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Whoops, yes. Thanks for the correction.

I think it’s arbitrary to say that all politics is identity politics. Sure I can agree that identity can be expanded to include all types of groups, b...

He was a hardcore remainer, is what I mean.

If you have the “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of f...

It looks like speaker Bercow is stepping down before Oct. 31st. Bercow was being accused by Johnson of impartiality. We’ll see what happens.

UK members should remember and be proud of the long history of free speech advocacy in their country—JS Mill, John Milton, George Orwell, Christopher ...

That is fake news. They altered the names of the very states at risk of the hurricane, perhaps to maintain their narrative. They only changed it becau...

Is it true or false that you have the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authorit...

The national weather service was wrong that it would hit Florida. The difference is, Trump is not a weatherman and was only relaying information given...

Yeah, I hold the conception found in Article 19 of the UN declaration of human rights. These are not fanatics. You’re speaking of the censorship and r...

I’m not goin* to pretend I am a weatherman, but The context is a twitter dispute between Trump and the press, the biggest non-scandal in recent memory...

I can’t deny that.

I’m talking of free speech, not UK law and their fevered and infantilizing censorship. It’s becoming more apparent you do not even know what free spee...

There was also a 90-100% chance it would hit Florida. No hurricane there either. That’s not true. His updates on Dorian were very sober and informativ...

The rise in acceptance among Christians is quite amazing, even within the last few decades. As for Islam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalt...

No I’m not. Free speech is the same everywhere, it’s just that the degrees of censorship are different. So yes, he would be defending free speech, as ...

No I’m not. You were triggered that I defended the free speech of Nazis, and said I should be ashamed. Then I showed how civil rights activists do the...

Due to past treaties I suppose. So I guess that means only when zero treaties apply, violence begins. I’m still very sceptical of the Brexit fear mong...

Well, you don’t believe in free speech, so I can understand your fears. But those who believe in free speech do and have defended the free speech of N...

The reason they go hard on Islam in this matter is that homosexuality is punishable by death in countries with Islamic law, and women are basically tr...

That’s one of the perils of defending free speech: you have to defend it for everyone.

It is a thing. It’s a non-scandal perpetrated by the press in the US. It’s quite shameful.

That was an old and outdated map. It was irrelevant at the time it was shown, as is evident by the update that followed. Not only that, but by that ti...

You can see the data with your own two eyes. Don’t let the WaPo and former Obama admin holdovers tell you what you need to think. Look at the data. It...

Yes, actually, because you can see the data yourself with your own two eyes. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=wind_pr...

Was there violence when Ireland initially rejected the treaty of Lisbon? What occurred at the border then?

The Guardian is the para-military wing of the Labour Party.

I never realized that. Why would the Good Friday agreement go down the tubes?

That’s fair. But I don’t get the unmitigated fears. Article 50 seems pretty straight forward. The only thing that happens is the treaty no longer appl...

I’m not sure how that is in any way analogous. A hurricane is a natural disaster. Leaving the European Union isn’t.

If I wasn’t interested in discussing these matters I wouldn’t be discussing them. It seems you just want consensus. If preparing for a no deal Brexit ...

The point is that a no-deal Brexit does not imply leaving in an unorganized fashion at all, despite your claims to the contrary.

You’re talking out your ass. The UK government, the EU, and each member state has a plan for if/when a no deal Brexit happens. https://en.m.wikipedia....

There is an argument that the atom bomb, and the very idea of mutual annihilation, has led to what is known as The Long Peace, where there is a relati...

I was under the impression that the “identity” in “identity politics” pertained to people who shared a common, mostly biological characteristic such a...

A community is more bound by the land, proximity and common enterprise rather than identity.

The only way to opt out of a bad deal is to walk away from it, “no deal”. It is an important bargaining chip. The EU already knows what the UK wants, ...

Identity politics seems to me a perversion of politics insofar as people form voting blocks and pressure groups on the basis of membership in identity...

The NOAA has confirmed that Trump was in fact correct. CNN switched Mississippi and Alabama on a map. These are the people tasked with informing the p...

Was that before or after CNN swapped Mississippi and Alabama states while discussing emergency declarations ahead of the storm? https://twitter.com/pr...

Did you guys see Trump’s latest tweet? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1170089069105340416?s=21

I only say that because a litany of obvious moral problems arise from the premise, much like Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”.

Nietzsche himself had reservations about this work, even criticizing it, blaming it on his youth. Try reading his other works.

If this is satire, it’s brilliant.

On the issue of Brexit it isn’t, because people voted the exact opposite of remain. That issue has already been settled, though I could see undemocrat...

The problem is remain is not an option.

Yes, I refuse. I’m sure you’ll find some way to fill the void.

Emily Thornberry claims she would negotiate a deal, but then once the deal was made, would campaign against it in favor of Remain. This is the pretzel...

If you’d rather avoid it that’s your problem, not mine. I just don’t understand how someone can be so willing to remain in ignorance.

I’m not sure why you’d want to take my word for it.