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You're welcome. What I wrote here is influenced by her.

Yes. The US can be a tough place.

Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan has written about this: https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13510/the-right-to-sex-how-amia-srinivasan-wrote-t...

Yes, but that's pretty much how Houellebecq phrases it. He would agree with all that. Isn't this precisely the problem? Incels totally internalize the...

I agree and want to congratulate @"EugeneW" for bringing it up. The incels do tend to turn their sexual frustration into violence. Now, sexual violenc...

12.0 = 12 That's the value for male firearm suicide per year. There's another 7 guys killing themselves by suffocation, and another 2 by poisoning. To...

Yes. This view is in contrast with Freud's, who frequently spoke of how repressed sexual energy can be turned into socially acceptable creativity and ...

If my math is correct, about 20 suicides per 100,000 males translates into 1 in 5000 males committing suicide per year, as of 2018.

Yes, that's the thesis of The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Interesting note.

Russia's state TV has been hit by a stream of high-profile resignations. Some of the posters here should send their CV to RT and co, assuming they are...

Yes, suicide is often used to hurt others too. Sometimes, it is not just self-violence; rather it is meant to scar others permanently. And it does. Th...

Nope, it's Russia. NATO can do shit. And honestly, governments of food importing countries have very little political leverage because they are poor, ...

If the Ukrainians cannot harvest their wheat, international cereal prices will go through the roof, unsettling governments the world over.

As always, the same info can mean many different thing to different people. For Ukraine, it means that their goal ought to be to perdure and keep Kyiv...

One can laugh of everything in my culture, dying kids included. So I take no offense whatsoever and understand your point, that self-aggression was so...

You know, folks do do that... Rates of youth suicide and attempted youth suicide in Western societies are quite high.

Russian prosecutors on Tuesday called for jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve 13 years in prison on new fraud charges. Navalny, President Pu...

Heterosexuality is so passé. If you don't find a female to be intimate with, find a male....

For what it's worth, the Ukrainian side estimates that the Russians will have exhausted their stock of cannon fodder by end April - early May. With an...

I think this is sound advice, well argued too, but I will refer to our resident specialist in surrendering @"Isaac" for an expert opinion... Ukraine's...

You have a point. It's not fair that ethnic Russians are killed only in Donbass. So someone had to start bombing ethnic Russians in Odesa, Mariupol et...

So the Russians decided to kill ethnic Russians in other parts of Ukraine, outside of Donbass.... Makes things more even, right?

Says who, and to whom? There's no grievance without an aggrieved party.

It is also useful for the non-intended purpose of showing how immoral you guys are.

As @"Cuthbert" implied -- very philosophically -- about nuclear annihilation: it's not that bad; there is always the possibility that we will fail bet...

The Black Carnival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUfXDlTfBQ I dive upside down, attracted by ecstasy A green swirl illuminates the sirens The refle...

After the bully had abused @"Isaac", our friend looked back at the bully with dovish eyes while arranging his trousers, and said: "Thank you! Now I un...

She asked for it, evidently. The bully is entirely predictable by others, like a machine would be, and has zero responsibility for his own acts. So if...

And when a woman gets raped by that bully, it must follow that she did exactly what one needs to do to get raped, right?

I like your reasonning. Indeed, we need to make use of our strengths. Once Moscow is levelled off into a glow-at-night parking lot, Putin will be more...

Are you advocating that NATO nukes Moscow to save Mariupol? I'm not against it, but it could be a bit odd, logically speaking, to kill millions of civ...

You don't really pay attention, do you? Keep licking Vlad's balls, for all I care.

I don't know where you read that nukes gives you leverage to free civilians from a mad man, but it is not true. Nobody is going to threaten nuclear wa...

That aged well...

Indeed, he keeps making reference to scifi movies. He supports Ian Solo maybe?

If you are in the business of nitpicking countries at war, sure. How does this work in practice? Let us imagine that Le Pen, funded by Putin, wins the...

Do they have a name? A leader? A phone number perhaps? Which REAL, identifiable side do you support?

I do think that the legitimate leadership of the Ukrainian people deserves support right now. If you want to support someone else, by all means do so!...

They are negotiating now, therefore the Ukrainians still reject the Russian proposal, as of date. And nobody even knows precisely what points they are...

Heu... non, on dirait plutôt : "À toi aussi" ou "pareillement", ou (closer perhaps) "je te renvoie/retourne le compliment"... :nerd:

Maybe your own mind was hacked by a rabid warmonger? Because I did not argue that Ukraine should never sign any deal. I argued that they might have go...

I meant that Russia attacked Ukraine in spite of having signed numerous deal with her in the past, so any peace deal they sign on now is worth just as...

That is true, sadly. Thanks for the usual wise words.

Nope. Sometimes a leader needs to make painful choices.

Baroque Music for War and Peace in Europe during XVII Century -- Jordi Savall conducts Hesperion XXI Capella Reial Catalunya / Concert des Nations. Fr...

His passive aggressive tone is getting old. It's also a bit disgusting to debate the Putin trolls here, so I think you do well to stay out of it. It's...

That is simply false. China has greater leverage right now. So the Chinese don't care about Mariupol as much as, say, the Finns, so the Finns should e...

Courage?

Why the EU? Why not China or Zimbabwe do that? What's the unsaid assumption here? And the Russians are not letting civilians leave the city by road. W...

@"Isaac" is worse than a crank, he is a serial liar and a very angry one, at that. It is as if he was shocked first and foremost by the Ukrainian resi...