Pleasant Politics

Only briefly eclipsed by individuals like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Kissinger.

To anyone who disagrees, please name three nations whose democratically elected leader has been couped in favour of some corrupt tyrant that was more than happy to sell out his country to US interests for power.

Once you have named three, I'd like to know from you how many coups a nation can execute before it becomes a terrorist nation. No wrong answers. Name whatever number you are comfortable with.

Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”