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That interpretation is fine with me. But under that interpretation, the presumed choice still seems to appear out of thin air without explanation. How...

Ah, I see what you're doing. Let's see: do play dumb.

Can you tell me what the first definition is when you type "strawman" into Google? And then, can you tell me what I said about how you phrased your st...

Sure, and I suppose you weren't suggesting anything, either. No one is suggesting anything at all. Funnily enough, the frequency of which I accuse oth...

Wrong. It was clearly a loaded question. Don't play dumb. My response is to recognise it as such. I don't think I need to enlighten anyone here. We al...

You know, there's a simple test to check whether an alleged strawman is actually a strawman. Show me where I claimed what was suggested.

Strawman phrased as a question. It would be effective action, under the right circumstances. Otherwise it would likely be unsuccessful or even counter...

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More practical than banning people, but still incredibly impractical considering human nature, the history of humanity, recent widely reported events,...

No, I'm continuing to see the absurdity of your recent contributions. It's not all or nothing, and one doesn't have to commit to trucks being banned a...

So...? Ban trucks? Ban everything? Ban nothing?

No, I don't think that that suggests choice at all. It's not like presenting an option, and endorsing one of the options. It's setting out what's reas...

Sensible and practical solutions to the problem are welcome. Talk of banning people or "assault trucks" doesn't qualify, and is the noise I referred t...

Pure genius. Instead of banning guns, let's ban people. Just imagine: a world where guns can live in peace. I have a dream...

No, Thorongil, you're just taking it out of context and misapplying it. See Michael's reply.

Sure, guns are designed to shoot bullets, swords are designed to cut, bombs are designed to explode. Let's just ignore the elephant in the room. :roll...

Yes. You have some control over what you read, look at, think about, and so on, but you have no control over what you are or are not convinced by. I c...

I don't know which claim is more ludicrous: that there's such a thing as assault trucks or that guns aren't typically designed to kill people. If ther...

I think so, for more or less the same reason as that given by Wayfarer in the first paragraph of his first reply. The notion of picking beliefs strike...

There's no such thing as assault trucks.

It's not like this Sanders lady didn't know what she was getting herself into when she decided to attend the event. Should the comedian have run her g...

Mistakes involving firearms wouldn't happen if the firearms weren't there to begin with. So that's the goal. Pragmatically, the discussion should be a...

Over and over again. Underrated track. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2pAIgFJGM

Having watched three episodes so far, I can confirm that Lost In Space (2018) is pretty good. :ok:

As part of a dhansak curry, yes.

Philomena Cunk's hilarious mockumentaries. For example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpbW7JRu0Q

One of life's great mysteries. We need more discussions about sld. What is it? Where does it come from? What does it taste like? How do we worship it?...

Butt Rech.

Lunar creatures sniff and circle the dwellings.

Alternative/Indie/Post-rock :ok: E.g. Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, Failure, The Strokes, Oasis, Radiohead, Nirvana, Hole, Alanis Morissette.

:grin:

Can you give an example of a paradox which you think is unsolvable?

Yes, but that's changing the topic from when a cat is feline to when a cat is thought of as feline. And, obviously, if you change the premise by inser...

That awkward moment when you realise you're like Donald Trump. We're both megalomaniacs, only he pales in comparison to me. And I have better hair.

Antepetul... Ampitenul... Antemetulnitup... Yeah, what he said.

Literally? No, obviously not. Figuratively? Conventionally, no, obviously not. You think with your head and feel with your heart. What if fish could f...

You'd have no chance if I stood against you. Me versus you would play out, respectively, like Trump versus Jeb.

Cute. Far from blatant, it's untenable. And your argument certainly does not demonstrate the above conclusion. You can give as many examples as you li...

I'm being paid by the Russians.

By the way, using the that-clause like this is not really anything special. It's a common way of expressing or referring to facts, and is recognised i...

Yes, and those are worded much better. I voted for, "Both are wrong/it's complicated", because both are wrong, although Yadoula's own quote, in a sens...

I don't mind you butting in, but I do mind you butting in with only a trivial point about grammar which misses the point and an ironic accusation of c...

Well, that's one way of explaining it, but I'm not convinced. It seems as though you're putting the cart before the horse, in that it seems as though ...

Yeah, maybe. And then someone shoots up your school, and suddenly you see things differently.

Exactly.

If you look closely at my profile picture, you can see two soulless black eyes staring back at you.

Don't listen to the cliff face. It just wants to heist away your potential. The force is strong in you. Embrace the dark side.

Moi? :halo:

Okay, but don't think too much. It's more fun when it's impulsive.

Do something rebellious.