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Alternatively, one could read the actual text.

Every day.

Is the floor natural stone or porcelain? Is the countertop corian?

Pretty much what Breitbart News reports.

The part where Trump saw Putin and him as victims of the same plot does tell other nations that flattering Trump won't be enough to get the results in...

You did not address the role of government as highlighted by Land.

On what basis do you say that? What do you make of Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom, where the intervention of government into private transactions is...

The term "libertarian" applies to many forms of expression which support starkly different political agendas. Take Hayek, for instance, who advocated ...

In regard to Cornford, we talked about this two years ago in this thread. I need to ponder the Pandora box you opened before replying.

Land (and Moldbug) have a narrow view of how tolerance works in public life: The expectation that people are to be respected as persons happens more i...

The ambition of the Soviet State to control adjacent countries has been preserved under a new set of justifications. The Chechen wars are a vivid exam...

Well observed. That it takes "bastard reasoning" to approach the chora puts any effort toward a systematic view of the whole into question. For instan...

The range of possible active agency is represented to some extent by those different translations. In regard to the discussion of Sallis' work (immedi...

I have been anxious for my friends' and family's future, but I see that for many, the future is now. Yes, some congress critters are already talking a...

What do you mean by that? Donald is grabbing what he can but how does that fit into the model you have in mind?

Keep your good spirit and a stiff upper lip. These jerks are not the only people in the scrum.

Another Musk benefit: DOGE employee cuts fall heavily on agency that regulates Musk’s Tesla

The "insurrection narrative" pertains to what Trump and his team attempted, not his believers. The criminal charge is based upon fraud: The Grand Jury...

Gold's account may be true or not. That in no way informs us as to how others were treated or whether their charges were bogus. The charges were not b...

The validity of the prosecutions or the deficiencies of the trial processes for particular defendants has no bearing on the "quasi-coup narrative." Vi...

Would you accept that such context is pivotal to understanding this report?

Does the man say when this happened in the context of the attacks on police lines?

Those supposed peaceful visitors are not why they got access to the building.

If she is not claiming that about violence, what is the point of what she does observe? How does it change your understanding of what happened?

I watched it to the end. The claims amount to something like "I was shoplifting for a couple of hours in the store but saw nobody getting hurt." Then ...

I was curious, not trying to make it about Gold's testimony which can be questioned by a review of the facts.

The love in the air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w Leaving aside the riot, are you a fellow traveler of the anti-vaccine crowd Gold hung...

Vance is comfortable adjusting his sheep outfit as needed. His pow wow with the Alternative for Germany party coincides with AfD MEP Hans Neuhoff call...

I think the vivacity of dreams is a shifting ground of dream experiences not easily compared. The peculiarities of my own development must be a critic...

Viktor plays your song: Bannon sang a similar tune, especially in the Breitbart days. Is that not where you go for your "Deep State" updates?

Now you will never know unless you happen upon the discussion in another thread.

No need to indulge in gratuitous insults.

Fair enough. All of these conditions concerning the conflict have been discussed in the 17,500 comments resting comfortably in the Ukraine Thread. The...

The armchair calls the sofa comfy.

Present one yourself. So far, your presumption that alarm at executive actions is overwrought is only that. How is that not a form of gaslighting? Whe...

That is strikingly similar to a Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán given at a meeting of the Patriots for Europe Party. Some of the more purple bit...

Do you believe the reports concerning the Mass Firing of Federal Employees? How about the Closure of Federal Agencies without the approval of Congress...

After all the debate over the years here on this platform over different approaches to reading original texts, it is disappointing to see the scholarl...

Probationary workers in each agency are who do the job after the ones doing it now are gone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XbHAuQNXZI

Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies

You asked me questions and I spoke my mind. I am okay with people doing drugs if I, or people I care about, are not harmed. I do not know of a more di...

Tobacco gets ruled out of the job site because of danger to others. I am libertarian enough to let people decide how they die left to their own device...

I appreciate what OSHA has done for work site safety but the most effective guarantee of not getting hurt is paying attention to the states of awarene...

In the building trades, the limits are closely linked to how dangerous one becomes to others. Substance abuse that just kills you is different from wh...

It looks like Macron may be thinking that as well. This from Politico: Macron calls emergency European summit on Trump, Polish minister says. This is ...

Suddenly, you are in the game.

Okay. Read the essay and get back to me.

What then, is your interest in the present topic?

It is rare that I have been enticed to join a discussion such as you have provided.