Compassion, empathy, and charity through the force of government is not a Christian value. I'm pretty sure that's in the Bible somewhere, "give unto Caesar", vanity through obvious giving, and so on.
You know, you are a very typical American. You don't know much, but hold very strong opinions and still hold onto them even though you have been corrected multiple times.
The government social safety nets were invented by the German Christian conservative politicians in the mid to late 19th century. Partly, because it was a right thing to do from a Christian point of view, partly because they hoped to shut up socialists that way.
Separating Church and state has a long Christian tradition. Some failed on this obviously, the Church of England being an example but that's been downplayed in recent times.
It is most certainly not. Separating church and state is something that happened very recently in the Christian tradition and in many countries they are still intertwined. The Church of England is actually a good example, because
The Supreme Governor of the Church of England is a title held by the British monarch that signifies titular leadership over the Church of England.[1] Although the monarch's authority over the Church of England is largely ceremonial, the position is still very relevant to the church and is mostly observed in a symbolic capacity. The Supreme Governor formally appoints high-ranking members of the church on the advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who is in turn advised by church leaders.
No Christian monarchy can ever be secular because the king is supposed to be appointed by the god.
Government welfare is not charity, it's vote buying.
In civilised countries government welfare is supported across the party lines, hence it cannot be vote bying. Matter of fact, in some countries going without social safety nets would be unconstitutional.
Stop drinking the KoolAid. USA protects oil supplies for themselves only. And before you blabber about "but but but we don't import oil from the Middle East": oil market is a global commodity market and it matters fuck all whence a country imports its oil. If a country in the Middle East stops pumping it out of the ground, your gas prices will soar. And as for fighting wars in the Middle East: most of them are the ones you have started in first place.
Funny thing about it... USA has dropped thrice the amount of ordnance on Vietnam and Laos than what was used in the whole WW2. The Vietnamese were lucky that Americans sucked at targeting (and still do).
It is still wrong, because they only compare actual nuclear fuel as in Uranium. Not the whole rods, that are much larger. Not the control rods that have to be replaced regularly because they get irradiated.
Germany is not really a two party state. There are two largeish parties (albeit much smaller than they used to be decades ago) and they cannot rule alone - they don't have anything close to a majority and haven't had one since 1961.
FDP has gained some support again, but the reason why they have so few voters is that they have more or less officially defined themselves as a party for rich people and this exactly what they have tried to achieve - lowering taxes for the wealthy. Matter of fact, if you google for Klientelpolitik (German for client politics) the first suggestion is FDP. The last time they were in the ruling coalition their behavior was a disaster, this is why they have lost all of their sits in the parliament right after that - I am not sure that has happened ever before in Germany.
They have some people who are liberal in the sense of civil liberties, and these persons are genuinely respected across party lines, but they are a tiny minority.
I said already that you are a dumbass and I say it again, this time because you think that only website companies are tech companies. You also think that startups are more important than established companies even though 99% of startups fail. I mean, people living in Silicon Valley generally have a very skewed view of the world and their place in it, but you are clearly delusional even compared to that particular baseline. Just so you know, Germany has a shitload of tech companies, and by that I mean real tech as in mechanical engineering, not websites. Matter of fact, large parts of US industry are running on German machines. If you need an unusual tool, machine or a technical or software solution for a niche or narrowly defined market, chances are, you'll only find it in Germany, made by a company with 20 to 100 employees that specialises in this particular matter, and is really good at it, having several decades of experience. This is what most tech companies in Germany do.
That is sort of a survivorship bias. There are several types of secondary schools here in Germany and usually only the kids from the most advanced type go abroad. At this type of school language education is generally quite good and most students are able to speak two foreign languages with a certain degree of fluency - two foreign languages are required, but the fluency can vary. Usually only the best among them go for a long trip abroad (half a year or so), the whole class goes only for shorter tris - a week or so. A few decades back the first foreign language often used to be Latin, by the way, sometimes French. In the GDR things were even more rigorous - Russian was always required, then, depending on the branch chosen, either one foreign language (STEM branch), two foreign languages (linguistic branch) or classical Greek and Latin (liberal arts branch).
Yes, we already know that you hate Russia. You have been writing about that "for fucking years, absolutely years".
And yes, Putin was absolutely right that the breakup of the USSR was a disaster - it sent millions of people into poverty, lowered their average life expectation by a decade, revoked many of their rights and freedoms and directly killed tens of thousands in the ensuing ethnic conflicts.
A slower and more peaceful transformation would have been far more preferable for everyone and all of this is just as true for Yugoslavia.
No way. That animal weighs about 250 kg, and will easily provide 125 kg of edible meat, at about 3000 kcal/kg. I'm guessing the 8 hour run would cost somewhere between 3000 and 6000 kcal, depending on how fast he was going.
You assume that a sole hunter would hunt one animal for himself only. This assumption is false and an animal as large as you describe would give a sole hunter the finger. You also assume that the hunter would be able to find and kill a large animal every day, which is even more ridiculous.
Humans are omnivores, eating both meat as well as plants, roots, nuts, and seeds. Meat is high in calories and high in nutrients, and it's much easier to get all your essential nutrients from meat.
Lean meat is certainly not high in calories and humans can only metabolise a few hundred grams of protein per day without getting problems with their health. Ever heard of "rabbit starvation"?
You are a dumbass if you think that nuclear weapons would be used as a retaliation strike for sinking a wind turbine platform. Not only weapons of mass destruction are ultima ratio, but given the proximity to the British isles they will receive a substantial amount of their own fallout and it will also poison their fish stocks.
It is still not stealing, it is copyright infringement. Or maybe breach of license. Stealing actual software would be if one makes an unlicensed copy and destroys the original.
What the fuck are you talking about? Breivik sees himself as a christian chrusader for fucks sake, a member of knights templar. It is all in his bloody manifest.
I never said the clips are good for anything else than quick filling of the magazine. Then again,the clips for most WW1 rifles had exactly the same function, the only difference was that the magazines generally weren't detachable.
Dude, stop spreading the lies from that stupid book. Socialists were forbidden in Germany starting 1878 by the fucking law - just 7 years after Germany came into existence as an actual country. The law was not renewed after 1890, but socialists still were suppressed for decades to come. Especialy in the Weimar republic the government allowed righ wing paramilitary organisations (Freikorps and later SA) extrajudicial killings of socialists.
How exactly is "the road to serfdom" real history and not some musings that are hypothetical at best and bullshit at worst? It is basically the same crap as Ayn Rand wrote, only written as a non-fiction book. Only interesting for free market fundamentalists.
It looks as if you didn't get the point, so I repeat it: Dictators always eliminate rivals, regardless of political views. Nazis killed nazis (and others), just like communists killed communists (and others). Your argument, "The nazis weren't socialists since they imprisoned socialists", is void.
The three aspects of a crime are means, motive and opportunity. The motive is important, and that is what was different about killing off the SA compared to your examples. They were killed because they were socialists of some sort.
How do you know you didn't?
Because I remember my childhood quite well.
Weapon laws don't prove that a country is ruled by nazis.
The original point was that nazis were left wing because they have disarmed the population, which was a lie because they didn't.
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You know, you are a very typical American. You don't know much, but hold very strong opinions and still hold onto them even though you have been corrected multiple times.
The government social safety nets were invented by the German Christian conservative politicians in the mid to late 19th century. Partly, because it was a right thing to do from a Christian point of view, partly because they hoped to shut up socialists that way.
It is most certainly not. Separating church and state is something that happened very recently in the Christian tradition and in many countries they are still intertwined. The Church of England is actually a good example, because
No Christian monarchy can ever be secular because the king is supposed to be appointed by the god.
In civilised countries government welfare is supported across the party lines, hence it cannot be vote bying. Matter of fact, in some countries going without social safety nets would be unconstitutional.
Pray tell me, what use would irradiated steel have?
Stop drinking the KoolAid. USA protects oil supplies for themselves only. And before you blabber about "but but but we don't import oil from the Middle East": oil market is a global commodity market and it matters fuck all whence a country imports its oil. If a country in the Middle East stops pumping it out of the ground, your gas prices will soar. And as for fighting wars in the Middle East: most of them are the ones you have started in first place.
Funny thing about it... USA has dropped thrice the amount of ordnance on Vietnam and Laos than what was used in the whole WW2. The Vietnamese were lucky that Americans sucked at targeting (and still do).
I actually use Napster - the current one, music subscription service. It is not that bad, but could be far better with better software.
It is still wrong, because they only compare actual nuclear fuel as in Uranium. Not the whole rods, that are much larger. Not the control rods that have to be replaced regularly because they get irradiated.
Cyrillic is not a language, it is an alphabet.
Germany is not really a two party state. There are two largeish parties (albeit much smaller than they used to be decades ago) and they cannot rule alone - they don't have anything close to a majority and haven't had one since 1961.
FDP has gained some support again, but the reason why they have so few voters is that they have more or less officially defined themselves as a party for rich people and this exactly what they have tried to achieve - lowering taxes for the wealthy. Matter of fact, if you google for Klientelpolitik (German for client politics) the first suggestion is FDP. The last time they were in the ruling coalition their behavior was a disaster, this is why they have lost all of their sits in the parliament right after that - I am not sure that has happened ever before in Germany.
They have some people who are liberal in the sense of civil liberties, and these persons are genuinely respected across party lines, but they are a tiny minority.
I said already that you are a dumbass and I say it again, this time because you think that only website companies are tech companies. You also think that startups are more important than established companies even though 99% of startups fail. I mean, people living in Silicon Valley generally have a very skewed view of the world and their place in it, but you are clearly delusional even compared to that particular baseline.
Just so you know, Germany has a shitload of tech companies, and by that I mean real tech as in mechanical engineering, not websites. Matter of fact, large parts of US industry are running on German machines. If you need an unusual tool, machine or a technical or software solution for a niche or narrowly defined market, chances are, you'll only find it in Germany, made by a company with 20 to 100 employees that specialises in this particular matter, and is really good at it, having several decades of experience. This is what most tech companies in Germany do.
That is sort of a survivorship bias. There are several types of secondary schools here in Germany and usually only the kids from the most advanced type go abroad. At this type of school language education is generally quite good and most students are able to speak two foreign languages with a certain degree of fluency - two foreign languages are required, but the fluency can vary. Usually only the best among them go for a long trip abroad (half a year or so), the whole class goes only for shorter tris - a week or so. A few decades back the first foreign language often used to be Latin, by the way, sometimes French. In the GDR things were even more rigorous - Russian was always required, then, depending on the branch chosen, either one foreign language (STEM branch), two foreign languages (linguistic branch) or classical Greek and Latin (liberal arts branch).
Yes, we already know that you hate Russia. You have been writing about that "for fucking years, absolutely years".
And yes, Putin was absolutely right that the breakup of the USSR was a disaster - it sent millions of people into poverty, lowered their average life expectation by a decade, revoked many of their rights and freedoms and directly killed tens of thousands in the ensuing ethnic conflicts.
A slower and more peaceful transformation would have been far more preferable for everyone and all of this is just as true for Yugoslavia.
Even Moldova would be wrong - that particular civil war happened when Putin was just an aide for a local politician.
You assume that a sole hunter would hunt one animal for himself only. This assumption is false and an animal as large as you describe would give a sole hunter the finger. You also assume that the hunter would be able to find and kill a large animal every day, which is even more ridiculous.
Lean meat is certainly not high in calories and humans can only metabolise a few hundred grams of protein per day without getting problems with their health. Ever heard of "rabbit starvation"?
You are a dumbass if you think that nuclear weapons would be used as a retaliation strike for sinking a wind turbine platform. Not only weapons of mass destruction are ultima ratio, but given the proximity to the British isles they will receive a substantial amount of their own fallout and it will also poison their fish stocks.
It is also not necessarily efficient because it very well can be that more calories were burned running, than a dead animal can provide.
Humans are not carnivores, fruits, roots and seeds were an important part of human diet - at least 50%.
It is still not stealing, it is copyright infringement. Or maybe breach of license.
Stealing actual software would be if one makes an unlicensed copy and destroys the original.
What the fuck are you talking about? Breivik sees himself as a christian chrusader for fucks sake, a member of knights templar. It is all in his bloody manifest.
Stop redefining words. Nothing whatsoever was stolen.
Well, Breivik for one had one of the highest bodycounts for a terrorist attack in Europe.
I never said the clips are good for anything else than quick filling of the magazine. Then again,the clips for most WW1 rifles had exactly the same function, the only difference was that the magazines generally weren't detachable.
Russia is on a straight way to abolish secularity nowadays.
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Dude, stop spreading the lies from that stupid book. Socialists were forbidden in Germany starting 1878 by the fucking law - just 7 years after Germany came into existence as an actual country. The law was not renewed after 1890, but socialists still were suppressed for decades to come. Especialy in the Weimar republic the government allowed righ wing paramilitary organisations (Freikorps and later SA) extrajudicial killings of socialists.
How exactly is "the road to serfdom" real history and not some musings that are hypothetical at best and bullshit at worst? It is basically the same crap as Ayn Rand wrote, only written as a non-fiction book. Only interesting for free market fundamentalists.
The three aspects of a crime are means, motive and opportunity. The motive is important, and that is what was different about killing off the SA compared to your examples. They were killed because they were socialists of some sort.
Because I remember my childhood quite well.
The original point was that nazis were left wing because they have disarmed the population, which was a lie because they didn't.