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Which shows far better thinking than just the total appeasement of today. But hey, if a billionaire gave Trump 82 million dollars (less than he spent ...

Yes, Xtrix, how can thinking people vote Republican? Perhaps Eisenhower can be understood, but how could the American people pick Nixon, Reagan, Bush ...

Quite logically: it's our neighbor. We have a habit looking to Sweden for examples how things ought to be done. We usually don't look to the East, for...

When did that last time happen? Under Obama or earlier? Unfortunately there's no incentive for the US to change it's unwavering support of Israel at e...

So it's like now the boy crying "Wolf!" can genuinely cry wolf, because what the heck, let's give him a wolf? Yes, At least with Bernie you have a pol...

You could actually do that, because otherwise your reasoning is quite lazy. If you've made academic research or studies about it, then please use thos...

If one thing is very clear from the 2020 election is: - Aggressive accusations and ad hominem attacks - not much substance or debate about policies. A...

Am I (are we) even allowed to talk about Israel, because we aren't Israelis!?

Hasn't worked out for Israel? How so? The low intensity conflict solution has actually worked out quite well. Israel has had better economic growth th...

I know already your viewpoint (that you don't believe it) and I agree with you. What I'm commenting is that this is the wrong way to criticize PC cult...

The real question is, WHY would we care about Celeste Ng's totally absurd opinion?

Foolish or not, that is the line. You could argue that it's also foolish to occupy a country, because a financial backer of a terrorist strike lived t...

Republicans will surely want to portray the Democratic candidate being the candidate of uhhh.... your taste, maw. Hence labour unions and Social Democ...

The Trump team should also like this.

Israel isn't in a war, like in 1973, in 1982 or in 2006 with it's neighbours. What I've stated is that Israel is in a permanent low-intensity conflict...

And what right did the Ottomans have to take over the Middle East? Or the Muslims before them? Or the Romans/Byzantines, the Sassanids, the Macedonian...

Here is one thing I'd like to point out. PC "deriving" from higher academia and "manifesting" itself in corporate censorship is the wrong way to think...

Correct. Usually the over the top PC arguments are caused by a huge overreaction to something where the 'outraged' people who are there to 'defend' co...

YESS!!! :razz: The comrades want this! They deserve it. Let's have that Trump Bernie meeting, which Trump chickened out last time.

Wars change borders and put people to leave their homes. That's just what wars do. Here I think the worth wile discussion would be to focus on your ar...

This is partly true. Sure, you can find examples of this, but on the other hand you can find the opposite too. There is great open discussion also. An...

Asking that question in my welfare country would be quite different. Because the homeless people here are: a) people from other EU countries (mostly f...

What else could a thread called "The Roots of Racism" become today? Hopefully the silliness would be confined just to race & gender issues and the typ...

You have to make the case why the state of Israel, not the ultra-orthodox Jewish, are SO different from other countries in this sense. When Israel occ...

If I've understood your point correctly, our disagreement is on the reason of the oppression. You say it's racism inherent to Zionism. I argue that it...

Perhaps you should state your argument more clearly. We know that you think that the state of Israel is oppressive to minorities. I don't think anybod...

Everyone of us is a child of our time, so was Thomas Hobbes. He lived through the bloodiest time of English history, and was influenced by exciled roy...

I agree. The whole talk of 'justice' or somebody having more justification for lands than others is hypocritical stupidity. If enough people make a cl...

I'm not sure if any Republican will want to toast Trump. You can allways say that you don't remember.

Luckily this isn't Greta, the teen does know something, it is that she doesn't know everything and it's for the adults to solve the issues. This the g...

I am wagging my finger? Nope. It's just that the hostility is so typical, it really does tell what is wrong nowdays with public discussion. You see, t...

Just like the guy who went on a ferry to the UK and started driving his car on the right lane. When the radio said "Emergency bulletin, one car drivin...

Philosophy Forum 2020 edition. If it's all downhill from here, I wonder where the discussion will be in 2024.

There is the practical reason that truly gives credibility to all philosophical, ethical, legal and whatever reasons: Other people with similar plots ...

Thanks for the links! Looked at them briefly. Looking at the acri report (Overview of Anti-Democratic Legislation Advanced by the 20th Knesset),I thin...

Really? So what are the one million,one fifth of the Israeli citizens that have Israeli citizenship, but assume that their nationality is Palestinian?...

Let me give you another example. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia. There wasn't any violence, any oppression and actually no popular push for the dis...

I don't know what candidate he is, but really, have listened through a Putin-Trump press conference? It's REALLY different (like Twilight Zone differe...

Far better treatment for +50 000 Sami people than for the 30-40 million Kurds. Besides, If the Sami would be 1 million people in the nothern parts of ...

I would have suspected that the UK has high immobility (low social mobility) as it is one of the most traditional class societies. And the stats do te...

And don't forget the leaked Nuland-Pyatt phonecalls when the revolution happening (two of them discussing future Ukraine leadership), or the leaks of ...

Actually, it was the State Department that was most successful in overthrowing Serbia's Milosevic. CIA didn't have much part in that. And thanks to th...

No. You understood it totally and this is the correct answer. :ok: I stopped reading comments after that.

There was a time and place for Zionism, just as there has been a time and place for romantic nationalism to many people when acquiring a nation-state ...

Benkei, you got me confused here. Palestine was under the control of the British. Was the UK autocratic by your standards?

Leave it to Maw and NOS4A2 to fight about it.

I fully agree. It likely has gone just like that.

Sure. English isn't my first language, hence I didn't notice the difference between a debate and discussion. Note taken. Discussing nuclear war is a v...

Sorry to hear that, too bad he passed away. Conservatism needs intellectuals like Scruton, not simpletons.

Then the question ought to discussed seriously than from the viewpoint of "Megxit". Did you ever watch yourself the media frenzy when the Meghan - Har...