Yet thinking of it as a monetary cost is difficult. The way we pay for it is with changes in our environment, but that unfortunately is an aggregate o...
Far better is simply to have so much investment on renewables that they actually are cheaper than oil. That's the real death knell for fossil fuels. Y...
Remember that the oil companies get the price for oil from the Casino called "the markets". The negative prices were a result of the vast majority of ...
Got very close with Iran. Really close. After the drone attack on Qasem Soleimani, Iranians did retaliate by firing ballistic missiles into several US...
The first thing for political parties is to control the public political discourse...on the lines they want to. And if polarization suits the politica...
How would anyone take a risk at anything, because obviously nobody knows if there is life after death? Yet people do various things that are dangerous...
If you don't have really bad scandals, then make something out of a minor issue. It all goes along with the normal way how campaigns are done in the U...
What makes the Swedish system so terrible is the fact that this hugely popular nationalist party has it founding members were neonazis, and hence all ...
Remember that you are talking to Americans and for them a bad crime situation is something totally else than in Sweden as there bad crime areas are re...
Go back hundred years or more and you would find firm believers in eugenics etc. in the academic scene in many universities with really bad societal i...
Harry Hindu, which political movement has ever ceased it's activity once it's clearest goals have been achieved and the most obvious grievances and in...
That's not how we start it. We don't assume inherent inconsistency in nature. We don't make sense of nature with inconsistencies. If we observe someth...
Is the US going the way of North Ireland and it's "The Troubles"? Why I pick the example of North Ireland is that the conflict between the unionists a...
I think there's a wide agreement in the scientific community that there indeed have to rules and limitations to research. Starting from the oath of Hi...
What Benkei said about different treatment of African Americans and Africans does hold. Once you talk English, everybody will know that you come from ...
Oh you think that people that are totally alone are selfish or what? Jeez. As I earlier said, if you are important for others, if you have some role, ...
Waiting. Waiting for death. Once people don't have much if anything to live for, they cannot live the life they used to, then they can really say that...
A lot of things are not divided by truth or falsehood. What is good and what is bad, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what we find interesting and ...
They did try, didn't work, then changed things. But do you imply that the Chinese Communist Party wasn't before Marxist? Or does this mean that Marx i...
Apparently not, just look at the speech from Xi Jingping. So quoting Marx and Engels is giving up Marxist rhetoric? Well, A. James Gregor thought othe...
I value PF because a couple of occasions I've gotten really good advice from the forum. The forum (and it's predecessor) taken as an entirety as a col...
But in this administration, that is his job, to protect the President of the US from legal charges, indictments and from impeachment etc. But Benkei, ...
Yes. We really have to stick to the real definitions as otherwise they become just derogatory adjectives without any clear meaning. Had it the potenti...
Many. Starting from things like representative democracy and universal suffrage, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the ending of mercantilism...
The challenge for you is to understand that Marxism-Leninism has something to do with Marxism and that Marx did have influence on history. Hence we in...
What connects them is that they don't want any competition besides them. They can share the system very well. Just to give one example, the US elector...
Have to say a lot of references to Stalin from many people here. Yet the Soviet Union lasted after Stalin for nearly 40 years. Surely when Nikita Khru...
Well, any non-woke commentator will get at least irritation from the woke identity politics crowd from the left. I guess Sam Harris got his baptism of...
Something like that, yes. Harris talks to larger public and typically explains the more advanced terms etc. and tries to keep his talk as understandab...
Before answering your question, I would remind that not to be a "genuine philosopher" isn't negative or condescending (perhaps in our times it would b...
For whom? Just the Vietnam War killed far more people than COVID and during 1959-1961 the Great Chinese Famine killed between 15 to 55 million people ...
I don't think Harris is really a genuine philosopher, but what this neuroscientist is, is one of the best intelligent academic commentators and interv...
Yet radical changes can happen through the democratic system without violence: giving universal voting rights to all men and later women, making land ...
Actually the 19th Century was when liberalism had it's major successes. Yet once the objectives had been achieved, classic liberalism became part of w...
What the hell are you implying? You think that it's better that something like slavery is abolished ONLY AFTER A VICIOUS BLOODY CIVIL WAR? I think it'...
It's still comorbidity, Hanover. And Derukugi's argument was that only 9000 have died in the US to COVID-19 and hence the whole pandemic scare is negl...
In politics, polarization (or polarisation) refers to the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes. Think of it as views and attitude...
Since their Civil War, the English have been able to solve the problems in their society without large scale violence. Ok, there's Ireland and some co...
Some call it strategic silence. Let's see how well the centrist / right-wing duopoly can answer to Americans in the future. Oh yes: Abolishing slavery...
Revolt against their parents and everything they portray to stand for. The most vociferous and in their hatred of the right nearly disturbed have many...
As I said before, during Biden's vice presidency the Obama administration did stop nation wide protests very well: until today, I haven't seen any foo...
The "right-wing" during the French revolution was where the conscientious defenders of the constitution sat. Don't think that the supporters of the An...
There you go. It's usually that similar over the top accusations against Republican candidates were made by the media, not actually by the Democrat Pr...
I think that Marx never addressed how the post-capitalist communist society would specifically be organized and turn from the proletarian dictatorship...
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