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I don’t see it. I wouldn’t imagine a blue elephant just because you told me to. I would have to choose to do so.

He’s hearing countless arguments from countless advisors and opponents, supporters and antitrumpissts alike. Perhaps he is taking account of both side...

Just one of many necessary causes I suppose? Sorry, I misunderstood. But that is the fault of your words, not me, right? Because that’s where any reac...

What did it start with? The Big Bang?

How can only some words be the necessary cause of you imagining an elephant but the same words in a different language are not? You hear the words, yo...

The suppression of civil rights was one of the first thing Hitler did with the Reichstag Fire Decree. The rest is history.

Not a joke. Would you imagine an elephant if you didn’t understand the language I spoke? The words are there, the sound waves are there, the meaning i...

Oh that dangerous free speech fanaticism, sure to lead to genocide and death. Of course, free speech fanaticism has never lead to any such extreme, on...

Imagine a president bending to the will of the people he governs. The thought is almost unthinkable.

Those uncompromising ideologies routinely and visciously censored views they despised. How did that turn out?

Not true. You understanding what I’ve said is a consequence of your own language.

By the very fact that your biology is not my biology.

Why would I use the noun “consequence” instead of the verb “contribute”? No I do not understand

Contribute is a verb, consequence is a noun. Do you know the difference?

I have no clue what your argument is here.

That’s a lie, I said “contributing”. Again you’re revealing more about yourself than you can about reality.

Biology is the mechanism, I suppose.

Then how come my speech isn’t contributing to your world view? It seems to have the opposite effect.

Coercion is the use or threat of using physical violence against someone else's person or property. I say something you don’t like, you punch me in th...

Like any act I perform it serves a certain purpose.

It’s not a desire to “let everyone do what he wants”. It’s a desire to oppose state and mob coercion, as is evident by your desire to force us into co...

That’s what happens when one applies the harm principle to deeds that are not harmful. Hate speech is just the latest heresy to the latest orthodoxy.

The UK recently put out a paper about “online harms”, using it as justification for regulating speech on the internet. “Harms”, premised on the notion...

Meh, not so great. That’s a shame because the bar isn’t really that high.

You might need to upgrade your manipulation tactics. They reveal more about you than anyone else.

I can’t disagree with that.

I use language so that I may be understood. Allow me to reformulate, as you raise a good point. Maybe “zero consequences” isn’t correct. My speaking s...

Well, zero consequence beyond the dispelling of breath and scratches and marks on paper,

That was actually a good one. I was getting worried that the people here were not only humorless, but poor at insults.

There are numerous reasons why we speak, none of which require moving matter with articulated symbols.

I’m getting there.

There are no consequences, positive or negative, to speech.

That same “stupid philosophical ideal” should prevent one from curtailing another’s freedom. I would be worried when people need laws to teach them ri...

Let’s check on the outrages of the day. Uh oh, Trump said something that ran afoul of Washington political correctness. Apparently he wasn’t as precis...

I was talking about your assumptions regarding trump’s states of mind. I was talking about your fantasizing.

Personally, I’m an absolutist when it comes to free speech. I believe all speech should be allowed.

Weimar Germany had fairly modern hate speech laws, under which Hitler and his party were routinely jailed and forbidden to speak. He used the persecut...

“It’s obvious” isn’t a sufficient enough argument.

Right, you know what Trump wants. Then why can’t you quote him expressing such sentiment? Because you are referring to fantasy.

I’m not the one pretending words can “change the world”, which is the premise of sorcery.

It makes complete sense. He’s cutting red tape. That specific EO awards contracts to only to companies that have LGBT protections, and discriminated a...

If the mere act of asserting the claim justifies it, I’ll just assert the opposite. Those books and speeches metaphorically changed the world.

You can’t make something true by sheer force of repetition.

I fully agree with deregulation. But it would be absurd to claim, without evidence, that he is doing it for the sole purpose of making discrimination ...

Now it’s on you to explain how one combination of words can move someone differently than another combination of words. But that’s to argue for sorcer...

Arguably, yes, trump has little time for the transgendered argument and their “protections”. I shouldn’t have said LGBT and limited the nonsensical ac...

Lol. No, that would be Abe Lincoln, who’s business record was %100 failure.

I’m talking of real effects, as in cause and effect, not the specious “effects” you have in mind. Yes, light and sound have certain effects on the bod...

I don’t have a subscription to the WaPo. Can you formulate your own argument here, or absent that, summarize the WaPo?

“LGBT protections.” For instance?