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You have to let people decide, though. If you can't do that, then what?

Tucker Carlson.

Yep.

Then what follows is going to be some state intervention. There's no way around it.

But 42% of the women who voted in 2016 voted for Trump.

I feel kind of apathetic about it. It couldn't have happened without the participation of a lot of women, so they got what they wanted.

Ok. So to limit state intervention, you'd have to restrict the ability of the people to vote for state intervention. That requires far reaching state ...

Poverty itself is not the traditional criticism. It's that poverty of the kind created by laissez-faire in the 19th and early 20th Century created vol...

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"Free market" is a reference to the way prices are set. So there can be quite a bit of government intervention in an economy that still has free marke...

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Thanks for the insight. We haven't been thinking about this for years, so we need you to explain it to us.

I don't know. I think a few states will immediately ban abortion.

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So it exists as a ghost who is invoked because of the problems with liberalism. :up:

It just means a woman in Mississippi who wants an abortion will have to drive a while to get to a state that does them. A woman who doesn't have trans...

I've got one: Why do firemen wear red suspenders to hold their pants up?

I think Searle might have been better at sexually harassing his students than he was at philosophy.

So be flexible. Plan for life to continue as it has, but also recognize that we might be in a world war next week. I can do that.

There must be some geologists in Russia who know that you can't "plunge" the UK into the sea. It's a prominance on the Eurasian continent.

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I read that they found some condoms in the pyramids and when they used them the all broke.

Be sure to wash your rice. All rice has a certain amount of arsenic in it. You can reduce your arsenic intake by washing it before you cook it, and Ca...

So Searle is a pretty standard indirect realist. :up:

I'm actually not sure how to plan ahead for a catastrophe. I'll have to think about it.

I'll keep that in mind. I used to go on the gastritis diet a few times a year. Every time you eat, it hurts, so you get food-averse.

I think she was about average through the whole thing.

If you just stop eating, your body will slam into starvation mode to avoid weight loss. Here's a video that explains some of it: https://youtu.be/nQC_...

It just sounds like you're saying the American culture has arrived in an ideological ditch. Are we just in limbo in between wars and economic disaster...

Oddly enough, they were all gay.

That was a helpful post. Thanks. Do you know what has taken the place of the left-right conflict? Is there a conflict that's well formed enough to be ...

Are you a moderate?

A living organism is sort of self generating. The creature you are now was created by an earlier version of you. That's vaguely a definition of life.

Sorry. I'll try to improve. I'm not on Twitter.

You may be right.

Sure. But the economic ideology organizing the global economy is presently neo-liberal, not Marxist. That's the palpable relavence I referred to.

So. You're saying Marx is ground zero for everything in philosophy since Hegel? Probably not.

Interesting.

Let's start by looking at how Hayek and company were a reaction to fascism. Interested?

Fine.

He was criticized for failing to be Hegelian and he admitted it. He was more into Feuerbach than Hegel.

Maybe a little around the edges.

There aren't many places untouched by his views. If you're American, you definitely live in his world. Why not look into it? I'm not a fan boy. I'm ju...

I don't think so, but it's a moot point. His view is still the the blueprint for the world you live in. I'm a fascinated, but neutral observer. I'm im...

Just don't have the Animals die in the end. I can't handle that shit.

With all due respect to their genius, Hayek's views won. As we ponder where we go from here, it's Hayek we need to understand. Why was neoliberalism s...

So they weren't even on the spectrum? Ah. Doctors without borders is an NGO I contribute to, so I'm a hard leftist. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/...

That's interesting. Neither extreme can accept diverse viewpoints, so in a sense they're both collectivist in their own ways. Is that what you mean?

Isn't it?

You're saying the left fears individual autonomy. People need to be controlled, guided, and cared for. On the one hand, this is just valuing life. On ...