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July 29, 2022 at 16:50 217 comments Political Philosophy

US politics

July 01, 2022 at 19:43 81 comments Political Philosophy

goodreads

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Women hate

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Identity

May 25, 2017 at 21:56 22 comments General Philosophy

Qualia

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Speciesism

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Meno's Paradox

August 31, 2016 at 01:13 28 comments General Philosophy

Intention

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Afropessimism

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On Teleology

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Comments

In: Currently Reading  — view comment
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, Charles E. Cobb Jr.
November 18, 2022 at 04:07
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Okay, so discussion is over then, I guess.
November 06, 2022 at 03:15
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Military aid. It has refused to support proposals for diplomatic negotiations that could lead to peace, even when these proposals have come from Ukrai...
November 06, 2022 at 03:10
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
The US doesn't need to do this single handedly. Lots of other countries, particularly those in NATO, are aligning with its goals. Just like Russia is ...
November 06, 2022 at 00:52
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
The article I linked already has some discussion about what this is, but basically it appears to be that the US wants to prolong this war to "weaken R...
November 05, 2022 at 23:37
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Military support or complete abandonment are not the only possible options, though they are the only ones that are given to Ukraine by the US and some...
November 05, 2022 at 20:50
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Why?
November 05, 2022 at 19:42
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Pretty much hit the nail on the head imo. It seems like western liberals displace nationalistic feelings into that of other countries in order to have...
November 05, 2022 at 18:54
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Communication between the nuclear superpowers has deteriorated a great deal. The diplomacy that existed a few decades ago no longer exists. If there w...
November 05, 2022 at 17:57
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
One of the big reasons given for why Western countries need to support Ukraine is because Putin is seen as a bully who is hell-bent on imperialist exp...
November 04, 2022 at 20:07
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Excellent points, thank you for your reply. :100:
November 04, 2022 at 19:20
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
I am genuinely curious to hear what people have to say about the following questions: What would be (or have been) the consequences to the Ukrainian p...
November 01, 2022 at 22:15
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan. Talking to My Daughter...
October 26, 2022 at 20:41
In: Is someone's usefulness to work more important than their character or vice versa?  — view comment
It depends on prior value judgements and the context in which the question is asked. It is meaningless to ask what is more important without first cla...
October 26, 2022 at 18:17
In: Liz Truss (All General Truss Discussions Here)  — view comment
Beat me to it!
October 21, 2022 at 20:06
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1583073033593712641?s=20&t=qZEkTDt-NO6KssoKwq1SXg :fire: :fire: :fire: :fire: :fire:
October 21, 2022 at 19:11
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
The only real important distinction to be made between people is by economic class - haves and have-nots; most everything else is derived from this, I...
October 11, 2022 at 19:01
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Interesting, so what are your objections to this, considering you had previously expressed doubt that Russia sabotaged their own pipeline?
October 04, 2022 at 00:11
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Just spitballing: Lots of Russian oligarchs see the war is going poorly; they just want to pull back the troops and reopen for business so they can st...
October 03, 2022 at 16:18
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
The workings of the universe to prehistoric humans would have been mysterious, but there would have been a reverence to the mystery as well. More impo...
October 03, 2022 at 16:00
In: What motivates the neo-Luddite worldview?  — view comment
Skepticism of the potential of technology to improve our lives rather than the opposite, based on historical trends and on emerging scientific researc...
September 27, 2022 at 19:21
In: We are the only animal with reasons  — view comment
Having a good understanding of how the world works is a prerequisite for living life in relative comfort and avoiding the worst that it has to throw a...
September 14, 2022 at 02:32
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
Yeah I think this is a common criticism leftists make of liberals. They want to reform the system, make it "nicer", but don't want to fundamentally ch...
September 05, 2022 at 21:26
In: Global warming discussion - All opinions welcome  — view comment
By not being a fucking idiot, lol
September 05, 2022 at 17:00
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
Is there a broader ideological system that you ascribe to? I have some guesses but I don't want to make any assumptions. It seems to me that in order ...
September 05, 2022 at 16:58
In: Global warming discussion - All opinions welcome  — view comment
:100:
September 05, 2022 at 16:05
In: Global warming discussion - All opinions welcome  — view comment
My opinion is that we are rapidly closing in on the point of no return, and given that peaceful attempts to resolve global warming have all but failed...
September 05, 2022 at 00:53
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
Interesting perspective. Just speculating, but I think we can see the mistreatment of homosexuals in economic terms as well, as they would not produce...
September 04, 2022 at 23:12
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
I did not mean to imply that straight white males should be the vanguard of a new class consciousness for the working class. The class consciousness a...
September 04, 2022 at 19:42
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
The people who complain about reverse racism or reverse sexism are usually white, straight, cisgender men, and one of the kernels of their complaints ...
September 04, 2022 at 18:20
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
Just gonna leave this here: https://youtu.be/a_yfnQPaD_E I fucking love Shaun & Jen
September 02, 2022 at 15:46
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
Good points, as usual :clap: :strong: :100:
August 27, 2022 at 21:35
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
No, it's personal prejudice, which is a psychological defense mechanism that is sometimes warranted, given the context of a situation. People who are ...
August 27, 2022 at 01:26
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Finished: The Color Purple, Alice Walker: great read. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin: it was okay. Ubik, Philip K. Dick: friggin amazing...
August 13, 2022 at 22:07
In: Conscription  — view comment
What threat?
August 06, 2022 at 18:29
In: Conscription  — view comment
Off-topic, but nauseatingly enough, this is exactly what Yuval Noah Harari argues in Sapiens: apparently, racism and eugenics were discredited because...
August 06, 2022 at 18:26
In: Conscription  — view comment
This is an exaggeration. The main purpose of the blocking troops were to prevent uncontrolled and panicked retreats. Most of the retreating troops wer...
August 03, 2022 at 22:41
In: Conscription  — view comment
David Graeber writes:
August 03, 2022 at 00:51
In: Conscription  — view comment
Sorry, just been busy with stuff. I have been monitoring this thread and reflecting on things though. :up:
August 03, 2022 at 00:44
In: Eat the poor.  — view comment
:100:
August 02, 2022 at 22:07
In: Eat the poor.  — view comment
Jane Mayer documents this in her book Dark Money. TLDR: in the last few decades, enormously wealthy billionaire dynasties (the Kochs, for instance) in...
August 02, 2022 at 17:22
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Just finished Dark Money by Jane Mayer
July 21, 2022 at 02:25
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
Consider environmental technology, which itself started out as a science fiction hypothetical, and was attacked by conservatards for this and other re...
July 12, 2022 at 02:01
In: What are the issues with physicalism  — view comment
Materialism has always had difficulty defining what it means to be material. If you mean what I think you mean by it - no "spooky stuff" - then that's...
July 10, 2022 at 18:09
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
Right-wing women are the class traitors par excellence - willing to masochistically sacrifice their sisters at the altar of phallocracy, just to get t...
July 10, 2022 at 17:23
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
That's the point though, safe abortions aren't available in conservative shitholes, pro-life cretins have made sure of that. Simply banning abortions ...
July 10, 2022 at 17:15
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
So that women don't have to get dangerous backstreet abortions in conservative shitholes like Texas.
July 10, 2022 at 04:31
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
Artificial wombs are just an extension of the process of de-mystifying procreation which has been in progress since science first started to uncover t...
July 10, 2022 at 04:30
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
If she wanted to, she could go drop off the creature at the local artificial womb clinic. Or get an abortion, it's not a person so it doesn't matter i...
July 10, 2022 at 04:23
In: Artificial wombs  — view comment
Re-read my original post. But of course the pro-life chuds won't ever support artificial wombs, it would release women from their bondage as reproduct...
July 10, 2022 at 03:56
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