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Oh, I'm not saying that it was purely undertaken because of the Republican Party. What I'm saying is that the American state began to whip up the war ...
August 14, 2021 at 14:43
I was basically suggesting that, if an organizations democratic process is like a Rube Goldberg device, then, you will necessarily have the problem of...
August 14, 2021 at 13:53
That's something, I guess. I don't know. I just felt some sort of inspiration to do something upon witnessing this whirlwind of events, only to later ...
August 14, 2021 at 04:54
He does have a few years to recover, I guess, and, so, I may still my full eight years of apathetic bliss. It's no use thinking along the lines of the...
August 14, 2021 at 04:52
That's fairly comforting, but I'm still not entirely convinced that, as an Anarcho-Pacifist, I won't be considered as a domestic terrorist threat. Upo...
August 14, 2021 at 04:40
I guess that the Taliban have seized most of the border checkpoints, and, so, leaving is probably kind of difficult. Every now and then, though, it pr...
August 14, 2021 at 04:15
In all seriousness, though, despite that that's not necessarily not serious, to answer @"Apollodorus"'s question, we're about to have to cope with a r...
August 14, 2021 at 03:37
There's this quote that Emiliano Zapata has, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." @"baker" once said it to me here, which, i...
August 14, 2021 at 03:19
"Darklands" by Primal Scream
August 14, 2021 at 02:58
Reflections on the Battle of Algiers: Poetic Hypertext in Light of Recent Events The news report from the calm of the eye at the center of the storm i...
August 14, 2021 at 02:49
That's a nice sentiment and all, but, in Afghanistan, I think that we have to accept that it is already too late. The United States isn't going to ree...
August 14, 2021 at 01:46
Hopefully, but, y'know, not sticking around to find out is always an option, at least, when it's an option.
August 14, 2021 at 00:47
I agree, though, I think that there's a counter-terrorism branch, of what, who knows, in the United States that handles such things internationally. Y...
August 14, 2021 at 00:23
I think that the most responsible thing to do, though it is kind of demoralizing for me to say so, is to begin to prepare for the refugee crisis, whic...
August 14, 2021 at 00:15
I don't think that I quite believe that stock buybacks are where most of a company's profits go, but, sure, the board directors more or less control a...
August 14, 2021 at 00:05
In so far that you have a too complex of a democratic process, only a few people will understand how it works. That's fair enough, but I think that th...
August 13, 2021 at 23:16
Welcome, how? You've been nothing but dismissive and snide. Am I considered for membership within a cooperative that you are a part of? Probably not. ...
August 13, 2021 at 23:12
The shortest definition for anarchism is "libertarian socialism". Some people prefer to say that it is a political philosophy that attempts to reify t...
August 13, 2021 at 22:41
"The King of Spain" by The Tallest Man on Earth
August 13, 2021 at 21:26
It does have something to do with anarchism, though. You see, when Fransisco Franco declared himself to be the King of Spain, a civil war began betwee...
August 13, 2021 at 21:10
To sort of emphasize this point, the Basque region of Spain was a stronghold for the Republican movement during the Spanish Civil War. There are peopl...
August 13, 2021 at 20:15
What I am curious of, though, as I have a certain degree of self-interest in clarifying my general praxis in the vain hopes of finding like-minded all...
August 13, 2021 at 20:06
A short note about complexity: There seems to me, within any given democratic process, to be kind of a Golden Mean between dynamic adaptability and ov...
August 13, 2021 at 19:14
There are some considerations to ponder here, namely that you are bound to only have a few people who truly understand the democratic process, but I t...
August 13, 2021 at 19:03
As uncouth as it is to say, I'm kind of impressed. I looked at the news yesterday and they had taken 11 out of the 34 provincial capitals. When I look...
August 13, 2021 at 17:15
Had we merely waged a counter-terrorist operation against Al-Qaeda, that could also have been an effective strategy. It probably would have been the m...
August 13, 2021 at 17:05
I guess that they actually do. Crazy!
August 13, 2021 at 05:37
While the term, "agitprop", did originate in the former Soviet Union, it does generally denote any sort of political art designed to inspire some sort...
August 13, 2021 at 05:00
I kind of agree with you that it's unlikely for co-ops to catch on. You might not be talking about anarchism, but, I am so inclined to wonder, when we...
August 13, 2021 at 04:46
Occupy Wall Street was a broad-based anti-capitalist movement that became popular in 2011. Slavoj Zizek was sort of involved with it, but it wasn't co...
August 13, 2021 at 04:43
Eh, I thought it was some pretty good Occupy agitprop and bid for co-ops. A little heavy handed with the totalitarianism and tyranny, but, it is agitp...
August 13, 2021 at 04:21
Upon looking these things up, the transition town movement seems to be all, well, good, and all, but the United States reentered the Paris Agreement b...
August 13, 2021 at 04:14
Well, the opposition to nuclear power was born out of the anti-nuclear movement, originally set forth in favor of disarmament and later led to the cre...
August 13, 2021 at 03:59
Well, the proponents of molten salt and Thorium claim that there is no possibility of creating nuclear weapons due to the reactors, but, it is actuall...
August 13, 2021 at 03:11
It says in the "100% renewable energy" article on Wikipedia that "supporters of 100% renewable energy do not consider nuclear power as renewable or su...
August 13, 2021 at 02:51
Molten salt reactors and Thorium reactors are both still preferable to the nuclear reactors that we have now, particularly because of the decrease in ...
August 13, 2021 at 02:09
You're really selling this return to the exemplar of ancient Greek sport.
August 13, 2021 at 01:40
Sure, everyone can participate in the thread however, but it is your prompt that everyone responds to. Most people probably just read your original po...
August 13, 2021 at 01:11
What did you post? I've been thinking about starting a completely pointless hipster chauvinist contest over this. I dunno. I'm a pretty lonely guy. Do...
August 13, 2021 at 00:32
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground can even be read as downright anti-rational.
August 12, 2021 at 21:49
It's all probably somehow due to the habits of certain painters, I think. Unfortunately, we have rather high-flown libertines to blame for all of this...
August 12, 2021 at 21:43
Ah, the peaceful history of the United Kingdom...
August 12, 2021 at 21:29
The inexistence of nonviolent liberal communism globally is my refutation of the benevolence of God, at least, in so far that God is omnipresent, omni...
August 12, 2021 at 21:11
Right, like, some form of economic democracy, probably somehow coupled with some form of participatory democracy, which it doesn't necessarily have to...
August 12, 2021 at 20:42
That's only because you fail to see how nonviolent gradualist Anarchism, blind faith in Noam Chomsky, or Social Democracy are all actual solutions to ...
August 12, 2021 at 20:02
I was still typing. I don't feel a need to keep debating this, but, that may or may not be possible as @"Xtrix"'s solution to the ecological crisis, l...
August 12, 2021 at 19:33
I understand that you have a preference for Social Democracy, which I think is just fine, but you are kind of dismissing distinctions that have been m...
August 12, 2021 at 19:25
It is called the "graveyard of empires" for a reason. Considering the situation militarily, it seems to me that we could reengage within the conflict ...
August 12, 2021 at 19:03
I hear what you're saying and have even authored a post on it myself, which also devolved unto a debate about Rosa Luxembourg, but you do as a certain...
August 12, 2021 at 18:50
I am using "The Taliban" to refer to the entire loosely affiliated set of Afghan insurgents, more or less to avoid having to list any number of partic...
August 12, 2021 at 18:25