Nonsense! Have you ever heard of a system called a market? And it's simple math to trade with a basket of currencies. No, seriously, the global econom...
Well, it's taking a lousy effort to take care of itself. Because a lot of what it has depends on that it is a Superpower. Yet many think it's just the...
Would the rapid decline of the liberal democracy and replacement of it with populist autocracy that is supported by few extremely wealthy oligarchs do...
Why call it "so-called", if Trump helps Netanyahu's dream to be fulfilled? The next issue will be to argue that "ethnic cleansing" isn't genocide, bec...
Again with the strawmans, Tzeentch. Do we start with the Robber Baron's era or United Fruit Company or Halliburton, or go with the Koch Brothers or wi...
Well, if you are talking about the Trump family with also the Kushner family, I guess you are right: Add into the context Elon, and there's the obviou...
Again, it isn't fascism when the state is working on behalf and for one rich individual. And even if similar things have happened before, it hasn't be...
For a leader (of the executive branch) to try to seize the control of the other branches and also to stifle the free press is something that can indee...
Took so long into the Trump presidency? I guess how this discourse will go: remember FDR! The 22nd amendment is so new, just given in 1951. They have ...
Define what is "of particular note". Is it something like the collapse of the Soviet Union or unification of Germany? A financial crisis? Pandemic? En...
??? The divide is already there between the Russians and the Ukrainians. And Russians with others non-slavs. ACTUALLY.... The crap did start with the ...
I agree. Typically nations that are in peace might be vulnerable to sanctions, but a country that is transforming to a wartime economy doesn't care so...
They won't surely do that when Trump has such moments. Oh no. And one thing is of course that many Trump supporters are ignorant about a lot of things...
Lol. :lol: Don't assume that Americans would look objectively at both Biden and Trump in the gaffes they do. The vast majority of Americans are either...
Yes. Perhaps in many cases he doesn't have to care so much if the executive orders flop either in the courts or in Congress. Trump simply can state it...
We'll see how that goes. But he cannot bypass both houses. He would have to have quite the leadership skills by going on ruling without the Congress. ...
I wonder how that order will be implied when it's an Anti-Trump crowd trying to invade the White House. :snicker: Then it will be "I want the US Army ...
If you think about it, this idea of "Deus Vult" is all very same for all Abrahamic religions. I would argue that in Islam this is even more obvious as...
Talking critically about the policies and what Trump is doing while in power is whining about a lost election. Actually, any negative or critical talk...
Sending the military in has a look that the President is "really doing the most" to tackle an issue. Trump doesn't give a shit about federal, state an...
I'm not a great fan of Biden, never have been after the disaster in Afghanistan. And with Ukraine, the nuke scare worked like a charm on Biden. Even i...
Just as with the help of many computers you are having a discussion with a person from another continent, similarly the populist can reach more people...
Also, it's just far more easier for those in power to control the debate through AI. Imagine just how many people intelligence services and various se...
Just curious, why would you pick up a six-year old thread about Roger Scruton and urge everybody to watch a documentary about a reporter against the P...
The first question is "what cease-fire"? A prisoner exchange would be more proper definition that has happened. A "cease-fire" in the Israeli-Palestin...
Uh...will he finally finish that Big beautiful wall he talked so much? I guess that is forgotten, and won't come up as it is, um, a bit embarrassing r...
Is it 46,000? Time will tell. 46 or 64? Well, it's still in the tens of thousands. Not hundreds of thousands. So that's good. Yet it's a cease fire. W...
The real question is if China would try to occupy militarily Taiwan, which other countries would assist the US, if the US opted to intervene. Would Ja...
Hence we are far more open to hear what truly a Japanese writer writes and we don't immediately go for the character assassination. We tolerate views ...
Think about. What would we think about a writer that would be an ardent patriot like Mishima if he would be German? He would be the jingoist ultra-nat...
I'll try to give a thorough response to you here. Well, years ago when Ron Paul was campaigning for the Republican candidacy in 2008, I thought his si...
One should obviously understand modernity in order to understand the criticism of post-modernity. And as you say, "the context of the succession of so...
In my view Mishima is a great example how patriotism and nationalism and the militarism involved with that isn't something that we Europeans have inve...
There's truth to that. At the most simple level, we just love to look at our own navel and think about us. That modern life in other continents is qui...
Jihadism is a very broad term. I think we should talk more specifically about Sunni-extremism that followed Sayyid Qutb's ideas and came to be popular...
Bob should know why you went there. But then again Samir Amin, the Marxian economist who coined the term eurocentrism, thought that fascism was the ex...
Chaotic Latin joyfulness??? Ah, the wonderful national stereotypes. Well, this hasn't gone unnoticed when creating nation states and national identiti...
Nope. I just try to stick to the actual topic of the thread. In that sense, but then again this is also talk between two people who are interested in ...
Individuals talking about philosophy is a reason itself, as we can get new insights from each other and can improve ourselves with the discourse. I'm ...
Empiricism and science goes far further than this, and this was already evident during the time of the first empiricists. Science starts from theories...
If there is a reason for it, if the cooperation would be mutually good for all countries involved, why not? There has to be a reason. Otherwise it's j...
Your vision can be deceiving. You aren't using the scientific method if you just assume what you see is true. This is the kind of thinking that actual...
There are different kinds of political organizations. Some are just for talk, but some have a lot more beneficial effects than just leaders meeting ea...
Any object looks different from where you look at it. It's called perspective. Perspective doesn't refute truth or falsity of a statement regarding ob...
Not higher, but something that Finns can relate to with other Northern European countries. Hence Swedes, Norwegians and Finns etc. can refer happily t...
How? Seems you value them to be similar, that one isn't better than the other, at least theoretically to make a theoretical argument. And not knowing ...
And this obviously is the reasoning just why not all historical cultures came to the conclusion that Earth is round. Eratosthenes had to have a lot of...
??? Trying to troll me exactly the way I said that Flat Earthers troll us? Or are you really serious? :smirk: I don't understand your viewpoint. If th...
Because Faroa Islands aren't a sovereign state, they are part of Denmark. Even if they have autonomy, just like Greenland or Åland Islands have autono...
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