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    China is Running Circles Around the USA

    Are you serious? There is a ton of research on the topic. Read the book "The Dragon's Gift." You can just look at economic growth rates of...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, May 19, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    China is Running Circles Around the USA

    Of course they're loans. What country is just going to straight up give away enormous amounts of money as a gift with no expectations of any...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, May 19, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    China is Running Circles Around the USA

    So what? The results speak for themselves. Less than a decade of Chinese investment has done more good for many African countries than decades of...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, May 19, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    China is Running Circles Around the USA

    America's natural environment was horrendous during the Industrial Revolution and in the years following. And we still managed to clean it up....
    Post by: itstheyear3030, May 19, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Shooting At Muhammad Art Exhibit In Garland

    You realize that what you're describing is the literal definition of bigotry? Merriam-Webster: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, May 5, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    So we are gonna ignore the riot thats happening in Baltimore

    Can you read? Do you even know what the words you are typing mean? Of course my last observation was an anecdote, but unlike Sweet Lou I never...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Apr 30, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    So we are gonna ignore the riot thats happening in Baltimore

    What are you talking about? Your anecdotal evidence means nothing. America is one of the easiest developed nations for immigrants to access, both...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Apr 30, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Mindy Kaling’s brother pretended to be black to get into med school

    Except this particular situation isn't about white people and black people. It's about black people and non-black minorities. The guy here could...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Apr 8, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year

    It's already been done in certain states. Like the UC system has essentially been an income-based affirmative action program for a decade because...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Apr 2, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think (Scientific American)

    There's a thing called the Gini Coefficient that most international NGOs use to measure inequality with 0 being complete equality and 1 being...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Mar 31, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    AMC's The Walking Dead [Season 5]

    I thought they ran out of ammo? Didn't the curly haired douche that got Noah killed say something about having the extra ammo?
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Mar 16, 2015 in forum: BBS Hangout
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    On like Donkey Kong: Obama Said to Plan Moves to Shield 5 Million Immigrants

    Again, I was not discussing the legality or merits of Obama's hypothetical executive order. I even said in my previous post that I was assuming...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Nov 19, 2014 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    On like Donkey Kong: Obama Said to Plan Moves to Shield 5 Million Immigrants

    Hmm...what else is meaningless? I don't know...maybe posters implying that Obama is being dictatorial or is acting like an emperor because he's...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Nov 19, 2014 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    On like Donkey Kong: Obama Said to Plan Moves to Shield 5 Million Immigrants

    Don't know if its worth mentioning, but Obama has been really restrained as far as executive orders go. In fact, he's on the low end among recent...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Nov 19, 2014 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Holidays’ names stricken from next year’s Montgomery schools calendar

    Nominally, its a question of numbers. Closing a school on a religious holiday requires a secular rationale in order to pass constitutional muster...
    Post by: itstheyear3030, Nov 16, 2014 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion