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PCMcGee

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    Comment #14793242

    This has already been done. It's known as Non-Aristotelian General Semantics. It's even possible to teach yourself how to speak this way. Intelligence agencies sometimes train oper…

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    Comment #12014705

    The level most people in the US live at is called "poverty". The amount of work that goes into food, transportation and clean water is incredibly small, compared to the amount of p…

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    Comment #12014652

    And don't overlook the fact that the society he is presenting is destroying the only place where any other society could be built, namely The Earth.

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    Comment #12014607

    Stop paying retail prices for everything. In a market based economy, we need everyone shopping, every week. But, in a resource based economy, we would build things to last longer, …

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    Comment #12014586

    I don't begin to pretend to understand the delusions that people are citing as reasons for supporting a "work" culture. Are the people who believe this rhetoric blind to the destru…

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    Comment #12014432

    "Most of the jobs constituting valuable contributions are going to be paid" This is not the way things are. This sounds more like something a politician told you to believe. The mo…

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    Comment #12005406

    "Human traits" = a deep flaw in your understanding of human behavior.

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    Comment #11995737

    Fresco was unique in that all of his designs were based on testable, quantifiable evidence based assessments of reality. His designs for cities ended up looking like "utopias" beca…

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    Comment #11887446

    Not entirely accurate, in my opinion. You should realize most issues brought up as arguments between left and right are publicized in order to substantiate a (mostly ficticious) di…

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    Comment #11887263

    As most protectors of the establishment are wont to do, the author conflates lack of trust in science with lack of trust in the system used to produce medicines. Putting the profit…

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    Comment #11887061

    Musk mentioned nearly the exact percentages of metals used in the last Tesla shareholders meeting recently.

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    Comment #11887045

    Please, realise there is no "your land" island on which people live apart from the ecosytem. Personally, I feel that living on "your" land is fine, it's that market mechanism forci…