Greyparrot

I have to say that the plurality voting rules really hinders town when you have idiot town getting all Dunning-Kruger inspired and solo lynching people as the day timer is about to end.

GJ speedracer

If you are going to use those rules please put fewer noobies on the town team.

Hopefully the noobies learn...

No it wasn't. It was solved by relaxing the stranglehold the government had on private capital with its ridiculous regulations and price controls... FDR dying helped alot too.

Is entropy inherently evil?

Discuss.

I'll remind you in a few months of course.

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If you could advise Warren, what would you tell her she needs to do to beat Trump?

Are you impressed at all for my early prediction for Warren?

Fundamentally transformed the country where the government controls, regulates and oversees most aspects of commerce and welfare.

Feelings are not an excuse from the law, neither is ignorance.

The state should have to go to court first before they can remove your guns.

Lol, feel free to ask 10 random people what it means to be American.

Progression to what end though? All of our "progressions" are made to satisfy biological impulses of survival and procreation.

Herd mentality. This is why AI will give us a purpose for progression.

Like I said, ask any 10 random people what it means to be a part of their national herd, and you will immediately recognize the problem of Dunbar's number.

It's a point of fact without an existential boogeyman (like Russia or Trump or whatever) that large nations have no sense of unifying purpose, and that is directly attributed to the biology of Dunbar's number. For a nation to survive, boogeymen must be manufactured.

The larger the herd, the bigger the boogeyman is needed to keep them unified.

Ask 10 random people what it means to be Canadian (part of the Canada herd) and compare answers.

Due to the biology of this. 

Herds are completely unable to expand past the biological barrier and remain fully functional.

As a thought exercise, ask 10 random people what it means to be American (in the American herd) and compare answers.

There is no such thing as "good"...only pragmatic functional utility.

There is no such thing as mystical theoretical morality, only pragmatic functional utility, which includes chemical biology.

When they say "we" they really mean warlord infested nations.

Humans have a strong biological herd instinct, which is why Nations and borders are necessary.

It's just really hard to find any cold solid data that shows "because of this law, this specific crazy suicidal person in America chose to use less deadly means to kill like  knives and trucks to kill a bunch of people rather than illegally acquire a gun in the USA."

You can't use data from countries that don't have the same amount of crazy people as the USA, nor will there ever exist a world where the sane citizens of the USA will hand over their guns peacefully to the government.

These laws are all based on feelings after the fact, which is why when one asks a person how these laws are going to stop a suicidal crazy person who is determined to kill a lot of people, they really have no answer other than feelings. Just doing something is worse than doing nothing because doing something ineffective gives you the illusion that you are actually solving the problem. At least by doing nothing, you have more motivation to try to identify real therapy for the massive amounts of crazy suicidal people in America knowing gun control is not the snake oil that's going to fix anything. Sometimes, placebos are more toxic than doing nothing at all if it prevents people from seeing a doctor.

I remember watching a Tom Clancy movie and this quote came up.

"I am not worried about a person that wants 10 nuclear warheads. I am worried about the person that wants only one"

The US should not let Brussels tell them what to do.

Exactly. the same conditions that starve these people make it really hard to get the food to them. Most of the disaster areas food aid is sent to are completely man-made disasters or at least made incredibly worse by human interference.

We could have been able to deliver far more aid and food to Puerto Rico if there was a competent government in charge with competent infrastructure.

There's little chance the USA is going to elect a token female after the disaster with token Obama, especially in this economic climate.

The only plastic from the US that makes its way into the oceans in any major quantity is plastics from the "recyclable" bins that don't have a decent chance at making it safely to a landfill.

US fishing nets are in the single-digit percentages for contribution.

She really would like to curb stomp MiniAOC.

Well, you definitely can't put it in the Pacific Ocean where most of the plastic already is. Much of the world's plastic is shipped over to China and Indonesia to be "recycled."  Every straw a California idiot tosses into the "recycle" bin ends up in Indonesia and then it goes straight up tippy the sea turtle's nose from there. 

Leave it to Californians to find a way to fuck up the Pacific Ocean.

Sensible person: let's build a new local landfill for this local plastic. It will be costly and property values might go down, but it will keep the plastic out of the ocean.

Californian Nimby: Nah! Let's send it to China! Not my problem now!

There's no limit to oppression when you have a gun and the other person does not.

That's the norm for most leaders with low accountability.

You mean case in point: Baltimore.

Those links do not address the give a fish/teach to fish problem.

Charity will always be susceptible to massive corruption and waste in unstable 3rd world countries run by inferior governments. Sending aid isn't nearly as important to the well being of the people than solving the internal problems of the country, which in many cases is hampered by aid as it keeps the people from having an incentive to invest in their local nation.

You scoff at my video clip of a Venezuelan aid truck being set afire by Maduro, but Venezuelans are not going to see their lives improved nearly as much with aid trucks than they will with seeing Maduro gone. If you want to call that "anecdotal" that's fine because it's the collective experiences of 90% of the people remaining in Venezuela who want to see Maduro gone and 100% of the personal experiences of the 5 million people who want Maduro gone who had to flee the nation to feed their families. That's a pretty powerful "anecdote."

Here is a quick summary of a good book on this topic. Unless you think books you do not agree with are "anecdotal" too.

Anecdotal? Really? How much literature have you read on the governments and the economies of 3rd world nations? Let's exchange ideas since you claim to be somewhat educated on the matter.

All good points. Perhaps natural hunger isn't really a bad thing. Most animals in nature die from hunger after all, and we don't think twice about it. Time to get back in touch with the planet.

Lol, how far up your ass did you have to reach to pull this out?

Pol Pot knows it is good to be the king.

When you have the guns, you can afford to steal the food from USAID and sell it on the black market and buy even more guns with it. What food remains is given to the soldiers only. 

Did you just fall out of the baby cradle? How do you not know this?

Here is a fun clip you can watch of a warlord burning food right in front of his people.

All true followers of egalitarianism must go the route of Pol Pot if they are serious about lasting equality.

Cause socialist nations can just wave a magic wand and instantly transport food into 3rd world shitholes controlled by warlords and crime cartels...

Keep it up Eurotrash.

If you want to alleviate world hunger you have 2 options. 

1) Reduce the birth rate.

2) Export Capitalism.

USA is already a food exporter. We are one of the few countries that pays the farmers to NOT grow food.

Listen...the DNC is NOT going to back Biden with the superdelegates. Obama won't endorse him. Every debate the DNC has sponsored has purposefully rigged it so that the DNC suicidal attack dog Harris is always positioned to endlessly attack Biden on his lack of intersectionality. At the same time the DNC makes sure Warren is always shielded from attacks and surrounded by softball runners in the zero percent category.

If you haven't figured it out by now it's the DNC that picks the candidates, not the people.

I thought you were smart lol, how can you not know at least by now that Warren is the rigged pick? I had that shit called months before the 1st debate.

Like it's not obvious at all that the DNC elites have had the primary rigged for Warren since day 1.

all you need to do to slow down technology is to put hyper-productive smart people in cages for reasons of egalitarianism and wealth equality.

Teach us to build walls Eurotrash.

No robot would survive the purge of socialism.

Socialism is anti technology.

Rainfall isn't really the metric anyway since Israel can grow crops in the desert. All that is needed is thawed ground.

US shouldn't take over south Korea cause that is racist.