Tzeentch

Nice joke. Dunning-Kruger hard at work, I see.

In this context, yes. I've yet to read something more presumptuous in this thread.

This is clearly not an "imperialist war". The Russians have stated from 2008 onward that they considered Ukraine joining NATO to be an existential thr...

They're "profiteering" of the sanctions, ironically. So there's not much of a mystery. Do those exports happen to be natural gas? If so, there's your ...

That might be true. In my view some form of violent conflict in the Pacific is simply inevitable, whether nations want it or not. Taiwan and Korea are...

My view has been that the outcome of the Ukraine war is not all that relevant to the United States, and that their intent has been to drive a wedge be...

Heaven forbid folks get to hear words they don't like on a philosophy forum. :roll:

In my opinion, there are two problems at work. 1. The Fed, or the ECB, or any governmental/politicized institution for that matter, cannot handle the ...

I don't think the eco cutlery from your example would have fared any better under a system of barter. What happens in your example is that a previousl...

I see nothing wrong with the way the market functions in the example. It has nothing to do with greed or capitalism. This is how economies have always...

Downing a drone amidst a full-scale war isn't really a big deal, and it doesn't compare to the actual destruction wrought on Ukraine on a daily basis....

My guess is this was a deliberate attack from the Russians. They're getting bolder now that the war on the ground seems to be going their way. By atta...

No, no. I haven't seen any form of censorship on this forum. Having voiced skeptical views throughout the pandemic I was met with some hostility, but ...

Wake up, man. Have you seen a single piece of mainstream media coverage that was critical towards the government's covid strategy during the pandemic?...

The difference between then and now is that no one is being censored. If people don't want to speak in favor of the old narrative that's their preroga...

Only one side of the story is repeated over and over, and those seeing something wrong with this highlight the other side in an attempt to restore som...

There might be changes, but they wouldn't have anything to do with Trump or whatever blithering idiot they put in charge of the White House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DriaNp3yEGQ Well, the good doctor is quite careful in his wordings, but this just keeps getting worse and worse, doesn...

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You are projecting so hard I could point you at a wall to show off a PowerPoint presentation. I don't need absolute certainty to be sure of something....

I do seem to recall something... (December, 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUIlHM9WSo And... (January, 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b...

You don't know anything about diving, do you?

:rofl: I just can't.

Have we already forgotten about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8 Use your brains, people.

Private individuals delivering the equivalent of over a metric ton of TNT on underwater pipelines the location of which isn't publicly available and w...

Whether they're coming from Moscow, Beijing or Washington, propaganda narratives all have the same goal: further cementing their foothold in the minds...

Damage control from Washington. I'm guessing they couldn't get a lid on Hersh's story, and they figured having a shitty narrative is better than havin...

No, it wouldn't have ended the mutual distrust, but it would have ended the war with Ukraine mostly intact, and it would have at least created a basis...

Oh boy, they must be getting desperate in Washington. Been a while since I had a laugh like this.

I don't care about what Scott Ritter thinks. He goes around proclaiming Putin to be a great man and Russia being "on the right side of history", etc. ...

I never said any expert explicitly supports it. What I said was that Hersh's recent interviews lend credibility to the idea, since he states his sourc...

Couldn't be further from the truth. I don't take Scott Ritter very seriously. Do you?

Of course not. That is because everything that contradicts the western narrative is automatically labeled as Russian propaganda. All of what I said is...

I think Putin had hoped the West would back down after the initial invasion, and a negotiated deal could be struck. (Peace talks in late March/early A...

So you agree that a European security cooperation that does not involve primarily the United States and the United Kingdom would be beneficial to Euro...

I think an important aspect of NATO's behavior in regards to the war in Ukraine is being left unaddressed. Who have been some of the biggest hawks fro...

Don't you think it's a little odd to simply start stealing from rich Russians, when the story is that this is "Putin's war" that no one in autocratic ...

You're beating about the bush. If you're in favor of using coercion in order to make people change their behavior that's fine. But don't sugar coat it...

It doesn't suggest that at all. That would be irresponsible.

Responsibility can't be imposed by force. That's just coercion.

What kind of a ridiculous question is that? You want a normal conversation or what?

No.

To stop someone from assaulting another is not a matter of "forcing someone to be responsible". What kind of mental gymnastics is that?

Recently Seymour Hersh gave an interview in which he shared inside information about the view of the Ukraine war from sources within US intelligence. ...

I don't know of any that is. But that's besides the point. Most societies seek some sort of medium between liberty and equality. That doesn't change a...

No, you're not getting my meaning. Forcing people to act in ways that you perceive as benefitting the common good has nothing to do with responsibilit...

Naturally. Wherever man is free, there exists inequality. The only way to make people more equal is to make them less free. The more equal people are ...

Equality always comes at the expense of liberty, so the pursuit of it is by definition anti-liberal.

It seems to me modern progressivism is best described as pursuing ideals of (what I consider) extreme equality, and anti-capitalism, probably with (so...

Not really. Wokism is just a more racially-oriented, extreme version of the same ideals progressives hold today, and those ideals are a reaction to ac...