Riiiight, because the "oppression" you experience in the west is globally equivalent to Communism's crimes against humanity like the collectivization of the Ukraine & forced migrations which killed millions. For you, Japanese-American internment act & more recently, the Patriot act, Guantanamo & Mass metadata collection is just as bad if not worse as killing millions.
You're incapable of normal rational thought like I said earlier.
Lions that could survive the drought were those that adapted to hunt elephants
No. I never said that. IIRC while the pride that was learned & went on to prefer attack elephants prospered, other prides in the area suffered through the drought, but survived.
if you wipe out all your prey in your area
Lions weren't the only reason or even the most important one in the extinction of elephants in the pride's area. Humans reduced the elephant population to the point that they could be locally exterminated.
Pack animals predating much larger prey isn't a freak event. It has happened throughout time & all over the earth whenever a prey species has evolved to be much larger than the available predators. There may be a window in which the prey species is invulnerable but eventually pack animals will adapt to the available resource.
If 29 meter (terrestrial) carnivores ever existed, we would have seen some sign of them by now
I see. You're the kind that gets his jollies by engaging in futility. Great life you must be having there, I'll bet your parents are soo proud...
Snort. Really? First off, I never said it was & secondly, I had to modify the quote to get it to fit into a
Are you in the habit of going up to people and telling them things that they already know? Things like the sky is blue? Water is wet?
So? If the USG decides to ignore the treaties, like it did with the treaties it signed with the Indian nations during the 19th century, the space treaty will be meaningless.
The Space treaty may make it illegal but no sanctions are specified. If the USG depenalizes space homesteading and allows people to sell ressources brought back from space, the treaty will be dead. Prior examples: The treaties the USG signed & then ignored with Indian tribes during the 19th century.
Peeking at my profile, I see sniveler. Nope, France isn't communist.
There are so few who recognise the quote: Bravo.
I will have you know that I set it long ago when participating in a particular long forgotten thread on
As for it being number sticker wisdom, well given the length limitations on both number stickers &
As Churchill so astutely said: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Democracy is far far from perfect, but the other systems are worse.
Not surprising. I've noticed that the people capable of belittling communism's crimes against humanity are very often incapable of normal rational thought.
Snort. 19th century oppression of women in psyciatric hospitals is not a valid counter-argument to me pointing out that no-one was condemned to an insane asylum in the US or condemned to prison with all their belongings confiscated by the government for merely daring to oppose the ruling party, so no, it's not like the Patriot act.
Attempting to use such a weak argument just shows that you have no better counter argument.
What country sized example of long term communist rule which doesn't turn into fascism or dictatorships are you referring to? I didn't see any. Note that I do not lump socialism in with communism.
I agree that small scale communism has it's merits (kibbutzim being a good example where it works very well), but county size communism has failed every time, transforming itself over time into what should more properly be called fascism (rule by a small cadre) in many cases the boiling itself down to rule by tyrants. Thus IMO in the country sized communist systems, you're trying to draw a line where is no real difference.
No-one was condemned to an insane asylum in the US or condemned to prison with all their belongings confiscated by the government for merely daring to oppose the ruling party, so no, it's not like the Patriot act.
No-one was sent to Guantanamo for peaceful opposition of the ruling party in the US either, so no, it's not like Guantanamo either.
So, that makes the sniveling coward voluntarily wrong, yet again.
Junior? I was born before JFK was assassinated & was an adult in Berlin days after the wall fell, bucko.
So, the men & women I met from a number of different countries who described in detail their experiences of Communist rule that I briefly relayed were all liars.
Source: Russians, Ex-eastern Germans, Cubans, Chinese, Romanians, Nicaraguans, Vietnamese. Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians.
No, we should all believe a sniveling coward without the courage to post in his own name that claims that all the personal experiences and documented abuses of Communism are a "boogieman" [sic] because he left one (probably former) Communist ruled country before he was an adult. Your lies are transparently seen for what they are, coward: Voluntary ignorance.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
