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Nice precision hit. No civilian victims, just a slowed down enemy.

Is that your passive aggressive way of saying you agree with me? And I do the same, just better. Hence I don't need to travel all the way to Ukraine t...

I said it was next to impossible. So whom do you trust, if you don't trust 'the media'?

This is a familiar line of argument for anyone who ever debated a holocaust or climate change denier: "You weren't there during the great glaciations ...

It is an established fact that the Russians thought it would be a ride in the park. There are testimonies of arrested or kidnapped Ukrainians who repo...

Russians hand control of Chornobyl nuclear plant back to Ukraine, IAEA says THU, MAR 31 2022 Kevin Breuninger, CNBC KEY POINTS Russian troops that too...

So this was the real question: can a modern and free society avoid the ills of capitalism? Which BTW is a question not just for Russia.

Excellent! But wait... Were the others that bad.... :chin:

I think the problem is a logical one: if one defines 'western' as a society enjoying 'their rights, their freedom in society' then by definition all s...

There's India, Senegal and other democratic states in the 'southern hemisphere'. Of course, their democratic 'form' and processes are originally weste...

So you are looking for a frugal, exotic (non western) yet free society. I think a lot of hunter gatherer societies fit the bill. In fact I wonder if t...

Legally speaking, human rights are not Western anymore since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Genera...

Usually I would say: it's their country, their life and their responsibility, not ours. But now their midget of a fürher threatens us with nuclear hol...

'Reasonable-seeming' is a rather low bar, as it depends on how hard one looks at what seems. A more ambitious criteria would be 'reasonable'. The spee...

You've been far more obscene than me.

Please do

It's not from me. Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément. -- Nicolas Boileau

Yes, I do.

Yes, what is conceived clearly is expressed easily.

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You and others here have made any conversation impossible by constantly insulting the other side, page after page, and by showing only contempt for us...

I see that the bear suckers are getting all excited. After a month of sucking, maybe the bear has finally reached turgidity?

This thread is proof that a breakdown of moderation -- in both senses -- leads to cacophony and to a breakdown of the discussion.

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Yes, they are nuclear-blackmailing the whole world now. It's "me or chaos", nuclear style.

It looks like your average reddit thread because it is insufficiently moderated.

Without some minimum degree of freedom of expression, new ideas just don't get expressed because expressing them would be dangerous. And if one can't ...

So you trust the news, huh? I thought it was all propaganda. What gives? Which ones?

Be our guest: invent something better than global Putinistan.

Have you lived in France? Are you truly qualified to talk about the French democracy, or are you just repeating racist propaganda?

Sounds interesting.

You guys are arguing for the status quo ante here. Not us. We want Russia to be free. Do you?

So because there is a school somewhere, we don't have a democracy. That's what passes for 'analysis' among the nihilists. I bet you none of them has e...

That's what I call political nihilism: the belief that all politics are equally fake and exploitative. You could also call it the Zero Hypothesis of p...

You could take a course in political economy. But the short answer is: can you vote to fire the leaders of your country, or not. The French can fire M...

Because they are human beings who can invent their own future. They are not machines bound to repeat themselves forever.

I mean, I read the good ones... :chin:

I've read all the books.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

You mean, you were smart once? What happened to you, after 12?

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Sure thing, as long as they don't pin it on me.

And you and I are part of that 'very short list', you think? Or are you rather saying that we are part of some universal idea exchange fair?

Advising people is a business. Amateurs don't advise professionals. We are all amateurs here, are we not? You can of course write down the words: 'I a...

I have not given advice to anyone. NATO, the EU, none of the actors you mentioned is reading TPFand they have not asked for our advice. If by any malc...

We could still discover new sides of him, but yes, there might be some truth there. However, nobody is eternal, and no regime is eternal either.

Yes, although one could argue a symmetrical point against not advising a friend when you should have.

I'm not personally advising anyone to revolt. I know too little and as you said, I have no influence whatsoever. It was Mr Littell's advice based on h...