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Seldom would I call a politician evil. No matter what kind of corrupt sexual predator he is. You will be then accusing people of supporting evil. Evil...

I think most people understand the reductio ad absurdum proof. What the big problem is what then? You see there is an inherent structural difference b...

Greta Thurnberg is the Joan of Arc of our time. Take a cause and put an innocent girl in the front as an emblem of the purity and righteousness of the...

One does have to remember that the US is (or was) a Superpower. Hence when (if) the US leaves any place, it will create a huge void where other countr...

No, but the ignorance of US foreign policy seems to be an epidemic . The purpose wasn't to democratize the Middle East. The purpose was to get rid of ...

Simple answer: How about not being so utterly insane when it comes to the Middle East and Central Asia? How about not invading countries because of no...

Historical hindsight will give the best view, yet things can be seen even now. Let's take one of the biggest train wrecks of the US: the Middle East p...

Going from right to the center is going left. Right. The implementation of policies and their outcome takes a long time. Yet discourse is important in...

A lot of Trump supporters love this side of Trump. Basically the reason is that they are fed up with the ordinary politics done by the two parties. An...

Hello Punk Rascal! Even in a medium sized town people don't know each other. Hence the case of how vibrant a big or 'healthy' a city is, is a differen...

I heared that God-Emperor reference to Trump used back in 2016 by hardcore Trump fanatics. It's what I would call a semi-joke. Many Trump fans think o...

There are many cultured and intelligent leftist here. But few if any aren't for or praise how Marxism has historically played out in the multitude of ...

What are the 'far right Brexiteers'? How many 'far right Brexiteers' are there? I presume it is something similar as the number far left Stalinists in...

This is the main problem with the modern day socialists: they've forgotten their old supporters in the working class and too much focused on the "woke...

That Trump would be interested in the dealings of Biden's son wouldn't be about the upcoming elections? Gimme a break, you are simply very silly now.

That's one of the most irritating things in a modern democracy: when you get election adds and other material from only one or few political parties.....

How naive. But I guess you have to regurgitate and stand by every imbecile argument that Giuliani makes in defence of Trump. Because...otherwise you w...

I'm just waiting how Americans will feel after both Trump and Bill Clinton are shown have been participating in Epstein's underage girl sex ring / rac...

Hmm, so the Opening Paragraph was: Or perhaps earlier before this format: Yeah....mass hysteria.

Trump loves going to court. And being there. And Trump typically settles things here and there and everywhere. Settler-in-Chief I'd say.

Saudi Arabia is totally different! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmpIH2k_WA

Of course. Let me put it this way: there is the intent to use the scientific method to get an objective answer. How well a person or a group of resear...

They are very excited of the idea of created an AI enforced police state. Computers and algorithms make it possible. In the old days you had to have a...

Again, I would emphasize that there are schools of thought in science, not mainstream and fringe science itself. The foundations of science are the sa...

So Trump finally went to Afghanistan and says he is holding talks with the Taleban. I'm not so sure how significant the approaches will be and what is...

Nuclear physics is quite at the core of physics and totally mainstream, actually. And is just as reliable as anything else in science. And it isn't "m...

That science is basically made by a scientific community that uses peer review, replicates experiments and has a vast network for interaction is obvio...

Good move from Trump. EU likely won't do a thing. Perhaps they (the EU) will go with classic Finnish response line give earlier on any international i...

I've always stated that they have huge problems starting from the structural problems of a totalitarian system. Fascism is an inherently weak and frai...

It's the thing we call the 'Ivory Tower'. Too many times science becomes a group of people referring each other and applying for various research mone...

Does anybody gain reputation on a forum like this? I mean a reputation in philosophy. Perhaps concise and witty responses are favored and also those e...

There is one point to be made here. That is that politicians in power do regulate and move the limits of the Overton window. Hence if it's totally acc...

I'm not so sure about this. You see, when I, as Finn, make an investment in a Finnish Mutual Fund that invests in Finnish companies, I have to sign a ...

I would say Corbyn or the Labour party has nothing against Jews or the Jewish religion. Likely what has happened in their hatred of the international ...

What does Trump's deals in earlier life have to do with him being a sycophant to Putin as the POTUS? Trump has a history of business failures so I sus...

But NOS4A2, I'm not talking at all about the time era the whole Mueller investigation was about. I'm not talking about the 2016 elections or earlier t...

Nonsense. I've never seen the US President be such a sycophant that conforms the Russian president's views as Trumpov has done. Whatever the reason is...

Well, I could say the media has been a bit more than slightly critical of Johnson, but that is a matter of opinion. Yet do notice that both Corbyn and...

There is a simple and utterly natural reason for this. And the answer is in the overt historical hostility of mainstream socialism, which is deeply id...

People participating in an Philosophy Forum ought to be open to totally different views and be able to defend their own. The best thing that this site...

Maybe it's a huge conspiracy. :joke:

Thanks for that poll tracker. Tells actually a situation that is very surprising! Nothing portrayed in the Media would make you connect the present to...

Coming back to Hong Kong, we should remember that for the Chinese Communist Party the crackdown on Tianamen Square in 1989 was success story: it stopp...

Yet there's one extremely important difference with fascism and let's say a country like the US, which you could argue to be a liberal plutocracy (wit...

Not only that. China is also a great example that a fascist system can adapt to the present and thrive economically. At least for a while, that is. On...

Basically yes. And reactions to buzzwords and labels, dog whistles and so on. It's not about trying to understand the other. How to interpret things i...

The author giving just one reference and that being the Wikipedia page of the diagonal argument is telling by itself. And seems like the author is sim...

What I mean, generally speaking, is that if someone (who we don't know) starts a conversation about some issue, we tend to notice "catchphrases" etc. ...

I think it's telling: something indeed is amiss. As if there is this urge to compartmentalize us and just to assume that people don't think of the iss...

No. He just doesn't care about torture... if the voters think that torture works, he goes with it. After all, in the debate the moral stand wasn't tou...