Do you think Obama believes in Socialism / Do you believe in Socialism?

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I presume that the idiot who drew that graph possess a neckbeard.

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I consider President Obama a neo-mercantilist

Stop.

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How anyone could take a chart like that even half seriously is beyond me.

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Typically it is correct form to state a reason or make an argument for your opinion, that way you don't look like childish hacks.  Maybe you three could try it, or come back when you're grownups.   

If something is self-evidently idiotic to the extent that that chart happens to be, then there is no point in going to the trouble of pointing out what is wrong with it. This is because the only people who don't already understand that, yes, the chart is clearly the product of a diseased mind, are the sort of people who are generally not worth engaging with in any detail.

I do so hope that things are clear now.

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The point is there's no need to 'name' anything as the 'problems' with that remarkable chart are obvious to anyone with three functioning brain cells and occasional access to logical thought. If you can look at it and not see the 'problems' immediately, then...

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The point is there's no need to 'name' anything as the 'problems' with that remarkable chart are obvious to anyone with three functioning brain cells and occasional access to logical thought. If you can look at it and not see the 'problems' immediately, then...

You actually understood that mess of a chart?  You clearly are a better man than I. I looked at it, and got a headache, and required "medication" myself. Nothing is so obfuscatory than this ideologically Venn diagram boxing mania. I hate it!

No, no, no. That reaction means that you understood it (at the level at which understanding it matters) as well!

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Why?  First thing you should do after something complex (600+ page book, an election, troubleshooting a piece of equipment worth hundreds of thousands, etc) is fit all the important information on a single piece of paper.  A map or a chart is a common end result of mastery.    

Lay off the PCP, kiddo.

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Plato had reflected on the last 300 years he would have come up with something like that.

You need help.

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I mean, seriously? This must be trolling, this has to be an act. Plato? Charts? Plato of the Charts? Time Travelling Plato of the Charts? Mind you, he would probably have been arrested for being a nonce were he to do that. Which would be amusing, I suppose. So someone needs to get working on that time machine!

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How anyone could take a chart like that even half seriously is beyond me.

it looks like it is out of Lacanian psychoanalysis

It looks like it's out of the Kennedy-era RAND Corporation is what it looks like.

Must these things contradict?