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Certainly this Supreme Court is far more conservative compared to the Warren, Burger, and even Rehnquist courts. US Congress looks like a cage match.....

When a child is first learning language and points to the balloon and says “balloo” is that even a truth conditional type statement or just an example...

Ha, funny, hopefully you also saw it in the positive sense that there was less "resistance" to change, rather than a more intractable slog. It might h...

I think Tomasello's more empirical approach might agree and disagree with Davidson on his idea of truth-condition statements and language. Rather, it ...

Yes both. The disillusionment was there perhaps, but nascent. It was the assassination that pushed it, and accelerated its effects more than if he was...

Indeed. I really liked your account there :lol: . Would that have been that way in some counterhistory with a second term, alive JFK? Perhaps, perhaps...

Absolutely. It's that there is NOT a citizen-army in foreign wars since Vietnam that you see the decrease in radicalism. Korea squeaked by being so cl...

I sort of tried to in the OP. Did this cursory attempt fail? Essentially, the distrust in government, the ramping of the draft, the free drugs and sex...

That was another question. How far did those reverberations go? This is a philosophy forum.. How influential are events in one country in the ripple e...

But I guess my hypothesis I am proposing is that the cultural radicalism of the late 60s was precipitated more by his assassination. But that could be...

Oh for sure, Kennedy's assassination, the lies about Vietnam during LBJ and Nixon, Watergate, Ford pardon (though best in hindsight) seemed to rip any...

Yes, and seems to been a bit more than projection from Roy Cohn and Joseph McCarthy. Interesting that Cohn is also tied up with Trump, as an early men...

Yes.

@"BC", please ignore the ad hoc ravings of certain posters here regarding my argument. They can’t bother to understand the argument, they mislabel it ...

As I see it, you’re reiterating my points, not countering them. If you’re trying to say America responsibly reintegrated Germany and Japan and Israel ...

Now you are misconstruing my point which was AFTER they were bombed to hell they made sure that the countries were liberal democracies, friendly to th...

Straw man as I didn’t state that, just facts. Allies utterly bombed the hell out of these countries and occupied them for a time. I mean yeah I agree ...

But the US did occupy Germany and Japan after utterly destroying many of their cities. There’s even dozen or so US army bases still in Germany and in ...

Perhaps it’s the same mistake as Ruth Bader Ginsberg. No one had the heart to just say your age is an issue. But then again, a moderate old man might ...

Actually, @"Hanover" is paralleling my argument so I’ll defer to his post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/854677

From what you quoted I asked a series of questions. Israel took it as all out war on Hamas. If they give up, that would end. They could give up no? Ju...

So this is why RogueAI might have a point...

Oh I guess I should add @"Baden" to the above post.

I would be tempted to agree. However, I don't want to get to that level of guessing the intentions of interlocutors, though it seems to come out that ...

I understand what you are saying, but unlike the Warsaw Ghetto, the WW2 analogy is apt. Should Chamberlain have hurt Germany early on when they were s...

Go ahead, how is it a good framing? Hamas had billions of dollars that they WASTED on weapons and enriching their leaders. Little to no actual develop...

Again, poisoning the well. Great tactic :ok:

You didn't answer my question. This is handwaving and stalling. Because you know the answers to those are not something you want to hear. That is okay...

As I said way earlier in the thread, Germany was also a weakened entity by 1945. It was in no position to win. Should the US have stopped and went hom...

It's bad faith because it's bad history. The "Nakba" went along with the infighting and 1948 war, so you cannot pry those apart, so it is an impossibl...

Did the US try to "wipe out" Nazi Germany? They wanted to wipe out the Nazi regime, indeed. And they did at great cost. And by the end of the war, the...

History is messy indeed. Should Chamberlain have let Hitler keep enlarging his territory at the price of peace? In hindsight that was not the answer. ...

You'd be dead first, apparently. Don't ask how.

Just make sure it isn't a kibbutz either.

I think it is partly that the kind of intensity of Hamas' continued attacks has changed character to this ISIS style. This has made the arguments prio...

I think it would indeed lead to some sort of cease-fire. But why wouldn't you if that is one of the continuing incentives. I mean, some of the perpetr...

Yes, I just don't know why military personnel was added. We were talking about hostages. But I get that you obviously think that the civilian hostages...

But then, the question at hand which I don't think was really answered except by way of a tangent on something else?

Got it. For some reason putting those together seemed odd and looked like it was conflated.

Indeed, but these aren't military personnel, unless you think a 9 month olds and 85 year old grandmas are military personnel. I didn't quote the rest ...

Can you elaborate why one wouldn’t want to advocate for the nearest proximal thing for a cease fire? And I’m talking mainly Palestinians and adjacent ...

All ad hom. Nothing of substance. Bad faith arguing and poisoning the well. Clearly you have no substance to add. I can call you all sorts of names ba...

Just a hypothetical question for everyone, why isn’t anyone (especially Palestinians) calling on Hamas to release the 240 hostages?

I'm sure you are aware, but Gaza has not been "occupied" since 2005 by Israel. They had their own government even. They voted in Hamas who has then go...

We've been over this many times (mainly between SSU and I but you were there I think...), the moderate Pals had opportunities and they failed to take ...

This is all wordplay to justify this kind of action. It is ISIS-style barbarity aimed at the Jewish state of Israel, instead of the West in general. O...

Jesus Christ man, I did not say or imply that, just the formation of Israel. I knew you were going to bad faith argue by technically saying the "Nakba...

The Holocaust, historical reasons, and antisemitism in general in the West. But the religious reasons no doubt play a role, but it doesn't have to be ...

Ah you are STILL gaslighting and not answering the question. I will repeat:

Nah, I don't think that characterization is even true. It's stated ends and its means say otherwise. Jihadist and extremist characterize it more. Or, ...