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But that's not thinking! Not good in writing with my left hand as I've not done it, but I guess with training I could do two different short sentences...

I can't? Then what do you mean with "thinking the sentences"? I can easily visualize the two statements. I think about two people saying the sentences...

Lol. Well, with a brief google search on the topic and it looks clear that the problem is a totally inflamed political environment about the issue. Su...

I really wouldn't see the reason in entrenched misogyny or anything like that (even if I don't know Australian politics so well). Sorry, but apart fro...

The US is just old fashioned. We have here a parliament 46% female, 54% male and I thinkis that quite close enough. Especially when below 50% of the c...

Perhaps the reason is just that few will get a lofty academic position to study "male studies". And the university leadership will think: "Well, we ha...

Yep, quite a Trumpian exoneration. Really? Why? The argument that they were just sloppy doesn't hold. They were trying to build a Trump building even ...

That's right, before 2015 Putin wouldn't have time to speak to a egoistic American millionaire.Now it's a bit different. I assume Assange, Glenn's old...

I've thought for a long time that the Trump-Putin connection has been one of the biggest intelligence coups of all time. Still, even if all the 'too-f...

Why do you play with that absurd fantasy? And why would they be so smart in clinging on to the two party system in the first place? I think that smart...

This is the reason why it won't work. For victimhood to be successfull there has to be a common feeling of guilt and wrongdoing, the need for others t...

Or either party breaks up in two. Imagine how that would look like either with Republicans or Democrats.

Why don't you enlighten us about when "men of science" have killed people. Science is just a method, you know. I would call Joseph Mengele more a nazi...

There a mountain of difficulties made for 3rd parties to engage the political system, but the biggest obstacle is the view of the people. Voting a 3rd...

This is so true. In fact it's great to talk about the issue with Finns who have moved or been in the US. Many fall in love with the libertarian side o...

And this faith in your two party system upholds the corrupt two party system. Philosophically it's interesting, this utter lack of trust in the democr...

Assange is the perfect example of the impossibility of independent investigative whistleblowing on a large scale. You either follow one actors fiddle ...

No, incorrect. Citizens of the US don't have a social obligation to serve in the military. In my country we do, there's obligatory conscription. You c...

Oh I agree, Maw. They were just the loudest. Just like hmm...now. What is silent is the moderate center.

Interesting to end the conversation and then continue. Well, I've tried to make my point that Scruton is a scruffy old conservative and tried to expla...

I'm not so sure. You see, rising prosperity makes population growth to decrease. India hasn't had any kind of similar policies, yet look at the change...

Of course. There naturally is a political struggle between the right and the left in every Nordic country. But my emphasis is in that there are broad ...

That's a good point you are making, andrewk. Yet you shouldn't forget that the media at the time tried to make it as intense as possible. So when (her...

Tell that to senator Tammy Duckworth. I'll tell a little anecdote of my wife. We had Parliamentary elections here just last sunday. As she is an immig...

Eaton made the article that got Scruton scrutiny so much that he was fired from a committee. So your argument why Scruton is islamophobic is the wordi...

Basically Bernie Sanders is close to European style social-democracy, which accepts the capitalist system. This social democratic view limits the acti...

Actually yes. Apart from Norway, which could indeed finance it's welfare programs through oil revenue (which it actually doesn't, it basically only sp...

I don't think so. At least the government doesn't. Actually the security apparatus of the US government has taken a well balanced view on what are the...

Population growth was a big bogaboo in the 1970's. Now it isn't. Only African countries might be worried. The thing is that likely in this Century we ...

Scandinavian countries aren't socialist, they are capitalist. Period. They surely have a long tradition of social-democrats in power and many welfare ...

God damn yourself. I have read your post and answered to it. Well, I assume that the whole response that people give to something should be considered...

Oh I'm dodging now comments? How about first saying that you aren't explicitly saying that he is an anti-semite and then saying he is making antisemit...

Perhaps you should start an organization called "Muslims for Trump" and go on Fox News. :joke: Fox News would love that (if they haven't got that pers...

So now the argument has changed from "there are no facts, just opinions" to this new argument that "facts are statements, which generated in the brain...

Thanks for your comments, Mr Phil O'Sophy Unfortunately you can paint an ugly picture of Islam (and many are extremely willing to do exactly that), bu...

I did read your posting. Oh yes, you just said that his comments are an undeniable antisemitic canard and you can't imagine he has a rosy view of Jews...

You might also use it too for a while. I really enjoy your thoughtful and insightful leftist responses in the forum, which aren't the typical kind of ...

How is death just an opinion?

Good points. And if we talk about the true hostility against muslims (and jews etc), one noticeable thing is that extreme-right terrorism deliberately...

You then have to give the a concrete example of the downplaying or ignoring a question put to him. So the interviewer really has to ask something that...

The problem is the conflation, which makes things worst. It creates the percieved if not actual "PC-culture" environment of "if you open your mouth on...

Certainly not? That's your answer? OK. :chin: What holocaust is he denying here? Again, where is the malevolence? I think your problem is simply that ...

I don't understand your logic, unenlightened. What is this malevolence you are talking about? Is Scruton encouraging to burn mosques, giving a green l...

Here's a question for you Ilya, How much should we pay for the military personnel in Russia and the US that sit in the missile silos and man the balli...

Now this is something that I call the critical reviewer's disease. You see, once you have attentively watched too many films and TV shows you get it. ...

Of course, IF the EU would be a genuine federation which would behave as real sovereign state, it would have the option to basically shove the Brexit ...

The EU benefits with the UK being in the EU. So we will continue to October... to only then perhaps start the final (?) transfer time for Brexit. So, ...

Thinking about the incident further, I think is academic philosophers make terrible government officials. Scruton isn't an official, but just sitting ...

I've listened to some lectures and speeches that Scruton has given. I don't think he is at all anything like an anti-semite. Just a traditional conser...

So this is dragged to October. So then (or later) a later date is given when Brexit actually happens, I think. Again EU is showing it's inability to d...