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Again, I’m speaking about the press, who are better equipped to relay information about current affairs to a vast audience. I never said it was a norm...

I know what I am for and what I am against. I am against the bureaucrats stepping in for the same reason I am against any other group stepping in. I a...

Here’s the results of a similar poll in the last election. https://twitter.com/b_schaffner/status/900375362604892160?s=21

Again, I’m talking about informing the public, not deciding responses to infectious diseases. It is more a healthcare issue than a military invasion.

I try to avoid counterfactuals but for the sake of argument I suppose it would not have made any difference.

Sorry, I assumed the government held the parade. Who privately organized the parade, out of curiosity?

I said the government shouldn’t have held a parade during a pandemic. It was the government’s parade, held by the government, and it led to countless ...

But it is the journalist who informs the people of the facts, or at least should. I don’t think the analogy is accurate. Healthcare systems often vary...

I never said that. I only think a local government is better equipped to handle local problems than a central authority in the other side of the conti...

Looking at the response of the Chinese, Iranian and Italian governments give me pause to accepting that claim. I think any citizen who was concerned a...

When the framers drafted the Constitution they opposed giving the federal government much power over the states. I think we should try to maintain tha...

Well, those who have actually worked directly with the administration on their own efforts, such as the Mayor of New York and the Governor of Californ...

I oppose Trump’s travel ban on the matter. I preferred what he was doing before: leaving it to the states to govern themselves.

I’m not sure why a government would hold a parade during a pandemic of such proportions. I can only wonder how it might have been had they not done so...

Surely it would have been better had the parade not occurred. The city should have stopped the parade.

This is unjust and unfair. I have done nothing wrong.

I get the sinking feeling that perhaps you’re scared of my arguments, and the subsequent realization that you have little to combat them with save for...

I think your reliance on government for your own safety, even in times of pandemic, is indicative of a growing authoritarian impulse found rife in the...

I’m not a conservative. The balance between freedom on the one hand and security on the other is not that contentious of a debate, at least outside of...

I would argue that the citizenry can do better to suppress the spread of the virus than a government. But given that entire generations since then hav...

The director-general of the WHO stated today: These warnings should not be taken lightly.

The profound dependence on governments to deal with pandemic is to me more frightening than the pandemic itself. If drastic actions are taken they mig...

In my defense I have hundred more mentions than I do comments, meaning I get thousands of emails notifying me of people commenting to me. I get it. I’...

Perhaps I misunderstood, but when you said “we could grant it all, and still discard it as irrelevant information, because that's exactly what it is”,...

Well, I am American. The problem is you believe, without evidence, that I’m a paid troll. This is the impression that you take, invent, fantasize, not...

Are you unwilling or simply incapable of addressing anything I argue? If it’s not ad hominem, it’s straw men and false accusations. I wonder if you ac...

Discard the voices of the poor as irrelevant, eh? Then what is relevant? The claims of some life-long politician who has lived off tax-payer dollars t...

I don’t call people names and compare them to cartoon characters. That’s the bag of you and your fellow travellers, who opine about character and divi...

All you and your fellow travellers can do is imply that the people who reported on these questions are lying. But perhaps their claims are sincere whi...

If you do not want to defend your claims or prove something from your “wealth of research” I get it. I wasn’t even sure I was fully understanding your...

It was a true or false question, but I get why you wouldn’t want to contradict your fellow travellers, especially right after accusing their opponents...

I merely took issue with your absurd claim, which you used as a springboard to launch snark against “people not informing themselves or the ideologica...

Given this information, is it then true or false that “personal choices have very little to do with socio-economic (upward) mobility”?

Well, the common rebuttal to the claim “We can’t be certain about anything” is, how are you so certain?

Then your aim is propaganda, nothing besides.

Here’s the judge’s “concerns”. He Says that he agrees with Mueller’s letter: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/03/05/uenrosj.pdf According to Barr’s ...

What exactly did he distort? The Mueller report was released to the public.

That’s a false analogy. 87% of people who were asked how they escaped poverty said they did so through “individual initiative”. Your claim that “there...

Despite that, over 87% of people reported that “individual initiative” is what helped them escape poverty. So like you said, the fact that we're still...

I was joking. Nonetheless, he exhibits the same anti-Trumpism that has rendered relatively bright people into vectors of propaganda. He speculates, wi...

Sorry, I was responding to the claim that “personal choices have very little to do with socio-economic (upward) mobility”, not “how many people who tr...

Both would apply in this case. I guess we’ll see when it gets to the Supreme Court, yet again.

I’m not so sure about that (though I might be misinterpreting what you’re saying here), because according to this study by the world bank, over 87% of...

Unfortunately for Bernie he is not breathing enough fire. He has the excited base but is too scared or too principled to hit Biden for whatever reason...

Brian Williams and NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gray doing math. I wonder if they’ll fact check themselves. https://twitter.com/kantrowitz/status/1...

For those interested, Trump is doing a townhall. https://youtu.be/VVcbmisaTUo

I don’t seek debate to influence others. I do it for myself, to better my own thinking on these matters. That reminds me of Oscar Wilde, “ A map of th...

I’m not a fan of nihilism. I believe in argument and disputation for its own sake. Bernie is a great focus for debate. He is the embodiment of a form ...

We should discuss the topic.

Fascinating analysis.