Peace at the price of sacrificing a Ukraine. Sure: he won't miss Ukrainian independence. Then Poland? Sure, why not? Romania? Slovakia? Who needs them...
I said it on behalf of my country, to Trump. In semi-jocular response to jorndoe's suggestion that we vote in their elections. Which, as a single stat...
Protests in the US can grow quite heated and Americans, unlike most civilian populations, are heavily armed. Violent clashes are inevitable; the regim...
All those benefits are beside the point. European countries have a long tradition of national identity, national pride, patriotism; long histories of ...
The crisis is real and global. A number of factors account for the change in people's attitudes; but the salient point is that when they feel confiden...
I've only just noticed this. Wonder why nobody else has. Well-hell, they've been cheating and stealing elections for decades, with gerrymandering, reg...
Nobody has agreed on a hard-and-fast definition, not even Hitler and Mussolini. What we do know about its various sub-species: how they manifest in a ...
The only ism Trump adheres to is opportunism. He believes in nothing except his own enrichment and aggrandizement. He's a grifter with a huge ego and ...
My contention is that Stalin was not involved in the development of socialism: he may have made speeches about it (which added nothing to existing soc...
The which of the what now???? Most definitions of socialism are concerned with the economy alone: who owns the land and factories. Yet, the way Americ...
Except they are not the same doctrine. They have one main feature in common: the will of the people is what I say it is. And, of course, they're just ...
To what end? Mussolini's 'spiritual' version of L'Etat, c'est moi. Hitler's version of making Germany great again. How the tools actually behave in ca...
This is not 1930's Europe. Many aspects and aims of those regimes do not apply to Project 2025; some others are a perfect fit. Don't obsess over the i...
No, they cannot. Lenin may have started out as a communist, but went astray; Stalin had no ideology, any more than Trump does: he was out for personal...
He wasn't much of a communist or even socialist. And Stalin was a straight-up dictator, once he'd established state control of everything, himself as ...
They don't need to. They've already put the cabal in charge of all the levers of power. Now, they just sit back, watch the bloodbaths and wait to be d...
That comes fairly late in the game. First, and for a longish time, government must be rendered unable to to meet the demands. That is, some faction or...
What I was trying to get across is that it's not 'irrational sentiments'. People have real problems that the government has failed to address - and in...
I don't think what we perceive of as fascist politics need a reason or even an ideology, beyond the flag-wearing, boot-stomping masculine bonding ritu...
Here it is again: style. It's all about the how. Add heritage, racial purity and the right to bully those who disagree and you have the full Monty. Th...
I remain unimpressed by your sources. Okay, he did want to join the fight against Hitler and help France and England, but mostly, he was concerned abo...
Hitler did nothing remotely similar. Yes, except that the New Dealdidn't create a war economy. It was about labour unions and financial reform, social...
With respect, Roosevelt had some pretty serious public problems o contend with: mass unemployment, homelessness, people literally starving. What he di...
Exactly what he said he would do, and most Americans dismissed as hyperbole. Many - I don't know how many - are still in denial. "He doesn't mean it.....
Yes - an obvious one. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he will replace all the top officials of agencies with people who will carry out his 're...
Only because the reasonable - and I will not debate the definition of 'reasonable' - people who have dared to speak out in public will have been silen...
Okay. Visceral belief. I do not believe truth-telling and lying have definable natures - there are too many varieties of truth and variations on how o...
I asked specifically why it's moral to tell the truth, in your system. On what you base that particular classification. Only secondarily did I ask how...
No, it's about a nation hearing what that guy intends to do to their institutions, their government, their personal lives, their environment and their...
Quite blatant enough, to judge by the spate of post-putsch executive orders. Denying financial aid to a member nation that has repeatedly flouted both...
Why? I see no particular virtue in telling what one believes to be true in all situations to all people, nor any great fault in withholding, bending, ...
There is a finite amount of material for manufactured goods, bads and uglies. When the Earth runs out of resources and the waste has poisoned all the ...
The automated customer service ones usually come with a drop-box of questions you can ask, and if your problem isn't covered by those possibilities, t...
Most of the solutions being sought by private enterprise are for the maximization of profit by various means and methods. That need not concern us, si...
Yes, of course. They learn that in Sunday school and just keep repeating it, because it sounds right, feels right and gives them some reassurance that...
Unfortunately, the bulk of that effort was not directed toward making sense of moral issues, but justifying their religious tenets. Not just Jews and ...
I was being facetious. It makes no more difference than how the entire earth can be covered in seawater, and then uncovered, reverting to normal, or h...
Could have been a nod to Leda and the divine swan. Or not. The peace dove may have been added much later. I think the ghost was always meant to be a s...
He's right about that. The story in a nutshell: God makes humans credulous, but with no understanding of right and wrong. Then he punishes them foreve...
God is accepted as the moral agent by most believers. If God says "Take your son up that mountain and cut his throat." then the true believer goes up ...
On the next sentence. He made the rules. Why the hell not? He's GOD! He can do anything he wants, make any rules he wants, lose his temper like he did...
There is also the power of societal laws, rules, mores, standards and customs to both limit and prescribe our actions. Indeed, that's all morality is:...
If God's existence and 'believed' nature are given, he not only knows what's right, he decides what's right; moral facts are whatever god wants them t...
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