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Everything posted by Malcador
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Well I think BLM IS a terrorist group: Oh... wait, you meant Black Lives Matter? Sorry, I was referring to the Bureau of Land Management Dude in the hat is trying too hard.
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Haven't established the desk as a no go zone?
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Thinking and that subreddit is a funny juxtaposition. Some of those are a bit of nothing. The bashing of Catholics was pretty tame and the every day Americans line seemed to be about using something as corny as that. Nothing all that wrong with ****ing with Netanyahu, in my mind, either. Er..BLM is a domestic TERROR group?
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Or the idea that they would like to make money without regards to how it harms others. Probably just the louder sort give that vibe though
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That's a negative, Ghost Rider. If 4x have taught me anything, it's that I'm terrible at economy and everyone hates me. I need the help. Better to aim high and work your way down I find. Winning on easy feels empty, anyway Civ 4 goes well as I am beating up Arabs and Aztecs. Pain in the rear as China is a juggernaut now. Need to spawn more SoD.
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Always something with family in these movies.
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You don't start on the hardest difficulty?!
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I love how the very researcher you invoke in support of your argument basically disses the hell out of your position: "Curbing the demographic trend" is truly the only final feasible solution to the problem, indeed. That's just his opinion, he doesn't even decribe social solidarity by diversity even would work. Well, the problem is, your opinion is also an opinion (one which, incidentally, seems to be rooted in an incredibly poor understanding of history and philosophical principles that have been universally viewed as preposterous in academical circles for centuries). While a general sentiment of anti-intellectualism seems to be on the rise, I, for one, would rather trust the word of a guy who's been studying the subject most of his life over some rando on the internet. The study says otherwise, feel free to provide a study or an argument that says that demographic diversification/heterogeneity is an advantage for social cohesion for a nation, and how, anytime you want. Besides, why should I or anyone else here care on whose opinion you trust more? Interesting how you skipped point 1 and 3 as they build up to the whole picture of the decline. You're putting words in my mouth. I never claimed heterogeneity is advantageous for social cohesion. I pointed out that the very researcher you cite to support your idiocy believes that the answer doesn't lie in embracing "ahistorical and ethnocentric conservatism". As for skipping points, I think it's probably for the better if we don't touch your rant on how Hillary "has no signs of strength, vitality and lucidity", as it is exactly the kind of "feelz before realz" thinking you're keen to decry as irrational when it suits you. There is a reason the halo effect (and its inverse, charmingly named "the horns effect", as I've learned recently) is acknowledged as a form of cognitive bias, not "a reliable method by which we should be selecting our leaders". The part where you ruminate on how "leadership reflects the currents of the masses", while at the same time managing to paint "virtuous" leaders as exemplars without whom society inevitably falls into decline is just utterly incoherent, which is kind of an impressive feat, given that you're practically ripping off Plato and Confucius here, who might have had terrible ideas, but at least managed to phrase those in a not completely self-contradictory fashion. Your third point has a glimmer of rational thought in it (TPP is bad news), but then once again you descend into howling insanity with "certain groups climb the ladder faster due to having better inner cohesion" (gee whiz, and here I thought having wealth and connections was the fast-track to the top, but no, apparently any group with any socio-economic background can just saunter right there if they just have enough inner cohesion!), and then you top it off with...whatever you're trying to get at with the bit about armed uprisings of people who feel the system is rigged against them. At this point, I can't even follow. Oh, you just quoted him without phrasing something of your own? Fair enough. Suffice to say, i am right in my opinion and he is wrong in his opinion and his study ractifies that. You misinterpret what i said about Clinton, it's a symbiotic relationship between leaders and the people who follow them. If society is heading towards further degeneracy and the leaders are, willfully or not, nurturing those bad impulses, it will spiral down and the examples i mentioned manifest in those. Empty platitudes, feel goods, insincerity is not something only observed because of a certain cognitive bias, unless of you think of course that there's no objective values, then we will just end the discussion here. The same way, a society with strong sense of virtues and to uphold them will increase the probability of the next Aurelius to step up, but first it requires someone to change the pendelum into the right direction, and that's where Trump comes into the picture. He is but a mere echo of anything truly great or of any higher principle, but his strength is in his being, which will hopefully pull down the curtain and make sure that apathy will not be the guiding principle of the following generation. There is simply no one else at the moment. As for the last point, different groups of people have strong inner cohesion compared to others and such will help each other accelerate in society through different degrees of nepotism was just one of the manys symptoms from capital being global and labour local. The bolded part is what is important as the ability for companies to have more power than the citizenry in a country was omitted as that goes without saying and i wanted to highlight other issues that goes with it. Pro-tip: if you're failing to understand the point someone is making in the future, you can always ask to clarify. Curious, but what changes are you for that you see coming from Trump? And his strength is inciting enemies to action?
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Well, if the U.S. does end up as broken as Brazil, we'll get an American Tropa de Elite 2 (good movie, not sure if Brazil is really THAT ****ed up though). Sure as hell doubt Trump is really going to stop that. Not much strength on show there.
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All that talk of hope is annoying. So the thermal exhaust port was an intentional weakness then?
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Headline of "Trump Campaign is pulling out of Virginia" makes me think some editor is trying too hard to be witty.
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You comparing the crash of the Brazilian economy to the current structures of the US economy? How are they similar if you dont mind sharing? How do you figure that? This has nothing to do with the price of oil or the boom-bust cycle of Wall Street. It has to do with the forces currently moving through society. 1. Hillary and her possible upcoming administration have no signs of strength, vitality or lucidity. They exort blandness, banality, pettiness and deceptiveness. You could see it in how the inner dealings were done against Sanders, you can see it in the empty words and platitudes she use in the debates and the low energy of her supporters. Humans are hierarchical and the the leadership reflects the currents of the masses. If the leadership lack principles higher than themselves to look up upon or work against the current virtues in place, indirectly or directly, only decline can follow in society. 2. There is little interest in curbing the current demographical trend in Hillary's camp. I do not even need to point to history like the empires of old, to make it clear out that no majority is destabilising (just look at Putham's study if you're really interested http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/) as it makes cohesion less probable. If the social cohesion goes for the worse, then so goes the trust in public institutions and corruption will be become a serious issue. 3. There's little interest among Team Hillary in averting trade deals like TPP or H-1B and similar visas, where both effectively undermines the middle class, which in turn will cause income inequality to rise and social mobility to stifle as capital will always be more global compared to labour. This will create further balkanization of socities where certain groups climb the ladder faster than others as they have better inner cohesion than others. This sense of injustice of the system being rigged against ones favour will increase the possibility of social decay and even foster militant uprisings at smaller scales at first. So three different vectors of **** colluding with each other to create an even bigger pile of ****. It will not happen over night, but a slow decline that has been in motion from before and will continue with Hillary. That's why the comparison with Brazil is applicable in terms of societal regression. Interesting, well other than point 1.
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How do you figure that?
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New strategy worked ok with the Aztecs. Approach was to just burn him off the coast by landing and razing every coastal city. Not going to win the game but am glad I managed to bloody Montezuma's nose
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Eh, not that amusing when you realize that kind of thing is so common it might as well be a basic fact of adult life. Even simple stuff like not wanting to share a seat on a subway.
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He is just delivering prophecy. Trump of late sounds like That Guy in every WoW raid, where it's everyone else ****ing him up.
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Certainly is disappointing.
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Was expecting more after that lede. Is not inaccurate.
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Yeah of course, and I worry some less-than-objective folks will cling to those a little too much and distract from the ones you can actually work with. Having said that....I mean holy hell. Is it possible to have a MORE suspicious email than that one? Only thing I can think of is if someone wrote an email asking how deep you're supposed to bury bodies. While in no way evidence itself, it does matter on the political front because some people are gonna look at that one, think "this is evidence enough for me" and let that dictate their vote. At this point I question if Assange has actual dirt on her on that front (aka did someone actually get assassinated) or is he purposefully leaking that amongst the batch knowing how heavily it implies such a thing, even if he lacks evidence for it? I'd say odds are 50-50 at this point, since wtf I wouldn't put it past Hillary, and if Assange were trying to dishonestly portray someone as several degrees worse than they actually are, well...it wouldn't be the first manipulator the world has ever seen. Good theatrics though. I can think of a lot more suspicious than that, hell, I have written ones more so than that out of context.
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Seems like usual dealings for politics though. Also using your imagination to fill in blanks is a ticket to places outside reality half the time.
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Anyone who would be outraged over that has never worked a CS job in their life.
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Because that sounds expensive, especially compared to sleeping at home.
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Trying to decide on how to waste up the 7 vacation days I have left for the year. Maybe 2 weeks of half days.
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Whoops, my mistake, missed the date and thought it was on her role at the convention. This bit doesn't flow well though so removed it. Had to laugh at a leak of a comment to punch Karzai in the face. Interesting how these read to different people given the relatively sterility of text. The bone to Sanders supporters is one.
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Eh, you can burn a bridge from both sides, with respect to Gabbard. And those two guys may have seen that as counterproductive to the attempt at unity after a bitter primary. They own their principles on something. Also, doing good and all that other nonsense first requires you win the election. Nothing unsettling about any of this, I am somewhat surprised by some people's reactions (then again these are the same that think the NSA shouldn't spy on current allies )