Yep. I guess it is the American vitriolic style of juxtapositioning things to good and evil that makes the discourse so inherently dumb. My wife has a...
Oh I wasn't specifically talking to you. But seems like you thought so. Which is telling. I do have faith in what the UN Peacekeepers have observed in...
Serious question: why is critisizing the actions of Israel anti-semitic? Is this the case that only being Jewish or an Israeli, you can be critical of...
Conspiracies and false flags happen, but one has to look from the broader perspective on these issue and notice that sooner or later history writing w...
Should one remind that if we could have as much gold we could have, the soft, malleable inert metal resistant to nearly all acids would be used in a l...
Both in the left and the right there is allways a contest for the leadership role between the moderates and the extrememists. If in the left it previo...
You are correct, Sam26. You can have a lot of views about MMT, but the theory's existence itself tells that the World has indeed changed. Just how muc...
A very good article about MMT, thanks! Yet MMT is a perfect example of economists making a theory of how the present is totally different from the pas...
What you actually do in legislation is what counts, not what kind talk you give. But on the discourse side, yes, the Democratic party is basically wha...
Only by American standards the Democratic party seems pretty far to the left. Likely Americans would be simply shocked about how "leftist" conservativ...
That Russians now that best thing in this time of fake news is to turn everything upside down and accuse others, go on the attack. However baseless or...
Conservatism and right-wingers and right-wing ideology aren't synonyms. Just like "liberal", in the American use of the term, hasn't much to do with t...
Likely Sessions held to his position by firing McCabe. If he wouldn't accepted Trump's petty wishes of taking away a pension from a person retiring fr...
I think that Trump is becoming so emboldened that soon he will fire Mueller. He was so happy with taking McCabe's pensions and soon he won't have anyb...
Fact is that people believe Alex and they think they are intelligently critical when they believe Alex Jones. Besides, it's telling how Jones once jum...
Sound extremely delusional bullshit to me. But perhaps one should give credit for wrapping the age old bullshit of racism with new definitions like "r...
Well, if everything is taken from you, then I guess things like food to survive you don't buy, but is given to you. Everybody needs food to survive. S...
Some definitions on fascism, Likely you get the picture what fascism really is: (Merriam Webster) Then definitions from genuine fascists: (Benito Muss...
Yes. Because it's not communism. When you think about communism, the transfer of wealth isn't what it's about because then you would start from the as...
Small question: are countries bad? If we are talking about Ukraine or some specific political event, is it relevant then to say "but the US dropped at...
Well, as I said "one-sided criticism lacks is the ability to put things into perspective". That you think it would be better if Saddam Hussein could h...
That's a car I would imagine someone like Benkei would buy. Comfortable, well built, useful, not too expensive yet good quality. A car that someone wr...
You perfectly prove my point! :rofl: :clap: That a dictator, that ruined his country by first starting a disasterous war against it's neighbour, Iran,...
Perhaps it's not the moral judge it says it is, but still... What Great Power wouldn't have it's burden of wrongdoings? Yet does that mean there aren'...
Ukrainians do truly regret giving away there own nuclear arsenal. Even if they had kept just a few missiles and maintained them in order, a small nucl...
Oh, you don't think terrorist groups think of themselves being the vanguard of a emerging resistance movement? Like the name Rote Armee Fraktion doesn...
Hear, hear. The only reason I come up to this happening is the following: people think that if they admit that the Assad regime is behind horrors, mea...
I still don't understand what you say lacks credibility. You should make the argument why it lacks credibility. - That Al Qaeda's strategy with the 9/...
I would say that we use models to understand reality usually for some purpose. And some models appear to be so obvious and are so useful that we defin...
You are correct that this characterization creates the flawed oversimplified perception: as if nations and their governments, even those run by despot...
Sure, My own opinion is that the 9/11 attackers and Al-Qaeda itself ought to have been processed just like the Twin Tower bombing of 1993 as a terrori...
Sorry, but you are referring to the wrong war. I'm talking ABOUT the so-called Gulf War here (Desert Shield/Desert Storm). Not the American invasion o...
Bitter, your a reasonable person, so help me to understand this: Why cannot people understand the above? Because I find there to be this tendency to "...
(Where on Earth did my response go?) Anyway, really Descartes? The world would be a better Place if Saddam Hussein could have gotten Kuwait? Your resp...
So you cannot talk about Russia without also addressing the US. Can you talk about, let's say, Sweden without the US? Can Swedish foreign policy and t...
He seems doing well in terms of getting things done??? Ummm... one year and what has he done? Nominated a judge to the Supreme Court and a tax cut tha...
It's so typical and obvious from this thread: somehow to be critical of the actions of the US seems to mean that one has to be a total apologist for o...
Are you reading what I write? I said that banking is exactly the problem because ordinary people cannot get a loan with a reasonable interest rate. Th...
No, People avoided jail (in the US) simply because of political connections and the unwillingness of the Bush and Obama governments to implement the e...
And not only industries but ordinary people. Why people in the Third World countries remain poor is because they cannot get a loan to buy their own ho...
But Trump is responsible for the actions he takes and those he doesn't (as not doing anything does have consequences too) when in charge. What the Tru...
What is your reasoning? Basic banking is a service just as anything: those who have savings will get an interest, the banker then chooses which people...
That simply doesn't work. It has been proven again and again. And it basically goes against the whole idea of entrepreneurship. If you take a risk, yo...
Well Agustino, entrepreneurs do run the economy. But if companies are making fewer investments, people are spending less, that has an effect on what e...
Oh I agree with this one. After all, he just focuses on his base as he (perhaps correctly) understands he has absolutely no way to get new supporters....
Wouldn't it be better to ask the other way around? What do people think about science as a philosophy? My answer is that people stating their philosop...
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