So you're advocating demolishing the state on a hunch that everything will be just fine? It's your entire argument because without it, this... ...make...
I've no idea what you might be referring to here. Russia didn't 'send in' the far right agitators. The experts I cited are talking about US support fo...
Of course, all of this culpability goes away if Ukraine doesn't actually have a powerful far-right movement, the US are once more blameless. Now, wher...
Ms. Johnstone puts two and two together for the slow ones at the back. First Mearsheimer... Then Maté... ...finally Stephen Cohen It's not rocket scie...
You might want to try writing in entire paragraphs, in furtherance of that objective, perhaps some actual grammar, maybe - dare I say it - some actual...
Most everyone just repeats the same thing again and again, and you barely ever change anyone's mind by rational argument. NOS is no different there. P...
Then why have those problems not been solved? There's enough money in the hands of the wealthy to house, feed and clothe everyone. There's sufficient ...
It is absolutely clear that people will not volunteer to deal with common resources, the idea is utterly ludicrous. There are homeless people in every...
The form given was... (Although, see ) ...is there some reason you missed out the most important part? So, if the Queen inherits England, she legitima...
I am. X needs doing, there are no alternatives. That's a justification for X. So you'd rule against inheritance then, which is neither "one’s own labo...
OK. How else? You're just using 'legitimate' here to mean 'means I agree with'. On what grounds are the means by which factory owner come by their fac...
I gave it in the quote - there's a need to manage common resources, experience has shown that in our current hierarchical society people do not do so ...
With which point do you now disagree? Whomever the Prime Minister was, Harold Wilson in my case. I don't see how the amount of effort is someone else'...
Yes, it's more like... See this dog will bite me any minute * poke, poke* ...any minute now, you'll see how viscous it is * kick, poke, slap* ...any m...
Uh huh. So where in that graph is any kind of support at all for the ludicrous claim that America gives a shit about long drawn out wars? Where's the ...
You're right, we should look at real-term profits as well as real-term stock price... https://realinvestmentadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SP50...
Yeah, don't they just hate it... https://preview.redd.it/x66d36t7kcwz.png?overlay-align=bottom,left&overlay-pad=8,16&crop=1200:628.272251309,smart&ove...
The point was that corporate profits have done virtually nothing but rise at an increasingly large margin above nominal GDP. Inflation, no inflation, ...
You too? "These people are like automated bots who just want to dominate the thread, so there's no substance to their arguments" "They just engage in ...
Oh, did I miss something? I said... ...and your very next post was... Was there some hidden text in there? Some cipher maybe? Because it looks (to tho...
It's not passive. As has pointed out. Just as you can change corporations if you don't like their service, you can change countries if you don't like ...
I'm not excusing it. I've just given a perfectly clear argument justifying it using foundational principles you and I have just agreed on. We agreed o...
This is just naive fawning. Look at the US's actual investment in a peace deal https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/09/is-the-us-hindering-much-n...
Your entire contribution to this thread consists of debasing insults to anyone critical of the West and posting news articles without any opinion or c...
I literally said in the same post... I even put it in bold for you. Do you read my posts at all? The question is about how we make decisions in uncert...
US weapons manufacturers are deeply entwined with both US government and US military. We agree on that, right? US weapons manufacturers benefit in the...
So is the UK secretly planning to take over Ireland? When Greece moves into Turkish waters in the Aegean they're planning to take over Turkey? I'm tru...
"Let's". Short for 'let us' right? Are you Russian? because I'm not. So pointing to Putin's failures in respect of negotiation efforts has absolutely ...
Right. So where does that leave your arguments exculpating America? So far you've admitted that America does indeed have a significant influence over ...
I agree. Putin said he was invading Ukraine to rid it of Nazis, so that is very important in understanding his motives... ...oh sorry, that's not impo...
No, the lack of agreeing with you is remarkable. again, unless you're claiming yourself to be infallible, then disagreeing with you is not the same as...
Not agreeing with someone is not the same as not understanding. To conflate the two, you'd have to assume you were infallible, otherwise it may, alter...
Ha! No, unfortunately not. Apparently advocating any strategy other than throwing more Ukrainians under Putin's tanks so we can gloat when he loses, i...
Do I genuinely think NATO and America were completely powerless to stop Russia by any non-military means? No. And "Of course not!" hardly constitutes ...
Yes, but what you think isn't relevant is it? The argument is that America ought to have known that it's sabre-rattling might provoke Russia into some...
You wrote... ...in response to... A comment about someone's level of criticisms of NATO in "the thread" was met with a comment that "some" cannot crit...
Yeah, I give him a week before there's a "spontaneous" uprising. They'll have to ship the Nazis in from overseas though, this time. I think Brazil's a...
Indeed. That much of our oppressive system has been installed and maintained by the state is an irrelevance unless one can show that they did so uncoe...
Reason and rationality have nothing to do with it. One can 'reasonably and rationally' discuss the extent to which one's own country is at fault, or o...
Absolutely. So any meritorious discussion of the topic must begin with the matter of how to prevent the former and encourage the latter. Any discussio...
Herein lies the problem. NOS appears to want to retain some mechanisms - the one's by which he's recompensed for his labour, the ones by which he cont...
Well, at least Brazil will be completely out of the mainstream press for a few months now... ..the chattering classes will be tongue-tied. Do they sup...
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