Don't worry, people on this website like pretending to be more informed than their peers.

Marshal plan didn't come about for Democracy. It came about , just as mentioned earlier in the thread, to contain Russia , erstwhile USSR

And there is a reason why Marshal plan didn't invole rest of the world, only western Europe - it is because it was the elite from western Europe who fled to USA during WW2 and had a soft spot for what they still consider their homeland.

In fact, the university towns that supplied to industrial bases Germany were left unscathed and because a lot of allied forces were lead by people who considered them Alma Mater.

On the otherhand, a school was double tapped in Iran recently.

Just like White in Belgium, utter garbage.

All scams are based upon the principle that the victim has an amount of greed that makes him blind to facts.

Maybe you should read "Huckleberry Finn". I think that Samuel Clemens also found that the US was backward in his time.

The world doesn't have 2 sides - one yours and other fox news. Most of the world lives outside of USA and Wikipedia has literally turned into a personal fiefdom of random political idiots on whatever is the current trend of Democrats.

The fact that your go-to response is hurr durr fox news bad and you dishonestly ignore that Wikipedia literally is run by people who have "engaged in off-wiki canvassing" and are "not here to constructively build the encyclopedia," - you can have your mod points and you can have your wikipedia.

You would typically post some actual data when making ridiculous claims like this I would typically point out that alimony and child support is not counted under mother's income.

Regulation is a check.

According to control theory you have three outcomes for a process, it grows unchecked to infinity (or until physical boundaries are reached), it stabilises, or it goes to zero.

For some reason, people think that because of 'money' this does not apply to these processes.

A stable process is a regulated process. That doesn't mean regulation is simple.

Great, now you are arguing in semantics. So tell me:
- What was the Roman salute?
- What was Roman about it?
- Was it different for Romans and non-Romans living in Constantinople/Rome?

This is the problem with dealing with disingenuous people. You know very well what is colloquially known as "Roman salute". You know very well that it was invented by idiots and used by Nazis who to shepherd idiots. But you want to argue that Roman is a valid adjective for whatever salute happened thousands of years ago so that the Nazis can hide in their make-shift cocoon of being technically correct.

And what did I say?

According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was claimed to have been used in ancient Rome.[2] However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern "Roman" salute.[2]

Google-foo for reference. I would assume people would do at least that much before commenting. But it seems reddit has leaked to Slashdot while older generation dies off.

Please man, I want to have some an interesting conversation.

Marx didn't write communist manifest. Can you find a PDF of Das Kapital and search for the word communism in it?

Hasn't this always been the case, or they forgot the lessons from the 60's and 70's, when the Japanese car manufacturers trashed them.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

No I am asking you to read a book. Any book.