Think not first about "moral disapproval", think first about something that would be clearly illegal by current legislation. How about a site that gat...
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Never has this been so apparent as today. "Anti-imperialist work" usually starts with the juxtaposition of the imper...
Those pushing for gain of function research and involved even distantly to the Wuhan lab had the most incentive to hide it. So for a long time the med...
But wouldn't that be philosophy, the love of wisdom, and science? What I mean here is that you simply cannot get a logical, objective answer to what i...
It's a good and interesting parallel. I visited Philippines when I was 16 with my parents who were on a work trip there. We stayed in a nice skyscrape...
Abrahamic religions, just as all religions, are made for people living in a society. Religions give us answers to questions that we cannot get logical...
Lol. We haven't been even three months in on a four year term, and here you are eagerly trying to declare Trump a success and declaring my views to be...
If the other side surrenders or caves in, there's not going to be a war. And what I've been talking about is that Trump lusts territory for the US. Th...
Debasing the currency is just one way to default. So is hyperinflation too. And the actual policy that has been talking about is high inflation, not h...
If it would be this way, then colonies of European empires would have enjoyed an absolutely great economic time, because they had huge trade surpluses...
I think there's a structural problem with Western health services as nearly all Western countries face problems with their health services. Our nation...
I think they have to care. At least at some point. You see, the interest on the debt is already a higher spending issue on the budget than defense spe...
What they really got scared was the treasury selloff. The Trump administration might not care about the stock market, but the government does care a l...
Exactly. Trump finally blinked. But let's remember that now Trump has that trade war with China and still he has those tariffs with everybody at 10%. ...
When you read books about his first administration, they portray a very clear picture, which is repeated again and again. First of all, every US admin...
I think he doesn't understand it. A political leader who thinks that enlarging the territory of the USA is a great idea at this time of age isn't the ...
Basically in a democracy, this can be done if people really are OK with this. Far easier it is to think of this from the perspective of who can run fo...
This might be changing now. Saudi-Arabia's financial minister said already in 2023 that the Kingdom was open for selling oil in other currencies than ...
In my country, age is actually enough because for any adult citizen of the country voting is a Constitutional right. How severely handicapped a person...
I think he truly think what he says. Once you have trade barriers, factories will sprout in the US to take care of the demand. You simply cannot turn ...
Perhaps not. Just imagine how that "earned right" could and would be abused. Universal suffrage and one man (or woman) and one vote, is quite simple t...
There's no misunderstanding. Or the misunderstanding won't be erased by talk, but only by actions. Trump is his own reality show that where he plays t...
That this whole "Liberation Liquidation day" would indeed be "a negiotiation tactic" is simply too much of a Hail Mary even to imagine, hence Musk is ...
Beginning of the end for Musk? Where did all the bellicose MAGA rhetoric go? Assuming Trump would be logical, this is totally against what the US Pres...
Many took the wrong lessons from Trump's first administration. First time Trump came to office totally unprepared (as he didn't think he would win) an...
Or the thoughts themselves are absurd and chaotic, but nobody dares to say to the Donald if something is genuinely a terrible counterproductive idea. ...
This isn't about a fall like let's say Yugoslavia. What I mean is the similar kind of political instability that Latin America can have. Latin America...
What's the probability of: a) The World economy tanking, but especially the US economy going down b) US prices going up (with "a" above that's stagfla...
I think here the political situation or climate change are a very minor factor. The bigger factor is simply the cultural change in the society and tha...
I agree. And why invest in a country that severely damages it's own economy on purpose? China is already putting limits for Chinese companies to inves...
When the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were implemented, which were one of the causes for the Great Depression, all imports to the US was like 5% of GDP. Now i...
Perhaps this is the more suitable thread to discuss this. I just wonder how an issue like Donald Trump and what he is doing could be, as you said " su...
Americans are in for a real ride now. At least for others, it's just the exports to the US going down the drain... for the US consumers, a bit differe...
Yet the average salary in the US is half of that, if not a bit less. And for those inflation will be an issue. Stagflation? How much? Maybe, but I'm n...
Wasn't it the longest thread in PF or is there a thread longer? Over 24 200 replies and over 800 pages... and it wasn't the first Trump thread, only a...
And now for a quick dose of reality to the Trump nonsense: Why would they talk about peace if they aren't under pressure or face the consequence of lo...
Then we could have a conversation of the Bush policies and the response after 9/11. The 2003 invasion of Iraq is quite different from Korea and even f...
Wow. Even handing out money didn't work. Which is totally disgusting and I'm really happy of the outcome. https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/...
What do you think? Climate change / Environmental policy in general Nuclear energy / energy policy in general Genetical research... human genome resea...
Do notice that many people who consider themselves to be either left / progressive or right / conservative are actually moderates and quite centrist, ...
I know something about the history in South East Asia. Do you? Pol Pot was supported by Mao and finally the Vietnamese kicked him out and into the jun...
Well, there is the policies the US has done in the Middle East, in Central America and so on. Indeed much criticism there, which I've said myself. US ...
- First, ask questions that have simple answers. It's the questions one poses that are important. - Use Occam's razor - New information has changed ou...
That's good to hear. Especially when it's something that they actually did do well, which helped the World. Because they do hear about the things they...
Very well, if you insist. Even if it's April fools day. However this goes far deeper and shows the times we are living. First of all, this is a Philos...
Who is going to be hurt with the ripping of the band-aid is here the real question. I think it's the Americans themselves that have forgotten that thi...
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