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alfred russel

#8100
October 24, 2019, 12:35:22 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 24, 2019, 08:36:15 AM

Chop out about 80% of your brain and you will be able to understand "memes."

More bullshit from grumbler. I tried this, and am as clueless as ever.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Syt

#8101
October 24, 2019, 01:55:58 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#8102
October 24, 2019, 02:00:05 PM
What if it is neither compassion nor theft but public policy backed up by decades of data?

Anyway who is that lady and what does she have to do with anything? Does she work or is she getting money?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

crazy canuck

#8103
October 24, 2019, 02:02:52 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2019, 02:00:05 PM
What if it is neither compassion nor theft but public policy backed up by decades of data?

Anyway who is that lady and what does she have to do with anything? Does she work or is she getting money?

She just seems to think the text associated with her image makes no sense.

Habbaku

#8104
October 24, 2019, 02:06:04 PM
At what point does it cease to be theft?  :hmm:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

The Minsky Moment

#8105
October 24, 2019, 02:08:12 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 24, 2019, 02:02:52 PM
She just seems to think the text associated with her image makes no sense.

She is probably wondering why the text writer is telling her to let her infant children starve to death.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Valmy

#8106
October 24, 2019, 02:08:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 24, 2019, 02:06:04 PM
At what point does it cease to be theft?  :hmm:

When it goes to people who deserve your money I guess. Like farmers.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

frunk

#8107
October 24, 2019, 02:10:56 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2019, 02:08:37 PM

When it goes to people who deserve your money I guess. Like farmers.

I think it's ok to take money from people who don't work, like the dead.  Perhaps this is advocating for 100% inheritance tax.

Valmy

#8108
October 24, 2019, 02:14:35 PM
That's true. Maybe this is also a call for high capital gains taxes.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Habbaku

#8109
October 24, 2019, 02:15:43 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2019, 02:08:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 24, 2019, 02:06:04 PM
At what point does it cease to be theft?  :hmm:

When it goes to people who deserve your money I guess. Like farmers.

Anything else is creeping socialism.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

HVC

#8110
October 24, 2019, 03:45:26 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 24, 2019, 02:08:12 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 24, 2019, 02:02:52 PM
She just seems to think the text associated with her image makes no sense.

She is probably wondering why the text writer is telling her to let her infant children starve to death.

if kids deserved to live god would save them. Once they're popped out they're on their own
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Syt

#8111
October 25, 2019, 06:15:52 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

#8112
October 25, 2019, 06:17:07 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 24, 2019, 02:06:04 PM
At what point does it cease to be theft?  :hmm:

When it is no longer property?  :hmm:

Richard Hakluyt

#8113
October 25, 2019, 06:38:08 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2019, 02:14:35 PM
That's true. Maybe this is also a call for high capital gains taxes.

Will nobody think of the poor rentier capitalists  :weep: ?

Valmy

#8114
October 25, 2019, 07:09:57 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 25, 2019, 06:15:52 AM


The slippery slope!

But seriously this is a problem I often have with this kind of propaganda: I have to have consumed the other propaganda for it to make any sense to me. It is kind of like only reading the last book of a series: half of this stuff I have no idea what specifically it refers to.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."
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