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@Analgesic.Spectre
You really think this is a positive attribute?
Yes. Obama and Trump had made compromises to get what they wanted. For example, Obama made it harder for Planned parenthood to get federal funding and had more border security in exchange for Obamacare.
Feminists claim that they are for equality.
They want more freedom for women.
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@disgusted
And you know less than nothing about socialism.
It's impossible to know less then nothing about anything.
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@David
(1) Require 3 debates that have at least 3 rounds, are not forfeited, and are not troll debates; OR(2) Require at least 500 quality forum posts; OR(3) Prove to the moderator team that you understand the voting process by giving us three quality RFDs plus 200 forum posts
Here's my modification to that.
1) Require at least 2 debates that have at least 3 rounds, are not forfeited, and are not troll debates; OR
2) Require at least 5 quality fourm posts. OR:
3) Prove to the moderator team that you understand the voting process
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@IlDiavolo
I think I'm bisexual. America is not a racist society.
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@n8nrgmi
that farmer would have to also deal with a lot more drought.
They can irrigate their crops, thereby making the water getting to the crops more controlled and therefore increasing our food supply.
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I want to eliminate the US debt as well as some other policies that as of right now I'm too lazy to argue.
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@3RU7AL
Let's check the percentage of the population that is living below the poverty line.
What is the poverty line?
You basically cite the world happiness report, however, socialism makes a nation well off in the short term, but in the long term, it makes your country comparably ranked to a country like Russia, which is #59 on your list. It acts like a drug. This is because money leaves the country and people often lose their incentive to work in a relatively socialist economy, where things are given to them and work is optional. Many people get addicted to government welfare.
Also, the happiness report easily could be due to other factors. Maybe Canadians are inherently more happy then Americans. A better way to compare the situation is over a 30 year period, compare the before and after of the implementation of socialism.
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@3RU7AL
Is that really your primary measure of "success"?
It's how I measure how wealthy the average person within a society is.
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@oromagi
even Alec ain't entirely straight.
Most people are entirely straight however.
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@3RU7AL
Or Canada, or Israel, or Germany.
All of these places have lower GDP per capitas then the US.
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@mustardness
they primary way forward into the future
Ever heard of the regressive left? I think the left has become regressive.
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@disgusted
You don't know enough about anything to challenge anyone about anything.
According to the leaderboard as of right now, I'm #3 on it. I think I can challenge and win debates pretty well. I'll be surprised if you can make it through all 4 rounds without insulting me or forfeiting.
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@disgusted
Should I challenge you to a debate on the Death penalty? I'm willing to.
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@disgusted
otherwise you wouldn't need an absurd comparison.
It's not "absurd". It's better then the insults you have been using.
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@disgusted
The difference between murder and execution is the same as the difference between kidnapping and imprisonment. One is illegal and vigilantic, the other is not. Just as we imprison kidnappers, we should execute murderers.
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@coal
The state does not murder people, they execute them. There is a difference.
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@Greyparrot
Disease has population density as a much greater factor for spread than any level of climate change.
If population density were the sole cause of disease, then middle aged Europe which had a low population density would have much less disease then the modern world, with all the people that live in it. But Europe has less disease now then it did then due to the wealth differences between the middle ages and today.
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@disgusted
get an education.
Lead by example. Please keep your education non biased and objective while your at it.
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@IlDiavolo
I don't care because it's free speech. I'm not gay. I'm not straight either.
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@Stronn
1. The flooding of cities can be solved by building a 20 ft barrier on the US's eastern and Western borders to keep the Ocean out. It works pretty well in areas that receive seasonal flooding. I went to this town that bordered the Mississippi river and they had seasonal flooding. So they built a barrier to keep the flood waters from affecting the town.
2. How much would natural disasters increase by? If it's just 1%, then it's not a big extra problem.
3. I imagine the coral reefs might actually benefit because they convert CO2 into energy and the CO2 would be easier to get in an Ocean with 150 ppm extra CO2.
4. To a small extent, this is true. Diseases now found within 10 degrees of the equator may spread to 15 degrees within the equator. I also don't know if disease is because of temperature as much as it is with poverty. Australia is warm and close to the equator and they don't have many diseases there because it is a 1st world country.
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@disgusted
If Scandinavia is perceived as good, the left will cite socialism and the right will cite capitalism.
If Scandinavia is perceived as bad, the left will cite capitalism and the right will cite socialism.
Lets use examples that are non disputingly good/bad and non disputingly capitalist/socialist.
Some examples I can think of are:
-USSR(Bad and Socialist)
-Venezuela(Bad and Socialist)
-Cuba(Bad and Socialist)
-China(Bad and Socialist)
-Vietnam(Bad and Socialist)
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@mustardness
I did not "answer" any of your questions with math.
You just did in your comments.
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@IlDiavolo
I don't really care if people make jokes like that. It's in the 1st amendment after all.
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The temperature is only rising by about 2 degrees. I can survive a 2 degree temperature increase.
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@Kasmic
36% of the population ought to take a vacation to Venezuela to see what happens when your country goes socialist.
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@disgusted
4.1% innocent executions amounts 4,100 wrongful deaths in 100,000
Per 100,000 murderers, that's true. But not everyone is a murderer. If the homicide rate were 4 per 100,000, and the average murderer kills 2 people(some kill way more like Adam Lanza or Dylan Roof) then that essentially means that the odds of being convicted of murder in a certain year are 1 per 100,000. From there, only 4.1% of those are innocent. Out of the whole US population, the odds of being convicted for murder while innocent is about .08 per 100,000. This is less then the .13 innocent lives per 100,000 that tDP saves, albeit the rate was not what I thought it was.
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@b9_ntt
If your request went elsewhere, please let me know.
The friend request was on Debateart. I can send you another one.
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@IlDiavolo
The definition of murder is, "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another"
The only justification to support death penalty is that it's cheaper for the government.
There are many pros to the death penalty.
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@b9_ntt
Out of all those convicted for murder, about 4.1% of them are innocent. Abolishing the death penalty (tDP) for murder increases the homicide rate by about .13 per 100,000 according to the source below:
.13 per 100,000 may not sound like a lot, but it means that for every 1 person that is innocent that dies from execution, tDP saves over 3 lives.
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