You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Hanover

Comments

Do they have hot wings in England?
March 16, 2017 at 17:03
You can't. Their immigration laws are too strict. Irony much?
March 16, 2017 at 17:01
Europeans aren't materialists. Didn't know that.
March 16, 2017 at 17:00
Were the millions marching a reference to the victims being led to their death. If so, credit for the darkness.
March 16, 2017 at 16:58
Good one. Finally a response worthy of the Shoutbox. I'd argue Trump isn't Hitler, but I'm willing to listen.
March 16, 2017 at 16:52
The right's protests were not like the left's. Instead of denying that reality, why not just admit it and argue their reaction was legitimate regardle...
March 16, 2017 at 16:50
Mock away. Show me the last million man march by the right.
March 16, 2017 at 16:47
Oh, he's offensive and obnoxious and not terribly temperate. He'd make a terrible dinner guest, and it's likely we'd hate each other. Hillary wouldn't...
March 16, 2017 at 16:43
Sure, maybe that's the reason, I don't know. I'm just pointing out a difference in reaction. It could be for all sorts of reasons, but the ones you li...
March 16, 2017 at 16:38
Sure, all of that. Or, maybe no political body is definable by reference to first principles, but are instead more nuanced and pragmatic.
March 16, 2017 at 16:36
I'm just commenting on an empirical question, which is whether the right protests like the left. It seems clear they don't. You might get a small grou...
March 16, 2017 at 16:17
Conservatives support less government and greater self-sufficiency, so it would be inconsistent to ask the same government for help that you want out ...
March 16, 2017 at 16:08
So, to the hypothetical, what would the right have done had Hillary won, why not just look at what they did when Obama won. Not a lot. And, yes, Obama...
March 16, 2017 at 16:05
Well, I didn't comment on anything other than the single issue regarding his comments about accepting the election results. Throwing the rest in has n...
March 16, 2017 at 15:59
Actually, it's apples to oranges. Comparing a largely homogenous small nation with a massive and diverse country makes little sense. Maybe compare The...
March 16, 2017 at 15:23
Yes. Conservatives don't protest. They just don't take buses and converge on DC. Why would a group opposed to government flock to the government for h...
March 16, 2017 at 14:11
I feel like people are talking about me while I'm in the room.
March 16, 2017 at 10:47
/uploads/resized/files/g8/f7avvvws8n3r7bnp.jpg Another great reason to love the USA: Hamburger Helper spruced up with frozen veggies.
March 15, 2017 at 22:44
I do appreciate the national comparisons, but if you're really interested in a "best of," I have conducted my own study. Here are the results: Best co...
March 15, 2017 at 22:33
Assuming you had a job with benefits, your health care would be better here.
March 15, 2017 at 19:15
My problem with those studies is that there is greater quality of life disparity in the U.S. than in most Western (and especially in north European) c...
March 15, 2017 at 18:51
Obviously I'm biased, but I would suspect you'd have a higher standard of living, meaning a larger house, a nicer car, more and varied employment oppo...
March 15, 2017 at 16:29
They do, and that's why they choose people who they expect will maintain a particular ideology, but there are plenty of examples where they've been di...
March 15, 2017 at 16:21
Should the question be what the Constitution says, then it seems inevitable that the specific terms of the document be referenced. I obviously see not...
March 15, 2017 at 14:14
I know we could go round and round forever on this, but I can tell you that I sincerely don't believe Trump is less moral than Clinton, and I have lit...
March 15, 2017 at 03:41
And yet throughout Europe, Prime Ministers are elected by representatives who form alliances with other parties, many of whom share little in common w...
March 14, 2017 at 19:32
The "I think the voters got bad information when they voted" isn't a ground for overturning an election or even questioning its legitimacy. Free speec...
March 14, 2017 at 17:11
You know of no other way of interpreting what he said other than by inserting the critical logical qualifier "only" that he never said? That is a huge...
March 14, 2017 at 17:03
You've misquoted him by adding in the word "only." He didn't say that. He said he'd accept the results if he won, which doesn't mean he won't accept t...
March 14, 2017 at 16:57
I don't oppose opposition. My opposition was to the efforts to delegitimize. To the extent some may consider it a legitimate tactic, I don't, so those...
March 14, 2017 at 16:43
I did read it, and the suggestion from the articles I read was that it was understood that the $200,000+ (and not the $300,000+) would eventually find...
March 14, 2017 at 16:38
This is a silly equivocation fallacy that you're now trying to take seriously. What I said is that people protested under the banner of this being an ...
March 14, 2017 at 15:15
I don't know what quote your referencing, but it stands to reason that he wouldn't protest an election that he won. Generally speaking, you don't see ...
March 14, 2017 at 15:10
Banner being metaphorical here, although I can see the confusion, considering there were literal banners in those marches.
March 14, 2017 at 14:52
Your cite from March 25, 2015 references a blog that was shown "mostly false." The Washington Times reported on July 12, 2016 that a Senate investigat...
March 14, 2017 at 13:58
No, the situation is directly equivalent. Trump was generally asked if he would accept the election results, and he said he had to wait and see. The o...
March 14, 2017 at 13:37
Midnight beans on toast isn't something you'd eat in America. In America we eat gruel and boiled dandelions on crackers we make by burning a corn meal...
March 13, 2017 at 19:10
I heard that at Disney, they don't hire workers, but they hire actors. So, if you were assigned the job of sweeping the street, you would wear the clo...
March 13, 2017 at 18:27
They will have a choice, and they'll choose not to impeach, similar to what happened to Bill Clinton, where only the Republicans found anything object...
March 13, 2017 at 17:11
What I think is twofold: (1) the Republicans will not impeach their own president and commit political suicide and turn the government over to the lef...
March 13, 2017 at 15:33
I think the election was valid even if Russia's hacking into emails affected it, largely because they didn't reveal anything that wasn't true. Clinton...
March 13, 2017 at 15:27
No, my first claim wasn't a non sequiter (I was responding specifically to the post regarding the possibility of impeachment), my second was not basel...
March 13, 2017 at 15:14
No, and I suppose I can't be certain I won't be appointed President next year, but I can still assert the suggestion is ridiculous.
March 13, 2017 at 03:27
I believe the election was valid and that the Dem's reaction is hypocritical in light of their objection to Trump's comments that he reserved the righ...
March 13, 2017 at 03:25
I'm making no general statements about him, but am saying an impeachment prediction is ridiculous and denies reality.
March 12, 2017 at 22:05
I'm not defending Trump. I just said a Trump impeachment is a ridiculous suggestion, like the Republican House is going to waste their time while they...
March 12, 2017 at 20:16
Ridiculous. I predict the anti-Trump folks will continue living in the denial that Trump really is the Commander in Chief.
March 12, 2017 at 19:40
Although I disagree with him ideologically on just about everything, I think it's reasonable to turn to a Jewish man for answers and I understand your...
March 12, 2017 at 19:37
The Sanders quote is ironic. The liberals, not the right, have denigrated the electoral process itself by openly proclaiming Trump's election invalid....
March 12, 2017 at 12:05
You can Google "bias at cbo" as well as I can for historical claims of bias by both parties. Of course, but he didn't create this problem. He simply i...
March 12, 2017 at 12:01