Tom

Jake…the British occupied of the Levant was imposed on Palestine, they were not welcomes with open arms and would have happily had their own state after centuries of foreign rule by other powers. Or did you think that Palestine invited a massive migration of people from another continent and then suddenly changed their minds?

I am not picking a…[Read more]

No it doesn’t Jake. Replace the Tib etans with native Americans. Imagine the Chinese withdrew from an improveished Connecticut and armed and funded native Americans, , invited millions of native Americans to join the few natives who still live in Connecticut, and when inevitably tensions arose amid a massive influx of uninvited migrants amongst…[Read more]

So yeah, Imagine somehow China managed to occupy the United States. And when it pulled out, it also decided to compensate the Uyghurs and Tibetans which the Chinese had persecuted, by letting them have a homeland in the United States. So, specifically, through funding and political pressure by China, they take the state that YOU personally live…[Read more]

Jake, I do not know a place on Earth that would welcome an influx of immigrants which would come to double their population, all imposed by a foreign power who funds and arms these immigrants who rapidly change the face of society, forcing people to give up their lands and homes and make concession after concession. Somehow, this is pretty much an…[Read more]

The main thing that makes Israel such a great nation is that it has the dynamic culture and free institutions to make change for the better possible.

With the sole exception of “gay marriage”, I could say the very same thing about Turkey and Lebanon. They both have dynamic culture and they both have free institutions to make change for the better…[Read more]

Israel has anti-racism laws, but that doesn’t mean they are remotely enforced. There is even pernicious racism towards African Jews which leads to terrible police violence and discrimination against them (despite there being laws on paper against that). There are multiple arab countries which have “in theory” anti-racism laws protecting Jews,…[Read more]

For the sake of Secularism and Freedom in the Middle East [blah blah blah Israel]

Hearing the word secularism and Israel together is cute. While they have a superficial secularism, religious racism is embedded in their laws and policies. Muslims do not serve in their military. Jewish customs take overwhelming precedence over Christian and Muslim…[Read more]

When it comes to punishments, you are either in support of it being used (for whatever reasons, including limited ones) or you are against it. In terms of the morality of “using a method of punishment”, when to use it is irrelevant to the discussion of whether that punishment should ever be used. The same goes for torture. I am not in favour of…[Read more]

While I understand that people are trying to present a nuanced opinion on “I am against the death penalty in general except for…”, to me this is not different to saying “I support the death penalty”. You either support it or you don’t. All forms of homicide which are easily avoided are inherently immoral. It makes human beings disposable which…[Read more]

I am all for taxing any non-government organisation which is non-profit that has more than say, three employees who make more than $100,000 and ANY employee that makes more than 200,000. That would cover mega-churches, the catholic church, charities with overpaid directors etc. This is either an incentive to stop overpaying people (a serious…[Read more]

To return to pitbulls, on an entirely personal perspective: while the Staffordshire terrier my brother had was beautiful, and even sweet (until it wasn’t sweet), I don’t for a second believe that you couldn’t get virtually the same qualities and experience from a less dangerous breeds/mixes. Also, my brother was honestly the prototypical kind of…[Read more]

Nobody on Earth needs more than a billion dollars for any reason. That doesn’t mean it should be confiscated, but they should pay fair taxes on their wealth, which many avoid though various means (some unjustly legal other not legal which the government unjustly doesn’t commit resources to stopping and prosecuting). The same goes for corporations,…[Read more]

Spending more than you have is a problem that no one of any pay grade can solve.  It is true for an individual and it is true for a nation.

Your math is extremely shitty there Enco. The money you confiscate from billionaires does not equal the total possible tax potential. Some of US’s taxes are insanely low. You could easily afford the kind of…[Read more]

I see that, regarding my position, you have the attention span of a startled Pitbull, so I’ll pass on responding to all that yipping.

I’m sorry Enco, did you say something?

By the way, I think I have sufficiently disparaged enough American states that I have to have a disclaimer here dead I do not believe that the US is some terrible disfuncional country nor that there aren’t many admirable states such as Vermont or Massachusetts for example. While there is a lot of anti-Americanism in Europe/Canada/NZ, I do not want…[Read more]

Enco, you are grasping at straws to maintain/justify an extreme ideology. I do not believe that breeding out dangerous dogs will create more harm. If there is a chance that pitbulls contain the cure for cancer or could be the perfect assistance dogs for people with dimensia then, I don’t know, we could go find some in the many countries too poor…[Read more]

Yeah. I often find that these “hands off” people, actually support “getting tough of crime” which really baffles me because if regulations should be so laxed to the point that “victims just deal with the consequences and it will all be sorted out through lawsuits and personal economic interest” then I honestly don’t see why people would support…[Read more]

The problem with your sort of solution is that it is totally post hoc.  Once the pitbull maims the little old lady, kills the family’s Yorkie or cat, or kills the 2 year old by yanking his arm off, sue the bastards!

How about a solution that keeps all that mayhem from happening in the first place?

What Unseen said. Letting people do virt…[Read more]