 at 13:35
Yes and yes. There's something called the collective consciousness that makes it very difficult to be an individual in an absolute sense. The language...
January 27, 2019 at 08:40
I wouldn't view this issue morally. I'd view it psychologically, and suggest there probably are good reasons for such behaviour that have little or no...
January 27, 2019 at 07:38
In 'Enemies of an Open Society' (1947) Karl Popper warns that science as truth leads to tyranny. It seems to me that Rand is skirting this problem in ...
January 27, 2019 at 06:49
Only because you have no braaaaains!
January 27, 2019 at 00:48
In: Brexit  — view comment
So let me ask you a question - why did Cameron pledge to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands, adding "or vote me out" while simultaneously can...
January 26, 2019 at 16:53
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Not at all. I know very well you can't pack every fact into every sentence. I meant to indicate that it's a significant fact that Cameron was in coali...
January 26, 2019 at 15:12
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The facts are the facts. But as you speak of predictability - is there any possibility at all that you would not dismiss an argument that suggested th...
January 26, 2019 at 12:55
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Cameron didn't win the 2010 election though. It was a hung Parliament. The Tories were in coalition with the pro-eu Lib Dems. Think about that in rela...
January 26, 2019 at 12:36
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What fabrication? What have I fabricated? Everything I said is a checkable fact: Cameron had been agitating for a referendum since he wrote the 2005 C...
January 26, 2019 at 11:55
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That's not true. Cameron had been agitating for a referendum since he wrote the 2005 Conservative Party manifesto for Micheal Howard - using leave cam...
January 26, 2019 at 11:48
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If by 'cooperate' you mean trade, then yes. Trade is supposed to maximize total output - and make everyone better off. I brought it up, and only now I...
January 26, 2019 at 03:05
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Ah, okay - I see what you did there. No, I don't get involved in football. I don't play football, and I don't talk about it - because I don't know the...
January 25, 2019 at 19:19
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Ah, okay - I see what you did there. No, I don't get involved in football. I don't play football, and I don't talk about it - because I don't know the...
January 25, 2019 at 19:01
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And what happened? Parliament debated it - and voted against holding a referendum by 485/111. So why did Cameron promise a referendum in 2013, and mak...
January 25, 2019 at 18:43
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You mean "they" shouldn't be so ignorant... but I say, an unplanned, uncosted policy failure should not have been put to the people in a referendum in...
January 25, 2019 at 18:19
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Trade deficits are not necessarily a bad thing - but there isn't a brexiteer alive who's heard of Riccardo, less yet understands the doctrine of compa...
January 25, 2019 at 17:53
And their pets! Think of the puppies! — karl stone Are you? Did you bite me?
January 25, 2019 at 17:23
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Let's not bother then, eh?
January 25, 2019 at 14:17
How would I know? Isn't all life related on some level?
January 25, 2019 at 14:03
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Cameron told obvious lies by which he further sabotaged any residual credibility he brought to the Remain cause. — karl stone did nothing to counter t...
January 25, 2019 at 13:54
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Cameron was a long term eurosceptic who wrote a manifesto for Micheal Howard in 2005 - that related eu membership and immigration, calling for a refer...
January 25, 2019 at 13:25
And their pets! Think of the puppies! No, but seriously - President Evil doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself.
January 25, 2019 at 13:14
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David Cameron pretended to campaign for Remain - but was in fact a brexiteer. He lost on purpose.
January 25, 2019 at 13:08
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Inis - you have failed to grasp the thrust of my thesis. You are talking to yourself. So thanks, but no thanks. We're done.
January 25, 2019 at 12:27
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The people who voted Leave did so because they want to live in a functioning democracy. — Inis How do you know this? Fact is, you don't. — karl stone ...
January 25, 2019 at 12:09
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How do you know this? Fact is, you don't. There was no Remain campaign. Cameron was a brexiteer - who sabotaged his credibility and lost on purpose fo...
January 25, 2019 at 10:40
I believe we can achieve sustainability without significantly altering the economic model. The changes that are required are philosophical and politic...
January 25, 2019 at 07:18
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I cannot equate defrauding of the politically ignorant with the idea of 'the foolhardy masses.' I have a long term fascination with politics - but don...
January 25, 2019 at 06:40
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It is rather odd how that chap seems intent on giving all his money to the Tory party. I rather suspect however, there's a PIIC covering up the whole ...
January 24, 2019 at 16:01
Just like 800,000 federal employees!
January 24, 2019 at 15:30
Your talent for sycophancy should serve you well - or at least, keep you alive! — karl stone What did Micheal Cohen's sycophantic adoration of Preside...
January 24, 2019 at 15:26
Just heard President Evil RAT-OUT Cohen's father in law. The father of the wife of a man who worked for him, and is going to jail because his records ...
January 24, 2019 at 08:40
Geraldo? — karl stone Your talent for sycophancy should serve you well - or at least, keep you alive!
January 24, 2019 at 02:51
Geraldo?
January 23, 2019 at 23:24
President Evil — karl stone If he was giving the SoU, and his head split open and teeth and tentacles spewed out - Fox News would still be like: 'Grea...
January 23, 2019 at 20:11
If you're Russian!
January 23, 2019 at 19:18
Fake news!
January 23, 2019 at 19:09
President Evil
January 23, 2019 at 18:32
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I have a scientific conception of reality that recognizes religious, political and economic ideological concepts as conventions and traditions arising...
January 22, 2019 at 16:52
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do you have any more than circumstantial evidence for it? — karl stone I studied the EU as part of a politics degree, and I'd like to see a United Sta...
January 22, 2019 at 15:25
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Your opinion makes more sense than most unenlightened views; do you have any more than circumstantial evidence for it?
January 22, 2019 at 14:21
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If there was evidence showing a long and contentious relationship between two neighbors, and one of them was recorded on video telling the other 'I'm ...
January 22, 2019 at 09:14
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Your principle is sound, but does not apply in this case.
January 22, 2019 at 08:33