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Presumably you'd have some evidence for this conclusion?
May 25, 2022 at 19:07
And again. If you set up some bizarre moral framework, you'll reach bizarre results. Why is this still of any interest to you? Are you seeing if you r...
May 25, 2022 at 19:05
It's exactly the 'additional' element about which the entire disagreement here revolves. As I said above, there are two options - one is to end hostil...
May 25, 2022 at 19:00
It's not about coincidental schadenfreude though, it's about the active encouragement with schadenfreude as a goal. The difference (in your analogy) i...
May 25, 2022 at 18:13
No. We all hope they win. You additionally hope they 'teach Russia a lesson'. I don't give a fuck about teaching Russia a lesson because doing so at t...
May 25, 2022 at 17:57
OK. A little humility might be in order recognising it's other people's lives you're hopefully anticipating the consequences of risking.
May 25, 2022 at 17:37
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here (I rarely am with your posts, I have to say). The Russians are the invading party, yes. I think we'r...
May 25, 2022 at 17:13
I can't for the life of me think why. I don't see how the two things are in the least bit related. If some government went barmy and demanded somethin...
May 25, 2022 at 16:46
Seriously guys, I don't see any need to keep dragging the moderators into this brawl. You both know full well your own posts have been no less viscous...
May 25, 2022 at 13:27
Does your passion for getting other people to die for your moral didactics know no bounds?
May 25, 2022 at 12:09
And so we should. Meanwhile, let's ban guns right now everywhere whilst we work that out. The former task should be easier and provide immediate safet...
May 25, 2022 at 11:56
Scarily similar to some of the early anti-Semitism in 30s Europe though, much of the writing at the time talked about the culture of Jewry rather than...
May 24, 2022 at 13:23
Yes, maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. That's the whole point I've been trying to get across in practically every comment I've made on this thread. We don't ...
May 24, 2022 at 13:20
Re-writing really needs at least a few pages to go by...
May 24, 2022 at 13:16
Well, no. Seeing as they're being uncovered by the very parties in whose interest it is to exaggerate to maximum effect, as I said. If you're under th...
May 24, 2022 at 13:14
No. Of course it's not because they're Russian. It's just that... ...which we can all see is totally different from saying that it's because they're R...
May 24, 2022 at 12:50
And to whose thinking would that be relevant? Since the quote you responded to was... To which my parody of your response was entirely apt. The questi...
May 24, 2022 at 12:34
You do realise I've just been randomly cutting and pasting sections from the relevant Wikipedia articles? I'm not even paying any attention to what's ...
May 23, 2022 at 17:51
Yeah but The Russia–NATO Council was established in 2002 for handling security issues and joint projects. The idea of Russia becoming a NATO member ha...
May 23, 2022 at 12:10
Right. Look at the article in question. https://labourheartlands.com/jacques-baud-the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine-update/#The_Military_Situation...
May 23, 2022 at 08:47
Yes, but The USSR, fearing the restoration of German militarism in West Germany, had suggested in 1954 that it join NATO, but this was rejected by the...
May 23, 2022 at 07:59
It's not funny. You've just publicly claimed that the reasons Africans migrate to Europe, the reasons Africa is a worse place to live than Europe, are...
May 23, 2022 at 07:29
No one is in any doubt about your apologism, so repeating it doesn't get us anywhere. I was just being 'revolutionary' in showing it to be the bullshi...
May 23, 2022 at 07:24
Oh good. But do remind us again how 'factually' Europe did not actually ruin Africa, but the Africans did it to themselves.
May 23, 2022 at 07:10
I thought there might be a lower limit to how far you'd be prepared to sink in your Western apologetics, but "the slave trade wasn't that bad" is a ne...
May 23, 2022 at 06:45
This is actually way easier than actually trying to advance or defend some actual position. I can definitely see the attraction.
May 22, 2022 at 22:04
Yes, but The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have co...
May 22, 2022 at 21:56
Yes, but the Warsaw Pact (WP), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc sociali...
May 22, 2022 at 20:12
So on what grounds are you even taking part in a thread on Ukraine? The article was about Finland and Sweden. You're from Finland are Christoffer is f...
May 22, 2022 at 13:34
Pathetic attempt at deflection. The issue is that support for NATO membership is being driven by industries who stand to benefit from it. Which is why...
May 22, 2022 at 12:52
Oh and... The mainstream media are literally inviting arms dealers on to give commentary on how the war is going. Newspapers are actually contradictin...
May 21, 2022 at 16:20
And your agenda? Pointing out the omissions in a left-wing, anti-NATO article...? Do we see the same eagle-eyed hunt for bias in the more centrist, ma...
May 21, 2022 at 16:11
Yeah, and that's actual papers with method statements and statistical analysis. Once you get into the field of 'expert opinion', you're pretty much ju...
May 19, 2022 at 21:48
Comments would be an improvement, in my opinion. I might disagree with you most of the time, but at least I can ask you why you think what you think. ...
May 19, 2022 at 21:34
So the role you play is determining what's interesting? Not without comment, no. Posts should have a point, I think.
May 19, 2022 at 20:25
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=French+press+about+Ukraine&t=fpas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=french+newspapers+on+Ukraine&t=fpas&ia=web
May 19, 2022 at 20:11
Weird. Useful to whom? Do you think we're not aware that foreign newspapers exist? I realise I might be the one in the minority here, but I just don't...
May 19, 2022 at 19:57
Yes, as a statement of fact, I do. I have absolutely no reason to believe you. It just sounds like "Oh and my sources are the best, if you don't agree...
May 19, 2022 at 18:10
So 'no' to the trying then? No, because reciting the mainstream is lazy, and careless when mainstream narratives work to immiserate people. Again, I'm...
May 19, 2022 at 15:45
Not much in the habit of writing post that aren't responses to anything (doubting anyone will read them), but this shining example of narrative alteri...
May 19, 2022 at 14:52
Just try, try really hard, to see that this is a subjective judgement of yours, not a fact about the world. If seeing that is too hard, then just imag...
May 19, 2022 at 14:26
Classic. You don't disappoint. Tell me again how your posts are just sooo well formulated that anyone disagreeing with them simply must be trolling......
May 19, 2022 at 12:58
They're neither obliged to deny it, nor blind to it. They voluntarily deny it's relevance as part of their theory. It a decision made using that judge...
May 19, 2022 at 12:27
Yes. I mean exactly that. Are you suggesting that was a good thing done there?
May 19, 2022 at 10:20
Yep. The apparent circularity of which you've just shown to be unproblematic by your doing exactly that from your armchair. So the question remains. I...
May 19, 2022 at 10:20
You said it right here... As to... I agree. Since when has scientific inquiry proceeded only on the ground that such an inquiry was 'required'? I don'...
May 19, 2022 at 10:01
No, the point was that you claimed judgement about 'judgement' was begging the question, then perfomatively contradicted yourself by making judgements...
May 19, 2022 at 09:43
What worries me is whether this tactic - so successful in the mainstream media - will be extended. How soon until we start to hear the same line being...
May 19, 2022 at 09:39
And yet you've just waffled on for half a page 'explaining' to us exactly the sort of thing 'judgement' is... ...all statements about the nature of ju...
May 19, 2022 at 09:06
The fact that you're to egotistical to tell the difference between a judgement of yours and a fact is not itself an argument for engaging in abusive l...
May 19, 2022 at 08:59