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    Dieudonne ! ....who? Free speech and censorship.

    French comedian Dieudonne faces jail for antisemitism and glorifying terrorism. What are peoples thoughts on this? Personally iv'e come to defend this comedian. The whole controversy brings up alot of relevant questions and alot of hypocrisy , regards free speech and censorship. Things...
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    Bolshevism as such

    What's up Doc! I think you know what's wrong with your argumentation if your honest with yourself. As has already been said " throwing the baby out with the bath water " is a good summary, but let me put it to you from the perspective of a communist. First understand that communism is a broad...
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    Climate Change

    Well lots of good points. My thoughts were always a sort of far in the distant future if it were necessary. To consider it today, in our present, seems ridiculous- can we dare tackle the world... id vote against it. What you bring up regarding funding and the inability to fix small...
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    Climate Change

    Heard of Milankovitch cycles before, ill check it out properly. Thanks. Found a little national geographic video clip on the cycles here> http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/ice-age-cycles/ Considering a glacial period wouldn't be ideal compared to the way humanity lives now...
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    Climate Change

    So there's something (well a few things) that has me confused on climate change. 1. We are currently in an ice age, that is technically. Ice age being made up of the glacial and inter-glacial. We are currently in the inter-glacial. 2. before the whole global warming, there was the worry (at...
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    What if... humans need war?

    Good post. They pretty much summarizes most of the points already made but in a nice little media package. @malicious_bloke: By this do you mean that in soviet russia the workers had democratic control over production. China, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Ethiopia etc ? They did not. The reason...
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    What if... humans need war?

    Realistic doesn't enter into it, your playing with Eugenics, i don't go for that for moral and political reasons. But more importantly is what do genes have to do with war ? Is there a war gene ? I disagree that the problem is with humanity in and of itself, genes are pretty irrelevant, human...
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    What if... humans need war?

    The human nature argument is an old argument. I don't agree with it on the basis that human nature is changeable. It was human nature to enslave one another, it has been human nature to eat each other, it was also, in reference to your anon quote, human nature to be polygamous once upon a time...
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    What if... humans need war?

    Nope. Because to move beyond our dependence on resources is nonsense, we are material beings with material needs,(we are also social animals with social needs too) we will forever be dependent on resources. What i would say is that it is the struggle over resources, the allocation distribution...
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    What if... humans need war?

    What if.....humans dont need war? Well both questions are hardly a scientific approach. The correct approach is to establish the fact that humanity engages in an activity called war, whereby it murders other members of its species. I would say that humans need war but not in the way that you...
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    Scottish independence

    The vibe is definitely with the yes vote. I have seen a few no voter stickers, badges, but predominantly its Yes. Its yes gratified everywhere, its Yes flags which are waving. There's another side of this however, are no voters going to be shouting from the rooftops as much as the Yes...
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    If needs for work where removed, would our society stagnate?

    Re: If needs for work where removed, would our society stagn No idea about warhammer or what the hell an Eldar is so ill take you from - Now the way i would think about this is how far can the division of labour and technology go and how will this effect humanity. Men create machines. That...
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    Impeach the usurper Obama

    :lol: A little heavy handed but makes a good point. Obama isn't really more of a tyrant then Bush, and impeaching Obama, removing him from office and even pushing criminal convictions doesn't solve the real problem of political representation in america( although he deserves it). Namely that...
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    The USA act like the mafia

    An interesting Article...So this is what the Keynesians think today ? I think its wrong. But correct myself as i didn't understand your distinction between real and financial capitalism. It seems that by real you mean actually commodity production and involved labour process as compared to...
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    The USA act like the mafia

    Incorrect on every account. Even the BBC which has reported in a terribly biased way has had to acknowledge the fact that the Ukrainian government is shelling these regions. Its fundamentally incorrect to label the separatist regions as simply "Russian sympathizers/separatists". They started...
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    The USA act like the mafia

    Finance capitalism is real capitalism and develops historically from the intricacies of capitalism, from its own levers of private property the profit motive and the nation state which grew hand in hand with capitalism. But anyway, A good example of the mafioso's in action today is in Ukraine...
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    How long before we abandon national anthems?

    Why cant it still be song.... ...all hold hands now and after three
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    Political decoder ring

    In my view nothing does this more than the notion of "Middle -Class" meaning everyone except Sir Richard Branson.
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    UBI and the minimum wage

    Although im being very critical of a UBI, it would be very interesting to see the real long term effects of a UBI. Also im not 100% against a UBI, as someone from the far-left socialist spectrum, the UBI is interesting as a technical means for distribution not based on wages. Something which is...
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    UBI and the minimum wage

    Regards your question i think its impossible to say. The Canadian experiment found a low amount of reduction in work hours (about 5% i think) but also concluded hat this may not be accurate as people were aware that it was only a temporary situation. Essentially wages (price for labour time) are...
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