You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Isaac

Comments

Because America itself is the place least under America's boot, obviously. Fuck up everywhere else on the planet, then when those populations come fle...
May 19, 2022 at 06:25
I think this idea is central to the way this topic is being discussed. Western powers have so much blood on their hands from colonialism onward that t...
May 19, 2022 at 06:18
Take a look back at the posts of @"Olivier5" (the person to whom you are replying here) and @"Christoffer", and no few of your own, and tell me seriou...
May 19, 2022 at 05:27
The 'topic' is the Ukraine crisis. Says it right at the top of the page. It's not 'how bad do we think Putin is', nor is it 'who's winning right now'....
May 19, 2022 at 05:24
That's kind of the point. 4,000 Ukrainians killed since the war began (UN figures). 350,000 children on the point of starvation in Somalia (United Nat...
May 18, 2022 at 17:32
And yet people aren't. That's it. That's literally all there is to the use of the Somali flag here. People were openly and vociferously against Putin'...
May 18, 2022 at 14:29
Wow. Your tiny mind must have been blown apart by what was happening here then. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bi...
May 18, 2022 at 13:22
And yet here you are, saying something about that. Perhaps there's a lesson there for future post quality.
May 18, 2022 at 12:56
Yeah, because a much more appropriate reaction to America running an actual insurance racket is to tut quietly and move on to the sports section. Path...
May 18, 2022 at 12:26
The relevance being...? As I said, the internal politics of Somalia are completely irrelevant to the point. US military involvement will cause casualt...
May 18, 2022 at 11:55
Gods! People fly little Ukrainian flags because the media told them it would make a good virtue signal to cover up their otherwise moral degeneracy wh...
May 18, 2022 at 10:38
Hang on, let me get this straight. (Ignoring the fact that the whole issue of flags came up as a reaction to their facile use...but that's clearly bey...
May 18, 2022 at 10:30
Uh huh. And I've said Russia's invasion is brutal, unjustified and criminal. That didn't seem to be enough either. Again, as the record of this thread...
May 18, 2022 at 06:10
I see what you mean, though what you'd need here is stakeholder ownership, rather than just worker ownership... but I suppose if you define capitalism...
May 18, 2022 at 06:04
Let's be absolutely clear, because the entire thread is on record. The issue has been entirely with your 'side' complaining about any and all mention ...
May 17, 2022 at 19:44
I think one of the problems here is that the issue is with the material constraints certain systems impose on decisions. Anyone working in a system wi...
May 17, 2022 at 18:56
Funny, that's almost exactly the view that the US government and arms industry needs you to hold in order to justify it foreign policy. But that would...
May 17, 2022 at 18:49
Yes, but no one's forcing you to keep posting them. I was wondering if any of the great humanitarians here could direct me to the UK's 'Homes for Soma...
May 17, 2022 at 17:17
Uh huh, obvious from Putin's speech it wasn't about NATO... No Nazis yet... 10th paragraph, still no Nazis...Quite a lot about NATO though... He just ...
May 17, 2022 at 12:50
Then why do you keep making it? Your argument is so obviously circular it's a joke. You think A, I think B you assume I don't have the data to inform ...
May 17, 2022 at 12:06
Russia has about 1 million slaves according to the definition of Modern Slavery, Ukraine has about 0.2 million. Per capita, one is about as likely to ...
May 17, 2022 at 11:56
The alternative assumes a war wouldn't have lead to worse. The Ukrainian people were given a shit choice - lose part of your country to Russian rule (...
May 17, 2022 at 11:48
I haven't even mentioned anything going on in Sweden and Finland. I've been talking about the sense and consequence of their actions in joining NATO. ...
May 17, 2022 at 06:18
It'll probably be totally fine. After all, it's not as if Ukraine is also one of the largest arms trafficking markets in Europe! Oh fuck! Still... the...
May 16, 2022 at 18:50
Who'd be so facile?
May 16, 2022 at 18:23
Brilliant stuff! Look, for you personally, we're all well aware that you're basically Jack Ryan, but surely the rest of Sweden aren't all crack secret...
May 16, 2022 at 17:37
How do you get 24/7 information unfiltered, just by being in Sweden/Finland? I'm in England, I don't get information about English military security, ...
May 16, 2022 at 15:55
Fortunately for world peace, Russia conveniently alternates between brutally masterminding existential threats to the whole of Europe and acting out D...
May 16, 2022 at 12:59
Cool, so you are a spy! I knew it, how exciting! I won't tell anyone, promise. That's the geopolitical implications in the sense I mean. What your sec...
May 16, 2022 at 12:55
Eh? Which position is this making the case against? America keeps or reneges on its agreements according to its own political expediency, right? So Sw...
May 16, 2022 at 12:38
Are they secret? Would you have to kill us if you told us - so exciting! Again, why would people living and working in Sweden have any more idea than ...
May 16, 2022 at 12:04
Bugger, I didn't know. Well, you can all look forward to my thrilling forthcoming thread on the curfuffle about parking for the fishing boats down at ...
May 16, 2022 at 11:04
Yeah, I think this is one of the major flaws in the whole "we're safe now we're in NATO" argument. As if a flimsy piece of paper is going to hold any ...
May 16, 2022 at 11:01
This makes no sense whatsoever. Unless you're literally walking to these sites in person you're getting your information from the same internet we all...
May 16, 2022 at 10:49
I'm confused here. You say 'win' and then ask if they ought push for Donbass and Crimea. How's that a win? Russia comes in wanting control over Donbas...
May 16, 2022 at 07:40
So, if a defender commits genocide, its not OK to condemn them? Besides which, who mentioned condemnation? We were just talking about what they ought ...
May 16, 2022 at 05:07
That's begging the question. You first decide if an action is right or wrong, then if its right you say "it's not our business to judge", but you just...
May 15, 2022 at 19:12
So we shouldn't be discussing what the Russians ought to do either then? If they see fit to flatten Bucha, that's not for us to judge, they know best?...
May 15, 2022 at 17:43
I don't see why you keep just saying obvious statements about the news. I have a newspaper. What has Ukraine's rejection of the offer got to do with a...
May 15, 2022 at 16:17
So?
May 15, 2022 at 15:36
Of course it's about you. The only matter of possible interest here is our reasons. Yours, mine, everyone else's. That you have some insane notion of ...
May 15, 2022 at 12:49
I think that depends if there's a notion to push through to Crimea and/or to try and regain more control over Donbas than before February. Personally,...
May 15, 2022 at 12:46
Literally any other of fucking hundreds of alternatives... but sure, it's everyone else who are choosing an interpretation... Not you... definitely no...
May 15, 2022 at 11:08
There's no "however" in the speeches. Absolutely key difference. No one but the Americans and their warmongering allies are trying to actively avoid p...
May 15, 2022 at 10:39
Nowhere in those quoted speeches did either politician say "Restoring Ukraine's territorial integrity ought to be the primary goal now". Draghi didn't...
May 15, 2022 at 09:23
I'm not just repeating the same discussion again. It was thoroughly discussed. You and the other warmongers dismissed it as 'giving in'. You haven't o...
May 14, 2022 at 16:47
What do you think we've been discussing all this time? The primary objective should be to end the war. Putin is not (yet) demanding anything which was...
May 14, 2022 at 16:23
Pathetic.
May 14, 2022 at 15:06
I can assure you, the only one failing to follow the exchange at normal speed is you. @"Benkei" asked you what your solution was. You gave your answer...
May 14, 2022 at 13:14
I blame Top Gun
May 12, 2022 at 17:19