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He's being more overtly fascist than he was the first time around. He knows he'll take Florida no matter what he says about Latinos. People are stupid...

I don't think there is anything. They're basically the same thing.

Dammit!

You see? It's all one global culture.

You know me, they guy with the swastika tattooed on my forehead. I usually wear a veil.

I bought this little thermometer and it has two buttons on the back: one says off, and the other says no. How the heck to you turn it on?

You're handing me a bucket of bullshit to sort through. No thanks.

Westerners attack shit all the time. In fact, it's just something humans do.

Which part of Hamas' attack represents something Westerners never do?

What the everloving fuck are you talking about?

The Israel/Hamas conflict is not west vs non-west.

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It's a moot point. China is presently in the process of building about 50 coal burning power plants, so there really isn't any global action to take. ...

Israel has a right to defend their land. That's a given. The second part of your statement reads as a thinly veiled condemnation of Islam. This is why...

So you're saying that we should back Israel, not only because Israel needs to defend itself, but because the Israeli way of life is superior to the Ha...

We could take a deep dive into this question, but can you see how bringing this up in a thread about a Israel and Gaza makes it sound like you think I...

I think that means we probably need to bomb the hell out of Montreal.

So now it's a trainwreck because of extended involvement in the region most of the US's oil comes from? I give up.

I don't care.

No, I thought you were saying American foreign policy is a trainwreck because the US is in decline in terms of global politics. That would amount to s...

Ok. I don't really understand what you're saying at all. I did try, though. :smile:

I think we have directly opposing viewpoints on what's best for the world. You think it's best for the US to be a global leader. I think it's best for...

I don't either. I just don't have it all the time. It's not a judgement, it's just the way my consciousness is. I wasn't aware of it until I met someo...

I was looking for a more objective analysis. What American foreign policy would not have resulted in a trainwreck? But to answer your question, I thin...

Everybody seems to think we're all the same. It's really hard to grasp that we aren't.

I think there's a spectrum. NOS seems to be so far on the side of not thinking in words that he doesn't quite understand what's going on with people w...

I agree.

The US never intended to occupy Iraq long term. Why does Iraq asking the US to leave make the situation a train wreck? By the way, in healthcare, a "t...

We talked about this on a different thread. Only some people have it.

"Word" can have a couple of meanings. It can be actual sounds or marks, or it can be an abstract object expressed by these physical events. We know th...

You're judging the justification for getting rid of Saddam, not the benefits of getting rid of a torturing tyrant on health of middle-eastern culture....

Everybody inhales microplastics. We need to do some research on the effects of that.

Really? What sort of policy changes would have made things better?

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I put twinkly string lights all over my house. That's cheap luxury. You can get string lights where each light looks like a tiny manta ray. https://m....

That's mainly because letting them "eat cake" led to revolutions. It's necessary to throw them a bone.

There are two competing outlooks in our world: (1) is that nature is always smarter than we are. By this perspective it's a mistake for us to try to r...

You could have it that rule-based morality represents wisdom about what worked best for our forebears. Since cultures evolve, what works changes over ...

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Don't do that. Leave your hair uncoiffed.

Just leave your shoes untied.

I think everyone who didn't want to get vaccinated just got a religious exemption. Of course there were those who just decided to let their children s...

Phase 1 takes a few months. You know, you have a right to refuse any kind of medical intervention. It's a federal law. :cool:

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The quote from Yalemedicine is not in disagreement with what I said.

A lack of persuasive arguments.

Well, there you have it.

Would you agree that you don't know of any persuasive argument for moral realism?

Ok. You have coherence, I'll grant that. Would you agree that a persuasive argument for moral realism is going to have to account for why morality att...

You differ, yes. I don't think anybody else does.