my connection with the tea party

[Jester]

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications.../2046.html

According to the CIA world fact book, US has 12% (2004) living in poverty, Denmark has 12.1%(2007).

You warn us about the problem of using relative vs. absolute measures of poverty, and then walk smack dab into that exact problem? The CIA world fact book explicitly states that these figures are not comparable...

By US "absolute" measures of poverty, Denmark has almost no poverty. By Danish "relative" measures of poverty, the US is a lot worse than 12%. (Actually, even by US standards, it's higher - about 15%. Remember the crisis?)

Poverty scarcely exists in Denmark, by absolute or most historical measures. In the United States, it's worse, although you're right to say that there is nothing like what exists in most third world countries, either in terms of inequality, or in terms of absolute deprivation.

-Jester

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I am guilty of not reference checking the quote. I agree the quote took liberal license with the translation, and that they took it out of context.

That's not "liberal licence". Spanish is not that hard - sentences about millions of atomic casualties do not appear and disappear based on translation nuances! They are simply inventing things, whole cloth, in order to make their ideological opponents look bad.

Funny enough, the context is actually more or less correct. It is an address by Che, telling the people of the world they must nurture their hate as part of hardening themselves for revolutionary struggle - which is more or less the same context Conservapaedia et al. present it in. It's the content that's the problem...

-Jester