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Offline Shrike

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Originally posted by Kazashi
Another person had a charming little patriotic rant about how their nation worked for their money, then went on about fearing competing economies as if it were more important than the factor of survival. What about the little countries that these bigger countries step on? Would manufacturers of those overly featured sports shoes still be as successful if they used cheap Asian labour in overseas sweat shops?
If that was directed at me, please note I'm not American.
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It was directed at Blue Lion.

 

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Originally posted by Shrike
If that was directed at me, please note I'm not American.


Yes you are. :D Just not in the way that most of the world thinks of an "American". :wink:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 
I hope a violent alien race comes and extermintes the virus known as man (Hey Cylons! Over Here!!!:eek: )

Cause if a peaceful race shows up we'll just end up corrupting them and then spreading like a cancer through the universe.

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Offline Levyathan

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Yes you are. :D Just not in the way that most of the world thinks of an "American". :wink:


At least someone around here thinks straight! :yes:

 

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I hope a violent alien race comes and extermintes the virus known as man (Hey Cylons! Over Here!!!:eek: )

Cause if a peaceful race shows up we'll just end up corrupting them and then spreading like a cancer through the universe.

*aliens land*
we come in peace, we bring you cures for desises, world peace, and imortality
*first human arives on the sceen*
I'll give you $20 for it
*aliens look at him with confusion*
what is this "$20"
*human responds*
cash, you can use it to get anything you want, like this candy bar
*pulls out bar, thoughs it to alien*
*alien looks at it*
you eat it!!
*alien eats it, muters something incoherent*
*another alien* Malcec, let me try, let me try
NO! this is my... can-dee
*man yells*
not unless you give me what we agreed on
*alien*
oh, yes
*throughs a box to the man*
*aliens return into there ship, while fighting over the candy bar*
*ship flies away, slightly out of control*

**three weeks later sky fills with light after the insueing inter-galactic war**
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Global warming is a lie.  That's all I can say.
It's a fact.  Stupid people have stupid children.  If you are stupid, don't have sex.  If you insist on having sex.  Have sex with animals.  If you have sex with an animal.  Make sure the animal is smarter than you are.  Just encase of some biological fluke you and the animal have offspring, they won't be as stupid as you are.   One more thing.  Don't assume the animal is protected.  If the animal has a condom, or if female some interuterian device, insist they wear it.  Help stop this mindless mindlessness.  Keep your stupidty to yourself.  This message was brought to you by the Committee of Concerned Citizens that are Smarter than You are.

 

Offline CP5670

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Another person had a charming little patriotic rant about how their nation worked for their money, then went on about fearing competing economies as if it were more important than the factor of survival. What about the little countries that these bigger countries step on? Would manufacturers of those overly featured sports shoes still be as successful if they used cheap Asian labour in overseas sweat shops?


By the time the time the "little countries" die out this sort of work will be fully automated anyway, though. :D

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Of course we all won't die. That's idiotic. But how many people will die before we get the situation under control?


It is? You didn't seem to think so a few months ago in that other topic. :D :D I do not know about the actual numbers, but not nearly so many will be lost that humanity cannot continue its forward progression at at least the current pace. Besides, this is still a couple hundred years away, at which point cloning should have become more mainstream and it would be easy to manufacture more people as necessary.

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1. As Kazashi said, their kids keep dying. So they have a lot.


They could just wait until the existing ones die before having new ones... :rolleyes: :D

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It's not your fault that they have crap land, but it's not their fault either. So what, you gonna let them rot on it... ?


of course! :D

 

Offline Su-tehp

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Originally posted by CODEDOG ND
Global warming is a lie.  That's all I can say.


Then you're an ideological conservative who has bought into the anti-environmental propaganda. Global warming is real. In the last century, the composition of the atmosphere has changed more radically than in the previous ten thousand years. It is generally agreed that this is because of man-made pollution (flourocarbons, smog, etc.) being put into the atmosphere.

In the last century, the average global temperature has risen almost a degree and a half. Now that might not sound like much, but when you consider that if it rises by another three or four degrees, that would be enough to melt the polar ice caps to raise the ocean's level by ten feet worldwide. That's more than enough to flood the North American continent to put Washington state, Oregon, California and the entire Eastern Seaboard underwater.

And what possible motive would people have to lie about it? What would it gain them?

Codedog, what proof do you have that global warming is a lie?
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Offline Bobboau

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global warming will cause an Ice age in a few years anyway, so we won't have to wory about that, in fact it would probly lower the sea level by quite a bit,
but most of europe is going to get hard frozen...
hey, most of europe is gona get hard frozen, yay!!!
it's gona be a bombtastic century :nod:
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Offline Mr. Vega

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Su-tehp's post: :yes:

We are all in this together on Earth. I won't hide the fact that I despise nationalists. To me there is just a human race.

Why would anybody lie about global warming? Not everybody's a terrorist, believe it or not.

Isn't there something that can break down CFCs? I know its catylist, so it is unchanged after each reaction, but there has to be something other than high energy radiation or something that can break it down.

Bobboau post: it will be AT LEAST 500 years before that starts to happen, we'll be dead b then unless we do something.
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This a war against our own stupidity and ignorance.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Offline Levyathan

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Originally posted by CP5670
They could just wait until the existing ones die before having new ones... :rolleyes: :D


That's morbid in so many ways it's not even funny. Right now I feel like shooting you in the head.

 

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yesss... you just keep on think'n that :devil:
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acording to this site set up solely for the perpose of debunking global warming
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Offline Blue Lion

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Originally posted by Kellan

Yes, but - you are suggesting that all of their governments in the course of history have been uniformly corrupt or incompetent. Whilst I'm not saying that you're attributing it to "because they're black" soley, there is the suggestion that this may be a reason if you make such an exculsivist statement.


I never mentioned previous governments, I mentioned the governments now that are instituting the policies now that are screwing over their people now



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1. As Kazashi said, their kids keep dying. So they have a lot.


You'd think people would realize, if your children are dying, they are dying for a reason, please stop having more than you can handle.

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2. We forced a religion called Catholicism on them - which forbids contraception.


I don't recall catholics equaling the US government. If you wanna blame the church, make them pay for it, not me


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4. Don't bull**** me about abstinence. I mean it.


Mean what? All I'm saying is only have as many children as you can adequately afford to keep healthy, if that's 1, 2, 100 kids, whatever. But if you cannot afford them, do not have them and then expect me to chip in.



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It's not your fault that they have crap land, but it's not their fault either. So what, you gonna let them rot on it just because we were lucky enough to be born where the land is better, and not so important for survival?


Yes? Is it my responsibility to? No. Is it my choice? Yes, and I choose not to.




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It's a factor, not the be-all-and-end-all. We could have reduced the potential for mismanagement by governments if we didn't sell them weapons when we know that they can't feed their people, or sell them bad loans, oil-powered machinery etc.


It is not our fault their governments are stupid. If they wanna spend their money on weapons and not food, it's their own damn fault people are starving. I don't blame gun makers for war because they sell their guns to militaries.


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Again, no. But it's not theirs.


So how is that my responsibilty?

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I have a question for you. Do you give to charities? Y'know, help the elderly in the community, or guide dogs, or something like that? Ever, in your life?


If I want to, not when I'm told to

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By applying the logic you have to the Third World, allow me to extrapolate.

1. Do blind people deserve my help, or the forbearance of society because they're blind? No.
2. Do sick people deserve the help of others to get them to a hospital or the help of a doctor to cure them? No.
3. Did the victims of September 11th deserve our help to save their lives? No.


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Which, I guess just goes to prove CP's point that the concept of deserving is meaningless. :p


You just asked and answered your own question, am I damned for all time because I don't help homeless kids in Africa? I don't think so

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Another person had a charming little patriotic rant about how their nation worked for their money



Are you implying we didn't work for it?

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then went on about fearing competing economies as if it were more important than the factor of survival.


Are you trying to tell me that bringing nations, as they stand, to a level comparable to ours is good for me?

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What about the little countries that these bigger countries step on? Would manufacturers of those overly featured sports shoes still be as successful if they used cheap Asian labour in overseas sweat shops?


Why don't you go ask the leaders of these Asians countries who let their children be used as slaves? Nike did not come in with guns and say "Make shoes using slave labor or we kill you"
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Offline CP5670

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That's morbid in so many ways it's not even funny. Right now I feel like shooting you in the head.


In other words, you don't have any arguments left. This is the second time now. :rolleyes: :D

 

Offline Blue Lion

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Originally posted by Levyathan


That's morbid in so many ways it's not even funny. Right now I feel like shooting you in the head.



Because he has no sympathy for people who torture children merely by having them?