What evidence is there to support this claim? Biden appointed Garland, and later on Garland appointed Jack Smith, but that doesn't equate with "Biden ...
The possibility of Trump winning the election in 2024 and making all of his legal troubles go away as if by waving a magic wand is absurd. I don't thi...
Contested the election on what grounds? It still goes back to needing to back up claims with arguments and evidence. By rigging elections legally I am...
Well, the way how to handle that is with the lawsuits. Prove the election was stolen in a court of law, back up the claims with argument and evidence....
I think it did come true in the sense of Trump trying to stay in power illegitimately. That is what would-be dictators do and it is very scary. It was...
I suppose in science there is also a psychological angle but science is different in that it has some built-in self-correcting mechanisms (peer review...
Lately, I've been thinking about what I call the "reality warping" effect of Trump -- and not just Trump personally, but any charismatic demagogue tha...
I like Joe Biden and I think he's done a good job, but I really wish he would acknowledge his age and that the most prudent thing to do is to announce...
It is interesting to me to see how the various Republican candidates are challenging Trump. The strategy of DeSantis seems to be to court the conserva...
I didn't think anyone could be worse than Trump as a candidate. But DeSantis may actually be worse. He seems like a meaner, dumber, younger and less c...
Well, I think this shows that there is a complicated dynamic going on. It's not just about Trump, it is about the movement he created it or I would sa...
Lindsey Graham getting booed off stage at a recent Trump rally in SC was very interesting to me because it showed us a few things. Even though Graham ...
People seem to get themselves worked up in knots over these discussions. "In my day, men were men and women were women, by gawd!" seems to be a drivin...
I am old enough to remember when Reagan got elected and people made a big deal out of the fact that he'd been an actor -- in a negative way, as if tha...
Most Republicans I know are good people. They go to work, pay their bills on time, are decent to their friends and neighbors, good parents, etc. If an...
Mostly, what I hear from Republicans is the "what about Hillary?" defense which really isn't a defense. If Hillary, Biden, and Pence all mishandled cl...
This topic reminds me of the skeptical theism response to the evidential problem of evil: "We're just not in a position to be able to say that what ap...
I'm not saying it has been established to be impossible, but that it hasn't been established to be possible. It hasn't to my knowledge. But, I'll just...
Why should we value facts, in other words? You could argue that without a baseline religion we don't have any justification to value anything -- inclu...
I disagree with the OP. I think the writers of the Bible would have been able to make the distinction between fact and value. The question of whether ...
The claim is "in an infinite duration we are more likely to be a disembodied brain." I am questioning why we should accept that claim of probability? ...
Probably because politics is the only game in town. The alternative is anarchy, which doesn't work for large groups. There is a reason anarchy has a n...
Property qualification is a good example for the discussion. Still, it is worth making a distinction between a plutocracy meaning "rule by the rich" a...
We should abolish the debt ceiling. It does nothing but to create an artificial crisis every few years. The debt ceiling has not accomplished anything...
How can you even prove that disembodied brains are possible? The only examples of brains that we have are as parts of bodies. I can't see how anyone c...
It seems we could have two responses to this. First, we could say euphemistically that "every form of a government is a plutocracy" since the wealthy ...
Good to see you, too, wonderer! I was not enjoying the new Reasonable Faith forum format at KnowWhyYouBelieve and was looking for a new place online t...
The nuclear proliferation we're experiencing is currently unsustainable. So is the way we're addressing climate change. The idea that some governments...
Belief in political authority is not a superstition which by definition is belief in supernatural entities or causes. Political authority is an abstra...
I have a theory that very few people are involuntarily celibate, and that most who identify as incel or femcel are in fact voluntarily celibate. They ...
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