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Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:37 am No, you're right: I don't. They aren't.

Great. You're not a slippery slope fanatic.

So, it's great that you don't even consider these states socialist, so presumably similar policies could be put in place in the US with it being called socialism, to you. This sets you apart from many conservatives in the US. Actually even from many liberals, if not most. It's not so great. You sai...

I don't know which to "accept" as true. Wouldn't your conclusion then have to be that nobody has any way of knowing God? Or would you suppose that maybe some might, but you don't know who they'd be? That's exactly my position. And here's another thing. I don't know if Jesus was God incarn...

Right. They have social programs of a limited kind, but they fund them off free enterprise. In Norway, for example, oil is the major source of wealth that allows them to keep their programs going. Denmark's market is actually more free, in relation to things like small business, than is the US. The...

Yes, that's true. You can criticize free markets without ending up in a gulag. Would that Socialism were the same. But what's more common is that the Socialists insist that their way doesn't HAVE to lead to economic collapse, murder, gulags and the end of freedoms, whereas in reality, that's exactl...

Remember that you only have two options ... capitalism or gulags, mass murder, the end of all freedoms. Choose wisely! "Capital" is just money. It's not an "-ism." Nobody worships it. It has no creed, ideology, manifesto or clubs. What you mean is free markets, I think. As for &...

phyllo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2026 2:16 pm Remember that you only have two options ... capitalism or gulags, mass murder, the end of all freedoms.

Choose wisely!

I've often asked: which capitalism? You know, getting the ground rules out there clear.

If truth and falsity are but distinctions and the relationship of said truth and falsity is but a distinction then knowledge results in a holographic process of distinctions occuring. In these respects truth and falsity are subject to distinction processes by which they are not the ultimate occuren...

Please, tell me why slavery is wrong. Because it diminishes and undermines the abilities, self-confidence, strength and intelligence of the slave-owners. They become dependent, just like any receiver of welfare, on the work of others. The moment they own a slave, they start atrophying and slide tow...

One step would be to go back to the founders conceptions of corporate charters. That they were a privilege that could be revoked if the corporation went again public interest, committed crimes, etc. A return to this idea, which should be considered conservative, would put corporations on notice that...

I not anti-corporate or anti-bank, but I'm just tired of being harrassed all the time by them in a million different ways we are all aware of. I am tired of banks and other financial institutions figuring out how to make money without producing anything, while dominating supposed democratic processe...

It is often said that too much of anything is a bad thing. I do not believe this to be true. I do not see how there can bee too much wisdom. I do not see how there can be too much goodness. I do not see how there can be too much knowledge. Let's look at knowledge. I think one could have too much kn...

Actually 90% of the time I am merely using AI to be my echo-chamber, i.e. I already have the answers to the questions especially those related to Kant and I often have to update AI with Kantian truth rather than AI reliance on what it is trained on. I don't focus on using AI to reason for me but ra...

AI can "Think", Reason and Infer Autonomously within the limits it is programmed. Most posters undermined and underestimate the abilities of LLMs AI based on deep learning, thus ignored and missed out on the possible positive contribution to their knowledge based. I use AIs often. There a...

The Framework and System of Knowledge [ FSK ] approach is more nuanced and advanced than the Philosophical Realists' approach which based an absolutely mind-independent reality. And here we have a whopping category error. Philosophical realism and FSKs are not in the same category and one cannot be...