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Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:17 pmI see the same thing you see!

That may be true, but there are people who have different views on whether abortion is murder, euthanasia is murder or capital punishment is murder. What is the extension and wavelength of murder?

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:07 pm...should anybody call murder wrong, I also know what they mean and I also agree.

So what do you see when you look at murder?

What makes something a red circle, objectively, is the wavelength/frequency of electromagnetic radiation it reflects or emits and its spatial extensional relations. Why would that be at issue? It's not something controversial. Quite. A red circle is a red circle. Skepdick is spouting the first thin...

SteveKlinko wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:56 pmComputer Music is generated by Algorithms, Rules, and Random Note generators.

That's not too different to how Bach composed.

SteveKlinko wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:56 pmThe Computer is not Hearing

Nor was Beethoven.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:52 pmCapitalist countries are flush with alternatives, educational or vocational opportunities

Do you think every citizen of a capitalist country has the same opportunities?

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:48 amWhat makes this a red circle?

Call it anything you want, Skepdick, but should anyone call it a red circle, I know they mean and I agree.

So my question to you is what do you think we should do about it? Answer: we started doing it, until COVID and the Leftists stopped us, just a year ago. We were exporting Capitalism, in various ground-level forms like microenterprise, to the Developing World at an astonishing rate, and thereby doin...

How would you explain capitalism to someone who doesn't know what it means? It's actually extremely easy, and has been working successfully all over the world. Instead of sending wads of money to Socialist dictators, and seeing it disappear into their bank accounts, you send aid workers to the poor...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:06 pmAnd what's the point of your "point"?

What is the point of you asking?

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:52 pm

tillingborn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:49 pm Leaving you nothing for a blowjob in a whorehouse. My point exactly.

Yeah. Somehow you confused affordability with service delivery.

On the contrary: my point exactly.

There's practically no person other than an outright Anarchist, who will say government has NO function. My thoughts exactly. The question is rather whether Socialism can run an economy. It can't. Even socialized programs depend for their existence on Capitalism. Thus, everybody who likes such prog...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:35 pm

tillingborn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:25 pm Meh. In my version of reality that says more about you than your government.

In my version of reality I am taxed at 48%. Further 15% VAT.

And then I pay for my medical insurance from what's left.

Leaving you nothing for a blowjob in a whorehouse. My point exactly.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 3:46 pmPerhaps you'll recognise the narrator's own input into the narrative...

Yeah, I make shit up but you are consistently a dick.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:19 pmWhere I live, I couldn't trust the government's ability to organise a blowjob at a whorehouse.

Meh. In my version of reality that says more about you than your government.

We were talking about the BBC and the NHS, I don't really know why. They're not exemplars of Socialist economics. They're merely socialized elements totally dependent on a broadly Capitalistic system. As such, they make no argument for Socialist economics, because they're on life-support from Capit...

Ah, Immanuel Can's White Knight rides in. Who knows Skepdick? Perhaps the bleedin' obvious will be more persuasive from you than me. Look, ma! Every time somebody says something that triggers me I divvy up the playing field into "us" and "them"! As I said, I will create a narrat...