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There was another similar call to break the blockade and get the grain out, posted by recently. It made a good case for it. https://www.theguardian.co...

Super Mario keeps trying... 2 mins ago (17:53 GMT) Italy aims to free grain exports blocked in Black Sea ports, Prime Minister Mario Draghi has told r...

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An exception which literally confirms the rule set out in the OP: https://scriptoriumdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/haddock-swearing-ectoplasm.j...

If they believed so, they wouldn't bomb civilians so much. They just believe that they are entitled to bomb anyone, including their own people. In my ...

Not sure that Draghi's initiative is going anywhere, but at least he's trying. What do the pretend peace lovers here think of it? Russia has not seen ...

I've not criticized any of you BECAUSE you advocated diplomacy, to the extent that you have actually done so, which is unclear. None of you have advoc...

Thinking of it, the Putinistas may be under the impression that their esteemed contributions here are part of the war, part of a battle for public opi...

You did. That was disingenous. Nobody here has ever demonised any diplomacy advocate. You are inventing your own debate, obsessed as you are with poin...

What's unethical is to spread lies. So stop it. Where have I disparaged diplomatic efforts, ever?

You are commenting on the ethics of war, now? Let me guess: you think war is bad. What else is new?

That's what wars do, indeed. What else is new?

Of course we've been through this before. You already got your little games debunked and your truculent questions answered. Your waste of bandwidth is...

Thank you so much. Do you additionally support the right of Ukrainians to vote? If yes, you will agree with me and many others that the freely elected...

I did. I said that I support the right of the Ukrainian leadership to decide their own peace terms when and how they see fit.

Is it? I personally see no objection to Ukraine signing any peace treaty they want, at any point. I've said so already so I am a bit surprised by your...

There's nothing "additional" here. It makes no practical difference if the Ukrainians win or the Russians lose. And if the Russians lose, one can only...

I just hope they win. Rest assured it's a humble hope.

Where do you see any glee? Where does this accusation of gleefulness come from? Maybe what you confuse with glee here, is hope.

It would be unrealistic to expect non-partisan moderation. The moderators are human beings; they have friends here, and you and I do not feature among...

What is really easy, down right facile, is to be dismissive and contemptuous of people defending their country.

We are free, but guided by some programme alright. Instinctual fears and desires are an example of it.

Does your nastiness know limits, other than those imposed by your stupidity?

Indeed, but Russia will have to fold at some point; they cannot keep this up forever. So the Ukrainians are teaching them a lesson: a lesson in resili...

Including themselves, apparently. Ukrainians will teach them a lesson.

There was no prospect of Ukraine joining NATO. It was out of the blue.

How about: Russia is responsible for what it actually did? If they bombed an entire country out of the blue, they own it. Or are Russians inferior bei...

Years ago, i found myself talking with a very nice guy from the English-speaking Caribbeans, at a party thrown by the French consulate in New York. So...

What is poitín?

Now you are talking. The West has also colonized the minds of folks. So the first thing to do, for those hoping of liberation, would be to free one's ...

Contrary to you. You're quite good at making yourself look good. :-)

Interesting opinion but I note that Afghanistan or Ethiopia were never colonized. Yet there's no shortage of poor people and emigrants from Ethiopia o...

I won't go into that because to me, "up to date" means nothing in philosophy. There is no progress in philosophy, as there is in science or technology...

Nothing to do with Russians being Russians IMO. It has to do with materialism. If you think that humans are just meat machines, that human rights are ...

Excellent piece. I liked his proposals, like this one:

I agree Life is deeper a mystery than Thought because it already includes self-consciousness as a logical possibility. Life is based on the genetic co...

A 'proof' is hard to find. I can provide evidence though. So what position of mine do you want evidence for?

You are a colon, living on a land stolen from Aborigens. Why don't you burn your own house to the ground?

It's not funny, but YOU are funny though.

If you don't know enough to be able yo tell what is true and not, how come you know enough to tell that the same applies to me, or to any others? How ...

Thanks for the laugh.

Europe did ruin Africa, but to say that the Africans today who want to emigrate to Europe do so because of that is incorrect.

Most of times, I have the information necessary to tell the difference, thank you. I agree that you don't.

Good that I never said it, then. Note that in a context full of liars, stating historical or other facts --even straight from Wikipedia -- can be revo...

Key words: "if true".

Discussing the war in Ukraine, for some. Braying "NATO caca", for others.

The point was that some Africans disagree that the West is bad, so much so that they risk their lives to emigrate to Europe. And it's not (factually n...

What ruined Africa was first and foremost the slave trade. It made some Portuguese, French, English and other merchants very rich, as well as a few Af...

Good point. But she's conscious. And she knows you're conscious. It's just that she can't reflect about it.

And yet, something does. A physical system, the body, the brain, underpins conscious thought. It doesn't have to be but it's conceivable.