The thing is though, that context matters; I have no doubt that Scott's feelings were real - all too real (as were your PTSD anxieties). He really did...
Yeah that's fair - it's less a matter of dismissing such speculative hurt than putting it in its place, or seeing it for what it is, as it were. With ...
It wasn't even 'repeal', it was, 'hey, the constitution itself provides for a reading in which regulation is written into the very passage itself'. An...
Projection? You literally can't get through more than a couple of posts without writhing over the boogyman that is 'the left'. Not only do you seem to...
When you're unable to discuss substance, all that's left is to invoke ideological spectres to cover over argumentative inability. It's generally a goo...
To be clear, my incredulity has nothing to do with your stance on guns as it was to your rhetorical strategy. Again, to move from a point about the co...
This sounds reasonable. Among my favorite ads from a while back: https://youtu.be/LORVfnFtcH0 Hey I'm not the snowflake who can't write a sentence wit...
Err, 'the last one' was about the threat of undergroud conspiratorial lefties, who are the real probelm according to your kind. I was agreeing with yo...
Also, I hardly see this as a left or right issue. I see this as a uniquiely American issue, where the American attitude - so nicely distilled in the s...
Yes, I'm playing dumb because I'm the one who thinks it's remotely feasible that the democratic party wants to - and can - ban all guns or make it imp...
Oh look I make no secret about where I stand. I said it in the shoutbox but I think people thought I was joking. All gun carriers should be wearing bl...
Yes, all those crazies, look at them, trying to do something - anything - about the extraordinary disproportion of gun related deaths in the US. Madne...
Ah, the classic 'you can't defend the point you never brought up to begin with can you?' tactic. Really got me there! At least 12 squirms you got outt...
Ah, wait till you hear about the invasion body snatchers. Maybe we're the last real humans Agu! The things you can imagine and fantasize about if only...
I've never pretended I don't like monkeying around. But really, I've no serious response to Thorongil's posts other than incredulity. When recourse to...
Yes, it is indeed sooooo bizarre that the reference to regulation refers to some manner of regulation. SOOOoOoOOo bizarre. Seriously, I'm done, I can'...
And I can imagine Jesus riding a dinosaur with lazers shooting out of it's eyes. But that, like your point, would be entirely irrelevant to pointing o...
Says the dude who responded to a point about the constitution with 'they're planning to take away all our guns - look what Pelosi said the other day'....
I mean it though. I think your response is so wild as to be something that honestly needs to be a case study in human communication. Along with most o...
Ah, Pelosi's reference to a 'slippery slope' unequivocally translating to the "banning all guns or passing regulations that make it nearly impossible ...
I suppose it's the same person who said that we ought to be "banning all guns or passing regulations that make it nearly impossible to own one". The p...
And I have genuine concerns about the intentions of those who would prefer that the current murderous state of affairs stays as it is. So what? What a...
Yeah, American patriotism is insane. It's basically cartoon patriotism more concerned about symbols and bright colors than it is the betterment of its...
Let's recall that the constitutional right to bear arms is embedded in a passage regarding a well regulated militia. Here it is: "A well regulated Mil...
"Time, time: the step not beyond that is not accomplished in time would lead outside of time, without this outside being intemporal, but there where t...
Yep. The more politicization the better, until America's ridiculous death-by-gun stats come down. Would prefer it politic'd to death than, uh, actual ...
I have to admit, I have a kind of sick fascination with the rationalizations offered in the face of gun attacks in the US. Fascination because they ar...
To be fair, banning guns may not be a solution. Perhaps something half-way, like making gun owners wear brightly colored flashing LED hats that say I ...
Yes, the US stands exclusively as a nation in which the frequency of mass murder by gun is dizzyingly out of proportion with its population size in co...
I figure 'only' qualifies the adverb 'regularly', and given that the US stands in a class of it's own with respect to the frequency of it's mass shoot...
Irrelevant. And if anyone thinks that headline is a legitimate one, there's no hope for them to begin with. To say nothing of the fact that it's close...
I removed it because I didn't want to use a picture of the Vagas shooting. Didn't feel right. Figured the obviousness of the satire spoke for itself, ...
Oh good. We've been driven to the ground (ey? ey?) by life saving road rules and regulation for far too long. The Revolution starts... tomorrow mornin...
I've always liked the refrain - the source of which I can't remember now - that if it takes a year or more of being on a learner's permit in order to ...
For someone like Arendt, the vita contemplativa (the life of contemplation) was the diametric opposite of the vita activia (the life of action), and i...
I agree, it shouldn't be. But the point remains that if one's battle for food takes on a political tenor, it becomes a matter of, as it were, changing...
No more confidence than I'd have with literally any other writer in any other field. I mean legit, I don't understand high-order physics papers but th...
Deleuze is one of the very few authors for whom beginning with secondary readings is, I think, pretty appropriate (I wouldn't suggest it with alot of ...
That's so cool that you're getting into Levinas. His star seems to have faded a bit of late, even among continental circles. As far as suggestions go,...
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