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Do which?

@"ssu" I'm starting to wonder if we're going to slide into a great depression. Thoughts?

yet another astonishing post

This Is the greatest Saying Ever

I experience "problems" over and over, thinking it's resolved, and then it's back. There's a view that instead if trying to hammer these issues flat, ...

I don't think it's common to be tranquil about it, especially if you're given to pondering, which you appear to be. Maybe it's just the downside to be...

You're just straight evangelizing now. Nobody wants to read that crap.

kickboxing with a mask on? This virus can be transmitted "airborne", so by little water droplets that float on air currents. Can't you kickbox at home...

Because our heads exploded

Lockdown-with-job-loss causes meltdown

:razz:

Death animation

Cool, I'll read it. The anti-labor aspect of neoliberalism fits the anti-leftist ideology of neoconservatism. Neocons just wouldn't accept any economi...

Right. Neoliberalism is something in the background of political parties. It was an answer to the malaise of 1970s stagflation. Clinton started out as...

Isn't your conclusion similar to Chalmers'? That science needs to grow toward a theory of consciousness starting with qualia as the subject of researc...

Me too.

Reagan was a Neoliberal. His influence was a direct result of Neoconservatism, so there's some overlap between the two, and in the US there's a strong...

That's because you are have swallowed the establishment narrative hook line and stoner.

I have documented evidence that the DNC was paying people to vote for Biden. I think it was mostly stoners.

Awesome. He's written some books I'm going to read.

Scapegoating. That's what I was suspecting. Do you know of any resources for info on financialization of global capital?

I think there will be global conflicts in the 22nd century over resources. Inertia and terrorists.

The need to maintain a standing army holds a country hostage in some ways. National security overrides other issues. In that climate, a special kind o...

That was in response to your bizarre statement that Europe can defend itself from everyone but the US.

And separating from the EU makes it easier for them to continue this trend?

I didnt say that Europe needs to defend itself from China. I said it's been shaped politically and economically by the lack of any need to worry about...

@"Punshhh" Ah, more reading for me. Here, Johnson seems to be saying that he supports social programs, but that the UK is constrained by the need to c...

Thanks! I think I understand it a little better now. You're right. It was Democratic. I meant "coup" poetically.

Ok, but doesn't it still seem like a coup has taken place? Or is that just an illusion?

Answering this would require a dive into psychology that wouldn't be anywhere near as interesting as the bizarre mural I'm painting due to extended va...

That would be a more narrow meaning of "culture" than I was thinking of. I dont think Europe is prepared to defend itself from Russia and certainly no...

The UK will need to align itself with either the US, Europe, or China. The idea that the UK can successfully stand independently is fiction.

I think you're overlooking circumstances. You may just not know how prevalent American Communists were before the 1950s. I think that would result in ...

:cool:

@"Baden" I have a theory that you can drop your prized line about how euro-rightists are to the left of American leftists. That's not true. Ideologica...

Drift to the left how?

So the EU represents a loss of identity and a loss of autonomy. Middle class liberals are ok with that (or just don't fear it). The EU is legitimately...

I didnt realize that it was so complex. Leave unified people who otherwise dont have much in common. I'm curious about how UK politics will change goi...

Forget the whales, save the chickens! That would be amazing! Chickens everywhere!

Katherine 2 of Russia, Hatshepsut of Egypt, Empress Dowager Cixi of China

I think they should have let them go free.

The virus depopulated us so we had to depopulate the chickens. Nobody wants a live chicken. Sad.

Chicken holocaust. I don't quite understand why they have to kill the chickens. It has something to do with large-scale meat production?

It's being tested all over the world. You have an America complex.

That's true.

It's still being tested.

Will it continue without him as a focal point?

Remdesivir! Woot woot!

I'm not sure why. Apathy? Jaded? Or not quite agitated enough? I mainly watch PBS and read the NYT. I only glance at CNN and MSNBC. I become tired ver...