Israel is the only actual democracy in the Middle East, the only place you’d want to live as a woman, and they can easily kick the asses of all their problematic neighbors.

I presume you’re not basing this on his lead in the polls.

Not in 1946 and 1947.

So, if culture drives homicide, than explain how the ‘culture’ of the Russian Empire changed in 1946, 1947, and 1948, in that its constituent peoples suddenly developed a short lived cultural predisposition to homicide,

We’ve been through this Billy. Rather than wasting my time with dumb games, just tell me what this is and what you think it means.

Uhhhh...ok.

Is it the entire Soviet Union? A particular city? Homicide rate? Accidental or intentional? By a particular weapon? Civilians or soldiers? Are you really asking me to making a complicated cultural assessment based on a dumbass two axis chart in a different language while refusing to provide context?

What is that graph.

Your definition has never worked, but there are other definitions that have.

By which logic, the various polities of Germany from 1400 - 1941 were the outlier, failing to represent German “culture” as accurately as Nazi Germany 1941-45 did, if “culture” drives the homicide rate. Nobody serious is going to buy that.

Apart from which, to do so is to make the claim that the Nazis both did and didn’t represent German culture, as we know from analyses of homicide rates at the very end of the Weimar Republic, by way of European comparison.

Yep. At its core, it’s not unlike guerilla warfare, carpet bombing, propaganda, or economic warfare: it’s a tool for getting what you want.

I am honored.

I trust the government to run every aspect of my life and every product and service I consume, thank you.

Forced nationalization is one of techniques certain regimes have used to achieve socialist aims. It is not a necessary condition of socialism.

...which version of single payer?

First thing’s first. We should retire the word terrorist/terrorism. It’s a meaningless word spouted by people who want to brand a group of people as “other.”

1. As you mention, that designation will be used to label BLM, AntiFa, etc. as complementary terrorist groups, even if they are 1/1000 as dangerous.

I have, in my lifetime, seen this nation (and the world) move backwards away from equality and into fascism, because things were getting equitable and more fair, and it is precisely because of the shift of demographics away from the power given to white men.

Socialism is the forced nationalization of industry. Government funded roads, militaries, and services are not socialism. Every government that is not chaos and anarchy provides these things.