littletimmy

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by littletimmy 8y ago
Saying that the Tsar's death was because he was anti-semitic gives credibility to the notion that Bolshevism had a large Jewish influence. Is that what you're trying to say?
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by littletimmy 9y ago
An addition to a system of constitutional law does not make a country a theocracy.
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by littletimmy 9y ago
Apparently they reported to the university administration which failed to take action and may even have tacitly accepted the decision of the mob (presumably because of fear of reprisal themselves). But the good thing is now the police can t
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by littletimmy 9y ago
This is absolutely false. Pakistan has a system of laws that is based on the British system - it is very obviously not a theocracy. Pakistan created the Taliban out of political necessity, and the United States is to blame for it. When the
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by littletimmy 9y ago
Here's some perspective from a Pakistani agnostic who supports blasphemy laws. This article is an example of how people in the West really don't get how religious countries in the third world work. Because rule of law is absolute
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by littletimmy 10y ago
We all know the answer. Saudi Arabia is the chief stabilizer of oil price (and therefore the petrodollar) in the world. Therefore, Saudi Arabia can export all the Wahabism it wants.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Thinking like that would be a mistake. The quality of immigrants that US and Europe attract are vastly different. US attracts mostly high quality skilled labor (doctors, tech workers etc.) On the other hand, EU countries often attract the w
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I thought my reply relevant to the discussion at hand. It literally addresses the cause behind the name change.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Watching this documentary was a really unsettling experience. The subversion of information has become so institutionalized, and common people are so accepting of it, that it is hard to even think about how we can escape it. My only logical
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Why was (s)he so offended by it?
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I know it is mean to say, a 5'7" tall man will never be President in this day and age of celebrity elections. The last 5'7" president was John Adams. The last president under 6 feet was Jimmy Carter, and he was 5'10
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by littletimmy 10y ago
How on earth is it even remotely misogynistic?
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by littletimmy 10y ago
What about people who have no other options? Like people in poor villages who haven't known anything else?
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Social conservatism. Even if I take your point that big government can be good, one has to concede that it succeeded with social conservatism. Ever since social liberalism took hold, things have gone steadily downhill.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
There is much evidence to suggest that exactly the opposite is true: an excess of social liberalism leads to the downfall of a culture. Social conservatism means stable families, strong men, and social cohesion, which translates into a stro
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by littletimmy 10y ago
What a bunch of lies. He talks as if the action against Syria is because Assad is a brutal military dictator. The reality is that the US wants Assad gone because he is an ally to Russia/Iran who can exert control over Lebanon, and he i
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by littletimmy 10y ago
If that is the only reason, why isn't the US also acting against Saudi Arabia? It is a repressive monarchy. Coming to think of it, the US resembles an oligarchy more than anything else. Perhaps Russia should start arming rebels in the
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Wait a second, that is absolutely wrong. It is not the case that Apple has paid a tax on the money it holds abroad. In many cases, with complicated tax arrangements like the double Irish, it has avoided taxes in other countries as well. So
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Ordinary people do seem to like their royalty. The endless fascination that the people of Japan have with their Emperor, the British have with their royal family, among other examples, shows that people do find it comforting to see a famili
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Can we just adopt that as a general rule? All things done with a good intention will backfire.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
That's actually not true. There's great evidence for the fact that hunter-gatherer societies had a fairly good distribution of gender power. It is only with the advent of "civilization", i.e. agriculture, that we find gr
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Then the awful rules can be challenged in a court of law, which will act as the limiting power on the SEC. There does exist a mechanism for challenging malicious prosecution in our legal system, and if the corporations feel they are victimi
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by littletimmy 10y ago
By setting up an antagonistic system, I think. A system of checks and balances in which the interests of the employees of the SEC are OPPOSED to the interests of the banks. For example, if the SEC successfully fines JP Morgan a sum of $2 bi
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by littletimmy 10y ago
If the US had completely abandoned Pakistan, it would not be able to use it as a proxy base for war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. It would not be able to, in Zbigniew Brzezinski's words, be able to "give the Soviet Union its
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Here's a politically incorrect thought: we don't need to develop Africa. We shouldn't assume that everyone has to be like us to be happy. We shouldn't try to "civilize the barbarians" - to use a colonial phrase
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Saudi Arabia is one of the main US allies in the region. Millions of tax dollars go towards securing the Saudi regime every year through American military bases in the country.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Some allege that parts of Night are too implausible and historically inaccurate. But then again, I think he wrote it as a novel rather than a historical document.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Would it sound more reasonable if we say "Ethnically cleanse at the rate that the international community allows"?
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Is this against the law, or just the way things are done now? My gut instinct would be there's more examination that goes into a drone strike but after the Snowden revelations I don't know what to believe.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Cheating on his wife may have been news (I disagree, but just for the sake of argument let's say that's true). The gratuitous porn video was in every way NOT news. A news organization should not have the right to publish a sex tap

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