But I haven't. I've accurately described your positions using different terms than you would have because you have those terms all wrong. You don't say I've got your positions wrong, you just won't describe those positions as conservative because you've trained yourself to see conservative as...
"Once the problem is gone, lock down the border and you're pretty much good as gold."
Sound familiar? I know you want to take pride in your home, but some things are just chance or circumstance. Imagining you solved what the rest of the word couldn't manage is a bit silly.
Because I've spent over a decade actually interacting with people who believe these things, and it took Russia invading Ukraine for you to pay attention to the tankies here.
No, it isn't. Socialism is a system of economic organization. Communism is a classless society, that applies to wealth, but it also applies to all structures of governance and authority. Communists historically don't attack civil and religious authorities in the pursuit of shared goods and...
Pragmatism and idealism are opposing philosophies. Anyone you might categorize as an idealist is inherently less practical that those who are not. That's just what those words mean.
No, they don't. That's what the revolutionary part means: nothing that exists now matters, all societal...
Again, you are misunderstanding the majority of political philosophies. People don't all think like you, many commit fully to their ideas of right and wrong, and no test of success is going to dissuade them.
I mean, your standard here is "better than military dictatorship". And were I to find a...
You inferred that. I never said it. Basing your position on the results is pragmatism. To give an actual definition:
""pragmatism: an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application."
Pragmatism exists in contrast to...
There are very few places on the planet where there is even the tiniest chance that works. You have to start holing up before there's significant community spread, and most places can't actually lock down international travel, and most places have animal populations that act as carriers for...
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