Recent content by Sphincterboy

Are these people 'Moderates'? They are doing nothing illegal. They are expressing a clear message in a peaceful demonstration. Some people may find their message somewhat chilling.

Well as with any fundamentalist totalitarian prescription for all aspects of society, there will always be those who adhere more vehemently to the true principals than others. As Warpoet seems to allude, which we can all agree, there is an inverse relationship between 'ideas compatible with...

Fair enough. But nevertheless the pattern is pretty clear. And it still begs the question of why the need for external destabilization and collusion with internal forces hostile to the 'socialist' program. There is a well documented history of the US fucking with the economies of countries that...

It establishes a pattern.

Except that it did happen with Venezuela already: 2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt

From Media_of_Venezuela The attacks came long before anyone was 'driven into bankruptcy'.

Conspiracy theory? There is established precedent for exactly this kind of economic destabilization. Kissinger's "Make the economy scream"

Not only that, but to anyone who has actually been there, this video is totally ridiculous. This is where the ultra-rich can come to emulate their first-world role models free from molestation by the unwashed masses. Notice that not shown are the multiple imposing security guards with giant...

Then why the attacks? If the Socialist experiment is doomed to fail anyway, why not let it fail on it's own merits? This is analogous to the situation in Chile in the early 70's with the famous quote "Make the economy scream". The "strife" being referred to here is the petulance of one sector of...

Does the "Military Industrial Complex" pay people to attend participate in street demonstrations?

Propaganda? Fearmongering? Well yes I guess so. Straight from the horses mouth, as it were. You are rather quick to ascribe motives to others. To call the above statement wrong would not really convey the utter boneheaded misconceived wrongness it contains. Nevertheless, I must call the above...

This was taken a couple of years ago at a rally in Sydney in response to some stupid anti-islamic internet video of some kind. The lady taking a photo (because it's cute?) is the children's mother. She turned herself into the police a couple of days after the event and claimed that she didn't...

Salman Rushdie:

Maybe it is a slanted representation of Islamic thought processes. Nevertheless, one cannot help but be struck by the ferocity an unanimity of the sentiment expressed in that and other forums. It is not quote mining. Every 'islamic' poster expresses a remarkably simolar viewpoint. Some are more...

Would you say that this forum contains a reasonably representative cross-section of the global atheist mindset? I would. Why would this not be true for an Islamic forum?