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Something else to consider in all this. The people as a whole in the US just rolled over without so much a complaint or whimper. Don't think for one second the powers that be in govt will forget that. What will they do to us next and under what new crisis will they restrict us? I can already see it now, the govt will start rationing everything under the disguise of climate change. You cant go here you cant do this you cant do anything that it deems bad for the environment, are all ya'll going to just roll over and take it like we are doing now. This is scary shit and I don't mean the virus, there have been far worse and far more deadly in the past. This, I believe is a test run for the future. I believe we all passed with flying colors like good little lemmings.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
How is that a solution? What are you going to do for the next 32 days?
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@Vader
Don't know exactly what it is you want me to say. You believe what you believe. A person from China who isn't part of the ruling elite would most likely disagree with your argument. That would be a billion or so people
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So anyone out there living pay check to pay check coming close to starving because you have no money yet? How are you paying for food? How are you paying for anything? I notice all the people saying stay home have no financial problems. Easy for them to say.
If you think people can just sit unemployed for months, you are delusional and out of your mind. People are going to start rioting and looting in the next few weeks. And I don't blame them one bit in this case. Those checks the govt mails out Half will go to the healthcare insurance industry to pay back what everyone owes for their employer provided healthcare. Ya, bet no one thinks of that, I have to pay $200.00 a week out of my paycheck for me and my wife. You think employers are just going to eat that? Don't think so. You will most likely owe money when you go back to work if you have been forced out of work.
At some point in the very near future you as an individual will have to decide for yourself if you want to isolate yourself from the rest of the world but you cant demand everyone else do it. The world is, always has been and always will be a dangerous place. You can't expect the entire population to cater to your fears of being alive on planet earth. Humanity lived through measles, mumps, polio, small pox you name it without shutting down. If your time is up, your time is up. That's how it is, always has been and always will be. Decimating the world economy won't ever change that. It will just make it worse on top of all of everything else that you cant prevent from happening. People die. Everyone needs to come to terms with that. Viruses are either man made or it is nature culling the heard. Welcome to reality, but please suffer on your own and don't take me down with you, I have already come to terms with it decades ago.
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China's economy is "free." K then
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I looked at her life achievements in the private sector. Has never worked or held a job in the private sector. Has never run business or had to meet a payroll. Just another do nothing career politician.
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@RationalMadman
K then, China is right wing.
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@zedvictor4
I believe you referred to China as being right wing. If you think and believe this the education system has failed you. China is a communist country and affords no human rights or freedoms to anyone except those in the ruling class.
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@zedvictor4
OMG how the education system has failed you.
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@Alec
" If you need to wait 2 hours for a surgery," Um ya, try two months or two years depending on the surgery if you want cheap
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@Alec
Choose two>>>>>> cheap, fast, good
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@Alec
"Socialism is a 100% tax rate and everyone gets the same UBI of the national average salary, so everyone has the same amount of wealth." Except of course the ruling elite that will live in opulence. Anyone who has the power to tell me what I can and cant have and can and cant do will have more wealth and freedom than I. I'll assume you are for the giant nanny state where the producers are punished and the slack asses are rewarded.
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@Seth
Two questions, what country do you live in that is a true socialist state and not a giant capitalist nanny state? And how has socialism helped you? Socialism has never been about helping people, it has always been about controlling people and rationing what they get and what they can do. You can argue till your blue in the face that there is a difference between socialism and communism but there is none. Both are about the same thing, control and rationing to make people live with the least amount as possible without uprising and turning against the ruling elite that of course live in opulence and know whats best for everyone.
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If there is a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell it gives a good indicator of the amount of people going to heaven and those going to hell.
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@rbelivb
Why do I have to choose between two evils? Why cant I so no to both? I refuse to choose which pile of shit I must eat. You eat it, so to speak.
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@TheRealNihilist
Oh stop analyzing a stupid sarcastic joke.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
If one wants to get real technical, the term "assault weapon" is a completely made up term. Only politicians and civilians use the term.
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@SirAnonymous
First, a fully automatic weapon is designated as an assault weapon. A weapon that looks like it but does not have the capability to fire full auto is not an assault weapon. "ALL" full auto weapons built after 1986 are banned for public purchase. All existing must be registered with the FBI. All this legislation is designed to do is lead to total confiscation.
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@RationalMadman
Calling people brainwashed makes you look desperate. It's a total loser intellectually. Instant turn off and a giant red herring. My opinion of coarse.
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@TheRealNihilist
Do you really think it is not a joke? That I am making a serious intellectual statement? I think it's funny how you are analyzing it. That's funnier than the joke itself.
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@TheRealNihilist
Um it's a joke. Settle down Bevis
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@TheRealNihilist
"The study of philosophy can never yield concrete answers" Sure it can. For example: It's better to cum in the gravy than piss in the salad.
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@ethang5
I thought so and in my opinion proved to be very good choices for America and the world.
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@zedvictor4
"In politics it presumably is always the lesser of all the evils that gets elected." I agree 99.9999% of the time. I have only voted for two people since I was old enough to vote that I didn't consider the lesser of two evils. That includes all city state and federal elections. Reagan and Trump have been the only two. Ironically they are the only two people out of all the people I have ever voted for in my life that have won.
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@LordLuke
Some people talk from life experience and some people can talk a good game of BS. And then there are those who have no life experience or cant talk a good game of BS, thus making them unable to articulate a coherent thought. And then there are those that just regurgitate the words of other people who massage their confirmation biases. Those who say they don't know, are usually the smartest and will know before the day or week or month is out.
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@DynamicSquid
Simply put, he hasn't got the balls or the chutzpah to do anything about it. He is more afraid of his constituency for what they might think.
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@PressF4Respect
Sure you can do all of those things if you have the money. But you wont do it, not even to prove it to yourself. Never mind trying to prove it to anyone else. As far as illusions, what about them? I didn't say perception was 100% proof. I said people tend to believe what they perceive and it's near impossible to change peoples perceptions even if they are illusions and delusions. All I am saying is the average Joe cant personally prove the earth is a sphere. This is most likely reason some still argue the earth is flat, they can't personally prove it to themselves.
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@Paul
Cant say for sure, you see mountains with gaps between them. So I will assume the gaps between them would be an obscured view of the horizon.
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@zedvictor4
You are missing the argument I have been making, I don't think the earth is flat and I am making no attempt to prove it is flat. I am arguing that "you personally" can not prove it is a sphere with out any outside resources at your disposal.
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@Paul
Can not a flat earther take you to the salt lake flats and demonstrate the earth is flat. As flat as far as the eye can see for miles in every direction. That's pretty strong evidence that you can see and look at with your own eyes. Don't even have to do any math or explaining. That, as opposed to mathematical equations and calculations that many would not understand and just have to take your word for it. Again I don't believe the earth is flat. I have to repeat this every so often.
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@Paul
How does this prove the earth is a sphere. People looked at that for eons and thought the earth was flat. And you are not supposed post links to known science.
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@PressF4Respect
Um you don't get the gist of what I am saying. "YOU" have to provide everything and do all the work to prove the earth is round. That is what I have been saying all along. You personally cant prove the earth is a sphere. Don't know why this is a difficult concept to accept. I never said people with the financial means and necessary skills and knowledge couldn't. I am saying you cant.
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@Paul
But I can take you to the salt flats and demonstrate the earth is flat. Like others said before, "perception" I can show a flat perception but in no way can a show a spherical one. If you had no concept of the earth being a sphere you could accept the theory the earth is flat. "Seeing is believing" Like possession, perception is 9/10 of the law. Perception plays a big role in what people believe, even the most highly educated people in the world that claim total indifference or non bias. Politics being a good example. No matter how many facts you lay on the table and how much proof you shove in their face, wont matter one bit. They believe what they believe.
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@zedvictor4
Um perception shows that is is flat. Iv'e been to the salt flats. The earth looks as flat as a pancake there. Let me reiterate that I don't believe the earth is flat. You can't personally prove it is sphere. Seems a lot of people have trouble with that. I can admit I cant do it nor do I have the desire to try. It would take months to prove even already knowing how it was done in the first place.
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@Paul
OK do it. but don't use anyone else's knowledge research or data. You are already trying to by quoting "Eratosthenes" And like my teacher always said show your work. LOL It is of course impossible to prove your work is your own as you can simply copy and paste it from known sources who already figured it out.
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@Imabench
Yes it is incorrect. I admit I am wrong. I can do that.
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@Paul
Prove the earth is round using only your own verifiable research. You can not quote or use anyone else's research or data.
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I don't believe the earth is flat. But with that said if some one walked up to me and pointed a gun at my head and told me to prove the earth is not flat without books or the internet I could not do it. I believe the earth to be round because I must have faith in what I am being told by science in the same manner people have faith in the belief in God. I can't PERSONALLY prove or disprove the earth is flat nor prove or disprove the existence of God. All i can do is present to you what has been presented to me by someone else who also has no first hand knowledge as to whether the earth is flat or a globe. You must have faith in what you are being told is true. You cant personally prove it to yourself. You will at best convince yourself the earth to be a globe because you have already been exposed to the idea and will inherently be biased toward the accepted answer. You will never take the time and effort to simulate all the experiments needed to prove what you have been taught to believe in order to truly and honesty prove it to yourself.
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@855h01E
When repair costs exceed book value
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@Imabench
This is a question for anyone, If the President has been impeached by the House, which he has been. And the Senate doesn't remove Trump from office, according to what I have read Trumps first term in office is nullified and he can run as President for two more terms. So Trump 2020 and 2024? Assuming of course he wins in a rigged and unfair election against him like last time. I think this would cause heads to literally explode and would be very entertaining to watch.
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@3RU7AL
I think you fail to realize most of the people who come to the US don't understand free markets or capitalism. Most come with the idea that they will be taken care of and given free stuff, which by all accounts is true. Living on American welfare pays 20 times what they lived on before they came. Get rid of all welfare for immigrants for the first ten years and we can talk about opening boarders.
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@disgusted
So it is your opinion that taxes will go down, the debt will be reduced, I will get rights that I have lost back and there will be no inflation if I vote for Democrats. Please explain the current policies the Democrat party is putting forward to achieve theses goals.
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If things look bad for Trumpsters now that will look like a cake walk for everyone if a Democrat gets elected. It will be nothing but non stop tyranny and taxes. Unemployment will sky rocket, inflation will sky rocket national debt will quadruple.
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Skinny jeans are gay, combine that with a man bun and screaming gay. Discuss
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@Paul
Ya, that,s why they call it nuclear testing. Set it off and see what happens record the results and adjust accordingly for the desired result.
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@Imabench
The only problem I see with this is you cant buy back what you never owned or sell what isn't yours. The govt would be taking my tax dollars that I had to pay and telling me they are paying me to buy my gun. No I'am out my gun. I was paid nothing for it. They are using what I paid in taxes and giving it back, its a wash minus one gun that I paid good money for. I'll just keep my guns, much easier and cheaper, plus the added benefit of the possibility of all out civil war should the govt try to take guns by force.
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@Alec
Well I am going to use the kind of math that is used to figure out how many hours you worked and also the kind of math that is used to figure out how much you should be paid based on your pay rate and hours worked. So the answer would be 19 >>>>> 9+10 = 19. Now if you want to play stupid games and think you are being clever by saying it doesn't then the answer can be anything. Using that kind of math I'll just say 9+10 = 345.
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The big question is why are children and young adults being taught to think they should get something for nothing? Why does being born entitle you to anything? That concept is reserved to the scum sucking monarchies of the world that I still can't believe people allow to exist.
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