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As I said. We Finns are genuinely surprised that we should be the most happy people in the World. Like, really? What the hell is wrong you with others...
February 06, 2025 at 20:01
I can see the link. Yeah, Bibi likely learned a lot new when listening to Trump. But it was a beautiful sound for him. Now ethnic cleansing or "moving...
February 06, 2025 at 17:16
Yet one crucial thing didn't happen during the Financial Crisis of 2008 as did with the S&L crisis earlier is that nobody went to jail. Only one pyram...
February 06, 2025 at 16:34
Think for a moment about it. Without time, you wouldn't see movement. Time is an integral part of motion and movement. The coin takes time of what, on...
February 06, 2025 at 11:31
Can you prove that movement doesn't exist? If there's any kind of motion, there has to be time.
February 06, 2025 at 11:00
I think Rubio's time as secretary of state will end sooner or later. He, Marco Rubio, is already showing the signs of "being the adult in the room", w...
February 06, 2025 at 09:10
Even if I consider myself a conservative, I will take the benefits of a welfare system to a system without it. The largest benefits are simply not mea...
February 06, 2025 at 08:31
It is true that Freddie and Fannie went along with the excesses (I think both directors were fired), but great example of an totally reckless actor wa...
February 06, 2025 at 07:04
Nope. It wasn't government run banks that made the 2008 financial crisis. Ninja-loans happened because of the twisted incentives in the market like th...
February 05, 2025 at 14:35
Oh, those will surely go. But that won't do it. Sooner or later will come a hickup in the form of a crisis. US administrations just push it forward an...
February 05, 2025 at 14:29
Hope you get good treatment! I think it has been discussed here earlier just why the US system is so expensive. It's when people's first contact to he...
February 05, 2025 at 06:56
What in the WW2 example is usually forgotten is that huge change that happened of one spending totally ending, fighting the war, that opened another t...
February 05, 2025 at 05:49
He will start to insist on the actions he talks about. No way to avoid that. This is why we will have the trade war. Rubio, clearly a normal Republica...
February 04, 2025 at 23:28
They clearly did. They wanted something similar, yet they also got a lot with that. Notably Trump and also Musk, which the latter they might not have ...
February 04, 2025 at 22:55
As I've stated again and again. Elon Musk will be the most hated man in the US in the future. You see, it will be alright for the South African born b...
February 04, 2025 at 22:27
You are wrong, at least in my opinion. The history wasn't like that. Believe or not, but Lapland was very much uninhabited and is still quite uninhabi...
February 04, 2025 at 19:39
Fascist? Again an awkward use of the term fascism. It's basically eugenics and racist ideas, not fascism. Sweden or Norway (or Finland) weren't fascis...
February 04, 2025 at 07:43
For 30 days. Time for companies to start looking at ways to evade tariffs, if they hadn't thought that Trump is serious... And US steel producers read...
February 04, 2025 at 07:10
Yeah. Peace with Israel has continued without Islamists taking over. So? Or you think it would be better to have Egypt as a failed state too, somethin...
February 03, 2025 at 20:04
It's going to be as chaotic like this. This is 100% Trump. Simply US soft power and role is going to demolish. How on Earth will they (DOGE) look over...
February 03, 2025 at 08:36
A bit off the topic, but Swedes had similar policies. I think we Finns didn't, because we were looked down upon as Mongols by the Swedish racists of t...
February 03, 2025 at 07:40
I think that we are talking about autocracy and totalitarianism rather than just fascism. Totalitarianism would be more useful than the just fascism. ...
February 03, 2025 at 07:22
Oh no! On the contrary. Read some Lenin and you can see the populist elements in bolshevism and in Marxism-Leninism. Imperial Russia wasn't obviously ...
February 02, 2025 at 20:20
Kash Patel in his confirmation hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee naturally had no idea of the insurrectionist that had pleaded guilty and now ...
February 02, 2025 at 20:13
And here's why populism leads to fascism: by emphasizing the divide between the rulers and the "ordinary people" and stating that key societal problem...
February 02, 2025 at 20:04
Hell with all USAID? Well good that a 45 million program out of 42,5 billion was found out, but I guess all of them can go when you can cheer for 0,00...
February 02, 2025 at 19:46
What do you know, nuclear deterrence works. Supplying arms to one side isn't going to war. Never has been. And that supplying arms has been the issue....
February 02, 2025 at 10:27
:100: :up: With the realism you argue for, Finland never would have made it against the Soviet Union. We would have suffered the part like the Baltic ...
February 01, 2025 at 16:11
All I'm saying that this is quite similar as many other reasons given for conflicts. I agree that it's totally unfruitful to ponder who is right and w...
January 31, 2025 at 12:03
It really isn't so different. It's just marketed as such. Do notice that Israel has expanded the jewish colonies in order to make more clear that the ...
January 30, 2025 at 12:00
Of course. And the real issue perhaps is how not only does the "Overton Window" of what is acceptable change, a lot of policies can have a surprising ...
January 30, 2025 at 10:57
At least Trump does react to polls and his supporters, so a lot that Trump has promised to do won't happen. Also the courts will defy his most insane ...
January 30, 2025 at 07:05
I guess that the reasoning of remember 10/7 will have the lifespan as 9/11 was the reason for intervening everywhere. About two decades at most. For y...
January 30, 2025 at 06:46
I'm not following your reasoning here at all. It doesn't make any sense. First of all, any secessionist movement where one people get independence fro...
January 29, 2025 at 20:40
The whole Israeli objective is to make living unbearable and basically impossible in Gaza. As long as Israel's trading partners don't be upset about i...
January 29, 2025 at 16:09
Neomac, that is the issue here. When have Palestinian refugees that have fled had the ability to come back? Never. Not after 1948, not after 1967. Hen...
January 29, 2025 at 16:01
These kind of statistics were given and noticed in Brexit, btw, when people started looking at what the Poles and other EU-citizens were doing in the ...
January 29, 2025 at 12:03
What is helpful for Ukraine is new technology that has given it the chance to hit back at Russia in a way before only was possible if you could have a...
January 29, 2025 at 11:53
Anyone suggesting that forced removal of people from where they have always lived is practical, or a great solution, should then be ready to take thos...
January 29, 2025 at 11:26
I remember someone saying that basically set theory was first seen as a way to finally solve the problematic nature of analysis. I was a casualty of t...
January 29, 2025 at 06:35
Israel's basic paradox is that it would need a strong state capable of defending it's territory (as Egypt and Jordan) in order for there to be peace. ...
January 28, 2025 at 18:23
Category theory would be the philosophers companion here, but uh... we haven't been trained in category theory in school or in the university. That is...
January 28, 2025 at 14:53
Your enemy in a conflict is naturally destabilizing. How could it be something else, because it's your enemy? Yet you can see the obvious problem with...
January 28, 2025 at 12:47
I disagree. The PLO doesn't have it's roots in Islamism, as Hamas has. As the area had been part of the Ottoman Empire, with the exception of Egypt, t...
January 28, 2025 at 11:42
Clausewitz looks at war from the perspectives of nations states, but there's the notion of war as a civil war, which is a rather different kind of mon...
January 27, 2025 at 11:51
@"Maw" made that remark six years ago, so at least for me the link is saying "not found". Yeah, not everything stays in the net. And Scruton died five...
January 27, 2025 at 11:43
Well, umm.... in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory infinity is taken as an axiom. Hence there's no proof for infinity. Then there's open question of the Con...
January 27, 2025 at 11:23
The issue here is that the Palestinian identity is fixed on Palestine, the territory, just as Zionism has fixed the Jewish identity on the land of Isr...
January 27, 2025 at 10:52
Forced transfer or forced settlement has been used numerous of times, famously used by Stalin and the Soviet Union to control it's Empire. Ethnic clea...
January 27, 2025 at 02:50
Model Trumpian choice. Wanted as governor of South Dakota to deploy the local National Guard to the southern border with the financing of a billionair...
January 26, 2025 at 16:22