I suspect a mental health crises. — Moses

We are fighting to protect the more or less free society that exists in Ukraine, without which there would be no space for activism or underground movements.
Putin’s terror is happening [in Ukraine] and it is indiscriminate. It is happening against every part of the population, but especially against the Russian-speaking parts of the population that Putin supposedly came here to liberate,
His regime is an ultraconservative, rightwing dictatorship that represses anarchists in Russia, the free press, LGBT networks. It scares even the most banal, grassroots initiatives, like animal rights activists. We see the conflict between Ukraine and Russia as a conflict between a more or less democratic state and a totalitarian one.
We have a strict screening process. We don’t want people who just come here to kill; we want them to understand what they are fighting for. — Dmytro

Putin has appropriated the word anti-fascist and he exploits it to justify his war. [Ukrainian] nationalists say if you’re anti-fascist, you’re pro-Russian, but that’s not the case.
I think both sides of the elite did a lot to create a situation whereby Ukrainians argue a lot about language and versions of history instead of how Kryvyi Rih Stal was privatised.
The cause of the war is the Russian Federation. — Movchan

If you are going to use historical precedence to justify your argument you ought to look at actual examples of US militia fighting against and being defeated by superior federal forces. — Maw

Waco started this war. Hopefully, Oklahoma would end it. The only way they’re going to feel something, the only way they’re going to get the message is, quote, with a body count. — McVeigh in prison in 2001

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here — Isaac

Does your passion for getting other people to die for your moral didactics know no bounds? — Isaac

naturalistic accounts for abiogenesis — Paulm12

That is similar to the much-vaunted 'principle of causal closure', which is that every event has a physical cause. — Wayfarer

The big bang does not have falsification qualification — L'éléphant

Gensler at least is trying to give people some guidance as to how to live ethically. — Marvin Katz

Something like this, for instance. — Olivier5

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So the best we can do is to accept that there are two objective realities. — Hillary

The next master stroke of Putin is to revive the Russian car manufacturing industry and the much-ridiculed Moskvich sedan. Lessons in how to re-animated a corpse. — Wayfarer

Maybe you could start providing claims (the more the better) that others can then go out and check? — jorndoe

The mere telling is no proof no. But the experience is. — Hillary

Wittgenstein overhears someone saying “5, 1, 4, 1, 3. Done.”
He asks what that was about, and they respond that they just finished reciting π backward.
“But, how old are you?”
“Infinitely old. I never started, but have been at it forever and finally finished.”

3. therefore there is no space for any further events because infinity can't be used in mathematical operations. (Hillbert hotel problem) — SpaceDweller

if one begins an argument by assuming what is to be proved, this implies that argument is "deductive"? — jgill

• Dmitry Gorelov     • Nikolay Tokarev  • Sergei Ivanov
• Leonid Tyagachyov  • Viktor Ivanov    • Nikolai Patrushev
• Viktor Medvedchuk  • Viktor Zolotov   • Alexander Bortnikov
• Yakov Kedmi        • Alexei Sedov     • Sergey Chemezov
• Yury Kovalchuk     • Dmitry Rogozin

want an aggression punished — Olivier5

Yeah, America's history in South America is a disgrace. Quite something else to have first (or second) hand experience though. — Isaac

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-says-us-military-plane-violated-its-airspace-2021-07-23/ — Isaac

Suppose NATO was to close up — thought experiment