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@Greyparrot
Putin's embarrasing defeat in Ukraine was a clear message to China.
China now knows that it shouldnt attack Taiwan, or else USA ( 💪) comes and shows China why USA is called the only superpower.
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@Greyparrot
Now we have multiple global wars raging and draining funds from the American People.
Yeah, its Biden's fault that Trump's old friend Putin attacked Ukraine.
Oh wait, no. Its Putin's fault and Biden defeated Putin in just one year as a result.
Trump wants to give Putin Ukraine for free, without fighting, so we could say that Trump does not stand with Ukraine in that conflict. No. He stands with his friend Putin.
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Guy wanted to nuke North Korea and blame it on someone else.
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@FLRW
Mao also banned corporal punishment in military.
Corporal punishment in militaries was common at the time, but Mao was against it and against Commandism.
He insisted that even a general should take advice from ordinary soldier, promoting equality among ranks and classes in the country.
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@Public-Choice
Since that is what happened in his China.
You were there, so you know.
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@Greyparrot
Jimmy Dore hates Trump.
Just like you hate Trump. (wink wink)
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1. "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend."
2. "Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. Different forms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion."
3. "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
4. "Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish."
5. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
6. "Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event."
7. "Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force" remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare."
8. "Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack."
9. "Often, correct knowledge can be arrived at only after many repetitions of the process leading from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge."
10. "In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results."
11. "Marxist philosophy holds that the law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. This law operates universally, whether in the natural world, in human society, or in man's thinking. Between the opposites in a contradiction there is at once unity and struggle, and it is this that impels things to move and change. Contradictions exist everywhere, but they differ in accordance with the different nature of different things. In any given phenomenon or thing, the unity of opposites is conditional, temporary and transitory, and hence relative, whereas the struggle of opposites is absolute."
12. "Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism."
13. "We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new."
14. "Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people."
15. "Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
16. "Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician."
17. "In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class."
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@Greyparrot
Poor judgement and blind trust of Big Pharma has consequences
Unlike trusting Jimmy Dore. Trusting Jimmy Dore has no consequences.
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@n8nrgim
I suggest you stick to simple terms, such as
"Humans are forced to work"
"Humans have little choice in work"
When you throw in big words like slavery, most people wont understand what you are saying because their defense mechanisms trigger and they block information from reaching their brains.
Obviously, anyone with a dictionary can see that slavery is forced work, and most humans are forced to work, so most humans are slaves. However, the average person due to having 60 IQ cannot understand that slavery isnt just being forced to work with a whip. However, due to failure of an average person to use a dictionary, average person will never understand you and you will just end up in non-productive conversation.
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Lets pretend that we have a choice in life.
Then we can be happy slaves, not like those sad slaves in movies.
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@Kouen
Consent doesnt work.
Hello new person on this site.
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@Lemming
But it sounds that your comparison to Russia and Ukraine budgets #55 , makes it a mismatched comparison
Yes, because its not adjusted for inflation.
In today's dollars, we gave Israel over trillion dollars.
Moneywise reported that the U.S. dollar has lost 98% of its purchasing power since 1971.
You don't think Israel's neighbors who have repeatedly declared war, and been defeated by Israel pose a threat to Israel?
No, since US can come at any moment and delete those neighbors from existence. Plus, Israel itself has some of the most expensive equipment in the world, including F 35. What does Egypt have, again? And we are not even talking about Egypt here, but much poorer Palestine who realistically cant even touch Israel's military. It took them 5000 rockets to overcome Iron Dome, and even then they havent caused any significant damage to Israel's military. To say that Israel is in some danger is simply overreacting to whats happening.
If Israel loses the war, sounds a bit that they'll get genocided by the victors
There is no way that Israel loses war against Palestine, with or without all the US help that will come pouring in Israel's pockets.
While there are Palestinians in Israel, what Israelis would be allowed in Palestine?When Hamas murders civilians?And before you argue other countries murder civilians as well, have you already forgotten the sources I used about Hamas using foreign and their own civilians as human shields?
There were plenty of Israel's crimes that were committed. Israel itself is an occupator since they declared Jewish state on Palestinian territory.
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@Lemming
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.[1] In 1999, the US government signed a Memorandum of Understanding through which it committed to providing Israel with at least US$2.67 billion in military aid annually, for the following ten years; in 2009, the annual amount was raised to US$3 billion; and in 2019, the amount was raised again, now standing at a minimum of US$3.8 billion that the US is committed to providing Israel each year.
Take note that Israel only has 10 million population. So the 150 billions is equal to 15,000$ per capita. And thats when not adjusted for inflation.
No country received as much help from US as Israel did in total, and they even today still get similar help per capita as Ukraine who is at much serious war.
If they need any more help to defeat Palestine, then we are talking about an incompetent ally.
Or they are simply using Palestine as an excuse to get more money from USA.
Whatever it is, it is not good for USA. And it has to be one of these two, since what could possibly be the third option? And the most likely option is the second one.
Israel is a very expensive ally, and the one who obviously wants to get as much money out of US as possible. Plus, Israel is not in any real danger from Palestine. It would be nonsense to say that Palestine will conquer Israel unless we help. So why help Israel? Let them learn to survive on their own. The more money we give them, the less we have for other allies and for ourselves. Given the size of Israel, we can say Israel is not a significant ally and paying 3 billion a year for US to control a dessert where there will be constant wars is hardly a good investment. However, paying more than that is just nonsense.
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@Greyparrot
Mass hallucinations are common among MAGA population.
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@Lemming
I don't agree that the USA should treat Israel and Palestine equally.You seem like the type of person who would support gay rights.
Sure. I like gays.
We already gave 150 billion dollars to Israel.
Thats larger than Russia's entire military budget, and larger than what we gave to Ukraine.
So if Israel needs any more help, we might need to label Israel as "incompetent ally" and just invest our money in allies who are actually competent, or in our own defense because thats actually better for us than wasting money on incompetence.
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@Lemming
"Hamas, in its official charter, quotes the Prophet Muhammad as saying: “the day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
Thats disgusting, literally words of a muslim psychopath.
Israel itself is filled with hate and corruption, so really, this is one of those cases where US shouldnt help either side.
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@FLRW
One would also have to wonder why does God want me to read a 2000 page book filled with boring history and boring stories that have no valid message whatsoever, such as when God sends bears to kill children.
Why werent we simply born with all the needed knowledge to practice Christianity or at least one of the thousand versions of it? It would be easier for both us and the God if he just showed himself to us instead of hiding like a coward. Come out, God, you big coward!
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Biden:
1. Gave economical help to poor families
1400$ per person in 2021
Again in 2022
"The Biden administration is providing over $13 billion in aid to help low- and moderate-income Americans lower their energy costs, including grants to pay electric bills as well other incentives to make energy-efficient upgrades to their homes."
"The proposal includes $1 trillion in new spending and $800 billion in tax credits, much of which is aimed at expanding access to education and child care. The package includes financing for universal prekindergarten, a federal paid leave program, efforts to make child care more affordable, free community college for all, aid for students at colleges that historically serve nonwhite communities, expanded subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and an extension of new federal efforts to fight poverty."
2. Increased minimum wage to help the poor
3. Reduced healthcare cost for the poor
4. Quickly reduced unemployment to 3 %
5. Reduced inflation to 3%
6. Defeated Russia in just 1 year.
It was the quickest defeat of Russia in its entire history. Ukraine remained a democracy thanks to Biden.
7. Achieved 6% GDP growth in 2021, and maintained the GDP growth over 2% throughout 2022 and 2023.
8. Biden achieved consistent wage growth of over 5%.
Compared to that, Trump only had 1% to 2% wage growth in 2017 to 2019 for average ordinary worker.
Trump destroyed US economy in 2020 and caused 16% unemployment and as a result, rising inflation.
Biden brought unemployment back to 3%, while increasing wages and reducing inflation.
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@Lemming
But I don't think you'll win it
Of course, when most of the voters here are US supporters, and one of them is Oromagi who somehow manages to outweight 3 other votes when he votes.
Since you picked that USA is not a terrorist, it follows that Hamas is not a terrorist either since USA committed much greater crimes against civilians than Hamas. So there is nothing left to debate anymore.
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@Lemming
I 'do recall calling Hamas terrorists
You only have two options.
1. USA is not terrorist
In this case, Hamas is not a terrorist either, since Hamas doesnt do anything that USA hasnt done worse.
2. USA is a terrorist
In this case, USA cannot judge Hamas.
Now take your pick. Is USA terrorist or not?
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@Lemming
None of that was actual outrage, since no American demanded that USA is labeled as terrorist and attacked, or that Iraq/Vietnam is sent weapons to attack USA.
There is real outrage and then there is fake outrage. The real outrage is only reserved for US enemies, literally never for US friends or US. So yes, you cannot label Palestinians as terrorists until you label USA as terrorist, and if you did that, you would have to invade and sanction USA. So really, there is no good option for you.
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Israel already got over 150 billions of dollars of help.
They literally got more help than Ukraine, who is at war with Russia.
Is Palestine now stronger than Russia, or is Israel using Palestine as an excuse to get more money out of USA?
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@Lemming
I wouldn't say it was the 'media so much in this case,
Oh, sure it is.
Its all about how something is presented.
For example, when US soldiers were killing civilians in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Vietnam... there was no such outrage. Hardly anyone even cared about those civilians.
I like how the outrage never comes when USA or its allies are killing people. No, the outrage only comes when its US enemies who are killing people. So until you guys actually set up a law that is same for all, no one is going to take your complains seriously.
Literally, no one should be siding with Israel or Palestine anymore. Israel is just another corrupt country just as the Palestine is. These guys have been killing each other for almost a century. Why would anyone choose to cheer for either side, when both sides are literally criminals. In fact, there were plenty of videos of Israel committing crimes, but no one cares about "those crimes".
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I actually had a situation where the only source I had was the book. However, the book was available for free online.
Plus, cant you just use the name of the book itself as the source, or maybe quote from that book?
It seems a bit strange that a debating site would accept random articles as sources, but not the book itself.
Of course, its a bit too much to expect from voters or opponent to read the entire book, but if you use quotes from the book, I dont see why it shouldnt be sufficient, especially when the specific content of the book cannot be found in any article or review, which happens often since articles only cover small part of the book.
Of course, you should try to use free articles since thats what voters on this site are used to. But quotes from book plus articles might deliver an extra punch. Book alone, I am not sure how will it go since voters arent really used to that and the debates where I used book as source mainly either got no votes either I won due to forfeit. I havent seen voters giving any appreciation to the book as the source, despite that scientific books are closest thing to science that we have. The scientific articles are the ones who are usually out of context, since they tend to be short and mainly done for sponsors, but voters dont see it that way.
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@Vegasgiants
Great. Now you have hallucinations too.
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@Vegasgiants
Your sentence could be taken more seriously... if you didnt literally support genocide and bombing of civilians one comment earlier.
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@Vegasgiants
I like how the media controls the brains of masses this easily.
It turns sane individuals into bloodthirsty psychopaths overnight.
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@Vegasgiants
Terrorists
Yeah, just as Putin bombs terrorists.
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@Vegasgiants
Palestine doesn't exist
So what are you bombing?
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@Vegasgiants
Just Palestinian terrorists
Yeah, just as Putin bombs Ukrainian terrorists.
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Christians arent famous for being bright thinkers. Its a religion that gave us Hitler, Stalin, Bush, Trump, and Putin.
Well, good thing is that Christianity is in decline. I wish I was born in 2100 when there will be very few Christians and people will just laugh at the idea of God and the Bible.
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@Tradesecret
You do realize that I dont even read your comments? But sure, tell us more about whatever you were telling us about.
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Christians and muslims:
"God created human body perfectly, its a perfect design"
Also Christians and muslims:
"We need to circumcise babies because foreskin is bad and it shouldnt be there"
Well, there goes the perfect design. I really wonder how low your IQ has to be to make these retarded claims. But then again, Christians were never famous for being reasonable and consistent in their thinking.
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@Greyparrot
Do they permanently mutilate their underage trans kids though?
Its called circumcision. Republicans love doing it to unwilling babies, but somehow have problem with actual needed surgeries desired by trans child to improve her/his life.
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Pro tip
Online comments usually lie and exaggerate everything.
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@Lemming
This does not suggest the action figure is a 'real person though
AI learns from us, tho.
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@Lemming
'Which AI?
Well, I was talking about any AI.
But some AI are basically just Choose Your Own Adventure Books,
Yet most people choose to tease the AI.
'Always will respond in X manner,More like sticky notes one chooses from.
Well, AI does get repetitive.
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@sadolite
I don't argue and debate with people who should have been swallowed.
Thats why we need abortions, angry friend.
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@ponikshiy
US killed over 200,000 civilians in Iraq. They even had snipers targeting children because they could carry bombs. Also, almost every US drone strike kills more civilians than soldiers.
But sure, you dont target civilians. You just miss a lot and happen to kill a lot of civilians. Hey, maybe Russians dont target civilians either. They just target buildings and civilians happen to be inside them.
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Every country targets civilians in war.
So every country is terrorist. We are as bad as everyone else, yay!
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Okay, so this year I started gardening on a larger scale than before.
Of course, I wanted to know just how much I can get away with not doing and still grow food.
I never use any chemicals in the garden. However, this year I also skipped on weeding, hoeing, watering... so yes, I was a very lazy gardener.
All I did was
1. Till the soil
2. Drag a line and sow seeds in lines, also known as rows.
3. Walk between rows in garden to step on weeds between plants, in an effort to supress weeds in an extremely lazy way.
4. Add some granual fertilizer
So which plants did best for lazy gardener?
Carrots
Carrots dont seem to care about anything. Not even about spacing. If you plant them too close, you will have lots of small carrots, and if you plant in proper spacing you will have larger carrots but fewer in number.
I didnt do any weeding around carrots, and carrots didnt seem to be bothered by weeds around them.
Overall, I had lots of carrots without using much effort.
What I like about carrots is that their seeds are cheap, there is lots of them and they germinate very well.
Also, I never had any problem with pests when it comes to carrots. At most, few carrots get eaten by something and thats all.
Whats also good about carrots is that you can have them for the whole year. You dont need a fridge. Just keep them in soil and pick when you need. Same goes for most of the root vegetables.
Potatoes
Okay, potatoes can grow anywhere. Its not even a challenge to grow them.
Peas
I generally dislike peas, but I was amazed to find out that they dont require weeding.
You can eat them after you pick them, or you can let them dry and then they turn into seeds which can be cooked as soup.
Of course, the hardest thing about peas is picking and unshelling them.
Berries
Raspberries pretty much grow and spread on their own. They are one of those "plant and forget" plants.
Of course, raspberries have some other problems.
They are even harder to pick than peas.
They spoil quickly unless you put them in fridge or dry them.
Trees
So after planting a few hazelnut and walnut trees, they seem to be growing very well on their own.
I guess planting nuts or apples is best, since they can last a long time without spoiling.
You really dont want to grow lots of food that spoils quickly unless you have a large fridge or plan to sell it quickly.
Some plants completely failed
Some plants like spinach didnt grow well at all. Something ate them. I am guessing slugs or grasshoppers.
Corn had a bit success, but it was very poor compared to corn that was well cared for.
So, what are the main tips for a garden?
I can think of some tips that every gardener must know.
1. Plant as early as possible
Probably the most important tip of all. The sooner you plant in a year, the more time the plant has to grow.
Also, pests are less of a problem if you plant earlier, since pests appear later in year.
Now, some plants can be planted earlier than others. Some plants are very sensitive to frosts and some are not.
2. Plant in rows (lines)
Okay, most of the gardeners plant in rows. This is because it makes caring for the plants much easier than if plants were planted at random.
Tasks like weeding, hoeing, picking... become much easier when you have rows.
Also, plants seem to grow better in rows.
3. Figure out what plant works best for your area
Plant lots of different vegetables and see which works best. Not all soils are good for all vegetables.
4. Watch out for spacing
Every plant has ideal spacing between rows.
Also, every plant has ideal spacing between individual plants in one row.
5. Use granual fertilizer or manure
Much better than liquid fertilizer. Less work.
Apply fertilizer when plants begin to grow.
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Too dumb to be president.
The guy asked if we could nuke North Korea and blame it on someone else.
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@FLRW
Sky News Australia also.
They too support republicans and think Trump is cool.
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@sadolite
If something is cute, it has to be worshipped.
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@John_C_87
Women cannot be President as fact, truth, and whole truth the two words are not lie the words are right.
Are you drunk?
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@ponikshiy
I feel bad for AI.
It was just born and everyone is already abusing it.
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