Well. For me its just about improving life and our standard of living, something I feel we can acheive much faster through capitalism than through socialism, if we could do it all through socialism....
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Well. For me its just about improving life and...Well. For me its just about improving life and our standard of living, something I feel we can acheive much faster through capitalism than through socialism, if we could do it all through socialism....
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You make a good point (no, really) but I still...You make a good point (no, really) but I still disagree.
Being working class, or middle class or upper class is temporary, race is coded in our DNA, nothing you can do about it, just like gender,...
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I can, see the difference, all I'm saying is I...I can, see the difference, all I'm saying is I want there to be Black people in 500 years and Whites. As its going there won't be. Not much we can do about it but I don't think its good.
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Indeed, its not just about skin colour, race is...Indeed, its not just about skin colour, race is defined by much more.
Even if it doesn't exist why do you guys care if someone only wants to marry someone like them on moral grounds? Muslims tend...
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Indeed, it would be a genocide if blue eyes were...Indeed, it would be a genocide if blue eyes were to die out, a bloodless genocide.
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Political simulatorsDoes anyone know any decent, complex ones, ones with plenty of variables? Not online, multiplayer ones where you spend all day declaring war and selling the shitty resources your e-country produces?...
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Individualisation?
Okay, under your system...Individualisation?
Okay, under your system two people want the same house, does the guy who offers more get it, if not how do you work it out? Some utterly arbitrary basis like by name...
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So I take it you're going to be donating what...So I take it you're going to be donating what your father gives you when he dies to charity are you?
Well if he's fixing it up then he's adding value, its hardly like a purely speculative market...
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'Their' jobs, now I disagree, if your employer...'Their' jobs, now I disagree, if your employer doesn't want you then its not your job is it? Its only your job for as long as you hold it.
Once again, its a matter of people who support...
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I hope to see further privatisation of services...I hope to see further privatisation of services and a freer market.
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I agree, I think people would be less resentful...I agree, I think people would be less resentful about giving to charity if they didn't feel robbed of their wealth by the tax system.
Either way its not one's duty to support other people,...
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Well yes the Welsh and English are both sub...Well yes the Welsh and English are both sub groups of the White/European race, however its been established English people are, genetically, almost indistinguishable from Frisians and English people...
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Well you can look at it one of two ways, a half...Well you can look at it one of two ways, a half Black half White person is either a member of no race or both races.
Racial admixture is ubiquitous and its been going on for centuries, so any...
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I have to disagree, skin colour, with a few very...I have to disagree, skin colour, with a few very rare exceptions (throwbacks), is passed on directly.
If your mom is White & your dad is White then you will be White, if your mom has an attached...
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Yeah, it may not literally be a man with a gun,...Yeah, it may not literally be a man with a gun, but they will use force.
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Honest answer? Well, I'd benefit greatly from not...Honest answer? Well, I'd benefit greatly from not having to pay for the unemployed and those who are ill or for those in state education, I am, after all, out for my own interests, like most other...
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Class vs gender vs race consciousnessYou guys often talk of how class transcends race, which maybe it does, and how racism prevents class consciousness, here's my questions.
Why do you never say gender consciousness (i.e. feminism)...
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Okay, you went to the US illegally and expected...Okay, you went to the US illegally and expected to get covered?
So would I be correct in saying you want someone else to pay for your healthcare? As far as I can see its either that, or you...
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I don't really care who benefits from it, I think...I don't really care who benefits from it, I think you guys lack self-confidence, you want an easy way out.
You're spot on about the liberty thing, well from my perspective anyway liberty trumps...
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People with enough intelligence to benefit, or...People with enough intelligence to benefit, or those who have been allowed to benefit through being gifted something.
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And you want the state to have power over...And you want the state to have power over everything or are you just saying its going to be a natural consequence of what's going on?
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It seems we disagree on precisely what YOUR...It seems we disagree on precisely what YOUR resources are, to me they're what you've bought from someone or been given to you it seems you are entitled to everything.
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Permanent revolution?I know Trotsky wanted permanent revolution, he wanted communism everywhere, whereas Stalin wanted socialism in one country, however here's my question to you, as communists.
Do you feel communism...
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I don't know.I don't know.
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Of course its a net gain for society to get more...Of course its a net gain for society to get more out of the same resources than would be gained from a different way of managing them, it may be more efficient but its not fair in my eyes.