I’m neither arguing that “climate change isn’t happening” nor that “won't be extremely bad”. I’m questioning your way of assigning responsibility and ...
“Setting most economic policies on the planet (what and how things are produced) has been the US” may have significantly contributed to many events: t...
You dishonestly chopped out “from somebody accusing me of handwaving” again. I wasn’t the one who started accusing others of “vacuously handwaving”. B...
You dishonestly chopped out “from somebody accusing me of handwaving”. Baden accused me of erasing “the entire post WWII history of western violence a...
. Maybe you should rephrase it but from somebody accusing me of handwaving I’m expecting substantial claims that are sharply formulated and accompanie...
A part from the fact that such an objection would be excusable if it came from somebody I didn't exchange with as regularly as I did with you, but I j...
There are innocent victims also in the war in Ukraine. But I’m not the one who keeps mentioning it even though it would be a convenient argument to su...
Demonstrate it then. BTW my claim is demonstrably true as well, isn't it? Quote two of my patronising ad homs and explain why they are fallacious. Dud...
That's as good as "That is certainly a WTF? attitude. As if the invasion of e.g. Iraq only resulted in real victims (innocent civilian casualties) and...
And it can be easily retorted. Trying to sweep fascist regimes, Islamist regimes, dictatorships under the carpet by labeling them as part of "hundreds...
There is a benefit in personalizing the war, first do not put the blame on an the Russians as a whole, and second incentivize political elites (also w...
Is there anything at all that is NOT self-serving in your view? There is nothing delusional in my choice nor fallacious in my notion of “propaganda”. ...
It’s really hard to understand what you write even charitably. First, previously you were talking about my “unexamined narrative” and now you claim th...
First, dictionary definitions are a good starting point for a conceptual analysis/clarification they do not replace it, they certainly help convergenc...
And what would prove the truth of that to you? Can you state it clearly? Can you offer concrete examples of what such proof might look like? Because i...
Terminology needs to be clarified because I too have been accused of spreading Western propaganda, by you and others, yet I don’t think we share the s...
No you didn’t. Besides, your irony doesn’t apply to me. I never downplayed or overlooked the clash between US/NATO and Russia, I focused on it on seve...
If we want to focus on the US (but I don't think it is the only suspect), the problem is not only if they actually ordered/executed the sabotage, but ...
And the context that gives meaning to the term “suppression” the way you used it, is exactly the one I previously described, namely one that given the...
Yes you are framing things the way it suits you. And you did again in this comment. Claiming that Hersh’s article has not been suppressed having in mi...
Maybe he is not lying just making false claims. Anyways, talking about OSINT, I was aware of Oliver Alexander's review of Hersh's article: https://oal...
It’s not about pedantry or Marxist revolutions, it’s about you dishonestly framing things the way it suits you so that e.g. you can flatten relevant d...
Talking about Gert’s views, I think that the label of “utilitarianism” is misleading. “Utilitarianism” to me implies a notion of good/harm as measurab...
I wasn’t talking about not being fine with how Sy Hersh's story has been treated. I’m not fine with you talking about "suppression" in reference to He...
"Lack of suppression" doesn't mean "being fine", it means "lack of suppression". You were talking about "suppression" and that's a caricature. Hersh m...
“Suppressing” is a strong word. As far as I can tell, Hersh’s article is not subject to censorship nor is Hersh prosecuted/jailed because of that. May...
I didn't think this objection through. The point is that rules of thumbs and heuristics are meant to spare us cognitive load in our decision making. W...
Are you talking about being militant in some political movement or party that are against one's Western country's involvement in this war? Can you lis...
That sounds enlightening to me. Yet "power" and "speed" (like in "emergency" talks about the Russian threat) are often claimed to be at the root of ab...
It's enough to quote me, with or without PowerPoint. There is no intellectual dishonesty. I quoted you, and exactly your way of talking about Nord Str...
I don't feel compelled to refrain from sarcasm, caricature and insults against my opponents if my opponents persist with their intellectually dishones...
Gert's assumption is somehow different from what you suggest: "This is where it is important to recognize that morality is for fallible biased people....
. All right, we can distinguish “cultural moralities” from “normative system” in Gert’s sense to avoid terminological confusions. But my point was rea...
As usual “unwavering faith” or “unreserved faith” are ways to caricature my views (and others’, I’d say). The one who is pretty much categorically sur...
Russians might have been also behind explosions/sabotage attempts against the Ukrainian gas pipelines: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06...
I corrected it for you. For people like you and many others here, the US is the right kind of supervillain whom anybody can ultimately blame for anyth...
Those statements express some personal opinion that go beyond hard facts and what they might imply. Number of land troops and land movements do not fa...
No it doesn't. Indeed, again Scott Ritter in that article gives similar figures: The fact of the matter remains, however, that a force of 40 000 men, ...
Then which other expert is explicitly supporting the "diversion hypothesis" as you do? Scott Ritter is a controversial commentator but his article is ...
Logic jump . Rhetoric jump. BTW Scott Ritter, a "diversion theory" supporter (I suspect it's him your first expert source), also claims: Moscow had op...
Yes if it was feasible and sustainable. In the shitty situation we are I simply don't see how we can get there. Even less, safely (or "democratically"...
Yet that's practically the whole point whatever one might think of the EU. It's more easy to agree on what is desirable, than on what is feasible. Out...
But I'm not denying the possibility of rationally justifying some past practice in certain circumstances, yet such possibility doesn't imply that the ...
I was referring to Gert's 10 rules that all moral agents would follow (it looks like the first 5 should be taken to be the most evident to him): https...
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