>Edit: Come to think of it, also there were also a few Roman Emperors from North Africa! North Africa, like most of the Mediterranean, was white in Roman times. North Africa is only swarthy today in the aftermath of…
> What does "white" mean? Are you telling me the Romans were British? German? Nordic? It means that the second image, showing Roman senators played by a few dozen white Italian extras, is a perfectly likely depiction,…
I was responding to his lengthy diversion on the commutabality of British and Italian actors, which seems to be rooted in the delusional American notion (dating back to the late 19th century, recently revived by lefties…
The effort to paint ancient Rome as some sort of model 21st century, "diverse multicultural non-white non-European melting point" is always pretty funny. And Cleopatra was black, right?? Of course, it all falls apart…
According to the 2020 figures, national defense was 11% of federal spending. Discretionary vs. mandatory seems irrelevant here. We might as well say military spending is 100% of military spending. It's just dividing it…
US federal spending 2020: $7 trillion The entire budget of #1 is about 3% of that, and #2 and #3 around 1%. What a terrible deal.
These sort of administrative and bureaucratic activities are less than 1% of federal spending though. So your argument makes no sense.
Various levels of local governments provide many services and benefits for my physical property located in their jurisdictions, so I do not oppose a reasonable property tax. But the federal government provides no…
Sounds pretty authoritarian. > Except the uber wealthy who can afford to lose money to pay taxes for the infrastructure that has enabled their explosive asset growth. Federal income tax almost never gets used for…
Not an argument.
Food stamp recipients are usually obese They can't "rise up" from the couch, do you really think they are going to "rise up" and start a revolution?
$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending $3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending I know which I think is the better government expenditure
Cicero was a conservative in some ways. But I don't think he was particularly prejudiced or classist, for the time. Remember that he was technically a plebeian himself, although obviously a privileged and successful one.
Countries competing with each other to offer attractive business environments with the lowest taxes is a race to the top, not the bottom.
Iran's history for the past 200 years is nothing but an alternation of American, British, and Russian/Soviet installed governments, compounded by a foreign religion (Islam) which is actually worse than socialism in…
You are right, of course. But Rousseau made it quite clear that the sovereignty of a government is discretionary. This sort of thinking isn't convincing on an ideological or theoretical level to anyone but a medieval…
On the contrary, those countries are extremely popular places to base your business activities or start a company or manage your finances from. Ever been to Bermuda? Or the Virgin Islands? You can't move for wealthy…
Why are governments allowed to collude like this? Isn't this the same idea as price fixing? Exploiting their monopoly (governments' monopoly on the right to do commerce) to unfairly raise prices (taxes)? The world needs…
Don't be silly. Obviously the bans were not perfectly enforced and you could still find hushed conversations in the corners. This was true on all platforms. What, exactly, is your argument? Or your point? Are you really…
I realize this is difficult and embarrassing for you, but you cannot remain in denial much longer. And your feeble attempt to be cavalier and aloof by omitting punctuation fools no one. It just makes you look like a…
Don't be absurd. Every single major social media platform banned even the most gentle suggestion that the lab was involved. And everyone who mentioned it was called "racist". Now that the scientific consensus is…
The website looks really beautiful on my screen. Probably a question of screen resolution? It is true that many serif typefaces degrade quickly on lower resolution displays.
No. I'm just not convinced at all by his comment about the author's publication history. >This paper is not peer-reviewed. It should end there. So you think scientists aren't allowed to communicate with one another and…
...what? Attacking the past of the person making an argument, rather than his argument itself, is the textbook example of ad hominem.
According to Google Scholar, he has dozens of papers, 10000 citations, and an h-index of 37. What do you have? And if you follow through, at least a couple of the four retractions mentioned on Wikipedia appear to be…
>Edit: Come to think of it, also there were also a few Roman Emperors from North Africa! North Africa, like most of the Mediterranean, was white in Roman times. North Africa is only swarthy today in the aftermath of…
> What does "white" mean? Are you telling me the Romans were British? German? Nordic? It means that the second image, showing Roman senators played by a few dozen white Italian extras, is a perfectly likely depiction,…
I was responding to his lengthy diversion on the commutabality of British and Italian actors, which seems to be rooted in the delusional American notion (dating back to the late 19th century, recently revived by lefties…
The effort to paint ancient Rome as some sort of model 21st century, "diverse multicultural non-white non-European melting point" is always pretty funny. And Cleopatra was black, right?? Of course, it all falls apart…
According to the 2020 figures, national defense was 11% of federal spending. Discretionary vs. mandatory seems irrelevant here. We might as well say military spending is 100% of military spending. It's just dividing it…
US federal spending 2020: $7 trillion The entire budget of #1 is about 3% of that, and #2 and #3 around 1%. What a terrible deal.
These sort of administrative and bureaucratic activities are less than 1% of federal spending though. So your argument makes no sense.
Various levels of local governments provide many services and benefits for my physical property located in their jurisdictions, so I do not oppose a reasonable property tax. But the federal government provides no…
Sounds pretty authoritarian. > Except the uber wealthy who can afford to lose money to pay taxes for the infrastructure that has enabled their explosive asset growth. Federal income tax almost never gets used for…
Not an argument.
Food stamp recipients are usually obese They can't "rise up" from the couch, do you really think they are going to "rise up" and start a revolution?
$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending $3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending I know which I think is the better government expenditure
Cicero was a conservative in some ways. But I don't think he was particularly prejudiced or classist, for the time. Remember that he was technically a plebeian himself, although obviously a privileged and successful one.
Countries competing with each other to offer attractive business environments with the lowest taxes is a race to the top, not the bottom.
Iran's history for the past 200 years is nothing but an alternation of American, British, and Russian/Soviet installed governments, compounded by a foreign religion (Islam) which is actually worse than socialism in…
You are right, of course. But Rousseau made it quite clear that the sovereignty of a government is discretionary. This sort of thinking isn't convincing on an ideological or theoretical level to anyone but a medieval…
On the contrary, those countries are extremely popular places to base your business activities or start a company or manage your finances from. Ever been to Bermuda? Or the Virgin Islands? You can't move for wealthy…
Why are governments allowed to collude like this? Isn't this the same idea as price fixing? Exploiting their monopoly (governments' monopoly on the right to do commerce) to unfairly raise prices (taxes)? The world needs…
Don't be silly. Obviously the bans were not perfectly enforced and you could still find hushed conversations in the corners. This was true on all platforms. What, exactly, is your argument? Or your point? Are you really…
I realize this is difficult and embarrassing for you, but you cannot remain in denial much longer. And your feeble attempt to be cavalier and aloof by omitting punctuation fools no one. It just makes you look like a…
Don't be absurd. Every single major social media platform banned even the most gentle suggestion that the lab was involved. And everyone who mentioned it was called "racist". Now that the scientific consensus is…
The website looks really beautiful on my screen. Probably a question of screen resolution? It is true that many serif typefaces degrade quickly on lower resolution displays.
No. I'm just not convinced at all by his comment about the author's publication history. >This paper is not peer-reviewed. It should end there. So you think scientists aren't allowed to communicate with one another and…
...what? Attacking the past of the person making an argument, rather than his argument itself, is the textbook example of ad hominem.
According to Google Scholar, he has dozens of papers, 10000 citations, and an h-index of 37. What do you have? And if you follow through, at least a couple of the four retractions mentioned on Wikipedia appear to be…