Mel Vil

Faust enters the chat.

He may not be welcome🇨🇭

I will trade some of my iq points for money.

My point was that regardless of nationalist values, the capitalist ones may have developed according to a different process. Who’s to say? It’d interesting and valuable to understand, however.

I’m also looking at him being “originally a socialist journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI)”. Guess he was confused!

I don’t doubt it. I was referring to his choice of name.

Anything can become scarce, if you have enough money to buy up all the surplus.

Please help me! How do I choose between being liked and telling the truth?

If Russia has even an iota of control over its armed forces, it would be doing better in achieving its objectives!

Historically speaking fascism grew out of trade unions in Italy (fasci are the symbol of the guilds). It only later became associated with the right wing.

Question is whether sales would improve without the poster boy.

Goodreads is on its way out anyway. They haven’t updated the software since I don’t remember when and now it’s being stripped of DMs and support for links and images.

There’s plenty of scandal. What’s changed is that scandals mean nothing.

At long last!

A real disadvantage to being lonely is becoming exposed to some really nasty people online.

I’m convinced!

No more democracy for you!

It’s odd how ‘having a take’ has replaced ‘having a thought’.

Most opinions now feel like fast fashion: made cheap, worn loudly, and discarded the moment the timeline moves on.

Fukuyama enters the chat

Good luck 🍀

It’s a Gordian knot. The way out is truth and reconciliation combined with amnesty. A little bit of justice goes a long way.

It’s been a long time coming! For four decades a Swiss company sold encryption technology to the world’s embassies. It was recently revealed that the US had had a skeleton key enabling them to read everything all along.

Capture all the material you want!

Maybe the rules will change before the end of the game 🤷

This is group dynamics sadly. Alliances and adversaries are continually evolving and are subject to the rules of game theory.

The danger with all good satire is that it hardens into dogma.

You do realise how spying is bad for foreign relations to begin with, right?

Western culture seems to be alone (not to mention divided) in believing it can overcome racism.

The damage was already done. Call it a coup de grace?!

That’s hardly remarkable. When has it ever been abnormal for people to hide these things?

Want some sauce with that?