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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

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On Thu, 04 May 2017 20:19:26 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 5/4/17, 12:01 PM, in article op.yzp9s7dhjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 May 2017 19:22:28 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/4/17, 11:10 AM, in article op.yzp7e8ozjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
>>> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>>>> I thought it was the same the world over.  Right wing is capitalist, they
>>>>>> favour business, rich folk, etc.  Left wing is communist, they steal your
>>>>>> money and spend it on people who don't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the US both parties are paid for and beholden to the wealthy. The
>>>>> Democrats give more lip service and actual do work to support the people
>>>>> more, but in the end both support massive wealth redistribution to very
>>>>> rich. This can be shown by their voting records and the ever-growing income
>>>>> inequality.
>>>>
>>>> So you have right wing and more right wing.
>>>
>>> Basically, yes.
>>
>> Good for you.  The UK is more like Russia.
>>
>>>>> So those who can't work or whatever do get some crumbs, but most of the
>>>>> money taken from us goes to the wealthiest one tenth of one percent. The
>>>>> wealth redistribution is absolutely insane.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is also why so many in the US deny basic climate science... it is just
>>>>> another (and huge) way to provide socialism to the rich.
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe they're clever enough to realise we are not affecting the climate.
>>>
>>> I do not see denial of evidence, data, and science as being "clever" in any
>>> way... other than as a clever way to push even more socialism for the rich.
>>> And in the US it works... something like half our Senators deny basic
>>> science for the sake of helping the wealthy.
>>
>> bELIVING IN SHITE LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE IS AS BAD AS BEING RELIGIOUS.
>>
>> Shit, caps lock, can't be bothered rewriting.
>
> I accept science and the data / evidence that backs it and deny the
> anti-science nonsense people use to promote socialism for the rich. I did
> not know you were one of the ones pushing such socialism. For me it is fine
> that people disagree on if we should socialize the costs of using ancient
> stores of carbon, but I wish those who pushed for us to do so would be
> direct and admit that is what they are pushing for. The fact they use
> science denial to get to that goal shows they cannot really support the
> socialism they are backing.

It's nothing to do with socialism.  In fact it's the capitalists who "deny" climate change.  It's the left wing greenie treehuggers who think we have the power to change the climate more than that huge nuclear reaction in the sky.

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase...the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.  -- Frank Herbert (Dune)

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 17:42 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 10:39 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 19:10 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 11:22 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 20:01 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 12:19 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 20:38 +0100
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 12:45 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 21:48 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 14:34 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-04 17:40 -0400
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 22:52 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 16:10 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-04 15:25 -0700

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