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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
We offered to negotiate with the Danes and they said no. It seems like you are jealous of the Inuits good fortune. It is not a bribe. It is payment for goods. 55000 people happen to have the right to decide. Paying them to decide our way is not a bribe. It is a purchase.

The self-righteous idiot speaks again.

As expected, you fail to acknowledge the problem of paying people for their support at the ballot box. Democrats do this all the time. You seem to think it's okay.

How about if we pay the jury to decide a case in our favor? Is that bribery or just payment for goods? Just a purchase, right?

You also failed to answer my previous query about how much money each individual resident of the Louisiana Purchase, Seward's Folly or Florida were paid at the time of purchase?

That's okay. I know the answer. We didn't pay a dime to anyone but the government holding the title to the lands we purchased.

Blow your concept of socialist out your ... This is pure capitalism.

Yep. Bribing voters is pure capitalism. I can't wait for your next rationalization.

87 posted on 08/21/2019 10:29:59 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

Well you enjoy those nuke missiles Chine bases in Greenland because you hate Inuits.

Who is it that said “You can’t fix stupid?” Oh yes, David Dunning... and Ron White, but it is the Dunning–Kruger effect***.

*** It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.


94 posted on 08/21/2019 10:38:54 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Oh and the Island of Manhattan.


96 posted on 08/21/2019 10:45:05 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

How about if we pay the jury to decide a case in our favor? Is that bribery or just payment for goods?


That would be paying the jury for goods they don’t own - to make a decision on another’s welfare for personal interest.

Paying the President of a publicly held company is very different from paying the owner of a privately held company.


109 posted on 08/21/2019 11:16:50 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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