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Of course. Neoliberalism is not opposed to the existence of states.

The government's main purpose according to Neoliberalism is to protect the freedom of the markets, with nuclear weapons if necessary.

Correct. Islam thrived in Central Asia partly because it served as merchant law. There were no significant governments to speak of.

Free markets first appeared during the Bronze Age. They appeared in the outskirts of state domains. The notion that you can't have a market without st...

Correct. Free markets first appeared toward the end of the Bronze Age, probably as a result of the declining power of states. Europe's rise from the D...

I guess I don't know what you're referring to then. Correct.

But in general, government assistance to private entities is not in line with neoliberal ideas. That happened in 2009, but there was absolutely no pol...

Are you talking about entities deemed to big to fail?

I think you had it right, except you can favor capitalism without being a neoliberal. You could favor embedded liberalism, for instance. I think it's ...

Oh. I guess it does mean the same thing, then.

Is it common for European academics to claim that the word is meaningless? If so, it's the same.

"At some point during Bryan Singer’s genre-redefining 1995 thriller, The Usual Suspects, the elusive villain Keyser Söze shares some of his wisdom wit...

You're straight up not believing there's a difference. I don't know. That's just what the sources I read said. I'll see if I can dig one up if you wan...

Maybe the difference is in who uses the term? In the US, if it's used at all, it's usually by leftists. I thought the use was more mainstream in Europ...

This is cool, but the word is used differently in Europe vs the US. For Americans, the word is more controversial, sometimes declared meaningless, use...

Exactly. That looks delicious btw.

And if we had a wayback machine we could go back to 1915 and kick some ass. As it is, we're constrained by other well armed powers.

Cream cheese

Most powerful the world has ever seen? Eh, that's more likely the British Empire.

I'd think you'd just be indifferent to all the various politicians out there. None of them really represent you, you know? None of them.

"There's beauty all around us. We just take it for granted."

Did you know Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman?

He hasn't been overly logical to this point, though.

I've met quite a few Ukrainians who've moved to the US recently, but I've now met a Moldovan whose whole family is coming soon, he said. Would Putin i...

True

I think it's because the two imply one another. Unity basically means: the opposite of plurality. And vice versa. It's an opposition that can't be pul...

Plus in the realm of aesthetics, if you're viewing two things, there must be a single background against which the two appear in the foreground. It's ...

In addition to the reasons you listed, there's the issue of communication between the two halves of a duality. How does one substance impact the other...

Xi reaches out to Zelensky to offer mediation.

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Ohhh wow. I would love to do that!

Are you aware of the thing where Japanese women are expected to behave in a child-like way, but they're simultaneously reproached for doing it? I read...

Maybe it's a red state thing where aging militias aren't being replaced with younger members?

You can upload them to imgur.

Ok?

All the ones that moved their manufacturing overseas. Globalization, basically.

That would just drive them out of the US, leaving people unemployed and prone to vote Nazi. You'd need a global government to accomplish what you have...

Banobo

Superman vs Sauron.

Ask if he thinks Spiderman would win against Superman.

I agree

Right. Physicalism or materialism leaves us with that problem: how do meanings travel between heads? Physicalism is part of our present worldview, so ...

No, the one about indirect realism.

Wasn't that Sartre's point? That the world somehow exists before being broken into pieces? I guess the way we imagine it is that we are the breakers. ...

Depends on the situation I guess. With extensional definitions, the reference is buttoned up as much as possible. It really comes down to what you thi...

One day the carts will rise up and break out of the corral and drive all over the city doing wheelies.

DeSantis goes to war with Disney World. Is this appealing to Trump's base? Do they hate Disney World or something?

Well that was really confusing. My work here is done!!

I appreciate you reading what I actually wrote, thanks.

So maybe all definitions are sets, but not all sets are definitions. This is the definition of an elephant: "a very large herbivorous mammal of the fa...