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  2. There is a little more to "democratic socialism" than simply having a strong social safety net. While these things, along with free public health are generally a feature (should be a basic human right IMO, along with reparations to indigenous peoples) there is more. Generally various institutions (hospitals/health, universities/education, infrastructure such as roads, ports, airports, power generation and supply, telecommunications as a few examples) are owned by the public and administered by govt employees through elected representatives for the public good, using taxpayer money. There has also been (historically) tight controls and regulations on banking system and a strong union movement. I spent a lot of time living in what could roughly be described this way. Until we got a genuine socialist leaning progressive govt that had great promise, but was thrown out in a UK/US led soft coup. It's been different parties of the same right wing politics ever since (but with different names). Banks deregulated, infrastructure sold off, education a (extremely expensive) shambles, health system watered down at every opportunity, unions crushed and stripped of all power and it's been "laissez faire" all the way. Nothing much socialist about it now. Ps. Sorry if I came off as a bit uppity in previous post. It was unnecessary and I enjoy the discussion.
  3. Hey, so long as they didn't find in his favor, I am good with that. The fact remains that he will never be able hold office in New Mexico again. In addition, the precedent has been set in the future convicted January 6, insurrectionists do not have a leg to stand on with the Supreme Court. Their only hope is that Trump is reelected and follows through with comments about pardons the for-Capital Insurrectionist's. However, I don't believe he will do it all the nonsense where he is calling them hostages is just ploy to try and regain the trust he destroyed when he let them swing in the wind after January 6. 2021.
  4. They may have flied on broomstick in European folklore but Arabs were flying on Persian rugs.
  5. Hi " The victim is lying on the ground with gunshot wounds, there are several empty shell casings around them, there’s blood everywhere, there’s shotgun residue, ..." I further suggest, that Creighton's parable or allegory is completely irrelevant.. It is completely presumptuous. There is NO victim, there is no wounds ( except maybe for a few minor errors made in copying the hieroglyphs by either Hill, Perring and /or Rowe which is completely understandable under candle light and/or circumstances), no shell casings, no blood . Hundreds of experts have viewed the RC graffiti and it is now ONLY SC that (still alive), or perhaps totally ignorant parties , that is claiming any HOAX or crime. No one else is looking for any allegorical "gun".! However, take a moment of sorrowful silence to reflect on how many hours SC has spent making up all sorts of assorted BS, trying to back date the Great Pyramid. It is not even an original thought. Then consider his family who have had to endure his madness. Some pity is likely appropriate. ( at least for his family and acquaintances.) ? Cheers
  6. Your political rhetoric is comical and you play the same game whenever you're faced with the facts. But that is also why it's enjoyable to have you participate in these conversations because the comic relief is always welcome!!🤡
  7. Easy answer; he didn't. The crew chief wrote them around 4,500 years ago
  8. What's happening is that you're saying the one with the shotgun is Vyse. Egyptology says that the one with the shotgun is the crew chief of Khufu.
  9. Once again the argument never rises beyond personal definitions. Especially when it involves beliefs from those who have had a thorough boogeyman brainwashing in the McCarthyite state that is the US, this type of discussion quickly becomes farce. I don't classify the US (or the west in general) as democratic any longer, even in principle. What is often spouted as the defining principle of democracy (a popularity contest between a couple of sociopaths owned and financed by corporations) is the very thing that makes it impossible. It will always veer to oligarchy at best and eventually fascism (US has a form of fascism at the moment just waiting for the charismatic populist...maybe Trump?). Has there ever been a nation that wasn't "capitalist" by your definition (whatever that might be exactly)? Lenin himself openly stated that the soviets had a "state capitalist" economy. So by those definitions that would mean the Soviets weren't socialist and in fact socialism has never been tried yet. I also doubt the US financial system is really capitalism either. I don't remember reading in "The Wealth of Nations" where having around 20% of the world's population under economic sanctions fits that bill. Nor debt trapping weaker countries through front groups like the IMF that impose "austerity measures" and even lay out terms of which type of govt they require. Maybe I missed it. Nor did it seem to mention overthrowing govts of weaker countries so that your corporations can move in and pillage. Not to mention the protectionism and tariffs the US indulges in (while requiring that others don't). What the US economic system would more accurately be described as would be "Mafia Economics" usually backed by strongarm threats and tactics (military). Basically, the worlds bullies (not for much longer it seems). As to the State Dept propaganda, I'll overlook that but it does get tiresome. Only to say that Julian Assange, Edward Snowden (who alerted Americans to fact they were living in a surveillance state), Gonzo Lira and many others might disagree regarding western freedoms. As might anyone who took the slightest bit of notice during the pandemic. China played on western greed quite intelligently and now the genie is out of the bottle and it ain't going back. The reason the Russian economy outgrew all G7 economies in 2023 (including the US obviously) and is predicted to do the same in 2024 despite being the most sanctioned country in history, can be attributed mostly to China (and India to an extent, as well as Putin's govt). China goes about things quietly, but gets what it wants (without the self aggrandisement, invasions and coups). They are that powerful economically.
  10. Your first post included a yawn emoji. When do you suppose you will really be ready to move on and discuss the content of the quotes you introduced to this thread?
  11. I was mainly being sarcastic again there , thus the smiley face.
  12. So? Does that make it less likely to be the correct definition? There's gotta be a last definition for everything in the dictionary, right? Particularly when considering that the context of Trump's comments are about the auto industry, and therefore an economic bloodbath makes total sense while a physical bloodbath makes none. Particularly when Trump's spokesperson has been asked about that question and explicitly described it as an economic bloodbath by way of clarification. It's abusing the English language to pretend that Trump meant a phyiscal bloodbath. Whoever chose to use this term first is dishonest, pure and simple, and you're unfortunately falling for the media lies.
  13. They simply refused to take the case up. They regularly do that. It isn't a dispositive ruling on the accusation against the guy.
  14. No , not necessarily , but its last.
  15. qxcontinuum

    Canada is becoming a third world country

    And so it was invoking the emergency act according to another recent rulling which found to have been just another unconstitutional use of force the federal government has taken to stop people from exercising their democratic rights to protest. This was extremely damaging for the future of Canada and its democracy as it seeded fear and inhibitions for any other groups or minorities who wishes to protest in the future. Meanwhile in other democratic countries fron Europe, farmers are putting **** at their parliament doors literaly to protest against tax increase and no one dares to invoke the emergency act.
  16. Does that make it less valid? When the context of Trump's comments are clearly about the auto industry?
  17. Asylum chapel? That's a pretty appropriate location, all things considered.
  18. That goes without saying if you're using Webster's So it seems if your using Webster's , it's the last definition on the list.
  19. Not if you believe the people in this thread who are saying it's ambiguous and uncertain precisely what Trump meant, which is a load of dingoes kidneys. The MSM is lying to you, calling it a "bloodbath" when it was clear Trump's words were intended to refer to car sales. You can always watch the Ohio rally for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJwCUHVgc0
  20. In the biblical storyline, Noah's flood was survived by 3 sons of Noah, who allegedly spread out and repopulated the world. Noah's son Shem was eponymous founder of the Semitic language group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Semitic_languages.svg Since Hebrew language was (and is) in the Semitic language group, one of the major aims of the Noah-flood- theme was to describe -- approximately -- where and when Semitic languages originated (using educated guesses). Modern archaeology has shown that social practices in the Nuzi Tablets (ca 1500 BCE) have remarkable matches to what the Bible says about lifestyles of Shem's early descendants. https://leonmauldin.blog/2011/03/05/nuzi-tablets-and-the-patriarchs/
  21. When someone admits that the context of someone's quote is non-violent but then goes on to treat it like a real threat of violence, then it's usually evidence that it is THEY who are drinking the cool-aid! Just saying
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  23. I wonder how he died, Chinese history has a lot of nobility getting killed in really strange ways. I just read about a guy who got assassinated after someone hid a dagger inside of a fish during a banquet, which was redundant, because they already had kitchen knives to carve the fish with, and one of those would've worked just as well. Otherwise, not the most interesting tomb found in China. At least this one could be explored though, unlike that one that's still buried under a lake of toxic mercury.
  24. I am an American Expatriate that has been living in South Korea for the last 11 years. I certainly disagree with your assessment, yea America is in rough waters at the moment, but no where near a Civil War! JIMHO
  25. From outside the US its pretty obvious which way the election is going to go. Civil war, regardless of which side wins.
  26. An international team of astronomers used Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to identify a variety of icy compounds made up of complex organic molecules like ethanol (alcohol) and likely acetic acid (an ingredient in vinegar). This work builds on previous Webb detections of diverse ices in a cold, dark molecular cloud. The science team also detected simpler molecules, including formic acid (which causes the burning sensation of an ant sting), methane, formaldehyde, and sulfur dioxide. Research suggests that sulfur-containing compounds like sulfur dioxide played an important role in driving metabolic reactions on the primitive Earth. Of particular interest is that one of the sources investigated, IRAS 2A, is characterized as a low-mass protostar. IRAS 2A may therefore be similar to the early stages of our own solar system. As such, the chemicals identified around this protostar were likely present in the first stages of development of our solar system and later delivered to the primitive Earth. https://scitechdaily.com/webbs-ethanol-discovery-fuels-search-for-alien-life/ JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detecting icy complex organic molecules and ions: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48427-23/aa48427-23.html
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