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Comment Re: Legacy Media BEFORE the war. "Ukraine are Naz (Score 1) 88

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people,

The whole point of socialism is to fool stupid people. That's exactly why you buy into it. Fascism and socialism share a massive overlap on the venn diagram, both making stupid promises that history has shown repeatedly that they can't keep. They both need people like you who are stupid enough to become their henchmen.

Comment Re:Horrible education system (Score 1) 209

Not really wrong, but on reading it is easy to fake. Usually just retelling in some form what the teacher said will do the trick. (That approach also works later in life, unfortunately...) On a math question, if you do not understand it, you do not get the result in most cases.

Now, actual reading comprehension where you have to give an informed and insightful analysis and then takle a position and justify that rationally. Yes. But from my experience, you need an exceptional teacher for that to happen in school.

Comment Re: Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 1) 304

I remember you being an authoritarian idiot during CV19

How exactly? Give specific examples. Provide context as well.

Assholes always think they are the smartest person in the room and nobody knows what they know.

I couldn't agree more, asshole.

You have no credibility. Why should anyone care what you think?

I never asked anybody to care what I think, but the fact that we're having this talk is proof that you care a great deal about what I think.

Pure hubris.

How, exactly? Be specific. Use specific examples.

The most venomous of idiots get big mad every time someone points out that scientists need to be skeptical and always lean on data, no matter how uncomfortable the implications.

And you didn't disappoint.

Comment Re: Doesn't matter (Score 2) 88

No, he chose war in Europe, this is the next step for putin. You didn't really think the ruzzian murderers that make up their armed forces will be allowed to return back to the motherland alive, did you? The next target is Estonia or Latvia, then Poland and the rest will follow. Regardless what anyone thinks, ruzzia has learned to fight the next type of war and nobody is ready for this except for one nation, that is holding the orcs - Ukraine.

Comment Re: The song: "Our father is Bandera" (Score 1) 88

The name was given to his great-grandfather. They gave it to him only after realizing who his great-grandfather was (whose name was John, not George.) Neither George nor John participated in any form of genocide, not only because the term didn't even exist at the time, but also because it doesn't meet the modern definition of it. There are also some important details you're deliberately leaving out:

- John Washington attacked the Iroquois towns referenced on behalf of the British crown, after numerous incidents (occasional raids, killings) against English settlements had already occurred.
- George Washington ordered (but was not personally involved in) an attack on a much smaller group of Iroquois in retaliation for their raid on what was then New York, which was done as part of their alliance with...the British crown. These same towns, by the way, were of strategic importance to the British army, who used them as staging grounds.

Besides, whenever I make fun of your shit fetish, you even call that attempted genocide, so obviously the bar is quite low.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 209

Don't discourage! Conservatives HATE looking at median numbers instead of averages

That's interesting, because progressives on this very site are always the ones complaining to me about my use of median figures. Like for example, when I dispel the Bernie bro narrative that wages have been "stagnant" since 1980 by showing them figures like this:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

The first complaint they always start with is the use of median figures. I don't really know many conservatives on this site, but the ones I do know of, I've never heard a peep from them about it.

Progressives REALLY moan about Hans Rosling, because telling people that their common beliefs about the global economy aren't based on reality. But that's bad because all good news about the global economy supports capitalism. Their complaint? Usually the use of medians. And they can never really explain why they think that's a bad thing. Perhaps you know?

But more to the topic at hand, here's a median figure you're going to dislike:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So there you have disposable income, median equivalized against PPP. Remember, disposable income is after mandatory expenses like taxes, health care, housing, food, etc, are considered. So the common refrain like "but I get free health care and they don't!" is already accounted for.

Curiously, you chose "wealth per adult" as your barometer, which totally disregards what people can do with their money (like for example, go on a vacation) in favor of spending habits for collecting durable goods that hold tangible but not intrinsic value. Why do you feel those should be excluded?

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