Liberal Internet? - Page 23

Sleight

2471 Posts

July 07 2010 23:35 GMT

#441

When I think of economic powerhouses, I think Estonia.

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Such a good troll, man. You've even 'researched' it and everything. Economic theory is mostly that: "theory." Practice never follows theory. We should just do our best to take care of our family, friends, and neighbors, whatever that means. Now if someone has a compelling reason why we should not do the above, I'd love to hear how you'd have done back in the African grasslands during our time climbing the evolutionary tree.

If your argument is that you don't care, well, enjoy Christmas, Scrooge.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

July 07 2010 23:39 GMT

#442

Oh wow. Memories. We did a class vote last year and I was the only one who voted Conservative. Thank God it was a blind vote and the teacher didn't point me out. O:

3clipse

Canada2555 Posts

July 08 2010 00:02 GMT

#443

On July 08 2010 05:55 Djzapz wrote:

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Estonia doing "very well" is an overstatement. Also flat tax obviously can do ok when there's not an huge disparity between the people's income. Pretty sure nobody in Estonia goes around with A billion. Let alone 50.

And I say it can "do ok", that's quite relative.

On July 08 2010 08:35 Sleight wrote:
When I think of economic powerhouses, I think Estonia.

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Such a good troll, man. You've even 'researched' it and everything.

Uh... did either of you actually read any of that? Furthermore, do you actually know anything at all about Estonia? I provide in-depth analysis and you provide unfounded opinions. At least make issue with something specific so we have some grounds for debate.

DetriusXii

Canada156 Posts

July 09 2010 02:46 GMT

#444

Replying to the original post, I do believe that the internet has a liberal bias. Compare leading left wing political blogs to right wing political blogs. The left wing blogs, like Daily Kos, allow for open discussion and use a rating system to monitor behaviour. The right wing blogs, like Red State and Free Republic, use the ban stick or they don't have a comment section. The left wing blogs foster argument and dissenting ideas. And the internet allows for quick access to numerical evidence that helps left wingers strengthen their argument.

Scanning the first ten pages of this thread, none of the conservative members here who attacked socialized medicine were willing to go beyond theorycrafting of why socialized medicine is bad. On the other hand, I can link to the OECD national GDP spending on health care (located http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/20/2789777.pdf) to show that the most free market health care system of the first world countries leads on per capita and portion of GDP. Socialized health care frees up resources for other areas.

So on neutral sites, like politics.slashdot.org, the conservative members get shouted down by numerical evidence. I just don't think conservatives can survive on the internet when they form sheltered communities. There members may feel the strength of their arguments on their own territory, but their arguments get hammered at on neutral grounds.

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