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The Marx brothers are still awesome. As I child when I was in Seattle (for two years), my father took us to this incredible movie theatre showing blac...

:up: A great reminder that film is art.

- Unchecked power breeds corruption. If you can get away with it, why not? Nobody notices, you would be a fool not to do it. - A bureaucracy that does...

As there are good lists, I would add perhaps - One movie from Charlie Chaplin: Perhaps City Lights or Goldrush, The Kid, the Great Dictator... https:/...

It cannot. If the members oppose what the US wants, then the US has to forget the organization and go to bilateral defense agreements. That happened w...

Because why then Russia would attack? Mere muscle flexing in one large military exercise would have done it. No need to attack Ukraine. Now you are to...

Just the way as the Ukrainian defense minister admits it in the article: Ukraine is not de jure member of NATO, which means that Russia didn't attack ...

I think one can speak simply about free speech, because even if you want to make the difference with American free speech and the issue in other count...

The assistance Ukraine got...which in earnest only happened only after Russia attacked Ukraine. Finland and Sweden have had for a long time have had t...

Why??? Nonsense. Being a member of a mutual defense pact means that other members come to your defense literally. No country has any defense agreement...

Umm...nobody is committing themselves to Ukrainian defense except Ukraine itself and Germany surely isn't. If it sends Leopard 2 MBTs along all other ...

If you count with that equation the "decent salary of all employees (bonuses, B)", that is a fixed term cost that cannot be easily change (or then you...

So Germany, or the German Chancellor, couldn't make up his mind about giving Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine or even accepting that other countries like Po...

A Great article! First have to quote that article on what it says about Russian propaganda, which has been prevalent in the discussion here too: Yet c...

From the first article: Actually, this is a very interesting thought. But what should be noticed that this isn't about the basic principles of a corpo...

And what about then government owned companies? At least their owner is perpetual (or acts like it) and there is even less liability.

It's basically an issue of time: Russia can transform it's military industrial complex to wartime in year or two. The idea that sanctions work is nons...

That were intended to make a profit. What's so bad about that? Profit is someone's salary, and at least workers were justified to get a salary.

Economic/political ideas how to replace capitalism, which have been tried again and again, were not and have not been historially so good. Critique is...

One thing that should be noticed is that it's missiles only, which shows basically that Russia failed from day one until today to cripple Ukrainian ai...

Well, actually gold and other precious metals you can barter / pay directly and make a physical transaction with ease. And keep the possession of the ...

Especially when moving borders is quite rare these days in conflicts... especially the ones the US does. Last time the US made annexations like Russia...

In all kinds of cases. If you start an enterprise with your friends, likely the division will be done similarly: if people will give majority of their...

What has happened is that a convincing story based on reality and genuine facts was successfully sold to people desperately looking for the new thing ...

Uh, no. I'm referring when in various countries a so-called "Police Departments" emerged I think in the 17th Century. Of course a similar role as now ...

Sure. Homo sapiens has existed for 200 000 years. Advanced societies have been around only for a tiny part of time of that. As @"180 Proof" already no...

:up: :100: Especially if people making this flawed argument then do make moral claims for taking up arms etc. if there's another state as the attacker...

No need to reply as Christoffer said it already: about countries fighting wars. Obviously there are other kinds of wars too, but see above. As I said,...

Likely those people who own the property and/or basically who have gotten the 100 people together for the project make a suggestion on how the profits...

Yes, Isaac, there can be civil wars. Daft like you arguing that Ingushetia is a part of Checnnya and Chechnya has somehow broken away from Russia? You...

I would disagree. This isn't the late 90's or the '00s as then you would have a point. And that just shows how willing European countries were to embr...

You have peace when countries accept the present drawn borders. From history you can always find different borders. Longing for justice, that the pres...

Wrong. UK doesn't have any imperial aspirations towards Ireland... except naturally the part of the Island that it has. And that was the issue. Have y...

Really? Haven't taken any measures? Let's take the example of Sweden: So Sweden has introduced back conscription, has deployed troops on Gotland islan...

Many countries can have border disputes and tense relations. Worst in Europe are perhaps Greece and Turkey, who likely have avoided a full-blown war b...

REALLY??? Or is somehow Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States not in Europe? I beg to differ here. And that obviously would have continued if Russia hadn...

Quite insufficient information. (Perhaps on purpose.) Who has made the investment? All 100 equally? The equipment, the capital, is owned equally by th...

Picking up details and individuals, or the fact that the countries were colonial powers, doesn't make us to recall the fact that UK and France went ac...

Really? I remember that both France and the UK declared war on Germany. I think that doesn't sound like "nobody cared". The simple fact that these cou...

This was obvious in 2014. The creation of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics obviously show that there were those in support of them, yet importan...

? The obvious answer is yes, they did fight also, but didn't get the needed aid to continue the fight. Poland was overrun and divided by Hitler and St...

As I stated earlier, Putins (hence Russia's) position is quite opportunist. If ideologically imperialist Russia is close to ultra-conservatism and the...

Well, with these kind of union participation percentages, I doubt it. And I think these low participation rates are the reason just why employers in t...

Look at the discussion earlier discussion to get the hang of it. And who has gotten money from Putin. http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5487047...

My emphasis is on what the actual political system can deliver. Not what it could theoretically deliver. Yes, the US could simply copy the smartest mo...

Referring here to ? Actually he is totally correct that many share parts of the ideology that you can call them allies as @"SophistiCat" said. In shor...

Still doesn't make a difference: A true Putinista is obviously someone or a movement/group who supports and works for Putin's objectives and agenda. N...

It's a good sign that debate on this thread has diminished. Hopefully it won't pick up.

It's already been broken. For a long time. The basic problem is that the US simply cannot change course without a financial crisis. And that actually ...

I think the ugly deserves to be the focus of art too. And it can be well done with talent also. But of course, art can give us more than just beauty. ...