Baden

We're evolved to prefer jogging? :ok:

And rhetoric: Rhetoric is a style of speech or writing that makes use of a set of explicit linguistic tools to persuade. Can you rephrase the question...

Here's my one line def: Propaganda is (mis)information framed to foster bias in favor of a power structure or ideology.

No, read again.

And an essentially fitness-oriented mindset in one sense highlights our ability to move our body. But to look to biology to explain fitness fads would...

Propaganda is a type of information. Rhetoric is a style of speech or writing. They overlap where the mode is speech or writing, the style is persuasi...

Ok, if we could all just calm down. :hearts: @"TheMadFool" Necessary conditions aren't always explanatory. Legs don't explain why people like jogging ...

Dems and Dem media. Muppets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHDsaViTUvo

We're macro-scale here. Overall aggression levels in cultures vary for cultural not genetic reasons.

You're not identifying the roots of racism or offering any explanation for it. You're only identifying some basic biological faculties that serve as n...

Heidegger's problem re technology and the way it obscures concernful relations with beings and in doing so obscures Being itself is interesting. His "...

Very simple. If McConnell and Trump fail to block Bolton testifying, Trump is toast. If they manage it, he probably isn't. But as some have pointed ou...

Racism is learned cultural behavior. At most what you'll find encoded in the genes is some preference for the familiar. Babies don't like to be surpri...

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I feel almost as sorry for him as I do for Trump who just wanted to stop corruption around the globe and was forced to arrange a smear of his biggest ...

Glad everyone's having fun.

There's a whole moderation team. I am only one of them

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/480/site-guidelines "The above guidelines are in place to help us maintain a high standard of discussion and...

Banned @"iolo" for refusing moderation.

Ok, bye then. Getting back on topic...

Whatever, you'll be banned then. No skin off my nose.

Anyway, excuse me for trying to express a rational thought. I couldn't be further arsed.

Either he was stupid enough to not realise she was mixed race and was just poking fun at royals in general or he was stupid enough to deliberately com...

There will be intense attacks from the MSM, CNN especially. They've already started on a sexism angle. It's going to be tough.

Comparing Zionists to Nazis is an anti-semitic trope and isn't going to fly here anyway. Take it somewhere else.

Since the OP writer has deleted/changed the OP and other substantial posts, closed.

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Oh, I remember now something about him shilling for big tobacco. That was what I objected to most about him and I came down strong on it. What I meant...

If he's "rabid", we've run out of adjectives to describe the alt-right, Trump and so on. I didn't like the guy but he was hardly more than a typical r...

I don't know about all this. But bugger hereditary privilege anyway.

That was a bit too easy. According to my research, there's a good chance it wasn't deliberately racist. You'd have to believe in intentional career su...

We need to get you your own YouTube channel, mate. :naughty: :party:

I can't say for sure what was and wasn't there, but my speculative narrative, if I could be bothered with one, would be as valid as the one in the seg...

:up: :up: Read one of his books once. He was good on Kant. Not so much on contemporary philosophy. And irritating politically. On his death, however, ...

Not in all respects. There was some solid stuff in there. The Daily Mail is for example a horribly nasty right-wing rag, Boris Johnson is racist, blac...

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" Something that gets lost in all this argument of whether Soleimani was a bad enough guy to deserve to die is that Trump execu...

Yes, the MSM mood was, from the start, predominantly celebratory re the relationship. In a stupid patronising way, but, whatever, they were making mon...

After seeing your latest OP on Gwyneth Paltrow, @"Teller", (now deleted for low quality), I am wavering. OPs are not supposed to be a couple of lines ...

@"Teller" is absolutely welcome, but un's comment was apt. Not a big deal, I'm sure @"Teller" has plenty of value to offer the site.

Wish I was there right now. Storm here. (By the way you're in the cool season. It only gets hotter from here on in until about May when the rainy seas...

(And by the way, many of the worst characteristics of politicians, such as being dishonest, he does display while lacking their best ones, such as kno...

I think the problem people have with Trump is the way he behaves, period. Not behaving like a politician sounds good, superficially, seeing as people ...

This discussion is about the US vs Iran; maybe you can repost your question in the dump Trump thread.

Great art is largely unappreciated by the masses and bears shit in woods (until we cut all the trees down to make Danielle Steele paperbacks). C'est l...

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Couldn't be happier that Trump has decided to "stand with" the Iranian people rather than kill them in large numbers. Let's hope it stays that way.

Fair enough.

Your analogy is very wide of the mark. A better one would be your boss shoots your wife and you then shoot someone who calls at your door in the mista...

Yes, Trump has achieved two things for them. 1) Given them an excuse to restart their nuclear program and 2) Shown that he's not willing to go to war ...

The development of full deterrent-level nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran? Until they get them apparently. :grin: Whatever, I'm just happy no-on...