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Why Every Chess Player Should Vote For Donald Trump!!

#23
I feel like I'm the only person in this thread who actually understood the sarcasm OP was trying to use here. That being said: haha, very clever.
#24
@GianMarcoDorio

Well, monkey, I don't know what the statistics are for "most chess players are losers when it comes to money", but I do find it entirely believable that most chess players per capita probably do live in the USA.

You don't know how to back up the original contradiction of your argument. Thanks for that!

More chess players per capita than France, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Iceland? Playing chess may correlate to leisure time/wealth but general culture also has a large input. Most people in rich western countries like US/Uk spend most of their time watching reality TV and Netflix, not flexing their intellectual muscles OTB. I'd have thought chess players per capita would correlate with titled players per capita where as of 2010 the US ranked tied 52nd with Tunisia. Even if that's not the case I'd be very suspicious of any claim that the US scores highly in per capita chess players. Bridge maybe.
#25
First, @GianMarcoDorio states that "if you play chess you are superior intellectually". Later on he equates "freedom" with the capability of "making money". I suppose that he thinks that he is intellectually superior because he plays chess, because that last statement shows how poor in spirit and humanity he is.

"The US is a superior country because they have bigger guns and are free to pursue money"

Hahahahhaha
#26
@Egoismo
I don't live in the USA just because I have the unrestrained freedom to make money and live in the "freedom" to worship the illegitimate "son of man" rather than perhaps that filthy little prophet of the middle east Mohamed, or to gloat about the ability of the USA to flex it's military muscle and wipe both China and Russia off the face of the Earth in a salacious little battle of the "Titans" that might last an impressive 30 minutes depending on how serious the USA military really is about winning the war.

All I'm saying is that in order to enjoy life, which entails artistic, spiritual, and intellectual endeavors one MUST live in a secure environment with enough food and leisure time to allow oneself to even have the opportunity of such spirituality in the first place!!

Hence, the USA allows all of us that perfect existence to make money easily and physically secure ourselves militarily so that we can play chess, create and enjoy art, and read philosophical and theological works without living in constant fear of where our next meal is going to come from or from which direction the next military assault is going to occur.

We live in not only a mental and spiritual world....we also live in a PHYSICAL world and to deny the necessity to be surrounded by armed guards and money in the bank is to simply negate that physical world and live in fantasy!

If you don't understand the difference between living in the USA vs living in the Dem Rep of the CONGO....then, well, you and I are certainly NOT of the same mind and obviously not of the same educational background!!! Furthermore....if you think for even a second that the civilians of the Congo don't play chess and create businesses and enjoy life simply because they "choose" not to, then you're not only fringing on a blindingly ethnocentric and blatantly ignorant point of view, but also fooling yourself into thinking that somehow you don't bear actual responsibility to make their lives better in whatever way you can reasonably achieve. Money and Military IS IMPORTANT!!!
#27
Spoken as a true money mongrel, prisoner of his own beliefs.

You have no idea of what I´´ m talking about...
#28
That's probably because you've only hinted at what you are talking about.

if you were a man and actually said what you meant, perhaps there would be less room for misunderstanding.
#29
@Egoismo
I think you stated extremely clearly that you dislike my correlations between chess and intellectual superiority and also that it's poor in spirit and in humanity to equate a great country with the ability to make money.

I'm simply trying to validate that you are correct in your assumption that I find the USA to be the greatest country on Earth due to its large military and large personal ability of its citizens to gain financial success. I'm only, in addition to that, trying to show with what I previously wrote is that the end goal is never simply money, but rather using that money to pursue intellectual endeavors only made possible by a country such as the USA.
#30
"I find the USA to be the greatest country on Earth due to its large military and THE large personal ability of its citizens to gain financial success."

Intelligent people write intelligently.
Intelligent persons don´ t need to prove that they are intelligent.
Fools that want to look intelligent soon prove the fools they are by trying to prove that they are something that they are not.

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