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I've always thought that 'war crimes' is a ridiculous expression Not really, where there is an unprovoked deliberate act that causes physical or psychological harm to men women and children, including damage to or loss of someone else's property they've propbably spent years and years, and shed pin...

Why would Ukraine want to join NATO anyway? It must have known it would provoke him. How would the US feel if Russia had military bases on the order between the US and Canada? And that's exactly what the fucking US does--plant its fucking military bases everywhere it can. Still, seems odd that just...

I'm not interested in Trump here, but I have to say I find that comment hilarious. So...Putin doesn't invade anybody while Trump's president. Then Biden becomes president, and he "becomes emboldened" invades Ukraine. Which is Trump's fault. :lol: Very, very entertaining. And IF you actual...

Note that the present war with Ukraine is based upon Putin recognizing how Trump's rightwing strategy and cons have worked to appeal to stupid people and hides accountability. I'm not interested in Trump here, but I have to say I find that comment hilarious. So...Putin doesn't invade anybody while ...

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 5:25 am Just start with making volunatary euthanasia easy and accessible from a certain age. I'm sure many elderly would take it up happily. You shouldn't have to be at death's door.

...from this segment of the first episode:
Fry Meets Bender in Suicide Booth

Nurana Rajabova looks for a way of seeing time as if from the outside. https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Exploring_Time ... All one has to do is just work out and know what 'time', itself, is exactly, and then the so-called 'nature of time' is also known, and well understood. By the way, why do ...

:lol: ∀N ∈ (even whole numbers greater than 2) ∃x ∈ Prime_Numbers ∃y ∈ Prime_Numbers | (x + y = N) Unless there exists a sequence of steps that confirm that each N is a sum of two primes (AKA a proof) then the Goldbach conjecture is false. Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott Copyright 2022 Age :lol: Copyrigh...

∀N ∈ (even whole numbers greater than 2) ∃x ∈ Prime_Numbers ∃y ∈ Prime_Numbers | (x + y = N) Unless there exists a sequence of steps that confirm that each N is a sum of two primes (AKA a proof) then the Goldbach conjecture is false. Copyright 2022 Pete Olcott The conjecture, like many in math/logi...

Should we stop using war as population culling of our young people? For most of our Godless history, governments and religions have used war to reduce the population of their unruly men and women. This is understandable for those times, as tribes, governments and religions would have wanted to redu...

Well, you know it's true. It's only in 100% of the cases that have ever existed. Oh, and hey...here's another. BLM, an organization claiming to represent the poor and oppressed, an organization whose founders and original member pride themselves as "trained Marxists" (their term), has rec...

Example 3: Commercials/Informercials that sell to us product that assert being made at home but presented in dollars of a country that generally has a higher dollar worth. Example, a product sold as "Canadian Made X....$19.99 USD " when the exchange rate adjusted turns this into (?) say, $...

Example 2: for how capitalism imposes harm... A belief that it is FAIR to utilize intentional deception upon others in order to profit from another. While simply stated, there are too many instances that qualify. In general, advertising, media ownership rights (any 'media', like owning tranportation...

Example of how Socialists impose harm upon the poor directly... North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Albania, Cuba, Russia, China, and every other Socialist society that has ever existed. Now it's also Canada, the USA, Great Britain...because to the measure that the Socialists hold ...

A "government" is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state." This means that even if we had your ideal by contrast, all we would have is a PRIVATE government run by your ideal of superiority : those with capital. What do you believe it is now?...

Example of how Socialists impose harm upon the poor directly... North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Albania, Cuba, Russia, China, and every other Socialist society that has ever existed. Now it's also Canada, the USA, Great Britain...because to the measure that the Socialists hold ...