Thorongil

What's fascinating to me is that Maw can post an op-ed from Vox and receive no derisive hand waving of the source. As much as it amuses me to see it c...

I see you're intent on doubling and tripling down on your logically fallacious and absurd stance. I'm done here.

My source is, as I keep repeating, a compilation of quotes and events derived from news articles, relevant websites, video clips, interviews, etc. It ...

I'm not doing your own work for you. Among other things, that would condone your fallacious assumption that the source of the information discredits t...

Says the guy who literally just copy-pasted from Wikipedia. I'm sorry, Baden, but have you ever written a paper for a professor in your life? My sourc...

That you equate David Horowitz with antifa speaks volumes.

:lol: Or you could actually read the articles and follow the links they provide. I knew you would react in this way. Instead of addressing the informa...

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7876 Cue condemnations because David Horowitz is on the right. All the incidents are documen...

This is precisely the impression I get from the people who use this hashtag and support the organization. Well, here is some (from one David Horowitz'...

The trouble with a twitter movement is that it has an amorphous identity and a varied collection of individuals supporting it. There are undoubtedly v...

But nor does it mean I'm not a right wing lunatic. Sometimes the shoe fits. I say it fits for other reasons provided above.

Is it childish and hysterical rhetoric to call the white supremacist groups present in Charlottesville terrorist organizations, as I also did? I'm sur...

Several things here. Even if the FBI did explicitly consider BLM to be a terrorist organization, that wouldn't necessarily mean it was one. I was not ...

Lots of adjectives, but little substantive engagement with the points I provided in support of my opinion. So be it.

Nor does appealing to what the organization considers itself to be entail that that is what it is, as @"Baden" has just done. I gave my own opinion, a...

You're right. Peterson is asking whether Trudeau has in mind a certain doctrine of equity. It's this specific doctrine that is murderous. I never said...

You are deliberately misreading his tweet. He was talking about a certain doctrine of equity. The FBI's counter-terrorism division has recently declar...

Another great post, Erik. The anecdotal experiences you relate parallel those I recently experienced in grad school and which were a main ingredient i...

This. So much. :up:

I can't help you if you don't want to see the obvious.

Don't know what you're talking about.

No, I said they were pretty far to the left, not that they were "far left." There is, in fact, a difference in meaning. I associate the latter with va...

I have already. There is only one remaining actively pro-life Democrat politician. That's a massive shift. You could also take a look through here: ht...

Well said, Erik. You have summarized many of the thoughts I had in mind. The Democrats have moved very far to the left socially, effectively adopting ...

It is murderous.

No. I'm saying Trump has power, not the alt-right. The latter has more publicity, that's all.

No, it's always existed, it's just gotten more publicity and the illusion of power with Trump. The fact that the alt-right has glombed onto Trump is i...

I wouldn't know. The view you describe doesn't sound very conservative to me. Some sort of hyper-paleoconservatism, as far as I can tell. I mean, Burk...

The Democratic party is pretty far to the left these days, if you look at their most recent platform in particular. The last remaining pro-life Democr...

The idea is that such regulations, tax schemes, and economic interventions are broken, and so require fixing.

It exists in many forms. There are neocons and paleocons at the poles and lots of variations in between, not to mention overlap with libertarians and ...

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Well, as long as he gets to appeal to authority, then I might as well, too. On the topic of white privilege, I would recommend the following excellent...

I haven't. The intent is clear: to smear him. Meaning what? I've read critiques of him, but none of them has successfully refuted him, at least with r...

Yes, and the point is that such overlap does not constitute a refutation of the view in question. You're playing the part of historian at best, not ph...

Let me appeal to your likely revulsion to hypocrisy. You're an antinatalist, if memory serves. In a recent video with David Benatar, Peterson committe...

Ah yes, the courtier's reply, right on cue. Genetic fallacy. Address the arguments on their own terms and merits or do not address them at all. More t...

That's as thin a claim as saying that the occurrence of trains running on time has been used, historically, to bolster fascism. Yes, and? If there is ...

There's nothing wrong with these things per se. Nor is there anything wrong with masculinity or hierarchical based politics. Taken to extremes, they c...

Deirdre McCloskey argues that capitalism both requires and cultivates virtue. You might look into her ideas for another perspective.

I just watched a ridiculously biased 60 Minutes interview, wherein it was assumed that there was only one solution and that the Stoneman Douglas stude...

Some minds cannot comprehend disagreement on this issue as originating from anything other than apathy concerning the issue, callousness toward the vi...

Counter-anecdote: the older I get, the less enthused with Marxism I have become.

No. They had in mind the following: a stateless, classless, moneyless world wherein human beings collectively own the means of production. That is the...

Frozen is a shitty movie in any event. I've never understood its mind-boggling popularity.

Yeah, totally.... :shade:

Knowing who owns Disney, that isn't a surprise.

I don't see why. God is the highest good, so if God exists, then one surely has even more reason to pursue the good, not less. Well, I was speaking of...

Dick comment, but you don't need the apostrophes here. :razz: Prima facie? Sure, but I'm not willing to go as far as to say that they are unredeemable...

Yes.