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Complaining and conspiracy theories are the bread and butter this President was raised and finished on... We're about to endure weeks and months of Tr...
November 04, 2020 at 20:57
What's worse, the crime of bribery or the fact that the media is covering it up (yet we still somehow all know about it)...? Didn't trump try and make...
October 22, 2020 at 17:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE1LORNwA8E Trump riffing live at a rally... I'm just gonna watch it dispassionately to purge what remains of my polit...
October 21, 2020 at 23:58
Comon now, even just a passing whiff of this argument reveals its stink: "Intense belief must be backed by equally sufficient evidence"... Setting asi...
October 18, 2020 at 13:50
On second thought, it's totally explicable: Both of them are spineless attention-seeking homunculi who will do, say, and dance through any feces-based...
October 08, 2020 at 02:18
The words right out of my mouth... Watching or even just listening to either of them is inexplicably grating.
October 08, 2020 at 02:12
Am I wrong to wonder if Trump even has Covid to begin with? Didn't we only really get information stating "Trump tested positive for Covid"? How many ...
October 06, 2020 at 00:56
Trump's nasty and often semi-coherent rambling is practically unchallenged, and Biden is mostly just vacillating between silence, anger, and saying "h...
September 30, 2020 at 02:22
Here's the deal... We're fucked...
September 30, 2020 at 01:18
oh my god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW1lY5jFNcQ
September 30, 2020 at 01:12
I.Q doesn't cause intelligent behaviour, intelligent behaviour is itself what I.Q tries to measure. In other words, I.Q is a measurement of behaviour....
August 14, 2020 at 18:14
To be specific, it's the fear of getting caught. We don't need to analyze how police reduce crime so long as we agree that's one of their intended fun...
June 10, 2020 at 21:54
Are police given less leeway? Most of the anti-brutality protests which have happened in the last decade began with a reaction to police getting away ...
June 10, 2020 at 21:16
Sorry for not attending the thread more quickly, but I have been busy of late (and I also wanted to leave time for more input). Enforcing the law is t...
June 10, 2020 at 00:16
I agree, it's a broad failure of many parts within the system. Police are supposedly trained on how to escalate and de-escalate, but we're seeing the ...
June 06, 2020 at 21:33
Police safety for utility is the traditional argument used, but it defeats the main purpose of police in the first place, which is to protect civilian...
June 06, 2020 at 21:21
This is absolutely right. High police performance should reduce crime, and reduced crime should result in fewer needed police. I don't know how repres...
June 06, 2020 at 20:52
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts... Protestors should get 10 years in prison.' Be honest: if Obama had said this, you would be advocating...
June 03, 2020 at 20:13
I know right? Coronavirus was a complete hoax just like Donald said. The 100,000 dead are the fault of democrats. Not at all exacerbated by the unbrid...
June 03, 2020 at 06:14
Has anyone ever seen the T.V show "Lost"? Or really any reality-esque show that persists for an unfortunate number of seasons? One of the fundamental ...
June 03, 2020 at 02:01
Obama is to blame. He left the Trump administration with no pre-existing plan for violently massaging piss and shit into the root and stem of every po...
June 03, 2020 at 01:45
This one is definitely related Source https://i.redd.it/x0y9pwcy9e251.jpg
June 02, 2020 at 09:33
Random question that I'm not sure is related to the thread: What's worse: Someone who breaks into your house with the motivation of stealing your tele...
June 01, 2020 at 22:55
Using very broad and vague terms that are borrowed from reflections on complex systems, thought experiments actually represent a very interesting and ...
May 31, 2020 at 02:32
I like to use plausible (or sometimes implausible) thought experiments to either search for or convey exceptions to rules. It's basically like applyin...
May 31, 2020 at 02:20
What should we call this new evil you have described? "Battered voter syndrome"? Let me just check and make sure that this term is not already coined....
May 31, 2020 at 01:47
The only thing I don't understand is why he didn't prepare some food for himself? Perhaps he just didn't want to live in a world without his wife... W...
May 31, 2020 at 01:28
How are mail-in-votes easy to manipulate or corrupt?
May 30, 2020 at 10:13
Depends on whether you don't want immigrants because they might be brown, or not. As Streetlight pointed out, this attitude is a bit hypocritical. If ...
May 29, 2020 at 23:59
What did the reanimated corpse Rene Descartes say when asked if he was conscious? I zom, therefore I be! On a serious note, I'm inclined to agree with...
May 29, 2020 at 09:41
https://i.imgur.com/mYq31xi.png Ah yes, the classic "deploy the military to shoot at civilian looters in the name of a man killed by police" tactic. D...
May 29, 2020 at 05:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
May 28, 2020 at 16:56
If you left my original text intact and merely added editorialized trimmings of your own, then I wouldn't much mind actually... Even if you decorated ...
May 28, 2020 at 02:23
How do you get all that from a misinformation warning? The president threatens to shut down twitter (apparently, but I'm too lazy to check) because th...
May 27, 2020 at 23:21
It's hard to describe why though. It's like a literary grotesquerie. It's like being punched in the brain. I haven't read nearly all of them; just fli...
May 22, 2020 at 22:21
I stumbled on this wiki page... it's quite.... Unusual... List of unusual deaths
May 21, 2020 at 23:00
Standards pulled from one's ass can be satisfied in the same manner. Is your argument that nobody has ever signaled virtue for the positive social san...
May 21, 2020 at 22:58
Statistical inference. When someone is too offended on behalf of a fashionable cause that doesn't affect them, there's medium to high correlation with...
May 21, 2020 at 10:21
You're restating your opinion, sure, but I'm just holding you to the same standard you held me to in your criticism of my response to the thread. What...
May 21, 2020 at 10:00
Why is it that your standard of evidence requires me to fetch ten bona fide philosophies or philosophers, while it allows you to just quote yourself t...
May 21, 2020 at 09:45
It would depend on the context now wouldn't it? Do you want a hypothetical example of why it might be obvious that someone is virtue signaling? A real...
May 21, 2020 at 09:27
Religious Philosophy What is philosophy?
May 21, 2020 at 09:25
Sometimes they doth virtue signal too much, me thinks...
May 21, 2020 at 09:08
So why should we question our own behavior when we encounter someone that is "virtue signaling"? Is it because we should be jealous of their virtue?
May 21, 2020 at 09:02
I didn't realize that the grand pontiff had to swear an oath of celibosophy... You asked for a list of philosophies that don't reason what they say......
May 21, 2020 at 08:47
Yea, @"Bitter Crank"! Other people proclaiming how virtuous they are makes you relatively less virtuous by comparison... You must therefore question y...
May 21, 2020 at 08:41
A face that only a Heavenly Father could love: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/tokens/45865-original.jpg
May 20, 2020 at 21:21
List of religions and spiritual traditions. https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/2411443089279/2015/1/ca125b0a55eb6a557caa0f88f837677e/Pope-Francis-addres...
May 20, 2020 at 20:45
And why have you not reasoned why philosophy reasons what it says? (I think you mean philosophy employs reason (i.e: it's logical.rational). However, ...
May 20, 2020 at 09:25
They say that it's a love of knowledge, but I suspect it's rather a love of articulation and pontification. To wonder, to explore, to learn, and to ca...
May 20, 2020 at 06:47