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Is taxing rich people the solution to inequality? by ~Charles
Oct 20, 2023
We already disproportionally tax high earners. So the question assumes a false premise.
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by ~tony
Sep 9, 2020
in my opinion Obama is far more better leader than trump, better communicator , in with more class than trump
Foreigner as a music band by ~denwings
May 20, 2020
Great vocals! "I Want to Know What Love Is" beautiful!
Creed as a music band by ~Caleb
Apr 20, 2020
My Own Prison practically reinvented polar grunge, the album was vital for that time. This band was a whopping, high-selling, top-charting band that deserves to be in the top ranks...
Alan Watts as a philosopher by ~Hunter F
Dec 20, 2019
Alan Watts is the grandson of Spirituality -Hinduism/Taoism/Buddhism are the Father.
Is life fair? by Richard Wee
Jan 26, 2019
Of course not. But the bigger question is what is fair? How do you define it, it is everyone has the same opportunities? Even if everyone had the same opportunities, life still wou...
Would you sell one year of your life for million dollars? by Richard Wee
Oct 28, 2018
It would depend on which year, if was the year you were born then no, because you'd never been born, my last year, sure.
Study: More guns equal more deaths by Richard Wee
Oct 21, 2018
How many 11 year olds do you know that own a gun? They could just take a car [link] [link] [link] We have seen children beat people to death [link] [link] and stab [link] So does i...
Study: More guns equal more deaths by PunGNU
Oct 20, 2018
No, but it is so much quicker and easier to pull a trigger. Especially for a 11 year old who might not be fully aware of the consequences. There were several witnesses around, some...
Would you have something against building a mosque nearby the World Trade Center? by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
Personally, yes, but legally they have the right to build and I would fight for their right to do so.
Is it fair to say that terrorists are human garbage? by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It all depends on which side you're on. I'm sure the founding father's would have been considered terrorist by the British It...
Would you kill baby Adolf Hitler? by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
No, think about this, what if, as bad as Hitler was, he as the better than the alternative? Say instead of Hitler, we got Alfred, Alfred was smarter than Hitler, and because he was...
Study: More guns equal more deaths by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
Hate to break this too you, but you don't NEED a license to drive a car, you could buy a car and NEVER register it, drive it without a license, and not break the law, as long as yo...
Study: More guns equal more deaths by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
Next study, more cars equals more car deaths. So given that cars kill as many people as guns, and hasn't the left said time and time again, "It's worth it if it saves ONE life." th...
Study: More guns equal more deaths by Richard Wee
Oct 20, 2018
So, you'd feel better if he just beat her to death or ran over her with a car? How he killed her doesn't really matter, what matters is he killed her.
Why do you think politics is more appealing to men? by Manfromstars
Aug 30, 2018
In my opinion is from genetical? Programing of every born human and educational formulas in human society and many other things. It is hard say better without deep study of all imp...
Should animal testing be allowed? by ~Anonymous
Jun 19, 2018
Of course, how else will we advance our biotechnology fast enough to save millions/billions of potential lives? We are not at the point yet of giving this up, that point would be a...
Simon Williams as a chess commentator by ~Steve Regan
Apr 13, 2018
Down to earth - back to basics :)
Yasser Seirawan as a chess commentator by ~GGK
Mar 1, 2018
Super soothing voice. His lectures can be used as a lullaby
Would you like the UK to stay in or leave the European Union? by Richard Wee
Jan 21, 2018
In the long term it will work out for the UK, in the short term those in the EU will want to punish the UK.
Darth Vader vs. Yoda: Who would win? by ~Joe
Jan 13, 2018
Guys.....Yoda was old flail and weak when the Empire was on for.......uhh so many years bruh. If he faced Darth Vader...sure he would become one with the force,but on the paper Dar...
Do you think that Russia interfered with the 2016 election by illegal hacking to help Donald Trump? by Richard Wee
Jan 9, 2018
[source] "While the CIA assessment shows that the Russians may have sought to damage Clinton and help Trump, the FBI has yet to find proof that the attacks were orchestrated to ele...
Why do many in the Republican base think that tax cuts increase revenue? by Richard Wee
Oct 2, 2017
Kennedy did he had tax cuts, signed in by Johnson after Kennedy was assassinated. Worked out good for the country.
Why do many in the Republican base think that tax cuts increase revenue? by Richard Wee
Sep 30, 2017
There was in deficit every year of the Carter administration, with congress under the control of the Democrats, while Clinton showed a surplus, but congress was under the control o...
"Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with" - what do you think about that quote? by Hondo98
Sep 27, 2017
I don't agree with it, so it should be censored. I'm a Republican.
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Hondo98
Sep 27, 2017
Hillary Clinton fought for nearly universal health care, WAY back in the 1990's. America reached an all time high in average life expectancy, under Obama. Hillary would have improv...
Why do many in the Republican base think that tax cuts increase revenue? by Hondo98
Sep 27, 2017
My opinion? I'm baffled, even though I understand math is hard for many Democrats AND Republicans. Why were Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter the most FISCALLY conservative presidents...
Do you believe in Karma? by Richard Wee
Aug 20, 2017
Not really, there are plenty of people who have broken the law, did terrible things that have never any "karma" come back on them. Or worst yet not only did terrible things but are...
Liberalism as a political ideology by Richard Wee
Aug 14, 2017
"social liberalism " doesn't work because as many have said "Sooner or later you run out of other people's money" True liberalism meant a small government, with the fewest number o...
Liberalism as a political ideology by Johnny11024
Aug 14, 2017
“Liberalism is the cancer that has been slowly eating away at the very fabric of America for the last 100 years. It metastasized during the Obama years, and began fundamentally tra...
Should transgender people be allowed to serve in the military? by Richard Wee
Jul 29, 2017
They already are, the real reason for the ban was the government didn't want to pay if they wanted sex reassignment surgery.
Should transgender people be allowed to serve in the military? by ~Person
Jul 26, 2017
[link] [link] [link] [link] Please add more resources to the discussion, and if anyone is able to break down the RAND research report, please add comentary about it aswell. Thanks!
What are the things we can't say if we want to be politically correct, but in fact we shouldn't feel restricted to say them? by Richard Wee
Jul 26, 2017
Isn't it the other way around you can criticism Jews, but not Muslims. I haven't heard of a Jew asking someone to be killed because they drew a comic.
What are the things we can't say if we want to be politically correct, but in fact we shouldn't feel restricted to say them? by alphbet
Jul 25, 2017
To find out who rules you, ask youself whom you are not allowed to criticise You can criticise muslims but not Jews.
Do you believe racism is on the incline, or decline? And, why? by alphbet
Jul 25, 2017
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white
Do you like Donald Trump's idea to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S.? by alphbet
Jul 25, 2017
It would be even better if he could get rid of the Jews as well.
Did Angela Merkel make a mistake accepting too many refugees and immigrants? by alphbet
Jul 25, 2017
It was not a mistake, it was deliberate. She is a NWO puppet. White countries and ONLY White countries are expected to receive hundreds of millions of invaders (immigrants, migrant...
In the new era of President Trump, do you expect a progress in relations between the U.S. and the Middle East? by Richard Wee
Jun 19, 2017
The only time "progress" is made is when the US is handing out cash, once that's done thing go back to the way they were and other countries scream that we aren't handing out enoug...
Would you like Twitter to increase the 140 character limit? by Philip
Jun 19, 2017
one hundred and forty characters may not be enough for some people to express themselves, but based on some Tweets I've read, some people would be better off with far fewer charact...
In the new era of President Trump, do you expect a progress in relations between the U.S. and the Middle East? by Philip
Jun 19, 2017
No, but I haven't expected progress in relations between the U.S. and the Middle East under any other president either.
What do you think about YouTube's comment system? by ~Cream67
Jun 13, 2017
There are some people who come on You Tube and bad mouthing and name calling...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 11, 2017
It's my pleasure, I enjoy seeing your point of view.
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 11, 2017
Hi Mr. Wee. Thank you for your thoughtful response, as always, I especially like your point about Clinton's credibility, whichever i hadn't thought of before. I'm about to head off...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 11, 2017
Sorry for the delay in my response, I read your post several times, before I came up with a response. When you say “they just don't care enough to push an agenda” that may be true,...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 8, 2017
"It's the far right that make the news, just like the far left makes the news, more often then those who are more in the center." Fair point, I agree. "As a Conservative, I felt th...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 6, 2017
"You're right, my fault for getting off on constant tangents." Not your fault, it's just where the discussion went. And this will go way off the discussion, in order to show you wh...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 6, 2017
Definitely enjoying this conversation. Mr. Wee, I always appreciate the depth of our discussions. A discussion for another question" You're right, my fault for getting off on const...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 5, 2017
Nice debate, I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am. While I many not agree with you on everything I do want hear your views. “… I'm being stubborn because people who know mor...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 4, 2017
"Being stubborn isn’t bad, unless you’re never going to be convinced by evidence." I'm not being stubborn simply for the sake of it. I'm being stubborn because people who know more...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 4, 2017
Being stubborn isn’t bad, unless you’re never going to be convinced by evidence. It was well known that she’d never be charged when this mess started. Like many other politicians (...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 4, 2017
"Yes I've read the law" Look, even if all the other aspects I mentioned, like access to more information, entire teams of investigators, expertise on legal precedent don't still st...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 3, 2017
"My guess is that you didn't read every single one of the emails, you haven't read the law,.. The emails that broke the law are still classified, thus I couldn't read them, and if...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 3, 2017
"But the thing is people have been sent to jail for doing far less" The problem is you're making a judgment without all the information. My guess is that you didn't read every sing...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
Jun 3, 2017
While she was at the State Department, they did not send more security, that was requested but they also reduce security in Libya. d to honor repeated requests for additional secur...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by alex117
Jun 3, 2017
No! If doctors can't even get it 100% right every time, the general public (who have little to no knowledge of how these drugs can interact with each other and with the body) could...
Should alcohol be banned? by alex117
Jun 3, 2017
There are problems with alcohol being legal. Working as a bartender has shown me how many people are drunk drivers, and how many people get violent as a result of alcohol. Alcohol...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
Jun 1, 2017
I completely understand why Clinton was considered untrustworthy, and I don't dispute the fact that she lied about Benghazi. I do, however, dispute the people who claim that she mu...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by Richard Wee
May 31, 2017
She did lie about the attack, claiming that it was the result of the video, when she knew it wasn't. We know that on Sept. 12, Clinton called the Egyptian Prime Minister “We know t...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 28, 2017
I understand school, life etc. so I’ll keep this really short, and I won’t be offended if you don’t answer. “Everything we do affects other people. If I fill myself up with vodka.....
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by noah364
May 28, 2017
"Really, I see this as a freedom issue, and while you do make some good points, to me it come down to this, do you own you?" This is one of the major areas where liberals and conse...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 27, 2017
Nice read, and I won’t bother trying to answer point by point, because it would be a very long post, so I’ll try and hit what I consider the highlights. “There is a vast, vast diff...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by noah364
May 25, 2017
"Sorry for the long response." Not at all a problem! I appreciate when someone take the time to write an in-depth response. "Again that could be said of just about anything..." The...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 24, 2017
Sorry for the long response. “If this were just adults…..” There is almost nothing you do that has zero repercussions on someone else, so it would better to say minimal repercussio...
Donald Trump - approval rating by noah364
May 24, 2017
Trump's narcissism isn't something that can be debated. He was famous for it as a celebrity, considering his tendency to slap his name on absalutely everything and try to attribute...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by noah364
May 24, 2017
If you'd paid attention to the multiple Republican-led investigations into Benghazi, you'd know that they were completely unable to attribute any fault to Clinton. Nevertheless, sh...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by noah364
May 24, 2017
If this were just adults being responsible for themselves, and their actions had zero repercussions on anyone else, then I would completely agree with you. But this hypothetical do...
Should the U.S. suspend immigration for Iranians? by Philip
May 21, 2017
No. Immigrants from Iran are most probably the people who disagree with such protesters. I should also point out that even "hundreds of thousands of protesters" are a small minorit...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 21, 2017
"...analogous to grabbing a parachute and jumping out of a plane without taking skydiving lessons, or getting on a motorcycle and taking to the streets without a helmet ..." All wh...
Barack Obama - approval rating by YUNo
May 21, 2017
So what is your opinion on Trump's current deal with Saudi Arabia then?
Would you consider hiring a woman who wears a hijab? by Philip
May 21, 2017
Yes I would. Except for the safety concerns that Richard Wee already mentioned, I see no reason not to. If you want to wear a cross or crucifix, a yarmulke or turban, that's fine t...
Is there such a thing as "going over the line" in comedy? by Philip
May 21, 2017
Most definitely. What's considered "over the line" changes with societal values. Racist and sexist jokes are widely considered to be in poor taste currently, but it was not always...
How can we act to fight the "superbugs" issue? by Philip
May 21, 2017
We need to have doctors who will say no to a patient who demands antibiotics for a cold when antibiotics do nothing to fight a cold virus. We may also need to use less hand sanitiz...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Philip
May 21, 2017
"And that logic could be used to ban almost anything, you can't drive a motorcycle, because of the danger involved, and it increased medical cost. Can't mountain climb, skydive, sw...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 20, 2017
I have said in other posts, not this one, that if you use something you can't use diminished capacity as a defense. After all they took said drug knowing it would do something. BTW...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Richard Wee
May 20, 2017
Sorry for the long wait for a response, I was on vacation and generally go device free. If the only thing you're worried about is health care cost, that's an easy fix. Can't pay up...
Hillary Clinton - approval rating by PatriciaKrammes
May 19, 2017
Hillary is a evil women who is power hungry, she don't care about Americans, she is the reason those Military men got killed, how many others died cause of her
Barack Obama - approval rating by PatriciaKrammes
May 19, 2017
Obama is a racist evil man. Never voted for him, but never started any stupid riots either. He stole from America to give to terrorist
Donald Trump - approval rating by PatriciaKrammes
May 19, 2017
I voted for Trump and would again. If everyone would stop fighting against Trump he could get a lot more done. I don't blame him, I blame the ones making it harder for him to do hi...
Has Trump been effective in his first 100 days? by YUNo
May 4, 2017
Thank you, that's a really nice compliment to receive and I'm glad and even honored to know that in your opinion it was an apt paraphrase of what many've tried to indicate. To find...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by noah364
May 4, 2017
To add to Philip's point, there's also the issue of healthcare costs. My guess? If you fill yourself up with unprescribed but normally prescription strength pills, your insurance w...
Has Trump been effective in his first 100 days? by noah364
May 4, 2017
I have to say, that bicycle metaphor is beautiful. Gotta warn you, I just might steal that in my personal political conversations. Even after reading metaphor after metaphor from p...
Should alcohol be banned? by Philip
May 3, 2017
Sometimes I think it would be awesome if you could, but people could literally make alcohol from the weeds growing on their lawns. There's tons of how-to books available, and the i...
Should any medication be available without prescription for an adult person? by Philip
May 3, 2017
Will everyone be willing to take responsibility for putting whatever they want in their bodies? If someone takes something harmful or takes so much of a medication that it becomes...
Has Trump been effective in his first 100 days? by YUNo
May 1, 2017
Another factor may be the agenda Trump has set for himself, though. It contains some controversial points (expansion of the border wall with Mexico, reversal of climate change poli...
Has Trump been effective in his first 100 days? by Richard Wee
Apr 30, 2017
You really can't tell much after 100 days, the new president is really stuck with what the out going president did, as it takes time to set the agenda and get it moving. Now like m...
Has Trump been effective in his first 100 days? by YUNo
Apr 26, 2017
Unfortunately, I've lost the comment on this topic before I wrote this version, but I hope I can still remember the most important parts of it (verbatim): I think he could have bee...
Facepunch Studios as a video game developer by ~Borg
Apr 6, 2017
Company is very unprofessional, changes things as they see fit without notice, they're rude to the public, slow to change and develop useful software, cheap, cut corners and have l...
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by YUNo
Mar 19, 2017
You're right; a lot more research is being done recently. I also definitely agree with the latter you've written. To clarify, before I posted my reply I had incorporated a thought...
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by Richard Wee
Mar 19, 2017
"... alt-energy would not be given serious consideration by investors, .." Not true, ExxonMobil is doing research into algae oil as fuel (and I would suspect so is BP and other oth...
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by YUNo
Mar 18, 2017
I understand what you mean, however I meant the idea that alt-energy would not be given serious consideration by investors, brands, corporations and governments before its 'predece...
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by Richard Wee
Mar 18, 2017
Not against alt-energy per se but there are many lobbyist that act in their own interest, including alt-energy
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by noah364
Mar 17, 2017
You mentioned "before I let you go," so I won't take up any more of your time. Thank you for this discussion and for your well thought-out points; hopefully, I was able to give you...
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by YUNo
Mar 16, 2017
Wasn't there also a lobby against alt-energy involved?
Barack Obama or Donald Trump - who is the better leader? by Richard Wee
Mar 16, 2017
That has been the problem that's holding alt-energy back.