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Before. Hugo Chavez stayed in power too long for his own good, perhaps a bit like Putin or Thatcher: started good but ended shitty.
January 09, 2023 at 12:58
That's ridiculous.
January 09, 2023 at 12:43
Rather, it's not the first time an honest, popular politician is unfairly accused of corruption by corrupt elites. Because you see, only the rich and ...
January 09, 2023 at 12:29
I don't think that materialist folks are wired much differently than idealistic types. Dennetists are not p-zombies -- in fact they keep wondering why...
January 09, 2023 at 10:20
I might have spoken too fast: some bolsonarists have wrecked the congress hall, president palace and supreme court in Brasilia over the weekend... 200...
January 09, 2023 at 08:53
Lula is A-okay in my book, much better than most politicians worldwide. Mandela too was accused of all sorts of crimes and spent time in jail ... but ...
January 09, 2023 at 07:48
Alone at the top? Lone Putin Observes Christmas at Kremlin Church By AFP Updated: one day ago Russian President Vladimir Putin stood alone at a midnig...
January 08, 2023 at 12:56
It's not my argument that the European far left is in bed with Putin, though some of them hate or mistrust NATO enough that they cannot take Ukraine's...
January 07, 2023 at 20:16
That’s minuscule. What did the Russians get for that money? One plane? A hundred rockets?
January 07, 2023 at 15:45
I don’t think the Cat is trying to do that. He’s only pointing at the convergence of extremes, a well known phenomenon. I can agree with that. They ha...
January 07, 2023 at 15:34
I would start by saying that the link with Putin is clearer and stronger with the extreme right than it is with the extreme left, in my opinion. Talki...
January 07, 2023 at 13:24
The claim was about the extreme left and the extreme right, not about the left.
January 07, 2023 at 10:25
Why yes, anti-democratic forces in general.
January 04, 2023 at 20:24
Surprise surprise... Pro-Putin operatives in Germany work to turn Berlin against Ukraine In Germany some are clamouring for a change in course on Ukra...
January 04, 2023 at 08:18
Why the outrage?
January 02, 2023 at 20:34
Somehow I doubt one could do a poll in Donetsk right now.
January 02, 2023 at 19:14
My pleasure! I landed on Choukri through my interest in anticolonial literature from the point of view of the colonized (or recently decolonized) 'Sou...
January 01, 2023 at 23:21
You could do worse than read For Bread Alone. It's a blast of a story, realistic, in fact autobiographical, about a street boy in Morocco in the 50's....
January 01, 2023 at 17:33
Joining my voice to the acclaimations. Well done @"Caldwell"! Thanks for your good work, patience, and for being such a good reader. Also thanks to th...
January 01, 2023 at 11:37
I agree it's a good piece. Reminded me of For Bread Alone, by Mohamed Choukri. Well done, @"180 Proof"!
January 01, 2023 at 10:01
Thanks. I even called up the ghost of Dennet:
December 31, 2022 at 22:28
It's not plagia when you make it obvious. The title is (almost) a direct quote from Quining Qualia. The names are changed but transparently so: Maxwel...
December 31, 2022 at 20:00
Agreed. NATO is neither here nor there. The reason Putin panicked is his fear of the people.
December 31, 2022 at 08:39
Nope.
December 30, 2022 at 16:14
And now, for @"Amity", something a bit cheesy perhaps, a bit old school, but oh so very cheerful. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkSy5Mas-As
December 30, 2022 at 11:43
Ha ha! Love the way she mimics the trumpet by just making tut tut with her mouth. Thanks for the cheer up. I like this tune below, though I am afraid ...
December 30, 2022 at 11:29
Comrade Stalin said that, I think. Quantity has a quality all its own. Very true. Boethius used to write volumes.
December 30, 2022 at 10:14
And I for one expected better from this forum than endless obfuscation and lies in defense of a murderous dictatorship, but this is what we get.
December 30, 2022 at 08:19
I know this feeling.
December 29, 2022 at 21:29
The Klezmatics - An Undoing World By the time we're done with dancing, Elsewhere darling you'll be glancing And the night's a river-torrent tearing us...
December 29, 2022 at 21:04
Stromae -- Formidable https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xH7noaqTA
December 29, 2022 at 13:33
And so will the priests. Amen.
December 29, 2022 at 09:53
Don't worship idols, is one of the best advices in all scripture. Idols - defined as human things we hold sacred - are surprisingly common, even beyon...
December 28, 2022 at 16:45
Science is also failing here. Don't let your anti-religion push you into worshiping or idolizing science.
December 28, 2022 at 09:12
Vladimir Putin faces legal challenge after calling the war in Ukraine a "war" The opposition councillor who made the legal challenge said he knew it w...
December 23, 2022 at 23:20
You're not paying attention. Merry Christmas.
December 23, 2022 at 13:06
Explain to me why it should come from below.
December 22, 2022 at 17:59
If my Latin classes memories serve, Eros did end up mating with Psyche, the most beautiful girl in the universe, although she then reported him on Twi...
December 22, 2022 at 08:06
Yes, but the point I am making here is that chirality makes no sense at the atomic level, it is an emerging property of molecules. So the laws of chem...
December 21, 2022 at 15:35
The shape of a particular molecule is not "contained" in or determined by its atoms. That is to say, one can construct several different molecules wit...
December 21, 2022 at 11:17
The murderer accusing his victims of a "lack of concern". :vomit:
December 21, 2022 at 09:17
This is the only thing in your post that I disagree with (also the animist bit about the universe having desires). In practice, you cannot derive chem...
December 21, 2022 at 09:09
This is just not true. Indeterminism is fine with determination existing, it just says that not every event is predetermined.
December 21, 2022 at 06:51
I agree, and that is precisely the indeterminist view point, which states that some event are not predetermined, and others are. So you are not a dete...
December 21, 2022 at 06:23
That's defining "free will" as magic. So of course, defined as such it cannot exist. I personally prefer the term "free choice" (a choice not imposed ...
December 20, 2022 at 21:42
Things don't maintain themselves very well, for the most part. Perfect stability is extremely rare in nature. Things tend to transform after a while. ...
December 20, 2022 at 21:13
https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/a77c2f86ae80480380dac7324b7d2892/1000.webp In this photo released by the Dnipro Region Administration, M...
December 20, 2022 at 15:24
I do. I just consider emergence as non-determined. First, I would need a clear definition of what free will is. Second, I would not consider as eviden...
December 20, 2022 at 14:03
In Ukraine, the delicate political reinvention of "pro-Russian" MPs The parties considered too close to Moscow were dissolved after the outbreak of th...
December 20, 2022 at 08:43