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I am finding it tedious how "I asked chatgpt..." has become the "let me just google that" seemingly overnight. Also more annoying is when people will ...

The Christmas vs Hunting examples are, coincidentally and unintentionally when I wrote the post, good contrasting examples as you note here. While I d...

My post above I think clears that up on my position.

This is a nice summation that gets at what I was aiming for which seems to have been glossed over in most replies I have so far. Most respondents seem...

It isn't that it necessarily does. That would be the same fallacy as the appeal to tradition fallacy. It is that you should not automatically take tra...

Yes.

I shall quote Cuz D'Amato, Mike Tyson's formative trainer: "I don't care what Mike Tyson does outside the ring." That was tongue in cheek. Yes I see y...

Can you show an example of this? Maybe that is why user Boethius seemed to reel off such long posts in short order now I think of it? :rofl: I really ...

Is it not a case of judge the message and not the man? The same was said about Heidegger being an unapologetic/unrepentant Nazi but his philosophy sti...

No there is no problem with an opinion that differs from mine, it is still good to have others weigh in on the situation. Although I have found Boethi...

I think this highlights the comments boethius made above. It is an attempt to shame me for not being beautiful as being bitter, and I am sure the term...

This back and forth would benefit from outside adjudicators as to the claims leveled against one another rather than you two just slugging it out whic...

Good to see some unsolicited support as I was a lone voice, except comrade boethius, on this so far. I would put it down to other respondents being un...

Indeed, that is the Eastern philosophy flavor of explaining it. Not saying it is wrong and is a good overall synopsis. I guess this is tongue in cheek...

Interesting, but isn't that proof it was only when they adopted a mishmash of communist/capitalism which is what it is today? What are your thoughts o...

There are different forms of influence of course, but I am just discussing that which is attributed to beauty. Take any of the above and apart from Tr...

I think this overlooks the huge influence the West has on the rest of the world. Most other countries of the world actively aspire to be the top dogs....

Yes, this was covered in the OP. That is the evolutionary instinct. My question concerns how it seems to have been hyper exaggerated beyond the natura...

Strange, your reply didn't show up until now, or I missed it the first time. Hard to miss your posts usually. ;) Seems yours is the only reply on a si...

Is this the same idea that the old time stock market moguls say that crypto is a bubble? I do find it hard to wrap my head around stock market and eco...

I don't know why it is so hard to get people to accept that western society is superficial so far. Maybe you all are very deep souls, yes it is not su...

------> https://davidpakman.com/shows/?_sf_s=elon <------ Many pages of results, those are just a few example titles.

Just go on his website/channel and scroll to the timeframe it was happening and there were loads of videos. I don't usually take an interest in curren...

David Pakman was doing a good commentary on this when it was happening. I don't really know enough about economics and specifically American economics...

It is 'meted' not 'metered'. Reminds me of how everyone online always uses 'hear hear'. I don't think I remember seeing that one written properly. :)

Indeed. I wonder what they will do if all the electrics crumbles but then, won't precious metals also be useless? Won't actual goods for day to day li...

While we have found common ground on this point perhaps you can then understand I was merely pointing out you might be better trying to communicate in...

Yes I agree with this. Feynman is a great example who would not have immediately sprung to my mind.

Tbh I didn't even remember the quote or the thread above it, which I just skimmed again now. Yes sure I agree now I read it again that I was agreeing ...

I had not seen your thread until you pointed it out now. Indeed I see you have been busy with that.

I guess you are deliberately pushing the Hitler narrative to illustrate the problems with propaganda. Lol! I forgot others had been discussing Hitler ...

Huh, interesting, so that is why you went silent on the other thread all of a sudden. I did wonder why you suddenly stopped commenting. Didn't realize...

To resurrect this I just found this nice snippet about Corbyn by long time anarchist Noam Chomsky: I came to that after reading that Corbyn has starte...

Well only on the periphery but it is not hard to spot the flash tractors they drive. Drones, maybe but tractors are a mainstay and they are already co...

Yes I agree with that however what I find very incongruous is that they hate all that 'witchcraft' that happens in the cities however they are very qu...

Lol, I believe those statements require some qualifying too.

Well I would say once the term woke is used then it has gone too far. In this sense I would not say there is a 'healthy' form of wokeness. :) I would ...

I would say in the UK the woke term has been extremely and enthusiastically taken up by right wingers. The Daily Mail newspaper uses it it nearly ever...

That is why I invoked Hypericin's post which I agreed with and assumed, perhaps wrongly but since the replies have been US centric so far thought it a...

Haha, a lot of American terms going over my head - flyover state, country mouse and political terms that are lost on me. :) Doesn't matter though; I g...

Sure I just thought there have already been tangents of a similar or greater magnitude. I get criticized on other forums for 'spamming' too many topic...

No one taking this up? ?

Really? My experience would be attune more to Hypericin's that they are in the country for the reasons they mentioned. Where did you get the idea they...

A good pragmatic reply.

Some good points here, thanks. The one I will take up right away is the petite bourgeois which makes sense now y'all mention it and that they don't wa...

We touched on the police earlier and how they enforce the mores of capitalism. I got to thinking about another huge and insidious force that does the ...

Yes good point. I had actually been reading some of the creative writing classics of that era, before this interest in political philosophy took my fa...

I have begun reading some of the classic Marx/Engels texts and what I am finding is that they assume a high level of knowledge on the reader's part ab...

I know little about either uk or american politics. I would say I see more of american politics just because it is more of a show and on the news more...

I am new here so don't know who would. Isn't it that this forum is just relatively quiet overall, probably in large part to the fact that it is invite...