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Yet note that you are talking about 500 years. From 2020 to 1520 is five hundred years also, and during that time there's been a lot of transformation...

Have to comment here. The biggest change from the Roman Empire and Antiquity is the collapse of the "globalization" of agriculture, which made large c...

One study put that between 1981 and 2006 roughly 40 innocent people were killed in no-knock raids. If there's tens of thousands of no-knock raids, tha...

When it comes especially to EU symbolism, the EU has a genuine identity problem. Case example is the bland stupidity in the appearance of the euro not...

I always have to remind myself that the abortion laws in my country are far more strict than in the US especially when here there is no debate whatsoe...

Yet isn't it beneficial for the poor guy working as a porter that people do use his services? What do you give the porter when you show that you can c...

So next tuesday there will be a Biden Trump debate. So at least we will have some debates. Thoughts?

Those who did unite large parts of Europe together, even if for their lifetime, are going to be compared to Napoleon and Hitler. Yet in the current cl...

Why would people have heavy loads they cannot carry? If we move, we will either rent a van or get a moving company. For the vast majority the clothes ...

responded with quite the same answer as I did. The simple fact is that Charlemagne is simply so unknown and hence politically correct that the EU can ...

Comes to mind the view that a psychiatrist is from one viewpoint a prostitute: he or she gives you as a professional service something that satisfies ...

And it actually doesn't promote atheism either, even if many draw that conclusion. It's just a method.

I would disagree. The empire of Charlemagne needed Charlemagne, just as the Roman empire needed all the victorious Roman generals to create the Roman ...

Yet when you raise the question of legitimacy and especially the idea of a successor state, religion and religious positions are important as the secu...

Depends how you define secularism. I would argue that using the scientific method doesn't mean that you are a firm proponent of metaphysical naturalis...

Remember that day in February 27th, 380 AD, when East Roman Emperor Theodosius I with signed a decree in the presence of the Western Roman Emperor Val...

Sweden. Actually the US has now more deaths per million people than Sweden. Correct to notice that it was the right wing that in Sweden demanded a loc...

How could then Authoritarian left / Economic left be then also rational?

The economy is nowhere in the World strong. The Corona-slump is universal. So this isn't his flaw only. One flaw in the future can perhaps be the mass...

It's not the traditional philosophy of empiricism that prevails, it's more like the actual use of empiricism that survives. And good so. But of course...

Here the central bank upped it economic forecast of annual GDP growth from -7% to only -4.9%. Yet that still is a horrific plunge and as the global ec...

Let's remember that the first huge wave of immigrants and migrant workers that Sweden endured came from here and something well over half a million or...

And this is why the whole thing is so detrimental.

Actually here the traditional bride's dress was black. https://orivesiennenvanhaan.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/hilma-sirc3a9n-ja-jussi-enqvist-myc3b6h...

You can learn something about Philosophy or other topics, you can check if you make sense (at all) and it's better than wasting your time watching Net...

You would be, if your job would be, oh, like counter-intelligence, something to do with the military or with the court system and anything remotely li...

Good that you also included there ethnicity as historically especially in the European context racism hasn't been about skin color as obviously German...

Well, old school gun boat diplomacy is something that the US can do. But that doesn't mean the World has gotten less interventionist. In fact, now it'...

That's the curse of the post-modernist argument. (And perhaps I should stop too the engagement, because it's not welcome.) As postmodernism doesn't be...

Yes, for some countries holding elections is a very difficult thing.

Yep, immortality and eternal youth are two different things. The Malthusians would be really pissed about immortality, btw. Talk about a problem with ...

Only Superpowers were truly global in their reach as many great powers haven't been even in their hey day truly global (think about Japan, Austro-Hung...

And I have no clue who you are, where you come, what you feel, so really, my answer is truly generic and really not personal. Here you don't have to b...

China has achieved very long ago great power status as we give great power status to Russia, France and the UK too. What they will never have is simil...

To have self esteem is difficult especially if you are young. And just stick to the logic of your argument and understand that once people feel they c...

Oh yes, some of us that go on the "troll" side will easily get over the 1.0 ratio. Assume if there would be someone with a ratio of 10, just what a sm...

I think they have gotten over losing their slaves. Perhaps they think that the sins of their great great grandfathers aren't the sins of themselves. S...

So now I know that those think they are so cool and make silly comments, have to refer to them in a different format. So is PF going the way of Facebo...

We already have had peak conventional oil. So we've seen quite well what it is like. And I really believe that killing people doesn't make the World a...

What has happened historically in nearly all (if not all) countries is that when the population has gotten more prosperous, population growth has dram...

For now. Yet if it really goes away and the World (as is likely) will come back to normal, the pandemic will be seen as a huge event in a few decades ...

If I recall that Bahrain or UAE never submitted forces to fight Israel. Saudi-Arabia contributed troops only during the Israeli war of Independence, i...

I'm not so sure just how sensible this is. In the 1950's a lot of people even in the West were poor. So the program to save the World is to increase p...

Having a sense of community doesn't at all eradicate the fact that people disagree. Any crowd on a march or demonstration will boo things they don't l...

AHA!!! Right on the spot, ChatteringMonkey! :up: And you know why this is? I'll give my opinion: The utter failure 20th Century collectivist ideologie...

Actually....yes. It is truly meant to be divisive. There you see how the post-modernist power play works in reality. So why BLM officially disavows Ha...

And hence it's not an all encompassing ideology about everything, as it's opponents desperately try to portray it.

It doesn't stop there, not at all, if you look at BLM. In the (official?) website they emphasize: Hence the emphasis on sexual minorities to make the ...

You know what. I don't think Trump plays even the two dimensional chess. Too many rules, not interesting. Trump is really what he looks like, what all...

Yep. And also there's the simple fact that war with Iran is useless and really a bad idea, militarily. There are so many downsides to it and many ways...