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Larry Parrish posted:I unironically want to host a book burning for The Last Man and The End of History also ayn rand
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Taintrunner posted:also ayn rand And every mainstream political book published after 9/11
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Aug 7, 2017 02:22
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MizPiz posted:And every mainstream political book published after 9/11 the only good book about politics 
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Aug 7, 2017 03:56
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Taintrunner posted:the only good book about politics i cant believe radical politics were dead until corbyn hit the scene
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Aug 7, 2017 03:58
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The end of history? History's just getting started my man
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Aug 7, 2017 07:04
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china not being on this seems strange
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Aug 7, 2017 07:29
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Jose posted:china not being on this seems strange I think China doesn't disclose its imprisonment rates?
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Aug 7, 2017 07:46
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Jose posted:china not being on this seems strange it varies depending on whether or not you include forced labor camp inmates in the total; china doesn't publish statistics for those. even if you do they're probably somewhere between the UK and Poland in terms of inmates per capita. executing more people than all the rest of the world combined helps keep the numbers down i guess. also missing from the list is north korea, which is probably up there with the US when you include the labor camps, and the seychelles which for some reason has the worlds highest known rate at 799 per 100,000.
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Aug 7, 2017 09:32
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Fallen Hamprince posted:it varies depending on whether or not you include forced labor camp inmates in the total; china doesn't publish statistics for those. even if you do they're probably somewhere between the UK and Poland in terms of inmates per capita. executing more people than all the rest of the world combined helps keep the numbers down i guess. Smaller countries are inherently weird and swingy with broad numbers like /100000. Like one murder can swing a tinier country's crime rate to the highest in the world in some cases.
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Aug 7, 2017 09:36
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Agnosticnixie posted:Smaller countries are inherently weird and swingy with broad numbers like /100000. Like one murder can swing a tinier country's crime rate to the highest in the world in some cases. yeah, the Seychelles actually have fewer than 799 prisoners because their population is a fraction of 100,000. although looking at the list a ton of small island nations have really high (300+) incarceration rates for some reason
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Aug 7, 2017 17:16
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It's harder to get away with poo poo when everybody knows each other.
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Aug 7, 2017 18:19
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's harder to get away with poo poo when everybody knows each other. pitcarin would like a word with you
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Aug 7, 2017 19:35
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logikv9 posted:pitcarin would like a word with you Plenty of guys got convicted on Pitcairn, and the mayor was busted for child pornography.
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Aug 7, 2017 19:39
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my bad, i read the post as "harder to do poo poo"
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Aug 7, 2017 19:41
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it's easy to get away with it with enough $$$
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Aug 7, 2017 19:41
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people joke that somalia is what a libertarian nation would look like but actually it's pitcairn
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Aug 7, 2017 19:55
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Henry Kissinger has warned that destroying Isis could lead to an “Iranian radical empire”. The former diplomat has suggested that once Isis is defeated, if Iran occupies the free territory, the result could lead to the emergence of a new empire. The 94-year-old, who was the Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, also spoke about the complications of taking sides in Middle Eastern conflicts. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...t-a7881541.html Just. Good. Policy.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:16
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Vox Nihili posted:Henry Kissinger has warned that destroying Isis could lead to an “Iranian radical empire”. hmm, how'd that "isolate syria from the entire middle east" thing work for ol big dick Henry again?
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Aug 8, 2017 05:25
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Someone please send Kissinger to the Hauge already
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Aug 8, 2017 07:17
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Larry Parrish posted:Someone please send Kissinger to Hell already
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Aug 8, 2017 07:18
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this is hell
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Aug 8, 2017 14:26
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and i must meme posted:i'm british and every time i see whatever democrats are doing i feel really smug about how much better labour is lol I was recently thinking about how devastating it is when you compare "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages" to "For The Many, Not The Few"
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Aug 8, 2017 20:53
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That graph's slightly misleading because it's not per capita but the overall idea would still be the same, it just wouldn't look as dramatic.
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Aug 8, 2017 20:54
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I was recently thinking about how devastating it is when you compare "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages" to "For The Many, Not The Few" You'd think these clowns could at least just steal all of Huey Long's speeches verbatim to get votes even if they never plan to follow through
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Aug 8, 2017 22:58
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Plenty of guys got convicted on Pitcairn, and the mayor was busted for child pornography. after the colonial power that claims the island created a special court consisting of outsiders to do so
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Aug 8, 2017 23:02
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Larry Parrish posted:You'd think these clowns could at least just steal all of Huey Long's speeches verbatim to get votes even if they never plan to follow through Him and Debs. Eugene V Debs posted:Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out by leaders, but notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun. 
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Aug 8, 2017 23:03
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TomViolence posted:Him and Debs. yass 'gene
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Aug 8, 2017 23:13
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Vox Nihili posted:Henry Kissinger has warned that destroying Isis could lead to an “Iranian radical empire”. All things being equal, it's difficult for me to view Kissinger as a centrist.
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Aug 8, 2017 23:34
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I was recently thinking about how devastating it is when you compare "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages" to "For The Many, Not The Few" the success of corbyn is really great on many levels, but my biggest hope for his labour is that it's success gives a big middle finger to the idea that britain is forever conservative because of mostly white demographics
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Aug 8, 2017 23:46
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dont even fink about it posted:All things being equal, it's difficult for me to view Kissinger as a centrist. he didn't move to the center, the center moved to him
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Aug 8, 2017 23:47
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what, nobody carried out Kissinger's sentence of being thrown into a volcano yet?
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Aug 8, 2017 23:55
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dont even fink about it posted:All things being equal, it's difficult for me to view Kissinger as a centrist. liberals put a lot of effort into defending him when bernie called him a scumbag in the primary
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Aug 9, 2017 00:07
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LGD posted:after the colonial power that claims the island created a special court consisting of outsiders to do so This isn't a real point. There's only 54 people on Pitcairn, so it's impossible to hold a fair trial without outside organization.
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Aug 9, 2017 00:39
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dont even fink about it posted:All things being equal, it's difficult for me to view Kissinger as a centrist. he's 94, his brain has been cheez whiz for a decade at least Pener Kropoopkin posted:This isn't a real point. There's only 54 people on Pitcairn, so it's impossible to hold a fair trial without outside organization. in the movies these tiny island communities always have some cool dark secret like worshipping a giant monster or being part-fishpeople but in real life the dark secret is almost always a pervasive culture of child sexual abuse, which is a real bummer for all involved
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Aug 9, 2017 01:06
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That's not true! Sometimes it's just incest.
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Aug 9, 2017 01:11
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Hodgepodge posted:he didn't move to the center, the center moved to him yeah there's certainly some window dressing that's different, but -wants to keep a power struggle between opposing forces (that they are rationally above) -hosed up the middle east, bigly -will stab you in the back while shaking your hand and looking you in the eye -always the smartest person in the room -Views Russia as their primary enemy -only believes in power could just as easily describe Clinton and her cronies as Kissinger, so functionally not too different
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Aug 9, 2017 01:15
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When the head of Human Rights Watch is hanging out with Kissinger at a ball game its time to kill HRW
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Aug 9, 2017 02:11
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Yeah seriously. Kissinger, Nixon, and McNamara are probably the greatest American war criminals since WW2 where at least you could say it was a 'both sides' thing.
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Aug 9, 2017 03:11
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I guess at the very least McNamara actually admitted to being a war criminal, albeit safe in the knowledge that he was too old for a prosecution (should it ever happen) to actually mean anything.
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Larry Parrish posted:Yeah seriously. Kissinger, Nixon, and McNamara are probably the greatest American war criminals since WW2 where at least you could say it was a 'both sides' thing. not surprised to learn that larry parrish hangs out with people who think the topic of war crimes during ww2 was a 'both sides' thing "one the one hand Japanese internment, on the other hand literal genocide factories and roving death squads killing whole villages. p much a toss up"
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