01-07-2007, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Southern Calif.
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Originally Posted by apotropoxy";p="
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- What should the world do about a lone superpower which:
1. Continues to pollute the planet at a rate that may well cause massive climate change
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- Come back when you have proof.
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- Virtually all climate scientists hold this opinion.
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- Sorry, argumentum ad verecundiam is not acceptable - I need proof.
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2. Invades countries which pose no threat to it.
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Oh, like korea during the korean war?
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Korea posed no threat to the USA. Vietnam posed no threat to the USA. Granada posed no threat to the USA.
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Oh, so you opppose the U.S. involvement in Korea? Just should have left the commies gobble it up, huh?
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3. Uses international monetary institutions to force poor countries to privatize their natural resources
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Credible citations, please.
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The policies of privatization of natural resources promulgated by the IMF and the World Bank have been long established. The chaos brought about by this ruthless form of Confiscatory Capitalism is also commonly understood. This is why so many Latin American countries are rejecting the model. Where have you been for the last thirty years?
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Capitalists would laugh their asses off at you for calling such as the IMF and the World Bank "capitalism". 
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4. Has military installations in virtually every country in the world.
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When the rest of the democracies want to lend a hand in taking on dictatorships, we'll turm some over to them.
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No country wants to take on these dictators because many of them are puppets of the USA government. To do so would be ruinous to them.
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Yeah - North Korea, China, Syria, Iran, Zimbabwe - all U.S. puppets. 
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5. Sponsors and supports dictatorships around the world while squelching democratic impulses in these places.
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BS.
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Read it in a history book, not a leftwing blog or a michael moore movie.
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6. Has the highest domestic incarceration rate of any country in the world.
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Lotsa criminals here.
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Do you think that Americans are intrinsically more evil than those in other countries?
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"Evil"?  Can you stay on topic?
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7. Imprisons minority populations in its country at far higher rates than that of the majority population.
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Minorities commit most of the crime.
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Crimes are committed by those who have nothing else to lose.
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That's BS - blacks in this country are privileged super-citizens.
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8. Has the highest average prison sentences of any of the world's countries.
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True. The Swiss are a mature and civilized people.
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Oh, is that why they've been the banker of choice for dictators? Why they refused jewish refugees during WWII? Why they handled looted nazi gold during WWII? Yaaaaa - real civilized.
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Doesn't this country seem to be a bit paranoid?
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No, it's dealing with the real world.
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Paranoids think they are dealing with the real world.
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But you're not.
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