argentier

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by argentier 7d ago
America's too.
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by argentier 16d ago
the phallusy fallacy
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by argentier 2mo ago
Look at the volume of quotations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) by medieval philosophers as a counterpoint.
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by argentier 2mo ago
you could more accurately relate it to the Greek war with the Persians. That's where many of the tropes about Western freedoms vs Eastern tyranny originate. Long before the Latin church was heard of. See Aeschylus' The Persians
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by argentier 2mo ago
That's more of a statement of the 'Plato to NATO' Western civilization meme than anything real.
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by argentier 2mo ago
Newgrange has nothing to do with the Celts: it predates their arrival by several thousand years.
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by argentier 2mo ago
humans are not designed
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by argentier 3mo ago
In Ireland at least local calls were a fixed price, no matter how long the call was. Long-distance calls were billed by the minute.
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by argentier 5mo ago
is that you. Adrian Zenz?
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by argentier 9mo ago
> "The future has lost it's appeal to me" culture is stuck in endless remakes of optimistic 70s futurism it's an important point: we don't have a future, a telos, that doesn't fill us with foreboding
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by argentier 1y ago
Untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews There are between 300 and 350 thousand Jews living in Iran. I presume the other numbers are similarly nonsensical.
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by argentier 1y ago
The Irish spoken in the North West of Ireland (Tir Conaill) is pretty much indistinguishable from Scots Gaedhlig. The real division is between Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) and Brythonic (Welsh, British and Cornish)
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by argentier 1y ago
"properly working lambda expressions were available only in lisp until recently."
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by argentier 2y ago
Chesterton described Aquinas as looking quite like Chesterton. Judging by the name at least half a millenium separates Myron Shibley from Aquinas. Can't it just be a myth, as it seems to hang on a single anecdote? For comparison, the
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by argentier 2y ago
you have the truth - it was cooked up by US Naval Intelligence - why would you think it was safe?
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by argentier 2y ago
safe as it ever was
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by argentier 2y ago
The NSA is about insecurity, not security. They're a SIGINT shop
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by argentier 2y ago
Thanks for that Germany. Won't you take her back and make her Minister for Castles or something,
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by argentier 3y ago
These are simply US talking points, and not very good ones.
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by argentier 3y ago
The Russians were, as they made clear on multiple occasions, threatened by NATO moving into Ukraine and potentially placing missiles close to the Russian heartland.
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by argentier 3y ago
Whatever he arrived with, it changed the plans of the Ukrainian government. I don't see how it removes any agency from Ukraine, or why that would even be a meaningful statement.
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by argentier 3y ago
Sure, Russians are uniquely evil orcs. This is just propaganda for the rubes.
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by argentier 3y ago
Don't be ridiculous. There are interviews with both sources that are available online.
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by argentier 3y ago
he would say that, wouldn't he?
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by argentier 3y ago
"Clarified" -- yes he walked it back under intense pressure. His words were in a long podcast you can listen to.
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by argentier 3y ago
It's about Russian security, not Putin's vanity. Please try to raise the level of discourse beyond the boogyman propaganda so beloved of Hollywood. This is serious, deadly serious, and seeing it treated so lightly is painful.
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by argentier 3y ago
Naftali Bennett (former Israeli premier): https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/russi... Watch the interview if you don't like the source. Ukrainian negotiator David Arahamiya: https:/&
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by argentier 3y ago
Was that when the Georgians caught the Russians by surprise by attacking Russia's protectorates? Took the Russians quite a while to get their act together. Are the aggressors usually caught on the hop?
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by argentier 3y ago
You asserted that the reasons for war were absurd, and you blamed 'macho-ism', which you didn't define. So you go: why are the reasons for wars so absurd? Was machoism the cause of Gulf War 2, or the Ukraine war, to give two
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by argentier 3y ago
The reasons for war are rarely absurd, and are about groups competing for limited resources. Saying it's anything to do with 'macho-ism' (which is certainly nothing like an ideology, if it is anything at all) is smug feminis

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