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Cool. Are you near the ocean?

If previous presidents had the internet as a tool for informing the public, would they have used it? What's the role of the press today? I can't toler...

I only recently discovered that he got rid of Sarah Sanders because he wants to talk directly to the press (usually on the white house lawn with a hel...

One of the coolest answers is Heidegger's: look around you now and in your mind, place a backdrop of nothingness behind it all. The outcome (for me) i...

Won't the answer be a metaphysical statement? If you're asking what kind of reflection is required to understand the world, then I think it would be. ...

How are you doing?

Lol. Ok.

There are just different ways to understand the term. In the US, Charlottesville is an example of pathological identity politics. Calling it politics ...

Another social psychologist examines the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_yIhW9Ias&t=29s

I think your team has a scab (strike-breaker).

Because the "We're Anti-Trump" message would eclipse the positive message of whoever runs against him.

Cool. It's like Snakes Alive said: politics ends when the parties get bored (or offended in unenlightened's case) and walk away. He thinks the threat ...

Peace is anti-military, yet it's the goal of every war. As it stands, I don't really understand the definition of identity politics used in this threa...

Identity politics that entirely excludes a quest for civil rights? I could present you with some magazine articles that all use the term the way I do....

Civil rights has been the aim of most identity politics.

Gathering together is often the first step toward making a problem known and providing a base for action. In the US, black churches played a significa...

Obviously you should say it as fast as you can, so it will come out bre-fuss.

OK, but the next time you're in a restaurant ordering breakfast, see if you can do justice to both g's.

We should probably be pronouncing the second g.

Why does the word "egg" have two g's?

I agree. That's why I deprive them of their coffee every chance I get.

You provided a statement that you believe is objectively true. Let me explain: Suppose you and I are standing around a table that has a coffee cup on ...

So you don't maintain that moral statements are subjectively true? Is English not your first language? You aren't making sense.

So according to you: And yet you maintain that all moral statements are merely subjectively true. You appear to be contradicting yourself.

I'm not opposed to prostitution. I'm opposed to cops deciding for themselves which laws to enforce. If you dont agree, I think you're wrong. That's wh...

Then what was the story about the abused women supposed to do if not appeal to pity and bring me to accept that sometimes it's right for a cop to run ...

An argument against identity politics is that engaging in it is a way to diminish your power. Democracy favors unity. An issue that creates unity has ...

If you really think the issue is a matter of opinion, then why are you suggesting that I might be wrong? Just honor my opinion and move on.

Moral statements are always taken to be objectively truth apt by people who use them, which just means they aren't considered to be matters of opinion...

You mean all moral statements are subjectively true? Are they also objectively true?

"All politics is identity politics" works as a kind of slogan. It's not supposed to make sense on the face of it. It's supposed to provoke some though...

Confusion is easy enough to navigate around. :)

A tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional bro...

What moral framework are you employing here?

So you've changed the usual meaning of "identity politics." No, I don't need an explanation for that.

Assuming there is some politics of identity to mesh with? Where roles are established and accepted, there may be no politics of identity, not because ...

The Bahamas is in bad shape. The Red Cross takes money for them.

They're calling it Sharpie-gate

Why does Guess require that you be a heavy hitter before being able to assess the system? I want to say that having power is partly a matter of recogn...

I had trouble deciphering conversational English (even though it's my first language), had to construct a personality because I didn't have one, and h...

The big derailer of politics is war. It serves as a justification for action that bypasses politics. In fact, that sometimes serves as a reason to dec...

In that case money acts as a shield against the power of a gun, so yes, there's power in violence. It's in politics that the immense power of money sh...

If you're still paying taxes it's because you don't have an accountant who can fenagle you out of it. Society doesn't run on the threat of violence. I...

There's no killing a wealthy black man because he has the same allies a rich white guy has. Same with women: there's no glass ceiling for a rich Evank...

American political parties have all-purpose names so the make-up of each party can change over time. "Democrat" presently means liberal, but it was on...

Although there can be a kind of politics regarding access in totalitarian states. Russian czars, though ruling an absolute monarchy, were generally po...

Central organization does arise organically, usually as a response to the requirements of warfare.

I did once think that human life is always leading toward greater unity among people, so I thought a global government was inevitable. I think I was s...

Subject and object are interdependent. This shows up in the way we speak about the world. Listen, it's like we read two different Schopenhauers. This ...

Do you remember what he said about subject and object? That would clarify.