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    Thread: Bernie Sanders Invite Bush To Go Fuck Himself
Post: RE: Bernie Sanders Invite Bush To Go Fuck Himself

Life expectancy has risen by around 16 years since implementation of social security, but I've seen various studies that indicate we would only have to raise the social security tax by 0.9% (so 0.45% ...
nihilistcat Politics 38 8291 July 8, 2015 at 10:48 pm
    Thread: Anarchist idiots
Post: RE: Anarchist idiots

I understand this thread is a critique of right wing anarchism (which masquerades as "libertarianism" in the United States), but while I love Mill, I have to respectfully disagree with the idea that a...
nihilistcat Politics 65 12111 July 1, 2015 at 10:52 pm
    Thread: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
Post: RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?

Well, you certainly like to type words Anima ... but I haven't heard anything substantive. Like, religion gives you some higher sense or worth or whatever. Okay great, enjoy? I mean, anecdotes about...
nihilistcat Philosophy 355 78101 June 30, 2015 at 10:53 am
    Thread: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHY: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POWER ..
Post: RE: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCH...

I'll accept the critique that I copied and pasted without elaborating on the paper itself, and okay fine, large caps are ordinarily considered to be shouting, and I shouldn't have been lazy ... Okay ...
nihilistcat Philosophy 9 3829 June 29, 2015 at 7:06 pm
    Thread: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
Post: RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?

(June 29, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Anima Wrote: (June 28, 2015 at 1:51 pm)nihilistcat Wrote: It's not just lack of evidence concerning the existence of a god, it's the origins of the claims from which the...
nihilistcat Philosophy 355 78101 June 29, 2015 at 5:46 pm
    Thread: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHY: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POWER ..
Post: RE: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCH...

(June 29, 2015 at 12:06 am)Cato Wrote: (June 28, 2015 at 1:33 pm)nihilistcat Wrote: In fairness, these observations on my part are no less anecdotal than Nietzsche's observations, but they do at l...
nihilistcat Philosophy 9 3829 June 29, 2015 at 12:37 pm
    Thread: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHY: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POWER ..
Post: RE: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCH...

(June 28, 2015 at 7:57 pm)bennyboy Wrote: All caps = asshole /thread Someone who whines about all caps = anal retentive creepy freak in moms basement with tinfoil propeller hat on overdrive :) And...
nihilistcat Philosophy 9 3829 June 28, 2015 at 10:31 pm
    Thread: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
Post: RE: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

(June 20, 2015 at 10:47 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (June 20, 2015 at 9:34 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I dunno ... the shooter in Charleston had references (in his scrabble brained manifesto) that sound a lot ...
nihilistcat Off Topic 30 4675 June 28, 2015 at 3:10 pm
    Thread: Ask a Catholic
Post: RE: Ask a Catholic

(June 20, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 20, 2015 at 3:52 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: Who cares ... I'm not married, and yet I've never once ever thought about committing a despicable act...
nihilistcat Christianity 936 152491 June 28, 2015 at 3:07 pm
    Thread: Good. About Time Someone Smacked These Dumbfucks
Post: RE: Good. About Time Someone Smacked These Dumbfu...

Awesome ... this anti-vax bullshit needs to stop, and I'm for coercion when the justification is, preventing pandemics!
nihilistcat Life Sciences 10 3074 June 28, 2015 at 2:00 pm
    Thread: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
Post: RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?

It's not just lack of evidence concerning the existence of a god, it's the origins of the claims from which the human belief in god(s) arose, and an analysis of the conditions under which those claims...
nihilistcat Philosophy 355 78101 June 28, 2015 at 1:51 pm
    Thread: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHY: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POWER ..
Post: THE SELF-REINFORCING NATURE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHY: O...

http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?...pdf&TYPE=2 The above is a link to an article that discusses power theory. In general, I think Nietzsche's analysis of power is pretty simplistic, almost...
nihilistcat Philosophy 9 3829 June 28, 2015 at 1:33 pm
    Thread: Nietzsche for Anti-Capitalists
Post: Nietzsche for Anti-Capitalists

[Image: http://souciant.com/wp-content/uploads/2...00x190.jpg] http://souciant.com/2012/08/nietzsche-fo...pitalists/
nihilistcat Philosophy 1 780 June 28, 2015 at 1:12 pm
    Thread: Are Leftist, Feminist Kurds About to Deliver the Coup de Grâce to ISIL in Syria?
Post: Are Leftist, Feminist Kurds About to Deliver the C...

[Image: http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/f...tr_img.jpg] http://m.thenation.com/blog/210841-are-l...isil-syria
nihilistcat Politics 1 846 June 28, 2015 at 1:04 pm
    Thread: Bernie Sanders Invite Bush To Go Fuck Himself
Post: RE: Bernie Sanders Invite Bush To Go Fuck Himself

(June 26, 2015 at 2:27 pm)das_atheist Wrote: I wonder if Bernie will run against Hillary as a 3rd party and completely screw over the Democrat party for the 2016 presidential election. (June 20, 2...
nihilistcat Politics 38 8291 June 27, 2015 at 7:38 pm
    Thread: Anarchist idiots
Post: RE: Anarchist idiots

You see stories like this one, "Meet the Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS" ... they've almost become fetishized in the west at this point. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-te...ia-n199821 But you yo...
nihilistcat Politics 65 12111 June 27, 2015 at 7:29 pm
    Thread: Anarchist idiots
Post: RE: Anarchist idiots

Typical left wing anarchism does have a respectable intellectual tradition. Some of our greatest activists during the labor and women's rights movements have been anarchists (e.g. Emma Goldman and man...
nihilistcat Politics 65 12111 June 27, 2015 at 6:28 pm
    Thread: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
Post: RE: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

Anti-intellectualism has already killed murika :)
nihilistcat Off Topic 30 4675 June 25, 2015 at 10:24 pm
    Thread: Anarchist idiots
Post: RE: Anarchist idiots

(June 24, 2015 at 8:05 am)Nope Wrote: Perhaps someone can answer this for me, in an anarchist society how would the weak and vulnerable be protected? Maybe I am misunderstanding how anarchy would wo...
nihilistcat Politics 65 12111 June 25, 2015 at 8:38 pm
    Thread: Anarchist idiots
Post: RE: Anarchist idiots

Well, I would say associating ALL anarchists with the right wing illustrates an incomplete knowledge of history. Try researching the Spanish Civil War (I highly recommend reading Orwell's "Homage to...
nihilistcat Politics 65 12111 June 25, 2015 at 9:43 am