Recent content by Silvanus

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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    Well, recall the time you insisted that several users wanted to destroy industrial society because they wanted to radically change economic/energy models.
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    Ukraine

    Russia launched the largest drone attack since the start of the war this morning: 75 kamikaze drones, mostly aimed at Kyiv, alongside at least one cruise missile. Ukrainian air defence claims to have downed 71 of them. It did so on Holodomor Remembrance Day: marking the time the Soviet Union...
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    No, you've utterly misunderstood and misrepresented my positions quite frequently. You often tell me I believe things that I simply don't, and refuse to accept when i tell you otherwise-- and do the same to others. You believe-- quite arrogantly-- that you know the minds of others better than...
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    Ah, so you're thinking your arguments with online randos constitutes expertise. I've seen you routinely misrepresent what i think on these forums, so I have no faith that you're accurately relaying what these communists think either. Especially since I've also interacted with them.
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    As someone who's studied it academically and read the literature-- why would I defer to the opinion of a conservative Catholic who takes any given opportunity to denigrate it, and frequently ascribes bizarre positions to people that they've never expressed?
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    They're opposing philosophies that coexist and interact in almost every human. If I categorise someone as an idealist, it doesn't mean they're devoid of pragmatism-- or even that they don't employ it extensively. You're showing that poor understanding of your opponents' actual positions again...
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    To add to this: Cuba literally isn't a military dictatorship, in that its central political bodies are not run by the military. Its a dictatorship operated by a civilian political group. As opposed to.... Batista, who was an actual military dictator, propped up by the US. Besides which...
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    You write that second sentence as if its in contention with something i said. I'm well aware that lots of people do that. ....But that's the case for many conservatives just as its the case for many liberals or anything else. Its no more true of communists than conservatives. You're trying to...
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    Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

    OK-- so the idea is that the description of Israel as an 'apartheid state', as well as the equation of Zionism with racism and fascism, are rooted in old Soviet propaganda? That's quite a weak argument, to be honest. Zionism is in essence a form of nationalism, and it would be simplistic to say...
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    STEAM vs STEM, Liberal Arts vs Everyone Else, Everyone is Acting in Bad Faith etc.

    Huh, there's an interesting question there-- whether sciences that have little/no wartime benefit (research into chronic illnesses for instance?) get shafted in the funding department during a war.
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    This is a load of waffle. You've not identified a meaningful distinction here: Reagan's political actions resulted from "ideology" no less than did Lenin's. Both of them made cost-benefit analyses, identified things they thought were beneficial or harmful, and acted according to their political...
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    Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges as unconstitutional

    OK, let's have a thought experiment. I've got a box of lego, with 10 blue bricks, 10 red bricks, and 10 green bricks. The lego box has red bricks in it. Do you therefore think it's true to say that lego "can't not be red"?
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    Oregon Backlash To Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

    You've shifted the argument significantly here. Here you're talking about an action being 'conservative' (and everyone here has said that individual actions or thought processes pursued by almost any individual could be conservative). But originally you were talking about 'conservative' as a...
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    If DeSantis wins

    I don't even know what part of my argument this is supposed to be a rebuttal for. Are you trying to argue that there are more work opportunities outside of the city? Or are you saying only a "echo chamber" would value those opportunities above home ownership?
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    Top three? Surely not, there's quite a lot more than three that have never had anything approximating democracy.