https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/2/4/the-death-of-an-inconvenient-palestinian?sf159643480=1 Israeli 'interests', which anyone who wants to talk...
Anyway, while apologists like Ennui are writing paragraphs about trying to change the subject, here are the 30 Palestinian home demolitions - self-dem...
Present crimes against humanity are not your intellectual plaything. Or perhaps they are, but then your moral vacuity ought not be anyone else's probl...
One of the nice things about philosophy is knowing when someone is hiding behind abstractions in order to distract from rather concrete issues. Like I...
I don't particularly care about this kind of blather. I just think it would be nice if Israel stopped kidnapping children, destroying olive groves, bu...
This is alot of writing to ask how Israel can be safe without engaging in aparthied and ethnic cleansing. In any case the question of 'defense' is a n...
Israel's interests involve cleansing Palestinians from the land. This cannot be addressed 'constructively'. One should acknowledge it - if only to dem...
Lmao. This reads: "I have no idea what I'm talking about except for what I've passively absorbed without looking too much into it". Just so happens th...
Ah, Arendt on freedom is great. She rightly notes that freedom as understood in terms of the 'will' is theological garbage, and she rightly offends th...
First, because Russia sucks too. Second, because the US and Europe was agitating for regime change precisely on account of Ukrainian resistance to neo...
Maybe one should look into these 'association agreements', hastily papered over in this propaganda piece, before recognising that they amounted to eco...
Yeah gee, it's so unlike the most blood-hungry and blood-soaked nation on the planet to be stoking war! So out of character! Must just be good ol' Rus...
Well yes, because they haven't been neoliberalized to shit by the bloodsucking Western Powers. And yes of course no one wants Ukraine and Turkey in th...
Lol I'm sure Ukraine can't wait to be subjected to more IMF 'structual adjustment' and austerity and have whatever democracy they do have utterly demo...
"As a loose definition, Left and Right populists share a profound hatred of indigenous social elites. Right populists in addition hate at least one ot...
I don't play the 'pick my favorite mass murder' game, but you're welcome to choose the US. Always nice to see liberals use the death of others as an i...
To be fair to frank, the news isn't run by the Pentagon. In fact, they bypass the Pentagon altogether and go straight to the arms manufacturers. https...
Ukraine to US: STFU please you're going to get us all killed https://news.yahoo.com/volodymyr-zelensky-accuses-west-causing-202633897.html -- Handy ru...
Agreed - but the fearmongering coming from the Western media - and then transmitted by those who promote the NYT (lol) as a credible news source - is ...
The amount of consent manufacturing over conflict with Russia is insane - and obvious to anyone who has seen this happen over and over with every coun...
https://i.ibb.co/RzXLFk6/Ukr.jpg https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/russia-invasion-imminent-threat-hysteria-panic-washington Remember, the US are war...
Yes, because I don't believe that religion ought to be accorded any respect whatsoever, especially religion masquerading as science, still less religi...
Wolfgang Streeck - How will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System Mark Blyth - Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea Tiqqun - Preliminary M...
This is why I am really partial to the treatment of grammar as being a matter of social normativity: it places language on a continuum with extra-ling...
Oh yes, it has indeed changed to the 'minimalist' program, because one-by-one, as the claims of UG have been shown to be trash, it has had to whittle ...
To be clear, I'm not arguing against UG because of it's empirical failures. Those failures are to be expected and are the natural outcomes of it's pri...
No, I disagree. My philosophical priors gives me reason and motivation to suspect that Chomsky is full of shit, and, having actually looked to see if ...
Except that Chomskites keep wanting to make the move from this triviality ('biology is involved' - yeah no shit Sherlock), to the non-trivial claim th...
In a word, essentialism vs. materialism. Or idealism vs. science. I've tried previously to characterize this in terms from the history of philosophy: ...
Yes, if one makes the utterly wrong assumption that language is a biological capacity, then it follows that one can bracket social and communicative c...
Except language is not a biological capacity. I don't know how many times I have to say this. It is not a biological capacity like writing letters is ...
Ahh, Tomasello is such a king: https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Benjamins/Tomasello_Evidence_StudLang_2004_1555709.pdf This whole for page paper is wo...
There is no, and cannot in principle be, a ‘genetic component of the language faculty’. That's the point. Quite literally, there is nothing biological...
Right, but why not revise what we understand of the real, rather than create new categories because they do not fit tradition? We made up what we unde...
It seems funny to me that what is at stake in the OP is that money fails the expectation of what reality somehow ought to be, rather than in fact, mot...
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