Isaac, the the whole issue of democracy is to get a majority support something, even if it is the rights of a small minority and hence an issue that d...
The majority of Americans DO support change. Or excessive force by the police isn't the issue anymore? So basically what you are saying is that nothin...
But is this a historical fact? If so, what were the widespread violent expression, no correct that, the uprising which in the end you got the Civil Ri...
:roll: This is a confusing answer. What task is over and when? Hence if the democratic system works, at least some party will respond to it. Or then t...
I think that in the US the pandemic wasn't squashed, but prevailed to spread on a higher level than in other countries: the tail from the height of pa...
Which according to you are utterly trivial. That's not what you said earlier, if I've read your posts well. At least now you say that. If you say some...
Wrong. On an earlier comment before my last one: And even before that: And since these were both answers TO YOU, Isaac, all I can deduce from that you...
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this quite similar to the lines of Nietzsche? Slave morality came with Christianity and wrecked the mas...
And I've stated right from start that with mere elections you don't have a functioning representative democracy. Stalin's Soviet Union had elections t...
And there should be enough competition in the political sphere that if the ruling parties themselves don't notice that the people are unhappy about so...
Campaigns usually ought to give more thought not only showing that something is wrong, but a specific answer what to do about it. That is the power of...
Better that reflection than no reflection. If power only changes by violence, in that society everything surely isn't well. And that's why democracy n...
That this becomes an news issue tells a lot of the present. Let's see how long the American version of Christiania endures in Seattle. If it continues...
Oh the horror! Nelson, Lee and a boy scout!!! Yikes. How contemptible, even sinister. Better have their pictures of Gandhi, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Ta-N...
When you say: They aren't trivial. Elections are a safety valve by which we can change ruinous administrations to others and a way to show that those ...
Because when you say that "elections don't matter" and representative democracy doesn't do anything at systemic racism, the fact is that you aren't lo...
Ok. First you shouldn't be so self centered and fixated just on the US. It's beneficial to look at the issue from a wider perspective to notice simila...
I think you're missing the point of representative democracy. I certainly don't, fdrake! Since it's independence my country has avoided an ethnic conf...
Quite incredible what you are saying. As if elections don't matter. Who needs them when there's the street? Guess then according to you everything wou...
Yes. We absolutely need that realm what Popper is talking about to make sense of the World that we have created ourselves (and created for ourselves)....
Not happening. Not at least as how an ordinary coup d'etat happens in the American continent. (I commented on the response of the military earlier her...
Or basically that reductionist view simply doesn't give us any information. Let's think about for example historical events and how we explain them: A...
You've nailed it. Far better said than I did. I just don't know why this explanation isn't used. And if the answer would be that "we have to be more h...
I'll try to give an example. If the Third Reich used a cyanide-based pesticide to kill for them unwanted people in an efficient way, the "reductionist...
The typical false argument for extreme reductionism is that then you are implying anti reductionism, the idea that advocates that not all properties o...
Progressive enough for a lot of Republicans! Or at least they (the Republicans) are fearful of the people that then flock the seats of power along wit...
The Democrat Party was a bit different back then too, you know. And notice I was talking about the Presidential elections. Sleepy Joe might get votes ...
The issue is that they are made part of a culture war. Nobody is protesting for the release of the Minneapolis policemen (perhaps a police union, I do...
I think there is a great opportunity to reform the police and it can have positive long term effects. But one ought to focus on that. Not to get distr...
If you want to move the Overton window any way or to do something to correct social injustices or problems, I think the way isn't to go full forward t...
In Latin America you have the out of control violence where the murder rates have gone way up. Honduras is a prime example. It has dealt with a huge p...
There is one parallel I remember. During the height of "War on Terror" when a lot of troops were fighting the war both in Iraq and in Afghanistan and ...
Same kind of places and all were in a very similar situation. They aren't the tourist hotspots like Northern Italy or New York. Just to give some reas...
I would call that wager! Just that people likely will not now go to Northern Italy and other tourist placed would mean a lot just by itself. Just the ...
The criticism of Trump of many retired generals is actually notable. I think the reason was that the military really didn't want to have Trump ruin th...
I think that now you start to see the differences with in the numbers, like here in the Nordic countries: ...............Deaths due to COVID-19 Norway...
Well, the objective is to dominate the issue by stopping the discussion. Here I don't think so. On a Philosophy forum people read what you write for l...
Every time some issue gets popular support, it usually comes as a total surprise for the career activists. Yet the otherwise passive majority can come...
If you would say the same thing about national socialism, you would be banned. Oh, so take out humans out of the picture? For whom are you making this...
Indeed. Yet toppling statues don't change or topple usually the institutions that put them up. https://gdb.rferl.org/3471BA57-F8C4-4B1A-B615-C6085BF8B...
Oh, I didn't know that threads could be put into the Lounge and then not be shown at first page. Is somebody here saying that to you? (Besides, this i...
Ernestm, I gave one response to another thread, but seems that thread is nowhere to be found. As the subject is quite close to this, I'll respond here...
Sorry to hear about your rough time and of the typical tone deaf response you get. Guess you haven't lived in the nicest neighborhoods. Yet this shows...
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