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OK, let me generalise, so that you might see the point... How do you remove a US president, or a British, Australian or NZ Prime Minister, if they are...

Not accurate. China should go it's own way. I am just pointing out that China claiming to be democratic is laughable.

No. Going to Denver is not normal.

Bet I could win the most downvotes.

Your mobil phone is based on quantum mechanics. If christian doctrine were on a par with quantum mechanics, your mobile phone could presumably be re-c...

Lies to children, maybe. Democracy is a way of evaluating the decisions made by the government, using institutions that feed back information about th...

@"ltlee1", sure, there are different forms of democracy. What they have in common is a formal feedback from the governed to the government, such that ...

I don't disagree; indeed, ...makes the same point. The advantage of democracy is the feedback from the governed to the government, which cannot happen...

Barnaby Joyce fined $200 for not wearing mask in breach of COVID-19 health orders No words.

Thanks for cleaning up all that dissemination. Make sure to wash your hands well, with hot water and soap.

@"ltlee1" The core issue here may be one of translation. What you are calling democracy is not what is called democracy in English, and in other Europ...

I like that. It's a shame that the conversation juxtaposes Chinese democracy and US democracy. The US is not an especially democratic nation. Look ins...

Thanks. I do what I can.

You seem to be off to one side... Perhaps the reason analytic philosophy is unhelpful is that philosophy is unhelpful.

You might be right, but as it stands that statement is uncritical and unhelpful.

As if the only contrast were the US vs China.

Obviously. Trite.

Again yes, I understand. That's a standard liberal attitude - everyone will want democracy at some stage; when their economic needs are met, they want...

You're all over the shop.

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Where have I written anything that you might have interpreted as support for Chinese expansionism? What I have written was explicitly the opposite.

Cool. SO now the question becomes, how representative is that view?

Yeah, that's a common view, but it is a view from the West. It seems to me to be entirely possible that the Chinese do not want the sort of representa...

Set out the non sequitur for me. Make it explicit. Otherwise it's a bland accusation. The topic here is the odd nature of Chinese democracy. Defensive...

What's really problematic is that any more than a few seconds be spent on the grazed knees of a few pampered, lycra-clad beefcakes.

That's such an extraordinarily twisted response that it doesn't warrant a reply.

Yeah, the American medical system, of fucked.

The problem was the fence.There wasn't one.

Psss. You're thinking with your patriotism, perhaps. Here's my point, just to be sure: Americans complaining about Chinese expansionism is the pt call...

Turned around, so he could read the sign?

Thought as much. Sex fesh an cheps, tar.

The only division is between analytic philosophy and bad philosophy. :wink:

Does anyone know what the sign said? Suggestions? Perhaps it was an ad for her bicycle repair business? Or a particular brand of sticking plaster for ...

What have been the most worthwhile threads on the forums? Not this one, it seems.

The distinction - between conquest of land and cultural annexation - is moot. It's you trying to rig the game. Do you doubt the hegemony of 'merican c...

There's a second episode looking at the hegemony of analytic philosophy in American journals. I wasn't very impressed by it; special pleading, in the ...

...as done by actual Scotsmen? Advocating a return to making stuff up. Perhaps a valid point.

But is that a bad thing? Analytic philosophy marked the end of speculative philosophy; the demise of making shite up. Instead of philosophical bullshi...

Now you know how I feel when I see Jim and realise it's just you.

So what did we decide?

Yeah, I commented on that previously. @"ltlee1" appeared soon after this thread. Is that suspicious? If they are a part of the 50 Cent Army, they are ...

:razz: We haven't finished annexing NZ yet. Home and Away, like Foster's Larger, was a joke played on those Pommy Bastards; not stuff we watch, or dri...

Come on Tim; That's just sad. What is "protecting our interests"? You are too intelligent to buy into that spin.

No, Apo, its' not promoting the Chinese view. It's critical of it, form the start.

There's a distinction between critical philosophy, which includes analytic philosophy, and speculative philosophy, which is just shit folk make up as ...

Scotty is keeping very quite at the moment... Keep an eye out for the next bit of spin.

I don't believe you. You can't be that naive. Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States

It's a conceptual puzzle. How can a country that ranks near the least democratic nevertheless think itself democratic? Not stupidity; that's a naive, ...

So no Home and Away fans here. I suppose that's a good thing.

OK, it goes back much further than that.