This is just really rude. No sense flagging a mod but @"Tzeentch" (unlike myself) has been pretty much as calm and polite a poster here as any and us ...
I'm only replying out of courtesy. I see the mods have moved this thread to the Lounge. It's clearly not the place for laying out anything operose. I ...
That's interesting, introducing the possibility, perhaps, of translation issues muddying the water? So, can I assume that, by exclusion, you'd contend...
Not even just philosophy. Here's the (great) online etymology dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/being I'm left quite baffled by this discuss...
Yep, that's certainly true. I didn't say anything about facts or reason. Nor anything about Trump/DeSantis tackling poverty. I'm asking you what you t...
Exactly. And he might well gain a fair bit of support from it. Because the white working class do have a legitimate grievance if they're referred to a...
Yes. That's right. I do think those things. That'll be why I said them. Have you got anything more than your incredulity to offer? Or are we to add to...
Grown ups are discussing how best to end a bloody and dreadful war. If you children want to discuss who "the baddies" are perhaps you could do so on a...
Those are relevant. There's also the dismissal of the white working class, the demonisation of dissent... None of this has to be true. The point isn't...
The comment I initially responded to was... Does "period" mean something different where you come from? The discussion was (at that point) about the e...
My mistake then. So we can assume things have massively improved since then, society is, in fact, no longer as overtly racist as it was in those times...
Indeed. And... ...immediately contradicted within the same paragraph. If "actions are what matters", and it's trivially true that Putin lies, then Kre...
Yeah, that's right. Some self reported feelings of fear are just like not even being allowed in the same fucking building. Things are basically the sa...
Yeah, no one's falling for that bullshit. Here's Putin on NATO... Only now it's suddenly becomes possible for Putin to lie. To say stuff that is merel...
So what are we left with? Do you think some people are just born racist? Are we theorising Adams grew up in a little known community of Klan remnants?...
I don't think you can mix the issues of systemic racism and overt racism in the way you have here. Obviously, overt racism isn't going to go away by i...
The difference between " a) sending weapons to a country and b) defending it with your own troops", is who are the belligerents? That doesn't even mak...
The difference is that one involves weapons and the other involves people. How'd I do? Now. The significance of that difference is what we're arguing ...
Well then it looks like all that's needed is for people to learn 'The Facts ™', then problem solved... So. Where are these 'facts' kept so we can all ...
There are two things. No "mixing". I'm not in any doubt about your ability to rationalise post hoc, it's not hard. I'm just pointing out for anyone fo...
You literally just said it doesn't. I quoted you. Here... Agreements between (and with) the most powerful parties are what matter... No need to worry ...
Yeah, funny that. It's almost as if it doesn't really matter what the other countries think. I've heard that argument before somewhere... can't quite ...
Possibly, though, as you say, hard to disentangle the two. To what end would the Pentagon want to weaken Russia other than to cement further economic ...
Well then it's not "just" waiting is it? It's actively encouraging and pursuing continued war. It's not just waiting for Russia to exhaust itself. It'...
So not sending billions of dollars of weaponry, increasing intelligence aid, setting up lucrative reconstruction deals, running propaganda campaigns a...
If we shared a rule we would have agreed on the first proposition. If there were some rule (which we agree on) that can be used to demonstrate the tru...
No, just not naive enough to think that Western nation which had less to do with colonialism miraculously derived their wealth independently of those ...
Well said. This doesn't even approach the key question. No one is doubting that what the Ukrainians are doing is 'self-defence'. The question is over ...
The point (which you conveniently ignored) was at what cost is the Netherlands now quite a nice place to live? At what cost to Africa (from which a la...
... So, are you suggesting that our natural environment has changed in the last few thousand years? Because absent that its hard to see what you could...
I should have had you pegged for a 'fallacy-o-phile. A couple of questions... Do you think those with whom you're arguing would agree that their propo...
Yes. I agree. I was only making the point that they weren't actually changing grammar rules forcibly by using "LatinX", it was just silly. There was n...
I agree with you about the ludicrousness of "LatinX", but the issue here is of actively preventing the use of a word, not mandating it. I think a word...
The difference is, I'm not the one claiming this is all about rational debate like some rules-based chess game. This is politics. It's your hypocrisy ...
Where was the argument in... ...? Because it sounds like a weak attempt at sarcasm, followed by a lame cliché about anyone not cheerleading the war be...
Firstly, have the decency to address me if you've got something to say about me, this is an adult debating platform, not the school playground. Second...
I agree. Is there something I've written which makes you think I might not? I've mainly been arguing here against the opposite view - namely that "any...
It's quite futile to argue with someone who's ego is so inflated that they think their own personal opinion constitutes a fact that others merely 'dec...
As I've brought up before (with no attempt at refutation beyond the usual huffing), the notion that Ukraine sans Russia will be some kind of peaceful,...
The idea is just unhinged... 8 million externally displaced 6 million internally displaced several million in need of humanitarian assistance at least...
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