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Topic | Is it just me or does The Outer Worlds look a bit... last gen? |
ScazarMeltex 12/08/18 2:17:34 AM #11 | It looks and sounds a little to borderlands-esque to me. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Is "Brooks was here" still the saddest movie scene ever? |
ScazarMeltex 12/08/18 12:20:32 AM #6 | John coffey's speech to Tom Hanks in The Green Mile is pretty high up there as well. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Sovereign citizens... |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 9:12:43 PM #3 | Laughable. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Who did the most damage to the U.S. economy? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 9:06:48 PM #9 | Bestoffuture posted... creativerealms posted...Bestoffuture posted...creativerealms posted...Where's W. Bush? He's the one who did the damage. Obama was cleaning up his mess. Citation Needed --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | James Fields guilty on all 10 charges, incl 1st degree murder of Heather Heyer |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 7:23:06 PM #34 | Good. Death penalty please. If he's given life the aryan brotherhood will make a hero out of him and protect him from the prison justice he deserves. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Steam now banning sex games with young girls |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 7:18:56 PM #19 | Imagine caring this much about what games other people play. Is it creepy? Sure. Will I ever play them? Fuck no.But censorship is censorship and since nothing illegal is occuring I feel like this sort of moral policing is not a good idea. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 6:27:07 PM #92 | FLUFFYGERM posted... McCarthy was ahead of his time. It's a shame he wasn't born in the age of the Internet so he could more effectively leverage his skills. You should probably seek help. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:32:44 PM #46 | FLUFFYGERM posted... ScazarMeltex posted...I have no problem with people renting out whatever they want to rent out. I'm also not a marxist. The problem is the system doesn't work out like that. Take for example what was going in Vegas a few years back when I was there talking to locals. I do need to defend it because it's intellectually dishonestly to pretend that there is no difference. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:24:06 PM #39 | I have no problem with people renting out whatever they want to rent out. I'm also not a marxist. The problem is the system doesn't work out like that. Take for example what was going in Vegas a few years back when I was there talking to locals. The used to be a law limiting the amount of properties an individual or company could own and rent out. It was something like 10 I want to say but don't hold me to that. Through lobbying they got the assembly to change it to where you could own 10,000. What happens? A few companies and individuals buy up all the properties (because they have all the cash) and rent them out at exorbitant rates. So now if you want to live there you have to pay the ridiculous rates and you can't buy a property even if you want to because the landlords are making to much money and they get to write off the properties that don't get rented out as a loss on their taxes. When the systems is so heavily skewed the way it is in America, things are never going to work the way the capitalist fantasy claims it does, no more so than the marxist fantasy will function. There has to be a middle ground. For the most part Western Europe has found it economically and socially. Their issues with middle eastern migrants notwithstanding. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Millions of Americans could face surprise ER bills in January |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:12:29 PM #5 | Something similar to this happened to my dad when he was in the hospital related to his esophageal cancer. The hospital was in his network but the Hospitalist doctors were not. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:10:25 PM #31 | FLUFFYGERM posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...FLUFFYGERM posted...Giant_Aspirin posted...oh okay. because "employee owned and operated" seems like it's the best of both worlds IMO. employees have a direct incentive to work hard and reap the rewards of said work. I'm going to ask you these honest questions. What do you do for a living? How much time do you spend with or around tradesmen or factory workers? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:04:29 PM #25 | FLUFFYGERM posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...oh okay. because "employee owned and operated" seems like it's the best of both worlds IMO. employees have a direct incentive to work hard and reap the rewards of said work. What fucking world do you live in where people who work harder than other people make more money? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Should workers seize the means of production? |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 3:02:23 PM #20 | Hey look at proudclad not knowing the difference between private and personal property when it comes to socialism. Personal property or possessions includes "items intended for personal use" (e.g., one's toothbrush, clothes, homes, and vehicles, and sometimes money).It must be gained in a socially fair manner, and the owner has a distributive right to exclude others. Private property is a social relationship between the owner and persons deprived (not a relationship between person and thing), e.g., artifacts, factories, mines, dams, infrastructure, natural vegetation, mountains, deserts and seas. Marxism holds that a process of class conflict and revolutionary struggle could result in victory for the proletariat and the establishment of a communist society in which private property and ownership is abolished over time and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community. (Private property and ownership, in this context, means ownership of the means of production, not personal possessions). To many socialists, the term private property refers to capital or the means of production, while personal property refers to consumer and non-capital goods and services --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | AP: France gears up to face new riots on Saturday; Paris shuts down |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 2:22:25 PM #23 | Nothing really wrong with their demands. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Anita Sarkeesian called out Barack "Nobel Peace Prize" Obama |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 11:53:25 AM #15 | Despite being a miserable bitch she isn't wrong here. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Pay Her Interns $15 An Hour. |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 11:24:19 AM #20 | clearaflagrantj posted... ScazarMeltex posted...Unpaid internships should be illegal. If you are doing work that someone is profiting from you should be paid. I agree. I have no problem with prisoners doing basic maintenance, cooking, cleaning and the like for the prison. But I also believe that for profit prisons should be illegal. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Damn, Bernie is done for |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 11:14:10 AM #10 | FLUFFYGERM posted... I was an undercover FBI agent at a communist meeting and overheard the commies talking about how Bernie wasn't radical enough to earn their support in 2020. You can't even go undercover as sane 90% of the time, let alone as an FBI agent. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Pay Her Interns $15 An Hour. |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 11:12:01 AM #18 | Unpaid internships should be illegal. If you are doing work that someone is profiting from you should be paid. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | The stomach flu sucks something horrible. |
ScazarMeltex 12/07/18 1:58:39 AM #1 | For the last 12 hours I have done nothing but vomit and empty my bowels. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | China is holding at least 800k, possibly up to 2M Muslims in internment camps |
ScazarMeltex 12/06/18 6:45:21 PM #22 | Anti-245 posted... CADE FOSTER posted...Eh tbh China also steals all our ip's and makes cheap rip offs fuck them They didn't steal them, they recruited them. Some of them were fucking war criminals. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Trump suddenly thinks the US' military spending is 'Crazy' |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 4:29:58 PM #39 | KamenRiderBlade posted... ScazarMeltex posted...This is what happens when your national defense is entrusted to large corporations whose only real goal is turning a profit for their share holders.We were worst off when we tried to source things in house and had horrible results from endless internal politics and bureaucracy. You still have all the internal politics and bureaucracy, you are just paying more for it. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Germany General. |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 4:28:32 PM #164 | Questionmarktarius posted... Sunhawk posted...And, of course, by the end of WW2, he'd become so paranoid / unhinged that he thought all his generals were either incompetent, or "betraying" him. I guess he had to blame someone who wasn't himself. I've read a few books that speculated Parkinson's disease as well. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Germany General. |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 2:45:14 PM #157 | Sunhawk posted... I like the idea of Hitler's temper tantrums, when he would scream and shout, and - apparently - sometimes flop to the ground and chew on the carpet. Seems pretty ridiculous. Heinz Guderian's memoirs talked a decent amount about that towards the end when he was Head of the General Staff and had to deal with him for hours everyday. The worst one was Hitler's idea to have guys armed with Anti-Tank rockets (Panzerfausts) ride around on bicycles and Guderian told him "no that's dumb" and Hitler literally threw a temper tantrum. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Trump suddenly thinks the US' military spending is 'Crazy' |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 1:21:58 PM #26 | Fossil posted... Highwind07 posted...I remember an article that I posted a few months back on how much the Air Force spends on simple things like a coffee cup for its pilots and it blew my mind on how frivolous the spending goes. Someone pointed out that there were many cases like that and it all had to do with connections and corruption. This is what happens when your national defense is entrusted to large corporations whose only real goal is turning a profit for their share holders. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Germany General. |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 10:56:50 AM #155 | Sunhawk posted... Wow, I didn't realise that. But it probably wouldn't change the overall "tone" much, which is probably a problem. Yeah, it's worth it. It basically starts with the treaty of versailles and moves forward from there. The first quarter or so of the book is just the setting of the stage and the actual rise to the chancellorship. It sheds a lot of light on the politics of the time, and gets very detailed into the backgrounds of the major players. It gives great insight into the resistance movement within in Germany, both civilian and military. It also delves deep into German history as a way to set the stage for how such a regime could have come to power. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Germany General. |
ScazarMeltex 12/03/18 10:28:49 AM #153 | Sunhawk posted... I was down a bookstore again today, reading some of their German history stuff. I've read it, it's quite good with very detailed information. It's been updated with new editions multiple times (like most historical texts) as new information is discovered. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Going to Vegas next weekend; tips and advice? |
ScazarMeltex 12/02/18 11:23:02 AM #16 | KiwiTerraRizing posted... ScazarMeltex posted...The best steakhouse that i've had in Vegas is Fix at the Bellagio. It's expensive but it's damn worth it. I haven't eaten at SW, though from looking at the menu just now, price wise they look about the same as Fix. I may have to check it out next time we go out there. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Going to Vegas next weekend; tips and advice? |
ScazarMeltex 12/02/18 11:17:00 AM #10 | The best steakhouse that i've had in Vegas is Fix at the Bellagio. It's expensive but it's damn worth it. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Jim Sterling makes $13k a month from his Patreon |
ScazarMeltex 12/02/18 2:08:46 AM #4 | Sure beats the fuck out of punching a clock somewhere. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | NC Republicans might have done some election fraud in a congressional race |
ScazarMeltex 12/02/18 12:11:42 AM #27 | RiderofHogs posted... shockthemonkey posted...RiderofHogs posted...RchHomieQuanChi posted...But I thought it was the Democrats that faked votes The dems aren't smart enough for that. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | George HW setup a high school senior to Jumpstart the war on drugs |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 5:01:52 PM #66 | Damn_Underscore posted... As soon as he died, people probably started digging through his history to find reasons to hate him. It's sad. There were plenty of reasons to hate him without digging. IE he's a fucking war criminal. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | NC Republicans might have done some election fraud in a congressional race |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 2:07:51 PM #6 | But....President Trump said it was democrats who committed voted fraud everywhere all the time, he would never lie to me. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Teen in nazi uniform gets punched in the face after calling someone the n-word. |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 1:59:39 PM #448 | Comfy_Pillow posted... Conflict posted...Nobody "calls everybody nazis". Guy is wearing Nazi regalia, has social media accounts showing him sieg heiling and posing with other Nazi imagery. "OMg y U CaLL HiM A nAZI" --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Final Fantasy 3 |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 1:56:37 PM #2 | Final Fantasy V? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Teen in nazi uniform gets punched in the face after calling someone the n-word. |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 1:45:57 PM #437 | Here i'll even help you. https://tinyurl.com/y7zjzjdt --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Teen in nazi uniform gets punched in the face after calling someone the n-word. |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 1:43:23 PM #431 | Comfy_Pillow posted... A_Good_Boy posted...Bishop9800 posted...Comfy_Pillow posted...99% of people you guys call Nazis will never hurt anybody. You know that right? https://www.splcenter.org/20180723/terror-right You'll find plenty there if you can be bothered to read. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Teen in nazi uniform gets punched in the face after calling someone the n-word. |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 1:21:24 PM #404 | Comfy_Pillow posted... Tmaster148 posted...I can only believe that the people who are offended by people who thinks Nazis should be punched are Nazis themselves. Nazism as an ideology is a threat. It's entire purpose is the "betterment" of society by the killing off of people who are seen as lesser. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | ITT: The worst dungeons in video games |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 12:45:31 PM #3 | The goddamn final dungeon of Xenogears. Also Xenogears, the Tower of Babel. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | The Rock or Con Air |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 11:59:56 AM #9 | Ed Harris makes The Rock a good movie. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Jordan Peterson: Nazi apologist |
ScazarMeltex 12/01/18 12:28:43 AM #82 | Yeah I feel like Peterson could have benefited from reading Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 11:29:01 PM #58 | The working class is the middle class antifar, we've been conditioned to use the term middle class in it's place. A socialist such as yourself should know that. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 11:19:37 PM #56 | FLUFFYGERM posted... ScazarMeltex posted...You don't really spend any time around common working class or poor GOP voters do you? That's pretty much what I thought. Lower income and working class white voters make up the largest part (these groups also encompass the evangelical community) of the GOP base.The vast majority of them know nothing about European immigrants because they aren't being dog whistled to acknowledge them. I live and work with these people. They do not want non-whites coming into the country period. They know they can't stop legal ones from coming and "taking our fucking jobs" but they damn well jerk off to the thought of machine guns mounted on the border to kill anyone trying to come in illegally. Yet at the same time when asked if they would be ok with Canadians sneaking in they oppose it but the vehemence, zealotry, and desire for violence just isn't there. Stop being dishonest about it, that's all I ask. I'm not talking about you, your stance has reason and nuance, I'm talking about your party's base. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 11:04:46 PM #46 | FLUFFYGERM posted... ScazarMeltex posted...FLUFFYGERM posted...ScazarMeltex posted...Solar_Crimson posted...Well, what inherently is wrong with migration? You don't really spend any time around common working class or poor GOP voters do you? --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | To opponents of UBI: What's your answer to automation? |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 11:02:31 PM #28 | WhinyZach posted... It's a funny joke that you think skilled tradesman will be replaced by robots any time soon. But when everyone has to get those skills because those are the only jobs available makes the value of your skills plummet, which is exactly the point. Then the employers can pay you next to nothing and if you don't want to accept it they'll give the job to one of the billion people who have those skills and doesn't want to starve. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 10:56:44 PM #38 | scorpion41 posted... Leftists: Trump is a fascist and a wannabe dictator who wants to take away our rights! The UN is not a leftist organization. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 10:54:49 PM #36 | FLUFFYGERM posted... ScazarMeltex posted...Solar_Crimson posted...Well, what inherently is wrong with migration? No, i'm not. I have issues with the absurdity of making criticism of religion a hate crime and I believe that migrants should either accept the laws and culture of their new home or move along. We should also be making sure we aren't letting in potential terrorists or criminals. So long as that's in place I have zero issues with bringing in plenty of migrants. In fact I would be more than willing to trade a bunch of useless ignorant current citizens for them. But you are intellectually dishonest if you don't acknowledge, that while you may have legitimate reasoned and academic beefs with the immigration system, the vast majority of the GOP base simply don't want brown people coming into the country because they are fucking brown. They haven't thought out the nuances of the situation, they've simply been dog whistled to embrace a view that coincides with their already existing prejudices. There is a reason that the confederate stars and bars flies quite freely among the anti-immigration crowd. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | UN looking to criminalize criticism of migration |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 10:41:36 PM #26 | Solar_Crimson posted... Well, what inherently is wrong with migration? White people get upset when not white people want to come to their country. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | To opponents of UBI: What's your answer to automation? |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 6:53:42 PM #17 | So in this magical world where automation has taken over most low skill jobs and everyone has become educated and now has the skills to compete in this new world, the competition will still drive wages through the floor. There will still only be some many jobs available. If everyone has the skills the do them that means that employers will be able to pay rock bottom wages and if you don't like it, well guess what, there are a few million other people out there with the same skills and a desire not to starve who will take your job. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Yet another neo-nazi bombing plot is foiled in Florida |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 6:15:03 PM #38 | Kineth posted... OctilIery posted...Ehhh, trashy and racist as it is, you can't really equate the confederate flag with Nazis. They're on a whole different level They are exactly the same. I live in missouri, I've never met a person who flex the stars and bars that hasn't been a fucking raging racist. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
Topic | Dallas police officer who shot man in his own apartment indicted on manslaughter |
ScazarMeltex 11/30/18 3:20:14 PM #18 | Should be murder 2. --- "If you wish to converse with me define your terms" Voltaire |
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