Trump: “Trade wars are easy to win..” not verbatim, is he right?Big Questions to ask: China: if the gov, is ready for any trade war, why the silence or not tit for tat on the latest tariffs? EU:

I don't understand any of this. Either (as in CA and NY) ex-cons are supposed to be allowed to work or they are not supposed to be allowed to work. Pick a lane.   I don't understand the laws

I will keep it short and very simple. Dear Amerika! You deserve what you get.Your citizens are keep whining about the CHANGE,yet they vote for the same ol' same ol'... Look at all the names who made through

I am having a burqa discussion with some friends following the recent ban in Denmark and I feel I’m the one being a d*ck for once. So I guess I’m here to ask what would be your arguments? Personally, I

When one of the mightiest, best equipped and trained army on a planet choose their main enemy to be children; when by means of preventing terrorist attacks soldiers are arresting, shooting, harassing

I am looking for feedback on them (how they might be incorrect, short-sighted, unhelpful, etc.).: Perspectival realism - human knowledge is contingent based on the limitations of our perspectives. There

Dishonest people with money and power usually stay in power. The cases where they do not are outliers: and not the norm. This is because people tend to talk themselves into liking those they think they

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It's often that pride is such a useless thing. Too often people do not recognize the reality of the real distribution of power and systems around them and between people. They learn about it after they

You make money with Steemit only if: -you are an extremely talented writer,artist etc. and your posts are very professional (which is not the case for 90% of the users) -you have huge amount of money to

There is a very widespread idea (promoted by celebrated thinkers like Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss or Michael Shermer) that cognitive bias evolved due to the fact that, in the African Savanna, your

Today I realized the most effective way to purport myself in the world or social activity is to present myself as an apatheist. Meaning if someone asks me an open or closed question about my belief I say

Sensitivity training. I hear that being called for a lot these days. I have a different idea, how about resilience training? I think that would be much more practical. Instead of getting offended and working

No,this is not a joke,we are doomed! Seriously what's next?? Stormy Daniels as head of the NASA?? Article here:

First stage would be a pretty simple trade, giving victory for both sides. North Korea agrees to stop further development on a nuclear bomb and stop missile development and testing. North Korea gets to

No one storm proves climate change. Climate models don't necessarily predict more frequent storms, but the warming oceans predict larger storms. Looking at Irma and Harvey side by side with past big storms,

Some basic facts: UK wage growth and productivity growth has been the worst in 200+ years; austerity has been linked with 120,000 excess deaths; the number of adults with unmet care needs has increased

Northern Ireland hasn't had a government for nearly 18 months now. The assembly has not met, and direct rule from Westminster has not been instituted. It's being run by the civil service on a day to day

In the Middle East (especially its monarchic yard) human rights aren’t God-given or unalienable, indeed, they aren’t rights at all. They are crumbs of imperial benevolence, cookie points sparingly awarded

To those of us who intimately understand how messed up our current monetary system is, Bitcoin becoming the world reserve currency is an inevitability. Something else may eventually supplant it, but it's