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If you choose those goals over rule of law, human rights, and the peaceful transfer of government to competing parties then that stuff probably sounds great to you. But I don't think 'national prestige' is valuable enough to hoard up a pile of political prisoners, and I don't think that is even pre...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2017 2:39 pm tyranny by any other name...

-Imp

First of all, the leader of a national socialist nation does not have to be a tyrant. A communist state has a tyrant.

National socialism is the combination of the right ( nationalism) and the left (socialism), what it is trying to achieve is the nationalist goal (unity, national prestige and strength), it recognize capitalism yet use state socialism to balance different social class to achieve this nationalist goa...

National socialism, previously known as 'Nazism' is hated because of its anti-Semitism and national expansionism. However, If Winston Churchill lived long enough to visited Russia and China to experience this new form of national socialism in the year 2017 he probably would not say 'Democracy is the...

I don't know whether this experience of mine is wired or not: Whenever I want to read a difficult book (usually a book containing hard maths) , I will go to the bus stop to wait for a bus, and minutes later a bus arrives and I board the bus and walk straight to the back end of the bus and take the s...

If women ruled the world? Jesus Christ, they can't even rule a household. All they do is complain about not getting promoted or paid as much as men. You might as well ask what if up were down? If you went to China in the year 1966 to 1970 and you said those things in public you would be sent to a r...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/01/the-kingdom-of-women-the-tibetan-tribe-where-a-man-is-never-the-boss?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-2 I have visited Tibet several times, those nineteen century descriptions of the Tibetan society is indeed funny especially considering how patriarchal Tibet...

Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:39 am

Above us only sky wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:08 am well, i'm not that narcissistic as you think

I think he meant that if you want to study yourself a mirror would be a good piece of equipment with which to observe your subject.

i found most game addicts are guys, why is that?

i like playing computer game, but i often found myself 'overplaying' it. for example, i plan to play the game on only on saturday but i will found myself playing it from saturday to sunday. whenever i enter my own room and see my computer i will have the urge to play it. did you experience something...

well, i'm not that narcissistic as you think

Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:11 am get a mirror...

-Imp

what do you mean?

hHow to make a good self_study plan? Recently i am in a long vocation and i plan to use this holiday as a self study period, but i find it difficult to make a self study plan because first of all i don't know what book is important and what is not since there are so many books in a library, and rand...

You do understand that if you demonstrate cause then the correlation is redundant right? The correlation is this: For a nation state (note here I did not include small city state here) under normal circumstances ( no major foreign threats, no major economic crisis), as population grows and society ...

Now you are just babbling complete gibberish again. You've lost control of yourself. ..... [some more silliness].... Sorry, you just lost my attention now. Try to keep your arguments coherent. For us to have a proper philosophical discuss, you have to drop the stereotype that authoritarianism is an...