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We wouldn't need to tell them, they know. The radical elements in Iraq who actually perpetrated the violence in pursuit of extremism are responsible for the violence. There is a re…

It was not the US that perpetrated the violence after it toppled Saddam. It was the radical elements within Iraq. They're the ones that bear responsibility.

Tell that to the Kurds and other persecuted minorities who were tortured and killed en masse by Saddam.

The relative loss of life due to war and occurrence of war around the world since 1945 is far lower than at any other point in human history. This is directly due to the US acting …

The US gives more aid around the world than any other country on Earth. The US has been an advocate and global protector of human rights and civil freedoms around the world for ove…

Which in itself is one of the biggest rationales for developing such a system. The Fed really has a third unspoken directive: maintain dollar supremacy.

Completely false on all points. If you want to equate prisons for lawbreakers with concentration camps for political prisoners there's no further discussion we can have.

Anyone who hasn't realized that this is about more than economics is deluding themselves. This is about a struggle for global supremacy between two nations with wildly different vi…

Hatred and murder has always existed! The idea that online discussion forums create or foment hatred is laughable. That hatred has always been out there. Now people just have a pla…

I'll be very clear about what I want. I want companies that facilitate speech to be forced to tolerate all legal speech on their platforms. It's that simple. In the 1700's, when we…

But don't you see how the lines blue very quickly? It's not always as clear where morality lies as when some lunatic posts terroristic threats. Arbitrary value judgements must be m…

So you're willing to give unchecked control of online discourse to a private corporation?

The only value in superficial diversity (the sort of diversity most valued in the West today) is that of a signal: signifying that there isn't any discrimination going on. Aside fr…