ChatteringMonkey

I've seen the term used a lot lately, but I'm not sure what post-liberal is supposed to mean exactly. That NY scene you describe is similar to how thi...

Ok, I guess I just don't agree with this, not necessary that the things you listed aren't part of earth's trends, but that the list seems selective to...

It's Pagan, that is pre-platonic or non-universalist. Trump doesn't have a coherent direction or principles other than doing or saying what keep him i...

Hi Amadeus, no worries, thank you for the reply. I generally agree with you concerning the factors that might go into the amount of greenhouse gasses ...

I may have missed the argument for this, but what are the trends, and how do human rights and the UN conventions align with this exactly? This doesn't...

I would say 1) that the direction is not entirely fixed, and that we are an increasingly larger part of that system, if you look for instance at the p...

The idea that we understand the whole is merely a feeling Seeker. All life views things from a perspective, we are no different. The ecological/system...

Yes and this is, as you probably know, one of Nietzsches main issues with a purely utilitarian view on morality. We need some adversity to be able to ...

Here's maybe something to ponder. The history of life on earth has been one of punctuated equilibria, where you had on the one hand longer relative st...

Yes ultimately nothing is sustainable. Or put another way, sustainability is a matter of shorter or longer duration. All other things being equal, mos...

Convention, the social contract, can have a similar function as 'objective/intersubjective truth' within a particular group for the atheist... but nob...

How did you come to that conclusion? It's not that I don't want to believe it, it's that it seems to me that if you look at our history that seems lik...

And now the Russians are "alarmed" by the troups Europe is sending to prevent the US from taking Greenland, under the guise of "defending it from the ...

Trump clearly wants to own Greenland because as @"Tzeentch" points out they possibly want to anticipate a split between Europe and the US. What Europe...

One could say that indirectly the Dutch are the root of the issues of the inuit greenlandians because they invented capitalism. Or maybe more accurate...

You could be right. Geo-politically and culturally it does make sense that they would want to go that direction (the Anglosaxons nations that is), but...

Yes that's what I was thinking too. It's part of where they see the world going, they want to insulate themselves from an increasingly chaotic outside...

If he needs Greenland for his Golden dome, then I presume he will need Canada too, otherwise there would be a hole in the dome.

The latter.

I am neither. I think a 'you' already implies a particular biological being so that you cannot just transport a non-physical kind of essence of a 'you...

The concept of a 'you' that is not embodied is the issue. 'You' cannot be Alice and Bob without real physical changes in the world.

What makes you think so? Haven't you noticed that a lot of what the Trump administration does is performative. A lot of them are podcaster, newsanchor...

I think he understands more that you give him credit for. I think he sees everything as a negotiation to get the best deal... that's why he never rule...

Part of his base traditionally were the isolationalist, who don't want the US engaged in endless conflict. No doubt another part of his base would rej...

Poland has and is still benefitting a lot from entering the EU market. Their economic trajectory is not comparable with that of Western European count...

He could do that and might do that, but 1) legally nothing has changed then. After his term, the next administration would have to affirm their willin...

I agree that people might accept some amount of price increase in the short term if they see that it's necessary to defend the interests of the countr...

They lucked out because we had a very mild winter in Western Europe. And the point is not that people will die of the cold, but that energy became muc...

It was a rhetorical question, I was thinking Europe.

I was thinking about Rome too. Civil war eventually let to the end of the republic, with Ceasar (a populares) appealing to the people to set aside the...

Germany is the most important one, 'the economic engine' of Europe. I presume things will be looked at and negotiated in the context of NATO, not by l...

Steven Miller and Marco Rubio seem to be signaling that a real conflict is certainly not what they want, even if they can't explicitly say so because ...

Sure. But isn't that part of the issue though that parties seems to be radicalising each other over time. And congress basically seems to have become ...

I didn't really know much about this. I certainly applaud the initiative, because we do need more independence from the US. But it's always hard to te...

Yes, but it is becoming a problem more and more. Not only does it make the US difficult to govern, but it's also destabilising for its allies and the ...

I just wrote this in the Venezuela thread on the topic: I actually don't think NATO will be dismantled over Greenland, I changed my mind on this. Euro...

It does matter in that it will prompt China and Russia to a lesser extend to reconsider their strategies going forward. It's a kind of crass reminder ...

But I think a lot will depend ultimately on how much China and Russia will back Venezuela against the US. That could actually be the biggest miscalcul...

Yes I would think Delcy Rodriguez will be inclined to accommodate the wishes of the US otherwise she will befall a quote unquote 'worse fate' than Mad...

There's a difference between turning a country into a vassal state and trying to install a democracy from scratch. Destroying the Ba'ath Party in Iraq...

They will not need military force, as they can just threaten to cut off digital services, LNG energy imports or the necessary support to hold of Russi...

The world typically doesn't want and resists change. That is until it can't any longer, and then things can change rather quickly. If you look at huma...

I also think some are born that way. For others I have my doubts, and wonder if they haven't been influenced by culture to some extend. That's why I d...

I'm not a Christian, I'm not necessarily promoting the Christian institution of marriage here... it was just an example of how one could view this iss...

Any religious, cultural or civic traditions... like marriage is a Christian tradition. What is the justification for it? Or we're fine to just assume ...

A functioning society is prior to individual human rights, because without a functioning society there is no way to protect any kind of rights. Tradit...

No it's meant to imply that it is an experiment that hasn't been shown to work in the longer term, as opposed to other traditions. Yeah but pointing t...

I think the issue is viewing everything from a point of view individual rights to begin with, that is an ideology in itself, and historically a pretty...

The issue is not the percentage of the total population, but the concentration in the cities. The immigrants are not integrating, have more kids than ...

Ok but it has been the case for decades now that democracy hasn't delivered governments that align with the will of the people on key issues, immigrat...