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That's a very fair position. As I said either not voting or voting Trump in my view - for conservatives - are acceptable choices. I can understand why...
October 15, 2016 at 13:33
What do you know about Putin, and more importantly how do you know it? Have you ever been to Russia? Have you lived there? Do you have relatives or fr...
October 15, 2016 at 11:45
The Russian media is actually quite a bit more honest than its Western counterparts. This Russian phobia of the West is just that. A phobia, which pro...
October 15, 2016 at 11:34
We have to make a choice between Hillary and Trump. There is no other real alternative. Therefore we must compare them and see who is the better choic...
October 15, 2016 at 11:19
No he doesn't - Bush was a horrible President. They did - except that she's covering things up and using her power and influence to protect herself. A...
October 15, 2016 at 10:22
Trump wouldn't start a war like Bush. And I agree that back then probably Gore would've been a better choice. There is a story about Bertrand Russell ...
October 15, 2016 at 10:03
Hillary Clinton is competent? Really? So she was competent in the way she handled the emails? She was competent in the way she handled Benghazi? She w...
October 14, 2016 at 23:44
Yes - then you see why I don't support Crooked. She will just continue Obama.
October 14, 2016 at 22:02
And you think Crooked is an expert right? Trump knows and understand business, he can think from a businessman's perspective while in office, which wi...
October 14, 2016 at 22:02
Yes it would be. Trump is still better than Crooked on economics, health care, counter-terrorism and immigration. Probably much worse on diplomacy and...
October 14, 2016 at 17:41
It's a disgrace the Nobel Prize for Literature got thrown away this year.
October 14, 2016 at 12:35
Sure, it's not sufficient as a condition. There needs to be a lot more there, and I'm not saying Trump's will be a great Presidency. As I've said befo...
October 14, 2016 at 12:32
The whole Republican support network has a high concentration of social conservatives. It's not that they will make Trump effective, but rather his ad...
October 14, 2016 at 12:03
Because it's more likely given the circumstance. It's not just "oh he has a rape case against him" - you have to understand the circumstance, and what...
October 14, 2016 at 11:55
People like Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and so forth. You probably won't find a single social conservative in Crooked's political...
October 14, 2016 at 11:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Md-Mit6Q
October 14, 2016 at 11:32
Well he did say soon - that presumably means before the election. We shall see.
October 14, 2016 at 11:31
No, it's not reasonable at all - they were two different cases - one regarding business dealings and another regarding rape accusations. It's also qui...
October 14, 2016 at 11:30
I never made that argument. It's his wife. She probably just wanted more dough than she could get by a simple divorce proceeding. Yes I don't dispute ...
October 14, 2016 at 10:28
That video, despite the fact that you're annoyed, made an important point. It wasn't discussing Carson's views on homosexuality or anything of that so...
October 14, 2016 at 10:02
Again John, clarify for me, what possible motivation could there be for paying someone close to 1 million bucks for something you hadn't even done? St...
October 13, 2016 at 21:23
Can you tell me why you would do that? What would be your motivation for doing that?
October 13, 2016 at 21:15
So you're telling me that if you were Bill Clinton, you'd settle a rape accusation for 850K USD, knowing very well that the woman is just playing you ...
October 13, 2016 at 21:12
This is very vague. What do you really mean?
October 13, 2016 at 21:07
>:O But the fact that he has paid 850K to settle a rape accusation makes him 98% guilty in my mind already. For all practical purposes that is all the...
October 13, 2016 at 21:07
I'm originally from Eastern Europe but I've been living in the UK until very recently. What makes you curious?
October 13, 2016 at 21:03
Yes, I will then consider him the equal of Bill Clinton. I'd still choose him over Bill if I had to pick between who is going to the White House, beca...
October 13, 2016 at 20:58
Oh common... what would you have done my dear? If the guy offered you 1 million bucks would you not have agreed to settle, even if he had raped you? Y...
October 13, 2016 at 20:40
And letting ISIS thrive. And continuing illegal immigration. And continuing the focus on identity politics. And continuing political correctness. And ...
October 13, 2016 at 20:29
Oh common give me a break... if he hadn't actually raped her, why did he pay her, what in today's money, would equal to more than 1 million dollars? D...
October 13, 2016 at 20:12
First because this is about sexual morality - Bill Clinton. That in itself, getting such a man in the White House again, that is a bigger crime than a...
October 13, 2016 at 19:42
Not necessarily Sapientia. Again, I wouldn't encourage to vote for him if on the other side we didn't have a very dangerous progressive candidate - an...
October 13, 2016 at 19:22
Social conservatives should vote for Trump. Progressivism is an advanced stage cancer, and Trump is the chemotherapy... http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
October 13, 2016 at 18:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLwY5-safk
October 13, 2016 at 18:49
No, actually I'm quite annoyed by sexually immoral people from the past, and I tend to go so far as even lower the attention I pay to their thinking. ...
October 13, 2016 at 17:56
Which, by the way, is true - just as you yourself have just admitted. I disagree - he thought the history of events is related to the history of ideas...
October 12, 2016 at 23:53
Very good. That's what I've been saying. It remains for you (or Marx) to show the necessary link between the history of ideas and the history of mater...
October 12, 2016 at 23:17
Oh my days... oh my days... White privilege - that thing which decreases your chances of, for example, becoming a university professor, while your pos...
October 12, 2016 at 23:15
I thought liberals were all about "screw the constitution" :P
October 12, 2016 at 22:55
Not necessarily. Your practical views are very close to some forms of meditative Buddhism from my understanding. You're all about being centered in yo...
October 12, 2016 at 22:52
Excuse me? This is about Cicero - he is long dead. What do you mean would I still have supported him? You can't really support dead people. And what d...
October 12, 2016 at 21:31
John "Asinus" Mill. The godfather of the Progressives... oh my days!
October 12, 2016 at 10:27
It is actually an interesting issue. Which position on the fox-hunting issue should be considered the conservative one, given the positions that are c...
October 12, 2016 at 10:26
Oh wow, what a great event, I will certainly record it in my calendar - I agree! I also agree here - there is no "evolution" of consciousness - no str...
October 11, 2016 at 23:45
Why is it perplexing? When you're rich and powerful you have to be a bully to keep going - it's the most effective way to move forward, since others n...
October 11, 2016 at 23:37
I don't think he was as skilled a politician as Caesar. Caesar was definitely another level when it came to getting things done in politics (even when...
October 11, 2016 at 23:24
If someone gives you 1 billion today, you'll find that it's not so easy to keep it, especially if you're playing it as he has been. It's very difficul...
October 11, 2016 at 23:18
Ah I feel Spinoza's intuitive knowledge (the third kind) being close to you ;)
October 11, 2016 at 23:14
You wouldn't be alone - https://www.amazon.com/Without-Buddha-Could-Not-Christian/dp/185168963X
October 11, 2016 at 23:13
I don't think so - I think we still need the preoccupation with the Law to be able to understand Christ. The movement has happened in human history - ...
October 11, 2016 at 23:12