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Vorpal Cat
Mar 19, 2009

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LP97S posted:

To be quite honest, I'm amazed that there hasn't been a schism considering how radically different much of the Catholic population in the Americas is when compared to the overwhelmingly European higher ups in the Vatican.

Honestly that was my thought as well. I think the more liberal Catholics are simply lacking a leader to rally around. If priest with a little charisma was motivated I don't think it would take to much for them to pull a Martin Luther.

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Vorpal Cat
Mar 19, 2009

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So what are the odds Mr Richwine even bothered trying to correct his data for poverty, cultural differences, systematic discrimination or any of the other dozens of variables which could effect IQ scores in minority populations before trying to to tie it to racial "differences". I know I wouldn't bet on it.

Vorpal Cat
Mar 19, 2009

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Well one out of three correct talking points is above average for these things.

Vorpal Cat
Mar 19, 2009

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Opposing Farce posted:

I love that he presents "Americans think the government wastes 50 cents on every dollar" as though that belief makes it true. There's some kind of dark urban fantasy/sci-fi novel about statistics being powered by human belief in here.

Dear god planes would turn into flying death traps, and lotteries would collapse as hundreds of thousands won every jackpot. People are so useless with statistics the would would turn into some kind of post apocalyptic nightmare within weeks. We're talking about a species that is regulatory stumped by the Monty Hall problem without formal training.

Vorpal Cat
Mar 19, 2009

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

This guy does know the Austro-Hungarian empire no longer exists because of how bad they were at war right? I'm not sure they're the guys we want to borrow field manuals from.

I think bad is a little understating the magnitude of their incompetence, they failed to conquer Serbia. When your grand empire that's suppose to be competing with England and Germany for prestige and power losses to Serbia, your not just bad your an insult to the very concepts of empires and annexing other peoples sovereign territory. The grand achievements of Rome, Persia, and the Mongols are now lesser then they were before the war because they have to share the title of empire with a nation that lost to Serbia.

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