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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Facts and Odin don't mix.
Facts and Odin don't mix.
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No, I just typed before I thought.
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Serb will love this map.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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They should have put Ukraine as a "Free country" for the 2005 session, and as an "unfree country" in 2004, for Serb's horro to be complete
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They should've used more colors. It's pretty absurd to put Turkey in the same color as Nepal, and Russia in the same category as Burma."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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Originally posted by alva
Serb will love this map.
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care to explain how you go about confiscating all that private property owned under capitalism in the name of freedom without using force or coercion?Right-wingers think "freedom" requires capitalismComment
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He knows his science, but his political posts are often emotional and/or reactionary.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Facts and Odin don't mix.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!Comment
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India is an island of free green in a sea of non-free blue .Comment
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Originally posted by Ramo
They should've used more colors. It's pretty absurd to put Turkey in the same color as Nepal, and Russia in the same category as Burma.
Thats why they have numbers. Both political and civil rights are rated on a 1 to 7 scale. A "partly free" can be a 3-3, a 3-4, or as low as a 5-5. Theyve historically only used three categories on the maps. In the memories of living men there was no internet, these things were mainly distributed in a thing called a "newspaper" which did not have colors except in the sunday comics section, and a map with more than 3 categories would have sent alot of folks to the eye doctor, where there was NO laser surgery to repair the damage.
and most folks spoke simply of democracies and dictatorships (as many still do) and so the establishment of 3 categories was a major teaching exercise. I would venture it still is today. A teaching that would be lost if they made it more complex with 4 or 5 categories.
Note Turkey is 3-3, and Nepal is 5-5."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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I think they are being a tad hard on Russia. As one of their essays explains, Russia is a "dominant party" system - a concept FH used in regard to Mexico in the 70s. Is Russia today really more repressive than Mexico circa 1975? Yet Mexico was always rated Partly Free by FH in those days, IIRC.Originally posted by alva
Serb will love this map.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Wait a minute - are these the guys who rated Denmark as more economically free than the USA?Originally posted by lord of the mark
Theyve addressed this over the years since 1973. Theyve pointed out that Social democracies in Scandinavia almost always get the highest rankings, and that Chile under Pinochet got almost the lowest. They have pointed out that socialism CAN put more power in the hands of an authoritarian govt, but that this is not necessarily so.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Not all socialists are of the "revolution and will all the rich people" types. There is such things and compensating the former owners of nationized industries and putting in incentives and regulations that make co-ops more competitive than private companies.Originally posted by Berzerker
care to explain how you go about confiscating all that private property owned under capitalism in the name of freedom without using force or coercion?Comment
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no, they dont do economic freedom, youre thinking of someone else.Originally posted by Last Conformist
Wait a minute - are these the guys who rated Denmark as more economically free than the USA?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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