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Honestly, I would have expected you to have come with something better as in Smith wouldn't have supported the absurd debts caused by the Versailles treaty thereby causing governments to adopt massive inflation and thus flattening the middle class. But blaming a worldwide economic depression on...

You could blame Smiths views on economy for the worldwide economic depression in the inter World War period and the resulting rise of nazism in Germany and the subsequent second World War resulting in tens of millions of deaths and thereby promoting Smith to one hell of a massmurderer. But then...

I'd say historical materialism is still pretty much a philosophical theory in a traditional sense. But, yeah, he was basically a political economist. What is pretty sad is that neither Epicurus, Zeno or Pyrrho are listed. Pyrrho would definitely be #1 by my book. Word.

Sorry 'bout that, you're quite right. I've heard about protestantism referred to as the origin of capitalism, but democracy is pretty new to me. Besides the lacking of the whole pope thing, I fail to see any forebodes in lutheran doctrine of democracy. The reason Northern German monarchs...

Oh, for god's sake Elric, remind me to put on some sandals before walking into your vagina. This is for once an interesting topic, stop mangling it like a diseased baby. To get things slightly on track, I'd like to comment on some things Jebus said a while back: While Christianity could...

:roll: It's a Vermeer dumbass. You don't visit artgalleries alot, do you? Commisar gets a whopping 10 for reminding me of Kollontai.... Which has absolutely nothing to do with your avatar, but everything with early soviet trivia.

Booooring! Now that's slightly more like it.

Hmm... Well, from as far as I remember the most significant finds on the issue of WMD's was "this guy in Nigeria had a great sale on uranium" and "we found these lead pipes, which, like, totally could be used for blowing shit up". I fail to see how Nigerians and pipes could shift public support...

Wait a second, you're saying that supporting a ruthless dictator with no public support whatsoever against a overwhelming popular uprising is more "noble" than removing Saddam from power? And are you saying that the goal of "stopping vietnam from creating a communist domino effect in...

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars

Actually, that is what they (Rumsfeld and co) are fearing the most. If the Sunni insurgent keep killing Shia's at a steady rate, Shia's will start taking matters into their own hands. Shia militias fighting Sunnis could escalate into a civil war, and that would make the situation nearly...

For disrupting the grading chain Jnaxx gets a zero! I have spoken! Uskglass gets a 1/10. +1 for using an beige background. Very risque.

1/10 Why? -9 because Kuifje/tintin/whateva is stupid. Tres stupid, mind you. Oh, kenoxi gets a average/good

Que? Let me reiterate: As I said, the west is not at all pretending "China is becoming a happy place". Weapons embargo, anyone? They just don't care that much as long as they can feast indefinitely on piles of cheap products. Thus: capitalism > human rights/democracy

The "west" (let's keep it at the US) isn't doing anything of that sort. You need to understand how US foreign policy has consequently divided capitalism and democracy. Allende was overthrown not because of undemocratic conduct, but because of his nationalisation policy. Let's just say capitalism...

So I was thinking, y'know, seeing as fallout is supposedly based around 50's Scifi pulp, stick with me here, isn't there supposed to be, like, no option for a female player? When's the last time you read a 50's Scifi pulp novel (christ, there's gotta be an abbreviation for that) starring a...

But you are special Brahmin. You're very special and nobody can take that away from you. John Zorn - Etude #2

It is stupid, because Zeeland is to the south of South-Holland. Like, totally stupid. Also, the name Zeeland is about the lamest name given to a province since... well, ever. The Hague is classier than Rotterdam, sure, but that also goes for about 2/3 of the turds that I lovingly squeze out...

Awesome. I learn something new every day. Though it does make me marvel even more at the stupidity of Dutch topography. har har It used to be much worse, man. We had burning crosses all over the place back in the day. Good thing the canine civil rights movement came along.

Kharn, I dare say, Don't listen to him folks, we were happily neutral during that particular world war. We even let the good Kaiser stay for a while and chop down several thousands of trees. Lies, lies I tell you! Holland is two provinces, you cad, North-Holland and South-Holland. You're...