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Nice is-ought mistake there. Selective in your history too. And nowhere have I suggested everybody should be the same. And no I don't feel like expand...
April 04, 2022 at 05:13
Another person who can't read. I never said the first part.
April 02, 2022 at 10:04
I answered it. When you figure out what I actually said as opposed to what you want me to say in a pathetic "gotcha" attempt, the answer will be autom...
April 02, 2022 at 07:57
This doesn't follow from what I said. Try again.
April 02, 2022 at 07:54
Fuck off frank. 1. Make an argument. 2. Stop making this personal. There's nothing wrong with my moral compass. The day all countries respect sovereig...
April 02, 2022 at 05:24
Why do you disagree with this? I thought we already established the proxy war fought over the Ukraine since well before that? The strategic importance...
April 01, 2022 at 20:06
I don't have a crystal ball so no clue really and I don't trust the news in normal times and actively distrust it in war times. If it's written by a U...
April 01, 2022 at 05:17
It's all that. My problem is the blindspot of the role of the US and NATO getting us here. Think of it as contributory negligence.
March 31, 2022 at 10:26
It's funny how criticism and disagreement is immediately set aside as informed by ideology. That way you don't have to engage. Kissinger, Mearsheimer ...
March 31, 2022 at 06:27
Well, at least it wasn't communism!
March 31, 2022 at 04:58
Well that's patently false. You were fishing for one answer and one answer only, that people choose the side of the USA. And when they don't you cry t...
March 31, 2022 at 04:30
You can mention me by name. Unlike you I don't think the world boils down to a popularity contest. "But who do you trust more?!"
March 30, 2022 at 20:12
I have lived in Lampertheim and worked in Strassbourg if you really need to know but it's totally besides the point where it comes to understanding Fr...
March 30, 2022 at 09:16
Yeah, that was totally the argument I was making "there's a school somewhere, therefore you don't have a democracy". Another stupid thing to say. But ...
March 30, 2022 at 09:08
We have on the one hand people arguing in favour of the status quo and on the other those who say that the status quo sucks and you manage to conclude...
March 30, 2022 at 09:03
What's scary is the uncritical assumption democracies work. That must be why special interests and lobby groups do so well in almost all of them (*Bre...
March 30, 2022 at 08:11
Modest reasons for optimism. Russian minister of offence has promised to decrease military activity as a gesture of good faith resulting from the disc...
March 29, 2022 at 15:05
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March 29, 2022 at 06:32
I'm talking about the derivative contracts to hedge your exchange rate risk. Those aren't currently exempted from what I understood because that's a r...
March 29, 2022 at 06:28
But what about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock?! Or reporting on "maybe the negotiaters were poisoned". I thought the news was about reporting facts? S...
March 29, 2022 at 05:15
Neither chess nor naked men are my thing but to each his own!
March 28, 2022 at 20:19
That post wants me to go off on a tangent how the capitalist system commits violence against workers every day that Jeff and the Kochs can definitely ...
March 28, 2022 at 14:33
This gets more interesting with the SWIFT sanction. So the oil and gas business is not a spot market, most of it is locked in with forwards. So you ha...
March 28, 2022 at 14:23
On a related note, my daughter independently decided to sell some toys to raise money for Ukraine. I asked her if they talked about this on school but...
March 26, 2022 at 02:09
I wasn't talking about outright lies, I'm talking about framing.
March 26, 2022 at 01:29
Baden had some good examples of propaganda by Western media outlets. Brushing that off as bias is in my view problematic because it suggests all journ...
March 25, 2022 at 21:24
Ashes.
March 25, 2022 at 19:33
Absolutely not! But I thought that was implied with my post history in this thread. :wink: But yes, a negotiated settlement is best for everyone invol...
March 25, 2022 at 17:15
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Caw2XsbJjaR/?utm_medium=copy_link Geopolitics in a nutshell.
March 25, 2022 at 16:34
I think he's referring to Appolodorus.
March 25, 2022 at 16:20
I see you have no argument against my argument other than "this is how we've been doing it for decades!" Pretty cool of you to assume ignorance instea...
March 25, 2022 at 15:22
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/466473 Some more just war theory background.
March 25, 2022 at 11:49
It's the only rational position in any conjoint analysis of this issue. variables: 1. Putin doesn't use nukes, no escalation 2. Putin uses nukes, no e...
March 25, 2022 at 11:18
I will welcome Russian tanks in my street if it avoids a nuclear war. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth a strategic nuclear escalation. Freedom be...
March 25, 2022 at 10:00
What's exactly the point about being able to categorise them as Europeans other than to highlight someone's racism?
March 25, 2022 at 06:29
Let me add to that: https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/02/18/nato-s-kosovo-colony/
March 24, 2022 at 18:21
I don't share your optimism. I think he would use it, particularly tactical nukes.
March 24, 2022 at 13:17
Your view is shared by quite a few politicians but for less savoury reasons. I can't do anything with this. What limitations? Why? What would stop Put...
March 24, 2022 at 12:38
That has exactly nothing to do with what I said but thanks for posting.
March 24, 2022 at 12:32
:roll: it's not a fucking Mike Tyson fight you're betting on. There's actual people dying. The likelihood of the Ukrainians winning is inversely corre...
March 24, 2022 at 12:26
LOL. Never tried that.
March 24, 2022 at 12:00
And don't forget the are many steps of escalation steps available to Russia between this conventional war and nukes. He'll probably drop a tactical nu...
March 24, 2022 at 11:59
The point is that in almost all circumstances of someone hitting you, you can walk away. If there are weapons involved you run away. Only an idiot ove...
March 24, 2022 at 11:50
under which circumstances can't you walk away? My wife hit me once, I told her if she did it again I'd get a divorce. Never happened again. Our dustbi...
March 24, 2022 at 10:28
I'm pretty confident the REUTERS picture happened. Not so much about the dumpster. It's possible and even likely, I'm just saying that there's plenty ...
March 24, 2022 at 09:06
In this day and age? Like people cheering the destruction of twin towers which never happened. I don't trust images especially if they're unsourced an...
March 24, 2022 at 08:34
Ukrainian-American Yuliy Dubovyk writes the following:
March 24, 2022 at 07:56
So you don't know what ius ad bellum is. You do realise this reply just makes you sound like an idiot, right?
March 24, 2022 at 07:24
Jesus fuck, just read about sex traffickers targeting fleeing women and children. :vomit:
March 24, 2022 at 06:47
it also incorrectly identifies "being hit" as "being in a fight". It's only a fight once the person being hit, starts hitting back.
March 24, 2022 at 05:49