Who'd like to take me up on a bet that in 4 years nothing of particular note will have happened, and you all are a bunch of hysterics? I bet a 1000 Tz...
An unmitigated trainwreck is the only proper name for the Biden administration. It completely mishandled Ukraine and Gaza, and estranged half the worl...
The pretense that Trump is somehow uniquely bad, while categorically ignoring that the Biden administration was objectively an unmitigated trainwreck ...
The Biden administration was 'involved' in the same way it has been 'involved' the last year - ceaseless groveling before the lobby and writing blank ...
Meanwhile, instead of continuing on Biden's policy of wanton destruction, Trump achieved a cease-fire in Gaza. I wonder if folks on this forum are abl...
You can say what you want about Trump, but by pressuring Israel into accepting a cease-fire his team has done more good in a single sitting than the B...
Well, it looks like the cease-fire is going to happen, and in my opinion this would clearly show that the Biden administration was simply reluctant to...
China will in all likelihood not resort to military means to incorporate Taiwan. It probably feels there is no immediate need to force the issue, and ...
To put it quite simply, Western institutions have ran their course, and have now reached the terminal endpoint of any power structure, which is total ...
Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected Too early to celebrate, but the implications of this will be major...
You can look up yourself what the various countries in the Middle-East looked like before US-Israeli intervention. Modern and even prosperous. The way...
Islamic extremism is almost entirely a US-Israeli creation - the product of decades of meddling, interventions (and assorted war crimes) and the inten...
Genuinely, who cares? Presidents that preceded him ruined entire countries, aided and abetted war crimes, constructed torture facilities, went to war ...
Individualism and the concept of civil rights is hundreds of years old, and in the West it has served as a model for relations between states and citi...
I wouldn't necessarily say this attack on traditional values is the product of communism, but I get where the association comes from since it seems to...
'Hyper-individualism' is a bit of a confused term. What I assume means is atomization: a situation in which social bonds break down and people are inc...
A small nitpick; individualism inherently is about the relation between states and citizens. In my view, the type of problems in the OP have more to d...
It is because they believed 'mind' (nous, if memory serves me right) emanates from the One, and it is through participation in this quality that we ar...
Which is essentially platonic, and that's exactly my objection to people using the term 'mathematical platonism'. I'm not rejecting platonism. I'm poi...
Didn't I just tell you that what I am doing is expressing skepticism, and not making claims about what does and doesn't objectively exist? Our sense o...
Hm. But how would one substantiate this idea that numbers exist in this different way? And why would numbers be able to exist in this way, and not fly...
That's not what I'm asserting, because how would I know? The core of what I'm saying is that, as Plato argued, it is very difficult to even access the...
They're both tools for modeling an inferred underlying reality. But they themselves are human creations, accurate enough for our human purposes. They'...
It is inferred that there exists our world of sense experience, and a reality underlies it. Science has gone a long way in confirming this, showing ho...
You would not know whether equations describe true things. Maybe the universe does not work according to such rules, but we can make equations accurat...
Objective in the platonic sense refers to the reality that underlies our 'reality' of sense experience. We infer its existence, because we are able to...
Isn't it easier then to accept that mathematics does not exist objectively, and is simply a very useful tool conceived by the human mind? Tying it bac...
As far as my understanding of platonism goes, it argues that ultimate reality can be accessed (with great difficulty) via mystical experiences which g...
I think this is a very interesting subject. I had a similar discussion not too long ago. When you say 'exist in a platonic sense', what exactly do you...
Ah yes, Mike Tyson. That paragon of moral philosophy. How could we forget about him? Let's see what other gems this treasure trove of wisdom has to of...
Usually whenever some US foreign policy debacle is unfolding, they start rolling out stories of UFOs, spy balloons, and now drones, apparently. It's e...
Well, capital G 'Good' is a big word. Probably not that. It's not an example I would seek to emulate, or want others to emulate. But when people play ...
It reminds me a little of how societies used to round up and behead monarchs who misbehaved. Obviously that was extrajudicial, but at the same time, p...
I live in a country with nationalized healthcare and it's awful too, but perhaps that's just a question of who bears final responsibility. Like I said...
It's beyond obvious that something went down between Turkey, Israel and the US, who are now starting to fight over the scraps. Let's not fool ourselve...
I know next to nothing about the CEO, but would I be right in assuming he probably bears responsibility for a fair few lives destroyed? Now someone ca...
Except of course the Syrian army has been willing to fight for years, and did so successfully in the face of much more pressure than the handful of re...
Even Reuters joined in the white-washing. :lol: By running Aleppo, Syrian rebels seek to show they are alternative to Assad And the BBC: From Syrian j...
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