Oh but of course! What else would be better that when being rude and not caring about manners, you can insist that you are only being thoughtful and t...
Why start with portraying countries as enemy No 1? It's been a long time since the Ottomans were trying to take Vienna. And do remember that they do h...
I will assume it's just a very long haul of the same debate, same restrictions, vaccinations and coronapassports until it fiddles out like the War on ...
I'm not sure the "billionaires to Mars" private mission will do it in the end. Not that it could happen, but come one deep economic depression and sud...
So, for you the statements 1)The Warsaw Pact collapsed. 2)The Soviet Union collapsed. 3) The countries that emerged from those wrecks wanted to join t...
Lol. That's the problem with you Americans. Always taking the credit for everything! :wink: Believe me, other people besides you can also fuck up thin...
I read somewhere, that when Gödel was applying for US citizenship, he started to take up the matter of the loopholes up with the citizenship examiner....
Well, things can always get even worse. Just look at Mexico. It's surprisingly like the US, but just worse. Worse corruption, worse police, worse crim...
I've asked you now many times just what was false or propaganda in the statement I made. So I gather that you think that stating the following: ...Is ...
I agree. Yet the problem is this. In 2016 Trump was already totally ready and in fact expecting to play the "stolen election" card. Now in 2020 that b...
You didn't answer anything when I asked earlier. Again, just what is propaganda in saying: 1)The Warsaw Pact collapsed. 2)The Soviet Union collapsed. ...
Indeed it was. Which you replied as a counterargument about Finland: Ooh, the finger waving in just mentioning an issue!!! I thought so, you don't pic...
Nope. That was all your Strawman answer of the month! Please read the comments of others. My original comment was: No mention of Finland. :wink: Sayin...
No, that Finland has bleak demographics is a reality, but I'm not forecasting my country to be an economic juggernaut that will surpass others. So I'm...
Assuming that the whole society is built on absolute power both the power elite and the people are OK with the existing institutions. There are countr...
I think the major problem is when absolute power is obtainable, when there aren't existing safety valves to prevent a person to have absolute power (l...
A good reply. This cartoon from Gary Larson came to mind from what you said: https://tenthirtyseven.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/gary-larson-1984-far-s...
LOL!!! Have to say that has to be the strawman argument of the month! I mean talk about not refuting anything of the original argument. Yet actually y...
Very long sentence. Short answer: No. A bit why this is... 1) If mainland China would have the same per capita income as Taiwan, it would have surpass...
Exactly. If for example people don't have in ceremonies folk costumes from the 19th Century (and some from the 18th Century) doesn't mean that Finnish...
Well @"frank", if you have Native American heritage, links to them or would have studied them, that might sound more credible. I think Robert Zimmerma...
I do believe it isn't a lost cause. The only thing is that actual culture cannot be just remembering the past, something new has to be created also. (...
1000 years? Sure, in a 1000 years not much is consistent and doesn't change. But yes, I think the time range of one millennium isn't the most preferab...
A few years? What are you talking about? That is simply crazy. You think in a few years English language will just die out? Or is it just Finnish, Est...
The grandeur in this case is of course the French state and the French language where prior there was a multitude of other different languages and cul...
Yep! And there's no independent Burgundy anymore. Do note that independent Burgundy was absorbed to French crown lands and the Belgian part to Habsbur...
You perhaps think of the person, but I think of the people that support dictators. They are the more interesting case here, because it opens up a bit ...
Usually it's a problem of motivation. Who cares? Elections happen very rarely and it's a vote among millions. But let's say their careers where on the...
Would you do that if you it would be your country and not Ukraine? From my country's experience it's not only that give make an acceptable and somewha...
Meanwhile in Europe, sabre rattling: Earlier the Ukrainian President was worried about a coup plot, six days ago: Belarus teeming up with Russia: Bide...
If you just copy-paste the Swiss system into an existing power structure in many countries, yes, that would be something to be dreaded. Or simply woul...
And realistically speaking, likely they cannot change their ways and will get banned again. You aren't a cordial debater otherwise only to lose it tot...
This is true, but any government or regime has to have a support base. There simply has to be people who at least think that supporting the present le...
Shows only the integral weakness built into the regime. Why once in power, do you still have to attack others as viciously as before? Your showing you...
Oh it's far more simple than you think! From the view of the government/state: a) keep the economy robust and in good health. b) provide the services ...
Geothermal isn't a resource for every place,and so is tidal. They can assist, but basically one has to remember that energy production is and will be ...
Exactly. One of the most perilous strategies is to think that if in a democracy some actors use dubious methods, to protect democracy you have to use ...
And just how high do you think common morality is? Sometimes it can get ugly, you know. Sorry, but fancy-pants libertarian individualism entrenched in...
Simply put it: Authoritarian regimes and governments in general have now learned how to control and use (or abuse) the new media called the internet a...
The irony here is that many agree with this. They only disagree just who is actually stealing from whom. Obviously some have this problem of living in...
States exist, no matter how benevolent they are. You don't live with without your beloved Canada even you don't need it to assist in your breathing, N...
So NOS42A2, Which article does fighting a pandemic that has killed millions violate? Which article from 1 to 30? See the articles at the UDHR page of ...
There's no surprise in the Rittenhouse verdict knowing the gun laws in the US and the fact that guns are bought basically for self defense, not for hu...
You got it. A bit sidestep from the thread, but I cannot help myself:razz: : For Putin offense is best defense. Russians think that way. Napoleon and ...
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