Mayday!

[Giancarlo]

Boris: No you don't know me.

Well then you have nice ideals, but in the real world those ideas are just as likely to happen and just as distant from what happens in reality than the theories of the communists you despise.

Really? I highly doubt that. My views would increase the size of the middle class and the standard of living. Communism does not.

[Sava]

A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.

I point it out when it happens. As for the fascist thing? I think you are the only one I've ever accused of loving Fascist ideals... maybe Albert Speer. But that's like calling the sky, "blue".

[SlowwHand]

Why do you say that about Albert?
I know, I have to take into consideration who's making the charge, still...

[Menlas]

for mayday



and for Fez too, I've never laughed so much about the OT forum since he's back

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Why do you say that about Albert?
I know, I have to take into consideration who's making the charge, still...

uhhh you are joking, right?

[SlowwHand]

No. This time I'm serious. I don't know.

[Sava]

I really wouldn't want to get into it here, but I first noticed it when he tried to say the Holocaust didn't happen.

[SlowwHand]

Oh, well. Now that's a little odd, I have to admit.

[monkspider]

Hurray for May Day!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Fez
Boris: No you don't know me.

Nope. Now ask yourself: Why would I or anyone else here want to, except for entertainment value?

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Oerdin Maniac: Please tell me how you'd link Imperialism exclusively with Capitalism. Especially given that both the USSR and Communist China had/have Empires of a sort. Also how would you describe pre-capitalist (using Ingles definition here) Empires such as Mesopotamia, Eygpt, the Inca, etc... given that you have attributed Imperialism solely to capitalism?

I presume then we have a different definition of imperialism. You seem to mean every empire based on conquest and expansion, while I mean the specific situation of end-19th, begin+20th century capitalist countries such as GB, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Belgium, USA and Japan (Did I miss any? ). A new wave of colonialism, with as most important reasons and characteristics: growing demand for colonial goods, raw materials for the industrial revolution, economic globalization, economic depression of +-1873-'93, hyper-competition between the capitalist countries (there weren't any non-capitalist major powers after all... ), decreasing prices, return to mercantilism, need for a larger consumer's market, population explosion, national prestige... You probably get the picture.

[DarthVeda]

We need more parades where they pull big missiles around...

[Stefu]

Those missiles make me feel so inadequate.

[Sava]

They make me look bigger.

[Shi Huangdi]

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