The New Place

neverfail wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:08 am

US politics attracts some truly grubby characters, doesn't it?

Yes, although "US" is a needless qualifier there.

Mr. Perfect wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:37 pm

We need a big stack of Democrats in jail. Jails full of Democrats.

That's what drug prohibition is for, so I suppose there's a precedent.

No, never fail. Populism means promising popular policies regardless whether it is good for the people. Who decides what is "good" for the people? Intellectualy superior people like you?... :D That's why the wise Greeks decided that people would be chosen for office by lottery, and could only stay ...

Having a reliable picture of North Korea is not easy. It's actually pretty easy to see the accounts from people who have escaped from there. But you've long since proven capable of ignoring anything that doesn't support an anti-American narrative and believing anything that does, no matter how gull...

The future of the world isn't in globalism, it's in a self conscious technological meta state based on meritocracy. It's not national, it's not ethno though certainly not hostile towards those things - the meritocracy integrates society across class and demographic lines. It is not the mystical mag...

It's no different from how they used to discriminate against Jews. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose....

Having a reliable picture of North Korea is not easy. It's actually pretty easy to see the accounts from people who have escaped from there. But you've long since proven capable of ignoring anything that doesn't support an anti-American narrative and believing anything that does, no matter how gull...

Thanks for that post, doc. https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/1006275675454443520 "Disturbingly" polite? :?: :?: :?: Why disturbingly ? Apparently, in North Korea they could not imagine anyone being good mannered for any reason except as a covering mask for guile. You only exude politeness when y...

I'm pretty sure even you all are not more laid back than many parts of the English-speaking Caribbean. 8-) Probably not Steve. Though unlike these we are not part of the Third World. My comparison was within the context of the developed world. The reason international development types haven't used...

The future of the world isn't in globalism, it's in a self conscious technological meta state based on meritocracy. It's not national, it's not ethno though certainly not hostile towards those things - the meritocracy integrates society across class and demographic lines. It is not the mystical mag...