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Whether or not the US is a democracy - it is not - has no bearing on whether or not China is. Not one bit. And China is about as democratic as my butt...
June 30, 2021 at 00:47
jfc
June 30, 2021 at 00:23
A mall cop for corporate interests. Nothing more.
June 29, 2021 at 12:43
I think this view is both paternalistic and naive. China commands an extremely well oiled state apparatus that has proven time and time again to execu...
June 29, 2021 at 12:10
I deeply, deeply dislike this definition, which confuses a mechanism of democratic rule with democratic rule as such. If democracy is the exercise of ...
June 29, 2021 at 11:31
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Nah, Leg is some other existing user who recently asked to have his or her name changed to Leghorn because Idk they have nothing better to do and we o...
June 29, 2021 at 03:27
Knew this would be some racial segregationist bullshit right from the 2nd sentence. So many paragraphs just to say "I don't like race mixing, and you ...
June 29, 2021 at 02:35
It's OK to post video links, so long as they contribute to a conversation, and that they are not the whole content of an opening post.
June 28, 2021 at 16:37
Oh nice, an object lesson. There are things beneath or beside refutation, and their dismissal does not constitute an ad hom, insofar as it doesn't fun...
June 28, 2021 at 12:15
Your inability to function - much less think - without a mythic crutch does not warrant an arrogation of this impotence to cosmic proportions. Much le...
June 28, 2021 at 12:07
:up: Theism is existential cowardice writ large.
June 28, 2021 at 11:29
Hence the incomparable superiority of Spinoza over even a single page of Schopenhauer: "The free person thinks least of all of death, and his wisdom i...
June 28, 2021 at 11:20
One wonders how it is the not the height of infantialism to demand that 'meaning' be handed to one on a silver platter from on high, with the alternat...
June 28, 2021 at 10:53
Too busy accomodating Joyce as he backstabs his farmer constituency.
June 28, 2021 at 04:51
Maybe, maybe not. Not being a speculative dogmatist about the issue, I'm not particularly keen to rule one way or the other in advance of cases to dis...
June 28, 2021 at 02:30
Then we are agree that the idea that the idea that 'analytic philosophy might provide a more solid basis for social theory' on the basis of the fantas...
June 28, 2021 at 02:17
I'm not fond of wantonly calling people racists either, especially on the basis of shitty identity politics, but your carrying the flag for people who...
June 28, 2021 at 02:14
Australia is certainly one of the most racist places on Earth, and my ability to live here is enabled and fostered by that racism, sure. Am I a racist...
June 28, 2021 at 01:17
Oh sweet summer child. There are none more deluded than those who think their chosen camping spot in philosophy is not just shite made up. Probably th...
June 28, 2021 at 01:12
Those who complain about Chinese expansionism but have nothing to say about America's ringing of the Earth with military bases and material support fo...
June 28, 2021 at 01:05
Would love to know what went through your head when you imagined that this is in any way a response to what I said.
June 28, 2021 at 01:03
Well yes because now you know who are racists. Also if being called a racist epiphanies you in to accepting the label, then you are a shit person at e...
June 27, 2021 at 02:49
Then you have a low opinion of humanity. Which, considering religion dehumanizes at every point, is unsurprising. This is of course, built into religi...
June 26, 2021 at 11:18
Sure it does. The reality of religion - as opposed to the idealized self-image, which pales before it - is that is has left its mark on the world in t...
June 26, 2021 at 09:24
Agapé. https://twitter.com/CBCCanada/status/1408451703284944898 On topic, I'd never really considered the fact that the whole notion of 'no atheists i...
June 26, 2021 at 06:39
https://twitter.com/rthk_enews/status/1408329800054239233 So much democracy, it hurts.
June 26, 2021 at 04:32
That all said one only has to look at what is happening right now to the Apple Daily newspaper (nothing to do with Apple the tech company) in Hong Kon...
June 26, 2021 at 02:52
I actually appreciate that this comes off so transparently as propaganda. It's far better than what comes out of 'the West' when they self-congratulat...
June 26, 2021 at 02:42
Are you saying I don't give off a hugs and kisses vibe?
June 26, 2021 at 02:30
Banno's real name is simply 'Ban'. He was born only to ban people on internet forums. Which apparently he can do in the absence of mod powers. But, be...
June 26, 2021 at 01:57
Nothing has changed in the US, except perhaps for the worse. /uploads/resized/files/k9/ca8jxdry0ze6gzav.jpg The US is simply a decaying state. As its ...
June 26, 2021 at 01:11
This thread is titled as it is for an excellent reason.
June 26, 2021 at 00:55
Back in the day we used to call this class consciousness. Now I guess it's got to be translated into some ephemeral existential stuff to gain traction...
June 24, 2021 at 05:02
June 23, 2021 at 10:12
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57562685 Government who has done all it can to ensure the destruction of the reef is mad that they are being ...
June 22, 2021 at 12:03
I think what is called analytic philosophy thrives because it ignores these issues. Or at least, when it does deign to treat them, it does so in such ...
June 22, 2021 at 04:10
The OP does not contain an argument, only an assertion. It doesn't even rise to the level of Stove's Gem, which would in fact be more welcome than wha...
June 22, 2021 at 02:41
They take the Australian public for a bunch of fools and... they're probably right. You'll never meet a more politically apathetic bunch of wankers th...
June 21, 2021 at 11:37
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Having not read a single thing @"Iris0" wrote in the sex thread, but having come across her posts elsewhere, the banning was well justified. If you ca...
June 21, 2021 at 04:58
The ethnic cleansing continues apace: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210609-1500-palestinian-home-face-demolition-in-jerusalems-silwan/
June 21, 2021 at 02:27
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/37-palestinian-children-injured-and-arrested-east-jerusalem More Israeli terrorist action on children https://ww...
June 20, 2021 at 04:58
Probably the most 'landmark' books for me: William Connolly - Identity\Difference Slavoj Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology Maurice Merleau-Ponty ...
June 20, 2021 at 04:21
No worries. I'll leave you to your fantasies while Israel continues to murder Palestinians and steal their land.
June 19, 2021 at 15:01
Yeah, I'm not the one justifying actually existing genocide with speculative futures.
June 19, 2021 at 14:51
Whatever does, it cannot excuse or justify present Israeli crimes, so is irrelevant to the point.
June 19, 2021 at 14:47
Is for Israel to stop committing genocide. For which you will excuse with imagined threats and speculative 'solutions' like 'Israelis leaving' and 'nu...
June 19, 2021 at 14:45
Yeah because apparently it's easier for you to imagine someone detonating a nuke in Israel as a solution to its settler colonialism than for Israel to...
June 19, 2021 at 14:30
What the fuck is wrong with you.
June 19, 2021 at 14:18
This entire rambling warble can be summed up by you saying that Israel should not stop being an apartheid state which continues to ethnic cleanse Pale...
June 19, 2021 at 14:05
I wonder if he talks about the holocaust famine he induced in India.
June 19, 2021 at 07:20