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Funny. ChatGPT made a grammatical error. I hadn't expect it to do so. Exchange attached.

A group of 6 individuals, with relevant complementary skills planning a strike like this? With things you call "not so hard" but totally not common kn...

This is pretty good still: https://www.trouw.nl/buitenland/pro-oekraiense-groep-zou-achter-sabotage-van-gaspijplijn-zitten~b2b05d13/

It's reported in Germany at the same time based on German intelligence leaks. Interesting detail: Scholz once again reiterated the official investigat...

@"ssu" @"SophistiCat" We discussed a while back about who bombed Nordstream. We now have an intelligence "leak" (officially sanctioned it seems) blami...

Regardless of what your actually mean by "woke", which is just the new "liberal" and meant as a pejorative, the idea that raising awareness of systemi...

I have no clue. If I look at current politics in the Netherlands, everybody hates the established political parties. Culturally conservative parties (...

Fixed it for you. :joke:

I think there's still a good chance we can get there peacefully as we're not denied political expression. But sure, I can see supply lines collapse, m...

Definitely. I love Spanish. It's much more logical than most other languages. You don't swallow half the letters that the French do. Don't have horrib...

Depends on what we mean with egalitarian. I think a healthy democratic society makes class largely meaningless because it won't be married to any type...

Yes, and rightfully so. We just seem to have forgotten how that's sometimes a good thing. The French Revolution, kicking of the enlightenment, by and ...

Latino or latina is not offensive. Who said that? If I don't identify as either latino or latina and I can come up with a word that better describes m...

THis is out of context: the revolutionary terror was to be exercised if the political expression of labourers was surpressed. In his time only rich me...

This is bullshit. If you are so badly educated in Marx' work that you think this has sensibly been attempted anywhere how he envisaged it then you rea...

So you want to prohibit bad grammar? Shall I go through your post history and delete every post where you've made a grammar mistake? Starting with the...

Yes, let's look at history. What did Marx do other than be a committed democrat during his lifetime? Your bias is obvious and your lack of knowledge a...

Why? Why on earth prohibit the use of words? Whatever happened to free speech?

And yet you invariably demonstrate not to have actually read him. Marx wasn't against democracy at all. In the Principles of Communism: Maybe just not...

I don't even understand that poll question to begin with but it's nice to know it gave cover for a bunch of closet racists to reveal themselves. The c...

What's egalitarianism according to you?

Good point. Agree. Das Kapital is after all a critique of political economy. There's plenty of social commentary throughout his analysis, beginning of...

The problem is that what's solid is his economic work. The rest is all over the place. He describes revolution as a historic necessity and the way to ...

Marxism isn't a political theory but an economic one. Maybe read him some time.

Hmmm... We have local mussels but not oysters. I actually live 10 minutes from Noordwijk aan Zee. I go there if I go to the beach.

This is true. Unless you're a sumo wrestler in which case you can make a comparison.

In reality the English were a bunch of whiny bitches that couldn't win from a country about 1/20th its size so they came up with a bunch of pejorative...

Nope, just renowned drunks. :razz:

He was super nice but standards and all that.

I think you're too sane to accurately predict what stupidity voters are capable of.

There was a reddit that claimed the photo was already in use around the pizzagate story.

Or we get Jacques Coustea to check, :smile:

He predicts 2 unexploded bombs. Presumably that's easy to check? So we should know one way or the other if the Germans are in control of the investiga...

@"SophistiCat" @"ssu" Almost complete silence on Hersh' article in Europe by the way. Nothing in the main newspapers. You'd think the Graun would jump...

Oh good, didn't mean to suggest you did. Interesting article. With regard to his Nord Stream speculation, I think the first is bullshit. If things nor...

I haven't followed it but I vaguely remember they thought people would get a false sense of security wearing masks and increase risky behaviour?

@"SophistiCat" @"ssu" https://www.welt.de/regionales/mecklenburg-vorpommern/article243596071/Frank-Keine-Belege-fuer-russische-Sabotage-an-Pipelines.h...

Minor? Weaning Europe of Russian gas in favour of North American gas is not minor in my book. It's tens of billions of dollars in value per year.

Yes, this MH17 twist is interesting. We had an extensive report in November 2015 published that was performed by the Dutch government (Raad van Onderz...

Well, I have no opinion on whether it's true or not but seems grounds for investigation by Germany and other EU members. With "allies" like that, we d...

how likely is it that it's actually true?

I can't help you unfortunately as I'm not familiar with the original texts and I'm not sure I'm understanding your opening post correctly. The only wa...

@"andrewk" I think this is right up your alley based on how you answered some of my Kantian questions years ago?

We're not living in a world where these don't exist so what's the point thinking about it? I reject the idea the divine is the source of laws, by the ...

A crime is a crime without police, prosecutor or courts being involved. When someone steals your wallet, he's a thief and committed a crime. Miraculou...

I simply don't understand what I'm seeing. Even without justification I can sometimes understand where people's behaviour comes from - I can follow wh...

I want the Netherlands out of that pact anyways. Sufficiently likely. Another reason I want the Netherlands out of that pact.

A mutual defence pact with a country that doesn't have the necessary checks and balances to ensure it doesn't elect a dictator or abuse minorities doe...

To join NATO a country needs to meet the following standards: a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy; the fair treatment ...