He’s Chinese, now? I thought he was Korean? 
And the admitting it part just sounds weird…
He cannot be pitted for being Wong, even if he does refuse to admit it, since he is utterly helpless about it, as pointed out.
From one of the quoted articles:
Do you think 94% of gay people are out in general?
Did you even read the post you linked to?
This is what he responded to, and both him and Little Nemo are correct on this point:
I’m surprised no one has pitted Illuminatiprimus yet.
Then why don’t you get your shit together?
And then start flinging…
Why bother, when this one is going so well for him?
For a brief moment, average lifespan was higher in the USSR than the US. Then they massively overspent on weaponry, embraced Lysenkoism instead of Gouldism and Lewontism and there was turmoil everywhere (this is skipping over the earlier suppression of religion and unions).
Then, Capitalism was introduced and they underinvested even more in healthcare, male life expectancy tanked by a further six years and only began to increase during Putin’s reign. Not that I’d prefer to live under Putin than Cameron.
As a side note, I’ve been posting on the internet since 9 (with the same handle for the past eight years) and my earliest recorded postings are literally incomprehensible. Here’s one from when I was 14. In comparison, he’s a sage.
Oh, another tangent: I thought there were more conservatives posting here than not. Perhaps I was mistaken and there a greater number of Libertarians? It could just be my impression when viewing the US spectrum, which is usually to the right of the UK. I can identify with the Rand statement: after reading Atlas Shrugged I described myself as a “Utilitarian Objectivist” once… Imagine my horror at reading this.
That said, it’s unfortunately the case that very few people deviate to a great degree from the political positions of their fathers (or parents, but I recall that wives tend to deviate towards their husband’s views).* The one distinction I can make with my own father is that he wouldn’t advocate gay marriage or contraception and I would.
*Spotlight fallacy and unrelated to the thread as a whole, but I walked out on a girl last month after she quoted Mein Kampf and I revealed I had recently read Capital. Strange, no?
Speaking as a liberal, there are a lot more liberals than conservatives here, but the conservatives make up for their lack of numbers with an exceptionally high volume of certainty. As does the OP, who is perhaps our youngest conservative.
Apologies for not getting around to this but I’ve been busy for the last week ro so.
I wasn’t denying wealth inequality in either of those statements. I meant in the first statement quite clearly that its far less horrible to be poor in America than in the USSR and in the latter statement I meant that redistributing wealth often does not work. In neither statement did I say wealth inequality does not exist in America nor that it was not a problem.
I said this not out of ignorance but because I know several atheists personally and none of them have any problem saying that they’re atheist whether it be in conversation or say on the Facebook pages. And I wasn’t saying atheists are accepted with open arms by everybody-but I was objecting to the idea of certain people who believe seriously that most religious people can’t wait to begin persecuting nonbelievers-hence why I said “persecuted”.
For the record once again I’ve been to public school since first grade and previous to that I went to preschool and kindergarden in various private daycares and preschools.
And yes I do believe in hindsight, the Iraq War was a mistake.
There aren’t any better leaders in Russia (except maybe now for Prokhorov) and Putin has gotten the economy going again and is not politically crazy or totalitarian. Given what he did in the context of his country, Putin is far more effective than Western leaders who’ve only had to keep the machine going rather than have to fix it.
You are ignoring in that comparison the fact that United States was a global superpower which naturally made it intervene in numerous wars and the fact that China was involved in internal problems even after the establishment of the Maoist regime and lacked force projection capabilities. I said this because individual dignity of all human beings was first codified into law in Christian societies and you can’t just change a government, you must change individuals in a society first before society and government can change.
I wasn’t doing this to prove I had “guts” but because these people deserved pitting.
Obviously I didn’t pick LeMay’s username because he was a saint but because he was a badass like say Patton. Not to mention that LeMay only supported Wallace because he thought Nixon’s nuclear policy was a bad idea.
Is there a cite for that?
Yap, this article in the Independent, which I found from wikipedia. I’m not sure where the journalist got his figures from though.
I for one support the practice of parading one’s ignorance in place where one will be smacked down and learn from it. Part of growing up. I’ve said some daft things on this board over the last decade, and I do learn, really.
And if a few eggs get broken in the process – like a free press and fair elections – I guess that’s the price that has to be paid to sell nuclear reactors to Iran, invade neighboring countries, sell billions in weapons to Syria and Venezuela, and ordering a few assassinations of critics. Yeah, that’s a great record he’s racked up, you ignorant little amoral child.