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Causation, Correlation and the Coming MEGA-WAR

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    #2
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,547 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    catallus. cat all us. us all cat

    I think you are saying we are all cats. What are you basing this on?


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    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    To the casual observer, the Elites don't seem to be able to run a country, let alone organise something of that magnitude.


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    #4
    mickstupp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    wort wort wort


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    #5
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    What do cats like? Cat-nip.

    Nip can be a shortened (and racist) version of Nippon, what Japanese people call Japan.

    No I'm not saying that catallus is a Japanese government infiltrator but when he shows up here trying to spark off a class war in the West, can we come to any other conclusion?


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    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    catallus wrote: »

    I think the answer must be yes!

    Sure that's all the proof I need, now I'll go don my tin foil hat and root around for those iodine tablets.


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    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Iodine tablets won't help against biological weapons!


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    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,800 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    catallus wrote: »
    Iodine tablets won't help against biological weapons!

    You're just saying that to get my iodine tablets!


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    #9
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I'll swap yours for my cyanide capsule?


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    catallus wrote: »
    Take a look at this graph:

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-2?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/somearemoreequalthanothers

    Are the Elites planning a major war so they can cull their underlings again?!

    I think the answer must be yes!
    I'm not sure what the relevance here is?

    The graph clearly illustrates that major wars reduce income inequality, presumably because governments lean heavily on wealthier individuals to fund large wars.

    You can see this very clearly in the graph: following the second world war, the share of the wealthier people was kept fairly constantly pinned down as the US engaged in the cold war and massive public spending programmes like the nuclear weapons programme and the space race.

    You can see that pretty much immediatelly following the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 (USA's largest war of the last fifty years), the wealth of the top 0.1% began to rise again, and became a more steady increase as the USSR fell.

    The "elites" have no interest in a major war. It costs them money.


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I've not clicked the link but I am going to go out on a limb and say no, there's no elite-sponsored MEGA-WAR on the way.

    And if I'm wrong I'll give you a shiny 50c piece.

    Deal?


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    catallus wrote: »
    Causation, Correlation and the Coming MEGA-WAR


    Causation..... like a kind of catallust?


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    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    If this war is not mega and befitting of BIG-LETTERS then I am going to be writing several strongly worded letters of complaint.


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    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    so what's the bad news then OP ? :pac:


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    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I've not clicked the link but I am going to go out on a limb and say no, there's no elite-sponsored MEGA-WAR on the way.

    And if I'm wrong I'll give you a shiny 50c piece.

    Deal?

    Incentivising war? You monster! :eek:


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    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    seamus wrote: »
    The graph clearly illustrates that major wars reduce income inequality, presumably because governments lean heavily on wealthier individuals to fund large wars.

    As regards WWII there were a lot of factors that combined to lead the US into one of its most prosperous periods where the gains were felt across society.

    The US economy also benefited hugely from the ramping up of industrial output during WWII, factories that made tanks switched to making cars. Companies like Boeing used its expertise from making long range bombers to make civilian aircraft. The US had a hugely efficient system of factories after it emerged from the war and lots US oil to power them.


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Grapth =/= War coming. Graph fail. Get a better graph.


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    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Grapth =/= War coming. Graph fail. Get a better graph.

    Are you dissing the graph? :mad:

    It is patently obvious that its all coming to a head.


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    catallus wrote: »
    Are you dissing the graph? :mad:

    It is patently obvious that its all coming to a head.

    Rubbish. Ordinary people still have loads more money for the Elites to get hold of. They're not nearly done.


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    kingchess
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    catallus wrote: »
    Take a look at this graph:

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-2?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/somearemoreequalthanothers

    Are the Elites planning a major war so they can cull their underlings again?!

    I think the answer must be yes!

    You are right-so we should start planning pre-emptive strike against the Elites as soon as possible,We will have to do it on a budget(my cash flow is not good).And I will not be able to take part in the actual fighting due to a broken leg but I will send one of the local yokels in my place.


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    #21
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Is this in conjunction with the reverse vampires and the lizard people.


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,926 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    kingchess wrote: »
    You are right-so we should start planning pre-emptive strike against the Elites as soon as possible,We will have to do it on a budget(my cash flow is not good).And I will not be able to take part in the actual fighting due to a broken leg but I will send one of the local yokels in my place.

    War is God's pruning knife. If you can't fight and you can't run you will not be spared.


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    #23
    Bears and Vodka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭Bears and Vodka


    OP is like the reverse of Karl Marx or something


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    #24
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,172 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    About sodding time if 'tis. Lot of gowls around the place.


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