You find this a strong argument against free will, in face of a shared experience between countless human beings throughout the ages, who all experien...
Does the thought experiment of the two Bobs provide a strong argument against free will, or does it only show that there is no definitive argument in ...
Note that you're making the argument that democratic societies are exceptional in this regard. If you were to point to Greece, I could point to Egypt,...
I don't think that's a true for most of history, honestly. "The West" being the leading force of innovation seems very particular to the Age of Enligh...
Like good little schoolboys to the US, we supported invading and wrecking a whole bunch of countries - entire regions of the world even. We supported ...
International law of course is important, but applying it too rigidly is unrealistic and will have the opposite effect of making the world safer - it ...
The problem with that line of argument is that the Russian demands have been almost exactly the same since the start of the war, and even before that....
The Russians actually chose to accept the proposal: Signaling goodwill while emphasizing the need for a long-term peace - typical imperialist shit. Ob...
Despite the fact that Imperial Russia under Tsar Putin wants to conquer all of Ukraine and march on Berlin, they're rejecting temporary cease-fire dea...
Ask yourself, if there is reasonable suspicion of people being overpaid and it is a wide-spread problem, should the state focus on solidifying the sys...
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023 The stuff ...
I'm unsure why this post hasn't gotten any replies, because this gets at the heart of the matter for why pi continues indefinitely. A perfect circle s...
No idea where you're getting this from. I haven't called you or anyone here degenerate. It was in relation to an example I myself gave of a trend whic...
I'm sure you agree that 15 year olds stabbing each other with machetes is degenerate? That's a normalcy in the Netherlands, by the way. And if you wan...
There is a spectrum, of course. But that spectrum also includes very masculine men and very feminine women. Aspects of this are currently being proble...
I think it's society that is the straight-jacket here. Men are going to be masculine no matter how hard society tries to mould them into something els...
Syria is going through all the motions of a country that is doomed, and I expect it will fall apart completely in the long-term, probably after large-...
I think Iran is primarily concerned with keeping itself out of the crosshairs of the West. Israel has plenty of enemies already, and Iran's involvemen...
And the things that are omitted, thus never taken seriously by the public at large, because if it was important, it would be on the news. The scale of...
I think discussions like these are largely a waste of time, and I explained why I believe that. I don't intend on expanding my participation much beyo...
Where to even start? In threads such as these, the terms 'masculinity' and 'femininity' just become a fig leaf used to slap the most ridiculous genera...
Who has given Ukraine's autonomy away? Surely, if the Ukrainians were autonomous the only ones who could have done so is they themselves. I'm not sure...
Whether the Russians can be trusted is a completely different topic. When two countries have been at war, there is no trust. It needs to be built step...
Indeed. It's precisely because Western society failed to produce any meaningful male role models that enabled scam artists like Tate to prey on lost y...
With threads like these, I honestly have to squint to find anything I find vaguely agreeable. It's like you all are living in a different world or som...
Looks like our guy is starting to get to work: Syrian security forces accused of killing hundreds of civilians Remember when the western news outlets ...
Did you watch the interview with Oleksandr Chalyi, where he literally states he believes the Russians were serious and ready for a negotiated settleme...
The negotiations took place in the first months of the invasion. And yes, if an agreement had been signed, in all likelihood we would not be where we ...
You can find various neutral accounts of what transpired during the March/April 2022 Istanbul negotiations, including first-hand accounts of the Ukrai...
Trump doesn't quite get it, because he cannot quite say publicly why Zelensky is insisting on fighting on: the US and UK urged him to fight on in Marc...
Honestly, it was quite obvious that Zelensky was set up. Either he was going to accept the deal, say thanks and bugger off, or, if he got uppity, they...
Anyway, none of this matters. There will be peace in Ukraine, and Europe won't be going to war with Russia, no matter how hard some disgruntled intell...
I would prefer Europe to get its act together without getting lured into a cataclysmic war with Russia, thank you very much. Unelected Queen Ursula an...
Why would you point to a technicality to consider Europe and Russia to be at war, when clearly in practical terms we are not at war? Foregoing practic...
How is that beyond the scope of what is expected? Did you expect the Russians to sit there quietly while we arm Ukraine to the teeth and encourage the...
It's the type of war rhetoric that's repeated ad nauseam by the Trans-Atlantic clique that permeates the top of European politics. Propaganda, in othe...
I don't think so. You named cyber attacks and election meddling earlier as an indication that we are, but that's nothing we haven't done before, and l...
Well, it puts Europe on war footing with Russia, for one. Right when Europe is at the weakest point it has ever been since the end of WW2, in the proc...
European boots on the ground at this stage of the war is courting disaster. Without the Americans, the Europeans will have to reinvent the wheel in vi...
When you say 'supporting Ukraine unwaveringly', you mean to prolong the war? If so, I think you grossly underestimate how dire the situation will beco...
This was indeed a very crafty trick they pulled on us. Double the labor force, halve the price of labor. But the people in power are men, and so it is...
Nonsense. You're just being presented with the same Janus-faced nature the US has always shown, but people keep forgetting about. Trump is being used ...
I think this mineral deal is no longer about the war, but a way for Ukraine to barter for continued US involvement in the post-war rebuilding. It's ha...
Good. My criteria don't seem arbitrary to me at all. So what is it you expect from me? Convince you somehow? To try and 'win the argument'? If you're ...
Out of courtesy I did read your entire post, but I will not be getting into a repetition of moves where we write entire essays about what has already ...
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