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@AdaptableRatman
It seems that you won't guess, so I will just tell you that Peng Dehuai was his name.

As a correction to my other comment of this thread: My book said that he "disappeared", and so I assumed that he was killed for treason. He actually did not die during the cultural revolution. Rather, he was disgraced and publicly humiliated, and then put under what was basically house arrest, but more secretive.
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@AdaptableRatman
I do not apologize for this. Of course, I will ask a moderator to delete this thread, although only as soon as you guess the communist leader on my profile picture. . .

He knew that no nation could industrialize in only a few years.
He knew that although mass deceit was effective in war, it would be useless in famine.
He knew that the military could only be a conduit of justice once removed from Maoism.
He knew that the well-being of the Chinese people was more important than the party.

Although he received little in the way of education from his peasant background, he was a genius, bringing victory after victory to China. During the Great Leap Forward, he criticized Mao for being blinded by his ideology, at the expense of, during the Cultural Revolution, his life. Fake communists rule from the top, real communists rule from the bottom.
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liberation day
No, that is the poem of a socialist !

Grain scattered on the ground, potato leaves withered
Strong youthful people, left to make steel
Only children and old women reap the crops
Can they pass the coming year
Can I raise my voice for the people
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liberation day
No matter where you live, today is liberation day, for today is the first of May, known as international workers day.
And so, with righteousness in our hearts, let us all change our profile pictures into the faces of our great communist leaders, both past and present!
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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?
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@zedvictor4
Sorry Zed. I did read both of your comments. But after the first line of your second comment, it became too cryptic for me (as many of your comments are), and I assumed that it was off topic. I appreciate the clarification, however, you still have not explained what a "tin pot dictator" is, and how the head of our current administration resembles one.
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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?
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@zedvictor4
@FLRW
@Shila
Please remember, the topic of this thread is nuclear war, not whatever else you people are yapping about.

Here are some events that might spark more on-topic discussion:
  • The Doomsday Clock was last moved on January 28, 2025, when it was set to 89 seconds to midnight.
    • The scientists in charge of updating the Doomsday Clock cited Russian nuclear threats as the primary reason.
  • The most recent (confirmed) nuclear test was conducted in September 2017 by North Korea.
    • Big Kim is also obsessed with spy satellites, of which he has exactly one of, in orbit.
  • South Africa began nuclear disarmament in 1989, making it one of the first nations to do so.
    • The US was not aware of South Africa's nuclear program prior to this.

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What I could do for you as a moderator
Honestly, the most valuable trait of a moderator. . ?

Lots and lots of free time to deal with internet assholes!
That's why I would be a great moderator, not because I'm an asshole, but because I have lots of free-time.

For example, today I spent 8 hours learning how to do trigonometry on the surface of a 3d sphere.
Why did I do it? Because I had nothing better to do!
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Why do you use profanity?
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@sadolite
@Shila
7 is the luckiest number, and 7,000 is 1,000 times luckier.
As of this writing, Shila is already at 6,991 posts. . . She is just trying to get to 7,000 by spamming even more low quality posts.

7,000 is the best number by the way.
Every night, before I go to sleep, I write "7K" 1,000 times in my notebook.
At the end of each and every week, I have a pocket notebook filled with 7,000 copies of "7K"
On the Saturday of each and every week, I buy a new notebook from the corner store near where I live.

45 weeks ago, I forgot, and I've had bad luck ever since.
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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?
Do I live in Dallas? No, and thank goodness no.
Once you get past the city, it's suburbs as far as the eye can see.
When you are commuting in Dallas, you must choose between highways stacked five high, and highways of five lanes.
Honestly, Russia should do all Dallas commuters a favor by obliterating the entire city.
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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?
First off, where do you live. . ? Because I thought only an American could be that much of an ass.

Secondly, nuclear winter would last for more than "a few days". . !
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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?
Unless you live in someplace very far south like South Africa or Australia, you would die regardless.

In a full scale nuclear war between the US and Russia, the soot released into the atmosphere would block-out most sunlight in the northern hemisphere; all land based crops there would fail.
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@FLRW
Do not be so sure of your safety. . !

You can adjust how powerful the nuke is in the top left corner of the simulation.
Did you test to see what an 8,000 kiloton Nuke would do. . ?
Even then, there are nuclear weapons in excess of 8,000 kilotons ( look up "Tsar Bomba 1961" ).

US nukes are generally more modern compared to Russian ones.
To compensate, Russia has a few hundred more nukes compared to the US.
Estimates from across the internet place Russia's stockpile at just under 6,000.

Due to this nuclear surplus, if the attacker was Russia, the Tampa area would probably be hit at least twice by a nuclear strike.

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What Would a Nuke do to Your City?

Enjoy! Or actually please don't!

The simulation doesn't specify, so this is just me guessing:
  • The inner red circle represents what would be completely vaporized by the nuke.
  • The second red circle represents what would be burnt to crisps by the fireball.
  • The outer orange circle represents what would be mostly destroyed by the shock-wave.
I don't think this simulation takes into account how far the radiation would spread, or how far the air-soot would spread. If anybody could find a better simulation, put it here.
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Billionaires lost Half a trillion dollars in two days thanks to Trump
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@Shila
touristes
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Billionaires lost Half a trillion dollars in two days thanks to Trump
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@Shila
No, that is not what I said or implied.
Now, before I answer your question, let me question you.
What do Canadians call smart people?
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Billionaires lost Half a trillion dollars in two days thanks to Trump
For all these grifters who thinks Trump is in the pocket of Jews the top 500 billionaires are 30% Jewish
Actually, the Wikipedia article claims that 30% percent of the top 100 billionaires are Jewish.
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If You Have a Random Thought, Post it Here.
Crank it kid!
If you can still feel the burn, then it's just-and-simply not hot enough

Now, when I see you bein a wuss like that, shyin away from good-ol-fashioned nerve damage like a gay man would
You know, it makes me think a-lil somethin

I am a man, and as a man of the God our Lord, and as a follower of Jesus Christ, I live by the words of Peace and Mercy every day
But, when I see you up there lettin that Godamned machinery get the better of you

Yes that's it, it's the Godamned union, stealin my God-given right to economic liberty
And you know it, it's those green-party, slick-back, hipster-junkie-communists, like you

Sees, I thought you tuh-be a beer-drinkin, red-blooded American like your old man
But you ain't, and I might just have to invoke the Second on yuh for that one!
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So... TheGreatSunGod is BK right?
Yes, of course. With how much they both use this site.
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A question about AI
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@sadolite
Replacing my technology thread with one of such inferior quality. You should be sad, sadolite.
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The Birthday Problem 2.0 for my Birthday
Also, if you had actually read my explanation, you would have known that in a room of 25 people, there is a 43.18 percent chance of having no overlapping birthdays.
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The Birthday Problem 2.0 for my Birthday
Wylted, please elaborate. I know that there is such thing as a 'birthday attack' for password hashes, but I don't remember much.
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The Birthday Problem 2.0 for my Birthday
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@ebuc
You might have something useful to say here?
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The Birthday Problem 2.0 for my Birthday
The Birthday Problem:

If I am partying in a room with 25 people; what is the chance that NO two of those people will share a birthday?
Another way to phrase this: When given 25 random people, what is the chance that for every day of the year, either one or zero of those people will have a birthday on that day.

The Birthday Solution:

For simplicity's sake, we will assume that all days of the year are equally likely to have birthdays fall on them.
For simplicity's sake, we will also ignore leap years, and thus leap days.

Since each person could have a birthday on any day of the year, in total there are 365 ^ 25 possibilities.
But how many of those 365 ^ 25 possibilities will satisfy the requirement that no two people may share a birthday?
You can think of it like this: Person-A has 356 days to choose from. Person-B only has 364 days to choose from without conflicting with person-A's choice. Person-C has 363 choices, and so on and so forth.
Right now we have two numbers: 365 * 364 * 363 . . . * 343 * 342 * 341 simplifies to 365! / 340! which is the number of possibilities that work, and 365 ^ 25 is the total number of possibilities.
By using division, and then multiplying by 100, we come to a percentage: 43.18%

The Birthday Problem 2.0:

Because everybody likes me, I am partying in a room with 170 people; what is the chance that NO four people will share a birthday?
Another way to phrase this: When given 170 random people, What is the chance that for every day of the year,  no more than three of those people will have a birthday on that day.

The Birthday Solution 2.0:

I was going to try to explain my program, but I am not that good at explaining things, so here is the C code.
int stopfact( int pier, int depth ) { int retval = 1; for( int i = 0; i < depth; ++i ) { retval *= pier; --pier; } return retval;}double power( double base, int exponent ) { double retval = 1.0; for( int i = 0; i < exponent; ++i ) { retval *= base; } return retval;}#include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>int main() { int bucket_count = 0; double * buckets; double chance_total = 0.0; int copies; double frequency; while( scanf( "%i %lf", & copies, & frequency ) == 2 ) { buckets = realloc( buckets, sizeof( double ) * ( bucket_count + copies ) ); for( int i = 0; i < copies; ++i ) { buckets[ bucket_count ] = frequency; ++bucket_count; chance_total += frequency; } } int balls; int limit; double * chancetable; double * newtable; scanf( "?> %i %i", & balls, & limit ); chancetable = malloc( sizeof( double ) * ( balls + 1 ) ); newtable = malloc( sizeof( double ) * ( balls + 1 ) ); chancetable[ 0 ] = 1.0; for( int i = 1; i <= balls; ++i ) { chancetable[ i ] = 0.0; } for( int i = 0; i < bucket_count; ++i ) { for( int u = 0; u <= balls; ++u ) { newtable[ u ] = 0.0; } for( int u = 0; u < limit; ++u ) { for( int z = 0; z + u <= balls; ++z ) { newtable[ z + u ] += chancetable[ z ] * ( double )( stopfact( balls - z, u ) / stopfact( u, u ) ) * power( buckets[ i ] / chance_total, u ) * power( ( chance_total - buckets[ i ] ) / chance_total, ( balls - z ) - u ); } } for( int u = 0; u <= balls; ++u ) { chancetable[ u ] = newtable[ u ]; } chance_total -= buckets[ i ]; } printf( "%lf %\n", chancetable[ balls ] * 100.0 ); free( buckets ); free( chancetable ); return 0;}
To see the answer for yourself, run the program and input the following:
365   4
1   1
?>   170   4
If you made sure to space separate, the result should be: 61.30% accounting for leap years too.
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The new foreign Policy of the Trump administration and thucydides trap
The middle east won't be pushed around like that. mark my words because in 204X, Iran will be the one calling the shots.

Right now Israel is getting the bad end of this, but it's coming to the rest of the west.

Look at the competitor countries in the International Olympiad in Informatics, and you will see that Iran has as many golds as Germany has silvers. But Germany joined all the way back in 1989! So shouldn't they be ahead?

Pretty much every year, Iran has won gold.

Basically, you take a nation of budding young hackers, and combine that with a ruler bent on nuclear proliferation, and what do you get?
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The overstated contributions of women and blacks in science.
Wylted, standing strong like Galileo against the inquisition that is racial inclusivity.

Oh brave Wylted, in a world filled with conniving minorities who twist the narrative for their own selfish gains, bless us with your wisdom, so that we may see clearly again.

Oh Wylted, he who has developed far too many star classification systems to count.

Oh Wylted, he who has mastered Fortran, COBOL, and 32-bit assembly.

Oh Wylted. . .

Sing the song of science and reason, because for too long we have been deafened by lies, but now you let us hear again.

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The overstated contributions of women and blacks in science.
You say "The black invention rabbit hole is not one I want to jump into right now", but that implies that the rabbit-hole is big, and that there are many black inventions to ?disprove? I am honestly confused by this Wyant ( Wylted + rant ). Are you arguing that Black Women have made many contributions to science, and also that each contribution is not impressive as the media makes it seem? Please clarify.

Wylted, it's a smart idea keeping this Lpinion ( loser + opinion ) on DebateArt


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If You Have a Random Thought, Post it Here.
If you hear a bump in the night, don't be scared. It probably doesn't have very good night vision.

Google tells me: Good for you.

When you hold a prism up to a ray of white light, why do higher frequency wavelengths bend more, I meat, make semse.

Google tells me: High-frequency light interacts more strongly with the atoms in the prism's material, causing it to slow down and refract more than lower-frequency light.

What/who determines what type of electromagnetic waves get goalied by the atmosphere.

Google tells me: It's complicated!
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The Handicap Principle Applied to the Human Mind
Their primary concern is with social hierarchy and they actually mimic true learn by memorization of facts. Because being able to pass tests is more valuable to them than knowledge. Unfortunately geniuses have to attend the same schools as them but geniuses should honestly be forced to go to school but be in charge of solving their own problems.
Here's the thing. . . Every week, I hold conversation with approximately two dozen different people while not online, and all of them are undoubtedly "midwits". Where is this mysterious genius class that you talk of, and where can I find them? I mean, I can reason that they exist, because otherwise we wouldn't have atomic warheads or algebraic topology, but I still cannot find them.

By the way, this is a response to Wylted's post. For some reason, I cannot mention him up top because I get the error message "Wylted is not active"
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@TheGreatSunGod
Debating is necessary to reach the truth on moral issues which are crucial for making society function.
Debating is necessary to reach moral truth, however moral truth is not necessary for success. The relationship actually goes the other way. Genghis Khan took a sixth the globe using mass imprisonment and psychological warfare.

Art is also necessary, at least some forms of it, because people cannot just work all day. They need to rest, relax and enjoy as well.
People do not need art to relax or entertain themselves. For proof of this, just turn your brain off, and turn on Netflix. I would generously estimate that four percent of the shows on Netflix are art by any metric.
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The Handicap Principle Applied to the Human Mind
Why are people smart? More specifically, why are some people driven to be smart? Well, humans are social creatures, people want to be intelligent because others admire intelligence.

Looking to nature, we can ask a similar question. Why do peacocks spread their feathers? They do it to attract mates. But that begs the bigger question. Why do other peacocks admire a peacock that can make a big feathery display?

Tying this back to humanity, why do other humans admire a human who can always win at scrabble, or make a witty joke?

There is one thing that connects the tail of a peacock, and a game of chess, and that thing is waste. Male peacocks attract females by showing them that they are genetically successful enough to waste resources on bright plumage and elaborate dances. Humans do this too!

Humans waste money on expensive fashion to show other humans their success. In a similar way, many humans waste extreme mental effort on fruitless labors like art and debate to convince other humans that they are cultured.

The average human brain hogs up about twenty percent of the body’s daily energy. You may say that intelligence is practical, but Humans actually show more brain activity when socializing than when solving problems.

Basically, humans primarily use their brains to woo other humans. With this in mind, could it be possible that problem solving is a secondary function of the human brain? Tell me what you think.
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Better Any-root Function in C.
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@Dr.Franklin
Stop with this C propaganda
There are two hidden premises here. . .

Hidden Premise 1 : My post is C propaganda.
UNTRUE - - - > Yes, my post contains code written in C, but does that really mean that my post is C propaganda?

Hidden Premise 2 : All propaganda must be stopped.
UNTRUE - - - > What if I had a propaganda poster encouraging kids to eat nutritious diets?

Now, If I made a debate titled "C is the best programming language", would you accept?
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Tutorial Debates for New Members ?
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@Barney
First, I wouldn't call myself king...
I apologize for being un-progressive.
The crown in your profile picture must mean that you are the queen of debate.

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Better Any-root Function in C.
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@Shila
The year is 25, not my age
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Better Any-root Function in C.
For those of you that don't/won't include basic math libraries in your programs, you probably do something like this for your root functions:
double sqrt( double whole ) {
     double accumulator = 1.0;
     double difference = whole - 1.0;
     for( int i = 0; i < 54; ++i ) {
          difference /= 2.0;
          if( whole < SQUARE( accumulator ) == whole < SQUARE( accumulator + difference ) ) {
               accumulator += difference;
          }
     }
     return accumulator;
}
Yucky. Objects are cool, so join the crowd. Here is an example program, which shows how you can just shove all the computation up front.
#define ROOTSET 2 #include <stdlib.h>double power( double base, long exponent ) { double scraper = 1.0; while( exponent != 1 ) { if( exponent % 2 == 1 ) { scraper *= base; } base *= base; exponent /= 2; } return base * scraper;}typedef struct { double spacing; long tablesize; double * table;} RootTable;RootTable roottable_init( long mode, double spacing, long tablesize ) { RootTable retval; retval . spacing = power( spacing, mode ); retval . tablesize = tablesize; retval . table = malloc( sizeof( double ) * tablesize ); long index = 0; for( long i = 0; ; ++i ) { for( long u = 0; u < power( i + 1, mode ) - power( i, mode ); ++u ) { retval . table[ index ] = spacing * ( ( double )( i ) + ( double )( u ) / ( double )( power( i + 1, mode ) - power( i, mode ) ) ); if( ++index >= tablesize ) { return retval; } } }}#define ISPOS( X ) ( X + X > X )double roottable_get( RootTable self, double searchval ) { if( ISPOS( searchval ) && ( long )( searchval / self . spacing ) < self . tablesize ) { return self . table[ ( long )( searchval / self . spacing ) ]; } else { return 0.0; }}void roottable_free( RootTable self ) { free( self . table );}#include <stdio.h>int main() { double spacing; long tablesize; scanf( "%lf %ld", & spacing, & tablesize ); RootTable subject = roottable_init( ROOTSET, spacing, tablesize ); while( 1 ) { double searchval; if( scanf( "%lf", & searchval ) == 1 ) { printf( "%lf\n", roottable_get( subject, searchval ) ); } else { roottable_free( subject ); printf( "End Program\n" ); return 0; } }}
Only braindead apes use functional programming in the big 25. Look at how smart I am, using objects in my C code.
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@Barney
@TheGreatSunGod
Oh great Sun, you are pretty bad at debating, and yet your scum tactics can still defeat many new players. This is because, usually, new players do not know how to dissect opposing arguments properly. Tutorial debates would start new players off by helping them ask the right questions, so that eventually, they might have the tools to not lose 100% of the time.

Barney, I would like to have your input here, as you are kind-of the king of Debate. Do you think this is a good idea?
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Actually, this is a terrible idea. Upon rereading, I have realized how much my new argument resembles a wall of text. Concise arguments have value, and I just completely disregarded that.
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Tutorial Debates for New Members ?
Many new members of DebateArt follow the pattern of making an account, joining a debate, and then leaving forever. I would think that many of these new debaters simply don't know what to do in their first debate, and so run away. ( either that, or the Captchas are too hard for them to log back on )

To solve this, tutorial debates could be used. Here is an excerpt adapted from my "Dragonite is a B tier Pokemon" debate linked.

Semantics:

For those unfamiliar with the tier system, it ranks things on a 6 point scale, with the “S tier” being absolutely supreme, and with the “F tier” being absolutely dogwater. Right in the middle, there is the “B tier”, meaning “good”.
- - - > Is this an accurate representation of the tier system?

This means that if I prove that Dragonite is good, then I win the debate. However, if OPP proves that Dragonite is either better or worse than good, then OPP wins the debate.

To measure “good”, I will be using the metrics of gameplay and marketability.
- - - > Are these fair indicators of how "good" a Pokemon is, and is there anything missing?

The gameplay experience of dragonite is good, but not great:

In the games, Dragonite fills the role of a highly offensive physical attacker. Due to “dragon dance”, Dragonite can buff itself to sweep the opponent’s entire team. In generation one, Dragonite was one of the most competitive pokemon. But as the games kept evolving, power creep slowly pushed Dragonite out of the competitive spotlight. This all changed back in the eighth pokemon generation released in 2019, and now Dragonite is powerful once again.
- - - > Is this information accurate, and is there anything missing?

This brings me to my first problem with Dragonite. Across generations, Dragonite has been inconsistent. Is Dragonite defensive, offensive, or even good? Does Dragonite have many high accuracy attacks? Can Dragonite use dragon dance? The answers to all of these questions have changed across generations.
- - - > Does Dragonite encompass all versions of Dragonite from each generation, or does Dragonite only mean ninth generation Dragonite? If the former is true, could Dragonite's inconsistency actually be a strength rather than a weakness? If the latter is true, how does this impact the validity of what I just said?

The marketability of Dragonite is good, but not great:

Dragonite was the first dragon type pokemon, and so Gamefreak took extra time on its design. The design of dragonite was originally simplistic, with light oranges and round lines. This design emphasized that Dragonite was the good-guy dragon, in contrast to scarier dragons such as Rayquaza. Fans loved Dragonite, and throughout the Pokemon anime, Dragonite’s personality was fleshed out into a Dragonite of loyalty, friendship, selflessness, and honor.
- - - > Is this information accurate, and is there anything missing?

However, Dragonite is poised in the awkward limbo between a scary dragon powerhouse, and a Snorlax-esque cuddly pokemon. People who like big scary pokemon don’t choose Dragonite, they choose Gyrados. And people who like cuddly pokemon don’t choose Dragonite, they choose Snorlax or Pikachu. Ultimately, Dragonite proved to be not much more than a template for more unique later pokemon.
- - - > Is Dragonite really as unpopular as I make it seem?
I do worry that some new players will be off-put by us "going-easy" on them, however I do think that DebatArt will retain more members with the use of tutorial debates.
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My Unpopular Opinion on the Annexation of Hawaii
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@Shila
No American lives were lost in the coup.
Are you implying that other lives were lost in the coup? If so, link to some sources, or simply provide reasoning for your claim.
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My Unpopular Opinion on the Annexation of Hawaii
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@zedvictor4
The queen of Hawaii was overthrown, but nobody actually died in the coup itself. Some rich guys just came in with guns and told everybody in power to get out. The same thing happened when the US grabbed Hawaii sixty years later. I am pretty sure that no bombings ever occurred in those two events.
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Jesus will be defeated by the unstoppable power of the Sun God
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@TheGreatSunGod
For somebody who spends so much time on this forum, I don't quite get how you could worship the sun. . . Like, how often do you really go outside?
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@TheGreatSunGod
You still have human sacrifice through endless wars, horrible lifestyle and all the other ways people kill and hurt each other, as well as much more suicides. But now you also have mass imprisonment and rape.
You make a good point. War is human sacrifice, not to a deity, but rather to a nation, or possibly to the ideals of that nation.

As for human sacrifices in ancient societies, many of those were voluntary. Some people simply agreed to die to please Gods and so that resources could be saved.
Just because human sacrifice is voluntary, does not make it okay. Although I can't say much about other ancient societies, the people who consented to sacrifice by the Aztecs ( a minority to say the least ) were brainwashed from birth into thinking that the world would end without the appeasement of their gods.
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Jesus will be defeated by the unstoppable power of the Sun God
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@TheGreatSunGod
How many others share this belief? Is this a strange new twenty-first century religion that you are a part of?
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Jesus will be defeated by the unstoppable power of the Sun God
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@TheGreatSunGod
What happens when our sun runs out of hydrogen, burns out, and becomes a white dwarf?
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My Unpopular Opinion on the Annexation of Hawaii
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@Lemming
On your mini-bio, I read that you were a part of the navy for 5 years. Did you ever get to visit Hawaii in the navy?

I think war and force to be immoral, generally speaking.
I agree, and I think that advanced, expansionist countries should leverage economic, diplomatic, and cultural force rather than military force except in extreme circumstances.

'Even if current living conditions end up better, doesn't mean people wish to accept such.
I think that this is due to internalized argumentum ad antiquitatem ( appeal to tradition ), however some people may argue that tradition holds moral value in and of itself.
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My Unpopular Opinion on the Annexation of Hawaii
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@FLRW
Yes, I am sorry that my original post lacked nuance. The distinction between the overthrow of the Hawaiian queen, and the addition of Hawaii into the union is important, because the two events were separated by more than half a century. Furthermore, the two events were carried out by different actors, with different motivations.

Still, while not carried out by the government directly, the 1893 coup had US interests in mind. If it didn't, Grover Cleveland would have done more than simply giving a condescending statement to Hawaii's new rulers.
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My Unpopular Opinion on the Annexation of Hawaii
Hawaii is a US state, and a legitimate one at that. To justify this claim, I will be using master morality, originally proposed by Nietzsche.

     For the past ten centuries, humanity has been in a continual state of glow-up, with scientific, mathematical, and moral progress being made at increasing rates. However, due to different social structures, some societies have made greater advancements in these fields, giving those societies greater influence over their peers. Historically, this influence was exercised through trade and conquest.

     For example, the British Empire used superior shipbuilding and firearm technology to build the first truly global trade network, and to spread civilization to native peoples. While conquest and colonialism are seen as distasteful practices to our morally advanced society of today, people must realize that for global advancement to happen, advanced societies must be allowed to influence less advanced societies.

     On the dawn of colonialism in the fifteen hundreds, many native Americans embraced Christianity as an alternative to the oligarchic religious structures of their own culture. European imperialists were by no means morally righteous, but for every disease they brought to the Americas, they brought twice as many advancements, and each of those advancements had a lasting effect. If lesser empires (such as that of the Aztecs) were left to their own devices, we would still have human sacrifice in the twenty-first century.

     Connecting this to the annexation of Hawaii, while the overthrow of the queen was bad, Hawaii is now much better off as part of the Union. As of twenty-twenty-four, Hawaii has a gross domestic product of one-hundred and fifteen billion dollars. Additionally, due to the tourism industry, Hawaii is the happiest state of the Union. This would not be the case if Hawaii was still a monarchy.


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