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I hate networks that fuck over good shows to promote new shows that are obviously trash. It is amazing to me how fucking stupid some tv execs are.

No, I dont consider where I am from important in this context. I have already laid out a great deal of personal information on my upbringing here and in other threads. Look my American Inventor, perhaps if you return the favor I will feel like you are trying to have a genuine conversation and not just find...

Dumar, do you consider this an unimportant question? You haven't answered it when Hodj or I have asked it. I know you aren't interested in debating Hodj, but don't you think this is an important and an obvious question that needs to be asked? I can't wrap my head around how a land without...

Pretty much all zero tolerance policies are absurd and are simply an excuse for the mods to be lazy. They want to be "against racism" but rather than try and possibly ban people for saying actually racist things (which would require them to make a judgement call), they instead just go the lazy...

Obviously not, which is why I made the sarcastic post in the Amod forum asking them to ban panface.

Whenever you immediately dismiss or think less of someone simply because of where they are from or the color of their skin. This can go both ways. The racism of those that immediately thought "Trayvon had it coming" and was an obvious thug simply because he was black. Or the racism of those...

Sure, that is great. I am not one to say you shouldn't be able to crack jokes. I think the policy of banning the saying of American Inventor on this forum is asinine and believe me, I was called many racial slurs and back again in the navy. That is different from what I see as casual racism amongst some...

Being a professor is not at all as influential on my views as you may think. I would say the big influences on my life as far as sexism is from my mother. She got her PhD when my brother and I were 3 years old, a year after she had divorced my father. She raised us while teaching computer...

Anyway, let me reiterate what I believe is a very important question. In the absence of personal property, who makes decisions on land use? If Hodj, who being from Kentucky harbors a deep need to be a plantation owner, comes to my farm and decides to plant cotton there instead of corn, who...

Well, I think personal attacks are pretty much always inappropriate. Certainly those negs by Hodj are pretty silly and diminish him in my eye, even if it is just simply trying to get your goat. I am under no illusion that he will stop simply because of this post, but I hope the next time he...

Done. Tanoomba, I will respond later, I have to head to campus.

I'm confused. What is the difference from giving it to someone else or abolishing private property? If my dad's farm is taken away from him, what happens when some other person decides they want to do something else with it? Will the government decide that instead of his 3 ponds he dug and built...

Well, I guess I will see what Dumar has in mind for post#2 on this subject, but I am a bit disillusioned atm. I was expecting some sort of "keep implementing socialist policies, keep up more and more progressive taxes and slowly even out the distribution of wealth". Education followed by hoping...

So what you are saying is that society needs enough education to be truly outraged at the situation they are in, so they will have a violent revolt? Is this your way to get rid of people wanting their toys, by having them killed? Or am I misunderstanding?

I really hate religion. Hard to think how life can get better for people who are living with groups that would rather celebrate death than live peacefully. Good. We as a people all over the world would be so much better off if we have a shitload more nuclear power plants and less coal power...

Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. The reformed chiropractors, that are essentially physical therapists are great. My stepfather is one that believes in innate intelligence and every other pseudoscientific healing method. Anti-vaccine, megadoses of vitamin C cure everything, everything can be...

Sadly, that Dianetics shit worked more than you would think or hope. My stepdad bought into that shit hardcore and tried to push that shit on me for years. Then again, my stepdad is a chiropractor so believing in pseudoscience is kinda his "thing".

I respectfully disagree. Tanoomba can often bring an interesting take on subjects. He certainly is one of the few posters who stands up to the silly and misogynistic standard on these forums of "women can't be friends if they are attractive". He just tends to get carried away with going to the...

Serious question: So my father owns about 1k acres of farmland. He started with 10 acres of family land that he had from when his father and mother died when he was a teenager. He worked as a civil engineer for 30 years, saving every last bit of money he had. He lived like a pauper basically...

Corn is fucking awesome. Nothing like eating some nice fresh corn on the cob from my dad's farm. Got about a 1000 acres of mixed corn and soybean fields that will be mine someday. Well, until Dumar takes the land away from me in his revolution.

Meat, potatoes and corn, the 3 staples of a true american diet, and yet you are strangely against 2 of them. I bet you are a closet vegetarian.

I still would respectfully like Dumar to answer my question. What would he do differently? Surely he will concede that Mao, Lenin and Pol Pot started out wanting a communist utopia. They failed and failed spectacularly. In specifics, if you were given the power due to a populist uprising that...

Endlessly refuting Dumar is hardly riled up. That is normal Hodj. Now if Hodj went on a rant about how retarded Dumar is and then stated he was smarter than anyone on these entire forums, he might be approaching the bare minimum of Bakunin levels. If he then repeated the personal insults and...

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I am still greatly enjoying homeland, but the nonstop pace of S1 could only have continued if they had decided Brody could die. The minute they decided not to blow up the bunker, I think it was no longer possible.

You seem to be saying that capitalism never takes academic framework seriously, it is all about what actually works. Whereas marxism spends all its time in academia talking about what should work. I think the first one fits much more strongly into the framework of science than the latter. It...

The difference is, capitalism has led to successes. You cannot point to a single successful communist society. So its just a "bit" more on the fringes. It is kinda like how you would expect to find many posters disagreeing on football teams, but you might be surprised to find the only two...

They are two communist poster alts who disagree on Marxism. It is really genius if you think about it.

Being so invested in a topic that you can't talk about it rationally isn't a good thing and certainly doesn't support that the person is in the right.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you did. I was saying that is something Mikhail does constantly, in every argument.

Yeah, the problem is that Hodj did ask the question you wanted asked, multiple times. They ignored it and instead of answering say "its a silly question because Mao wasn't really trying to start a communist utopia because he wasn't a communist".

Also, another point on Hodj vs Mikhail. When has Hodj ever claimed to be "the smarter person"? Mikhail is constantly proclaiming how smart he is when asked to cite sources, as if his innate intelligence has anything to do with it. Hint: If you start having to loudly scream "Im smarter than...

That is really unfair to Hodj. Mikhail ALWAYS resorts to calling people retards, in every argument. He does it in the politics thread, the gun thread, this thread, every fucking thread. He seems almost incapable of having a disagreement without calling the other person a retard.

Maybe, but I am asking if he has an answer to it. I am not interested in if Mao was a real communist (well, he was, but...). I am interested in how a true communist thinks it should go. I also wont take a 1) Turn the means of production completely over to the workers 2) ? 3) Marx utopia...

I WANT a long post. Don't link anything, tell me your platform. I want to vote you, give me a reason.

Anyway, I will give you time. I have to run some errands.

Also, give me real steps, not garglechimps "Abolish the Fed and everything falls in line".

Okay Dumar, I'm going to buy into your theory for a bit. Mao wasn't a communist, Stalin and Lenin weren't communists. Pol Pot wasn't a communist. You are. So how would YOU go about moving a modern capitalist society into a communist society? In particular, suppose you were elected...

If they want to believe their silly theory, fine. I just don't get how you can pretend it is scientific in any way. I mean, we have Dumar specifically laying out why it is unfalsifiable. That completely takes it out of the realm of science. He essentially admits it is his religion.

This is a very convenient statement for you, since it means your theory of communism being awesome is completely unfalsifiable. Any failure, no matter how great or with what effort, won't disprove your theory. What a joke.