"Silly Science" that paid off ...

[chrismb]

Man, people love to pick on the USA, where does all this angst come from? We probably give more free food to the world than the next 5 countries combined.

I love to pick on the Brits as well, with their narrow-minded can't-do attitudes, hot water bottles, sh*t roads, high taxes and layabouts-haven culture that attracts the miscreant economic migrants, and the political classes that think the UK can 'generate wealth' by dissolving its industrial muscle in favour of financial markets. I love to pick on the Russians who play clever manipulating games with the states [inc Muslim] that border their huge bureaucratically run country operted by oligarchs, the eurocrats who are creating a super socialist republic (the wall fell - but which way did it land?)... in fact, I love to pick on everyone, including myself. I'm such a dimwit - I actually believe I can persuade people with my arguments. And once I got a question wrong in a maths exam. I feel like such a moron...

[Betruger]

Yep. Nothing worst than someone you can't take advantage of. Especially if said person's shamelessly superior.

[chrismb]

Your premise is flawed.

Your statements are too short to be

[kunkmiester]

The KGB also ran a very successful "hate America" campaign through the Cold War. A lot of movements with such themes can be traced back to their front groups.

[bcglorf]

The KGB also ran a very successful "hate America" campaign through the Cold War. A lot of movements with such themes can be traced back to their front groups.

Amen to that. It's heavily similar to a global version of what you see in American politics. The Dems and Reps have a much easier time showing the others flaws than promoting their own merits. The globe over power hungry tyrants and would be dictators rally disillusioned poor and downtrodden populations not with their own merits, but with condemnations of America for it's role in their plight.

[Josh Cryer]

Genius Hall of Vindication

Just read that whole page.

I found the quote listed to be quite apt:

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

Seriously, each "breakthrough" I read of was just "obvious" to me. And I know very little about a lot of the stuff they discovered.