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This isn't new in politics -- I don't think anything here is that revealing insofar as scandals go. Every president has basically used the CIA for pol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_by_WikiLeaks Also, have you considered that Wikileaks is an English speaking organization? A ...

Technologically, yeah, it's been great for intelligence agencies. But as far as defense of our civil liberties goes, yeah and during that whole time i...

Give up on trying to pressure the government to not do this? That's all I'm saying here. Since there are intelligence agencies, politicians, public ad...

It means that the claims they make about things in the world correspond to their factual being in the world 100% of the time, at least as far as claim...

Well, guess we should all give up then.

Well, maybe a first step is to know how they get into your devices and then force them to either stop doing it or defund them entirely. In the leaks, ...

Well, I mean, the way you described it, it seems like the singularity is essentially of 'non-quantifiable' quantity, because if you quantify anything,...

Oh so you are arguing that the bad guys are the Laplace guys and the good guys are people like Leibniz and Spinoza (to take a completely different 'si...

Can you give a brief overview of what you mean by this 'singular'?

Um, I'm some sort of dirty commie, so I'll probably just share it with him.

Um hi. I was looking for this thread all my life. Where do I get those smileys to shove up my ass. Oh, by the counter. Thank you very much. That would...

I'm of two camps here, both leading to the ultimate execution of Dylan Storm Roof. Technically guilty or not, just like Lennie had to be put down in O...

Okay did it. Thought 'PornHub' was a clue... unless someone doesn't know about PornHub (merry christmas).

NSFW (the link itself is fine but don't go anywhere else.) PornHub recently released their 2016 Year in Review, detailing the different search trends ...

I disagree. I've seen a lot of 'Bernie Sanders' in my generation -- for better or worse. They won't out Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders because now we'v...

Just people who wrote about when 'black', 'yellow', etc. were created. Now that Trump has won on poor whites who have been neglected for decades, but ...

You ever read Edward Said's Orientalism? Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth? Or how about this. Leopold II's letter to missionaries: http://www.fafic...

Looks like I was right all along!

http://www.kalyakorn.com/single-post/2016/10/21/They-Said-We-Were-Brainwashed Don't feel like starting a thread for this, but I am cringing so hard he...

It didn't work well in those instances, but a 99.9% success rate is still pretty good.

All this time I thought Baden was English cause we talk about UK politics occasionally in threads, and he brings UK politics up a lot. Guess this make...

We should move this discussion into a more serious form. I'll make the thread.

Sounds pretty accurate to me :)

The Thai monarchy has a very loyal, zealous following. Like how Hillary just never goes away even if she murders someone in plain daylight, the Thai m...

I am half-Thai, half-American, and as far as my ideas about monarchies go, I choose American. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Batt...

You know now why she's so shit?

Left last month! Didn't know he was dying of course...

The Thai king is dead.

Well if you weren't such a noob you could have made millions as well.

This must be what it feels like to be that dwarf in Game of Thrones when going through that old city that looks like Angkor Wat. https://www.youtube.c...

Not like philosophy forums at all, 'cause you're face to face. Talking philosophy face to face, if it's good, is a million times better than online.

I don't see this to be the case with the Democratic party at all. Especially since they seem to be actively killing the teat as opposed to how you des...

The Democrats are no different. If you have ever done anything political in America, you'd see that the Democrats are the cancer of the American left....

I kind of feel angry and hurt and sad at Kafkaeque situations, especially people stuck in bureaucratic loops, or subject to objective violence -- viol...

Oh, I was just using it ironically, but cool, there is a tag functionality here. Better stop using it ironically.

But I was enjoying it.

Bunch of rich idiots. Nothing to see here. Anyone who calls them self an #Entrepreneur is probably an idiot.

What's going on? Why is Hanover stroking all our cocks?

That movie Baader-Meinhof Complex was so good.

Well, something similar might be happening in the US, which is a split in the Democratic Party.

I see. I only started reading the Guardian when I moved out West and I can see here that those 'preference algorithms' that the big websites use to ta...

Can someone explain to me the recent Guardian anti-Corbyn campaign? Did Rupert Murdoch buy up the Guardian?

It's kind of similar to Schrodinger Sanders. The best person on the major field, the establishment backs Hillary, loses because idiots were duped by f...

Yeah fuck off! (just kidding, I'm sure you are one of the good ones, I'm just trying to keep up with the Leave spirit)

Sometimes I wish I could send all the Brits off on a ship back to the UK here in Thailand. They contribute nothing to Thai society except their cash a...

Catered, comfy sit-ins, so emblematic of the Democratic Party's approach to the world. :-d I mean, I think the whole attempt at introducing these gun ...

My ideas just follow from basing them on anti-colonial/imperialist logic. I'm not sure if I should be worried here...

Honestly, I think the reaction to Brexit actually happening has been really overblown by the media. It seems so obvious that the media has an agenda h...

One interesting perspective is Subversive Spinoza by Antonio Negri.