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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: You may be a Communist if . . . |
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| They either break down and fall into Capitalism or devolve into a Feudal system run by autocrats and oligarchs. So you do prove the point that Capitalism is bad. Not at all. To "fall into" something in this context is to fall into a default state that works . Yet you never seem to get ti... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: My partner ogles other women & it makes me feel unattractive |
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| My XYF would get angry with me for even speaking to other women. She flew into a rage that lasted into the wee hours because I smiled and said, "Thank you" to the woman who served us at a fancy restaurant. She dropped in unexpectedly to my workplace to count the number of women who worke... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Capitalism VS Feudalism |
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| I'm not sure there's a huge difference. Either way you're working on someone else's means of production with little power or agency in the grand scheme of things. The biggest difference being that no matter who 'employs' you in a Feudal system, ultimately the person at the top owns all the means of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: You may be a Communist if . . . |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:46 pm
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| One theme keeps rolling through the pro-commie replies in this and other threads: "If a Communist government fails, then it isn't real Communism". This includes China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and the former Soviet Union (this included Tito's Yugoslavia). They either break down ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Steven Spielberg is providing strategy for Biden |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:31 pm
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| Good. Someone needs to be there to keep old "Sleepy Joe" awake. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: im doing a test campaign as a dm any tips |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:29 pm
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| Assuming that you've read Part 3, Chapters 8 and 9 of the DMG, what specific questions do you have? Meanwhile, I have a few general suggestions: • Session Zero : Instead of playing on the first meet-up, you and the players roll up characters (a main and a back-up) and discuss the player's interests ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:41 am
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| Please read This Post before making further comments about Communism or 'Equity'; because, as presented in this thread, they really are the same thing. But those are your personal views on communism. Ah, but those "personal views" are all based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2024, 8:02 pm
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| Please read This Post before making further comments about Communism or 'Equity'; because, as presented in this thread, they really are the same thing. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: im doing a test campaign as a dm any tips |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2024, 6:17 pm
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| Which system are you using? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2024, 12:53 am
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| Loves the images of the boxes . . . Don't be fooled. TRUE equity would have involved giving each person a free ticket to watch the game from the stands. That's the trouble with using memes to support an idea -- they are limited in scope, and never go far enough. About the only thing you and I see... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What if the Internet had been available to us as children? |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2024, 12:43 am
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GadgetGuru wrote: What if the Internet had been available to us as children? I would have had no 'need' to sneak into the garage where my dad kept his secret porn stash. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2024, 12:41 am
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| The majority of the population in the US is Christian. It’s extremely unlikely that they will experience widespread persecution. Scrutinizing beliefs does not equal persecution. Nothing should be above scrutiny. While the majority population in the U.S. may claim Christianity as their belief sys... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you ever wish that there was a country run by autisitics? |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2024, 11:09 pm
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| .....eventually turning into the kind of facility described in the OP's video. Err.......what video? Why . . . THIS one, of course . . . https://youtu.be/xxV6s4oM1hg ;) (Explanation: I had several different websites open at the same time, and got them confused due to lack of coffee. That's my story... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2024, 6:29 pm
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Jakki wrote: Loves the images of the boxes . . . Don't be fooled. TRUE equity would have involved giving each person a free ticket to watch the game from the stands.
That's the trouble with using memes to support an idea -- they are limited in scope, and never go far enough. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: The Discovery of Radio Waves. |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2024, 6:23 pm
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| Antibiotics have been used for millennia to treat infections, although until the last century or so people did not know the infections were caused by bacteria. Various molds and plant extracts were used to treat infections by some of the earliest civilizations -- the ancient Egyptians, for example... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2024, 6:12 pm
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| Read the Complete and Unedited Article HERE . Australia is taking on "arrogant billionaire" Elon Musk over violent images on X At issue is the right of X to publish a video showing the moment a 16-year-old allegedly stabbed a bishop in an Orthodox Christian Church in Sydney earlier this ... |
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