One cannot not know he exists unless he exists. One can only doubt his existence if he exists. Existence is a precondition to both knowing and doubtin...
Watch this cringe-worthy MSNBC video trying to paint Trump and his supporters as racists. This sort of propaganda lasted the entirety of his campaign....
This particular withdrawal was to save the lives of American soldiers, to get them out of harms way, at least according to Mike Pompeo and officials a...
Millions and millions of Kurds live in Turkey and call it their home. Turkey has not been kind to the Kurds, sure, but they are not the enemy in this ...
We shouldn’t conflate the PKK, a terrorist organization , with the Kurds, an ethnic group. Turkey’s enemy in this operation is former, not the latter....
People screamed about the same things when Trump first mentioned the withdrawal back in December. So they kicked the can down the road to a later date...
Great video. I remember the Trump rally in San Jose, where protesters committed violence and harassment against rally-goers. A seething mob postured t...
Turkey is our ally, a member of NATO. They also share a border with Syria. America will be pulled into it only if our troops or interests are threaten...
The US has been tentatively withdrawing for nearly a year, during which time the administration has repeatedly called on France and Germany to replace...
Why should it? If anything the spin of anti-Trumpists and war-hawks will reflect badly on the US. How long do you suggest the US military remain in th...
It was also the SDF’s line. “Syrian Democratic Forces declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and %100 territorial defeat of ISIS," Mustafa B...
By heavens they meant the sky. Various other versions, for instance in Kant, reiterate the notion but with other types of calamity. “The true but some...
After some brief research into “critical race theory”, it appears race skepticism and Colorblindness have fallen into repute in the hands of intellect...
Trump and the pentagon have been providing the Kurds, manly the SDF, with weapons, training, support and money since the beginning of his presidency. ...
I think it’s a good idea to get back to basics in terms of identity because, as you imply, we sometimes adopt perhaps unnecessary identities over time...
Good thinking. Yes, I love the embodied idea of language and mind. Simple ideas like “inside” and “outside”, “up” and “down”, would be impossible if w...
Thanks for the primer. I’ve read Philosophy in the Flesh and Metaphors We live By, by Lakoff. I am very interested in the others you mentioned. I’ll t...
Free speech encompasses lies as it does the truth. You cannot hold a government accountable when it decides what can and cannot be said. Rules and reg...
Fake news, lies, satire, misinformation, propaganda etc. are natural features of democracy. Censorship is problematic for democracy, given that free s...
Even anthropologists cannot agree on what a religion is, but dependency on ritual and a belief in the supernatural suffices. Buddhism, at least now, h...
The result is a crusade against “fake news”, which found credence in the EU and elsewhere. This is something the Chinese did to justify censorship of ...
It’s like the Russian influence canard. Facebook ads and twitter bots can influence the American public far better than the entire liberal media compl...
That’s very true. The reach and influence of the left is profoundly large. I’m not sure how they can lose, but they often do. It makes me wonder if th...
I am too and for the same reasons. I mean the move does suit Trump’s isolationist stance, but we do owe the Kurds a great deal. I do think the Middle ...
Trump’s latest move, pulling troops from Syria. This will clearly ruffle some republican feathers. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/11811724...
It is undeniable, in my view. Compare South to North Korea, West to East Germany. Extreme poverty throughout the world might be eradicated in our life...
Though there is the prescriptions of individuals atheists (often of the social justice, multiculti, feminist type in recent years) there is no prescri...
Socialists like Engels and Lenin postulated the withering away of the state, the idea that coercing people to socialism would at some point become unn...
I prefer a divisive force. Unity belongs in the single-party, zero politics systems of absolute monarchies and dictatorships, where unity is mandatory...
Good point. The listener essentially gives up his liberty to preserve his life. You don’t have to believe the threat if you don’t want to, you can sti...
I think it’s a great strategy. The US has essentially been a uni-party state since Clinton, who utilized “political triangulation” to siphon votes fro...
Much better than the robotic, public relations rhetoric they dream up in focus groups. That stuff is meant to placate, or put to sleep, whichever come...
I think “libertarianism” (personally, not a fan of the label) should assume all of it, at least insofar as liberty and freedom is the guiding principl...
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