1. Create a system which exploits workers to put enormous economic and militarily power in the hands of a narrow elite. 2. Use this power to ruthlessl...
I've just pointed out that the quality of life indices don't support your assertions so this seems an untenable position. If you were using quality of...
They did have them. They didn't justify invasion. Why is that so hard to understand? And as to why I brought them up (since you've clearly lost the th...
The method used is immaterial, they heightened nuclear tension. Something of a performative contradiction, no? No. If you say something which is erron...
True. Now what's that got to do with the point being argued? Need I remind you of it? If you're looking for a reason why this thread descends so readi...
What indices would you use? https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2022/happiness-benevolence-and-trust-during-covid-19-and-beyond/#ranking-of-happiness-201...
Yes, something like. Mostly 'security concerns' in terms of international politics come down to whose flag is over the parliament (even if sometimes o...
The US released details of it's National Defense Strategy this week. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/28/2002964702/-1/-1/1/NDS-FACT-SHEET.PDF To th...
I can strongly sympathise with such an intolerance. What I have far less sympathy for is your (and other's) refusal to accept any fallibility whatsoev...
The question was rhetorical. If you want to repost your gross indecency you do so, but I will flag it a second time. I was perfectly prepared to toler...
Fascinating. Is it the last 'all in' of the inveterate gambler? Or have you so thoroughly re-invented the narrative that you actually believe this? Do...
This is a discussion forum, not a blog. If you just want to talk to people who agree with you then, I suggest you start a forum to that end. Please do...
We could also add... ...but at least they voted first. I'm sure they all died happy in the knowledge that their preferred colour of tie was on the aut...
OK The claim that it's "nonsense" to say that politicians are unafraid of public opinion is false. If you want to retract that claim and only argue th...
For a start, the comment I responded to was... Ie, the claim that it's "nonsense" to say that politicians are unafraid of public opinion. If you want ...
You're right. Let's bring it back round. I hate Putin. He's, like, really bad and stuff. He's killed people and killing people isn't nice, so that's, ...
Wars cause enormous harms, including to people who have no say in the decisions (children, future generations), so only the plausible avoidance of gre...
This just isn't relevant. Experts merely constrain the range of options (to those which are not overwhelmed by evidence to the contrary). Choosing bet...
So @"boethius" is 'peddling' a message, but you're just offering an opinion? Care to share with us what the difference is? They may not sound like it ...
No, apparently it's about Hungarian baths and the pronunciation of New Orleans. Funny how you guys were so offended that we dare mention US imperialis...
Perfect. Not only must you think this way, but it is you who are fundamentally malformed if you don't. Not merely no longer playing for the same team,...
I assume you already understand the link between 'press' and 'propaganda', else why bring in Reporters Sans Frontières index for press freedom. You me...
Absolutely. One thing I find disturbing about this whole discussion about propaganda is the inherent racism. The idea that there's all these dumb gull...
No. I said that @"SophistiCat" had failed to provide such a measure (as such we couldn't critique it), I didn't claim that there was no such measure. ...
I presume, unless you just accidentally tagged me into some unconnected comment you wanted to spew out to the world in general, that you were respondi...
You bleated 'disinformation' rather than actually point out anything of substance, a classic establishment apologist trick. Why don't you explain how ...
Eh? Seems directly relevant to me. Regardless, your claim was that power was only the ability to wield brute force. Are you now admitting you were wro...
None at all. The link is to having reasons to post about it, not reasons to believe it. I know it's hard for the Twitter generation to understand but ...
So Jeff Bezos? No power at all (bit of a wimp by all accounts). Rupert Murdoch? Completely powerless (I mean, I could definitely have him). Larry Fink...
You mean CNN, owned by AT&T the fourteenth-largest donor to United States federal political campaigns and committees from 1989 to 2019, also funded th...
I mistook you for someone to be taken seriously, my mistake. The crudeness of the method has no bearing whatsoever on the pervasiveness of the outcome...
What number? Is one too many? (Ask yourself where Julian Assange is). Two? Ten? At what threshold of journalists in jail, assassinated, beaten up does...
Aside from the last claim (which needs only one example to verify it) you'd need to supply some sources for all this. It's no good saying "we all know...
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