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| Topic | Should feelings play any role in governmental decisions and policy? |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 8:39:14 PM #24 | LordRazziel posted... Asherlee10 posted...LordRazziel posted...Asherlee10 posted...LordRazziel posted...Asherlee10 posted...averagejoel posted...it's weird when people separate feelings from logic as though they're actually separable and aren't heavily informed by each other correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that Asherlee was talking about the theoretical side of things, while I was talking about actually putting things into practice --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Should feelings play any role in governmental decisions and policy? |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 7:39:06 PM #15 | Asherlee10 posted... averagejoel posted...it's weird when people separate feelings from logic as though they're actually separable and aren't heavily informed by each other it's meant to be separated from emotions, but it never really can be --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Should feelings play any role in governmental decisions and policy? |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 7:20:35 PM #3 | it's weird when people separate feelings from logic as though they're actually separable and aren't heavily informed by each other --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 7:05:30 PM #49 | I already named Greece. which does not fit the category "socialist states that weren't undermined by the US, Britain, or France" Either way, you've yet to prove that other countries are somehow entirely responsible for the collapse of these countries. I also never claimed that other countries were somehow entirely responsible for their collapse. So some actual economists who support capitalism vs. some random on the internet who supports socialism. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority Argument from authority (Latin: argumentum ad verecundiam), also called the appeal to authority, is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy. The appeal to authority relies on an argument of the form: --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 2:53:10 PM #166 | nicklebro posted... I don't see any actual relevant liberal parties in the US that aren't on the left. Can you point me towards any? Cuz I'm referring to parties that actually exist, not just parties that exist solely as ideas. the Democratic Party is not on the left, and if you think they are, then you are objectively incorrect --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Who are the most political posters on CE? |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 10:19:50 AM #25 | Romulox28 posted... was proudclad the guy who said that there is infinite wealth in the world because we can all send drones to the moon to mine moon rocks lmao the very same --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Who are the most political posters on CE? |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 9:06:35 AM #14 | Darkman124 posted... proudclad (fluffygerm) is more 'far right with a conscience' than 'centrist' that's contradictory i keep talking to him because he is the one conservative i am 100% convinced is not a russian troll farm. although i am 99.9% convinced questionmarkitarus is also not a russian troll farm, i also think he'd be offended if i applied the 'conservative' label to him. questionmarktarius literally values money over people. if he gets offended by someone applying an accurate label to him, that's his problem --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | It's really hard to take seriously people who say 'narrative' or 'agenda' |
| averagejoel 02/20/18 1:15:31 AM #10 | I don't think I've ever actually used those words in that context before --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 8:38:49 PM #46 | Mike_Stanton posted... So Greece was turned inside-out by the US? How about you name some examples of socialism working instead of excusing all the times that it didn't work. first give some examples of socialist states that weren't undermined by the US, Britain, or France. I'll wait I'm sure a socialist on the internet has a balanced, trustworthy take on productivity under socialism... the trustworthiness of one source is independent of the trustworthiness of any other source. there's no need to attack me just because I point out that information might not be accurate if it's from a school in the stronghold of capitalism --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Do you have a price? |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 7:33:12 PM #7 | byrone posted... Why is she a widow ... because her husband died --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 7:27:30 PM #42 | Mike_Stanton posted... True. Examples from Greece, Venezuela, and Cuba help to support that conclusion as well. yes, three perfectly random countries that just happened to have been turned inside-out by the US, but obviously socialism is to blame for their shortcomings Mike_Stanton posted... Possibly, but... I'm sure an essay on a site from a university in the middle of Silicon Valley has a balanced, trustworthy take on productivity under socialism --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 7:09:02 PM #40 | Mike_Stanton posted... The fact that France and Italy have more socialist elements with less success shows that socialist policies lead to worse results. that conclusion does not follow from that premise And then they collapsed under their own weight due to the failures of central planning. so the massive arms race due to the threat of nuclear war from the US, coupled with the economic burdens of supporting their allies (who were placed under brutal sanctions by the US), had nothing to do with their collapse? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Canadian NDP seeking to make menstrual products free, among other stuff |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 4:10:33 PM #23 | Kaname_Madoka posted... averagejoel posted...peaceful model minority he got popular by making a point of not punching a woman who said he had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood I just want someone who's radical --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Fergie performs the national anthem at the NBA all star game |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 3:44:23 PM #32 | she sang like she hates America, and I respect that --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Canadian NDP seeking to make menstrual products free, among other stuff |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 3:41:55 PM #10 | Singh is a bit centrist and "peaceful model minority" for my liking, but he'll probably get my vote too unless the Green candidate is really fucking good --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 3:38:57 PM #164 | NinjaBreakfast posted... nicklebro posted...All forms of Liberalism are quite clearly on the left side of the political spectrum. "Trudeau? Macron? the Democratic Party in the US? yeah, they're all left" --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Political scientists have made a stunning breakthrough |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 10:49:00 AM #10 | the real meaning of horseshoe theory --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 12:33:24 AM #37 | Read up on the history of Sweden. Capitalist reforms were made in the late 19th century, which caused it to go from being one of the poorest countries in Europe to being one of the richest. Ever since they've implemented more elements of socialism they've had less GDP growth. ok France and Italy have more elements of socialism than Sweden. ok. none of them are actually socialist, so this is meaningless Uh huh...and then what happened? uh they won the space race without absolving nazis of crimes against humanity? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Parents should never spank their kids." |
| averagejoel 02/19/18 12:22:29 AM #115 | darkprince45 posted... I was spanked, smacked, hit with a belt when I was a kid. Never got in trouble. cool anecdotal evidence bro --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | What exactly do people think they'll be able to do with the Ring?*LotR spoilers* |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 3:01:14 PM #30 | there's a really interesting theory about Tom Bombadil here. some cool stuff about Gandalf too. http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Parents should never spank their kids." |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 2:32:23 PM #29 | hockeybub89 posted... averagejoel posted...https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchersAUSTIN, Texas The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan. one time I got into an argument with someone who linked me to the study from a few years ago that said most scientific studies were inaccurate, and literally none of the criteria for finding information to be spurious applied to the spanking study --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Parents should never spank their kids." |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 2:13:53 PM #16 | https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers AUSTIN, Texas The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | N64 vs. Gamecube |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 1:38:43 PM #6 | N64 had one of the worst controllers ever. gamecube had one of the best. games-wise, it's possible to make an argument for either system, though I still prefer Gamecube - Pikmin 1 and 2, Pokemon Colosseum and XD, Melee, Double Dash, Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD off the top of my head. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | why do alt righters act like Nazi is like the n word for white people |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 1:14:30 PM #9 | PartyStarter18 posted... Kaname_Madoka posted...PartyStarter18 posted...Well the left made it one no it didn't Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were recruited in post-Nazi Germany and taken to the U.S. for government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959; many were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 12:54:48 PM #33 | Mike_Stanton posted... ScazarMeltex posted...averagejoel posted...Mike_Stanton posted...justaguy3492 posted...Romes187 posted...If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined prosperity in Europe predates capitalism bud and again, they're not actually socialist also keep in mind that Russia went from Feudalism in 1917 to World Superpower in 1945 --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 12:20:41 PM #27 | Romes187 posted... averagejoel posted...Romes187 posted...averagejoel posted...Mike_Stanton posted...justaguy3492 posted...Romes187 posted...If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined and it's to the ignore list you go. bye! --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 12:12:14 PM #22 | ScazarMeltex posted... averagejoel posted...Mike_Stanton posted...justaguy3492 posted...Romes187 posted...If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined wnat do you mean "more socialist"? the US isn't socialist. neither are France and Italy. neither are any of the other countries you listed. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 12:10:28 PM #21 | Romes187 posted... averagejoel posted...Mike_Stanton posted...justaguy3492 posted...Romes187 posted...If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined do you really think Cuba wouldn't have done better if the US didn't impose sanctions and try to assassinate their leader literally hundreds of times --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 12:01:14 PM #18 | Mike_Stanton posted... justaguy3492 posted...Romes187 posted...If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined Italy and France aren't socialist, and have never been the shitshow in the rest of those countries was caused by interference from the US and Britain, not by their own internal politics --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 11:10:08 AM #10 | Romes187 posted... If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined yeah. something along the lines of a significant amount of time in prison, state seizure of their business, and their dominant hand --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Why does America convict 10x more people than any first world country... |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 11:06:06 AM #5 | private prisons the war on drugs institutional racism (a lot of countries have this, but not many were actually founded on it) --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Scenario: 20 antifa/blm members surround you in the streets for being white |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 11:02:51 AM #57 | flick a light switch, realize I'm dreaming, have some fun lucid dreaming --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Minimum wage largely unenforced in US |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 10:36:31 AM #2 | actually, it's extremely good that these companies have complete control over their employees' lives and can also easily get away with anything they want to --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | when will racism go away? |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 1:15:17 AM #34 | Rika_Furude posted... massive progress will be made when sjws/blm etc pretty much stop existing "I'm all in favour of marginalized groups being treated better, i'm just staunchly opposed to anyone who tries to make that a reality" --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | How long do you think it would take for the mods to notice porn in your sig? |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 1:10:41 AM #8 | Big_Nabendu posted... Not only would you get modded, but if you post alot of posts with it, all those will get modded. And all the modded posts will stack up against you for a suspended/banned account not sure how it would work with the current mod system, but sig wipes definitely did not used to accumulate in severity with the number of posts - I once had a sig wipe and had like 120 moderated messages. that was on this account. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | How long do you think it would take for the mods to notice porn in your sig? |
| averagejoel 02/18/18 1:07:08 AM #4 | I remember a suicide topic where that was done. it definitely wasn't up more than a few minutes --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Should I teach Shadow Ball to Jolteon or Vaporeon? |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 9:59:37 PM #6 | I would be more inclined to give it to Espeon or Sylveon --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Aww yeah, got Les Misérables tickets for my birthday |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 7:53:12 PM #12 | asagi_mode_gone posted... Musical or more play oriented format? And is it a wandering production or local? in retrospect, this is probably the type of question that I should have asked --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Aww yeah, got Les Misérables tickets for my birthday |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 7:33:25 PM #10 | tickets for where? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Ex-CIA director: US meddles in foreign elections for a 'very good cause' |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 7:29:04 PM #4 | a very good cause in the interests of Western Imperialism and large American corporations --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | why do people deny the holocaust? |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 6:28:53 PM #17 | halomonkey1_3_5 posted... the shit that makes less sense to me is when they try to argue the numbers the thing is, the 6 million figure doesn't even take into account the fact that Jews were not the only group targeted by Nazis. if I recall correctly, the American Holocaust Museum puts the total at around 15 million --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Can anyone upset with the name of BLM reconcile this for me? |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 12:31:20 PM #84 | LordRazziel posted... NINExATExSEVEN posted...LordRazziel posted...@NINExATExSEVEN even calling it a "racist minority" is a smear tactic by white supremacists. it's still giving them too much ground. don't concede on this also: holy shit @ all the invisible posts itt --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Wait, California's economy is bigger than India and all of Africa? |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 12:28:47 PM #9 | Skiggie posted... I guess it's because it has a collection of the richest companies in the world...but I figured the huge populations of India and Africa would be enough to make up for that "who has more wealth: a continent of severely exploited people, or a state with a high concentration of people doing the exploiting? hmmmm, i wonder" --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | if liberal college professors don't discriminate against conservatives, then... |
| averagejoel 02/17/18 10:06:50 AM #1 | why do conservatives have lower grades? checkmate, liberals --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/16/18 11:24:50 PM #159 | no need to be rude now --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/16/18 11:08:24 PM #157 | nicklebro posted... Why do you hate people who listen to him? because they dismiss any evidence that their leader might not be all he makes himself out to be --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/16/18 10:07:55 PM #144 | lderivedx posted... It's really, really weird how people feel the need to defend everything about a rambling professor who likes to talk outside his expertise, has an unhealthy obsession with the USSR, blames women for being sexually harassed, and cries at the thought of "Western civilization" tumbling down. I think it's extremely normal that this doddering old man tells edgy libertarians and alt-righters to stand up straight and clean their rooms and they still follow him like he's the leader of their cult. extremely. normal. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Noted intellectual heavyweight Jordan Peterson argues with a bot on Twitter |
| averagejoel 02/16/18 9:59:49 PM #140 | nicklebro posted... averagejoel posted...nicklebro posted...anything of actual substance that I can see? I never claimed he was lying. I claimed he was not left-leaning. the fact that you bring this up to me is evidence that you either didn't read or didn't understand my post. read it again (or for the first time) and address something in it, or I will assume that you concede everything in the post --- peanut butter and dick |
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