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I like what you wrote there. But polarization is also the logical consequence of free speech, or at least speech less confined by the conventional lim...

Certainly taking the media commentary at face value would lead one to such beliefs, but in comparing him to other leaders worldwide, I don’t see it. I...

It’s writing, and yes I’m serious. The coverage is vastly different. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/04/28/at-100-day-mark-coverage-of-bid...

All of it in the context of unjust political investigations and impeachment inquiries, not to mention the fevered media treatment unlike the world has...

More deep-state, neocon dinner theater from Kagan. The specter of Trump’s fascism was already proven to be a canard, and has long been eclipsed by the...

To operate a business and employ others one needs the profit to do so, but he must also cover the costs of his forced labor whenever the state comes a...

At its worst philosophy is the overestimation of the power of language, manifesting in form of rhetoric concerned with creating certainty in symbols a...

One can be a gentleman and, out the other side of the mouth, write authoritarian and paternalistic piffle. So long as his strength in manners and dign...

Perhaps. But those who are not infectious can never infect others. If we are to deign to enforce segregation we should segregate the infectious from t...

Oh dear; you don't know what a straw-man is. I don't know if you are up on current events or not but maybe you're not aware of Biden's vaccine mandate...

That doesn’t sound like a fair compromise. Only the infected can infect others, and the infected are both vaccinated and unvaccinated. So why would yo...

Krugman’s argument is a stupid one. The fact that governments have in the past regulated this or that activity isn’t an argument that they should keep...

Any day now…. But when we see that you have fallen for numerous such hoaxes it is entirely explicable.

I’m moving 600 miles north next spring. No matter: I suspect you’ll defend the paternalism long beyond then. Perhaps forever?

I cringed when I read that. “The government has always taken your freedom so you should not be angry when it takes more”. You cannot smoke in theatres...

How many times have climate alarmists been right? One day, I guess.

And Riley champions the state and boss’ orders. Nothing much has changed.

The science says they aren’t required. What happened to listening to science?

You’re copying and pasting other people’s arguments. The workers might not require vaccines. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.212581...

All you guys have are false analogies and never anything about the issue at hand. Chefs? :lol:

Last year front line workers were heroes. It was all fake, of course. Now they’re replaceable. Foreign workers could replace NY’s unvaccinated hospita...

It’s a step backward from both common decency and human rights to suggest that some should refuse, or be refused, medical treatments because they are ...

:up: You’re probably right.

I was just trying to look at it from the Marxist point of view. I am neither a Marxist nor a collectivist, so I could be wrong. It just seems to me th...

It’s a kind of racket. If our predictions don’t come to fruition we can say our predictions altered the course of events. Rinse, repeat. Bush acolyte ...

Wouldn’t the exploitation of robots reduce toil and drudgery and wage slavery, thereby liberating the worker to pursue his own creative endeavors?

A clock that never hits midnight is broken. It’s not the greatest analogy given that they are atomic scientists.

It was tongue-in-cheek. Those old demarcations never existed in the first place.

Hardly. Some union members were protesting their own union while shit-talking the Labour government. So much for labour.

One minute you’re working, sitting pretty, next the industry is arbitrarily shut down by the state. It’s good to see labour in Australia is finding it...

Is it that you want me to read through your list of links and arrive at a conclusion you have yet to argue?

All that for a non-sequitur? Didn’t help at all.

We should stop dead trees from decaying, too. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03740-8 A petagram is a billion metric tons.

I see no “social responses” in your Gish gallop, unfortunately. I’m not sure criminal activity and frustrated doctors constitute enough reason to regi...

This is an interesting report from the Telegraph. Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats, leaked papers reveal. Peop...

How’re those “social responses” working out? Not so well, the last time I checked. It’s no surprise that with all the genius of public health all they...

SARS-CoV-2/pandemic isn’t the one regimenting our lives. We are witness to the greatest peacetime policy failures in world history. Grab the popcorn.

Victoria Police granted 'no fly zone' over Melbourne's CBD https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-protests-victoria-police-granted-no-fly-zone-ov...

I can’t think of any men good enough to be another’s master. Can you?

It’s because, like you and me, they’re human. I can’t think of any man good enough to be another’s master. Can you?

No, I don’t drive on the wrong side of the road unless I’m passing someone. I don’t drive on the wrong side of the road because I don’t want to be hit...

My only point is that your aversion to your fellow man, sick or not, is born of fear and ignorance. I say ignorance because you don’t know (nor care t...

If each state is determined by its anterior state the first state wouldn’t exist because there was no anterior state to determine it. In any case, we ...

I’ve discovered that covid authoritarianism is a chance moral refuge for otherwise immoral people. Through sheer tyranny of self-deception they’ve mad...

I side with the kids in your story. You meddled in someone else’s affairs, couldn’t make your case or got angry, so you ran to the authorities. That’s...

Yes.

Preventing the planting of a bomb is good. But you’d be saving no one if those potential victims were never born.

Illicit fried chicken and criminal travel. Thank god for the brave men and women of the Auckland Stasi for protecting everyone’s lives. New Zealand Co...

I don’t get it. Am I stopping someone from giving birth into a lava pit?

A newborn does exist.