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Originally posted by BlackCat
Yet another rebellion province.
Yet another rebellion province.
You guys just had to sdie with the french and lose (duh)...
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What rebellion?
You guys just had to sdie with the french and lose (duh)...
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The only picture of a Norwegian woman I've ever seen (seriously).
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Ramo,I said otherwise? You're obfuscating, whatever welfare state the US had then was miniscule and irrelevant to what I said. Do you wanna bet Sweden would have been left alone by the Nazis and Soviets if the west didn't provide resistance?I'd bet that the US was more of a welfare state than Sweden during WW II.Comment
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Errr.. it was hardly miniscule. And I'm not obfuscating, you were saying that they can afford a welfare state only because the US saved them from Germany (and I do doubt that the Soviets would've invaded Sweden if met by resistance by the entire West besides the US). That doesn't make any sense.
Your argument might have make a little bit of sense if it were 1940, and that Sweden had a massive welfare state at the time. As is, it's pretty much nonsense."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Re: Re: Sweden: Paradise on Earth?
Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
But if you bang your wife while she's sleeping, you can be prosecuted for rape, according to a new law.
Doesn't seem especially unreasonable. I mean, would she file suit if it wasn't rape?Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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No, it has been known since the 50's. Apparently though only academics and lefties care about it. I mean, if people can be happy even if they don't have big houses, fast cars, and lots and lots of toys, how could the Capitalist Dream be sold?Originally posted by Ted Striker
I was like WELL DUH IT TOOK 60 YEARS TO FIGURE THIS OUT???!!!!!!!!111(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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The article acts as if going from 4th to late teens in GDP per capita isn't a very big fall or maybe illusory with regard to wellbeing, and then blames the right for that fall.
The good thing about economic ideological "battles" is that the better system wins out over time. You don't really have to argue about which one is better. We can be patient.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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We stayed out of WW2 because we continued selling iron ore to Germany, not because America protected us. You stayed on your side of the pond for the essential part of WW2 anyway. Germany declared war to you, not the other way around.Originally posted by Berzerker
You really need to ask? WWII & Cold War. Hearing how some podunk country can spend more on social welfare because it has capitalists to protect it reminds me of Karl Marx living off his capitalist father while criticising capitalism. **** em!
We had a 700 000 man army in the cold war. And one of the worlds largest airforces during parts of it. Today our army is quite smaller, but we have bad-ass equipment.Last edited by Chemical Ollie; January 16, 2005, 05:46.So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
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There are some fundamental problems with the way GDP is calculated. If you build a building, it adds to the GDP. However, if you tear it down immediately, it adds to the GDP too. In effect nothing has been built, but a lot has been added to GDP.Originally posted by DanS
The good thing about economic ideological "battles" is that the better system wins out over time.
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Originally posted by Agathon
Praise to Ted!
I'd hit it like no one ever hit it before, and it would beg to be hit again... and again!!
I would put that up in the Palace Tower and royally hit it for 17 years straight!!!!!!!!!!!
With no breaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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That bastion of the left, the Economist, recently had an article about how how happy people feel have little to do with GDP per capita ...Originally posted by DanS
The article acts as if going from 4th to late teens in GDP per capita isn't a very big fall or maybe illusory with regard to wellbeing, and then blames the right for that fall.
Whether 4th to 17th is a big fall would depend on how big differences are. I don't know.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Your knowledge about post war swedish economic development seems a bit to bad for you to start a rage about it here.Originally posted by Berzerker
Sweden could afford that welfare state because other countries fought the wars needed for Sweden's security. Now that other countries have recovered from the war the Swedes sat out, its slipping because its welfare state cannot compete. Notice how the Swedes began cutting back on their system when globalisation exposed flaws?Comment
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chain stores as H&M and Ikea, whose aesthetic quality
OK Ikea I can understand, but isn't H&M (Hennes & Mauritz?) just full of cheap knock-offs? I'm not a snob, I do go there myself, but I have doubts about the "quality" bit.CSPAComment
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Evil furriner! How dare you doubt the non-classiness of IKEA.Originally posted by Gangerolf
OK Ikea I can understand, but isn't H&M (Hennes & Mauritz?) just full of cheap knock-offs? I'm not a snob, I do go there myself, but I have doubts about the "quality" bit.
Yup, H&M is stuffed the length and breadth of it with cheap knock-offs. That's pretty much the business concept.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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I love IKEA. The DIY concept, the wacky names, the funny food, the catalogue... The whole thing is so delightfully evil.CSPAComment
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