It's been explained to you multiple times that correct usage is determined by consensus for certain facts, such as social facts, and for definitions o...
No, we can say it is a fact that he is President. A social fact to be precise, which comes into being through consensus. And calling that an argumentu...
I may have made the original post a bit concise. And it's based on an idea that could probably do with more explication. But it is essentially all in ...
1) New pronouns won't take off, so even if I had any political or aesthetic objections to them, it wouldn't matter in the bigger picture. 2) I general...
I think @"Terrapin Station"'s idea is cute. Now I get to say it's just an argumentum ad populum to claim that Donald Trump is president of the US. Lik...
I think it should function as the converse of a necessary apology that's accepted with the condition of necessity being negated. As in: A: "I really m...
Examples of available solutions: People love their mothers. Writers must carefully proofread their writing. All people are created equal. Let's ask th...
Dear Donny, Roses are red, Violets are blue, Your hair is silky soft and your skin a pretty hue, Please can I have lotsa nukes an' I'll write more poe...
*Shrug* I don't see any reason to worry about a president who is going to let a psychopathic dictator continue to develop nuclear weapons because he w...
Ok, they deserve our support FWIW. Which probably isn't much. And let's face it, leaving us plebs aside, the wider world is very unlikely to do anythi...
It's modern East Asian state capitalism with a fascist smile (the PR term being 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'). The closest system is proba...
China does care about brand China, which is why, for example, it actively denies the existence of these, but it cares even more about control and quas...
Don't agree with this conservative writer a whole lot, but his comments in this article (from 2008) are still current and worth reading. http://www.ae...
I do relish anyone sticking the boot into the wigged one, but until Moscow Mitch and his cronies decide they have more to lose than gain with crass ap...
The Chinese strategy in Hong Kong has been to 'boil the frog', to gradually turn up the heat on democratic institutions and personal freedoms until th...
Thought so. See my edit. And I'd forgotten I'd previously registered. But it's worth the two minutes to have that site at your disposal if you're a la...
It's both a verb and a noun. Results here though https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/ do suggest you yanks predominantly use it as a noun. Edit: Mayb...
Incidentally, I did once chase a guy away from a bike because I thought he was stealing it though he had no tools that I remember. Maybe it really was...
The experiment fails because they didn't have the subjects doing the same thing—it's conceivable that the hacksawing looked more suspicious in itself ...
What are you on about? You didn't create anything. You posted a diagram of a known chemical compound. You know what discussion you're in right? https:...
The shame orientation is corrupted by a kind of empty disavowal ("Look at me, I'm ashamed of my privilege. Can you leave me alone to enjoy it now?") o...
Not only is it the compromise, it's the compromise BoJo voted for when he thought he couldn't be blamed for it by the Brextremists. Now that it's his ...
You're kind of all over the place with this. I get it you like your country. It's just maybe not as superior as you think. But I'm not going to waste ...
But in order to have any responsibility for causing someone to do something, you literally have to physically grab their body and move it around. Kind...
You and your parents might consider educating yourselves on the wider world. The US certainly has its good points, but on most quality-of-life indicat...
It's worth drawing a firm distinction between appropriacy and utility here. One does not necessitate the other. Feeling a mixture of anger and indigna...
Suppose you have a young child and while you are out with them, a random stranger comes up and slaps that child in the face. You are outraged. Suppose...
@"Hanover" Clearly, Hitler did nothing wrong. It was all just talk. The world we need is one where psychopaths and killers rather than have to do thei...
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