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I was going to say that only Obama qualified, but apparently by some reckonings I'm just barely off, Bush and Clinton squeak in, qualifying as the leading edge of Baby Boomers by some ways of counting. My question was supposed to lead into a point about how a lot of what Boomers are blamed for...

Can you name any specific boomers, or specific things implemented primarily by boomers, that are to blame?

This is one of the great tragedies. And a lot of the political leaders will be dead of old age before it's possible to bring them to trial for this.

No, you are conflating scarcity with zero sum. Scarcity in economics means 'there are limits.' It doesn't mean 'those limits never change.' Zero sum means 'No one can gain without taking away from someone else.' One of these is absolutely the case, the other absolutely is not.

That question is a poor example, but I'll answer it anyways: Yes. Take an Oil Sheikh from the 1960's, when the oil boom just got going. Compare them to an upper middle class American right now, and there won't be all that much difference in creature comforts. Compare an oil sheikh from the...

You're either expressing all of this very poorly, or you're focusing on only one aspect of things. Bringing up 'zero sum' really does not do you any favors, because while we live in a zero sum physical universe, we absolutely do not live in a zero sum economic system. I'm still not sure what...

It's really not clear what you think 'the fundamental theorem of economics' is? In order to avoid a long bout of people talking past each other, could you explain that?

If Great Britain in either 1910 or 1920 had been shown what it would become in 2024, of course they still would have fought both World Wars. They had a sense of identity and pride. Far more likely than refusing to fight, would be them banning atheists and socialists from any public office or...

First off, it is technically impossible to definitively prove a negative. Second off, if we go to a more practical, functional definition of proving a negative, it's pretty hard to 'disprove' something when your opponents control 90%+ of all media outlets, and repeat the same lies about you...

No, what ruined his reputation was relentless political attacks, some truthful but mostly slander, from the Democrats and Democrat-controlled Media.

Yes, and clearly the ATF and the FBI are the same people as the Texas National Guard. Certainly, they don't live different lives, with different jobs, with different subcultures. I'm trying hard not to be too sarcastic here.

As best I can tell, he's a partial convert. He's been pulled away from the complete lunacy of the far left, but he's still pretty thoroughly saturated with a lot of leftist propaganda. I'd like you to elaborate on this, because there's so many facets to this issue that it's hard to say what...

No, people think of that because the left has spent enormous amounts of time, effort, and money using their long-term control of media to project their own tendencies onto the political right. There are tens of millions of conservatives in the USA. If one in a million is a grumpy, nasty...

You are making a seriously poor assumption if you consider almost anyone on here the 'face' of the political right. The overwhelming majority of people on the political right are too busy with the real world places like this political forum. Further, people like ZenoGuy usually end up the way...

The reality, is that each woman is an individual. The reality is that women and men are not identical. The reality is that there is nothing wrong with most women having different interests than most men, and vice-versa. The reality is that judging people for things that aren't their fault is...

So, you're saying you're just straight up an actual bigot. Not a fake, leftist 'you don't worship women so you're a bigot,' but a 'women=bad' style of bigot. What happened to 'take each individual on their own merits'? Put the black pill down.

You hang around too many leftist women, and I'd recommend you find other places to spend your time. The majority of women I spend time with and around are either lovely, generous people, or at least generically polite to strangers. Being a member of a good church makes a world of difference...

It's too early in the morning to figure out if this is pure sarcasm, or if there's any amount of seriousness mixed in.

So, you want to blame women as a collective, the same way feminists want to blame men as a collective?

It makes me sick.