A more accurate analogy might be that for the U.S. establishment to publically espouse the virtues of Islam, including in media, schools, and society ...
On the specific point of suicide and mental illness, they might claim utilitarian grounds that overall these tendencies may increase with availability...
Another way to state their case is that there is a kind of ethical retrojection going on here. Liberals are fostering the grounds for a problem for wh...
Ok, to steel man this, I think a conservative would say that opening up more space for what anyone can be can't be separated from enforcing what some ...
Not to mention the amusing impotency of such injunctions since, considering the ubiquity of the internet, most kids have probably seen porn before the...
I think what conservatives fear is some kind of cultural shift that becomes self-fulfilling in that it leads rather than follows science. I don't thin...
Seems to me there's a legitimate debate over what to do with minors, if anything, to best help them navigate their sexual identity. The rest just seem...
Please, please, this a place for food talk, comic strips and ironic perversions, not "understanding" things. Anyhow, I had to do one in honor of @"fra...
The cat has a cool mustache. Must be a gentlemog. Birds can't talk though unless they are parrots and that clearly isn't a parrot. Otherwise, it does ...
@"invicta" You're maybe getting too real about stuff in your private life we don't need to know about so I've edited you. Keep the perversions ironica...
Rhythm is off. How about: There once was a creep named Hanny, Who was a real pain in the fanny, He used some Als, To try to sound wise, But convinced ...
Oscar Wilde once commented thusly concerning sincerity (excerpted from the collection "The Secret Comics of Oscar Wilde" which draws from material scr...
Sincere attempts at sincerity here are inappropriate. A giant dump might help. Some have even been known to cover themselves entirely in faeces as a c...
Nah, it's about a hungry dog eating people 'cos he's so hungry. It's funny because the dog is wearing clothes just like a person haha! So, wrong again...
Yep! I led it a little with follow up questions but still damn good. User OK, I have another comic strip for you to analyze. It is quite difficult but...
@"Hanover" GPT 4 gets me even if you don't. :razz: ''When interpreting this comic strip through the lens of Lacanian theory, we can see connections to...
+ Hemingway :cool: Sounds interesting. I wish they'd given us a decent extract in the review. I love the Bohr quote though. :grimace: Ah yes, I was wa...
Appreciate you taking the time, bruv. :cool: Discourse Dog is supposed to be like Zizek's "Big other" or Lacan's symbolic order. Dropping these withou...
Oh, that's Discourse Dog. He's like a cross between the cat in Pet Sematary and the copy paste function on your keyboard. For more information, please...
You raise a valid point about the “distancing” nature of writing vs speech but I don’t think the most important distinction is between modes of discou...
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