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And had they taken Kiev, they'd go on to occupy Poland, and so on, right?

No, I'm asking you about what so far appears to be your support of acting in bad faith. For the sake of the ego. Then you're late.

By all means, do tell. How is it possible to ensure the survival of many without risking a zombie scenario, ie. one where people are living low qualit...

Exactly. Yet you want it to be taken as more than that.

Yet people do it all the time, those Humpty Dumpties!

So you feel that capitalism and consumerism respect your right to be an individual? A change to what, and why?

Very easily: By declaring themselves to be the moral winners. The West is already helping them do that. What exactly are you talking about? Are you sa...

No. You want Russia to be Western. To be yet another consumerist hellhole. Ideas that are merely new are useless. An idea must be good. Yes, because s...

You, of all people, should know better. But perhaps different principles apply to Russian artillery shells than they do to arrows.

List at least three examples of such democracies.

Some junkfood franchize closing shop in Russia is not a loss, it's a good riddance. And similar for so many other things from the West.

Journalists have way too much power. They are, first and foremost, moralizing busybodies. They are playing god. The very idea that someone, anyone cou...

Who are you to judge that it is "and all for no good reason"?? Speak for yourself. How many of you here are close enough to the Ukraine to actually be...

What would Nato do if there would be no nation states anymore? To your question: How soon do you want a Mad Max scenario to be be brought about? Aside...

In some years, given the current trends, it looks like Nazism and Fascism will be fully rehabilitated, and history rewritten once more.

Who gets to be the judge whether the decision was right or not?

My point is that acting on principles like we don't avoid a zombie apocalypse scenario. Ie. if a great number of people survive, it seems inevitable t...

Ah, the wannabes!

And it does, in its native context: in the actual religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.

Such people don't go to concerts, they are not the audience. They are the performers.

Zombies are alive, technically.

No, this is overstating the case. It is not possible to save a life, nor to give a life, it is only possible to take a life. The people who do get the...

If it does, it means that there was no Russia anymore to protect to begin with. In that case, they had already sold themselves. Russia's biggest mista...

So if an American citizen calls for the murder of another American citizen, that is wrong, but if an American citizen calls for the murder of a non-Am...

When one has God and righteousness on one's side, who can be against one?!

This can be done in some forms of Hinduism, but not in the Abrahamic religions. The salient difference is that generally, in the Abrahamic religions, ...

Hence adhering to principles of morality becomes of crucial importance in such settings where empirical evidence is not available or not available rel...

This only seems just because the conflict roughly ended at that point. History is written by the winners, as is morality. The Western colonialists won...

Already 20 years ago, even further back, it was clear enough what would likely happen. At that point, the Ukrainians could have taken charge, acting p...

My vision for every country is to be self-sufficient. (Even if this means economy on the preindustrial level.)

Indeed, just in time, I was just thinking of posting a thread of what constitutes theism proper. Belief in Jehovah simply isn't like belief in Elvis. ...

Can you back this up with some reference? If the original goal of philosophy really was "the good life", then, after all those complex and lengthy exc...

To get what?

So a proper, strong democracy is the one that can maintain its own illusion?

The point is that the anti-Slavic sentiment, and specifically, the anti-Russian sentiment serves as a framework, a context, in which it is perfectly s...

Pffft. People love to say they are against "authoritarianism and imperialism", and they do so in an utterly authoritarian manner. The endless ironies ...

Eh? Did you ever get the impression that it had any honor in the eyes of Americans and most other Westerners?

The total genius of Western democracies is that they outsourced government oppression to individual people. So that it isn't the government which oppr...

Look, Biden refers to Putin with he! It must be that Biden is a Putin troll!!!!!$#%"/$&%3 You're so hyped up that it clouds your judgment. I can't rem...

It's not clear what your reply has to do with my question. The protests against the war in Iraq changed nothing, other than once more convicing people...

The previous prime minister of Slovenia (prime minister is the position with the most power in the country) was a former comedian. He wasn't in positi...

I suppose one needs to be a member of a Slavic nation to experience this and to noitice it. You know what the slang term for Slovenes is? "Viennese ho...

You've used the image of the bully on the block in other discussions about this topic. Thus taking for granted that he's a bully (and that "we" need t...

*sigh* You said:

Are you grateful to your god/s? Do you express submission to your god/s? Do you acknowledge that they were there before you and that they contextualiz...

You're confusing his anti-Western stance for being pro-Putin. The matter is the same as in the covid discourse: a simplistic side-taking prevails. Has...

What you have isn't theism, it's a type of atheism, and of the worst variety. Theism proper requires active membership in a monotheistic religion. Wit...

No, this is still a Christian rendition of a Hindu view. A Hindu view would be something like: God is the source of all religions. People are born int...

Thus such "theists" themselves render God irrelevant.

The other week, Zelensky gave a pep talk and he winked. He winked. This is what we've come down to. Presidents in war-torn countries winking to their ...