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Or maybe they just to close their ranks even more and become even more dedicated to "the cause". You see, there is the option of seeing this as an evi...
May 28, 2019 at 22:59
The below picture is not photoshopped. In the picture there is the now former (then acting) President of Finland Tarja Halonen (President of Finland 2...
May 28, 2019 at 22:40
Here's a good discussion about the topic with the perpetrat..., sorry, the authors of the bogus articles . And their video about what they did basical...
May 28, 2019 at 21:48
First, let's read what actually the Bible says about this: So Ilya, what do you think subduing means? What do you think having dominion over actually ...
May 28, 2019 at 21:34
From the article: What is actually new in this interpretation? I think it's rather close to the Copenhagen interpretation in quantum physics.. just en...
May 28, 2019 at 21:13
Is a progressive tax system better for a government than a fixed rate system? When asking the question if progressive taxation is better than fixed ra...
May 21, 2019 at 19:29
Embracing your tribe? I remember earlier there was this French guy who attacked famous people by throwing cream cakes at their faces (in the old slaps...
May 21, 2019 at 18:55
So saying that political violence isn't OK means... that I find it more objectionable than selling arms to Saudi Arabia??? Confusing. Sorry, have to g...
May 19, 2019 at 23:12
You seem not to know the term justice state, oikeusvaltio in Finnish. The proper definition would be perhaps Rechtsstaat, where the power of the state...
May 19, 2019 at 23:04
Jesus Christ, of course they can be! And it's on the individual to look at where he or she draws the line with direct action. Yet what I do not accept...
May 19, 2019 at 22:32
And they opposed an actual occupier, an enemy. But I think you can understand that I was talking about the present and the West in general. The US isn...
May 19, 2019 at 22:20
RAF members took West Germany in my life time to be Nazi Germany... And I wouldn't call West Germany the Third Reich. Yeah, I wasn't talking about Syr...
May 19, 2019 at 22:15
I put to par only those that engage in violence and terrorism. They are indeed equal, no matter on what side they are.
May 19, 2019 at 22:11
I recall correctly from a FBI document published before Charlottesville: right-wing terrorism is typical done by individuals in an act rising from opp...
May 19, 2019 at 22:00
Not really. If you think that to be a vigilante is totally OK or that the police cannot handle some small fringe cabal of neonazis, then I have to dis...
May 19, 2019 at 21:35
Having gloves on is basically what a representational democracy and justice state is about. Discussion does matter. Belief in elections does matter.
May 19, 2019 at 21:20
It simply isn't subverted as it was in the 20th Century. Especially when focusing on the West, the idea that democracy is in peril is simply an overbl...
May 19, 2019 at 21:18
Your babbling over a false narrative, which you haven't explained. Weinstein has gone over these issues in other far lengthier discussions, which ther...
May 19, 2019 at 20:45
Yes. That's your problem. And actually mine. I personally remember paying in the early 1990's from an income less than 12 000$ a tax rate of 72,5%, wh...
May 19, 2019 at 19:44
OK, you don't get my point in this issue. Fine, on forwards. It's America. That he later goes to talk to the media and goes on talk shows can be seen ...
May 19, 2019 at 19:32
Fdrake, enemies are people you look at through the sights of your assault rifle hoping to incapacitate them, even kill them, before they kill you. Tho...
May 19, 2019 at 19:14
I wanted to go back on this. It seems like this type of vitriolic politics is being copied from the US to Europe (among other things). I think it's a ...
May 19, 2019 at 18:49
Ok, so there (assuming I have the right one), you say: And Bret Weinstein has explained this. He thought that it is quite different for a 'Day of Abse...
May 19, 2019 at 18:31
I'm not interested to listen to Spencer, but I think I agree with this. And Shapiro as political commentator and a talk show host indeed wants people ...
May 19, 2019 at 09:17
Yet one shouldn't go too far with this theory of a political gateway drug to nazism. Because it sounds like an argument like "if smoke marijuana, you'...
May 19, 2019 at 08:57
So Weinstein inserted himself to this (with apparently an outrageous and provocating email???) and then knowingly gave a false version of the events? ...
May 19, 2019 at 08:42
And this what we should really notice and stop here. There's no need for hysteria. Students being hysterical asses in Ivy League universities is rathe...
May 18, 2019 at 05:47
Well, both like authoritarianism and actually aren't so excited about liberal tolerance. Radicals always hate the present that we have and want real c...
May 17, 2019 at 21:57
Ah, like the class enemy is to the communist? Sounds like authoritarianism. Oppression, really? Without going into the sex and gender issue, I'll take...
May 17, 2019 at 21:53
I don't think everyone is. And besides, anyone saying that people should have the right of free speech obviously do then logically give the opening fo...
May 17, 2019 at 20:05
From the comments after the OP, I guess. What is the far right here? Is Scruton really a spokesperson for the far right? It is about the Overton windo...
May 17, 2019 at 19:40
In a society without free speach, which typically is a totalitarian society, this is a fact. People do behave differently. There is a genuine collecti...
May 17, 2019 at 13:28
I'd say it's an inherent part of a functioning democracy and basically acts as a safety valve. People are very adaptable and do quite easily adapt to ...
May 17, 2019 at 11:57
Likely higher. And likely there would have been more povetry across the continent especially in the 19th and early 20th Century. Just look at the plac...
May 17, 2019 at 08:45
There's a simple answer to all of this: there actually is an US immigration policy, which both parties when in power adhere to. Even if the rhetoric i...
May 17, 2019 at 08:35
I've learnt here that this is toxic centrism. Hear, hear Yet too many actors gain from the vitriolic nature of modern (non)debate. Heated debate creat...
May 17, 2019 at 08:18
Scruton and Murray do get to the point just why conservatism seems so feeble compared to the left (and I would also add compared to the extreme-right)...
May 16, 2019 at 11:43
That's the whole point! It's genuinely defining the limits of computable math. What here is important is to understand just how basic patterns are for...
May 15, 2019 at 20:44
Isn't everything itself a perfect model of itself? Following a map is somewhat difficult metaphor to understand. You see if there is a pattern, then w...
May 15, 2019 at 19:26
Back to the actual topic, here is the culprit talking among other things about this incident and conservatism in general to another wretched right-win...
May 15, 2019 at 16:48
There isn't? Well, even a philosophical school has to sell itself. The teachings have to interest someone and give an answer. Suffering fatalism that ...
May 15, 2019 at 06:40
This is the new normal. This guy is so bad and lousy he actually cannot do much, but the other guys are going to be even worse. Perhaps inability to d...
May 15, 2019 at 06:32
Look at you go! Your arrogance and ideological tribal fervor is so over the top that it's hilarious, yet so telling. Where did I say that the Koch's e...
May 15, 2019 at 06:24
If I remember correctly reading the bible, it's just the gospel of Matthew that makes the astounding claim of Deicide of the Jews and the Jews taking ...
May 14, 2019 at 08:49
Don't assume that people would be so logical. Trump was saying that 'Mexico will pay for the wall', yet when the reality is that 'The wall will be fun...
May 14, 2019 at 08:30
When it comes to billionaires giving money to political movements, parties and outright individual politicians, one naturally has to make the differen...
May 14, 2019 at 07:55
Hannover will be disappointed. At least Maw and Bitter Crank among others are genuine leftists...hopefully! I mean Jesus, what will be a Philosophy Fo...
May 11, 2019 at 18:11
I guess that was a compliment of some kind, fdrake.
May 11, 2019 at 18:00
Like um.... this is a thread about Roger Scruton? Why then bring up Richard Spencer? Oh I know the answer, it's a topic you discussed with someone els...
May 11, 2019 at 17:55
Yet Richard Spencer isn't mainstream and he does not portray the conservatives in the US. It's as stupid as saying that the marxist economist Richard ...
May 11, 2019 at 17:44