The only way you can continue on believing your own nonsense is to misrepresent your opponents arguments, essentially creating a cocoon of fantasy to ...
The point was to show that impeachment didn’t work, that he’s getting his best job approval rating, not to say he had the best job approval rating of ...
History never looks kindly on the inquisitors, Tim. This is because persecution is unjust and cruel. That this mostly reactionary persecution has fail...
It was hysterical, whatever it was. It proves to me the saltiness and hatred of the anti-Trump faction. I hate to accuse others of being “triggered”, ...
I love the political theater of it. This is history. It’s enjoyable to me. I simply do not watch presidents or politicians for facts and data and tech...
Massive deregulation, tariffs and the lowering of taxes have demonstrable effects on the economy. But I agree that presidents often overestimate their...
I’d understand asking a journalist questions about journalism, sure. But running to them for fact-checks has become the sine qua non for anti-Trumpism...
Imagine going through life running to a fact-check site to let some journalist tell you what to think. You’d have to have some neurosis for that. I wa...
One frustrating part about democracy is that you don’t always win. Sometimes your side loses and you have to watch the other side enjoy the fruits of ...
Well, the Iowa caucus was a gong show. The DNC has been preparing for years for this moment. It’s now a dumpster fire. I wonder if they’ll blame the R...
I don’t need to do anything because I’m not trying to persuade you of anything. I was trying to answer your questions in good faith but was met with s...
I’m not going to type out all the arguments for you. If you’re curious they can be easily found. The “taking” aspect is the problem. You can do whatev...
In that sense that the protect my rights, yes they are a service. I actually don’t agree with any statism, so those aren’t my personal preferences, bu...
Agreed. It should be up to the governments to enforce their laws. The regulations set forth by governments making Facebook liable for what people post...
It isn’t a Government service to refuse to engage in tyranny of its citizens. It’s a matter of ethics and good government. As for the why, human right...
There certainly are deeper understandings. I mean it would take a sheer act of will to exclude the word “truth” from the mental lexicon. It’s embedded...
Actually I was showing that you were misrepresenting my arguments, which is a waste of time on a philosophy forum. You claimed I said something which ...
Reason and evidence is my criterion. I’ve stated my arguments as to what “truth” means (all things that are true), and why truth does not exist beyond...
These words represent verbs and adjectives that modify things in language, yet, with the addition of a suffix or something similar, they are spoken of...
I never said nor implied they were mutually exclusive. Unless that principle is censorship, fear and politics is guiding Soros’ thinking. But despite ...
I never called rights ”wants”. I called your version of rights “wants”, which I don’t believe to be rights at all. Human rights are claims against tyr...
Everyone’s favorite mastermind George Soros says Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook because “The social media company is going to ge...
A right to healthcare is a desire for healthcare. I don’t disagree with your want, just your reasoning for calling them a right. No need to twist arou...
I think that when we equivocate between adjectives and nouns so easily we are presented with errors of grammar, not meaning. Nominalizing adjectives i...
When we nominalize adjectives we make it function as a noun in our language, and perhaps it does so in our thoughts. The adjective “conscious”, when n...
If we use “true” in the adjectival sense we know what it means. If we use “truth” in the noun sense we do not. Once we change adjectives into nouns we...
Three democratic candidates, all of whom are Trump’s opponents in the 2020 election, are in the senate voting on his impeachment. So much for impartia...
I assume they are acting according to their conscience. But so did slave owners. It is true that by democratic decree we can name this or that idea a ...
That remains to be seen. I see it more as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. One of these days a real wolf will come along and, given your track record, no one...
Well yes, even a small night-watchman state is a form of statism. But the fact that a state “intervenes nearly everywhere” is no argument that it shou...
No, I do agree. Their choices should be implemented because of democracy. What I don’t agree with is their beliefs, arguments, and decisions. Those I ...
The best you can argue is that the Trump administration stonewalled Congress. That’s why we have the judiciary settle these kinds of disputes, separat...
The evidence was presented in the senate and failed to establish any wrong doing, let alone anything impeachable. It’s funny that people might say Tru...
Yes, I disagree with statism and statists nearly across the board, except for maybe the night-watchman idea. But no, as a matter of conscience I refus...
I don’t see how any of that is true and simply repeating the accusation does not suffice for me. The burden of proof still lays at the feet of the acc...
What I mean by “wants and desires” is that proponents of positive rights believe it is someone else’s duty to provide them with things they want and d...
Yeah, I just don’t understand how his actions can be misconstrued as “wrong-doing”. At best they can accuse him of thought-crimes, which in my mind is...
Of course, plenty of my fellow voters believe the government has a duty to provide for their wants and desires, and they often call these “rights”. He...
By “defend rights” I mean with state force. For instance the police would defend someone’s property rights by protecting him from thieves, or the poli...
It’s looking more and more like Trump is going to be acquitted by the senate, and another anti-Trump witch-hunt and conspiracy theory revealed to be a...
A small government would be the sort of night-watchman state proposed by libertarians and minarchists, where a minimal state is required to defend the...
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