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I was never a boy scout or cub scout, but I was a cub scout leader, having volunteered after no one else would. It was some years ago, but my recollec...

Perhaps off topic, but I am aware of the honor culture, which is prevalent among Celtic cultures and explains the differing ethic of the American Sout...

I banned @"Nuke" today for refusing moderation after multiple deletions of posts and specific PMs asking him to stop posting low quality posts contain...

What Trump needs to do is double down on his MAGA platform, and he will. There will be zero Trump supporters who will change their vote due to what yo...

They just got all new voting machines and the training on them was apparently very limited. It's not rocket science, but they have scan your driver's ...

No predictions are really clear. It's all speculation, but I really can't see middle America finding anything acceptable about defunding the police. I...

I think that's right. The more affluent and educated the community, the more educated the poll workers and the voters, so they're able to navigate pro...

Yes. The line wasn't that long, but it went really slow. In the morning it was too long, so I came back in the afternoon. How nefarious this all was, ...

I voted for him. I voted for Mondale in 84 and Dukakis in 88. So was I.

From 1831 to 2003, Georgia never had an elected Republican Governor. During all of that history Georgia was overwhelmingly Democrat, both at the state...

Very well, but what do we see as the predicted outcome of the current awakening to racial inequities? Is it that people will do as you suggest and thr...

I just told the man with the mask behind the desk who I wanted to vote for and he put a tic mark next to the name and then I went home. I don't see wh...

Speaking of annoying goings ons, my dog keeps shaking his head and rubbing his head on the couch. I'm thinking an XXS attack.

If you never conveyed the meaning to another but then encountered the color a month later and said to yourself "there's that phlibex again," why would...

The biggest problem facing the African American community is not the police. Not by a long shot. A single man is murdered in Minnesota and this barely...

I appreciate you're trying to make the point that police brutality is sufficiently enough about race that it's appropriate to say black lives matter w...

Sometimes you can talk to your probation officer and they'll reassign your community service in order to make things safer for you.

No excuses, but I doubt the officer expected the man to fall back completely defenseless like that. He was old and frail and couldn't balance himself ...

It's interesting really because I do think this is more the issue than has been discussed. The guy was white who was pushed over. This had nothing to ...

Describe what that civil disobedience looks like instead of having me sort through your post history. Does it include taking liquor from stores? And t...

Right, and did the Democrats sit in a room and work out the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or did they go to war? It seems like those divisions were far gre...

So what are you advocating if not playing nicely? What I've seen from not playing nicely is bricks through windows and looting. Surely that's not what...

That was the message you derived from MLK?

I've not said they should just get back to work. I said they should find common ground. Apparently that's a controversial idea. Who'd have thunk?

Yes, let's sit in a room and figure out once and for all what justice is exactly and then let's take out our hammers and forge it in place. That'll wo...

Protests, like voting, lobbying, bribing (or whatever) are a form of political expression, aimed at obtaining something currently not received. The mo...

The status quo, by definition, is what is occurring right now. Right now there are protests. Tomorrow the protests will end, but the anger won't. So h...

This strikes me as far afield and an entirely useless discussion from a pragmatic perspective. If you are able to prove the illegitimacy of the US gov...

I'm not sure that being sexually attracted to other races is proof of lack of racism. Sexual attraction originates from a different part of the brain ...

This: That is, I agree that racism is not the primary problem facing the African American community, and to the extent that racism does play a role in...

Then I need a different term for what I've described, perhaps legalized racism.

I wouldn't refer to your examples above as systemic racism, but instead as institutionalized racism, where the government officially condones discrimi...

I'd also point out that we typically act with unanimity, coming up with a solution that everyone is agreeable with, so it's not like we divide up into...

Your position is that the violence serves a useful purpose. I'm describing what that violence actually is. If you envision a better form of violence t...

So you encourage looting liquor and TVs from stores? But for the distance, you'd be in the streets burning cars? Why do you sit idly behind your compu...

Kemp beat Abrams (a black female) by a very small amount. He's far from safe and this is far from Trump country. Anyway, I take Bottoms at her word th...

Then why criticize those who criticize the riots as not being critics of the murder?

Speaking of speculating... What will happen is that the American capitalist machinery will continue operating as before other than the now vacant, bur...

Is it not possible to object to both the unjust murder and the riots? Why must we choose only one injustice to notice?

I think as a black Democrat female mayor and mother, she had full license to speak freely without real fear of political repercussion regardless of wh...

Another take on the validity of this uprising, from the mayor of Atlanta: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/689455

I'm not terribly troubled by thought experiments. If one offers an opinion based upon a principle, it's appropriate to hypothesize the application of ...

Obtaining representative cross-sections in order to validate results isn't equivalent to "random" in a metaphysical sense. I don't follow this.

If Bob shoots Joe and it in every way appears motivated by jealousy, does there still remain a possibility that it was not? If you concede there is su...

A real question. There's been much talk about false negatives in covid testing, saying it's up to 30%. I've read false positives are very rare. How do...

You draw no distinction here between refutation and dismissal, but you instead are just pointing out that in my original link to some quackery group o...

What is the distinction you wish to draw between the two other than "refutation" entails offering a meaningful and detailed response and a "dismissal"...

I had momentarily been interested many many years ago in an MS in AI at UGA. https://www.ai.uga.edu/ms-artificial-intelligence It's where philosophy, ...

No.

Totally get it now. We stay at least 6 feet away from each other because most can't pee that far. My record is far greater than that, but I get that m...