What Republicans don't understand that now Donald Trump has become what Hillary Clinton was for Republicans, a figure that makes them see red in anger...
A very interesting video of the effects of the Ukrainian war in the Russia near abroad. A nice summary of the troubled hot spots in the Russian sphere...
I agree. And that brings up the real question: what do we gain from the idea? What's the use? OK, we have a reality, be it however multiverse or whate...
I'm actually not so sure about that, unfortunately. Americans can easily be divided by party lines and made to hate each other. I think that's the bas...
Modern fighter jets shoot other jets and can shoot down cruise missiles. But shooting down artillery rockets is a different thing. And that example ju...
I think you didn't read my answer to the end. OK, let's say there would be a really stupid Ferrari dealer that didn't know (because he's Italian) that...
Except that's not a counterargument. That big retailers exploit their financial control over suppliers to hobble smaller competitors is a different ph...
No. Prices can go up (or down) for other reasons than money printing. And that's unfortunately the problem here. People have different definitions. Th...
Well, the problem is that for example the S-400 needs a search radar and a separate target acquisition/engagement radar. Similarly the Patriot system ...
How about a mind experiment? Assume every US citizen, child or adult, would be given 100 million dollars by the government. You really think that pric...
They can vote for a populist or whatever, but unfortunately retirees aren't going to be on the barricades either. Older people will just suffer and ta...
Yet you aren't on the barricades, are you? Is anybody else? And with a 5% inflation, just look how quickly your money will lose value. Let's say that ...
I remember reading somewhere that this "predatory pricing", as it's called, was used by the Byzantine empire to hold on to their monopoly in the silk ...
I assume you've never had the time or interest to learn economics. Or business. When you do get it, you don't. And that the issue here: for government...
Well, you can say that also for Russia's main battle tanks, artillery, warships too! Just replace the destroyed ones and train new crews! The problem ...
As I've mentioned (somewhere else), a friend that works in the local central bank (part of ECB) said years ago that the Fed is between a rock and a ha...
I think we are just talking of different things. Obviously you need both, but once you have the air force capable of winning air superiority, then you...
Yeah, well, and AWACS or a fighter cannot yet act as an fire control radar to a GBAD missile. Not yet, at least. And it doesn't go like "fire in that ...
And my point is just why other countries would have zero incentive to trade with the West? Many countries would be happy if the world trade would be d...
No, it is true. Just look at history: if you have a capable air force that can gain air superiority, then most of the kills will be done in air-to-air...
Fighters are an integral and important part of air defense. Naturally you need GBAD starting from securing the airfields of the fighters, but the fact...
I agree. Although just how many incels there really are is an important question. Is this really an important question or not? Or just put up there as...
It's actually important to understand that when we talk about defence spending, procurement and maintainance make only a smaller part of the spending ...
Because the World needs Russian resources. And Russia is now China's gas station. Crucial for Russia, rather important for China. Nope. The vast major...
? Just think what you are saying, @"Tzeentch". Since WW1, it has been obvious that ground based air defence GBAD has a more effective alternative, nam...
I don't think the war in Ukraine really erodes the position of the US. The fact is that the World cannot just go out with Russian oil and raw material...
There's one thing I should point out here about Europe: West European countries that belong to NATO have really based their security around the defens...
Not only that. Also because Americans think they have to have a gun to protect their home from criminals. Not for hunting (although there are people s...
Because of pacification of the held areas, Russia isn't advancing? How about the simple fact that neither side has the capability for large-scale mane...
Flat earthers are actually the best example of this click bait culture, which dominates the internet. An argument that can be shown to be false simply...
An eloquent comment, yet I would think that the generalization of the "non-western countries" goes a bit too far off as these are individual states ma...
Shame is something that the society has put on to people by condemnation... which in the modern case is then viewed as oppression and hence the "posit...
Yes it is. And as victimhood and being different is so fashionable today, the idea of being an incel isn't so bad, at least in the horrible self-help ...
Well, why not then start with the obvious: the internet. The ability there to find your own echo chamber. How public discourse has change because of s...
Yet usually we try to answer the questions in the OP, right? And as @"Vera Mont" said, this is an phenomenon brought by the internet. So it's much mor...
Well, I guess people don't read what the Bible says about the role of women. And about women in general. It's still a useful source (the Bible, that i...
If there would be logic to this, wouldn't the "post-post philosophy" simply be the old philosophy again, in some developed form? This feels a bit shal...
And isn't that more about the internet? Note how the OP was written: Thus the issue you refer to would be the incel "movement". Not about the other qu...
Like Russia or Putin? Well, that I don't think the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th Century. But Putin d...
Not if you actually look at the OP, actually. :roll: Hence the incel movement should, as you take, be more about internet culture. There ought not to ...
Then I guess the definition "a person (usually a man) who regards himself or herself as being involuntarily celibate" isn't so important as there obvi...
Well, I just don't like when countries invade others. I didn't like it when Bush invaded Iraq or Afghanistan either. Or when Saudi-Arabia attacked Yem...
What is different is that you can state that you are an incel far more easily. No wonder that "incels" became a thing in the net. All those hours in f...
Seems a lot of excitement with Bakhmut falling from the usual commentators. Masterful "soviet" propaganda schemes to appear weak... (Comes to my mind ...
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