If it's just politics, - no justice, just theater -, why are republicans crying out for the show to be stopped now? If it's all just politics, the new...
What are you basing this on? Firstly, our capacity for language is not infinite. The number of possible sequences of sounds we can make is infinite, b...
Language is a sign of intelligence... Literally.... Evolutionary endowed language capacities evolved very slowly. (Chomsky can offer no real insights ...
Does repeating the word fantasy enact some kind of magical incantation? This go-around started with a whistle-blower report, and a subsequent "transcr...
I don't think the founders envisioned a system where either party takes turns filling every major office with party-loyal sycophants who are willing t...
Nuclear power and beyond is controversial for those who are interested in it; I don't think democrats are in a position to discount possible energy so...
Actually we can just look at the return rates that have been realized by low risk investment funds since the 70's. He has performed more poorly than t...
He owns a lot of properties, and in years where he doesn't spend or lose too much money he sees a return. In 1978 he was apparently worth 100 million ...
The man wouldn't even release his tax returns, likely because it would show he doesn't even have a billion dollars (or at the very least, that he has ...
If apple pie was born into extreme wealth, and then proceeded to fail at everything but entertainment, then I would agree with you. How has trump rebu...
But for you, trump is a knight in shining armor who came to slay the black knight and his dragons. For me, Trump is the naked emperor, parading throug...
Jackson was actually the only candidate that came to mind as potentially worse. Trump seems to be a kind of digital-age Jacksonian (with the rabble ro...
The economic or militaristic failure of America would have so many complex ramifications across our inter-dependent globalized markets and security in...
So for the last 3+ years I've been anticipating Trump's impeachment... I actually wanted Trump to win the election, to grind his unhinged organ for al...
Oh my! So it's just a shitty attempt to silence and censor via frivolous litigation, which is exactly why he filed it in a state with no anti-SLAPP la...
And in tertiary news, Devin Nunes filed a half billion dollar lawsuit against CNN, seeking punitive damages for fake news/defamation. Specifically, De...
Corruption huh? And not specifically Burisma investigations targeting Hunter Biden? Not specifically public announcements of investigations? We don't ...
But Trump doesn't give Ukraine money, the U.S itself does (via congress in this case), so not only is Trump leveraging US property for his own gain, h...
Trump wanted Zelensky to do him a favor though... Trump did obstruct the aid, Ukraine knew, knew they needed the aid, and they knew what Trump wanted....
Trump recently (re)tweeted that president Zelensky repeatedly stated that there was 'no pressure' and 'no position of quid pro quo'... I just wanted t...
Positive and negative ethics can be a seriously useful distinction when exploring moral systems... Broadly, all humans have values that are important ...
There are actually very few limitations on what you can say here in this forum. More important is how you say it, and that there is some philosophical...
So now that the public impeachment inquiry hearings have concluded, what have we learned? We've seen nigh irrefutable proof that Trump did in fact try...
Nukes only protect against other nukes, and maybe homeland invasions (nobody has dared to use them offensively since their debut). Essentially they're...
Putin is hated about as much as he is loved, as far as I can gather (and seems to retain power by assassinating his rivals). What makes him so popular...
We're protecting our ally against Russian invasion... America is in a very complicated strategic relationship with its allies, but in short, Europe's ...
It's mostly about a long-term geo-political strategy to counter the re-emergence of Russia as a rival super-power. To some degree it's also about maki...
Earlier in the testimony, the counselor asked Taylor why certain terms, including "public box", were in quotation marks, and Taylor stated that everyt...
It's Taylor quoting sondland. The quote is present in Taylor's personal notes, and he affirmed their accuracy under oath. https://youtu.be/BpNl3b1SYtc...
To be fair, I'm not making up quotes, I'm quoting sworn testimony. Taylor's understanding was that the military aid hinged on investigations. This is ...
I would tend to agree, but even bread and games eventually give way to mounting inequality and suffering (wide-spread and systematic wanting, whether ...
I am reticent to conflate the GOP establishment (and it's gimp-slaves like Lindsey Graham) with conservatives at large. They're really not so bad, and...
Some people are incorrigible ideologues, for sure, but everyone has a limit, and everyone can be persuaded. If I assume that nothing can persuade my i...
The fact that he wanted public announcements about the launch of investigations is basically slow motion video of the gun itself being fired (the elec...
The evidence makes it pretty clear that Trump wanted actual investigations to be opened (by the Ukranian administration/government). The whole "I want...
Corruption is corruption, and it should all be investigated. I lose no sleep over Biden et al, and the possible exposure of their corruption (I sort o...
Allow me to respond in chunks so we can address each point. Don't you think that having the president of Ukraine make a public investigation our of Bi...
Don't you think it's strange that the president of America is asking a foreign government to investigate American citizens? We can take the view that ...
Just here to mark my dismay at the loss of yet another long time poster. What is causing veteran posters to lose their cool all of a sudden? Ultimatel...
If human minds have X complexity, and things of greater complexity tend to emerge from things of lesser complexity, then it actually does follow (indu...
You're right that statistical analysis is not a measurement of any one individual, so even when there are very clear trends that apply to a given "ide...
So i think it might be useful to separate two different kinds of "valuation" that we apply to others. The first kind is like respect and kindness; to ...
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