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' Are there bonus points for the longest meaningless list? There are bonus points for realizing that anyone who calls this particular list meaningless is a fool.
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Oh, noomie! You know I'se yo' Fool!
Didja fergit what the hypothesis was? It was "ECONOMICS IS THE MAIN MOTIVATION FOR MILITARY INTERVENTIONS" (yeah, all caps so's we wouldn't misunderstand), not "economics is the main motivation for some military interventions". That right there sets a bar purty dang high, doncha think?
A little ol' list a military contractors don't mean twit. Onless yer havin' some confirmation bias, then it's probly God's own word!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Seems like someone took a wrong turn off carnival road - never found their way back. Poor fool... can't wipe the grin from his face, can't clear the fog from his head, can't smell the roses or breathe life, can only hear the cackle of decay dripping from his mouth.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Are there bonus points for the longest meaningless list? Figures - meaningless questions...  Hey, isn't that the Fart-headed Laffer smilie? There you go again, staring in the mirror. Old habits die hard. 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Didja fergit what the hypothesis was? nope ... I see the truth in it as an aside but perhaps pertinent: i can see the argument that the accumulation of human experience from the perspectives of the collective tribe as well as the ancestral and individual can be reduced to the simple expression, economics did it, thusly if A then economics if B then economics if C then economics . . . I have been reduced to a simple urchin devoid of free will or any attributes which make me more than mere animal ... yippeee Log T ... carryon
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
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It is not economics, but words that cause war. Has no one noticed the vast number of words that are written before every conflict? Indeed, there is nearly a perfect correlation between the number of words used and the initiation of hostilities. We are the victims of a vast Publishing-related Industrial Complex that controls nearly all the world's exposure to, and promotion of, the expression of words. Here is a list of the 100 top online publishers in the world. Top 100 Online Publishers Do you notice how many are American-based?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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It is not economics, but words that cause war. Has no one noticed the vast number of words that are written before every conflict? Indeed, there is nearly a perfect correlation between the number of words used and the initiation of hostilities. We are the victims of a vast Publishing-related Industrial Complex that controls nearly all the world's exposure to, and promotion of, the expression of words. Here is a list of the 100 top online publishers in the world. Top 100 Online Publishers Do you notice how many are American-based? You may have a point there...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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It is not economics, but words that cause war. Has no one noticed the vast number of words that are written before every conflict? ... Are you advancing a hypothesis that if we were more economical with words, war could be prevented?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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Didja fergit what the hypothesis was? nope ... I see the truth in it as an aside but perhaps pertinent: i can see the argument that the accumulation of human experience from the perspectives of the collective tribe as well as the ancestral and individual can be reduced to the simple expression, economics did it, thusly if A then economics if B then economics if C then economics . . . I have been reduced to a simple urchin devoid of free will or any attributes which make me more than mere animal ... yippeee Log T ... carryon I feel for ya, rporter, but I believe the pharmaceutical industry has a pill for this malady. It will soon be available in your local drugstore. But you do have to pay for it...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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Didja fergit what the hypothesis was? nope ... I see the truth in it ... if A then economics if B then economics if C then economics Wal, now, ain't that right there the conjecture that purports to support the hypothesis? (I tried to git the hypothecary to switch hypoths, but he warn't interested)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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