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No, see, I'm aware that wage stagnation has occurred, but it's not clear to me how Reagan or Thatcher are solely or even mostly to blame for it, as yo...

If they do, prove it.

Lol.

No, I don't.

The 70s? Reagan became president in 1980; Thatcher the PM in 1979.

Prove it.

I've noticed something similar happen in myself. I've always been fairly apolitical, in that I honestly don't care to think much about politics or cur...

These refugees have chosen Israel for a reason, presumably, and it wasn't because they felt they would be living in worse conditions compared to where...

Look at the brief list I provided of things Israelis can be proud of and then note the distinct absence of and even hostility toward them in Palestine...

Yeah, and I know Willow will be the PC Gestapo officer who arrests me. Fuck Breitbart, though.

Well, I suppose it's in order to understand myself and the world.

A good point. Most people also seem to forget that Palestinians are Arabs. Their displacement isn't the same as, say, the displacement of the Kurds fr...

You're just kicking the can down the road a bit further. What human rights abuses? As for border policing, this is surely very necessary, considering ...

Calling me out I see. I suppose I shall indulge you. You won't find that from me. The need to alleviate boredom.

You're an odd one, and this conversation is going nowhere at a breakneck pace. I'm out.

Is my lack of asking preventing you from providing one? Don't be coy with me.

And I was laughing at the post to which I responded. As for your question, I don't really understand it.

Explain. That you felt the need to express your apathy in the way you did betrays that you are apathetic to the degree that you implied. The truly apa...

Sorry Baden, where are the damning quotes? I don't see them. I think Bannon is a scumbag, like other conservatives, but that doesn't mean he's really ...

Trump is as much a white nationalist as I am a Martian.

Ooh, what a tough guy.

It's a good thing to be opposed to a sovereign nation state?

You goddamn communist. I knew it.

You're boring!

This is oxymoronic. If they earned their wealth, then they didn't steal it and so cannot be called robbers. Not necessarily. It might shift where trad...

Is that really so obvious? Depending on your metaphysical presuppositions, this claim may or may not be so. You ask this as though you have a choice i...

You're thinking of a theologian. I mean a secular scholar (who may or may not be religious personally) who studies the religion.

Yes, it's that and it's that Islamic scholarship is smaller and less critical than Christian scholarship. Again, I don't see how anyone can deny that.

You must have a low estimation of my intelligence if you think I would make such a statement while thinking it admitted of no exceptions. The fact tha...

Why, have you? If not, then as I suggested earlier, let's cease this.

Yep. Yep. Nope.

Alright, thanks for the anecdote.

You don't have to pretend, you just have to see that that's what I was trying to say. I'm sorry you didn't get it. Now let's stop this silly conversat...

This is pure insanity. A belief system and a person are two different things. Criticizing the former doesn't harm anyone. For your claim to get off th...

Brilliant rebuttal.

Your mentioning Saudi Arabia reminds me of just how hostile that country has been to scholars trying to discover more about the Islamic and pre-Islami...

Alright, so let's ask ourselves why it lags behind. The reason is quite simple. Sure, the West was Christian, thus resulting in scholarship on the Bib...

I was making a comparison. Quranic scholarship is a joke compared to Old and New Testament scholarship. That's simply a fact. Muhammad is not scrutini...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, in other words.

There's a very strange marriage between far left radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. I've yet to fully understand why, but it's something I keep seei...

No. I've interacted with him enough to know he's sincere.

Less, I would say.

I am, I assure you. My fellow grad students who took the class can confirm it, as it's a running joke between us. I doubt the professor reads this for...

Interesting anecdote, Erik. I made a similar point in one of my classes this semester during the week we covered postmodernism. It seemed to me that p...

He is a man of integrity, which I respect, but his proposed policies are from cloud cuckoo land.

I like Colbert but that was very unfunny and patronizing.

Polls have shown that Trump supporters view the building a wall comments to refer to strengthening border security and addressing illegal immigration ...

Aaand it's back to equivocating. I think you may be a lost cause.

Good. I have no further issue with you on this point.

But I haven't suffered any loss.