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As I was saying, I don't get the antinatalism threads...
May 20, 2021 at 21:05
In a functioning democracy, those that only assume to represent the people's interests will have the disastrous surprise defeat in the elections. And ...
May 20, 2021 at 21:03
I think it has stayed the same with compared to the old Forum. And it hasn't died, that's for sure. (The old site had a strange death, you know. Odd s...
May 20, 2021 at 20:39
Aggressors are those who usually take territories. I don't put so much emphasis on the moral rectitude or the moral justifications for wars. Those typ...
May 20, 2021 at 16:46
This is the disturbing issue: Netanyahu's policy is that there simply will be no peace, that the Palestinians and Arabs want only to destroy Israel an...
May 20, 2021 at 10:06
Actually poor Arabia, if the corrupt Saudi family is ousted. That Arabia is the enemy that the US craves for: place from where the majority of the 9/1...
May 20, 2021 at 08:38
Since Bitconnect doesn't understand that Israel starting a war ("Pre-empting", as they say) and annexing territory in 1967 from three of it's neighbor...
May 20, 2021 at 08:36
And if there is a revolution in Saudi-Arabia and the Saudi prefix is dropped? What if Saudi-Arabia goes the way as former US allies like Iran and Paki...
May 20, 2021 at 08:24
I'm not so sure that Israel wants to "empower" the Gulf States. Just having a same threat (Iran) does go only so far. Let's remember that Saudi-Arabia...
May 20, 2021 at 06:26
Apollodorus, what do you think is the basis of either legal or moral rights?
May 20, 2021 at 06:10
Hmm. I think you just made Banno's point about "property is owned with the agreement of those involved, and hence enforced in virtue of that agreement...
May 19, 2021 at 23:28
If it would be just the military industry, then I guess the US would have done the same as France: switch sides to a more profitable arms export marke...
May 19, 2021 at 22:11
She was Estonian. They are very smart people. Few, but smart. And why do think it's a myth? People do put their self interest ahead of a collective in...
May 19, 2021 at 21:56
The actions how Israel defends itself and what it tries or doesn't try to solve the conflict is something surely be a topic to discuss and to be criti...
May 19, 2021 at 21:46
Russia was also an agressor in WW2. It started wars. And yes, was once attacked with it's pants down, but did have plans to attack Germany (assuming t...
May 19, 2021 at 21:29
Furthermore to correct your errors. Gaza was under the control of Egypt. West Bank under Jordan. The Golan Heights part of Syria. These areas were ann...
May 19, 2021 at 12:37
You were saying that in 1967 Israel wasn't the aggressor. After the 1967 war the Israeli borders were like this: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
May 19, 2021 at 12:29
And the Israelis then were the terrorists, at least for the British. And if you continue the text you quoted: Anyway, seems that it's abhorred that on...
May 19, 2021 at 10:48
Considering there aren't any hominin than us, Homo Sapiens, around, I wouldn't give any people a waiver in this case. I bet if had the others been lef...
May 18, 2021 at 23:29
In my view there are no rules. States are considered Sovereigns. There isn't actually an authority over them. Put an authority over them and they aren...
May 18, 2021 at 23:20
What the... So an attack that which ends up with annexations of lands from Jordan, Syria and Egypt isn't aggression? With that logic I assume you thin...
May 18, 2021 at 22:54
I think Somalia had it clan based society far before the civil war that made it what it is now.
May 18, 2021 at 19:52
Well, unlike the British, they indeed have accumulated that wealth because they have not spent it. Yet in truth, the share of GDP of the oil sector is...
May 18, 2021 at 19:50
Pretty old and idiotic argument nurtured by leftists. Yet a tribal society like Somalia with clans and clan structure with hierarchical system of patr...
May 18, 2021 at 19:35
? Think you are mixing the Six Day War with Yom Kippur war here. Or something.
May 18, 2021 at 19:20
Comes to mind the Scottish idea of getting a fabulous colony in the Mosquito Coast, which would raise vast riches to the country with the Darien schem...
May 18, 2021 at 19:13
Well, they already have shown they are awake here. (To give an context for this, during the 2006 war Hezbollah was firing over 200 rockets at Israel i...
May 17, 2021 at 18:26
"World opinion" is so vague that it hardly matters. They do get assistance and funding from the outside and although this conflict likely increases th...
May 17, 2021 at 09:41
Oh but that wouldn't create the jobs that this kind of a huge operation would take. And using nukes creates a cloud of radiation that at worst could b...
May 17, 2021 at 08:15
This is the thing I didn't understand when listening to the pro-Independence narrative: this so-called "independence-light". They were saying that it ...
May 17, 2021 at 07:59
Why has Scotland remained in the union? Is the question that simply too many English have moved to Scotland and openly displayed anti-English sentimen...
May 15, 2021 at 14:53
More like the is US an ally of Israel and Israel decides what to do. You see, client states get orders from their masters and here that isn't happenin...
May 15, 2021 at 14:35
Algebra I think is a larger branch of Math or comes first. https://leverageedu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Branches-of-Mathematics-1-917x1024....
May 15, 2021 at 00:03
And all of the Abrahamic religions ought to be against idolatry. Just make some dramatic landscaping and transport everything on the Temple Mount and ...
May 14, 2021 at 23:54
At least you do mention that Hamas political objectives are quite the same as the most militant Zionists. As I've said, extremists have the ball in th...
May 13, 2021 at 21:36
Equally guilty? How?
May 13, 2021 at 12:02
Treason, sedition, nah. I think that if he would be indicted for money laundering would be enough. Because what else were those Russian clients buying...
May 13, 2021 at 09:38
Israel has accepted that it will be in perpetual war and that this isn't a too big burden for it. With the US fully embracing Israel, other Western co...
May 13, 2021 at 09:11
For example the media, let's say. Usually you don't have great scoop that the things are getting back to normal. (Here the pandemic has been an except...
May 13, 2021 at 00:45
A typical way to get statistic models that show Europeans becoming a minority is simply use the peak migration levels or extrapolate past increase tre...
May 12, 2021 at 21:22
Thinking like that, would it be possible to make any perfect geometric drawing? Let's assume that you have draw a square that has exactly 10 cm sides....
May 12, 2021 at 18:27
Here the problem is that the success stories simply aren't taken into account. Prosperous multiethnic countries simply don't have any kind of power sh...
May 12, 2021 at 18:09
In Demographic shifts one should mention the huge influx of East European Jews once the Soviet Union collapsed. This immigration to Israel was far lar...
May 12, 2021 at 17:55
I guess we know the history and no need to go there. However why the US has quite a different approach to the conflict as in other cases was what I ha...
May 12, 2021 at 13:23
Why? They are one side in this conflict. And to understand just why the stance of the US is what it is, it's crucial to understand how domestically di...
May 12, 2021 at 13:06
And I gave as an example an article from 30 years ago! And failed in grammar! And oh, the best refutation, which it should be mentioned didn't come fr...
May 12, 2021 at 12:49
Rest my case.
May 12, 2021 at 12:38
Strawman or ad hominem, never to debate the actual issue. Woke way to go.
May 12, 2021 at 12:30
North Sea Oil cannot be called a "growth industry" even if it has been sustained, to say at least. And only part of the UK production would be Scottis...
May 12, 2021 at 10:35
Lol. Well your idea of a philosophical debate is peculiar. And even easier is just to call others idiots and leave it that...
May 12, 2021 at 10:27