In your quoting of me, you’ll note I had the word “almost” in front of “completely closed economy.” If not for that, I would say you caught me. However, “almost” is kind of a key term there. And I stand by it. They had very little trade with countries outside the Soviet Union. You’re right that I said “no one was…

I’m glad, because I think you’re nuts. If you think the US system is equally bad as one where the media is run by the state and political opponents are murdered by government thugs, you are a crazy person. I will try to remember to avoid dealing with you in the future.

I haven’t actually seen the movie, but from the trailers, it seems like there are a lot of shots of tons of soldiers. It would be one thing to not focus on them, but to cast all white people instead of making any effort to show the people who were actually there... That’s not good.

The thing is, though English is the common language here, it isn’t official. Under the law, they are no more right or wrong to be speaking their language than you are to speak English. Would you think it was cool if people could only get legal status here if they spoke Spanish?

Okay... That’s true. But it seems like you and Miller are the only ones mistaking the two. Acosta was pretty clear that he was talking about tradition, not law, and Miller was the one who conflated the two and you were the one who believed him. Acosta is the only one I’ve mentioned who seems to have a good grasp on…

So, we like to hate nerds now. Great...

My favorite part is when Miller tried to act like Acosta was an elitist or even a racist because he pointed out a lot of people who want to come here don’t speak English.

He was referring to “American tradition” not our laws. He’s pretty right. In our entire history, a ton of people have come here who didn’t speak English.

All I said was that it was a closed system with very little foreign trade. Yes, they did have some exports to a few countries such as China, Cambodia, Laos, and North Korea and they did have the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, where they helped out Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam, but there was just not much…

The fact that the electoral college is shitty doesn’t change the fact that we do have relatively fair elections. Here’s a question for you: How many times has the White House switched parties since the turn of the century? It’s three times. In Russia, it hasn’t happened, because Putin shut down the free press when he…

Here, the government will not kill you for speaking out. In Russia, they will. Here, there is a free press, not controlled by the government. In Russia, the state now has almost complete control of the media. Here, there are two political parties with real differences, and the White House and Congress do actually go…

Because it’s been going on for decades. Who do you blame for the Cold War? Our fear of communism was pretty equal to their fear of capitalism. Our propaganda about them was pretty much the same as theirs against us. It was a constant competition in which we were both moving against each other on many different fronts.…

Are you trolling now?

At this point, they should just try to make the blanket statement that nothing he says should ever be used against him. I don’t think anyone would accept that, but that is basically their argument.

Whenever law enforcement decides to just round large groups of people up, it needs to be stopped. It’s immoral, cruel, and idiotic. And even if you are one of the bigots who loves this, you should think about the fact that it is hugely expensive to arrest everyone and sort them out later. Not only does it cost a lot…

Maybe, but who cares? Our enmity with them goes back decades. I don’t care at all who is at fault. We both are. But in this case, they committed an act of war. I don’t believe we’ve done that to them in recent history, certainly during Putin’s time. Thankfully, we’re not actually going to go to war with them, but they…

I’m all for beefing up the security on our voting system, as well. Honestly, the easiest solution is just to put all voting machines on closed networks. They would be networked together in the building, but not have any connection to the internet. That way, the only way to hack them is to actually go into the building…

Again, though, it isn’t just the NSA and CIA or even just all of our other intelligence agencies. Private experts and other countries agree with their assessment. If you are looking at a case like the lead up to the Iraq war, that wasn’t the case. Our allies were openly skeptical and private experts had mixed…

I honestly didn’t mean that as a harsh insult. I just have no idea why you would reject it. Our intelligence agencies, our allies intelligence agencies, and private experts all agree that Russia meddled in our election. They’ve done it several times before and have done it since. It is bizarre to me that anyone is…

Nice. You’ve just given up on making points and are just insulting me. I’m done with this.