Since when was aiming for stakeholder socialism the dominant agreed upon goal among American leftists in contrast to cooperative model, computerized p...
I have a chrome folder of bookmarks for News Websites that I check daily. There's a lot of useful blogs I follow back and forth. Otherwise I get a lot...
The very idea of there being an uprising is skipping steps, there isn't any other option than hard work by organizers and taking over local government...
Interesting thread on recent Cuba events https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1414626287239450627?refresh=1626157302&fbclid=IwAR1Tqb3URmJd8t0GQvdBTTRTTa...
That's within the ballpark of what I meant. When it comes to the cosmological or ontological argument, yeah we have Craig & Platinga rather than the o...
“I think the idea is that the majority of philosophers are atheists not because atheism is correct, but because of certain historical events (et ceter...
Analytic Philosophy seems like it has been useful to politics mostly in pieces, like providing a toolbox of better arguments here and there. Not as mu...
Murray is being peddled around by Sam Harris in recent years, this is a pretty good debunking of that nonsense. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politic...
In the sentence I wrote right after that I said "Of course if there is something that we're all in agreement and united on (and which is correct), or ...
"Like anything, it depends. I personally don't think it's healthy to have division about climate change -- that's something that should be agreed upon...
We're talking past each other despite agreement, I meant nonsense as in bipartisanship. The stall in the next infrastructure bill and Biden recontacti...
To be straightforward this time, I really meant to say that I don't think most people aside from Democratic politicians actually gives a shit. The NYT...
Well it's much easier to see that squared circles are incoherent, you just try to draw it on the ground and it makes no sense. We didn't understand li...
That’s really the only concept of life we know of though, concepts are built upon the evidence we’ve seen of the phenomenon that allow us to make desc...
I think the issue I'm seeing here is that for example in popular fiction (or ancient religious tales), the afterlife is depicted as you getting a new ...
Well for people who used to believe there's a soul to imagine the possibility of surviving death, there's now no reason for us to believe we're differ...
Agnosticism in the broad sense is the conclusion you reach after weighing evidence, that's why people pose to be agnostic about aliens and not matters...
The issue I see is that posing the existence of theistic God requires a definition of God, which involve asserting certain metaphysical claims, such a...
“Israel actually takes extensive precautions to limit casualties” — BitconnectCarlos We know for sure they don’t. Israel has all the contact informati...
The U.S. didn't originally support Israel much until the 1967 war after Israel helped Saudi Arabia defeat Egypt, the former who was a U.S. ally since ...
To add to those, the U.S. shares close geopolitical goals with Israel, to empower the Gulf States and contain Iran. But I also wouldn’t overstate func...
Even the term ceasefire (which the U.S. blocked the UN Security Council resolution for the third time) is kind of a capitulation to Israel's framing, ...
It would be one thing if there was a complete devoid of arguments and fact citing and just name calling where explaining is necessary. But that's not ...
To a child beaten by their abusive father, there isn't a really substantive difference between the father's explicit defenders and people like you who...
"Fifteen Palestinian nuclear and extended families lost at least three, and in general more, of their members, in the Israeli shelling of the Gaza Str...
My failure to participate more in this thread is having to find ways explain over and over again why atrocities need to be condemned to people and opp...
"Hi, I am a theist and I have a question for atheists. I hope this does not cause too much turmoil. Do atheists actively not want God to exist?" In th...
"They need a Gandhi or MLK Jr. Lots of marching and civil disobedience. That approach has a pretty good track record." "Does condemning Israel change ...
a) For Palestine and Israel to negotiate a settlement based on the 1967 borders, the territorial rights that are currently written in international la...
There is now no statehood, so it is straight up colonialism. (the prediction in the 1993 piece was that it would have been like France-West Africa rat...
It wasn't the will of the Palestinians who signed onto it, it was the group around Arafat, who were extremely corrupt. That matters in terms of our in...
It's this crux that is mistaken, the Oslo Accords was the exact opposite of what you were saying. It was the completion of Israel's control of the Occ...
I don't think we're in 100% agreement, you're squinting to see an issue that does not need to be relevant. You're making it relevant by bringing it up...
I would encourage an internationalist approach that covers more issues (including similar ones, like Western Sahara, West Papua, Kashmir that do not g...
They just don’t care about people being brutalized and killed, and it hurts their pride for being told that. So they bring every tangent into the disc...
"I’m a post modernist who rejects moralistic approaches to understanding social value systems and political actions. I don’t give excuses because I ha...
"How is this determined? What would define a country lacking in agency? The United States is the most economically and militarily powerful country in ...
"You say it’s unambiguous and I say it’s ambiguous. How ever are we to get to the bottom of this?" The point doesn't differ if for instance, you were ...
There was nothing ambiguous about it, you made your attitude very clear throughout this thread (making excuses) and then wrote in clear English. "Will...
"The right in Israel now is unquestionably dominated by racist shitheads, but why should Israel be different from Russia, Hungary, Poland, Germany or ...
Calling them rockets is ridiculous. They're basically enhanced fireworks. They can kill if they hit people directly, but if they were really rockets, ...
There are a couple of things mixed in here. One is the freedom from a boss, working for someone else for a wage. The other is freedom in terms of oppo...
What does that mean. If you mean financial independence from family, I see no problem with people living together with their parents, people should tr...
It’s easy to get lost in the exchange, because there is no mention of freedom to do what, or from what. What’s the point of talking about freedom with...
China and Vietnam share a similar political economy (market developmentalism with a very authoritarian government), and we should understand why did m...
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