Don’t underestimate US stupidity. They may win again… with cheating. I think the problem is that both sides view Trump as someone with a plan or agend...
So the simple solution to stopping the war in Ukraine is to let Trump ban trans people from sports? :rofl: And why would the Russian people get cognit...
[ Yes, some people treat things very simplistic, as a set of only one policy against another, rather than a web of politics that comes with the electe...
Compassionism only works if all follows compassionism, and all can only follow compassionism if all are equally able to suppress their emotions in fac...
First, ACs won’t be enough in some places. Second, if any breaks, they die, so the risk is too high or it’s impossible to leave and transport goods be...
It will start to happen the more politicians keep doing nothing and the oil industry getting more support by politicians. And if such actions as descr...
Just cements the concept the US is just another religious fundamentalist nation, like Islam fundamentalist nations in the Middle East. One step from i...
Exactly. What if he didn't drop the bomb and Japan surrendered after a year more of fighting? And would that have ended the imperial ideals? Both Germ...
Why not? Time is only one dimension we experience, it doesn't mean that anything outside of the reality of our experience wouldn't allow for a timeles...
He wasn't Hindu, so I doubt he thought of karma in this way. He also wasn't responsible for how nukes were to be used, as demonstrated by the scene wi...
I’m not a fan of PM discussions simply because I think ideas should be discussed in public, because that’s how knowledge moves society forward. While ...
Incredibly sad! I cherished her comments and feedback in the past short story events. Few felt as honest and personal in opinions and ideas, with grav...
Yeah, the only good thing from Trump is that he actually oppose the concept of war since he’s more interested in business deals than military geopolit...
Taiwan is too important to the world to just let an invasion slide. The diplomatic pressure on China to not do it is pretty strong. What we see China ...
I'm wondering why anarchism is often placed closer to the far left than anywhere else. It's rather its own direction, a dismissal of all government. S...
Fair enough, I was fundamentally objecting to the genocide claims since they are part of the great replacement narratives from white supremacists. Tha...
First, can you make a clear distinction between the general violence that also affects black people and that of violence based on racist motives? Seco...
But it is. The whole genocide of whites is part of the replacement conspiracy theory and it's being used in propaganda by white supremacists all over ...
[ Because the genocide angle is a right wing conspiracy theory and not real. As you say, it’s violence in general, and right wingers use the high crim...
I think you need to expand on what you mean here. There's lots of performance art that has components of violence. But regardless, all uses violence a...
Yes, but how is that different from violence in stories? From acts of love, compassion etc. in stories? If that is what you mean, that violence is par...
Did you read my entire thing? And to follow up, having something in a gallery does not automatically make it art as that is not any form of definition...
You need to define violence. If it is merely one conscious being acting destructively against someone else, then there's no inherent art to violence t...
I've also found that scientism is usually used as a criticism of arguments made with evidence found in science. I agree that there can exist an extrem...
What is that difference? The similarity is here with the concept of God would be Deism, and in that case also, the consequences for us are irrelevant ...
I'm gonna give my views on each of these. While true that our perception is a product of our mind rather than objective (in the sense of true represen...
Yes, people spoke up, opposed, etc. but it was exactly that which became easy for Hitler and the Nazis to oppose by using free speech absolutism as a ...
Why did Popper call the concept a paradox of tolerance? You never addressed that (which is the paradox I'm referring to). What's the point in having a...
I think you need to look into the entire progression of what happened. You're still looking at the tail-end of the transition into authoritarianism. I...
As Jamal points out, the holistic perspective doesn't mean the details are absent. A good way to look at it might be that the conclusions paint the bi...
Because people are biased and the majority of people cannot think outside those biases they have. If someone on the other side does something that the...
Not opposing it at all, it's a great idea and has been a great idea for a long time. The further the gap becomes between low-income and rich people, t...
Well, Trump is not a republican, he is his own thing and republicans seems too stupid to notice how he just chose them because they were most inclined...
Then the people should show the congress what they think about their apathy. Democracy isn't just an election every 4 years. If the people actually ca...
Yes, but as I'm always wondering, does anyone give a shit about it? Is the corruption being stopped by enforcing the law? Where's the US marshals drag...
I'm not sure what you mean? Nazi Germany was not authoritarian before it became authoritarian and it's how it became authoritarian where these things ...
And since this is the closest you got to an actual argument, I separated it into this as I've said enough about your behavior in the discussion. I wil...
You are disagreeing with something that's been reported on and dissected for a long time. You're not disagreeing with me, you are disagreeing with Pop...
The consequences of the tariffs are starting to show. The coming weeks will be interesting to witness how the public reacts to everything. Cargo ports...
You are not looking at how it is used. You are just looking at it's position when a state have become authoritarian. It's not the final state that has...
The history of psychological research and authoritarian states radicalizing its people says otherwise. People are easily fooled, easily duped into nar...
What are you talking about? I used an example to demonstrate the difference between hate speech rhetoric and valid criticism of Islam. On both the sid...
Exactly, I've never said that absolutism isn't "a thing", but that it's so corruptable as an ideal that it basically always lead to manipulatory rheto...
You saying that just proves my point that many in society are unable to discern the difference between the two scenarios I described. And I wonder why...
Is it well poisoning to mention how “free speech absolutism” is used by extremist groups as a rhetorical tactic? How it is actually a very common tact...
The court of law, any laws does not come from nowhere. They are formed by people thinking about morality. It's moral philosophy that defines how we gu...
Yes, but I don't think you're taking what I said to the logical conclusion. Any form of incitement that negates the rights of someone else without a r...
Free speech absolutism is a common tactic to shift goalposts and slowly adjust people to follow something that they wouldn't outright do. It's a commo...
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