But you can't identify from the behaviour what the belief is that it is a sign of. If I want a drink and head to the end of the road, you might think ...
I don't see how that's a 'tragedy'. In terms of lives lost, impoverished and enslaved, the US's approach to 'modern' imperialism takes a far greater t...
What makes you think he committed to that? He said it. He probably lied. What do you mean 'no basis'? Trump said it. That's basis for someone who trus...
Yes, definitely. It depends though what kind of changes are associated with a drop in wages. There's very little evidence to show an association betwe...
Insofar as all major powers are imperialist in their actions, possibly. Not uniquely so, nor even very high on the list. The definitions describe the ...
Let's have a few then... How does that work? Take me through the neurological processes you envisage bringing this about. Let's say you see a tree. We...
To you, nothing. I can't see how a thorough understanding of of how modern international power is exerted could help your project here. I just assume ...
Thanks. Used to be pretty standard fare on the left. But then so did opposition to corporate profiteering, so I suppose I'm something of a dying breed...
That's true, but foreseeable impacts are still part of the knowledge-base on which we build. If I invent a machine which I can tell will explode after...
Again, literally any reading on the nature of international power written after the fucking stone age will show you that no, agents willingly taking a...
It wasn't meant for you. A reiteration of your opinion is irrelevant to the argument. You paint all opposition as propaganda and fail to see your own ...
It's the fanaticism that scares me, there seems to be some connection between 'divine purpose' and Armageddon, like the Branch Davidian cult - we all ...
Yeah. As I understand it, the policy gradient optimisation algorithm is still automated with rewards, but the rewards are not (as they might be in sim...
"NATO countries wanting access to Russia's border" Not, NATO countries on Russia's border. The point is simply one about the varied nature of modern i...
Yeah, don't you hate it when people do that... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.6xcnCqo13c...
Wow, that is a truly terrifying example. One certainly can't trust Twitter for news (despite the alarming number of people doing so). But... Would it ...
For anyone not yet suckling at David Frum's teat (freshly washed, I note, of Iraqi blood), it's worth noting that this policy has form in my country. ...
Its only ever a game I play with myself. It's become a grim fascination, watching idiots tie themselves in knots desperately trying to sustain the inc...
Well... Then... Followed by studious silence.... Hence you think some evil supervillain (Putin) installed a puppet (Trump), despite not being able to ...
This from the person who thinks that some evil supervillain took over the elections using a network of super-hackers and spy assets to install a puppe...
I asked you for a summary of what you've learned from others. You pointed to a post explaining how a graphic was now out of date. Is that it? You've l...
What clash? I thought the US were barely involved and it was all about the Ukrainians? Pretty much summarises the quality of discussion. Anyone who di...
Well. We're 450 pages in. A quick summary wouldn't be out of place. What exactly have you 'understood' differently to how you came into this discussio...
You recall David Irving? Was he not published and stocked? I get the argument you're making about vetting, but you're trying to make an argument about...
Yeah. Notice anything about the number of wars between 2009 and 2017? ... No, me neither. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-state-based-con...
Oh... And Crimea. When Russia... you know... Only they did it without any... I bet Putin's generals were absolutely sweating buckets knowing they were...
Yeah... Only Obama wouldn't send lethal aid to Ukraine, Trump gets in, and the first Javelins go off to help their fight against Russian separatists. ...
When a couple tell you they've got married and you say "congratulations", did you first search your feelings to discover how you felt, then rifle thro...
Can you explain what mechanisms you think were in place to prevent these two issues prior to the opening up of digital information. Say, when one had ...
So nothing then. This 'Russian Asset' is put into power at enormous expense, no small amount of risk... He's in power for four years with almost total...
There's the problem right there. Fuck the working class completely, and if they act out, they must be stupid. How dare they! Don't they know how much ...
I can see a lot of anti-Russian policies which emerged from the Trump administration. I'm not so clear on what Trump actually did for Putin. What poli...
If you have anything more than simpering apologetics to contribute there might be more to discuss. As it is I don't know what can be added. You're wro...
I don't see any cause to hope. If he goes away he'll be replaced by an identical figurehead with an identical agenda. Did you really think he was a on...
I don't know what to say. If your head is really so far up your own arse that you can't even contemplate the idea that your rhetoric is anything but "...
Yes, that's what I'm saying. 23 million people are on the brink of starvation right now across Africa and it's all the result of completely legal beha...
Honestly, if the best counter the American left can come up with for Trump's populism is some classist sneering and petitions to "Have a little faith ...
I'll be sure to follow your example and only post when I'm sure what I have to say is sufficiently jejune as to be worth less than disdain with which ...
I didn't say it wasn't arbitrary. That's the point. Any step in a causal chain could be called 'the cause' there's no right answer, it depends on the ...
We agree on that much, but probably for different reasons. Again this just promotes the unquestioned narrative that anything mainstream must be normal...
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