Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Americans call WWII "the good war”. Europeans call it “the last war.” Neither are right.

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European and American population scales in relation to economic diversity

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I wonder if there is a connection between the fact that Europe has countries with more similar population sizes and more equitable distribut...

God, guns, and gold

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A few decades ago it first occurred to me that American conservatism can be boiled down to an obsession with god, guns, and money (or to com...

Patriotism is compassion limited by borders.

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Americans' knowledge of geography is inversely proportional to their influence on it.

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Or, more precise but longer: The influence of the American economy and foreign policy on the world is inversely proportional to the American...

The one hundred doctors analogy (re: global warming)

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Imagine your doctor diagnoses you with lung cancer. You might want to get a second and third opinion, just in case. What if you got a hundre...

Communism as a failed diet which blames the dieter.

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Communism resembles the symptoms of unsuccessful diet programs. It has been tried by many countries: Russia (and its satellite states), Chin...

Every positive word about war helps ensure the next one.

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Flags are too vague for communication.

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For many the national flag is a powerful and unambiguous symbol. Unfortunately, it represents a different set of ideas for just about everyo...

Patriotic display is a form of bragging that is tolerated because it compliments the group.

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The flag is to citizens what a worm is to fishes.

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Question: is there a former colony that returned to its pre-colonial, traditional system?

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Experience creates the most stubborn form of prejudice: postjudice.

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Prejudice, the act of judging without experience, based on hearsay and conditioning and projection towards the individual, instead of carefu...

Tradition is no excuse for idiocy.

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If this is a free country, why do things cost money?

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Under capitalism people are free, but services aren’t. Under communism, this is reversed. This above statement is crude, but there's som...

Dangerous when organized

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There are five things that are more dangerous when organized: crime, violence, greed, irrationality, and selfishness. Organized crime is the...

Conservatives aren't evil, but they prefer evil to disorder.

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