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Then the next question is of course, if we take the others definition and go with it, do we then have an issue here? Yes, it indeed isn't the same! Th...
November 20, 2019 at 21:06
And do not that former Warsaw pact countries wanted to join the US alliance. Of course there are exceptions. Typically those countries that the US has...
November 20, 2019 at 20:53
Really, you think so? Ok, then a reference you can find in many articles besides this one: See Trump 'surprised' by Mattis waterboarding comments So i...
November 20, 2019 at 20:44
True. However you doctor treats skin cancer of individuals and doesn't actually categorize you by race. Yet the doctor does categorize you by sex. The...
November 20, 2019 at 12:57
So I guess then your line isn't about illegal immigrants in general, just specific illegal immigrants. Very poor illegal immigrants? Every policy ough...
November 20, 2019 at 11:53
And that's why we have a representative democracy in our republics. And unlike the US, here we don't even have things like felony disenfranchisement. ...
November 17, 2019 at 19:49
Because Illegal Immigration mostly happens through official points of entry! So yes, who does care about actual reality? See The Real Illegal Immigrat...
November 17, 2019 at 19:27
And let's not forget that the Common Man is simply a myth. The Common Man is both a Republican and a Democrat in the US, both an active voter and some...
November 17, 2019 at 18:31
One can be a good communicator, but in truth the ACTUAL POLICIES are what matter. And people don't usually follow the actual policies implemented. As ...
November 17, 2019 at 18:02
, every political movement ever has known what is best for the people. Or have you heard about the political movement that declares that they don't kn...
November 17, 2019 at 17:26
Thank for the PF team (and @Wallows and @Amity) that have arranged this meeting and giving forward material! Looking forward to this. (Will read the b...
November 17, 2019 at 16:00
Well, those who have bashed in history government and corporate elites have been, just to give some examples, a) communists b) national socialists, c)...
November 17, 2019 at 11:22
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
That's why China won't pass the West. The Communists will fear so much their own people, they will fear that the protests now emerging in Hong Kong mi...
November 16, 2019 at 16:41
Even if it's a bit off topic, how about "robust national defence"? That if anything is a collective endeavor, quite autoritarian and has nothing to do...
November 16, 2019 at 16:28
That's not technically Cantor's diagonal argument. That proof comes into use only with the reals R. Please understand you are not talking of a bijecti...
November 16, 2019 at 12:45
The truth will be in the history books. Typically 20 or 30 years later. What on Earth are you talking about? That what you say doesn't matter at all. ...
November 16, 2019 at 12:21
It is strangely a totally blind spot for some Americans. Similar behavior I witnessed on the old PF site with some Americans having the urge to defend...
November 16, 2019 at 00:42
It truly is mind opening. Even now it's a puzzle for us just what it opens to us. When we show with Cantor's diagonal argument that there isn't a bije...
November 16, 2019 at 00:11
Sure. Starting from the fact that we don't know the answer to the Continuum Hypothesis. Which tells us quite plainly that we still don't understand ev...
November 15, 2019 at 23:32
Oooh, seems you a have a new take on this! Umm...pizzagate. Earlier Trump said it was sarcasm. Right, willingly taking help from a foreign adversarial...
November 15, 2019 at 23:29
Which in my view is then OK to have an impeachment hearing. Being actually impeached or resigning as Nixon did is another matter. Then the Republicans...
November 15, 2019 at 23:08
Evidence? Well, let's see how the impeachment of agent Trumpov goes... And of course, lying about a blowjob and lying about getting support from Russi...
November 15, 2019 at 23:02
How can it be, that people are put to court or impeached because of lying? https://www.newsbusters.org/s3/files/styles/blog_body-50/s3/images/clinton-...
November 15, 2019 at 22:50
What tyranny that a man cannot lie under oath and tamper witnesses. Where's the justice? Is the justice state dead?
November 15, 2019 at 22:46
I'd have that Pizzagate this time at night. But it would be bad for my health and my looks.
November 15, 2019 at 21:50
What are you talking about? Uh, of course the 2016 elections happened on Obama's term. Umm...I don't know where you are going with this? INSTEAD of in...
November 15, 2019 at 21:41
There's an old saying: If you are in a debate with a German and you are totally losing the argument, then to win just use the Hitler card and say: "We...
November 15, 2019 at 21:33
Anything? What's with the denial NOS4A2? Trump is the most Pro-Russian US president ever. 1) Russia intervened in your elections. As it has intervened...
November 15, 2019 at 21:10
No, your not doing that. Do understand what you are making with a bijection: every member of E has a pair in N and vice versa. That is a bijection, on...
November 15, 2019 at 21:00
In: Brexit  — view comment
This is the crucial issue. Putin's aggressive stance isn't in the end at all the best way to handle these issues. You see in Central Asia once after 9...
November 15, 2019 at 20:42
Found guilty on all 7 accounts. Hahahahaa! :grin: I wonder how Roger's book will sell now: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xqpfpPLO...
November 15, 2019 at 20:21
And you can say also "tall guy", "blond guy", "fat" or "skinny", and people have a pretty good idea too. The issue is what just importance you give it...
November 15, 2019 at 20:14
The color of your skin doesn't matter in matters of health. (Perhaps white people get sun burn more often, I don't know.) Yet the division in medical ...
November 15, 2019 at 20:02
There's too many meanings, too many interpretations, too many 'translations' and 'dog whistles' or 'subverted or masked intensions' to make any sense ...
November 15, 2019 at 14:20
As and note this is quite universal. I would add that Japan, South Korea and Singapore etc. For example, the map showing universal health care (free &...
November 14, 2019 at 22:51
What's wrong with that? Which btw shows how absolutely useless it is as a mark of povetry: no matter what happens there is a bottom quintile. It says ...
November 14, 2019 at 22:37
I think a lot of present day philosophy readers would be disappointed at the generations ago lived philosophers being a) religious and conservative an...
November 14, 2019 at 20:54
Yet not always and in every country has the ruling elite been corrupt and looking only at it's self interest. Just look at the cabal of freemasons who...
November 14, 2019 at 17:20
When we have just one example, a fairly difficult question. Just as difficult as the question how probable is life to emerge when a planet has the ing...
November 14, 2019 at 13:23
Populism and the divide to "the elite" and "the common people" needs basically an agenda that the so-called mainstream parties either aren't or seem n...
November 14, 2019 at 13:14
Once an animal species gets the ability to use complex language and furthermore use written language, then it's quite predictable that we will have th...
November 13, 2019 at 21:04
Actually if you listen to the summit, I think I remember them mentioning ISIS and/or it's affiliate. But I like these kinds of discussions as they are...
November 13, 2019 at 20:34
One basic problem that this wealthy elite doesn't think it has any role, any responsibilities to the people. As if they are just rich because of their...
November 13, 2019 at 20:31
Well, that's a bit of large thing to answer. Just like "What's happening in America? Meaning what's happening in North, South and Central America? Whe...
November 13, 2019 at 20:22
Yet once you have life it isn't at all simply random. Mutations can be random, but what life forms adapt and prosper and what become extinct isn't at ...
November 13, 2019 at 19:37
The libertarian is more rich and the anarchist more violent. :joke:
November 13, 2019 at 16:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, I've always thought that there has had to be behind this all a power play in the conservative party. Once the fateful error of a vote on the EU w...
November 13, 2019 at 16:32
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
Because the totalitarianism of the Chinese Communist Party makes it is inherently weak. And someone who has had the taste of freedom won't forget it. ...
November 13, 2019 at 15:38
So you think Noam Chomsky is mentally unstable? He says he is a left-libertarian. So do notice that libertarianism isn't only what Murray Rothbard and...
November 13, 2019 at 15:26
Maybe. Sometimes in a society rules can be beneficial to everybody. Just think of driving around in a big city without absolutely no rules, no traffic...
November 13, 2019 at 15:19