From https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/14/zelensky-signs-agreement-with-jp-morgan-on-ukraines-reconstruction/ What a surprise. A massive American corpo...
Yep. Axios reported in March 2022... But, let's not let the actual facts get in the way of a good story. I'm sure @"ssu" can dredge up for us some spe...
Article in Sheerpost on the media blackout... I particularly like Snope's Let's have a little reminder of the claims Snopes didn't bother examining......
Yeah. The idea that political arguments can be weighed by some kind of objective metric is something most if us left behind in college. It's retained ...
And yet... https://fair.org/home/media-spy-balloon-obsession-a-gift-to-china-hawks/ Funny. It's almost as if the US media are trying to promote confli...
Relevant mostly to @"neomac"'s style of nonsense, but many other US fanboys here. In a recent essay, Andrew Bacevich asks "How is it that this particu...
It's a joint German, Swedish, Danish investigation with no evidence yet of it being Russia https://www.wsj.com/articles/nord-stream-blasts-were-likely...
Exactly. It shouldn't need to be repeated this often, but it appears I've got to say it again... We're not the ones claiming your narrative is unreaso...
No. In the article you cited, Friedman questioned Sputnik's selective quoting from the interview. I cited the actual interview from here https://www.k...
Yeah, and the level of 'history rewriting' afterwards is shocking. I cited earlier the BBC's chief political correspondent talking in the same vein ab...
@"Xanatos" https://newcoldwar.org/stratfor-chiefs-most-blatant-coup-in-history-interview-from-dec-2014/ The full interview so you can make up your own...
And if one doesn't? Because without their billions of dollars in aid, reconstruction loans, military support, political support and propaganda, Ukrain...
Seriously? The US and EU have supplied Ukraine with over €100 billion in aid. The country is entirely dependant on foreign military, financial, intell...
Yeah what an absolute mystery! 1. Run 12 months of US war propaganda painting everything Russia does as the embodiment of evil and the US as the knigh...
As I said before, if the limit if your tolerance for alternative perspectives stops at what 'seems obvious to you' then I think that explains a lot. I...
My clumsy wording there. Its important to recognize that this is not an ontological theory, its not claiming that there are really things called exter...
You've still not described what your 'direct' perception would look like. Looking at a tree, the light from it might be mediated by the atmospheric co...
The latter. I think what we call 'reality', or 'the world' is the construction. The external states are just a theorised cause of that reality, a mode...
Depends what you mean by 'mediate'. Again, if you don't want to make a distinction between conscious mediation and subconscious mediation then the dis...
Well, that's just wrong. If I hit your knee your lower leg will rise. The process is entirely internal. You don't 'mediate' it in any way whatsoever. ...
I think so. Not my wheelhouse. Yes, that's right. I subscribe to a version of perception which is a kind of collaborative process of continual interac...
Well there is your stepwise route. Perception is not a direct process. Whatever data is gathered from the external system is passed through several in...
I don't know of any version of indirect realism which claims some 'other object' in the brain is what is being perceived. The distinction is not thoug...
Nothing. John does not 'directly' perceive anything because perception is not a direct process. In much the same way as the answer to the question "wh...
A person. When we use the expression "John saw a tree" we're clearly talking about a person and a tree. We're not saying "some part of John saw some o...
What is 'directly' doing here? As opposed to what? If I get a message from you, I could get it 'directly' (from you to me) or I could get it indirectl...
The tree. As I said, it's not ab out the name we give to the object. Our naming practices are necessarily public and so necessarily external. Saying "...
So? Is that your threshold for considering a theory to be such that "you cannot deny it"? That inexpert laymen have posted what they consider to be ev...
The indirect realist doesn't say that something inside the man perceives something else (but then you did say you'd come to expect straw-manning, so.....
So you place your feeling of certainty above actual experts in the field. As I said, your ego really has reached an unexpected peak. I have no interes...
Bollocks. You just don't want to defend your position and its pathetic. This is seriously how you see a discussion platform like this one as best used...
So the Ukrainian military action, the US weapons supply, the social media campaigns, the aid... None of that is helping to secure peace? What is it he...
I've not denied anything Russia has been shown to say or do. I've denied your interpretation of what those actions indicate about intent. Don't preten...
Are you seriously suggesting that your preferred theory of Russian geopolitics is on a par with the theory that the earth is round? Your ego really ha...
Christ, you're incorrigible aren't you. What Russia wanted is not a fact of history, it's an opinion. This isn't up for debate, you're just completely...
Because everyone who follows the rules is part of a cool, happy group who do fun stuff together. You wouldn't want to be left out of their gang would ...
It's not a question of the type of thing it is, it's the fact that the existence of such an 'action' is evidenced by nothing more than that you feel l...
I'm not a fan of natural rights, but this argument is ludicrous. One can no less easily "search among his possessions" and find no such thing as his '...
No, they very clearly aren't. The arguments and agenda of the politicians and the military are empirically demonstrable. The reasons are private and a...
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