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The OP is guilty of committing the fallacy of the seen and the unseen, courtesy of Bastiat. Redistributing money to the rich doesn't increase consumption. For every $ that gets redistributed to a rich person, he may consume that much more, but a poor person consumes an equal amount less.

That doesn't justify it continuing to be that way. Or if it would, you would have to maintain that nobility and divine right of kings is justified too. Presuming that there is something that can be done in the first place. Which is a straw man, I was talking about a person *subsisting*, not a...

And that's exactly the point. It's impossible to resolve the current situation in such a way that no innocent people anywhere will suffer any negative consequences for it. Thus you will agree with me in rejecting Philothei's demand that innocent Greeks should be shielded from suffering for the...

Doesn't save the "innocent people of Greece" from the consequences of the actions of the "crook politicians", only prevents the same from happening again. Try again. Now, let's hear your solution which will instantly clean the mess without any innocent person anywhere having to suffer anything...

Okay, let's hear your suggestion on who should pay. Offer a solution in which no innocent person anywhere suffers any negative consequences for what the "crooks" did.

This. Basic market theory further presumes that supply increases as price increases, as there is a greater incentive to produce that particular kind of good or service. But that doesn't work either with unskilled labor. People don't feel like working more simply because pay/hour increases, nor...

Which is kind of difficult to do if you are living on the edge of subsistence already. Learning a skill requires an investment of time and effort, something you don't have any of to spare if all your time and effort goes towards simple survival. Not to forget that many of the "skills" necessary...

Now you're moving the goalposts. "The Jews control Wall Street" is not logically equivalent with "The Jews crashed the economy to get more money", and if you treat the two as equivalent, you are guilty of libel against those who you paint as antisemitic.

Not really no, but neither do I have any illusions about adulthood magically starting at the age of 18, and anyone younger than that being magically trapped in immaturity and childhood. Do you have any such illusions? To make Sahar Gul into a case of child marriage is to imply that hers is a...

Blah blah blah it's unfair boohoohoo. Unfairness it utterly irrelevant to the discussion when the unfairness is unavoidable due to the inability to pay of the guilty. So deal with it and eat cake.

In other words, democracy is awesome and the West awesome because of it, and because it's so awesome, it must be carefully rationed so that brown people don't use it against Western interests. The coup against Mossadegh was not just a little shady, it was an atrocious overthrow of the...

Actually no. Had it been a free market, she wouldn't have been eligible to collect welfare in the first place. This is a simple case of two otherwise valid and justifiable legal policies having an unintended effect when combined.

And the part about international law being inapplicable in Oklahoma is equally unconstitutional. The constitution specifically empowers the federal state to conduct diplomacy and sign international treaties on the behalf of the entire USA. And international law follows directly from...

Your comment was obviously meant in sarcasm, and was very fitting at that, but it does hit closer than you realize. No small number of Jews on the right end of the political spectrum actually think that Jewish persecution only happened because Jews were too meek before the (re)birth of Israel...

Well, for starters, a guarantee that the USA will continue to support Israel without question or reservation. Something which is quite critical if Israel wants to keep flaunting international law and defying international consensus.

Well, thing is, most Arabs who want to live there don't get to, because Israel forced them out. Being subject to ethnic cleansing tends to incite anti-sentiment against the one who did that to you.

Tell me, again, what is the real issue about Sahar Gul? Contrary to what some people would like to imagine in order to boost their cultural egos, what was done to her is abhorrent according to the norms of every culture. There is absolutely no controversy of any kind involved. Not Western...

Pro-Western, but not particularly free. A good place to live in as long as you didn't contest the rule of the King of Kings, whose secret police forces were infamous. Why oh why did we have to overthrow Mossadegh?

Relevance? Because I'm sure you must think it has some, for if you just posted it out of its value as a historical curiosity, then it'd surely go in the history subforum.

And that's antisemitic how? It's simply a belief that a particular group has a particular kind of power. How is that racist? Is it also racist to suggest that white people rule the world? They pretty much do.