I didn't say he stated that. If I wanted to say that I would have said it. You can intend to do something without stating that you intend to do it. So...
The Trump machine is now accusing the Red Hen owner of stalking Sanders and ratcheting up the hatred against her. Mike Huckabee in particular is out f...
I like both, but I've seen more of the Netherlands and there's less to see. So, ideally I'd go for a month or two trip in the states next. Not sure ab...
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone except the most ignorant of Trump supporters. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/27/north-korea-nuclear...
It does frustrate me that the bigger picture system is not something that allows outrage to function against itself. That's partly why Occupy failed. ...
I'd add that for me the outrage is justified not just by what was said but by who said it. Outrage should be employed to a significant degree to the e...
"President Johnson:..I don't want to follow Hitler, but he had an idea— King: Yeah. President Johnson: —that if you just take a simple thing and repea...
But are we on the shore building intellectual sandcastles here or have we actually got our toes in the water yet? The meta-game is to be above it all ...
Yes, it's embarrassingly well thought through for the Shoutbox. Please don't do that again. :) I can make Hanover's comments and your responses so far...
@"frank" @"Hanover" Just moved your civil war comments here for now (not sure if you want to make it a new discussion). Interesting stuff, but pretty ...
Maybe in the US it can be traced back to Calvinism especially. Certainly didn't notice that attitude much in Ireland when I was growing up and I think...
Hypocrisy aside, it's an odd thing in the US that people see such need to protect the rich and privileged. Apart from Roseanne and Sanders, it was the...
OK fine, I'm on mobile and moving around and maybe not reading you all that clearly. But getting back to Roseanne, she has (had?) a lot of fans and a ...
You need to ask yourself this question @"Hanover", do you want more racism, Islamophobia, and anti-semitism in your society or less? Because presuming...
No, not crass and vulgar, racist. Roseanne rightly got thrown in the garbage for being racist, just like we throw people in the garbage here for being...
Stop. I like elderberries. That's the way I'd put it too. Waiting until Twitter later after consultation with your PR advisers is the action of the pr...
This is a close-up of the Trumpsters face a few seconds after he told his black interlocutor he was out of his "cotton pickin" mind (when the intervie...
You've made some good points @"Mr Phil O'Sophy", which are in keeping with both the spirit and letter of the guidelines. I appreciate that (although I...
No-one was banned directly due to this discussion and no-one will get banned for political views that are not very obviously racist or anti-semitic et...
I want to agree with you, and I do to an extent, but I also tend to feel that being philosophical in the face of the racism, xenophobia and / or gener...
Being a hedonist is exactly why you should care about "achievements" in my view as they restore your ability to experience pleasure when you're not wo...
Sure, but freedom is always freedom to...do something, right? And it's that something that can be either productive or not, creative or not etc. I pre...
What many on the left want is a redirection of the drive away from simple productivity and towards creativity. That is, an injection of imagination in...
I've never claimed border jumping is right (in general I would say it's not), but we can all play this game. Let's see, sexually abusing children is w...
I accept you're not a racist if you say so. I'm just commenting on the effect of your words, and how they're likely to be responded to. If you can't s...
You made that claim after I rightly pointed out that you would be marked as a racist / xenophobe for comparing illegal immigrants to rapists. Which yo...
No, you won't be considered a racist and / or xenophobe for considering borders important my little snowflake (I'll bet everyone here does consider th...
I don't agree with that actually, but there is an element amongst right wingers whose rhetoric towards illegal immigrants needs to be combated with fu...
I'm not going to play the time wasting game with you. You're obviously a xenophobe to make that comparison. I'd guess racism plays a part in your hatr...
Yes, she was being either stupid and/or crass. Don't know enough about her to know which or what combination. I would tend to gravitate towards the fo...
Why is everyone drunk all the time in the Shoutbox these days? Have I missed an instruction or something? Anyway give up drink, stop watching TV and r...
That wasn't for the trolling, that was for him suggesting by PM that I was a fascist, Nazi and psychopathic idiot for giving him a warning. (And he sa...
I'm not sure how that would fit in with Lacan, or which stage of Lacan, especially seeing as his ideas changed a lot over time (and I don't have a dee...
"Fromm, Reich, and others championed sexual liberation as fulfillment of Freud’s legacy of opposing mental health to social repression. They and “ego ...
The bit I don't buy in particular is the opposition of the sexual drive to the death drive but there's plenty in there worth mulling. That's up for gr...
Kind of, but it's a bit more complicated... "In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward dea...
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