He specifically says that the ideology that drove Mao from his beginnings to his psychopathic — Mr Phil O'Sophy

The fact that government guns would be used to confiscate citizens guns is a non starter. — ArguingWAristotleTiff

David Harvey — fdrake

And yet you are hitting all the usual propaganda bullet-points. Historical claims and grievances are always brought up to justify wars and invasions. Crimea was not Russian land before it was absorbed by the Russian Empire (with help from Ukrainian Cossacks), and it was not majority Russian until Stalin's ethnic cleansings. We could go back and forth like this endlessly - but what's the point? None of this justifies Russian aggression in this particular instance. Taking advantage of the turmoil in a neighboring country to stealthily invade part of its territory with troops, special forces and civilian thugs, overthrow the local government, close down or take over non-compliant media, intimidate or kidnap dissidents, hastily stage a "referendum" with fabricated results - I say that is wrong, whatever else may have been the case historically or contemporaneously. — SophistiCat

The law, in other words, should be adapted to track the cultural shifts demanded by #MeToo. Proponents of affirmative consent argue that sexual partners should actively seek clear signs of consent throughout a sexual encounter. ‘Consent is sexy,’ we are told. When a woman alleges an assault, we should believe her. The burden should shift to the defendant to show that he took reasonable steps in the circumstances to ascertain her consent.

I think there is a wave of anti-intellectualism through the world - not just in America - but also in Europe, Russia, China, etc. because intellectuals have failed to provide an alternative to the collapsing world-order of the West - intellectuals have failed to steer us in the right direction or, for that matter, to provide practical solutions to the "everyday" problems that we encounter. — Agustino

But except for perhaps Germany in the 19th Century, that doesn't typically happen. — ssu

Says who, the financiers who make money by stealing from those who produce, the money changers and the leeches of society who suck those who are actually productive dry? — Agustino

But all that goes out the window if it's simply a fact that (to take the racial angle) Jews are on average smarter than Asians, who are on average smarter than Whites, who are on average smarter than Browns, who are on average smarter than Blacks, and if these groups on average have strongly-genetically-influenced inclinations to different kinds of social interaction —

Hey, if you start up something, I'd love to invest in whatever you are able to create.

I haven't been approved by Gemini for some reason. Taking a long time. — Posty McPostface

While today’s meeting made for great TV, the gun-control proposals discussed would make for bad policy that would not keep our children safe. Instead of punishing law-abiding gun owners for the acts of a deranged lunatic our leaders should pass meaningful reforms that would actually prevent future tragedies.