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I had actually suspected plagiarism and had googled some of his comments to see if I could get a hit. I wasn't successful, but looks like others were.

I think you can levy the fascism claim upon Trump personally, but I think his followers truly believe they are protecting democracy from being stolen ...

I make mistakes only to make myself more likable. it's a godlike quality where what apparent evil I might do is for the better and what errors I make ...

I agree with the first part, that "Republican" means very little anymore, but I don't think the distinction between the two types is lunatic and norma...

I think sometimes it's like rage quitting a video game when you keep getting flustered. You rip off your earphones and throw the controller to the gro...

I don't understand how he can condemn a violent insurrection, considering the will of the people was subverted when the election, which wasn't even cl...

With that sort of iron clad proof I totally get why a horned man stormed the Capitol. You are on the side of righteousness. Keep telling yourself that...

I do agree with her that Trump ought be impeached, but it's hard to overlook the sanctimony, considering daddy Dick is that charming black hearted nat...

A picture so vivid you can almost smell the unmistakable scent of week old cabbage you know announces his arrival to the podium.

As predicted, the Democrats will squander this great opportunity to pass meaningful law while they control both houses and the presidency. Instead, th...

It's really just a fever that gets as high as 102 but then drops back to normal. It's not terrible, but I wouldn't recommend it. The weird dreams are ...

I think Trump said he could pardon himself. All he's got to do is say "pardon me" and he's absolved from any crime.

Not sure what they read, but I'm shivering under a bunch of blankets right now waiting for this conspiracy covid fever to pass.

There was a time when aspiring journalists took courses in journalistic ethics and were expected to adhere to them as part of the industry standard. T...

I do admire the quit you have in you.

Here's one means of enforcement: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/487247

Dominion software got them to make a complete retraction.

We don't need to go back that far. Up until the 1990s, mass media was limited to very few people and journalistic ethics were self enforced.

That conclusion cannot be inferred from anything I've said. What I indicated was that there have been editorial standards for over 1000 years, and the...

Free speech has never encompassed the right to say whatever you wish at my dinner table, nor does it include the right to speak with impunity. In any ...

There are certainly critical distinctions between the Trumpers and the BLM protesters, but there is a similarity often overlooked, and that is that bo...

From the clip, she appeared not to be threatening anyone's life, so it seems unjustified, but maybe there's more to this. Your thoughts?

I predict the Democrats will take this great opportunity while their opponent is crippled to do something stupid enough to unite and energize the Repu...

Nah. No conspiracy theory here. Things are as they appear.

The more important question is whether the horn hat man is the messiah.

My take throughout this process was that the vast majority of Republicans stood by Trump in order to maintain party unity and to avoid his vicious res...

I see yesterday as a great day for the Republican party. It signals the end to the nightmare that is Trump. Mainstream Republicans can now safely dist...

I mean that it's ridiculous that a US president can't make comments on a website that are not appropriate enough for publication so they have to moder...

That Trump is banned here.

Twitter is considering a permanent ban. The President of the US is being moderated and banned on a website. How ridiculous is that. I vote for a preem...

It's such an interesting phenomenon, the influence of leadership and the cult like behavior that follows. I've got to assume these are just regular fo...

And when did getting totally fucked become a bad thing?

I'm explaining why watching looters pisses people off, but I'm not suggesting a moral equivalence, nor am I suggesting that it's all subjective, as if...

If you're just saying that this is the worst example of protestors acting out at the capital, then maybe it is. I don't know. But if you're saying thi...

Oh come now, there's been far worse behavior, but that's not to say that this behavior isn't especially bad. The streets burn every time there is any ...

I'm wondering how the 2 hour debate rule works. If a protestor comes in and disrupts everything for an hour or so, are the congressmen left with just ...

The $2,000 check was Trump's idea as I recall.

It's the mystical power of comeuppance that corrects stupidity and injustice in the cosmos.

Those programmed in personalities might make for a more interesting game, but not a stronger one. I'm stating the obvious here. If you name your calcu...

If you're trying to contextualize this so that we can better understand the meaning of the word "find," you have to consider the whole context, not ju...

Great credit to Raffensperger for not bending to someone who can destroy his career. The good news is that we have an honest politician. The bad news ...

Chess software doesn't program in emotion, so I think the way to win is entirely through rationality.

Maybe this has something to do with God, but I'm staying in this 1800s inn right now, and I just got this weird haunted feeling (known as the "heebie ...

That's true, and, just to cover all logical possibilities, it's possible that there is a creator, but his role was limited to bringing order to the et...

Descartes wouldn't have argued there were "thought waves" because a wave implies physicality, and thought was non-physical in his dualistic system. Re...

Regardless of how you define "thinking," and regardless of whether Descartes is actually thinking, he most certainly thinks he thinks.

You're really going to need to establish a meaningful link between government schools and concentration camps and gulags. At this point, I have no ide...

Nothing you've said creates a problem for Descartes. You cannot doubt you are doubting.

You drone on about how formal education that provides no economic utility is of no value and then explain how it really is nothing more than is a libe...

In the US, we fully fund all education through high school without regard to the direct economic value of the subject. You are required to take world ...