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[LeoXiao]

State capitalism has been around for awhile now; it's basically just modern fascism. In a world of globalization and excessively superhuman technology, it goes without saying that the individual's power/freedom is going to get shafted in favor of higher societal structures such as companies and bureaucracies.

Being a nihilist that I am, I would say that the food chain follows a logical and rational cycle, be it literally or laterally, so there isn't really such a thing as "animal rights".

Then there's really no such thing as anything, if you're the nihilist you say you are.
Furthermore, human beings themselves are no longer "on top". It is the corporations and bureaucracies that are, as stated above the quote.
I would say that animal rights would come along naturally with human rights. If more efforts were devoted to feeding people efficiently (human rights), then the inefficient meat production would decrease and less animals would die gruesomely (animal rights).

[Roger Rambo]

Well it seems that BP's latest attempt to fill in the drill leak has failed.


This is just starting to get preposterous.

[FDW]

Originally Posted by Roger Rambo

Well it seems that BP's latest attempt to fill in the drill leak has failed.


This is just starting to get preposterous.

It's like the LHC all over again.

[Dilla]

Dennis Hopper is dead.

[Mr. DJ]

Originally Posted by Dilla

Dennis Hopper is dead.

*sad panda*

one thing that sucks about growing up is seeing actors you pretty much grew up watching pass away

[Zu Ra]

* Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had ' No Limits '

[Nosauz]

Originally Posted by Zu Ra

* Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had ' No Limits '

i'm extremely confused, is promoting us to use gay soldiers or not? I mean wouldn't that mean gay soldiers would be the ultimate soldier because they would have no qualms about carrying out any order? This is just ridiculous but w/e, I bet when gay is no longer in vogue to bash, Hitler will become black or something.

[Nosauz]

It's not even news... it's the ramblings of the AFA(American Family Association) basically some form of propaganda.

[Kamui4356]

Originally Posted by Nosauz

It's not even news... it's the ramblings of the AFA(American Family Association) basically some form of propaganda.

Yup, pretty much. Other than the leader of the SA, most of the Nazis were straight. But why let facts stand in the way of your agenda when you can make up your own facts? It's like a personal reality from raildex, only instead giving you esper abilities, it lets you believe in whatever unsupported bullshit you want without having to entertain notions that you might be wrong.

[Nosauz]

Originally Posted by Kamui4356

Yup, pretty much. Other than the leader of the SA, most of the Nazis were straight. But why let facts stand in the way of your agenda when you can make up your own facts? It's like a personal reality from raildex, only instead giving you esper abilities, it lets you believe in whatever unsupported bullshit you want without having to entertain notions that you might be wrong.

At least it's better than denialism. Denying the holocaust, rape of nanking, the existence of discrimination based on race, this overt attempt to supplant heinous crimes by saying its the delusion of the masses is just ridiculous. I love how in the AFA video, the white house is in the background to give it more of an authoritative stance, as if it is a message straight from the white house.

[Jinto]

The funny thing though is, that this guy would make a good goebbels personality wise. I guess every place has its share of demagogues who didn't learn that they are free to have an oppinion and voice it. But they don't need to (it is not a civic duty to voice one's stupid oppinion) - especially idiots like him.

[ChainLegacy]

Originally Posted by Jinto

The funny thing though is, that this guy would make a good Goebbels personality wise. I guess every place has its share of demagogues who didn't learn that they are free to have an oppinion and voice it. But they don't need to (it is not a civic duty to voice one's stupid oppinion) - especially idiots like him.

Heh, it is ironic. This guy sure is good at making stuff up and forcing himself and others to believe it. He would have made a fine Nazi authority.

[Autumn Demon]

Israeli soldiers kill passengers of an international flotilla trying to get into Gaza.

I'm reading reports saying around 20 people died.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor..._To_Gaza_Strip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/mid...t/10195838.stm

[Arbitres]

Heh, it is ironic. This guy sure is good at making stuff up and forcing himself and others to believe it. He would have made a fine Nazi authority.

Lies are practical because they can help an individual's cause. Either to make it seem more appealing or more 'correct'. It's all propaganda and it's filth, I've no love for it.

c( >_< c) It's actually rather aggravating... But I guess some people are like that. So dutiful in their ways of making other people miserable just to prolong their own misery... It's depressing for sure.

Israeli soldiers kill passengers of an international flotilla trying to get into Gaza.

... This may sound naive but... I actually expected better from the Israeli soldiers.

[FateAnomaly]

Well, they should have known what they are getting themselves when they decided to test Isreal's waters. (No pun intended)

[justinstrife]

Originally Posted by FateAnomaly

Well, they should have known what they are getting themselves when they decided to test Isreal's waters. (No pun intended)

Yep...

Sorry if I don't feel any sympathy.

[Kameruka]

I hate to ruin the fun but I just cannot let pro-Israel people have the fun.

If you agree of killing the activists and maybe you should think this. What if a Muslim country conquered a Jewish one(nevermind what are they) and locked all the remaining Jewish people in an open-air prison and those Muslims enjoyed seeing those poor Jews died slowly of starvation and dehydration. Of course other Jewish people try to save them but only those Muslims have a 'permit' to lock those Jews up from countless of politicians from around the world. The Jews that try to save the helpless ones are killed because they are entering the no-man's land.

Alfred was right. Some people just want to see the world burns. Maybe these pro-Israel people are not pro-Israel after all. They supported Israel because they are the 'stronger' side, killing the weaker one. Some people are actually enjoyed the other's suffering.

You can give many bad reputations as many as you want but I just don't care. If you do then I win because I was right.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Kameruka

I hate to ruin the fun but I just cannot let pro-Israel people have the fun.

If you agree of killing the activists and maybe you should think this. What if a Muslim country conquered a Jewish one(nevermind what are they) and locked all the remaining Jewish people in an open-air prison and those Muslims enjoyed seeing those poor Jews died slowly of starvation and dehydration. Of course other Jewish people try to save them but only those Muslims have a 'permit' to lock those Jews up from countless of politicians from around the world. The Jews that try to save the helpless ones are killed because they are entering the no-man's land.

Alfred was right. Some people just want to see the world burns. Maybe these pro-Israel people are not pro-Israel after all. They supported Israel because they are the 'stronger' side, killing the weaker one. Some people are actually enjoyed the other's suffering.

You can give many bad reputations as many as you want but I just don't care. If you do then I win because I was right.

Though I am not pro-Israeli, I find the way you think rather......simple-minded.

Study the Arab-Israel conflict. The Palestinians are funded by oil-giants, and the anti-US sentiment is started out due to the US supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

Instead of negotiations, the Arabs opted for war against Israel in 1948. And till today, certain Arabian countries like Syria still supplied material to the Palestinians to "fight against the Jews".

The problem with the Palestinians is that they are fundamentally screwed up. They rely too much on oil and covert Arab support, and they are simply jealous at Israel's ability to sustain themselves despite being surrounded. Israel started out as a desert but was turned into a brimming metropolis, while Palestine just screw themselves up with internal conflicts between Fatah and Hamas.

It's their land now because the Arabs failed to defeat them. And instead of fighting them into the next century, why don't they do something about their own economy, buy some real ships instead of trying something stupid on a makeshift flotilla?

What Israel is specifically targeting are militants and terrorists. By mixing with them, these people are just courting suicide. So excuse me if I don't feel sympathy too. Similar to how a French-Jew idiot who stood up identifying himself as a Jew in the Entebbe raid and was shot, they asked for it.

Originally Posted by Arbitres

... This may sound naive but... I actually expected better from the Israeli soldiers.

P.S By the way, V.B.S.S teams have every right to execute lethal force on discretion upon supposed violence in the name of self-defence. It is common worldwide military doctrine and simple logic, because you CANNOT take chances against an enemy with capabilities you don't know.

Here's something Japanese otaku can learn from instead of irking themselves over women who ask for too much...

Spend Save Man Woman

Far from being lauded as a virtue, China’s high savings rate has been blamed for the economic imbalances underlying the global financial crisis. The criticism being that the Chinese spend too little and rely too much on exporting to Western consumers.

The IMF and World Bank have long called for Beijing to ramp up social spending so its citizens will feel less need to save for a rainy day and instead consume more.

But in their intriguingly named paper, ‘A Sexually Unbalanced Model of Current Account Imbalances‘, New York-based researchers Du Qingyuan and Wei Shang-Jin suggest China’s gender imbalance could also be a significant factor in the persistence of its high savings rate.

The pair argue that intensifying competition in the Chinese marriage market is causing men — or indeed parents with sons — to raise their savings rates to improve their relative allure among a shrinking pool of potential brides.

A draconian one-child policy, coupled with a traditional preference for male offspring and the availability of selective-sex abortion, has left the country of 1.3 billion facing its most serious demographic crisis.

An estimated 119 boys are born per 100 girls and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has warned that this could leave more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age without spouses by 2020.

This anxiety over the worsening marriage prospects for men could explain why Chinese household savings as a share of disposable income has risen from 16 percent in 1990 to 30 percent in 2007.

According to Du and Wei’s theoretical model, China’s skewed gender demographics could potentially explain more than half of the country’s current account surplus and the U.S. current account deficit.

“When the sex ratio rises, the world interest rate becomes lower. Other countries with a balanced sex ratio could be induced to run a current account deficit…In other words, the effect is economically significant,” they write.

“Women hold up half the sky,” Mao Zedong famously said. Perhaps Tim Geithner should remember that the next time he goes to Beijing.

Gee, I learnt something.

[MeoTwister5]

You can win arguments on the internet?

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

You can win arguments on the internet?

Technically, yes. If the person knows little and reads nothing. Like people who claim that Japanese schools teaching diluted history is a lie.

You win the argument by presenting proof or logic, but best if both are presented.