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by erianaiel
Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:47 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: The Republican philosophy in action
Replies: 21
Views: 20462

Re: The Republican philosophy in action

Because those 3% are smarter than the other 97%, yet they give the 97% a job. Except that the graph at the beginning of this thread, and many many other studies show that they don't. Really? On the graph it says ExxonMobil employs 80,000 people, and that's just one company. How many poor people do ...
by erianaiel
Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:11 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: The Republican philosophy in action
Replies: 21
Views: 20462

Re: The Republican philosophy in action

Because those 3% are smarter than the other 97%, yet they give the 97% a job. Except that the graph at the beginning of this thread, and many many other studies show that they don't. And even if they give a 'job', it's pay is slowly but surely decaying towards subsistence level. The number of Ameri...
by erianaiel
Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:15 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: The Republican philosophy in action
Replies: 21
Views: 20462

Re: The Republican philosophy in action

and their personal income tax rate is irrelevant. Tudamorf, when 40 pct of the population collectively owns about 0.1 of privately held property then there is a problem, same as when 10pct of the populations collectively owns more of the private property than the other 90pct combined. And even more...
by erianaiel
Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:14 pm
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Internment VS Concentration Camps
Replies: 18
Views: 17374

Re: Internment VS Concentration Camps

Tudamorf wrote:So by your definition, Auschwitz wasn't a "concentration camp" until they started killing the inhabitants
My .. you managed to read the exact opposite of what I actually said. I am sure that took some mental gymnastics.


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by erianaiel
Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:20 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Internment VS Concentration Camps
Replies: 18
Views: 17374

Re: Internment VS Concentration Camps

Concentration camps were (at least in recent history) a british invention. During the boeren war in South Africa they rounded up and locked up the civilian population in camps, both as hostages and as an attempt to reduce the guerilla attacks by the boeren against their forces. As such Tudamorf is c...
by erianaiel
Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:43 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: The US Debt and where it came from
Replies: 10
Views: 11265

Re: The US Debt and where it came from

Fair enough, Tudamorf. Those are rates(delta change) numbers. Not actual production numbers, of course. But those numbers and graph is misleading(they are delta). The image projects a baseline. Those increases above the 0 are still making up the losses from 2008. We are still below the GDP of 2006 ...
by erianaiel
Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:52 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: Guess you could say I was shocked...
Replies: 4
Views: 5679

Re: Guess you could say I was shocked...

Appointing a person who believes in invisible beings . . . and started essentially the the most perverse contorted backward assed fucked up belief system on the planet The Supreme Court consists of six Catholics and three Jews (clearly, representative of the general population). Do you know what th...
by erianaiel
Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:40 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: New York Silliness
Replies: 10
Views: 11053

Re: New York Silliness

Now imagine if you will, that the man that you just started this fight with, spends tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on you every year. Feeding you, clothing you, feeding your fucking brats, buying you clothes and jewelry, bought your cars. Paying for your pedicures and all the other things...
by erianaiel
Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:26 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: The US Debt and where it came from
Replies: 10
Views: 11265

Re: The US Debt and where it came from

"Reagan proved deficits don't matter" - Dick Cheney (Except when there's a Democrat in the White House, and particularly when he isn't white.) Cheney was of course misrepresenting things when he said that (though in his mind he was entirely truthful). Reagan's re-election proved that the ...
by erianaiel
Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:15 am
Forum: Completely Off-Topic
Topic: You Feminists still think like this?
Replies: 12
Views: 14177

Re: You Feminists still think like this?

Perhaps some women prefer brains over looks, so they marry well-educated men. Well-educated men tend to make more money than their less well-educated counterparts. That could be another explanation of why female doctors tend to not marry nurses. Then again, I think men tend to be a bit intimidated ...