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- Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: The Tank has Gone to Hell
- Replies: 345
- Views: 35380
Oh, come on, Cail. wayfriend has been posting on the Watch for eight years , and the Tank hasn't always been as bad as it is now. Right? The consensus seems to be that the forum's in a pretty bad state right now, yet you're blaming it all on a guy who's been here since the beginning (pretty much)? I...
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:08 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: The Tank has Gone to Hell
- Replies: 345
- Views: 35380
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:42 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Apple and fraud
- Replies: 258
- Views: 16478
In many ways slavery is the most profoundly anti-capitalist arrangement possible. If we take capitalism to be the liberalization of markets, then the lawful enslavement of huge portions of the population is just about the biggest distortion of the market imaginable! However , this is in my view an a...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:35 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: XBOX Workers Threaten Suicide
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4589
It's astounding, but here I thought that China was a communist country. That makes all of China's inhabitants communist. No, it doesn't. Not anymore than all Americans are Democrats because Obama is President. Communism is an ideology as well as a party; not all Chinese are party members (really), ...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:00 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Wall Street
- Replies: 316
- Views: 24444
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Wall Street
- Replies: 316
- Views: 24444
You won't find any argument from me on that front. What I just described, and I think it is a fair description of the facts that I'd be happy to discuss, is indeed the result of yet another consensus between both parties: that they prefer to be beholden to special interests and to craft and implemen...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Wall Street
- Replies: 316
- Views: 24444
I have another angle on an ideology so obvious and implicit throughout our society that apparently nobody in this thread feels the need to talk about it. That's the ideology that says those who most deserve the government's protection are the richest sectors of our society: The banks that have been ...
Let's hope he's serious this time and that it's not Guantánamo Part II. Let's especially hope he's serious since we are under obligation according to the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement , negotiated by the Bush administration, to be out of there by the end of December. Plus from a political point...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:12 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Gilad Shalit, an interesting calculation
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9609
Zarathustra, Okay, I'm glad we agree that some moral judgment about Israel's founding isn't the basis for all current judgments. I don't think Israel's founding is fundamentally immoral. I think the way it was done was wrong but the principle of the creation of Israel is not in my view fundamentally...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:12 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Gilad Shalit, an interesting calculation
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9609
Look, the moral consequences of the founding of the United States and of Israel make for a very interesting historical discussion, one I would be glad to have even. But I thought we were talking about what's happening in Israel and the Occupied Territories now , today . There are certain things that...
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:09 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Gilad Shalit, an interesting calculation
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9609
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:44 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Gilad Shalit, an interesting calculation
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9609
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:58 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Ron Paul Calls Anwar al-Awlaki Strike 'Asassination'
- Replies: 348
- Views: 33418
Killing one's enemies is perhaps among the very first principles of a state. Indeed. Which makes it one of the most eminently questionable principles of politics. An even more fundamental principle is the one that states that principles we apply to others should be applied to ourselves. We wouldn't...
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:34 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: Ron Paul Calls Anwar al-Awlaki Strike 'Asassination'
- Replies: 348
- Views: 33418
... an administration official said in a statement Friday. I dunno, wayfriend. When I hear administration officials justifying their own legal policies, I can't help but think that their word is, well, worthless. I'm sure there's a legal argument to be made for the stuff they're doing (yesterday's ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:23 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321
Cail, In the real world, we recognize that things aren't simply as black and white as you'd like to make them. Your naiveté is only exceeded by your inability to see other points of view. Maybe. This whole conversation would go a lot easier if we traded in specific facts, as I and others have been a...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321
Cail, Seeing as how neither of us were there, I'm not making any judgement regarding who killed who. If 3,000 civilians were rioting, then there may well be a justification for killing them. Don't know, and neither do you. We don't know firsthand, but we could consult the relevant sources which read...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:51 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:45 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321
Cail, Care to discuss all the other times prior that Israel was attacked? I'd be happy to. (You were the one who mentioned Hamas in an historically inaccurate way, so I brought up the Second Intifada.) Which instances? Didn't say they weren't civilians...Never said that either. So if the fact that t...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:23 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321
Sorry, I'm not going to feel the least bit of sympathy for people who elected a government that states as one of their purposes the eradication of Israel. 1. The Second Intifada took place before the election of Hamas. (In fact, it was a direct cause of it.) 2. The Second Intifada took place in the...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:13 pm
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: US Freezes Aid After Palestinian Statehood Bid
- Replies: 95
- Views: 11321