I think one can talk about it as a movement sweeping the Western world. One reason is the new social media that has made this possible with the algori...
The real problem of Afghanistan is that the country has a myriad of different people so that it resembles a Central Asian version of Yugoslavia. Afgha...
Great. Economics is important. No. I don't think so. It's not Divide et Impera. I think the basic problem is that as the sole Superpower, the US simpl...
Not so sure if it's deep and edifying knowledge, but thank you. In the university I started with economics, but then changed the subject to economic h...
Well, one really can't tell who it was yet. And if it would be Russia, remember that their goal is just to make Britain more weak, more hateful agains...
Thatcherism still wasn't really populism and surely John Major wasn't a populist just as Tony Blair wasn't either. But of course political discourse h...
The whole idea (in the first place) and truly going through with removing the area to not-so-serious stuff (as the lounge indicates) wouldn't be only ...
I think Terrapin Station was OK. Shame that a long time active member was banned. Well, one option of course is to simply stop the posting on the thre...
Pakistan's long time friend has been China. Pakistan and China found each other thanks to the Sino-Indian border war of 1962 and hence Pakistan has bo...
Huge. Even before looking at the video you posted (have to watch it later), it's a historical fact that the Pakistani ISI created the Taliban and, jus...
As an outside observer, I think populism played a key part to this whole debacle. You see, populism is about making a divide, dividing people to be ei...
Perhaps NOS4A2's question in the OP could be put this way: Do we unintentionally give racism a chance to continue by upholding and using the race/ethn...
There's not many that worship Greek gods anymore, so I don't understand your point. Here we typically refer to God of our religion (Christianity, that...
That tells a lot then. Really? You don't think our actions that are can be based on abstract ideas don't have any concrete effects? But they aren't ta...
You asked for questions and comments. Not every response has to oppose what you said (even if it is starting to be more like that on the forum). :wink...
Especially then you sould understand how determinism has limits once everything is a billiard ball on the table and they (the billiard balls) interact...
So everything that is abstract are only words? That sounds like classic straightforward physicalism to me. Exactly. But I was talking about reasons fo...
Not actually at all, because the examples just show how complex existence is. You even yourself mention the divide of 'abstract' and 'concrete' with n...
Don't think that racism / ethnicity have any true logic to themselves. It's all horse manure that in the end simply justifies xenophobia and is fitted...
, you are simply fixated on the idea of simple duality of existence and non-existence and think that something like the matter of religion / religious...
So agnosticism is inherently incoherent, an evasively articulate grunt, babytalk. Ah, the haughty atheist. Makes always me feel even better about agno...
I assume our hard wiring isn't so much different from other subfamily homininae and very much the same as the Neanderthals, but that we have language ...
Thanks and for your observations. At least Pfhorrest cleared his thinking when leaving out agnosticism: Well, you did ask "So I'm just curious, among ...
Well, once a group of companies dominate a market, new rival competing enterprises don't emerge as the ideal free market theory would predict. Real wo...
It simply doesn't matter to you or anyone else, because humans are part of the universe. You see, when the human race has a finite time in the univers...
Why was agnosticism left out of the questionnaire? It's quite central to my philosophy. If the whole question right from the start is about belief, wh...
I'd like to ask the Britons here the following questions? How are the Lib Dems seen in the UK? Is there a wedge in the conservative party? I gather th...
? Why? Do you want to prolong the confusion and have everybody continue to be disappointed? Be out: Be treated like the US (or Morocco) by the EU. No ...
The Cold War is over only in the way that Russia doesn't have the resources of the Soviet Union and doesn't have the Warsaw Pact. Otherwise, Russia's ...
First you have to understand Russia, even it's so difficult. Russia has an inherent fear and distrust of the West. First came Napoleon, then Hitler, t...
Because it's used just as a derogatory swearword, the word might sound empty, yes. But why to speak about "at least not yet"? You have to understand t...
This is actually a sign of a deep failure of one extremely important market: the finance market, the banking sector. If poor people cannot get a loan ...
Yet people here are from the West, hence they don't actually care shit about global poverty being actually twarted and successfully diminished. Whimsi...
Zoning laws might seem as a hindrace, but then on another hand, there's positive effects too. First and foremost, for many real estate developers the ...
Actually quite hilarious. Even if the progressive mom likely isn't religious at all, she has a religious fervour to fight evil and save her boys from ...
The term 'white trash' shows perfectly the structural racism in American culture. There's a lot of positive things in American culture, but this isn't...
Perhaps the problem here is that the opposite for isolationism doesn't have to be interventionism. The thing is that you can participate very actively...
Actually yes, because when the ideology starts from racism being central and an integral part how humans form social spheres, it is an inherent strugg...
? I thought it is race, gender etc. and not identity. Hence in my view the above should be: "The colourblind is a response to the idea of people gaini...
I'm not so sure about that. The internet has a lot of negative aspects too. Just like the printing press, which made books and texts common: it didn't...
You aren't alone. One can make a conclusion from nobody giving a simple answer to this. A boogeyman lurking in the shadows and ready to pounce, agains...
And if that human reasoning and logic finds out that to some questions we simply cannot find out solutions even if they exist because of logic? That i...
Didn't think so at all, but looking at the present level of American politics, I guess many will put the MAGA hat on you. And soon silly season is her...
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