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I can trust that they had to walk back their conspiracy theories. They have already got what they wanted: stopping troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. ...

The “intel people” have been notorious failures. The Iraq war was premised on “intelligence” derived from methods of torture. When they start rattling...

Well said. I wager the attractive part is that they get to release themselves of their duty to their fellow man. Why else would they beg for some stat...

More fantasy.

Unfortunately it’s a dangerous game. Such hoax-worthy lies have brought the US and Russia that much closer to war. Skepticism of the story proved not ...

It is an exaggeration, if not an outright fantasy. We’ve never met.

I remember this story finding a home among the credulous (one can type "bounties" into the search bar for a good laugh). U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim R...

That was a good read, Xtrix. Thank you.

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I bought some Dogecoin back in 2018 on a whim, and essentially forgot about it. It's surging right now and I have over %1000 ROI.

A moral leadership would have to do so with education, voluntary participation, and compromise if they should remain moral. An immoral leadership coul...

I appreciated your formulation. He was quite prophetic about the coming nihilism. It seems right that if an orthodoxy is proven absurd, it risks leavi...

Yet here you are evoking my name. What bothers you about my individualistic worldview, so much that you need to call me names?

Maybe one day you’ll learn to face my ideas instead of the little effigy you’ve constructed in your fantasies. Until then consider my name as your tri...

I think a pluralist and nominalistic account of the world leads to individualism in the political sphere. The individual is the only valid classificat...

Thanks for taking the time and effort to write this, Pfhorrest. Well done. I suppose I would be a “right libertarian”, though I refuse any position on...

My ontology is pluralist, I suppose (but also a cop-out of sorts). There is a vast variety of individual things and substances. I think metaphysical p...

I agree. Laws mostly protect the interests of the state, the preservation of the established order, and the power of the ruling class rather than conf...

Personally, I much rather the risk of freedom than the paternalism of statism. I do not believe a "social contract" exists in any case, and is little ...

Sounds like you live in a freer area than most. In others there are curfews, stay at home orders, rule by decree, state seizure of the economy, line-u...

A few years ago people started buying Sinclear Lewis' It Can't Happen Here because the media was making much ado about dictators and fascism. It turns...

I think so. One could raise his children in such a way as to deal with those pains, and at the same time combat the proliferation of such values.

To make a family is the main reason I opted for children. The benefits include support, relationship, security, and a chance to shape a human life.

The main reason why “generalizing this concept to life itself” is untenable is because living is not forced labor. Living is not suffering. Living is ...

You mentioned he doesn’t like babies, and ran with it. But there is evidence contrary to your claim. I choose the evidence, you choose...what exactly?...

I think I know the difference sarcasm, hyperbole and sincerity. I hate to say it but I knew it wouldn’t be long before a few sensationalized statement...

Of course I could be wrong. You sincerely believe he doesn’t like babies, yet there are countless pictures and videos of him kissing babies, picking t...

Laboring to avoid neglect and starvation is one thing, forced labor and exploitation is quite another. Either my parents forced me to labor or they di...

I’m fairly certain you have not met the man, have zero personal observations, and like the rest of us derive your opinion from news stories and commen...

That you believe such a thing occurred is a testament to your own value system, one easily moved to conclusion by gossip and palace intrigue.

Hopefully no one is forcing you to associate with assholes. I would argue, though, that throughout history, the inquisitors were the assholes and thos...

Cancel culture negates any chance of forgiveness and reform. The ostracized tend to gather at the fringes, where their views and resentment metastasiz...

I can understand discriminating between sick and healthy, but discriminating against people who do not conform, whether they are healthy or not, doesn...

There’s talk of “vaccine passports”, people getting fired for not taking it, and anti-vaccine people are routinely demonized.

I don’t think any anti-vaccine sentiment is right. I just believe people shouldn’t be forced to take it or be discriminated against if they do not.

The “will” is another abstraction of the human being. How could it be otherwise? Whenever I look for the genesis of human action, and follow it throug...

I’m opposed to forcing labor of any kind on another. But I don’t believe my parents forced me to labor by birthing me. In fact, they labored for me fo...

People rioted outside Trump's inauguration. People rioted outside the Whitehouse. People overtook entire blocks of some cities. Since they were violen...

I'm arguing it isn't an uprising or rebellion.

"only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated"

I used your argument.

"After this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down any one you want, but I think rig...

The actions of those who broke into the capitol, the definition of insurrection, legal precedent and history. What occurred simply doesn't resemble an...

I can and do think for myself. The authorities have, at least so far, confirmed my view. If you'll note, the insurrection theory was the prevailing vi...

It wouldn't be exploitation because survival doesn't necessary involve the forced appropriation of unpaid labor. One must labor for his survival, sure...

No one has yet to be charged with the crime of insurrection, let alone convicted of it. So according to those with the authority to make such judgemen...

Frankly, he wasn’t a great leader in this instance. His idea that the crowd would be “marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patrioti...

Conversely, if masochists have anything to say about it, not all painful things are bad.

One of the paradoxes of modern liberalism is that it has become increasingly liberal in moral affairs and increasingly controlled in economic affairs....

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Russian disinfo.