I'll tell you what's 'scripted'... Any time there's opposition to government policy or corporate overreach, some nutcase comes along claiming it's all...
I have to confirm that I'm supporting the narratives you assume I'm supporting? What kind of twisted rhetorical obligation is that? Why don't you simp...
Either quote me or shut the fuck up. I have never said, implied, or alluded to the idea that Putin's attack is justified because Ukraine is currently ...
We're into history lessons again. What's your point here? That because Russia also had relations with NATO they had no cause to think Ukraine might jo...
Uh huh. So when in 1997 Ukraine signed the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership, https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25457.htm that was ...
War is entertainment. There's a reason it sells newspapers (or whatever the modern digital version of that expression ought to be). https://youtu.be/r...
Well yeah. There's a reason I hadn't responded to that particular poster thus far. But the comment quoted is still apposite regardless of the accompan...
What? How is that evidence that Ukraine wouldn't have wanted to join anyway? We're not talking about whether Putin wants Ukraine, we're talking about ...
I suspect there was a reason that was buried in the Shoutbox and not attached to the Coronavirus thread. As we've heard ad infinitum from the many con...
I know, but that doesn't have any bearing on the point of whether American (EU) involvement is a good option. You're writing everything you know about...
Yep. Pretty much. Except we're all (most?) consumers, campaigners and voters in countries on one side of this. We can join in a futile war cry at our ...
I suppose it really does depend on "whatever the fuck that means in this conflict". Who is included in the category encompassed by your use of "our"? ...
I'm not sure what the pre-existing war's got do with it, but yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Pro-Western imperialist agendas cause more death and...
Well. This is what political debate renders down to in the Twitter generation. It's pathetic. Either toe the line on the mainstream narrative or fall ...
Because we don't just write a stiff letter to stop Putin. What all the propaganda and hype is about is justifying exactly the kind of regime change we...
Exactly. Just as the rise of Hitler might have been avoided by less punitive reparations. Dictators don't come to power in a vacuum. To think that peo...
So, if eight years on from this invasion, the president of Ukraine is less pro-Russian, you'll be happy to let Russia sort out any local disputes usin...
What's that got to do with anything. You're just like my students who used to answer their essay questions on Millgram by writing everything they know...
Where would he have gotten that idea from? http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2013/Dec/16/cain-replace.jpg https://www.channel4.com...
I've already explained. Any response to Putin doesn't happen in a vacuum. If you have a problem with Bullying in your playground you don't solve it by...
The point was that if all Russia is guilty of is not being a proper democracy then such a crime pales into insignificance when compared to massive dea...
Yes, I think social media acting as a rapid multiplier has exacerbated the problem massively recently. Within days an issue which no one had even thou...
Thanks. Job done then. Really? That we should unionize, remove trade tariffs and "tax the fuck" out the rich. My, Breitbart has changed since I last r...
OK. Still not getting anything on who these 'everyone' are. No. Russia has undergone massive regime changes since then, the US is still run by the sam...
Yeah, I expect the people of Spain and Greece are quaking in their boots at the prospect of a change in government in a country a thousand miles away....
Who? 'Everyone' is not an answer. Give me a non-partisan source claiming Russia is the main threat to world peace, so we've something beyond your opin...
According to whom? Ah, yes. The main threat. The nuclear weapon. The one which Russia has never used. As opposed to the one which America has used. Tw...
Since World War II the United States military has killed or helped kill 20 million people in the overthrow of at least 36 governments What on earth ma...
Yes. Brave, brave neo-nazis... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/ukraine-women-fighting-frontline ...powerless, but for their human rights...
No. She simply made useful foil in a rhetorical point. I've no sympathy at all for those who threaten her, but I've no sympathy for her either, she's ...
Can't help thinking there's something a little Marcusean here (alluded to earlier) about the reality of worker's demands being all too uncouth for a c...
From the SEP article you linked (my bolding)... Using the 'truth' of a belief as a criterion is non-deflationary, as is using a JTB definition of trut...
Thanks. I hope you mean 'sad' the way my generation uses the term, and not the way my children's generation do. No, but that wasn't exactly what I was...
I agree entirely with the sentiment, but I suspect you're thinking of different people to me. Are you prepared to name names? Who are/were these dissi...
I'm not saying I'm ready to believe this yet, but this is an interesting take. I'm reminded of the role comedy clubs played in apartheid South Africa,...
Fair enough, I think that's probably about as far as our armchair psychologising goes. I'm acutely aware of your low opinion of psychological research...
No problem. That's fair enough, I separated out some different sense of 'incivility' myself above, but I still agree with @"StreetlightX", even within...
I agree with you about the way these responses suck the guts out of political debate, but I'm not sure I'm ready to be quite so charitable about their...
Maybe, but one has to have some guiding principles, it's not just arbitrary is all I'm saying. I don't agree. I don't think a population needs to be u...
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