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Although there are now more guns in our society but fewer people own them, the gain has been that a small number of kooks are stock piling

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Successes make a person over confident failure can either demoralize you or make you more determined, if you make a mistake and learn from it so you wont do it again making the mistake is the most valuable thing to you

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The ranking on this site is meaningless because judging is dishonest and done out of bias and spite

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In order to correctly interpret data it is nececssarry to make sure it is accurate

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Socialism can occur through voluntary associations and without governmental interventions

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Ragnar has it in for me he always votes against my debates i wish to protest this

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The voting system here is a joke, debates should be decided by a set of judges selected for their expertise and fairness which be evident over time by their acts

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Socialism of the Western European social democratic variety would work here and already has

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Evolution is both theory and fact

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We should all get in a big pile and race mix, basically speed up what is now occurring that will end hatred and war as we will al finally be the same

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Genders are determined by Science not by ideological fads there are men and there are women and then there are people who are defective

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Norway is more socialist than Venezuela or China

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strict gun laws are part of the reason new york is a very safe cityhttp://nycitylens.com/wp-content/guns/new-york-city-and-its-gun-laws-how-strict-are-they/index.html

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Laws are not perfect if you make the drinking age 18 15 year olds will find a way to drink if you make it 21 18 year olds will sneak a drink many restrictions are onerous because they put a limit on a persona freedom but if you make something illegal you might not eliminate it but you will reduce it

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Trump has betrayed his base as factory jobs keep disappearing

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It’s time for a reality check on Trump’s claims about jobs, wages and economic growth.

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The growth we see in the economy over ten good years has not impacted on the bulk of the population which wil eventually lead to breakdown

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The government has plans for attempts against the government and would easily put them down https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/11/15/how-the-u-s-military-would-crush-a-tea-party-rebellion/#5460cf5475bc

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Science is objective and has a time tested method of finding truth Science and Technology make planes fly cure cancer it is the only truth the only magic that governs our lives it works bitches, and has proven we need stricter laws

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Many people are happy with what they have, which may be little or nothing while other with great money and power are deeply unhappy

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Donald Trump deserves to be impeached for a myriad of abuses but will not because thr Democratic clown car cant get its pathetic act together

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Gun controls efficacy can be objectively verified

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If we get rid of most of the world s humans the global warming problem is solved

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Depriving me the right to vote is as agregious as a literalcy test on african americans

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Ragnar always votes against me, why is this allowed

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Nordic nations are often referred to as Democratic Socialist , well a Rose by any other name, I will concede they are not Socialist , their economies are for the most part not state run , and are totally market friendly in some ways more than the USA economy , but they have generous welfare and labour measures and protect workers and emphasize a good quality of life, some call tis social democracy , but the term isn't important, what is important is that the Nordic Model makes capitalism work

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Canada has stricter gun laws and lower violent crime rates, the two are co related, there are other reasons why violent crime is less https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/05/30/controversial-canadian-firearms-control-bill-passes/ https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Crime

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If Trumps admitted conduct doesn't justify impeachment nothing does

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Mauritius remains among the Sub-Saharan Africa region’s most business-friendly countries, with solid economic policies and prudent banking practices.

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China and Vietnam despite market reforms remain at heart Socialist States guided by the state

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People who are too cowardly to debate here, should refrain from mocking those with courage to try. Those too gutless or too lazy to do combat should defer to those with the bravado to at least give it a go

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The founding fathers warned of foreign entanglements and yet? here we are like an octopus all over the world

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At least it isn't elephants.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKGwGAHznFQ All my arguments will be based on this video link and data provided no other source My resolution is that Norway is an ideal model for what a society should be like , we will also totally avoid the is it socialist debate because that is retarded, call it the nordic model, can it be replicated elsewhere? Maybe not in total, but there are lessons to be learned

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Massachusetts has shown to be at the top of quality of life indexes and has a gnp per capita of $65,545 one of the highest

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Israel doesn't have to be Populated by Saints to justify its existence just a brave and competent army

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The United States doesn't actually suffer from higher rates of crime what it does experience is higher , much higher levels of violent VIOLENT crime because of the prevalence of guns in our society https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/us-gun-violence-statistics-maps-charts

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In his pamphlet Common Sense (1776), American philosopher Thomas Paine compared the government to a “necessary evil.” Law enforcers, Judiciary, and the constitution are meant to protect individuals' right, property, and liberty but in some instances, the same institutions might be used to against the individual.

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the conventional view of Prohibition is not supported by the facts.

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Among the 62 mass shootings over the last 30 years that we studied, not a single case includes evidence that the killer chose to target a place because it banned guns

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If the Right wing types get together to over throw the government they are looking at a route

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China has a faster growth rate than ours logically that means if things stay as they are, eventually we will catch up

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John Stewart Mills the foremost proponent of Liberal, classical liberal values was in the end convinced that for society to survive prosper and provide for everyone liberty and prosperity, some for of Soclialist economy would need to prevail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_socialism#Ethical_socialism

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Singapore the right wings free enterprise darling actually is very Socialist

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My internet went out for 3 days and i screamed and creamed but it didnt come back on til about an hour ago, so my loses humiliating as they seem dont count

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