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Where in NZ are you? I like visiting NZ, I have a few friends in Nelson and like going tramping.

You reading Musk’s mind now?

What did he get? Apart from an embarrassed look on his face and a climb down.

You’re right, there were no concessions made. It was all just one giant ego trip for Trump, where people stood up to him and he had to back down. TACO...

Yes, I’m being a bit of an attack dog here, I’ll try and tone it down a bit. I think he was suggesting I was acting in bad faith, not you.

No worries. This is the issue which keeps coming up in this thread. That the row over free speech takes situations where incitement and racial prejudi...

So laws around incitement and libel should be thrown out to defend free speech then? You’ll be demanding we leave the ECHR next, presumably?

It’s not about speech, that is as free as it ever was, it’s about publishing. So are you saying everyone should have the freedom to publish anything t...

It’s just my opinion after watching the speech. Can you say you watched it and found it coherent?

I have been a political cartoonist (in my spare time) for over 30yrs. I knew that there were places you just don’t go as a cartoonist. This is for two...

If you watch the officer who fired the shots, he can be seen, reaching for his gun before the car moved. While he could see clearly that the victim wa...

If people are assuming an omnipotent God, when discussing what God is up to, all discussion is pointless.

It was an excellent way of diverting attention from the Epstein files and the riots in Minneapolis. Also I expect there are lots of MAGA people riding...

Lot’s of nice quotes from the speech like this one; He could have followed that with, that’s a nice piece of ice you’ve got there, it would be a shame...

Yes, it’s all over the news here in the U.K. We’re all well aware of it and it’s scary.

Yes, I’m expecting the audience to gradually leave the room until he’s standing there on his own. He’s just lived up to his nickname of TACO. They jus...

I’m listen to the speech now, he’s lost his mind.

I would say symbolic of the possibility of redemption. The narrative indicates this, that Jesus’s life and life story was to demonstrate an acceptance...

Yes, but this amounts to the blob, the swamp in Washington and Trump is just as much a creature of the swamp as the rest of them. So no change there t...

It fits into a larger narrative. The idea that God created the heaven and earth so that beings could live a life independent of his direct control. Or...

Fortunately for us Russia is already preoccupied with trying to secure the Donbas. It would cause overreach for Russia to invade other territories, es...

It looks then that you agree with me that there is a general drift in US geopolitics in the national interest. But this is a meaningless platitude whi...

I don’t disagree with your take on the deep state within the US, but I read this as a deviation from that. It’s certainly a deviation when it comes to...

It comes across to me as a child realising that he is not going to get what he want’s, that saying pretty please isn’t going to work this time and is ...

Interestingly there are also things we take for granted every day, like that we are reliably in our home, our garden, with our social group, that the ...

Trump seems to care. Aha, I know he could do a deal, I won’t annex Greenland if you give me a Nobel Prize.

Yes, very much the undifferentiated self, but seen, or known from a personal perspective. As for a Western equivalent, it seems like it was lost in th...

He won’t be eligible for the next one now.

Looks to me like Trump reinstated an already existing programme because it was the opposite of what Obama did. Now in his second term he has become ex...

Within the Indian traditions the self can be known. I don’t want to diminish the gravity of the idea that, 'the eye can see another, but not itself', ...

What’s it got to do with Trump?

We can draw a parallel with deepfakes, which have been going around for a few years now. The legal ramifications have been worked out and tested in th...

Yes, agreed, it seems a clear cut to me. But this shines a light on what Musk and Farage are doing. They are claiming it is censorship, a free speech ...

I would say he is saying that the transcendental subject (ts) can’t be a creator of the noumenon. He’s not saying that it can’t create within the inte...

I’ll have to give that more thought, you’ve made it quite complicated there.

My cat knows the noumenon just like I do. Although he wouldn’t think about it like me. He can know it through experiences, just not through thinking. ...

Please don’t apologise, I welcome the interest. I thought the issue about Grok should be included here because it has been treated as a free speech is...

Kant is saying we can’t know anything about the noumenon with rational thought. Basically it is veiled from us. This does not negate our knowing it by...

You had to Google Grok! You could Google, Grok, micro bikini Elon Musk. Grok has a facility to deep fake a micro Bikini on any image. It’s a big story...

Are you sure Grok wasn’t involved? That looks a bit risqué.

So does abuse of women and girls via Grok, a freedom of speech issue in the U.K.? Or an issue around pedophilia and abuse of women being facilitated b...

Nice story, I have looked very carefully for signs of physical magic throughout my life and don’t think I’ve witnessed it, or seen good evidence for i...

Neither China or Russia would even think of invading Greenland because they would immediately be pushed back by NATO forces. Trump has nothing when it...

Thanks for the clarification, I couldn’t remember the figures, but knew it was a lot.

I don’t know enough about how much ICE was active before Trump, but I saw a report the other day that ice spending has risen rapidly to over a billion...

Yes, this is the time. Let’s hope they do and let’s face it, if they don’t, they will be a laughing stock.

Well at least no one is talking about the Epstein files now.

Yes, it’s a case of populists exploiting the phenomena of social media gaslighting along with religious fervour and dogmatism. If they can confuse the...

Yes, it’s looking pretty bad, it looks like the republicans will have to go all the way now, because if they stop they will be finished for a generati...

It does and it will likely be extended to anyone who dissents from Trump’s murmurings and opposes any action by ICE, or any other government initiativ...