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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I am not going to engage in this discussion anymore as you have convinced me that you are arguing in bad faith. p.s.: for readers - see what Milton Friedman had to say on the very topic, to a person that seems very much on the same level as
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Inheritance tax per say does not imply authoritarian totalitarian government. 100% inheritance tax does. Work out the details yourself. Your conflation of income and inheritance tax is disingenuous. My crown argument against inheritance tax
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I know for a fact that my forefathers have tried to avoid governments and their meddling fingers as much as possible and have fought really hard in various ways to keep the government of their lives as much as possible. Thus I owe it to the
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
You are being disingenuous when comparing "willfully donating" and 100% inheritance tax. I don't care what people do with their property out of their own free will. I do care when people are trying to instate authoritarian to
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And you stop telling people who have funded the governments what to and not to do. Sound fair?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And you would also get to tax charity just as heavily. Because charity is all about giving gifts. I have no interest in living in your dream world of justice. As it would have been a totalitarian nightmare where everybody would be worse off
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And yet, that is precisely the argumentation one usually gets when proposing the "running out of other people's money" dilemma. A case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And their act of believing automatically makes it true and justified? That is called narcissism. From my anecdotal experience it is too often people who are themselves near or at 1% trying to justify how the "rich" are taking some
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
My apologies to both HN readership and ceejayoz specifically.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
You might also like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNrHW1E8hRI Thomas Sowell debating policies of the last 40 years, back in 1982, it is quite interesting to see how those have turned out pretty much as he predic
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
> an incarcerated one that reduces crime. It is, after all, the point of incarceration. Do you have any sources on that? The causality is not obvious.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I am saying none of that. Slavery was horrible. And American people fought a bloody war so it could be abolished. All I am doing is I am setting some perspective. As some people on the left engage in fallacy that every single white person o
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Larry Elder frames it nicely in conservative terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwaBO6U43U The implication is that liberals are engaging in soft bigotry of low expectations. That they are pandering to black voters for
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
People are mamals. Mamals breed. There were 1bn people in 1800, there are 7bn today. Facts don't care about your feelings.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Another little known historical fact. "Only" 300.000 black people have been brought to US as slaves. Less than 5% of American families owned slaves. Also to put things into perspective - between 1MM and 1.3MM white Europeans have
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Yeah that is a bit of a stretch. Last 50 years have been far from universally peaceful, but even then - this period is an anomaly in European history, not yet the norm.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
The history of Europe I learned is littered with tyrannical regimes throughout Europe.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
All the articles cite official data. I would love to link Huffpo, Salon or Atlantic, but they are just to dishonest to publish something like this.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I have mixed feelings about the topic. Where I live, police are reasonable and populace is unarmed. On the other hand US is on of a few modern republics that hasn't produced a tyranny yet. And perhaps 2nd amendment may have something t
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Here are some basic facts: Half of people killed by police are white. Blacks are 25%. Blacks are also disproportionally represented amongst violent offenders. One more interesting trivia - black and hispanic cops are more likely to shoot a
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
You are indeed correct. However our political landscape is polarized to a degree where minority coalition has no chance of doing anything. Not that any political problem could solve people acting as idiots.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
The country I live in uses a proportional voting system - and what happens is that one of the smallest and most narrow special interests party gets to be the the point of equilibrium - as nobody can form government without it. And then that
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I am getting mixed signals from society. One day looking at women is rape. The other day mobs assaulting women in a Taharrush is blowing things out of proportion.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Bullshit. On the order of 1000 women got assaulted. One person got sentenced thus far, to the best of my knowledge - and he is indeed a "fresh immigrant". You have absolutely no basis for your claims.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
> I thought most of their military was just a byproduct of the military industrial complex and not actually needed for anything. Except for upkeeping Bretton Woods, which you know is the accord that made US guarantee safe naval trade ro
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Then perhaps you could have phrased your statement a bit better. Powell was acting on good faith. His post-festum testimonials indicate that he was suspicious of the intel and had expressed his discomfort - to which he had been repeatedly r
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
AFAIK Powell himself has been sceptical and deceived. That is why he eventually resigned after he realized he had been played.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Thank you for your incredibly insightful analysis. There is a lot more to the man. He seems a simpleton on the face of it. He thrives on people underestimating him. Yet everything points towards him being an excellent player of the "Ga
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Just list them under your projects category on your website. Also that is what your github account is for.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
At the scale they are at now I would expect they are pretty average. With insane variances between the teams offcourse.

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