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So the difference is about social safety nets. The extreme left would have the state take care of everyone's needs?

Sounds good. I got into Hayek recently, and you can't separate his economic view from its political context (which is a little self contradictory). Bu...

I think "far left" is an actual political perspective.

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You're pickled in slave morality. That's why you're hyperbole gets so ridiculous.

Good for what?

You're a giant ball of ressentiment, tho.

Maybe you should read more Nietzsche? Seriously.

But we don't all claim to be heroic and virtuous for doing it.

But all you're doing is posting weird stuff on a website. The real world continues on its own course regardless.

Plus it would still be immoral to commit murder even if there had never been any people. So it's kind of a brute fact. Since we're assuming some versi...

Damn it's hot in here!

And numbers exist without people? Surely we'd still be 93 million miles from earth if people had never existed.

The NYT broke the story. The source is apparently Biden administration officials. But we already knew Russia and China were becoming fast friends. I h...

So the point of this thread was to just state the obvious?

There's always some nation waiting its turn to be most murderous. :kiss:

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They were spewing American intelligence about it early in the war. Do you care enough for me to look it up? If you looked it up yourself would you bel...

That was never in the cards wrt China. Putin cleared the invasion with them before he started. They gave him the thumbs up.

Really? You mean if we invested it in crypto and made trillions out of it? We'd need to invest in mental health facilities to end homelessness in the ...

Is it 20 billion? I think it's a tinder box if they give too much, and another box if they give too little and Putin decides he can do more of this. B...

What's bizarre is that you think 33 billion is a lot. They spent more than a trillion on covid19.

I don't think nations are usually that wise. They usually act on the basis of the most immediate concerns.

I just ask them, "If you were the Blob and you had a sex change, what pronoun?"

My favorite French word is champignon, mushroom. Ok. I'll write some prophecies about the end of the world in red ink on it and send it to the Smithso...

The answer is that it depends on what we think of as a truth bearer. If a sentence has to be placed in context before it's truth apt, then the issue o...

Book title!

It's more interesting to think of an alien who can't understand the idea of Iron because her form of life is so different. This alien experiences time...

Supposedly every country is going to be moving more towards self sufficiency, but not so much because of Russia, but because of the way the US went af...

Did you retire?

I told you we were talking about truthmakers.

That's been true for a while, though.

Right, but it's not an individual family that established the custom. The custom is the result of the buy-in of humans over many cultures for more tha...

If players pick stone, that's not really a case of fiat because they're following an established custom. They can't pick mountains as chess pieces bec...

What do you mean?

I see. The American southeast was like for decades after the Civil War. Maybe it's a side effect of catastrophe. I wonder if those who see Russia as a...

Are you afraid?

I'm not sure what it means for a fact to "occur."

You seem to be using the idea of a truth maker. . The problems associated with correspondence theory can't be separated from that idea.

Probably not.

That does not compute.

The problem is you can never maintain those heights of blandness. In time, you'd become attuned to all sorts of nuances nobody else would notice. Oh i...

Which is how?

Just depends on how socially acceptable you want to be.

You could add oatmeal muffins sweetened with honey and banana. Also I put whey powder and dried peanut butter powder for extra protein. They do produc...

But it's hurting his economy. That can't be right.

But what if they had to do it naked?

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I don't understand what they're doing. Omicron is unstoppable. Plus it's not as dangerous as the others, so protecting vulnerable people and vaccinati...

What if people didn't wear clothes and we were just naked all the time?