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The plague didn't prevent world overpopulation because population levels would have risen to what they would have been w/o plague; what checks population growth historically is the availability of food, and less the ability to produce new babies as a hard limit (I don't have figures for the...

That's what they WANT you to think. ;) In all seriousness though - funding a paramilitary group with aims that don't align with your own, on your own soil, is just monumentally silly. The US has total military domination over their own soil, so if someone wants to say bomb a black community...

Have the CIA fund the crack epidemic. Oh snap...

The difference between the 1930s and now is mass media culture, stronger police measures, and the lack of a serious alternative to the present regime. The present system is designed to contain the effects of a Great Depression so that the situation is controllable. Let the Reaganites run...

You mean it isn't a second great depression?

That would presuppose that Hitler was something truly revolutionary, instead of a creature that was the inevitable outcome of the doctrine of eugenism. I suppose eugenism as an ideology is unavoidable and had to be confronted sooner or later, but even what happened after the second world war...

An astroturf political movement has a hard time making their own network. For the most part, they do their job as a mouthpiece for rightist causes, while being able to say things that aren't politically acceptable to the GOP for various reasons. Presenting an independent platform is something...

I'm not demanding anything. The point is that paying a prostitute (who likely despises their customer) is no different than wanking; you are in effect starving yourselves by buying a piece of blue sky, at a high price tag, and chasing after a big lie. A big lie would also describe what most...

I suppose it would be a pain to change the numbers and position of every highway mile marker, too.

I never figured those two things would converge on the same ATL.

I am deprived of sex on a regular basis, along with a great many other things.

*giggle giggle*

There is no "value" to sex - it's paying for a piece of blue sky.

It is not the rules of the game, it is the pre-existence of American sports codes which are confusingly named football, and the natural evolution of American football that was confined to the Americas. As much as people bitch about ties, diving, and the lack of scoring, those are mostly...

Gridiron football was established as a professional sports long before FIFA was a thing, alongside baseball. Maybe if gridiron were outlawed in the early 20th century (as may very well have happened), the sport could have more or less died, but more likely the game would adapt in a way that...

Quoted for truth.

Some of you guys are seriously misunderstand why people consider prostitution a bad thing. You would have to fight thousands of years of precedent and the inherent complications of the sex trade - something which most people do not want to do, for very good reasons. The most likely answer to...

Alien Space Bats.

Most likely some other anti-communist party rises to power. An anti-Communist Germany wouldn't be particularly kind towards Jews either, though they may go about anti-Jew policies in a different manner. By "less loony" I'll assume that means "won't try to take over the world like stupidass...

The point I am trying to make is not that school is totalitarian - though in practice regimented education is essential to a truly totalitarian state. The point that I am making is that the core of totalitarianism as a belief system is an ideological and philosophical one, and not a matter of...