I don't see how calling something a genocide can ever be considered insufficient. I mean what greater crime is it to be compared to?

People are dumb.

Eh, no, that is wrong, you really got that backwards. The workers mostly
voted Communists or Social Democrats back in the Republic of Weimar

I'm not even sure it's unprecedented. There have been genocides before. Perhaps this was the first by a modern industrialized nation with paperwork for it, but people have been massacring each other for a long time. Hell, the Old Testament is practically a brag-list of the tribes the early Israelites wiped out. So…

Upvoted for the Roman parallels and accuracy about legislation. However, I will say that legislation is the end process of the populist rise to power. They don't pass those laws to gain power, they pass them to consolidate it. It's the populism that provides the stick with which to beat encumbant power factions.…

I think you may have seriously misunderstood me. I'm not saying that someone working away at a "little" job is like Hitler. I'm saying that there are people like Hitler in all walks of life whether that be some nondescript job out of the public eye or a politician (which I also mentioned). The point is that Hitler is…

Every year that goes by, I increasingly hate the demonization of Hitler. Demonisation is where you strip away actual knowledge and understanding and turn someone into a caricature of Evil. There are always people like Hitler. Someone of them are working away invisibly at little jobs. Some of them are in power but find…

I think the fact that JMP excuses the bussing away and lynching of Black people in Libya by the rebels by attempting to suggest that they were imported mercenaries (even if that were true it wouldn't make it okay) is very telling in and of itself. Clue to JMP: There are a lot of Black people living in Libya. Fewer…

>>"It's completely impossible that your children will grow to adulthood enjoying a lifestyle comparable to yours."

The "limits of this data" comment at about 15600 BCE in the XKCD comic addresses precisely the smoothing issue you bring up, so calling it sloppy science is sloppy criticism.

What do you mean by "normal rationality". Because in situations where my life has been in danger I have been EXTREMELY focused and rational.

Fascism is a populist movement, primarily of the working class. It's an actual political philosophy, not just a synonym for "Evil". An essential element of fascism is that it is open and capitalises on nationalism and class struggle. Secret Fascism as a notion really doesn't work. A Fascist leader doesn't try to…

Can you please point me to where the UK Parliament voted to bomb in
support of Al Qaeda? I'm British and I think you've been seriously
misinformed. Parliament did vote to intervene in Syria, but in order to
bomb Isis, who are against the regime.

I don't think I lied. Yanukovych was elected as President of the Ukraine. He was then overthrown by his defeated opponent's supporters who carried out a campaign of civil disobedience. There was a lot of Western support for this. Yanukovych was quite pro-Russia. They forced a second election which Yushenko (his…

Americans have a thing with (presidential) incumbency. Even if we pretty
much liked the previous administration, we'll still vote the others
guys in, out of some weird sense of balance, or to keep the politicians
on their toes, or something. In a way, it's noble,

All this is true, and yet everyone having the vote at least provides incentive to try and educate the population and see that everybody is provided for. At least one hopes.

Iraq was not a response to 9/11. Saddam and Al Quaeda were enemies. And the hijackers were predominently Saudi (not that you would go to war over what private non-state sponsored citizens did anyway). The invasion of Iraq took place for its own geopolitical reasons independent of the 9/11 attacks. However, the 9/11…

Why is it inappropriate to point out we've seen no evidence? I don't expect the poster to have any special access that I don't have. But to even put that question to me is to try and shift the burden of proof onto me to show that the Russian government didn't hack Clinton's emails. Which of course is an attempt to…

Because I asked for evidence and you've provided none? Because the CIA are known worldwide as a bastion of honesty? Because even on their own admission they couldn't trace it further than we think some people in Russia leaked the emails and the government of Russia could therefore be behind it?

Really missing the very obvious point. It doesn't matter who set up the call. The point is that no present in the past four decades would have taken it. Obama didn't, nor did Bush, nor anyone back to sometime in the Seventies. Bob Dole is about as relevant as the model of phone used for the call. Why would Hillary…