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A Disturbing Picture of Rick Perry, and the Religious Right

zgoldsmith23 said:
Before I do that, why don't you show me how Chomsky is truly a "kook" rather than a name you are calling him simply because his opinion differs from that of your own and he supports that "commie-liberal-pinko-'ism'!"
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No. I am not going to follow you down that rat hole.

If you are contending that free market capitalism, as implemented in India in the post WWII era resulted in 100 million excess deaths, you owe us a better explanation than some kook you read in college said so. Noam was a linguist, wasn't he, in the beginning? Very smart guy too. But now he is a socialist. He went off the deep end.
 


Again, so because his opinion differs from yours, he is a "kook?" Wow.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Again, so because his opinion differs from yours, he is a "kook?" Wow.
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He has been a kook for at least 30 years. Other kooks love him. I can only speculate on why that is.

If you are contending that free market capitalism, as implemented in India in the post WWII era resulted in 100 million excess deaths, you owe us a better explanation than some kook you read in college said so. So show me your explanation please. One hundred million excess deaths...
 
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"Perry represents the underbelly of GOP politics - he is a borderline fascist, religious fundamentalist willing to destroy the country to get his way. His ascendancy represents an unparalleled low point for conservatism in America. Perry is mining well beneath the filth George Bush and Dick Cheney passed off as Republicanism, and has taken right wing fanaticism to a completely new level."
TheDailyBanter.com: Perry Now Favorite for GOP Nomination
 

You still have yet to even mention why he is a "kook" other than "he is a kook and has been."
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
You still have yet to even mention why he is a "kook" other than "he is a kook and has been."
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Does it matter to your argument that I think he is a kook?

Other than quoting him can you show me one hundred million excess deaths in India do to free market capitalism? Show me the two to three million excess deaths in India due to India's policies. Then it won't matter whether or not I think your kook is a kook or not.
 
Misterveritis said:
Does it matter to your argument that I think he is a kook?
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Well, yes. You dispute the source and don't care to acknowledge it while providing zero evidence that the article, is in fact, incorrect. You simply stick your fingers in your ears and hum.


Quality of Life: India vs. China by Amartya Sen | The New York Review of Books

Go look at UNICEF, the UN, and various other World Organizations.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Well, yes. You dispute the source and don't care to acknowledge it while providing zero evidence that the article, is in fact, incorrect. You simply stick your fingers in your ears and hum.
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Your kook is, well, your kook.

zgoldsmith23 said:
Quality of Life: India vs. China by Amartya Sen | The New York Review of Books

Go look at UNICEF, the UN, and various other World Organizations.
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I read your referenced article. Yawn. It was a thinly disguised calling for socialism in health care. I saw no evidence for one hundred million excess deaths resulting from free market capitalism. I saw no evidence of any excess deaths from government policies supporting free market capitalism.

I am not going to waste my time looking at data from organizations with UN or World in the title. They cannot be trusted.
 

Well I guess we are done here...
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
You still have yet to even mention why he is a "kook" other than "he is a kook and has been."
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It is clear to me that you and ngnms or whatever (s)he calls him/herself cannot back up the claim that between 1947 and 1979 the implementation of free market capitalism resulted in one hundred million excess deaths. It is preposterous and both of you are foolish to believe it.
 
Some people will continue to deny that facts which have already been posted do not exist. That's what happens when all you have are opinions

No facts, no logic, no reason. Just opinion, repeated over and over
 

Well when you won't look at the facts that I supplied you...
 
sangha said:
Some people will continue to deny that facts which have already been posted do not exist. That's what happens when all you have are opinions

No facts, no logic, no reason. Just opinion, repeated over and over
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Feel free to take up the challenge. Show me evidence that the kook and his two followers have it right. Show me that between 1947 and 1979 the Indian government's implementation of free market capitalism lead to 100 million excess deaths in India. Or, if you prefer, you can just add yourself to the list of the foolish and gullible.

Just for fun I tried to find evidence. That is only three plus million excess deaths per year. With a population today of 1.2 billion people it is going to be tough to do. And that is why a kook can claim it and two, or possibly three, fools can believe it. Surely you can find evidence of one-half of a holocaust per year. Can't you? Today's death rate is 6.4/1000. What was it in 1947? What was it in 1979?
 

Why would post the facts that have already been posted and ignored by you when I prefer rightwingers who demonstrate willing ignorance?
 
John Hagee, endorser of Rick Perry:


Enough said!
 
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