Petter Häggholm
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What do you think of Hungary saying their government will no longer fund CPAC with their taxpayers’ money?
Good. Hungary is way poorer than it should be and needs to invest more heavily in its own country, not toss public cash away to cement the buddy buddy relationship between the worst people in both countries.
What do you think about Fetterman calling on Democrats to 'drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom' after the shooting?
It’s silly. The perimeter held. That ballroom wouldn’t be a heck of a lot more secure, given the numbers of people being cleared into it, and out of it, and working there, and all of the chaos of a major event. Yes, the WH has more security ordinarily than the conference center does ordinarily. So, yo…
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If there's actually no such thing as 'free healthcare' (someone's got to pay for it), doesn't that imply that those who pay but get the least of it get cheated?
It’s the story of a guy, who lived not far from a public park, let’s call him Bob. Bob really loved that park, he went there every day, it helped him relax as he listened to the birds. One day though, as he was taking a nap in the shade, he noticed something: Someone who left the park, and then came ba…
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It turns out that USAID gave $27 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Taxpayer funded racism, woohoo! How did USAID become so corrupt?
A quick search I just did finds no allegation that SPLC got more than $8k in speakers fees from USAID. No major grants, and nothing remotely close to $100,000 let alone $27,000,000. Can you show me your source for that claim? And did you read the indictment against SPLC? …
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Why did Leslie Nielsen go from playing dramatic roles ("Forbidden Planet" comes to mind) to doing mostly comedy movies while Tom Hanks made a reasonably smooth transition from comedy to drama?
When the Zucker brothers made "Airplane," they had a great idea: instead of hiring comedians, they'd hire the kind of ultra serious B movie actors who normally appeared in real disaster movies. Leslie Nielsen, for instance, had played the captain in "The Poseidon Adventure." And it turned out that N…
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Why does it seem that those who decry a "tyranny of the majority" don't seem to care about a "tyranny of the minority"?
When you want a regular tyranny, with all the power in the hands of one person, or just a tiny group, and you come out and say that…
Often, it makes you look bad. Like a tyrant. So first, you have to deride and ridicule the idea of regular people ever having any power. That’s where the tyranny of the…
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Why did Putin think he could win in Ukraine in just 3 days?
When Putin started the first phase of the war (the one everyone forgets about, in 2014) and took over Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine (parts of Donbas and Luhansk), it was a walk in the park for the Russians. There are stories of Russian Special Forces troops appearing at various military and gov…
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The Bible clearly states that if you dont believe in God you'll go to hell. Are atheists scared of going to hell?
The Bible clearly states that if you dont believe in God you'll go to hell. No, it doesn’t. Are atheists scared of going to hell? Most of us aren’t, since it doesn’t exist. Some atheists are scared of Hell, because they were emotionally abused by Christianity as children and fear is not rational; it’s…
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Would Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All plan cause corporations to re-domicile overseas to avoid taxation?
Corporations would actually pay less in extra taxes than they currently pay for healthcare for their employees. It would be a net win. The only industry that would suffer would be the healthcare insurance industry. Those greedy vultures can die for all I care.…
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Is Iran going to win this war?
Going to win? No. In every important way, they have already won. Trump has destroyed the mechanism stopping them from developing nukes, eased the economic sanctions against them, handed the Iranian regime vast amounts of new money, destroyed the protest movement in Iran, catastrophically lost the pr…
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Now that we know leftist organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have been actively funding the KKK to artificially inflate their statistics on far-right extremist groups, do Democrats tell the truth about anything?
The OP has already been banned. However, I want to clarify the half-truths in this question. The SPLC has been indicted for fraud because they were not transparent about using donations to hire paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups on both ends of the political spectrum. The group claims the…
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Why aren't they cloning humans?
Is there any particular need? Besides, human clones already walk among us. All identical twins are in fact clones: Being an identical twin doesn’t really confer much of an advantage, so there’s no particular reason to do it artificially. Cloning individual body parts could be incredibly useful though,…
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What is your review of Life of Brian (1979)?
What if “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” had a budget? You would get “Life of Brian”, a spectacular production that hammers the history of Christianity while fully respecting it. Made for the staggering sum of $4 million, generally put up by their friend George Harrison (whose cameo was cut in editi…
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If the historical Yeshua was an anti-Roman insurgent, why do the Gospels depict him as telling people to pay taxes to Caesar?
Because the early Christian movement needed to demonstrate that it wasn’t threatening to the Roman empire. This is why Pontius Pilate’s depiction and the whole narrative of Jesus’ execution seems to fly in the face of everything that we know about Pontius Pilate and Roman governance. The narrative ma…
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Should Virginia vote yes today on redistricting to save democracy?
If you asked a year and a half ago, my answer on this would have been a resounding “no.” Right now, I still do not consider Virginia's or California’s votes on Redistricting to be “wins.” More on that later. I find gerrymandering a repulsive process, no matter who does it. I believe the way districts…
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Are people still writing on Quora in 2026?
Many of my favorites are gone. These AI-driven accounts may be the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. I could understand replacing or competing with authors whom Quora were paying, but I haven’t even received (or asked for) a piece of swag in payment, let alone money. No point in writing…
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The Democrats' bid to seize power in Virginia has failed. Are you glad it failed?
So a really interesting thing happened tonight. Quora was flooded with questions about how the Virginia redistricting special election was won by “no” prior to the voting even being finished. I am not sure what the motivation for that is, did they really think a bunch of conservative troll questions…
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If you are a leftist, how well do you think Mamdani is doing?
I like Mamdami quite a lot, and despite not being a New Yorker, I followed his campaign with much interest. Mostly I was impressed by his skill as a communicator: he is as good of an orator as any American politician I’ve ever seen. He has not been in office long enough to judge whether he will achie…
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If the world ran on nuclear, how much waste would be produced every year?
We have roughly 400 nuclear reactors in operation right now worldwide. They provide right at 10% of the worlds electrical needs. Simple math tells you that we would need 4000 nuclear reactors to power the whole of the world with nuclear power alone. A single nuclear power plant produces right about a…
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In BOOGIE NIGHTS what would have happened to Dirk after the film ended? He would have been 24 years old in 1984 as the film spans 1977-1984. Direct Paul Thomas said that "Dirk is no longer with us". Why not? What would he have gone on too?
Dirk Diggler was first seen in the mockumentary, The Dirk Diggler Story. In this film Dirk becomes famous due to his excessively large appendage. This fame leads him into the world of drugs. Predictably this leads to addiction which leads to him destroying his career. Eventually he ends up appearing…
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Do you think Fetterman is right when saying media and Democrats were gleeful when Iran took the strait?
No. Instead, they saw this as a very obvious and foreseen event that Trump fell directly into, because he doesn't know anything, and doesn't listen to anyone who does. This was Sideshow Bob stepping on rake after rake, nothing more.…
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How do 99% of scholars agree that Jesus was a historical figure?
1. Jesus’ story is extremely unremarkable. Radical Jewish preachers were a dime a dozen in that time and place. Jesus, like many of them, got a little to big for his britches and Rome put him down just like many others were put down. Even the fact that his followers believe he rose from the dead is unr…
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Is there an alternative to UFC, perhaps with less rules to recreate real fights (seeing as a street fight would have no rules)?
I have a name for the concept that makes this impractical: The Warrior’s Paradox. The Warrior’s Paradox states that while actually fighting is the best way to learn to fight, you won’t be able to avoid injury for long enough to actually get good. It’s not like playing tennis where you can just play a…
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Why was the MMA fighter Ronda Rousey unbeatable, and then all of a sudden she couldn't win a fight?
Ronda is possibly the best person in the world at dragging a human to the ground and putting them in an arm bar. It's pretty incredible. However, she had a trainer named Edmond Tarverdyan who was essentially a boxing coach. All the skill she was winning with she had before she met him, but this was…
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