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Would you say leftists have power in Russia?

I hadn't realized that. Thanks for the sources, I'll definitely check them out.

Yeah. Europe is held up as a bastion of leftism. Who knew the EU's particular federational style is straight from neoliberal theory? Thanks, I will!

Turns out the EU's economic policies were designed by neoliberals.

City boy.

Entelodont (hell pig) https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2e/77/05/2e770514d15f39d7d551cd55dc63ff87.jpg

They turn into hogs. They're huge and the whole area stinks.

Have you ever been to a farm that had a hog? :grimace:

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left to right

It's not Biden's fault that globally, Leftism shot itself in the head.

It's not possible to ignore it because religion just gets bigger and bigger until you realize you're just a tiny hair on its left buttock and there's ...

Probably trying to keep inflation down.

@"praxis" And now that you're 96, do you still feel that way?

I like audible books. I'm listening to The Road to Serfdom.

I'm presently working with a woman who puts at least two fucks into every sentence. I wish I could expel her.

What's weird about this is that the average American bank account rose during the pandemic. India got poorer?

Thales. Water. This is not true.

But they're paying for the coal. It's not going to lift them out of poverty. And why does India need coal? Isn't it hot there?

Who are the millions in poverty he's talking about?

Do the pre-Socratics and then Plato, then Aristotle. The SEP is a good introduction, or Wikipedia.

You were in the junior chamber of commerce?

For Hayek, there's a big difference between legislation and law. Legislation is top down. It could come from an elected congress, from an oligarchy, o...

Nah, she had some thought provoking stuff. Who talked about the ins and outs of victim blaming before her?

Plus China is heavily invested in the US. Right now, the two countries are joined at the hip. All they can do is spit at one another.

I see. So Heraclitus wouldn't have accepted the Forms?

It's childish to posture when you're obviously not going to follow through. Neither China nor the US want war. I don't see any avenue to it in the nea...

No, I know. I just think we're watching the world shifting to two superpowers that push each other What surprises me us how childish the Chinese seem....

Really? I don't think so. China will continue to expand its power, the US will try to limit that expansion. It's a more stable situation than just hav...

We'd either need a global govt or a new global religion. Maybe later in this century.

Really? It's an obscure bit of truth theorizing. Note the realists talk out of both sides of their mouths. :roll:

Sorry, I've been busy. What did Heraclitus think the enduring, river is? An illusion? If the world we see is an illusion, there still has to be someon...

Uh, I don't know. Hayek believed liberalism is fundamentally about rule of law. I don't know if that's related or not.

It was clearly the ideal for liberals in the 19th Century, whether it was ever made real or not. After two world wars and a depression, liberals reali...

Discuss as in determine who's right? Or just to understand the diverging narratives?

Depends on how truth is understood. Some will insist that there can be no use to asserting a proposition whose status is unknowable, so it's just a ba...

Worms cover North America, but they aren't native. They eat all sorts of stuff. I feed them cardboard.

I'm reading about ordoliberalism and it's got me fascinated. It's got some of the features of Marxism and leftism, like attention being paid to aliena...

That's the only kind I do.

Why is that funny?

That's how things were in the 19th Century. There was an ostensibly democratic government, but it was understood that all major decisions needed appro...

He should pay property tax.

This sounds a little whiny tbh. Like: I'm here because I thought there might be something to this and maybe Heidegger found that one doesn't have to p...

All animals endure hardships to get their holy grail. Even worms!

I thought it was that the pushing is pointless. It just rolls back down. I think you just need to doodle on the side of the rock as you go, or pick up...

There are probably some nearby.

It's Kantian knowledge.

I'm not overly concerned with mattering. You need the answer to come from the dismantled clock. It's not there.

There is such a thing as a happy Sisyphus. It takes balls to get there.

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