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Here’s a weird story in the Hunter Biden saga. Imagine if this was someone else’s son. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/sources-secret-service...

It’s an invitation to you to prove your smears. If you can assert I don’t recognize facts, surely you can name a fact I do not recognize. If I have no...

Name one.

It was my point. The only answer to my question “which expert will teach us which expert we should believe?” is ourselves. You assumed my view and int...

It was my point that it is up to us to evaluate expert opinion, and here you are restating my point after accusing me of anti-intellectualism and trus...

There is no answer to the question “Do you trust all experts?” It’s a yes or no question. That is factually incorrect. Pesky facts.

I didn’t think you would be able answer. More fee-fees. Cheers.

I just said “I think I get your point”. Pesky facts. Do you trust all experts?

The point was about which expert to trust, and if we believed all of them we would believe contradictory things. Over your head and below your knees, ...

I do not reject expert opinion. I reject appeals to authority.

All I’ve ever read from you were unwarranted opinions derived from your fee-fees. If you ever mention facts I’ll be sure to consider them.

Not much of an argument, but it’s Banno and we shouldn’t expect much else.

The only claim I made is that I do not know the answer.

Creation involves a creator. One scenario necessarily involves creators while the other doesn’t. I don’t see any contradiction here.

My point is it isn’t my duty to educate you.

You don’t know about any of this, do you? Who should we blame for your ignorance?

I’m not concerned; you couldn’t hit a fish in a barrel anyways. As for the lab theory, I don’t claim to know the answer. I do know that accidents happ...

Yes, all you have left is to disregard someone’s expertise on political grounds, or for some other specious reason, which in my mind isn’t too bright.

The point is that given the conflicting expert opinions, anyone who proposes listening to experts is left going in circles. At some point he must make...

I think I get your point. Speaking of expert opinion, this expert believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, which presumably also employs experts...

Well said. Entire generations have been taught to leave their responsibility to protect themselves at the feet of the paternalistic government. In tha...

By saying “fighting for those freedoms” I didn’t necessarily mean war. Personally, I wouldn’t use the example of a federal coordination towards mass d...

Another example of Tim’s bigotry.

How could we tell if consciousness “emerges” in one world but not the other? Would everyone in one world be awake, in the other asleep?

No, I mean the covid restrictions.

The lockdowns and restrictions were a failure of government. Even with all their resources, they were unable to devise a plan that would protect the a...

One issue I’ve always had with identity theory is that all brain states are body states. Brains are only a part of much greater dynamic system. Brains...

Yes. I do not want god to exist because the thought of a celestial dictator and abject slavery is terrifying.

That’s the problem I have: none of those can be categorized as a “something” in my view, so I’m left wondering what exactly in the universe we are spe...

They are power and money-grubbing corporate elites who have deemed themselves fit enough to manage the public purse.

That’s my point. Now they’re back in power.

My point is that your good men use their positions of power to enrich themselves, not the people they have vowed to serve.

Apparently doing a stint in government is a great way to land massive corporate gigs. Instead of bribing them outright, a lobbyist can just offer them...

I think it’s the other way about: to avoid hardship. If one can occupy himself with the battles in his skull he need not pay attention to the ones tha...

I’m not a conservative. But I do know the difference between the abstract “future child” and the real one. I also know the difference between preventi...

How can one alleviate the suffering of a child while at the same time wishing it was never born?

There must be some painful dissonance involved in explicitly waging war against potential suffering in some abstract future while doing nothing to all...

The problem with these sources are that we enter into relationships with them voluntarily. One need not use Google or Facebook, whereas we see what ha...

Rousseau’s pitié extended to the many, but apparently not to his own children, 5 of whom he deserted in foundling hospitals. So I get suspicious when ...

I wager such a sentiment is the necessary result of comfort. People are too busy enjoying their rights to want to fight for them, perhaps forgetting t...

I think you’re right on this. I believe the same but perhaps for different reasons, for what is the brain without the myriad systems that support it? ...

I’m not sure how “western culture” can be construed as “white supremacy”. Europe, like Africa, Asia, North America, was never some melting-pot where e...

That’s a lie. The DHS had no blanket separation policy. The only reasons the DHS would separate children from the adults is 1) when DHS is unable to d...

You say “separate families”, without mentioning the fact that many of them weren’t families at all, but child traffickers and the children they used t...

Putin challenges Biden to debate after president calls him a 'killer' I love this idea. Leaders should settle their disputes with a good old debate, o...

Isn’t President Obrador a socialist?

I don’t think so. They bring children to the border in order to exploit the asylum system.

The crisis at the border is getting little press. When children were held in facilities during the Trump administration, celebrities cried, the United...

Give this buffoon the nuclear codes. https://youtu.be/rwjmyZUA2O8

It makes sense to have some allegiance and affinity to the territory in which you reside, the languages, history and institutions of the people who re...