That may very well be, but the question was whether Ukraine could come out of this war sovereign, neutral, independent, etc. But it's good that you yo...
Countries don't cede sovereignty to NATO as a result of signing the charter, but as a result of neglecting their armed forces to the point that the Un...
Depends on what you mean by acceptable. As I said, I believe free speech is about the expression of genuinely-held ideas. It would be exceedingly diff...
Overly simplistic, and I don't need to tell you that. Ideology plays a key role in totalitarian regimes. These regimes operate through terror, however...
Totalitarianism refers to the belief that one ideology possesses the complete truth - this being by definition wrong makes every totalitarian system r...
Clearly, and thankfully, I have more to eat than the government's shit pie. As far as I'm concerned the people who are eating the government's shit pi...
When I'm eating a pie and find bits of shit in it, I'm going to stop eating the pie, regardless of whether it's a cherry pie or an apple pie. And you'...
Lets put it differently. There are few practices as closely linked to totalitarianism as propaganda. When political entities spread lies, censor and w...
In a system where there are only two parties that swap seats every few years that's a meaningless distinction. The same people who bought Twitter to c...
The key here of course is not Twitter's behavior - it's the government's / the political elite's behavior. Not surprising, no. Just more proof that go...
So called "disinformation" is rife among topics that aren't to be discussed publically. It's the censorship itself that creates the atmosphere. Where ...
Propaganda can only exist in an environment of censorship, and not in one of free discourse. I see your point, but the cure is not less free speech or...
I know the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" is a very popular trope among censorship enthousiasts, but you're quoting someone who sought to silence...
The United Nations is completely different from NATO or the EU. Nations do not give up any sovereignty to the UN. It's basically a public forum for st...
Russia's response to Ukraine joining NATO has been to invade Ukraine and annex parts of land. I would not be so certain that Russia wouldn't use nucle...
Zero chance? The US and NATO have been holding joint military exercises almost every year with the Ukrainian military. They were a NATO/US ally in all...
It exactly doesn't make it different. Countries that join NATO or the EU voluntarily give up a great deal of sovereignty, and they give up even more b...
You got me, I'm a Kremlin propagandist. :rofl: No, but in all seriousness, people in this thread need to understand the actual situation instead of th...
I never said they were similar. I said one shouldn't harbor illusions about Ukraine being a sovereign, independent state if it enters the EU or NATO, ...
The US controls NATO. NATO countries are vassals of the US, because they rely completely on the US to keep them safe. The EU demands an even greater s...
The paradox is that censoring holocaust denial actually lends credibility to holocaust denial in the minds of some people. Instead let such discussion...
If the UK did it, they clearly didn't do so on their own initiative. They wouldn't take a dump on their own initiative. Likely the US orchestrated it,...
That's not a conspiracy theory where I live. That's proven fact. We have a government actively trying to deplatform and intimidate critical voices. I ...
Ok, but both of those would probably be unacceptable to Russia. Whatever the solution is going to be, it's going to have to appease both big players i...
Don't get me wrong, that would be the best outcome, however it is simply not going to happen. A neutral Ukraine can only happen if both Russia and the...
We can trust them because ultimately the function of this forum is benign. Nothing in mankind's history suggests governments deserve that kind of trus...
And he would be right. So who else would be given that power? Which ever way you wish to go about limiting free speech, the cure is worse than the dis...
The alternative is to put the power to limit free speech in undeserving hands - those of the government. And rights were enshrined into constitutions ...
There are some indications that much of what has happened in Ukraine since 2013 was premeditated by the United States. The United States has profited ...
The choice has been between Russia or the United States to control Ukraine. Before the United States aimed for regime change in Ukraine, Ukraine was a...
It's value is controlled by whoever controls the printing press. Scarcity is perhaps the most important characteristic of money, and fiat currency doe...
Well, that was the big hype period which was obviously not representative of the actual value of Bitcoin. I don't think anyone with a bit of understan...
FIAT currency is the real confidence scam. The underlying value of cryptocurrency is that it is a scarce, independent means of exchanging value, much ...
A country can have free citizens at the expense of the rest of the world (the United States), and that doesn't make its violence in any way benign. In...
Clearly there is, but you need to get the idea out of your head that the United States is somehow an example of a small government! It's tendrils span...
It feels like you don't quite get what it means that every person on Earth is threatened with the annihilation of themselves and everything they hold ...
It does. It simply outsources, exports or imports it. That's why, as governments have grown larger and more powerful over the course of history, their...
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