If he had type 2 because he had been super-sizing for years like most Americans, I'd have no sympathy, but this guy had type 1 so it ain't his fault b...
A grammar nazi is no more a nazi than the mouth of a river is a mouth. However, remark withdrawn, oversensitive pedant. Meaning is use. Now back to th...
All due respect to the grammar nazis but as a mere speaker of common-speak, so-to-speak, is it not the case that once a phrase gains common currency, ...
Have a little taste of Chinese ethics, guys. https://aeon.co/ideas/how-mengzi-came-up-with-something-better-than-the-golden-rule?fbclid=IwAR3kI7V7ph5g...
The rather more negative view is that they are less centrist and more two-faced, able to have contradictory policies according to who they are speakin...
Of course not, but if I am understanding it right, then free will consists of an extra input from another world analogous to a player's input into a c...
Grauniad The logic of fascism is thus: I, the leader, am the true and natural voice of the people and of the nation. Therefore, an attack on me is an ...
It seems appropriate to me to chastise the discussion of irrelevancies, especially if everyone is assumed to understand the irrelevance already. But t...
How ironic of you to be suggesting my sarcasm alert is more properly an irony alert, and then questioning the precision of my comment. Let me be entir...
Thoughts, prayers, optimism, and pessimism are all really effective against climate change, along with all the other isms mentioned. Climate is a matt...
It would be nice if skin colour didn't matter the way ear size doesn't matter. One would not need to be colour-blind any more than one needs to be ear...
Take an extreme but sadly not uncommon situation where a neighbouring country is involved in a bout of 'ethnic cleansing'. Africa, Asia, Europe, at le...
Feel free to get reasonably run down by the band wagon of your choice. I like money because the nice people at Walmart collect it, and they give me st...
Exactly the same reason I value those particular bits of paper with the complicated design that say "£20" on them. What a munchkin eh? Good job there ...
I repeat, you can deny it all you want and I might even agree with you in one sense. but in another sense there really are differences of skin colour,...
Does your mind take no account of the mind of others and no account of society? It is all too often the the case that 'they' decide that you are Jew o...
And I was saying that of course it does, and to pretend that it doesn't is fairly shitty. It shouldn't according to some fantasy of social relations, ...
That's a fairly shitty question. I'd prefer to conduct a detailed interview following a written application, and then follow up the references. But wh...
Indeed, racism is not confined to white people either. I have already hinted at this. Colour blindness is however just practiced by dominant power gro...
Well there you have it. One begins with a nationality, and it becomes a race. Such is identity. But what, then does one make of 'American'? Some Ameri...
That's not going to happen. Given it simply is the case that people of ethnicity X are liable to be in danger from people of ethnicity Y in the places...
I disagree. Generally, I blame the people with power and money and influence more than the ordinary Joes. But social ills that are not natural disaste...
A dog simply knows, in excitement it shows. What it means when you pick up the lead. And can well be deceived by what is perceived Through perceptions...
This is rather important, but also rather delicate. One says to a supporter, Stop voting for Trump, he's a misogynist; to vote for Trump is to vote fo...
Yes, labels matter, fuck wit. I seem to have labeled one of you 'fuck wit'. In this case it is unimportant because I am unimportant. but if I were you...
This is worth looking at head on, because this is what we have come to. This is the logic that applies also at times to freedom of speech and justice,...
I dunno, Frank. What's the immune system represent in this analogy? What's the lethal organisms? The problem is that this is a typically fascist analo...
Of course. One has to add up the inches. Of course one will be more inclined to make excuses for someone whose views one shares. Here in the UK, I see...
I gave a list of several factors that are to my mind and to many others, common precursors of fascism, the collapse of democracy, and the beginning of...
I seems to me that the Nazi Death camps are the apotheosis of industrialised death, but merely the Gold medal winner in an event that many have entere...
By way of slightly changing the direction, try a comparison with the Handmaid's tale instead of the Nastis... Deplorable or not deplorable? https://ta...
I'm tempted to start a new thread - "What is democracy?" (apart from distilled political niceness and legitimacy that is). But in the meantime, what i...
No. I am giving an example of a belief one might have in something that does not exist. Something that might be both more easily understandable and in...
And the EU Commission can employ the Queen to read them a speech they have written telling them whatever they want to hear, and we'll call that the de...
I have the solution! The name of the EU in English shall be changed to "The New British Empire". Then we'll have none of this German conspiracy to bec...
No. to the extent that there was a promise to respect the result, not respecting the result is breaking the promise. That would be a good thing, but i...
As far as i can see, that means the options are: Remain, and break the referendum promise. Reinstate the border in N. Ireland, and break the N.I treat...
So as a leftist, I have a somewhat different story. About 6 mins into the vid, the Trump apologist says that he made a very populist speech similar to...
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