Recent content by LordsFire

And as always, the solution to strengthening the economy is mostly around removing absurd regulatory barriers and cutting taxes. Plenty you can do to strengthen the economy without having large quantities of legal migration driving down wages, much less illegal migration.

Of course it's trustworthy! If true, it vindicates many of Iconoclast's most dearly-held beliefs, so that means it must be trustworthy, doesn't it?

Facts only count when they fit his preferred narrative.

You really are determined to avoid any fact that is opposed to your preferred beliefs, aren't you? 1. Judaism is not inherently violent towards other faiths. If you want to get technical, they may be if you try to push your faith into their specific territory, but even there modern Israel is...

You fail at basic good-faith argumentation. The people of Israel were sent to a specific land, and there they specifically were commanded to do specific things. This is a covenant that the people of Israel voluntarily chose to take part in, and was specifically not something they were supposed...

Don't take anything Soli says seriously. He's one of the competitors for 'most divorced from reality' on this forum. That said, while the response to the threat should be measured, yes, Muslims are an enemy by default. Why? Because their holy book literally commands them to conquer or kill...

Congratulations, you've reinvented how startup investment banking is already done. (Or at least one of the ways it is.) You just don't like what most of the people running such banking are like right now. Which is understandable. But if you do somehow, magically, get rid of them, how are you...

Even if every Christian in the world believed in the day-age interpretation of Genesis 1 & 2, Soli would still have nothing but contempt for us. Believing he's better than other people is a foundational part of his identity, and 'atheists are rational ubermensch and religious people are...

I'd like to reiterate Marduk's question; why on earth do you think conservatives have loyalty to 'corporations, global capital, and managerial technocracy'? That sounds like leftists to me, not conservatives. The fruit of living in an expensive leftist city, and completely failing to live...

Soli, as usual, vaguely brushed against the truth at one point long in the past, and clings to the scrapings as the closest thing he has to actually understanding the situation. The decades long campaigns of unions to force up minimum wage, get handouts from the government, put regulation after...

He did not used to be like this. I have a theory that his account got hijacked some time back, but little way to have any certainty on it.

...Okay, I've got to hear this one. In my own study of history, the Japanese called the US refusing to sell scrap steel to them due to what they were doing in China 'an act of war.' Is that bit of transparent nonsense what you're referring to, or was it something else?

I realized last time you popped up to sneer down your nose at us, that your presence here is purely for the purposes of evil. You do not come to do anything constructive, you just come here to puff up your own pride by telling everyone here what fools they are. So, how about you just leave...

Just as an FYI, I am on a road trip over 4th of July weekend here, so it'll be a while before I can respond to things.

Billl Watterson was a very insightful man. It's one of the key reasons Calvin and Hobbes was so amazing.