Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Cat and Girl) Mexico City All Over Again
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Super good at that
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(QC RSS) Always Specify
good job Iris
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Plea for Ceasefire and Hostage Exchange by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael P. Yes to much of that. It’s forgotten how much of their military is tied down on occupation duty in the West Bank, fighting unarmed or lightly armed civilians. I have seen them in action. Their indiscipline is more obvious than the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Very Close to the Madding Crowd by butimbeautiful
In reply to John Davenport. It seems that no solution satisfies all parties. Some people would rather fight, because that’s their whole raison d’etre. Same thing with the IRA in Ireland; when the fighting stops so does the power and the kic…
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(Policy of Truth) Health Facilities and Human Shields
It’s frequently asserted as an unchallengeable axiom that Hamas uses health facilities as a base of military operations, so that Israel is forced–by Hamas’s callous, murderous use of human shields–to target these facilities. I’m very skeptical of this claim, but let me set that particular skepticism aside for now. Consider this item below, which comes…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Epistemology of Mass Death by butimbeautiful
I notice that whatever the effect of the whole thing is intended to be… shock and awe I guess… it’s not making Israel very popular, and probably increasing anti semitism more generally. Although maybe thats an observation based on the…
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(Policy of Truth) The Epistemology of Mass Death
Does the item below reflect a good faith attempt to avoid civilian casualties, or does it express a cynical, murderous attempt to demand the impossible, then set up a pretext for the mass killing of large swatches of north Gaza (in principle all of it)–and as much of south Gaza as Israel chooses to hit,…
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(QC RSS) Time To Unwind
He’s probably a crypto bro
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Very Close to the Madding Crowd by John Davenport
As I have said to students and family members during the last two weeks, with little reply from the former, there are at least five different and important topics related to Israel – Gaza – Palestine that it may be helpful to keep partly di…
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