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Seeking consensus doesn't mean inherently mean compromise. I think your view here is that if you make something in the democratic process and find a p...

Wow, you mean to go back to the subject and not go on replying to your bombastic yet confused "consensus is poison" views? Fine. So is talking about "...

I've been pointed out to be far worse. Now there's an underestimated/underappreciated comedian, perhaps too sexist for these times. That's a great sta...

We usually believe that our basic premises are totally different, and we believe our own strawmen depictions of the other. Some people want and have t...

So nobody has to persuade you? You just go with the flock or what? Many issues like income distribution as a political issue go far longer than just f...

Why think that seeking a consensus is doing nothing? Why think it wouldn't mean trying to change views?

I disagree. Consensus isn't about giving up, not faltering away from your objectives. It's not equivalent to compromise or upholding the status quo. C...

:clap: :up: However I wouldn't say their batshit crazy as then there isn't any reason continue any discussion. I do believe in the intellect of people...

Oh as if you read what I write? I've persistently said that good things will come out of this and things have improved and the one of the biggest issu...

Can he now have lunch with Putin again? Last time RT paid over 30 000$ to Flynn for the nice photo op! They'll have their 15th anniversary this year. ...

I don't remember where exactly I heard it, but the best spin to the covid-pandemic in the US was: "Yes, we are having more infections, but the infecte...

Support from majority of the people to do something about the issue has made the the media and politicians respond to these issues. Even from Trump we...

It's good to understand the basics: how money is created through debt and how the fiat system works. Of course there is the "Fed & other central banke...

It's not about the meaning of the protests, it's just what happens afterwards. When the media focus and our focus is turned somewhere else and when in...

And who are then negating anti-racism or equalising measures? Is there some negating anti-racism here?

Yet you might learn something from the past before thinking that this now everything is so totally different. For starters, perhaps you should ease wi...

Their hopes or our hopes? Is there someone for racism? Not here, not many out there. Is there someone for more inequality? Again no. It's easy to see ...

Is there anything? There's the thing we believe now even if we don't, Modern Monetary Theory! https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/US-Fed...

Well, it seems that many people think that they are on a cusp of a massive Earth-moving change.

:smile: I didn't know it was 1789. Wait a minute, it isn't!

OK, but we cannot change what has happened so I guess what we do now still is the most important. Yet this begs the question: just what you mean by be...

Who gets scared is the question. You think the ruling class gets scared about some riots? And that massive systemic change is going to happen?

Yes, I remember that you were our angry Australian. I'm quite sure a holocaust won't happen soon either in your or my country or in the US. Sorry if I...

Stop thinking that your country is in a civil war. You'll really notice it if there's a real one. Have you even seen war?

You know the various reasons, starting from slavery and the people that call even their own poor "trash". Yet it's a complex issue and not to be dealt...

I took this example up as this is one way an artificial division or juxtaposition of "the people" can be done in the "culture wars". I know, perhaps i...

I think Coleman Hughes usually makes quite good remarks and isn't the Prager U type staunch conservative with a conservative agenda. But of course thi...

America's colonial past is one fundamental reason for many persistent problems even today. However as Judaka said, colonialism isn't capitalism. Enlar...

That was a bad joke from me. They won't ban you. I trust in these guys. Anyway, I'm off for now.

Humanity is something we can easily forget. We adapt perhaps too easily to things we shouldn't.

Oh that's how you see it? Did I say that? You genuinely think that? (Again, great moderation...) I will respond to you: No, I don't think any piece of...

So you think Americans will be divided by the use of flag? Putting the flag up on your home is a sign that one accepts systemic racism?

At least I have said that the response from the right should be noticed. Fox News is in full swing of the culture war, that's their shtick. The rigth-...

I think that this is the reason just why nothing dramatic that would change the underlying reasons will happen. The excessive stupidity just takes ove...

Well you're all worked up! If it works so well, when are people going to start killing each other there? Oh right, it will be put into a different cat...

Do notice btw, the bigger and longer loans ordinary people can get, the more real estate will cost. The interesting phenomenon is that the modern good...

Yes. And when there are too many poor and few if any very rich, then at some time social cohesion is lost. Any power structure has to have enough supp...

And here it ought to be mentioned that the UK (and hence the US) has gone through this history a little bit differently than Nordic countries where I ...

No. You are talking that you are working for someone else and don't admit that you get a salary, income, be it large or small, for that. No. I say tha...

Thanks for your moderation, jamalrob. Hopefully we can find a topic to discuss later.

Yet you aren't a slave. You do get an income, I assume. And you do have the option to look for other work (I assume also). Someone has. Stealing MEANS...

You just feel like I'm stomping all the time for capitalism. But I'll take that as a compliment. :wink: Problems, defects and excesses there are, but ...

Yes. I think he would have been happy to lose to Hillary, actually. He could have had that TV station he was thinking about and would be listened in t...

I think people understand that you need more to be in the situation that people are willing to pay for your services. Like starting with education and...

And things would have been better if they have stayed in the countryside without an industrial revolution? I but I agree that once the changes happene...

Do I think taxation is theft? No, I don't. Is there a problem in some people getting rich? No, as long the poorest don't get in absolute terms poorer....

Sorry, did the vagabonds or, ahem, Luddites own the land? Who was it stolen from? Or is the argument, as Proudhon put it, that property is a theft? Th...

Many do agree with MLK's message in his "I have a Dream" speech. I don't think they pretend. Do they even know about Huey Newton? But feel free to thi...

Just like a serf? The problem is far too easily people interpret today to being serfs working for a lord. For them it's just a trendy figure of speech...

All people who provide any service to others do work for someone else. Plumbers, carpenters, lawyers, personal trainers, engineers. Whoever. Remember ...