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I grew up when using the word was a concordance with the past and present danger of discrimination. My parents raised me to resist that, even if it ca...

I would feel triggered if it did not sound like a Philip K Dick scene. It should play softly in the background of the place nobody will claim as their...

Thanks for the update and hope he is feeling better.

Trump is not charged with insurrection in that case. The statement given is: As the question of eligibility has been raised by States in their differe...

I accept that you are done with this but have to ask, Where did they go?

That is not central to the claim you have made about wealth.

Did those leaving have all the money?

I get the idea. How does that actually happen in a place like NYC?

Those cities are challenged by the influx of poor people. On what basis should they be seen as replacing people?

Which text are you quoting?

Well done. Plenty to think about. Whether Heidegger was right or wrong to describe Nietzsche as producing the last metaphysic is a question here. Is t...

This explains your indifference to culture war issues regarding civil rights and the interests of those influencing the makeup of judicial appointees....

it is tough being the last to report on the others, wrong in retrospect as well as at the time.

I am not sure how or if it fits into the questions surrounding history but there is something visceral about Nietzsche's reaction to Pascal. The idea ...

For a number of Trump voters, being put in a "basket of deplorables" by H Clinton was a critical factor in their support. But there were others who gl...

The sources you use rely upon what they credit as reliable witnesses to facts. It often sounds like you are working for some of them. The ready contem...

Time to make some Hoppin John to secure good luck in the coming year.

The odd thing about the situation is that there is no overriding context of law on the Federal level to place a judgement made by a State into.

The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions are essential to what degree Trump is considered a 'viable candidate'. The decisions will require a profound...

This runs into the problem of what isolation might be. Your description tells a story about it.

The gap is there. The authors of the amendment seem not to have imagined an insurrectionist(s) who would act like they are not one in some places. Wit...

Can you articulate what that cause is? Have you associated with a range of Trump voters where this lack of simple bias has been demonstrated to you? O...

Adam Serwer expressed my thoughts above regarding the conservative Supreme Court better than I did:

If the Gorsuch ruling is indicative of a consensus, the Supreme Court's present inclination against Federal initiatives could lead to them to letting ...

It is through contrast that we can come to realize the differences in our experiences from each other. This sort of introspection is entangled with th...

This brings in a state's right question. If the decision is upheld by the Federal Supreme Court, that court limiting a state's power to repeat their d...

Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules. That should give the Supreme Court something to look forwar...

I don't look at 'internal discourse' as an excess of an activity. Talking too much limits perception. That is a condition we can observe. Personal con...

There are people who don't use language to think by themselves? If that does happen, how can personal testimony work as a reliable report of such a la...

If the justification for punitive damages is to stop the injury from being repeated, the dollar amount was not enough.

How absurd that judgement might be needs to be assessed in the context of the differences between criminal and civil law, especially as that regards t...

If a form cooperation is agreed upon, that means the agreement itself is order of a kind, at least to the extent it recognizes members as equal. One o...

To which states are you referring to? The Westphalian ones? The agreement to international standards and development of cooperative projects and insti...

Thanks for considering it. There are substantive issues at stake and Talel has every right to point to problems with the law. I was disappointed that ...

The sovereignty of "equal members in the organization" is not the equivalent of anarchy such as you depict. The comparison with those national associa...

Which part is simple minded? That is what you assert but do not support except by noting it is something you have observed. All contempt, no cattle.

You charge me with complicity in a destructive force and then gloat about your view from a commanding height. Pretty ripe from the bloke scorning easy...

Create, that is, according to your model. Who am I in it? Who are you? Were you damaged by this creation you reference?

It seems you have located a basket of deplorables. This charge of moral and intellectual hypocrisy is as dismissive as the one you complain about. Are...

Talel is incorrect when he says that no bank confronted the false accounting statements. Deutsche Bank did so as the scope of the fraud became known: ...

I meant to include all the people who demand a continuous understanding of what can go wrong and why on the job. Saying grumpy old people is too broad...

If I do x, will I be broke, deported, divorced, broken or some combination of the above? Living in a world of accidents, calculation of chances taken ...

I am proposing that a significant contingent of his support comes from those who want to preserve society in their image. Take, for example, the conse...

Do you see your promotion of Trump in these terms? Do you observe "a naturally evolving being" that the OP describes?

I was not arguing for the linear spectrum. On the contrary, I am questioning the orientation as has been offered above. I mean to say that I do not re...

Speaking of dreams, yours call from a secret place.

As you marked Trump as the standard bearer of the Right, it can be noted there are communitarians of the stripe Thatcher appealed to that support him ...

How shall we characterize this being? It sounds as fictional as the 'left' you refer to. The majority of Trumpsters I have encountered believe they ar...

It certainly has a nihilistic tang. No effort is made to connect this view with the political statements being made concerning the immediate environme...

It sounds like you favor major changes in the U.S. Constitution; or scrapping it entirely for a new form of political participation. Your descriptions...