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I could have gotten ice-cream later, but I want it now: Ergo National Emergency! But then my question is really, can he get away with it (can the cour...
February 16, 2019 at 13:14
:up:
February 16, 2019 at 09:49
Not as much as I should be. If you have a particular recommendation, PM me. Cheers.
February 16, 2019 at 09:47
Yes, without problematizing notions like 'subjective' and 'objective' we get nowhere. And you get folks running back and forth to Wikipedia and quotin...
February 16, 2019 at 09:37
@"Terrapin Station" Any theory that puts you in a position of not being able to count should cause you pause.
February 16, 2019 at 09:23
Not a big fan of the term 'scientism' but certainly the very human need to neatly box up concepts to make them more understandable. Unfortunately, in ...
February 16, 2019 at 09:17
Pity most folks don't understand the importance of this due to their misleadingly reductive definitions of each term. As if a human subject is not con...
February 16, 2019 at 09:03
The road of reason navigates a landscape of values. Different landscapes, different roads. Though it's true some are stuck in ideological potholes, tr...
February 15, 2019 at 21:54
Predictions on how the emergency declaration will play out? (Especially from a legal/constitutional point of view). @"Hanover"? @"Ciceronianus the Whi...
February 15, 2019 at 21:41
Interesting. It always struck me that a good intro into the differences between American and British culture would be to contrast Captain America with...
February 15, 2019 at 19:46
:cool:
February 15, 2019 at 18:38
Then they let this happen. Hypocrites. /uploads/resized/files/w8/7jao245ir13ih4nt.jpg
February 15, 2019 at 18:25
Reminds me of that time when the commies built that fence in Berlin. The Dems were all for that too.
February 15, 2019 at 18:19
So, this is going about as well as expected.
February 14, 2019 at 15:51
No, among other unsubstantiated claims, you said the Dems support "open borders". Sources/evidence? (Except you can't because it's not true). Instead ...
February 14, 2019 at 05:54
Well, you're not getting a wall with the Dems in power in the house. So, what kind of war are you predicting and when?
February 14, 2019 at 00:06
So, your claim now is that the Dems went from supporting a wall and gassing and caging immigrants just as much as (or more than) Trump did, to being i...
February 13, 2019 at 23:22
So, the argument now is not that Dems want open borders (the usual right-wing line), but actually that they are just as strong on border security as T...
February 13, 2019 at 09:20
Harry insists gender is no more than biological sex. The NHS definition is within the general boundaries of the other definitions in recognizing it's ...
February 12, 2019 at 14:35
That's a reasonable and nuanced criticism.
February 12, 2019 at 14:24
My issue with Hanover concerned what kind of system the relatively poor are better off in and where therefore their interests lie in promoting. And th...
February 12, 2019 at 07:04
Because high tax, low inequality i.e. controlling wealth and redistributing downwards. /uploads/files/ml/kmjmunuh6tg2gmai.png /uploads/files/qi/gq4tzt...
February 11, 2019 at 22:44
So, you're laughably empirically wrong. /uploads/files/qc/tiuc33mkpj924m9c.png https://www.demos.org/blog/10/20/15/united-states-vs-denmark-17-charts
February 11, 2019 at 22:30
You've gone off on a few different tangents there, but it should be clear my moral perspective on economic issues is utilitarian-based. If redistribut...
February 11, 2019 at 21:29
Just a routine note concerning false positives on the spam filter. If your post disappears and you can't think of reason why, please let us know and i...
February 11, 2019 at 19:43
What always amazes me is that billionaires and the super-rich in general have managed to create not only a system that funnels more and more money to ...
February 11, 2019 at 17:36
:clap:
February 11, 2019 at 16:43
Just sounded fly to me... :grimace:
February 11, 2019 at 15:29
Sorry frank, but you don't get any brownie points here for fronting that you know stuff. Here's a basic overview from wiki: "Social engineering is a d...
February 10, 2019 at 23:37
Is there even one opponent of gender-neutral education that is not so overcome by their own ideological context that they realize they actually operat...
February 10, 2019 at 23:25
From what?
February 10, 2019 at 23:13
In that case what you're telling me is that you don't understand what social engineering is. As I already explained and as I wouldn't need to explain ...
February 10, 2019 at 23:12
I didn't bitch at you. I said it's a knee jerk reaction, and that's what strong language like "over my dead body" sounds like. Fair or no? The rest wa...
February 10, 2019 at 22:52
I'm not speaking as Heidegger, I'm giving my own take. Das man is interchangeable with a lot of other terms we could use as far as I'm concerned.
February 10, 2019 at 22:49
The point has already been made earlier in the thread that the teacher is a social engineer one way or the other. Getting kids to say the pledge of al...
February 10, 2019 at 22:42
I'd just add from my own experience that even though we won't ever get all the way, it's crucial to try, and that most institutions and systems will d...
February 10, 2019 at 22:31
The moves, or some of them at least, are outlined in the gender-neutral education article in the OP. By the opposition, I mean those who were opposed ...
February 10, 2019 at 22:21
I don't know what else to say about it. I think you did the right thing. And sometimes that's hard. But I expect you'll eventually get through it and ...
February 10, 2019 at 22:14
An individual is a bunch of social forces that have their tendrils around a follicly challenged ape. Das man is us from the root up. There is no indiv...
February 10, 2019 at 22:06
There's space between it being a non-issue and so critical as to merit vitriolic opposition. And of course, there are shades of gender-neutrality to b...
February 10, 2019 at 21:56
Respect to you. You did the honourable thing. It would be nice if that always resulted in a reward, but if it did, it would no longer be honourable. A...
February 10, 2019 at 20:15
Authoritarian Socialist Note: The definition of 'gender' for the purposes of this thread is the normal definition as used in the social sciences and d...
February 10, 2019 at 17:31
... Because I don't make up my own definitions of words, but rely on authorities such as dictionaries, social institutions etc.
February 10, 2019 at 17:15
I mean if you think gender is exclusively biological sex, then what could 'gender-neutral' even mean? Cutting little boys dangly bits off and giving h...
February 10, 2019 at 17:10
Listen, please. It's not my definition. It's not a left-wing definition. It's the standard definition. It's what the word means and how it's used in e...
February 10, 2019 at 17:06
For those like the above for whom the WHO definition is just too complicated to understand: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gender Either...
February 10, 2019 at 17:00
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/willful_ignorance
February 10, 2019 at 16:48
Just removed the link from the OP. Anyone who wants to know what it is can PM you, or you can stick it up on your profile if you like (under 'Update b...
February 10, 2019 at 16:34
Another reason the outrage is misplaced, of course, is that gender non-neutral vs gender neutral is not an absolute binary. Education has been trendin...
February 10, 2019 at 15:33
Sorry, you can't post links to your blogs for review here. You can post links on your profile though, and if you want to start a discussion on a topic...
February 10, 2019 at 11:44