Why was the women beautiful in the first place? Her fault. She had the rape coming! Sorry, no matter what you say and try obstinately push the Russian...
This is a very interesting point you make, @"baker". Plebeian mentality might well be the root of the ideology. Our society, even if there is a democr...
It's telling that you forget the Philippines and the Filipinos. An invasion that started ten hours after Pearl Harbor, lasted until 1945 with half a m...
Populism is a political narrative. It surely can be used in any society, but it is part of the political discourse in a democratic system. If people a...
And why is that? Because the state of Pakistan had it's own security agenda, which the Bush administration didn't care a shit about. There were there ...
And a democracy to function, it ought to have the ability change the individuals that are in power. Violence already means that democracy isn't workin...
When you take the side of the aggressor, you have to vilify the victim. Hence a) Ukrainians have no agency over their own country and b) they have to ...
Hmm, after 554 pages @"Tzeentch", perhaps we indeed should let the historians answer these issues. If you have the time, here's a good (but extremely ...
That's the point: there is much to tell what is wrong. It can be a great narrative. Many times it can be the politician that falls out from the "in-cr...
Prodding the bear, lol. Still going strong with Putin's narrative of US coups and NATO enlargement. And let's not forget Ukrainian Nazis! :joke: Oh po...
Umm...let's look at some definitions populism. Your definition is more like saying "Yep. Populists got it right!" :wink: This is a very valid point. W...
Yet do note what Bernays says: And it isn't just the democratic society, It's every society. That vast numbers of human beings live together simply ne...
Isn't it obvious? That the Pakistanis did support their creation and gave it a safe haven. Or you really think that OBL who was was next to a Pakistan...
Maybe Finland might not fulfill your delusional fantasies of ethnic cleansing. At least no Israeli officials came here to talk about it. They went to ...
Umm.. a bit hard to follow. But then again, so is reading Nietzsche. Ok. Well, in such complex systems as our modern societies, the masses are quite h...
I think you misunderstood my reasoning here. If this thread becomes political, meaning it discusses Israel/Palestine, then it's not a philosophical di...
This is so true. Israel is really changing. The Israel @"BitconnectCarlos" is depicting is something especially the older generation still sees in the...
The are differences, of course. And of course, as it's so obvious in our times, the term populist can also be hurled as an insult on someone who doesn...
I assume this Chomsky you talk about isn't the Noam we know, because I don't think he's a zionist. Nietzsche is a great philosopher to quote, but perh...
Good that you point out this, because here lies one important reason why populism is in the end anti-democratic. After all, if you have corrupt leader...
As stated earlier, the Japanese attack wasn't comparable to a terrorist attack. It really was a traditional military invasion. Remember that the US ow...
Sorry if I was rude or impolite, didn't mean to. Just to emphasis that in order to have peace after war, it's not so simple as politicians say it is. ...
Lol. That's too expensive for me, at least! And of course the feeling is extremely limited. It won't give you the feeling what's it like to be in a sp...
This place! What better way to inform yourself about philosophy and current event than discuss them with you guys. I've been an avid computer gamer, b...
Emigration happens even in far less dire situations. A huge number of Finns emigrated to Sweden to work in the 1960's and the1970's, which actually to...
Yet it doesn't erase the difference between the objective and the normative. Or science and moral philosophy, as you put it. If moral norms solve coop...
You might set your objective to that you fight a war to an unconditional surrender, but that doesn't mean that it happens automatically. Meaning that ...
Do notice the extremely important thing: 3/4 of the population owned lots. Even if they were very small lots and had only a couple of cows and few pat...
:100: :up: Some go with October 7th as the justification for "taking the gloves off" and everything else would be "appeasement" for them. This is a wa...
If you ask for unconditional surrender and assume to get an unconditional surrender, then there has to be someone that SURRENDERS! Notice when the Ger...
Yes. But that's the way nuclear weapons bring peace, one might argue. Yet once there here, the nuclear arsenals of Russia, US and in the future of Chi...
That's a very good point. The Swedish account just shows how things like land reform have a lot more nuances as usually is portrayed. And so is with c...
As I thought you were a proponent of capitalism and individualism, I think it's strange that here you go with Marx. Of course everything has to do wit...
First, let's look at what you said: First, look at the graph above with the population of England. Now, do you really think that the army of workers r...
The enclosure movement started when? In the middle Ages? What I remember is that this took a HUGE time in England, whereas the division of common land...
The obvious has already happened: a lot of ships are going around Africa now. And the US is totally clueless here. When it has failed even creating a ...
Well, where did Bertrand Russell end up? I think the reason for the "linguistic turn" is obvious: if you find things that are problematic and you cann...
I don't think it's tricky. Where you live and have been born and where your family has lived ought to give the right call that your home. The US has h...
Do you think Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Husserl are postmodernists??? You think Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is postmodern thought? ...
:grin: :grin: :lol: REALLY? YOU NOS4A2??? Let me get this straight. YOU take Karl Marx not as a political philosopher, one major political ideologue o...
As having studied economic history in the university, this sounds quite strange. :brow: The basic reason is exactly the same why people choose to work...
I don't think so. I still think that their focus is on the societal aspects of mathematics, starting perhaps with the way it's taught. Postmodernists ...
Or is on the table. A traumatized event leaves politicians to do something dramatic. It cannot be something of the ordinary or otherwise the leaders a...
A bit off the topic, but this also is something not so obvious, was it the atomic bombs or was it actually the Russian attack on Japan? Or both? https...
Winning a war is one thing, what to do then is another. Winning the peace is the fact that is missing here. Perhaps you don't get my point: there has ...
These kinds of incidents do tell something. As did for example the case where Israeli hostages taken by Hamas tried to surrender to Israeli forces (wh...
Facts? Seems you don't even notice in your thinking the obvious myths you cling to: The obvious myth here is that somehow people that have lived ages ...
It's actually the basic concept of Douhet's argument from the 20's: strategic bombing ends wars more quickly. And simply the invasion of Japan planned...
Russia's next move: Transnistria asking for help!!! Let's see when how this is masked to be a NATO plot, especially when Moldova is neutral by it's co...
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