Blaise Pascal
@BlaisePascal74
One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in ruining one's life, and nothing is more proper.
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"But for all of its engagement of bodily responses, disgust is also an emotion that is at work in creating and sustaining our social and cultural reality". AK
"Generally resistant to engaging in conflicts" but always ends up supporting engagement in every conflict. Hilarious
BREAKING: The people who did this to Gaza are deeply concerned that Iran might have broken international humanitarian law
This seems quite sensible, and it is not from a soppy ultra-liberal weakling conservative, such as I am.
I’m a Marine Corp veteran, trained by LEOs when I served in US embassies on how to handle unruly individuals or protestors. 1) If you are the guys with guns, you are the ones responsible for the situation. Doubly so if you outnumber the person you’re engaging. 2) You do not…
Those insisting that might makes right and that it is weakness to raise moral concerns are essentially taking the side of Callicles over the Socrates of Plato’s Gorgias. Hence, while they pretend they are defending the best of the Western tradition, in fact they are betraying it.
Scrutiny has revealed the assisted dying bill’s terminal failings thetimes.com/article/863186…
Let's be honest about what happens if Reform wins the next general election. Within thirty minutes of Prime Minister Farage kissing hands with HM the King and entering Number 10, shortly after he writes The Letter to the Trident sub captains, the Permanent Secretary to the…
Just re-watching Nadhim Zahawi's speech "Immigration is good for Britain" in which he argues immigration is great and reducing it is a terrible idea. youtube.com/watch?v=VaAjSc…
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Let me take you back to an interesting event from 2018. The then FM of Austria extended a casual wedding invitation to Vladimir Putin during her diplomatic visit to Moscow. She never imagined he would take it seriously as it was just a courtesy invitation, not an expectation.…
Kierkegaard: “Wherever the crowd is, there is untruth…since a crowd either renders the single individual wholly unrepentant and irresponsible, or weakens his responsibility by making it a fraction of his decision… The crowd is untruth. There is therefore no one who has more…
It is one of the marks of this strange era that people have to be eccentric in order to do the most obvious and human things.
.@sues86453. I also do not share many of the late Ms Good’s views, attitudes etc. But did I miss the part which explains why this makes it all right for her to be shot dead on the street?
This was written by someone, not me. But sums it up pretty well, what was she thinking? I’m a mother, so I’m going to comment right now. I will say this exactly the way a mother thinks it, raw, direct, and without pretending this is complicated. A 37-year-old woman. Three kids.…
This fight for culture is above all a fight for consciousness: what some call self-consciousness: but anyhow against mere subconsciousness. We need a rally of really human things: will which is morals, memory which is tradition, culture which is the mental thrift of our fathers.
This is indeed a question that Europeans should think long and hard about: why has integrating Russia into regional frameworks produced security and low military budgets in Asia, while excluding Russia has produced the opposite in Europe? Very striking to see that over the past…
Why Central Asia, squeezed as it is between Russia and China, is stable while Eastern Europe isn’t? A thought-provoking piece by Naman Habtom of Quincy Institute. Yeah, really - why Mongolia is democratic and unthreatened despite bordering Russia and China only, while the only…
The British constitution is exceptionally well engineered for the enactment of legislation that commands public support. A party puts it in its manifesto. First-past-the-post allows that party, if a large section of the public truly supports its proposals, to gain a majority. The…
An excellent leader in today’s Times. It’s constitutionally legitimate for the House of Lords to vote down the assisted suicide bill. That this badly drafted law is coming a cropper in the upper house is because of the government’s refusal to take responsibility.
#OnThisDay 162 years ago, the SER opened its line from London Bridge to Charing Cross, where we see the 50m span of John Hawkshaw's roof which famously collapsed in 1905. There was also an intermediate station at Blackfriars, opposite today's Southwark Tube. @NetworkRailCHX
There is no constitutional convention requiring the House of Lord to pass this Bill.
The Leader of the House of Commons has now advised that the idea of carrying the bill to the next session is not possible, so I urge the Lords to enact the will of the elected chamber. That is the constitutional convention. 👇 mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/a…
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Public opinion is in favour of Assisted Dying Bill. It seems too that a majority of peers want Assisted Dying Bill to be thoroughly scrutinised and then get sent back to Commons. It is therefore not “The Lords” which is blocking the Bill, but a minority of peers who are…
I don't kike to say this, but I think this kind of extreme "moralistic emotivism" is simply the secularization of a certain very easily recognizable strain of American protestant religiosity.
Just ... staggering. This police chief is weeping over the fact that the feds arrested two illegals who tried to run down Border Patrol agents. Weeping! What is going on in America? Is this what living in Portland does to one? Is this what Floydmania did to cops?
The ironic thing about this video, apparently showing a woman arrested for feeding pigeons, is that, statistically speaking, given known Yookay crime data, there would have been at least three incidents of unpunished shoplifting and one sexual assault going on in the background.
Nothing to see here, just a leaked proposal exposing a failed Hungarian politician using his position as an EU civil servant to engineer a years-long electoral plot to remove Orban Read the EU project proposal outlining the plan for “resistance against the Orban regime”👇
EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, leaked files show @KitKlarenberg exposes an influential European Union bureaucrat's secret plot to topple the leader of an EU member state who's challenged the Ukraine proxy war thegrayzone.com/2026/01/10/eu-…
American nationalism is the most self-conscious in the world, just as English nationalism is the most unconscious in the world.
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