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Your tactic is called diversion. I am not biting the bait.
Your tactic is called "making claims that you don't know are true, then refusing to admit it when you are proven wrong".
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We are confronted by a violent ideology which seeks the destruction of our society;
Tell me, what do you call an ideology, such as yours, that calls for the quick and cheap extermination of millions of people?
Why don't you call it "The Final Solution-Reprise"?
Tell me, do you have a small moustache?
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Comparative economics/comparative politics are not germane to this discussion.
Oh, I think the way you reacted to my quite strong refutation of your claims is very germane to the discussion.
See, I just confirmed my prediction that
you will, without fail, refuse to admit when you are completely wrong about something, even when you are shown data, and even when it isn't "germane to the subject."
This strongly suggest to me that you are completely unable to have a grown-up, rational discussion about anything.
You have shown yourself willing to state things as fact that you actually do not know to be fact, and then avoid correcting yourself when shown that you are wrong.
This makes me unable to trust anything you say.
...that, and your advocacy of mass murder.
Also, please explain to m how this "Final Solution" of yours demonstrates
CHRISTLIKE BEHAVIOR.
Please retract or correct your false claim.
I will cut n paste my last message below:
When are you emigrating to Nigeria?
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Unresponsive and irrelevant.
You made the following claim. I have put in bold the important part that I countered:
There is no perfection in this world. Fortunately for us, our founders created the best economic & political system going. It ain't perfect, but it is far superior to all the rest.
I pointed out that there are many ways in which the US is not, in fact, far superior to all the rest.
I even left one out; we no longer have the constitutional right to habeus corpus. The SCOTUS just ruled that it is not unconstitutional to hold an American citizen without trial and without representation for as long as the government wants to hold them.
Sounds like a slide into facism to me.
Please retract or correct your false claim the the US's political and economic system is "far superior to all the rest".
PS If I were to emigrate anywhere, I would want to move to Scandinavia. They have the best overall standard of living in the world for their citizens. Pay particular attention to the bolded part regarding the number of people in poverty in Norway compared to the US:
http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/society/UNreport.htm
In Norway, 99 percent of the population can read and write, there are 413 doctors per 100,000 citizens, the average life expectancy is 78.4 years, and the Norwegians are even wealthier than ever before. The famous Nordic social welfare state remains efficient and provides the Norwegians with a first class health, education and benefits system, which is financed through their taxes.
Norway has also topped the lists for being among the most generous countries in the world in terms of foreign aid donations on a per capita basis, and for their green environmentally friendly policies.
The average salary in Norway is $45,000 but the Nordic countries are above all known for being an egalitarian society; of the seventeen richest countries in the world, Sweden ranks first as having the fewest people living in poverty and the fewest illiterate people, while other rich countries such us the United States have the the most, showing that stark inequality persists even in middle or high-income countries.
Education is one of the pillars of the Nordic society. Illiteracy is practically non existent from Iceland to Finland, and the free national education systems breed some of the most skilled workforce in the world. Moreover, when it comes to equality between women and men, all the five Nordic countries top the index and score again the highest; Iceland takes the lead in terms of emancipation, followed by Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland on the fifth position.
This message has been edited by schrafinator, 08-01-2004 07:59 AM
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