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This is a very difficult issue, especially with the “think of the children” rhetoric involved. I like to think of it this way: if we educated children...

Ha. Come on. We’re adults. Let me extend an olive branch.

What can I do to waylay your suspicions and conspiracy theories, Frank? The sooner I can end your gossip and backbiting the better.

I believe a dem could easily win if they ran on policy instead of anti-Trumpism, political correctness and identity politics. The problem is, in my mi...

I’m just making a comment on the passing outrage, Frank. Your public tattling is virtue-signalling.

That’s a great analysis. Legitimate criticism has been replaced by word-policing and routine snobbery. This does not draw anyone to their cause save f...

Of course, your Trump mind-reading is within the realm of acceptable discourse, I imagine.

It appears Dems and their apparatchiks in the media will do anything to discredit the ongoing investigation. We already know the collusion narrative w...

Climate activism is a good little racket. We throw them money, power and fame because we fear the apocalypse, but when the apocalypse doesn’t arrive t...

We’re not looking to elect a pope, or someone to sing us lullabies. Those days are over. The idea of president as father-figure has proven to be a cha...

I wasn’t the one making the accusation. You don’t connect the “sh-thole” status of a country to the skin-color of it’s inhabitants, do you?

“Mind” need not be assumed, much less proven. An organism propagates it’s own life. Tear a piece from the organism, you tear it from the systems neces...

They claimed it was racist, without evidence. This led to a “global backlash” in which countries around the globe got involved. It was a purely sensat...

For one, it was true. The countries he mentioned are sh-thole countries, and we can look at any index of freedom, development, quality of life, etc. t...

Uh oh. Looks like the media and the Dems are obstructing justice with their impeachment scandal. I wonder if they’re scared? Barr personally asked for...

The body—from cornea, to lens, to retina, to visual cortex, to brain—produces vision. Every piece is involved in seeing.

You referred to something that looks at images in your head, and I’m simple?

That is probably the rationale for many Trump supporters, but as for my own reasons as to why I defend Trump’s actions, it’s mostly because the accusa...

There is no demarcation between mind and body unless that boundary can be demonstrated. If it cannot be demonstrated, mind and body are either one and...

That’s the homunculus fallacy. Of course, when we open up and look, there is no little being.

Such a thought presupposes that something—maybe a little man or some other being—is in our head looking at the image, insulated from reality. That isn...

I’m glad to see that the presumption of innocence still has some force among people. I was getting worried there for a moment.

Listening begins the moment sound waves touch the ear. It is the necessary first step of listening. This contact with sound waves is direct, meaning, ...

Keep repeating your mantras. Retreat into your consensus. Pat each other on the back.

"It is clear" you're just reiterating Schiff's piffle. According to the transcript, the favor Trump asked for had nothing to do with Biden, but the 20...

I don't think that's the case unless you submit to the homunculus fallacy. Man directly experiences the world around him. He directly touches it, look...

I'll quote Mueller:

I'm not sure if you're aware, but Schiff blatantly mischaracterized the phone call in his opening statement to congress. He said, when describing the ...

They’ll have to prove where the body ends and the mind begins.

Note how Fool neither mentions nor addresses Schiff's lies, the subject of Trump's complaints, but deflects to the way Trump made the accusation. Righ...

One of Trump’s persecutor’s, Adam Schiff, blatantly lied to Congress and the American public. While true believers likely frothed with delusion at the...

Thanks for the good faith here. First, I said there was “no evidence of corrupt intent”, not that there was no evidence. With no evidence of corrupt i...

I hate the idea of a philosopher king. Philosophers are good at thinking ideas, but not so good at implementing them. I hope Syse restricts his advisi...

Very fair. That’s at least a nuanced view of it. Maybe i’m Understanding it wrong. I always thought white privilege was the unearned privilege afforde...

That is until you want our protection. Then it’s all grovelling and holding out your hand.

Would you say white people universally have white privilege?

You responded to my argument with a list of loaded questions, in other words not an argument. You’ve dealt with nothing. What a joke.

Privilege is bestowed, given. There certainly are people who would privilege others because of skin color, and they should be called out for doing so,...

I mean you. The thing that goes to sleep and dreams, or sits and plays World of Warcraft—call it want you want, but it is a human being.

I thought it was power that made them privileged.

I have read both the report and the letter. As I’ve stated countless times now, I agree with Barr, but not only because he happens to be the top autho...

If you weren’t a human body you wouldn’t be dreaming or playing world of Warcraft. The ability to do any of those things require a body, and is theref...

Then the “white” in “white privilege” is superfluous.

And the results are? Great economy, increased wages, more jobs you can shake a stick at, a stronger border, the end of the caliphate, and the US is no...

Yes, your face is a part of you. You can point to any part of your body and would be pointing at yourself. If you don’t believe it, ask anyone to poin...

Oh, is it obvious? Is this an acceptable argument? When white people start telling me how better off they are by nature of their skin color I become i...

That’s the simplest question. Try pointing to yourself or look in the mirror and you’ll have your answer.

Be careful. Arguments of that sort were used against abolitionism. But the fact that there is no freedom is certainly no argument against freedom. Try...

Privileges are given, bestowed, passed from one person to another. We are not born with them. That's the main issue with “white privilege”: the act of...

No, presenting the principle conclusions of an investigation is not a summary of that investigation. Barr stresses the reason’s why in his testimony t...