castlefreak

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by castlefreak 2y ago
Cheney comes to mind.
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by castlefreak 2y ago
Have you spoken to any Moscovites about living standards recently? Like this is so stupid. I would not trade for Russia's brutal treatment of dissidents but we don't exactly have a great record on that front in Western countries…
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by castlefreak 2y ago
My country had a coup in 2014 in order to install a leader friendly to US intel agencies. "Freedoms" were already flimsy.
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by castlefreak 2y ago
RT or TASS URL would improve this argument.
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by castlefreak 2y ago
I actually agree that it was a planned dressing down for optics sakes but the attempt is to try to get Zelenskyy out of the way for Trump / Putin direct deal to settle Ukraine matter and the success of this strategy will depend on whet
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by castlefreak 2y ago
Rhetorical moves are the primary vehicle of politics. You say something and people resonate with your message. You believe frivious "claims around heritage" are not deeply meaningful to people. Do you truly believe that should art
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by castlefreak 2y ago
Peter was more sober thinker (probably literally and figuratively). Christopher was a better speaker, probably a better author but as I get older I realise how much more correct Peter was and still is.
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by castlefreak 2y ago
How do you prevent post-tribalism from becoming yet another tribe?
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by castlefreak 2y ago
I hopped out of being a good Marxist when I realised that there was absolutely no room for dissent. You basically are just a empty vessel for activist praxis. In other words, you do as you are told. Also, there aren't really compelling
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by castlefreak 2y ago
The problem of our time is simply that the fruits of the global economy are distributed extremely poorly (jet set global urban intelligentsia isn't big enough) and there is no room for any nativistic or religious culture (call it spiri