I wasn't referring to any quotes from NASA. I was referring to the very thing you linked me. If this isn't pseudo-religious hooey, I don't know what i...
Like with all things (and good grifts) there's a core of truth somewhere to be found. That our care for the environment is lacking is pretty much self...
The climate grift is just a lightning rod designed to keep your attention fixed on a problem that, supposedly, we are all responsible for, while keepi...
I've noticed that people have been taking issue with the word 'genocide' being used to describe Israel's actions in Gaza. I would like to remind every...
That idea is quite clear, actually. Israel in a few weeks killed more civilians than the Russians did in a year, while the Russians are conducting a m...
And for the record: that the type of simple-mindedness that inhabits American politics has such a presence on a philosophy forum is a traversty in and...
For the most part, I am just observing. Like I've said many times before, all of this would simply be amusing if it wasn't for the widespread sufferin...
If you have convinced yourself that feeling disdain for roughly 80 million people is normal, I doubt I'll be able to change your mind. Personally, I t...
For now, said political opponent poses a larger threat to their power than the lack of trust and impoverishment of the people. However, those two will...
I wonder if people realize that this thread in a nutshell explains why Trump might win a second term. The disdain for ordinary people, the "all means ...
American politics is comedy gold. You've got a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Don't let the fact that this time around they pick t...
This isn't primarily a philosophical discussion. If you want to have a philosophical discussion, at least be so forthright as to clearly indicate what...
Which of the two? I think they're both pretty strong, but in the case of the AIDS video, it's almost like the reporters managed to find the smoking gu...
You think playing coy is a way to be taken seriously on this forum? Ask me three honest and straightforward questions, and I'll answer them for you. I...
Here's another blast from the past: a 2015 documentary about the pharmaceutical industry and its rotten business practices. Rather uncanny parallels c...
I'm reminded of a documentary I watched a little while ago. It's worth a watch - if I am not mistaken SV40 played a key role in the search for polio v...
That's not my argument, though. My argument, or at least a part of it, is that NATO enlargement worried the Russians, and they expressed that worry ov...
'Officially' probably not, but it should revoke Zelensky's idiotic decree and negotiate if it has any sense of self-preservation. Starting talks costs...
That happened after the West blocked peace talks. When the West clearly signals that peace is not an option, obviously the Russians are going to react...
We are far past that point. Zelensky is not moving to negotiate. He even signed a decree to make negotiations with Russia impossible. The absolute foo...
It's not unable to resist. It's unable to win militarily. It can still continue to resist militarily, unconventionally if need be, to impose a cost on...
The Russians aren't interested in taking all of Ukraine. They prefer a negotiated settlement that leaves Ukraine filling its role as neutral bufferzon...
No, 'evil' in a colloquial sense... Because this conflict started when the United States (led by the neocon foreign policy establishment) expressed it...
Flemish psychology professor Mattias Desmet has written a book about this in 2022, called 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism'. It discusses this exact...
I would like mass lawsuits to provide justice, but I doubt it. The industry has covered itself, and will not take responsibility for off label use. To...
Authority is a powerful thing and people are simple creatures: the government says it, the institutions say it, the news says it, everybody seems to b...
Have you seen this letter from the European Medicines Agency to members of the European Parliament in response to an inquiry? As all these institution...
I think a lot of things came together. On one hand there are people in high places who probably felt they should "never waste a good crisis" - people ...
US warns that Israel risks ‘strategic defeat’ unless it protects civilians in Gaza (Financial Times, 2023) As expected, Israel throwing all caution an...
That about sums it up. I can safely say that it has changed my outlook on humanity as a whole. Perhaps worst of all is the deafening silence afterward...
For the sake of not derailing the thread I'm not going to go into detail. I'm a classic liberal in the practical sense, and an anarchist in an idealis...
You're conflating two different discussions. From a moral standpoint I view states as being fundamentally flawed from the outset. But my engagement in...
Which is why I stated specifically we should go easy on this group during the first year. Give them a year to get their shit together. If they don't, ...
The vaccines weren't designed to stop the spread. That story used to be perpetuated by politicians who tried to guilt trip their citizens into taking ...
No, I'm not. Quote me if you believe I'm saying that. Perhaps you take my cynical views of Washington's stake in this war as 'pro-Russian', but that's...
What people want to inject into their bodies is none of my business (and what I inject into mine should be none of theirs, but alas the latter was not...
Covid could have been a great opportunity to reconsider our relationship with our health. But no, better grind society to a halt and stake our lives o...
I don't really care how you justify it to yourselves. But it's good to know that the extent of the argument doesn't go beyond "Everyone who disagrees ...
A-ha. So when western sources state something you dislike they can also be hand-waved as propaganda? Seymour Hersh - a propagandist too I assume? Noam...
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