When did I disavow liberalism? I'm just not immediately seeing the connection. If you want to clarify both what you mean by "liberalism" and how you t...
Well the word "liberalism" is pretty vague these days, but I was assuming you meant it in its modern context. If you're referring to classical liberal...
A large minority of this country are so distrustful of everything except their favored media, that they're willing to fight on the side of Covid, clim...
I don't believe that. I think so too. Sure, and I didn't make clear in the OP, but I'm assuming good faith. If there are ulterior motives, then that's...
Things can go south very quickly, yes. That's a possibility. But if they truly do want a better world for their kids, there is a right answer about th...
Right, which is why I think they should be avoided or at least clarified. Otherwise it's a complete waste of time. Why what? I think this forum provid...
Exactly right. I'm failing to see the disagreement, beyond my use of analogy (which is admittedly limited). Every destructive action taken the last 40...
Sure, which is why I said "almost." Some can be reached. But it's been engineered all too well, to the point of a cult. I do pity those people, but I'...
When it comes to the population interested in politics, I do believe it's almost entirely hopeless. There's no longer anything rational about it, and ...
I don't think that's true. There seems to me as much consensus about things in politics as there is about anything -- it's just deliberately been targ...
That's not what I said. Again -- completely wrong. I believe in your right to talk harmful nonsense and promote climate denial and ignorance of scienc...
It’s a ridiculous system. There’s also the prospect that this loses the senate, because if Feinstein dies it’s the Republican Governor that will appoi...
:up: I got about 4 sentences in. Denialists are still hanging on, the overwhelming evidence be damned. Since nothing else will change their minds, I g...
People who BELIEVE in God (whatever that means) say the same thing, whether they call it a big bang or not, and the same problems arise. What created ...
Let's not pretend there's any principles involved on which most people base their judgments. The people screaming about authoritarianism because of th...
Got to narrow the question a little: are the people who have power (i.e., who make the major decisions and control the political and economic institut...
Sure, but that doesn't happen overnight. I think it's good to transition to that, get the infrastructure up, and then work on sourcing electricity onl...
Yes, it is that bad and yes, there is something to blame: the fossil fuel industry and, more generally, short-term concern for profits encouraged by c...
Good point. It didn't, and you were not quoted out of context. Nor am I accusing you of taking this position. On the contrary, I think it's accurate. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/climate/tennessee-flood-damage-impact.html Another example both of how capitalism encourages short-term thinking an...
I keep coming back again and again to a simple goal: organization. Getting involved, on the local level, with anyone willing to listen and join in, or...
But this is a very narrow view of human beings. All you have to do is look around, and you see cooperation, solidarity, empathy, concern for strangers...
Yes, which is interesting. Unlike others on the forum and in media generally, who are reasonably skeptical about the level of public understanding, I ...
I have not once argued that markets are not part of the real world. "Free markets," like those that "self-regulate," are fantasies. There is no invisi...
I'd love to, if not for the fact that they run the world -- and that's not an exaggeration. This dogma (really more akin to a religion) is espoused by...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-florida-condo-collapse-rampant-corner-cutting-11629816205?mod=mhp Cutting corners to save money and thus incre...
And “free to choose.” Yes. They’re not lauded for their self regulation, as was your claim. When an industry is deregulated, you see what happens over...
2008, for example. Self regulation did wonders there. There are no free markets in the modern world. So don't hold your breath. Markets are another wo...
I know what trade means. I'm asking why it's good. Your answer: "trade is good because it's trade." Nevermind -- go back to sleep, as usual. Can't hel...
Yes, when it should have done what the people wanted, and joined the rest of the civilized world: universal health care or, at least (and as promised)...
I generally agree, but this gets back to the debate the framers had in the 1780s. Given our current economy, you cannot avoid disaster without a centr...
So has rape. I didn't ask about its ubiquity or its history. And I'm asking: "What's so good about it?" Or is it good at all? Plato and Aristotle had ...
Obamacare isn't "collectivist." Obama was a neoliberal as well. Notice what the country really wanted -- a public option -- was quickly removed from t...
And rose again in the 1970s, and which has dominated corporate and political governance ever since. From the boardrooms of Wall Street, to Capitol Hil...
And what's so great about buying and selling things? But we already have a planned economy. It's planned internally, in the corporation, and by massiv...
The US government has no national healthcare service, but yet it helps with the cost for poor people (medicaid), the elderly (medicare), children and ...
Right now we’re essentially option 4. That’s the problem. Preparation for more frequent disasters is barely beginning. Every year will see more of the...
My statement about what I hope to see shouldn't be interpreted as what I believe will happen. I'd like to see our modern state capitalist system disma...
Perhaps take your own advice. Roy Spencer, like yourself, is a climate denier— and has also taken money from fossil fuel companies. There were plenty ...
I see a lot of cynicism and defeatism too. But take the protests over Trump's "muslim ban," or the Women's March (the largest in US history), or earli...
I don't think you're wearing rose-colored glasses. I think the anti-war movement of the late 60s was indeed legendary and historical. Nothing like tha...
No one disputes this either. In the same way no one disputes that the Earth is round. A very famous climate denier and fraud, unfortunately. As has be...
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