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It’s a common argument to pretend welfare states are socialist, and to pretend tax-payer funded services are the same. But it was Bismarck, a conserva...

No he hasn’t. He’s an avowed socialist. One can simply observe the failed states of that ideology throughout history.

Bernie is definitely my choice. I think he means well. I think his election would serve as a good lesson to Americans who have their minds set on soci...

First, I wouldn’t say it is simple—there are not too many people who could be a politician—just that it doesn’t require any sort of life experience. I...

I’ll respond to this because you invoked my name. I just want to note the magical thinking involved in the idea of “controlling the conversation” on a...

A lot of ignorant guesswork has led to your equally ignorant conclusions. I did indeed search in google for a philosophy forum. I did not search for “...

Two welcome changes have occurred over the last couple weeks. Trump appointed Richard Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence, and Kash Pa...

What you described might be best defined as the machinery of ideology. These mechanisms and systems essentially run on autopilot regardless of the ind...

Was Bernie an activist? Yes. Is Bernie a Senator? Yes. How is that a mischaracterization?

You understand the day-to-day of a US senator? I’d love to hear about it if you wish to correct me.

A little activism, a little voting in the senate. He certainly has enough experience making a living off the tax-payer dollar, but not much else.

Would rather a construction worker than another lawyer.

All Bernie has ever been is a politician. What has he ever built? What has he ever ran? What has he ever done? We’re going to put a man like that in c...

Bone spurs. That’s all you got, eh? We used to call this grasping at straws, but given the element of hatred impelling it, it’s little more than the b...

Not a strand of chewing gum can connect that premise to your conclusion.

I don’t even want to know what you think is macho.

In more Trump news, it appears the claims of Russian interference were “overstated”. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/intelligence-briefer-russ...

I believe your judgement of character is lacking in exactly the places you lack character. Personally I don’t look to politicians for moral guidance. ...

They played Macho Man by the Village People when Trump entered the stadium. That doesn’t ring “Billy Graham” to me.

Not as a father but as a father-figure, someone to look up to and treat like a father. I’m not saying this is true of everyone. I personally see the p...

Because leisure is secondary to taking care of one’s responsibilities and duty to provide for himself and his family.

In the beginning of Trump’s administration a number of activist judges blocked Trump’s policies with nation-wide injunctions. In other words some Obam...

Wow, what a crowd. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1231868340093825024?s=21

I think it’s a bad idea to have any sort of centralized curation of information, let alone some committee of experts or commissars picking and choosin...

I’ve never seen it before in my life. Where did you find it?

See what I mean? Your evidence is my post count.

You’re one of many self-proclaimed philosophers on this forum who believe I am a Russian troll without evidence. That’s how easy it is to adopt a lie ...

You’re useful to those who would try to seize control of social media. It’s the same game plan China used to censor the internet no more than a decade...

All it takes is one useful idiot to spread misinformation, as you’re doing now. The difference is I don’t need any resource beyond simple reason to te...

The “Russian misinformation” canard is itself misinformation. Have you ever seen a single piece of Russian misinformation? Worse, this canard is being...

Too often the president is regarded as a father-figure. The standards we hold for them are inhuman, appropriate for popes and saints, but not the aver...

Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a ‘shock wave’

I’m against state TV as a matter of principle, but I also think people should be careful when ridding themselves of long-standing institutions. The PC...

It’s not analogous, though. But no a crosshairs in a logo did not increase the risk. Can you name one case of anyone being incited to violence by an i...

Looks like the Putin bogeyman is back in play, wants Sanders to win Dem primary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-brief...

Boot-edge-edge. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/buttigieg-2020-president.html

With the selective leaking. Schiff receives a classified intelligence brief and immediately leaks it to the NYT — a federal crime. I suspect the Russi...

Sorry, but she’s an idiot. She saw it as a threat, or worse, pretended she did and used that to justify silencing Stone's criticism. In the US the tes...

Not a single person took Stone’s post as an incitement to violence but those who thought he put a crosshairs above her head, including the judge. They...

I never said anything about “the left”. I said only an idiot would interpret it as a threat.

Here we go again. Russia Backs Trump’s Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support

There is no transcript yet, but: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/roger-stone-sentence-due-thursday-in-federal-court/2020/02/19/2e01...

She states it here in her ruling on Stone's gag order. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5746249/Transcript-Instagram-Post-Leads-ABJ-to-Broad...

Yeah the crosshairs were a part of a logo. https://am24.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-18-at-5.01.49-PM.png Sorry, only an id...

Found guilty by a jury with a foreman who displayed bias, and sentenced by a judge with a personal vendetta against Stone. He shared a picture of her ...

That’s a long time for impeding an unjust fishing expedition for which there was no underlying crime, especially for a first-time offender. It’s just ...

3 years 4 months for Stone. What a travesty. Trump should pardon immediately.

I have no clue what’s going on with Rohrabacher. But it’s an interesting development. Assange has repeatedly said that the Russian government did not ...

It sounds like a contradiction in terms.

If the environment is simulated then anything inside would necessarily be simulated.