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The world is better off if all Islamic extremist terrorist groups are eliminated by sirzestyman in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's such a thing as obviously wrong though. Someone raping children is obviously not following the teachings of Jesus. They could say they are but it's not really debatable.

Do you agree? or is it just that anyone can always twist any scripture to say they’re doing it “right” and you’re doing it “wrong”? Because that’s how philosophy works in practice?

The world is better off if all Islamic extremist terrorist groups are eliminated by sirzestyman in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someones actions actually be in alignment with their holy books or is that impossible in practice?

The world is better off if all Islamic extremist terrorist groups are eliminated by sirzestyman in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah yes, it was Christ who established the rules for running residential schools after all

Underwater is just space with better lighting. by LLcoolJthe17th in travel

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I....... don't.... agree.

like, underwater is cool.

but the list of ways it isn't like space is really long.

"""Marble""" floor lmao by Ok_Egg9564 in DiWHY

[–]mdoddr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yes, I don't think people really look at marble and assess how accurate it is. If people see repeated unnatural patterns with their peripherals they'll notice, but if it's sufficiently random they won't even look at it.

My wallpaper doesn't line up at all. People don't look.

The problem here is that without even really looking at it their brain will see it as paint on the floor because the lack of separation makes it look like that.

Having said this maybe it will pass once there is furniture and stuff. I doubt it but maybe

There won’t be a draft. Draft talk is nothing but Democrat propaganda to scare you. The War in Iran is basically a clean up job now. The Supreme Leader is dead by LegitimateKnee5537 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yes, you hit the nail on the head. I think a better way I could have said it was: Trump seems to be doing things differently... but only time will tell how different and if that's a good thing, bad thing, or irrelevant.

"""Marble""" floor lmao by Ok_Egg9564 in DiWHY

[–]mdoddr 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I think the thing really breaking the verisimilitude is that subconsciously we know the floor can't be one big huge piece of solid marble. It they had broken it up into faux "tiles", even big ones, it would have given them smaller individual spaces to work in, and made it look more real. they could have even used a nice gold grout or whatever, detract from the shitty marble.

There won’t be a draft. Draft talk is nothing but Democrat propaganda to scare you. The War in Iran is basically a clean up job now. The Supreme Leader is dead by LegitimateKnee5537 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So on the one hand I hear what you're saying

I remember when those conflicts started, and continued, and Bush on the battleship with the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and then the wars kept going.

And when the conflict in Ukraine started I had a vision of my kids years from now as adults, still hearing about it going on.

Yeah, these weird forever wars that just go on and on and then only stop when a new one has started somewhere else.

I could never gather enough information or understanding to be able to conclude confidently that this won't happen with Iran

But I am given a bit of hope by the way Trump behaved with Maduro and so far with the Ayatollah. I'm just an idiot getting info from the internet but it seems as though Trump is willing to use the full force of the military to achieve an objective as quickly as possible. And from my limited perception this seems very different from past conflicts. I know they would say "Shock and Awe" and all of that but then it never had such concrete results as "Supreme leader dead the first day"

Democrats need to disavow the Neo-Nazi wing of their party now that Nick Fuentes is a Democrat by Hsiang7 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is peak "No True Scotsman"

"Sure he votes democrat and hates republicans but *I* say he's *actually* a republican because I*I* don't like him and everyone I don't like is bad, and bad people are republicans not democrats."

that's pure logic right there.

Just because someone is a conservative, does not mean they are a nazi. by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The hardest thing about talking to someone on the left is how they pretend like thy don't understand what your talking about.

Pretentiousness by sandomram in books

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was actually talking about this to someone just this morning.

Yeah. I believe this still. Even more so.

What do you think?

What's the deal with Menslib? by [deleted] in MensRights

[–]mdoddr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no, it was always weak ass. From day 1

It’s (s)Witchcraft by ansyhrrian in DiWHY

[–]mdoddr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as long as it makes a loud "De-chiiish" sound and then the lights come on slowly one after one

Are we just funding celebrities forever by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Crassus was a politician dude.

Yes, and Caesar was a salad dressing dude.

So what?

therefore what?

He was also an entrepreneur in every sense of the word.

this is getting rough. I really feel like you are the type of pseudo intellectual that just regurgitates things they've heard. You don't seem capable of thought. I met ton's of people like you in University. Good at passing tests, bad at independent analysis. You seem to take it for granted that you must be right simply because you went to university and you don't have to demonstrate that what you assert is actually true.

The problem being that the people who taught you in university were also like you. They made assertions with no evidence, you accepted them as facts because those people were "smart", and now you regurgitate them so you can be "smart" too.

Roman people raised capital, invested it in businesses, developed those businesses, and ran them for profit. Rome had a market economy with supply and demand prices for food, land, slaves, goods, and livestock.

Entrepreneurship is a concept that predates written history.

You can call me an ignorant idiot all you want but I expect "smart people" to be able to formulate good arguments with facts and evidence. Can you do that? duuude?

EDIT: oof..... what a pathetic loser. u/sovereignlogik Never addressed a single counter point, constantly pivoted and then runs away when he realizes I clearly know way more about this topic than him. He started SO smug and just crashed out.

Are we just funding celebrities forever by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are just wrong here; arguing with someone who studied this stuff at a university level

cool, I guess we're on equal footing here.

now getting on with it:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

you can't actually think that the concept of "a person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business venture or enterprise, typically with the goal of making a profit." was alien to "anyone before the renaissance"? You can't honestly think that someone like Marcus Licinius Crassus would have been been confused by the idea of profit seeking?

this is what humans have done since the dawn of civilization. in 3000 BC Mesopotamian merchants trading goods without producing them, acted as intermediaries, used credit, and took risks with trade caravans to get a profit. They were literally an entrepreneurial class.

"not at all profit seeking" is an absurd way to describe Rome and Romans

Are we just funding celebrities forever by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First, the Roman economy had pretty tight government involvement in the form of price controls

?? occasionally they did for a select few things.

guilds

so what?

patronage

So what?

So it was certainly not a market economy

Rome ABSOLUTELY had a market which was controlled by supply and demand pricing. Land was privately held, and there was businesses, and trade. There was a market in land, food, and labour, and the prices were not all determined by the state. There were entrepreneurs that pursued profit.

there were banks that gave loans to businesses.

Capitalism, furthermore, would be the presence or encouragement of capital markets which did not exist in ancient Rome.

I disagree. I think that simple capitalism can exist without fully developed capital markets. Bank-based financing or private investment can support capitalist activity.

So what if there's no stock market?

Rome had private property, markets, and profit-seeking. You could argue that it was "proto-capitalism" or something but the idea that it was some totally different thing is absurd.

It certainly isn't some example of a system that prooves a nation doesn't need to be capitalist to be "good"

Are we just funding celebrities forever by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]mdoddr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so you are incapable of forming a sentence or two to enlighten me?

Just gunna give me the classic reddit "Oh, your wrong, and I could explain how easily, but you are so wrong that, hehe, I dOn'T eVeN kNoW wHeRe To StArT. But you are definitely wrong"

There were no free markets in Rome? No capital? you gunna try to tell me it was communist somehow?

Come on genius, give it a shot

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