GunboatDiplomat

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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I don't see it as a non-sequitur. If you find that quote offensive in some way, you presumably approve of the Talibans treatment of women.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
> After the US et. al. cut off fuel and oil trade. They don't teach you that part in school. And do you know why we did that? Was that mentioned? Did they talk about Japan's war of conquest in China or the Rape of Nanking, amon
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
> Don't think the US didn't do everything it could to antagonize the enemy. Japan was repeatedly slapped in the face until it had no choice but to respond to protect its honour. Is that what it's called when we objected to
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Does it not matter that we were running those maneuvers largely in response to Japanese aggression in China and the Pacific? Does it matter that the reason we were in tension with Japan was their murder and conquest spree in China? Does any
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I don't think so. Benjamin Franklin is probably the prototypical self-made man. And you would never claim that "he did it all himself." He wouldn't have claimed that either. It's clear from his Autobiography that th
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Conan, what is best in life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
So can you identify no situation in which killing someone is appropriate?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Think Sears is bad, try KMart.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Yes, and?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Well, you're entitled to eat whatever you can afford to eat. If that's meat, it's meat.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>Slavery was more stable: lasted millenia. And slavery required less violence, per capita, to maintain? I don't think so. Innumerable slave revolts. Wars of conquest to capture slaves. Slave raiding. The daily violence needed to enf
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>the notion of striving for equal individual ownership of goods as a spark to action is nonsense. Well he didn't say that. But you would do well to remember that during the Russian Revolution and subsequent years, those who were som
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>If they refuse or tell you how evil buying glasses online is, get a new optometrist. It's truly hilarious how defensive they get over online glasses purchases. I've been using Zenni for over 5 years now, and there's no wa
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I'm not particularly interested in Cuban propaganda, no.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
> He believed in freedom and dignity. That's exactly why he never allowed free election, a free press, free speech, free markets, or freedom to leave his island paradise. >He saw the US government as the enemy of progress everywh
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
And Venezuela is a paradise on earth!
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
China was doing really really badly until Mao died and Deng took power and began implementing market reforms, bringing capitalism in.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Where is the success of capitalism? It's in the rapidly falling global extreme poverty rate, soon to be below 10% for the first time in human history. It's in the cell phone networks blanketing Africa and Asia, giving people acces
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
There's the old parable >"In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and y
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That seems, at best, orthogonal to the issue of foreign investment and business.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
You seem to be extremely confused. Of course moral lessons can be taught through stories. That a moral lesson is taught through story does not make the moral taught true in any sense. Which makes bringing up the One Ring and Tolkien extreme
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That seems doubtful. The glass of wine or beer is, firstly, more palatable than marijuana, secondly, you can do it indoors without everything smelling like weed, and thirdly, the mild depressant effect of one alcoholic beverage is way more
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Why is a moral lesson in a story a moral lesson? I can invent any moral lesson and put it in a story. That a supposed moral lesson is featured in a work of fiction does not lend credence to it.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Well, sure, but that is a work of fiction.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I've always thought it's more that absolute power attracts the corrupt disproportionately.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
In town, with the level of traffic seen? Yeah, it's keeping to the posted speed limits. Realistically, I'd be doing 5 to 10 over except in explicit residential zones, when there are cops (limit to 5 over), and when traffic doesn&#
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
My guess? Elon.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
In part, I think you're overestimating how difficult it would be for you to gain access to customer data covertly, given root access to all the servers at your company.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Going out on a limb, printed food would still need foodstock inputs of some type, and housing still needs land.

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