Climate science: the one domain where a layperson's normal humility goes completely out the window. You wouldn't find the average person, with no form...
No. That’s not the argument, and it wouldn’t be fine. True, justifications and pretexts are always given. They’re given by everyone from Hamas to the ...
Where people can determine how to organize, what to produce, how to produce it, how to distribute what’s produced, and meaningfully participate in com...
So let’s condemn the brutality of Hamas and then turn around and do the same things. All perfectly fine, however, because all Palestinian children kil...
Cohan put it better than I have (from 2010): https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=204&v=mciLyG9iexE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fmronline....
Because it’s so obvious to me I feel that a) you’re being disingenuous or b) are so unaware of US power that explaining it in detail is a diversion. B...
Appreciate it. It further proves, in my view, the Biden administration’s commitment to Ukraine. That means even more NATO training, drills, weapons, e...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/ I don’t think the of...
Let me rephrase, since it’s apparently confusing: there would (likely) be no invasion. True, I assumed we all agree I don’t have a Time Machine so can...
Fantastic arguments. “No, opposite.” How tedious. The European countries — from Britain to Germany to France, have basically taken orders from Washing...
It wasn’t fast — it was the same position all along. It was the same position in the 90s, in 2002, in 2004, and in 2008. As I’ve shown multiple times ...
Not angry, but thank you for attempting to read minds. I hardly consider my conversation with Jabberwock a “shouting match.” But thank you for your in...
:roll: Of course that matters. It’s a truism. Whether it has “more to do” with it is the point. But thanks for interjecting with claims about strawman...
Good OP. Given that nihilistic greed and wealth inequality that rivals the pharaohs is the status quo, under the cover of “capitalism,” it’s safe to s...
Except Russia’s own statements, Burns’ memo to Rice, Germany and France’s statements, etc. All of which you dismiss. So your judgment of what constitu...
Hardly. But nice that you change it up to the EU when convenient. And I think you’re underestimating it. I was very clearly responding to the above qu...
Yet the polling indicated the opposite, and had for years, up to and including 2008. So what Ukrainians are you talking about? Not the people. Good. S...
Exactly. One is the good guy, one isn’t. And that’s the fundamental upstream issue by which you interpret everything else. Except I never once said th...
Alright, so by your definition we have two countries with competing geopolitical goals, and thus two “imperial” powers. If that is indeed what is mean...
So, five months on, an update on my bat problem. I’m going to rant, in detail, about this. I just need to write it down. I don’t expect anyone to care...
Okay— this is an important difference. I don’t buy this. You said a second before that imperialism isn’t restricted to conquering a region — fine. Now...
Once again, international law, as well as morality and decency, go completely out the window when a major power gets hit by a weaker power. Same occur...
I do— but I’ll repeat myself again: what’s relevant isn’t what I think, it’s what the Russians think. Is there any reason for them to be concerned? Wh...
No, he was ousted by an uprising with plenty of social engineering and funding from the US — which had been happening for years, in fact. To the tune ...
When Yanukovych was in office, no. When he was thrown out? More so, of course— but still not the main driver. Still hardly non-existent or irrelevant,...
But that’s not what happened. Crimea occurred after the coup, not before and not during. Once it was known that Yanukovych was gone and replaced by a ...
This is again a strange request. I do have support: it didn’t happen. What did happen is attacks during a period of US involvement. So as long as we’r...
My claim is that NATO membership, after years of training, arms supply, and drills, was the main cause of the invasion. There are others, of course. T...
Okay, but something still stands out. Is it really some generalized tone, or certain parts? My issue is the boring description. I can see something un...
Right, so good for you but unenjoyable. Like plain broccoli. Again I think it’s best to think of artworks in terms of parts. Maybe most of it is borin...
And running drills, and “reaffirming” the commitment to Bucharest in 2021, etc. Funny that it’s so difficult to understand the reaction from Russia wh...
It’s a conceptualization. I don’t think of myself as a subject or the world as an object when a I’m cooking dinner. I don’t see how any microorganisms...
I’ll jump in here just to take it a step further: I didn’t even know who JG Ballard was, and had to Wikipedia him. There, I said it. But I’ve enjoyed ...
Great article. Well done sir. Two things. Is this not assuming the subject/object dichotomy? I have a feeling you’re quite beyond that, but this parag...
My computer keyboard’s “L” button doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been too lazy to get another one, and I don’t like writing long posts on an iPhone (like ...
Because you don’t know what it means. If you do, then you’ve failed to understand what was said. I’m not interested in holding your hand in explanatio...
That wasn’t the numbered statement, which you used to show us all your poor understanding of freshman logic. That was the statement you incorrectly cl...
Sure. "There was no reason to do so" is a general statement, which I believe true. Clearly I don't mean "any reason whatsoever," as there can always b...
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