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Yes that's the spirit. Obviously the Iranian people don't win in such a situation. Then why don't we see ballistic missiles being intercepted in boost...

Bombs don't win wars. Since Israel attacked Iran first and its objective is regime change, if Iran survives that's a win for Iran in this context. Thi...

Iran may want to keep things as friendly as possible with the gulf states, but nevertheless escalate with the US. So giving advance warning to Qatar i...

Concerning this retaliation, one of the most important details is that it comes after Iran's foreign minister meeting with Putin (I think literally th...

Missiles on the way according to random social media posts. Honestly have no idea what's real and what's AI though, we'll have to wait confirmation .....

You literally just put a few sentences before dictionaries as the ultimate arbiter in this discussion: And when the definition of a more authoritative...

Not all of philosophy is contained in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Furthermore, a dictionary's goal is to list the most common uses of a word, and ...

If we agree on the basic physical facts, then we are more or less in agreement. The reason to use the word genocide is that is that the crime of genoc...

Just encountered this channel today. This guy predicts a ground invasion of Iran by the US: https://youtu.be/N4cs-8mrP_s The reasons being that: 1. Ir...

The genocide is an openly declared policy such as starving the entire population and bombing every hospital and university, and horrendous crimes in t...

We've debated at length this issue before, and I'm still not convinced these Isreali conflicts / genocide are some sort of grand US strategy. You woul...

Possibly, maybe even probably, but there's a few things that can go wrong with such a plan that are worth considering. Israel has no way to normalize ...

Agreed. Their strategy is to make diplomacy impossible. Israel elites (not just Netanyahu) make diplomacy impossible by assassinating diplomats and ma...

That's a bit of a laugh honestly. Maybe slightly less propaganda than US media, but if you're looking media that is not propaganda there are plenty of...

We have similar experience. When I was 16 I tried to opt-out of the commercial side of Christmas, started calling it Arbitrary Gift Day and asked peop...

One last note, the free rider problem is not a fatal blow to "opt-in" systems. At the extreme, say someone does not want to contribute in anyway to so...

To add to all these discussions of the state, power, decision making, community and so on, I think it is useful that I explain my own school of anarch...

Definitely continuing about police is entirely relevant to the discussion. In any modern political discussion, such as we are having here, "the state"...

The statement does describe me as well, of course the full statement without taking out the start which reads: Which also applies to me. "If", key wor...

I write: To which you cite me, so it's very clear what you're referencing, and then respond: Contradicting my point that people are put in prison with...

Yes, seems we should make a thread dedicated specifically to police. The police and the standing army are the two ingredients necessary to even have a...

Excellent subject. Well, mostly anarchists and communists are both communists; the end goal is the same of living in equal and vibrant communities wit...

If my citations are self serving (i.e. support my argument in a debate), maybe cite the counterweights instead of complaining I've provided justificat...

There's definitely fierce debates between anarchists and socialist / Marxists, especially historically. However, it's important to keep the context in...

Yes and no. Anarchism first emerged as both an academic political term for what we today would call a failed state, obviously not generally desirable,...

Of course zero worries, very normal for discussions to meander all over the place, and if something is really off topic then a new discussion can be c...

To take a concrete example. An employee is cheated out of wages owed and some deception is created to try to trick the employee from understanding the...

I am describing the process of going from feudalism, where there is police as you confirm, to a system of police. Why there was no police in feudalism...

I've made a thread proposing the basic theory of what I've been talking about solar thermal wise. It is in the lounge: https://thephilosophyforum.com/...

My school of anarchy is more a framework of social analysis and not the positing of any particular social structure or set of policies. This sort of "...

Exactly if you did start out with 10 socialists with the same ideology pushing on that door of state power and no one else in society gives a shit (at...

Is that really true though? Ants and bees in a colony are all brothers / sisters so are essentially a nuclear family and won't share with other coloni...

However, on the topic of the two strategies, there is a strategically compatible version between the forms of anarchism and socialism / marxism you de...

Indeed you are wise in the ways of science.

Please do. Or am I to understand that the promiscuous relationship between birds and bees is preserved over a wide range of different taxonomic catego...

You're going to have to expand on this cats / bees hypotheses.

This is a super good talk of the cop problem in contemporary times: https://youtu.be/xJhJFdZGbFo Of particular interest is not only what's criminalize...

Exactly, and it also highlights that basic community security is not even the same category as the investigation of crime, it's very much two differen...

A lot of Emma Goldman's writing are available for free at the gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2162 Is a link to "Anarchism and Other Es...

Excellent find. I too have been going through anarchist literature to find some choice citations for the conversation. Police as we know it today is n...

Well I see what people mean about users deleting all their posts. I finally had time to respond to the Deleted User concerned. However, to give an upd...

True, political motivation is not required; things seemed in some way related to Trump, hence my impression. Definitely you are correct there could be...

Exactly why the situation is so surprising to me. But you will be able to make your own opinion as to the happenings. May take me a day or two but I w...

I do hope the issue can be resolved and the posts brought back.

I pretty much only hang in the lounge these days :) as the hot political topics are placed there for safe keeping. Which is fine, I do appreciate them...

That does seem unfortunate, but also extremely usual measures which are usually remedied by enquiry about the deletion etc., that would be hard to pre...

I will make a post about it. Honestly when I realized I was being "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nested" my thoughts were "thank God for high school, I am ...

I was not aware of any issues. I was arrested a few weeks ago, then held in a psychiatric facility on suspicion of "illusions of police harassment" an...

For my part, I'm here to argue, but I do very much appreciate all voices and perspectives on the forum. As far as I know this is the only place on the...

Do you , , have any insight into why they chose to leave? Or then anyone else for that matter? Does seem pretty extreme when there's the option to jus...