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i don't think I have argued the case of war, i have just observed that the call for peace negotiations is part of the war. Posters whining here that t...

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This position is precisely what I was responding to: a government can obviously do far worse than conscription: it can bomb folks.

You did say you couldn't think of a more costly non-choice imposition a government can make on free, innocent adults. Now you can think of one: bombin...

That would be because of your perverse narcissism, a form of sociopathy where the diseased tries to calm his inferiority complex by putting down other...

The point I get is that natural insolation will not be cancelling the impacts of man-made global warming. Another point is in the tittle: ice age, int...

Nope, it's how the state pays for public goods, such as national defense. I thought of a more costly non-choice imposition a government can make on fr...

Even the poorest pay the VAT tax though. To avoid having to kill people, there is always the possibility of conscientious objection. During WW1, and p...

Good, because it is not meant to be.

Taxation would be the obvious candidate.

Taxation would be the obvious candidate.

Like what decisions?

A government may need to impose general conscription for the same reason than it may impose taxation: so as to avoid free wheelers having access to a ...

Not really. People can volunteer to fight in Ukraine, and they do, so it's not like it's totally removed from personal choice.

I couldn't agree more. It's a newish political ideology and as such, very fractious still, a bit like communism was in its infancy. It hasn't gelled a...

I think France is just fanatic about other things than Germany... :-) The politics are very different. Clearly the Germans have a much stronger green ...

Some details on the grain trade deal from Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/29/zelenskyy-visits-port-as-ukraine-prepares-to-ship-out-g...

France did invest in renewable, though less so than Germany. I think some 20% of our electricity is from renewables now, vs. 40% for Germany. Indeed, ...

Enquiring is a-okay. Lying is not.

@"Tate" is pulling it out of his rear end. This is CC denial, hidden behind yet another mask.

Because it is not you usual ballet, it "quotes" or includes elements of European cabaret culture, Broadway musicals à la Cats and Hollywood musicals. ...

That is not happening: the ice caps are fast melting. The Artic one will be history soon, by 2040 or so. Then, in the absence of the moderating factor...

Welcome anyway! And no offense, but that could fit any and all TPFer... Me included! In your honor, a teaser from a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan L...

For what it's worth, a defense of Russian literature from Michael Shishkin, short on specifics (this is the Atlantic, not a literary magazine) but wel...

Amity!!! You're back?

Not to defend @"Tate"'s crypto-denialism, but it is true that some mods can be a bit overbearing...

Yes, it was a lame attempt of yours to get back at me, when I stated the well-established fact that Americans have been effectively kept uninformed an...

Is that what you are trying to do?

Man, you tend to delete in a hurry. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face Mother wil...

I wouldn't go so far as saying that only relationships exist, as it seems to me that if relationships exist, we must logically assume the existence of...

I was about to say, the concept of "solidness" has weak solidity.

Wild guesses do not apply in thermodynamics... It is a proven fact that CO2 traps more heat than N2 or O2, the other principal components of the atmos...

The reason action on climate change failed is that it was strongly opposed by big oil companies and similar interests, who managed to pull the wool ov...

Sci-fi, huh? Strange to rely on movies to get exposed to a leading scientific problem... You guys don't study science in the classroom much, apparentl...

Our chemistry and physics teacher described the different heat retention capacity of different gazes, and then explained that there was a big issue re...

So he misunderstood my post, because I have no objection to any of that.

I am not arguing otherwise.

Normally, it implies you respond to the post, not to something else.

Hey, it's not my fault if they can't even write their propaganda in legible English. Be serious now. He was responding to my post where I clearly wond...

The potential heating effect of certain gases such as CO2 was well established in the lab by the end of the 19th century. The fact that CO2 concentrat...

FYI, originally, the discussion is about a peace proposal made by a certain David T. Pyne in the columns of the National Interest. It include amongst ...

Progressive build up of Ukrainian NATO weaponry in the battlefield, resulting in progressive attrition of Russian fire power, as the HIMARS are achiev...

I'm afraid it is the issue we are discussing. Read the thread.

It has been part of the national curriculum in French highschool since the 70's. I learnt about climate change at school in 1980. With An Inconvenient...

The argument was already provided: if the baltic states joined NATO, it is most probably because they felt safer inside it than outside it. This is a ...

One could argue that Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are more secure inside NATO than outside of it. That'd be why they joined in the first place, no? I...

Which is why BBB won't pass with any climate measure in it, and if by miracle it does pass, then it will be knocked down by the next president. The US...

Indeed but it was in a key position to encourage or discourage the efforts of others, and it did the latter, since the 90's or so until now. Very syst...

It's not a serious proposal, just a Russian wet dream, including as it does that the baltic states ought to get out of NATO. Why would they ever do th...