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The Trump presidency: what is nice is how open everything about the chaos is.

Until it doesn't. You see, the two ruling parties that are in symbiosis can rule only so long that people think they "waste their votes if they don't ...

This ought to be evident, but some people simply are quite infatuated with the rhetoric that ignoring race simply means denial of racial problems and ...

I'm not so sure does the US allways put it's citizens first (just thinking about the US health care system), but in fact this as a purpose is totally ...

Thank's for a short ingenious abstract of the thread, frank. Isn't that a good thing? :lol: That would be such a fitting motto for the whole Forum.

I believed earlier so too, but now I'm really not so sure anymore. You see, earlier I too thought about in similar fashion as above, and thought there...

And this without impugning motives or casting aspersions. :halo:

Banno, tell us how race is so absolutely significant to you, that it's central to your individual identity.

No. What I'm saying is that those who cherish the idea of isolationism typically really don't think it over just what that splendid isolation and deta...

How does it turn the value of people into a counterfactual question? Unfortunately I don't understand what you say here. Could you rephrase this, if y...

Of course Banno can talk for himself. I'm just trying understand the idea. Naturally you would have to follow American public discourse about the issu...

And no interest either to understand the question, obviously. As obviously NOS4A2 is a troll, right? Here's the problem (if I in my stupidity understa...

It isn't particularly American, unfortunately. Pessimism that the ruling elites now have lost their way totally and that the Great Power isn't anymore...

And let's start with things like how we react to people's age and appearance, when we approach each other before anything is discussed. If you have 20...

Really? Just re-read the first page on this thread and it's totally obvious that people are talking about separate issues and without bothering to thi...

HAHAHA! Well, if you don't find ANYTHING you would agree on with the people for example here on PF you mostly disagree with and argue with, then the a...

To notice here the similarities is very helpful. Just as was with the War on Terror lead by Bush and then continued by Obama...with increasing the dro...

Well, people are perhaps in love with their own narrative, so happy in their own echo chamber in the discourse and simply aren't willing to listen. An...

Sometimes it seems that people are intentionally not even trying to understand what the other one is saying and only trying to put the other one in th...

Yet then it basically isn't talked as "(put the racial/ethnic term here) priviledge". And that wouldn't have the same connotations. In fact it's reall...

Well, one way to think about philosophical debate is the way some people, especially men, approach these issues: it's just about the matter in hand in...

This is why basically the US is going on path of divisive political discourse like in Venezuela. And Venezuela, even if under totally different path a...

Don't be too pessimistic.

Yeah, delicateness. Yet it typically comes down to a Democrat voter deciding who he or she thinks to be a Trump supporter (if it isn't obvious from th...

That's with the people that cannot rise above the level of seeing a philosophical discussion mainly as a competition between individual people and foc...

This is a true distraction, but perhaps the worse outcome isn't that the politicians themselves are accused in this way (to be racist etc.), it is tha...

Ok, So you refute the video by saying that it is "laughably awful, unsurprisingly shallow, biased, and filled with discredited presumptions and absurd...

Nothing against Netherlands (and not much against the EU), but you are right. With all it's shortcomings and hypocrisy, the US still stands out as a b...

Why would you believe it? You should learn more about the Soviet Union. You see, things that don't work... don't work. And they keep not working even ...

Again you show your arrogance quite well. People that give protest votes think far more just about protesting than anything else.

And why are you so counter-woke? You think that those silly woke progressives blabbering about intersectionality etc. are genuinely some kind of a thr...

Countries typically have policies and procedures that transcend party lines. It's simply a myth that in a democracy government day-to-day operations w...

And some of us seem to enjoy being arrogant and condescending.

This is the tragedy. A lot of Trump supporters think that President Trump, their shall we say God Emperor, is making great and welcome decisions again...

I truly hope that the people in the center will get fed up with the Hillary voting Trump haters and the Trump voting Hillary-haters, who both have see...

Trump's actions clear show examples of things that many won't say, but are true: 1) The United States today is an unreliable ally that should not to b...

I find this quite troubling and quite honestly very typical for the present where we put victimhood on a pedestal. Trying to do well yet failing to wi...

Wow. A 100% defeat. As if insurgencies go away like that. Just like Obama declared victory over Al Qaeda (in Iraq). May I remind you of a time when Ob...

Seems that someone believes here Trump's line. :grin: Who cares what the military on the ground say. Who cares what the former secretary for defence s...

But states that start wars for their reasons, and usually they don't care so much about those dying. Yet you likely do also understand how politicians...

It's not about the Kurds. It's the about the absolute train wreck that is militarily done in the Middle East. First and foremost, the US is losing tot...

Gangs and factions form only in our heads. Never forget that you are talking to individuals that use their own minds. However much those minds might b...

That the Kurds don't have their own independent state shows just how divided they are. That the states with Kurdish minorities (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Sy...

Yes, all seems to be so well in these well established and exemplary democracies like United States and United Kingdom. Both are sooo united these day...

Annexation of a large part of a neighbouring state and basically starting a war there is a little bit different than one sovereign state having intern...

True. Demonstrations can die out in a whimper and protest movements can fade away. Just remember how Occupy Wall Street ended. And yes, naturally the ...

It's not so bad. If you really want to change the template for the action of doing something new (and disregard old conservatives as me and darthbarra...

Talking about fascism might indeed trivialize the discussion as the word is just a meaningless swearword used to berate something one doesn't like (an...

They will just have to wait a couple of years that the US makes up it's own problems so bad that the US either it will not care or doesn't have the ab...

What opening? Am I understanding you correctly? Do you think that the people of Hong Kong could change China because they could "ask for socialism"? A...