Totalitarianism is fundamentally different from classical dictatorships. The most notable difference is that totalitarianism is actually a bottom-up p...
It is perhaps the fanaticism, emphasis on terror and the paranoid, intentional nature of the Inquisition that makes it somewhat similar to totalitaria...
The closest historical parallel to it would be perhaps the Crusades and other religious wars. Institutionalized religion tends to feature the same bel...
Totalitarianism was a completely new phenomenon in the beginning of the 20th century, so it was not "business as usual" - something clearly changed. S...
While I never particularly liked her, Merkel did a good job at providing a political counterbalance towards United States influence in Europe, and eve...
You seem to avoid naming concrete examples of liberal ideas that were implemented and how they led to the problems you describe. "Just look at Chile a...
The reason I asked is because I do not believe their ideas have ever been truly implemented. Maybe small snippets here and there, to varying degrees o...
Is that so? Please explain when their ideas were adopted, and how it led to the problems you describe. But before you do that, perhaps you might also ...
Pursuing self-interest and being selfish are not the same. The well-being of others can be and often is a part of our own sense of happiness. Man spen...
Destroying critical infrastructure, civilian or otherwise, is not a crime under IHL. You'd be surprised at how much is permitted under IHL as long as ...
It's perhaps more accurate to say power uncovers and frees up the corrupt parts of one's nature - parts that one might not even be aware of. The great...
You'll find that when individuals have the freedom to pursue their own self interest, the vast majority of them will seek voluntary, mutually benefici...
There's something unnerving about watching people defend politicians, whether they're Biden or Trump. Like they don't understand that the job of every...
This sounds quite interesting, however I am trying to understand how a system of socialism could exist without a large, powerful government to coordin...
As I said: But the individual, of course, will not leave. They have as much the right to live where they do as anyone else, and the state especially h...
But individuals do care about whether they are happy or sad. My question was what the individual is supposed to do when the "collective" they are livi...
That's for each to determine for their own - it's certainly not up to a "collective" to decide for others what constitutes happiness. How would that b...
The issue is who determines whether "the collective" is effective. If I, the individual, am deeply unhappy within "the collective", what good is it fo...
The problem is that there is no such thing as "a collective", there are only conglomerates of individuals. "The collective" is simply a pretense of th...
Where it differs most from normal investments is that you can pay directly with crypto, whereas with a 'normal' investment you would first have to liq...
In my opinion, investing should always be done with a great deal of care. Before one invests into anything, one should have a thorough understanding o...
There are few institutions more evil and less preoccupied with the welfare of the ordinary person than the Federal Reserve. Undermining it is exactly ...
Sweden, 23,600 active military personnel Estonia, 7,200 active military personnel Latvia, 16,700 active military personnel Lithuania, 23,000 active mi...
These countries' active military personnel and materiel combined add up to a fraction of what, for example, Ukraine is currently fielding to fight the...
I've already laid out an argument why I don't believe that's true, the most notable point being that there's barely any nation within Europe that main...
The main buyers of Swedish arms are not European nations trying to protect themselves from the Russian invader, but Arabs intent on committing genocid...
Sweden has roughly 24,000 active military personnel. That's less than one tenth of the Ukrainian military when the invasion began, while Sweden has th...
There's a difference between actions and rhetoric. The former being worth taking note of, and the latter generally being no more than windowdressing. ...
Your post contradicts itself. On one hand you note that states do not have ethics - a nice realist point-of-view with which I can definitely sympathiz...
Europe isn't worried about their security. That's why nearly every European country let their armed forces atrophy beyond repair, with Poland being pe...
The American elite doesn't want to deal with this issue. Immigration equals higher GDP. Geopolitical power is for a large part about how many warm bod...
Zelensky (and many Ukrainian presidents before him) was so foolish to think he could play the United States and Russia against each other. They predic...
The majority of European "leadership" is an ideologically driven bunch inspired by the likes of Klaus Schwab. Authoritarian to the core, they'll jump ...
I would go further, and say that Putin has no impactful allies anywhere in the western world. If any kind of influential "Russia lobby" existed, surel...
We know that the vaccines likely were never meant to stop transmission, and now we also learn that, as far as this study goes, vaccination for some re...
Good points. I wonder whether as societies grow larger, they are less able to take into consideration the needs of their individual members, because i...
Always is a big word I probably shouldn't have used. I've never come across an instance where unethical behavior couldn't be explained through the suf...
While I agree with the idea that big business likely fits into this picture somewhere, it must also be noted that in the modern age of globalization i...
"Eye for an eye morality" is an oxymoron. Morality is a set of rules we bind ourselves by - a limit we voluntarily impose upon our actions and behavio...
Russia as a great power would cease to exist for the foreseeable future if (parts of) Ukraine were to become militarized by an anti-Russian military a...
I never referred to the Ukrainians as "soulless" - that's a misrepresentation of my argument and a tasteless one at that, aimed specifically at framin...
If you want people to take you seriously here, you'll need to take the strawmanning down several notches. It's not a matter of agency. It's a matter o...
That's because it is. Besides Washington and Moscow, the only thing that matters is the performance of the Ukrainian military. There isn't any other a...
That's not my view. Objective reporting is fine. Framing is propaganda. It's the difference between speaking of displaced civilians or of genocides an...
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