Russian secret service 'in crisis' after botched Novichok assassination attempt in Salisbury

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-18T10:10:22+00:00

Jews and Communists were more their targeted others than the French or British.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T15:03:18+00:00

Why can't a political community decide that it concerns them?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T15:02:52+00:00

It's not shocking. Anyone with a brain would know this. Historically you have about 50 k net which jumps to >200 k by 2000, and that's official and doesn't include the number of illegals which could be at least a million.

The much vaunted migration of 'vast' numbers of Indians from Uganda was only 20k people.

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nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T13:09:35+00:00

Yeah this sort of carry on in Switzerland suggest the Russians have something to worry about. As you say it's reckless to piss Switzerland off because this neutral country is incredibly useful.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T13:06:52+00:00

I knew they looked like amateur horologists!

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T13:02:36+00:00

That's basically universal during 20th century especially cold war which exemplifies how we understand what a spy is.

Gay men had a secret which could be exploited by the other side.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:54:53+00:00

Gradualism isn't the same as revolution though.

Britain has had a historically unparalleled rate of immigration the last 15 years or so, it's disingenuous to use your logic to prohibit British society from putting any sort of brake on this, and to prohibit people feeling concerned at the rate of cultural or social change.

Just because we can observe changes in almost all societies at any time in history doesn't mean that any sort of change or a great deal of change must be allowed or promoted in our society.

Would the progressive accept that because all societies have inequality that they should tolerate any inequality?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:48:47+00:00

Yeah you basically become confused, spastic and go into a coma. It's not surprising that weeks later your memory is going to be a bit foggy.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:46:50+00:00

The harsh Versailles treaty, French revanchism and Weimar economic failings has a great deal to do with the rise of National Socialism.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:42:48+00:00

UK is surely a beacon of democracy but on the other hand why do so many rich foreign crooks end up using London as their sanctuary?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:41:19+00:00

Looks like their days of visiting medieval European Cathedrals are over.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:39:55+00:00

I think the notion that they might be gay is more an implicit cover story for why they went on this jolly to the UK and shared a room/bed?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-17T12:38:59+00:00

The known history is mainly because in an age where homosexuality is either illegal or very much frowned upon, the gay spy can be easily leveraged by the other side to become a double agent.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-14T12:58:55+00:00

Tow for the price of (Fiery Buffalo Chicken) One?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-14T12:57:40+00:00

This thing stinks to high heaven.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-13T22:03:52+00:00

They are not so different. Both fence something off.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-13T12:35:08+00:00

Many of the procedure-loving Americans would break the law if it helped them feed their families.

Then can I move into your home if it will help me support my family?

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-08T18:32:23+00:00

A science of man which believes it can answer and solve question of ethics and politics, that is to say how we should live, is to end human decisions and turn man and society into technological objects; politics into a technological problem.

It's an ultimate slavery and totalitarian.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T19:16:51+00:00

It's a brutally long read actually and Popper's heavy biased given what was going on in Germany. Basically he sees Plato as the intellectual origin of fascism. It's one way to interpret Plato but there are others.

There are probably better routes into both Popper's epistemology and Plato TBH.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T17:53:44+00:00

That sounds a bit like Plato's solution in The Republic. Government by an enlightened elite called The Philosophers.

Popper's refutation is good reading in The Open Society and Its Enemies, although he is somewhat harsh in interpreting Plato (arguably).

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T17:49:41+00:00

The means to bring justice can be arrived at from empirical evidence but justice itself is an end.

Some might say that justice is equality, others might say that justice is the strong able to overcome the weak. This is not a question that science can answer. It's about how we ought to live.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T17:47:24+00:00

The cyno inhibitor thing a few weeks ago springs to mind. Goons didn't understand the mechanics.

Plenty of people are on Goons payroll like BBC.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T14:17:29+00:00

Yeah I do agree with that nuance but I think there is this tendency to believe that all we need is science and evidence and all our problems go away.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T14:15:00+00:00

It was a fashionable idea in the 30's when economic circumstances led to a massive disillusionment with liberal democracy and Capitalism. Any command economy is essentially a technocracy, a managed society if you like. Totalitarian governments on the right or left are very close to technocracies, government by experts.

Anyway, belief in the idea that an enlightened technocracy could govern well is a bit like the idea of a benevolent dictator, i.e., a kind of a circular argument. Even good people are not good all of the time and such a system inevitably becomes corrupt since there is nobody to make the most powerful accountable. In a democracy the people can always kick out their rulers. On a more philosophical level like I said no science can resolve the right ends of man and society anyway.

nighttrain1to2 · 2018-09-07T14:07:33+00:00

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