I'll hope the Trump administration is a minor setback to the World. And indeed there are plenty of ways around it. At least Wall Street has a firm bel...
Positivism put's objectivity on a pedestal. To emphasize objectivity is totally rational and sound: you find subjectivity in the creation stories of v...
That there is a global problem seems to be the case, when Japan has it's close encounters with a bond crisis. It's interest rates have spiked up and t...
The first golden rule is that if it is commonly understood that the foreign people bring money into the society, foreigners will be accepted: nobody h...
Have you then read the Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank? Terms like genocide or fascist are hurled as negative adjectives, hence def...
Look, I understand it's a touchy issue for you, but the obvious reality that you indeed have these kinds of politicians in various countries, includin...
Because in Zimbabwe there has been actions against white farmers by the government. Even there one cannot make the case for genocide. South Africa has...
Even if no questions in the OP, a good synopsis of positivism! :cheer: I think the real problem with positivism isn't at the philosophical ideology it...
Not at all. Just remember that it was South Africa that made the case against Israel of genocide against the Palestinians. That is why there's this la...
BVR fights. Basically a lot of aircraft firing beyond visual range missiles and hoping that they will hit. Just as in Ukraine, there both sides don't ...
Actually it does. If you would want an actual discussion about the subject, then the discussion should be more about Zimbabwe, not South Africa. But t...
Indeed. The only thing consistent is that the US economy and international trade doesn't like uncertainty. And Trump will just give us far earlier the...
Something actually quite historic happened that directly has an effect also on the potential Taiwan crisis. In the 2025 skirmish between India and Pak...
And it seems that at least in this case this leftist terrorist has taken the same strategy that far-right terrorists use: to be lone actors and not be...
If there only would be simply the consistency of opposing corruption in the White House irrelevant of the party in power, I would respect your argumen...
And don't forget that Trump get's Grift Force 1!!! https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-2214055688.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_653,w_1160,c...
In that the worst outcomes will come true ...just not instantly, but with time. So much time that the common man (or voter) forgets the issue and the ...
Principles are indeed important. But are principles mental constructs of our mind or something else? That's the metaphysical question, yet it doesn't ...
Well, working and functioning institutions are an obstacle for Trump: they are indeed bad for the White House. Hence if Musk's DOGE went on this crazy...
I disagree. Politics and ethics as other moral issues are very important irrelevant of them being either our mental constructs or them being something...
Nobody takes their wealth with them when they die. Things like stock market crashes destroy wealth (which mainly wasn't there) and natural disasters a...
Umm... so this is behind your reasoning in that a metaphysical stance, nominalism or realism, can be a threat? If nominalism rejects universals and th...
? Not a chance. But typical for Israeli propaganda effort, somehow in the gay Eurovision song contest, Israel got more points from the publec than Swe...
I'm not sure even if he thought this way. Trump simply thinks that he's in good terms with Putin, so he would get the deal. Putin naturally won't budg...
When it's music, this is extremely interesting. The interesting question is how much of the Zoomers and Generation Alpha, basically those born this Mi...
And oh, just wait until you have AI making music. Now it's just sound generators, but I'm sure it will be composing, writing the lyrics, the whole sho...
Just as Banno and others have said, Rock'n'Roll is a historical synthesis of various musical genres which themselves have long musical and cultural hi...
You cannot be serious. This is basically a cease-fire on tariffs (at very high levels of 30%/10%) for 90 days. Trade agreement my ass! I wonder how th...
Just like with the Liberation Day tariffs against the World, indeed yes. And anyway, it's Trump who started this and whom the Chinese can blame. If th...
Thanks for that document. Later the legal system should also go after people like James Comer, all the Republican enablers of Trump. But a great docum...
Well, I think they are laughing about the many millions the family has made with the Trump and Melania coins and their pump and dump schemes: But Amer...
I think the basic reason was simply that after the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, Hollywood executives simply went on to walking on eggshells, because ...
The incredible stupidity of Trump's "Liberation Day" finally is getting to be over as Trump blinked and lower tariffs with China. As Bessent said in a...
Well, there's a myth that Caligula appointed his horse, Incitatus, to be a consul, because there were too many jackasses in the Roman senate. The real...
Populism is many times very illogical. Populist can praise liberal/libertarian values and in the same time go against them. Perfect example of this is...
Even if at start Trump was clueless when asked about this, at least here Trump's administration and Rubio have done the right thing and responded how ...
Democracy can constrain liberalism? Well, people naturally can vote to power undemocratic authoritarian people, who do away with democracy, the rights...
Ah yes, this is especially to @"NOS4A2" and to our continuing discussion on the job that Kash Patel will do with the FBI. NOS was so eager and enthusi...
Wasn't this before Zegler? This was more against woke Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy and the "Force being Female" stuff? Yeah, same corporation, but a...
The US has already entered the sphere where many Latin American countries have been for a long time. Corruption will only be dealt with if there's a d...
Your failing desperately in your defense of these far-right nativists: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4VVhIM5xVIje8RUzHC0Vg4Ui...
So it seems that you take as proof that this is an non-issue the fact that the AfD states on a webpage that they "firmly reject unconstitutional deman...
It might portray itself as libertarian and enthusiastically talk about being libertarian, yet it's stance to immigration, not only just to stop it, bu...
Which is just continuing. And not only Vance, but Rubio too: I'm usually pretty critical when some European party is marked as being far-right or extr...
If there's a positive note, at least Secretary of the Treasury Bessent stated what the Trump administration is looking forward to do in an logical way...
That would be the idea, which obviously US Presidents and especially Donald Trump doesn't understand with his "executive orders". Even in a multiparty...
So you think Trump wants to talk with Iran and won't attack (or let Israel attack) Iran? Perhaps. I think that as long as Trump is mired in his stupid...
Comments