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Metternich

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  1. If my family members were imprisoned by a truly good government (like China's) I hope that I would have the moral courage (regardless of their guilt or innocence) to support that move. But even if I didn't, I would still know that their imprisonment was right.
  2. I don't mind the Patriot Act at all.How many times now is it that your little predictions about what I think have been wrong? Do you think that your inability to predict my views undermines your whole argument that I'm an ideologue unwilling to listen to reason? It does. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass and either make an argument based on facts and plain reason or give up. Your attempts at ad hominem have been a pathetic failure.But at this point I honestly doubt your ability to do anything else. The only time you've responded to my arguments with anything of substance was when y
  3. yeah, after the flop play (standard on your part) the $ is going in no matter what.
  4. 3-bet preflop, don't isolate after the RR/call, calling the all in is super close but I fold since V1 is calling some of the time and some of your A outs could be counterfeited.
  5. call here or shove, don't think it matters much. I lean towards shove, because call looks too strong.We can't be afraid of a set here, if we are so scared of a set that we're willing to fold on this flop we should have folded AK preflop (and if you're willing to do that then stop playing poker.) His range is full of tons of weaker aces that bad players will limp/call with.
  6. Honestly the best answer a person could give.But still, come on. The twin cities have plenty of racial diversity.
  7. Kwame Nkrumah vs. Mobutu Sese Seko. Learn a few things about those two men and then try and tell me that again.Maybe you'll realize that it doesn't matter if people are being secretly imprisoned as long as the people being imprisoned are saboteurs, foreign agents, and mercenaries.
  8. Try responding to an argument rather than making baseless attacks.And if you want a history book, maybe start with one about Zia ul HaqCIA plots aren't so preposterous, the CIA was engaged in one in Afghanistan that caused the Soviet Invasion. "The U.S. saw the situation as a prime opportunity to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of a Cold War strategy, in 1979 the United States government (under President Jimmy Carter and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski) began to covertly fund and train anti-government Mujahideen forces through the Pakistani secret service known as Inter Service
  9. I'd like to point out that the site you took that bloc of text from isn't at all scholarly or reputable. It's written by an unknown/unpublished author who cites exclusively from another unknown and unpublished author. It's the same standard of integrity that's used by all conspiracy sites, running the gamut from Sikh independence to Holocaust denial.Let's use Wikipedia, a source that while far from perfect, is much better than yours."The year 1958 saw the introduction of two pieces of legislation that would restrict the freedoms of the people of Ghana. In the wake of the Gold Miners' Strike
  10. Isn't it arbitrary to claim that Fanon is failed or irrelevant. I frankly doubt you'd even heard of him, much less read his work.Your views, whether you know it or not, also rest on the arguments of philosophers. Probably many of whom are older and less modern than Fanon. It's significant that I didn't bring up your philosophers as a justification to give up argument, you brought up mine. That's a sign of weakness IMO.We were having a fact based argument, when you ended it the most relevant question was the Soviet motivation for the invasion of Afghanistan. You had given an absurd reason
  11. Not at all, more the J.J. Rousseau of the entire third world.Why are you so dismissive? I doubt you even knew who he was before I mentioned him. Read his work, engage with his arguments about colonialism, and answer them. I doubt you have, and I doubt you could. If you're incapable of doing so, can you really say that your own argument is so strong as to be able to dismiss him out of hand?
  12. Like I've said before, you can't eat freedom or dress in civil liberties. Time and time again people have shown that they'd rather give up some of their liberties, most of which they rarely/never use anyways than starve in hovels.As for the whole "supporting the dictator thing"Let's take China as an example. You can do perfectly well in China without supporting the government, people there are perfectly free to talk amongst friends about their grievances or desire for more democracy. But when it crosses over into action then it becomes dangerous and the government has to step in to prevent
  13. Myself again.What evidence do you have that I'm either a communist or an anarcho-capitalist. I can proudly tell you I'm neither. Now you're just name-calling because you're incapable of actually responding to my arguments.If we're going to do some name calling, I'd say that you're a deluded western who has swallowed the lies of the American state department.HINT: If you want to know what I believe, I'd advise you to look up the gentleman pictured in my signature. He's probably the thinker closest to myself.
  14. Myself in the Tibet thread, because it deserves explanations.As for you all, if your positions were really strong couldn't you meet my arguments on the strength of your conviction's merits rather than resorting to absurd accusations? You're only demonstrating the strength on my points.I stand by everything I've said. If you really want to understand this world, I suggest you start by reading something by the man in my signature.
  15. I don't just "support dictatorships"I support the government that can best represent the interests of it's people and deliver prosperity. In the United States, because of the compartmentalization of our government and the privileged position we occupy on the world stage, that is a democratic government. But most of the countries of the world don't have that luxury, they have to constantly be fighting against foreign subversion. In those countries democracy as it is practiced here is nearly a death sentence; it means corruption, foreign influence, economic decline, and powerlessness on the w
  16. What's the Putin jab for? I think I should be able to make independent evaluations of the facts, even evaluations that don't fall in line with the propaganda from the state department, without it being implied that I'm some sort of Russian crony. For the record, I don't have any Russian national background. 17.5%. That was the average wage growth in Russia last year. Almost every year of Putin's reign has delivered numbers like that as well as political stability and an aggressive pro-Russia foreign policy. Think about what you would be saying if you saw your income going up like that ev
  17. The U.S. can't do a damn thing. We don't give a shit about Georgia. Countries have interests, not friends. It's in our interest to surround Russia with out missiles and military bases and our hostile puppet regimes, but we will never risk an open confrontation over it. I doubt we'd even attempt a sanctions regime, the Europeans would be very upset with that. No, there will just be some harsh words and military aid to whatever Caucasian groups want to fight Russia Putin is a great historic leader, it's only natural that he would maintain his control after stepping out of his previous office
  18. Thank you for this, nobody in the west realizes how ****ed up a place Tibet was. Which is part of the reason why they I'm in the wilderness when I say that I fully support the occupation of Tibet, with or without the consent of Tibetans. I've got a lot of reasons that I'm too lazy to type out, but if someone really challenges it I might be riled up enough to.It's funny that you don't hear those whiny hippies making any noise about China's occupation of East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and the Uighur resistance. Maybe it's because they're muslims, because they don't cloak themselves in mystic nonse
  19. I don't think we need that pipeline so much as Germany and France do.I strongly support Russia's military action, hopefully it will ultimately lead to a Georgian regime change that will end any discussion of Georgia joining Nato.Russia needs to reassert itself in the world and prevent the west from encroaching on it's sphere of influence, the current Putin/Medvedev administration understands this and has been going a great job in this respect. Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, in a few years even Poland and the Baltic.Why do I support Russia so strongly? Look at what happened during the 1990s
  20. you're underrepped, think a shove has value, you see stuff like JT here alot.
  21. these were just some young guys right? Why not just sit on the curb, give them your valuables, and let them walk away. That's the standard procedure for muggings in the states, nobody gets hurt and everyone can move on. Hell, I've had friends get mugged by people who were fairly polite about it (that's partly a Minnesota thing though).But if there was some reason to think you were going to get hurt by these guys, I don't know, some Jeffrey Dahmer type shit, then yeah, get out of there. Don't listen to all these guys who say you should have been sticking around for your friend. In this wor
  22. can we ever fold the flop after his 2nd minraise? I know we flopped the flush and everything but seeing that he limped a set on that board is unlikely and his repeated minraises scream strength to me. Best case on the flop we're up against QdT, AdX, KJ, J9. That turn eliminates AdX hands, and QdT is now beating us. I think the turn is a c/f.
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