So if... ...but the object of misogyny is identified by the toxicly masculine person, then toxic masculinity has to be a feature identified by them as...
I promise to try and stay more on topic this time. So, in order to have misogyny, there has to be a 'gyny to mis', yes. The object of the hatred/mistr...
Oh, I don't want to excessively personalise, so I don't suppose it matters. I'm treating them as a generic interlocutor, so assuming vaguely Western. ...
Yes. Borders cause wars. It is not noble or ethical to support their instatement or protection. It is the quality of the governments on either side th...
Again, that metric is not the issue. The method is. No you haven't. You said it's because the regime would oppose it. All autocratic regimes oppose re...
Because they are planning to invade Russian held territory. The legal paperwork doesn't change how many people die, nor how successful/necessary the o...
Some answers we've already had... "Giving in to Russia's territorial grabs will lead to more deaths in the long run." We gave in to Russia's territori...
Let's make this simple. Here's a report from the OHCHR, whom I hope we can agree are pretty independant. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Doc...
I didn't mention anything about non-violence. I said military action. Action by the military. How many oppressive regimes were overthrown by one count...
So? Can we not fight that? Why are we suddenly disarmed of any means of resistance other than full-scale land war? Just look at the history of the ove...
Well you've no counterfactual by which to show that, so it's irrelevant to the argument. There's no world in which we didn't fight Hitler militarily b...
Then I'm confused by your metric of probability. You said... So why is Ukrainian victory likely, but democratic overthrow not? Why do you have such fa...
And what is it about "we support every single opposition movement in your country and make your leadership virtually impossible to carry out on the wo...
Why? If life under Putin is so awful, why would those under him be less likely to oppose his rule just because he got more land? It doesn't make sense...
At what cost? Why is punishment more important than the strategy which saves most lives? And what's wrong with the ICC? And what about being deposed i...
Yes, I agree to a point. The only way out of this situation is regime change (and accompanying material condition change) for the people currently und...
War does not equal sovereignty. War equals massive indebtedness, economic collapse, and often an accompanying risk of increases in extremist politics,...
I get your point. It's a valid one. Holding a different one doesn't make one uniformed, biased, nor a putin-supporter. We all want an end to this war ...
So. The argument you were supposed to be countering was about how far Ukraine might be from Russian-style authoritarianism. The answer is, not far. Th...
We evidently can't. You preface everything you say with "in reality..." as if you alone had access to the truth, and everyone who disagrees with you i...
Ukraine is not a well established democracy and Russia is not a full-blown autocracy. There are several independent measures of human development, in ...
OK, what? I don't see what any of that has to do with a war over sovereignty. As if war was the only way to decide on leaders... I'm aware of what oth...
Possibly, but one cannot have one's cake and eat it here. Ukrainians have a very strong history of right-wing nationalism with it's associated racism ...
Which just about explains most of why we're here. Fucking xenophobic, racist claptrap like that. Everyone who carried out the Holodomor is dead. Russi...
Thanks. I've enjoyed having a space to reflect them in (or on - whatever the right term is for the object of a reflection). Yes. That's was my plan (h...
Also, also... Why? In your little story of Sachs the partisan, why is he doing this? He's a very intelligent man (I hope we can all at least agree on ...
Whether you were right or not is the matter under discussion, it can't be brought in as evidence for the case. It does. It uses him as a source in an ...
Also... Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't... "Have a consistent theory throughout? Obvious sign of bias - proves he's wedded to one ideological ...
So @"Tzeentch" was not wrong to call him 'independent' then. And your labelling him as 'biased' was not an act of dispassionate information-sharing, b...
He is independent. He represents neither Ukraine, nor Russia, nor America. 'Independent' doesn't mean 'not having an opinion one way or the other'. Ye...
That's a very well thought out theory. I have some sympathy with the general idea. At a gut level, I definitely get the feeling that people are defend...
It's really interesting you brought this up, my first post in a while was provoked by this very thought... (having a go a the whole quoting myself lar...
I clearly isn't, and anyone can read the evidence to that effect. You've singled out Sachs as being biased because he doesn't support your preferred n...
I've some sympathy with the idea, but here's my few issues with it; Firstly, it assumes errors are the result of noise and I don't buy that in general...
Excellent. We're getting into the meat of it. I'll try not to disappoint. In what way is it a flaw? Your claim is that Sachs is biased, right? Presuma...
You'd have thought... But how long did it take for women to have an option accepted for an address that didn't declare their marital status to world? ...
No it isn't. If it were it would be ridiculous and Jeffrey Sachs is a well respected academic, named one of the "500 Most Influential People in the Fi...
And maintaining a strong 'sphere of influence' is a perfectly rational response to having that sphere threatened. If someone threatens to steal my car...
Yes. It chimes with... From the Reign of Terror, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Purge. there's been a dark side to revolution which fixates of sti...
Also the following very much addresses your posts too, so I'm going to save repeating, if that's OK. That's certainly true, but I think you're underes...
It's funny how often this is levied. You opened a thread dismissing an entire field of enquiry on the basis of some stuff you reckon about it. In what...
Have you been to Ukraine? No Have you spoken to the negotiators? No Have you seen the documents involved? No Were you there at the time of any of the ...
Yes. It gets complicated when we get into redundancy and duplication, but I don't think either need disrupt this project right now, it's still reasona...
What about them is biased? I can't believe I'm having to explain this to grown adults, but simply saying things you don't agree with isn't bias. Right...
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