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I'd say more alarming is this quote from Pompeo. I think this is the crux of the problem of our time. Somehow some rights or freedoms aren't as import...
July 17, 2020 at 10:29
But notice it isn't so clear cut: human population may peak in this century and then diminish, which means declining demand. And thanks to technology ...
July 17, 2020 at 00:08
I'll recap the discussion. So I gave this example: And you answered: And the question is why it undeniably changes the issue? Because this is quite th...
July 16, 2020 at 23:55
Sorry to repeat this, but I don't really understand what is your problem. If I remember correctly, you yourself gave the example of an Amazon worker l...
July 16, 2020 at 23:35
Seems then you will have a lot of terms that aren't useful in the aggregate. Thanks for creating a new thread. The Trump thread is and will be quite a...
July 16, 2020 at 15:15
You made me to fill a questionnaire which you then explained in quite detail, so... :roll: Quote the full sentence, maw:
July 16, 2020 at 14:52
What data exactly? The data that 88% Native Americans oppose PC, was it so? First of all, the simple fact is that political correctness and progressiv...
July 16, 2020 at 14:24
I'm aware that questionnaires can be made (and often are) to further some agenda and the questions can be leading or loaded. But then argument is abou...
July 16, 2020 at 13:31
Ah, the best example of these kind of policies was Ceaucescu's Romania. The Romanian dictator wanted a larger country by prohibiting abortions and con...
July 16, 2020 at 13:20
? ? ? Is not seeking consensus equivalent to violent direct action??? For example, if there is some large accident and some political elected official...
July 16, 2020 at 12:56
What I'm saying that many statistics are vague. Yet that vagueness doesn't mean the statistic is useless.
July 16, 2020 at 12:49
No, yes, yes, no. I don't know who fdrake is so no, why would you need my employer?
July 16, 2020 at 12:46
If someone talks about "great art" or "great food", can they articulate what that precisely is? Will they have different opinions about it? Yes, absol...
July 16, 2020 at 12:41
And here above is the illogicality of partisan wokeness clearly displayed. So you are unsoundly and baselessly bounded together with NOS4A2 if you bot...
July 16, 2020 at 12:12
Many things aren't binary. But in woke PC culture they are! :grin:
July 15, 2020 at 12:24
Remember that population growth is the natural reason for economic growth. Just think about it: You start a family and you would get four children who...
July 15, 2020 at 12:09
Would they agree with yours? Maw, let me give another example. If people would be asked "Do you think extremism is a problem in our country?" without ...
July 15, 2020 at 12:04
I don't think we disagree much, and your right that we talk bit of different issues. Vast majority of people are sincere believers, very few are cynic...
July 15, 2020 at 11:40
If people are interested in this subject...in the Lancet new forecast were published of the population peaking at 2064: See article: World's populatio...
July 14, 2020 at 23:18
Hahahahaaa!!! :rofl: That's so funny, maw! Oooohhh, a proper defintion of political correctness is not used!!! Oh, that's a foul, a foul cries referee...
July 14, 2020 at 23:04
Simple answer: efficiency and humans being social animals and the way they behave in groups. Daryl Davies met a Klu Klux Clan leader first with the cl...
July 14, 2020 at 22:39
Listening to you Bitter confirms me that a lot of leftists genuinely dislike where "the left" is going. But of course I can understand this well as "t...
July 14, 2020 at 17:56
And that evidence, assuming there would be that, likely isn't coming out from the Chinese authorities. Anyway, I'd have to have the knowledge of my fa...
July 14, 2020 at 17:22
Because people like toxic ideologies and just love to fight them. It gives them a righteous cause to vent their anger. People are not like Daryl Davie...
July 14, 2020 at 17:12
More like 1. a 0,999% and 3. a 0,001% as option 3 doesn't make any sense at all. (If someone argues 1. is of 10%-20% chance, who knows.)
July 14, 2020 at 16:37
I agree. And since no government in the World would be indifferent about the possibility that it really did get out of a laboratory by accident and ju...
July 14, 2020 at 16:30
The English Civil War is the most forgotten important civil war in Europe. It would be interesting to hear why you reason that the English Civil War s...
July 14, 2020 at 13:19
That's the first knee-jerk response I had too, but as from some of the comments above, I wouldn't put this in the folder of "Pizzagate level conspirac...
July 14, 2020 at 13:12
We noticed. You think the letter was dumb as hell and pitiful, that part of the signers are against transrights, black Americans and Palestinians and ...
July 13, 2020 at 23:38
It's very difficult to articulate something that is a longer process, something that takes years even decades to happen. To articulate something you b...
July 13, 2020 at 18:52
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July 13, 2020 at 17:55
Which is the tragicomic thing here. I firmly believe that without Trump firing Comey the FBI simply would have gotten out a report that would have sai...
July 13, 2020 at 17:50
What's the shame of the highest echelons of American security and intelligence (services) doing their job? The fact is, that all people connected to t...
July 13, 2020 at 17:43
Btw, from the site: https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission "Our Priorities Protect the United States from terrorist attack Protect the United States agains...
July 13, 2020 at 17:30
Sure, if the bureaucracy functions and the archives genuinely do exist and aren't burned. :roll: But I do assume we can typically notice this, right? ...
July 13, 2020 at 14:43
Which ended up in cannibalism, btw. At least Deng Xiaoping first ended the utter insanity of the Cultural revolution with Boluan Fanzheng (meaning eli...
July 13, 2020 at 14:26
All the facts? Wait about 10 years and you'll have a pretty clear view what happened in the best histories written about the Trump era. All the secret...
July 13, 2020 at 11:55
Just what you quoted there tells what an awesome spymaster Vladimir Putin really is. Forget the Cambridge Five, forget the top spies of WW2 like Richa...
July 12, 2020 at 17:22
No need even for a history lecture to counter the argument, anaxagoras. To be a black farmer in South Africa is as dangerous if not more dangerous, so...
July 12, 2020 at 17:03
Few months to go before the elections. And not so much time to the next inauguration of the new president. So now wonder. People in the Trump administ...
July 11, 2020 at 21:56
Comes to mind the Berlin wall with it's famous Checkpoint Charlie. The wall was actually first demolished only to be partly built up again as Germans ...
July 11, 2020 at 21:47
Typically US presidents make these political pardon's on the last day of office. Bill Clinton pardoned Susan McDougal from the Whitewater controversy ...
July 11, 2020 at 21:32
No. It simply isn't. That isn't what the left in it's entirety is. You have to look at if from a wider more thruthful perspective. https://www.economi...
July 11, 2020 at 21:20
I've noticed this and many media outlets have noticed this too. Which just makes it more hilarious. So seems like the Harper's address really made som...
July 11, 2020 at 13:26
I would really dispute this. Americans might have this hubris of "Manifest Destiny", but their attachment isn't similar as the Jewish have for their h...
July 11, 2020 at 13:05
That's not what is said. What I said is that communism historically has lead to dictatorship and that this has happened is evident from the ideology i...
July 11, 2020 at 12:49
I think that you shouldn't the same mistake that leftist people do when talking about the right. Not everybody on the right is marching with tiki-torc...
July 11, 2020 at 12:41
There was a time of limited news outlets that we watched and listened to. And in many cases they did separate "the news" and the "the program discussi...
July 10, 2020 at 20:05
That's a lot of infiltration and subversion. But first, who are the cultural marxists? What defines the difference from a cultural marxist and let's s...
July 10, 2020 at 19:46
I think you have to take into consideration the physical changes that have happened in the media that are partly the reason why impartial news coverag...
July 10, 2020 at 10:20