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Now I’m a neo Nazi and a Russian Troll. But these soporific pieces of slander can only offer you solace from cognitive dissonance, not are any stateme...

No, he condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis. He condemned the violence. It is literally the destruction of history.

What narrative have I regurgitated? Perhaps you can share an example.

You mean the neo-Nazis and white nationalists Trump explicitly said he wasn’t talking about and condemned? Now we have to go in circles. One can peace...

We now watch the goalposts widen. They had a permit to do so and we’re in their legal right to protest. Clearly Trump differentiated between those exe...

It’s bigotry to be intolerant of another’s opinion. It sounds like you run afoul of your own double-standards.

I thought we were talking about Trump. Now it’s his father and Steve Bannon.

Then why the bigotry? I’ve already been falsely accused of being a Russian Troll working for GRU.

Now the goal posts widen. But I thought he was callling neo Nazis fine people? He didn’t, but now it’s inferred by “a pattern of clear and undeniable ...

That’s evidence of your malice and hatred, and not anything to do with me.

He was speaking about the people protesting the removal of a statue, as is their right. “And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis...

Now I’m a Russian spy. Where have I heard that before?

Oh Dear. I have not cried at all, despite your fantasies. The word-policing remark actually harkens back to Orwell’s “thought policing”, not any “far-...

More lies. He explicitly condemned white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. The congresswomen engagd in anti-Israeli boycotts and rhetoric...

I have two legs to stand on. But what you’ve “personally witnessed” is very little in comparison to what you’ve personally omitted, for instance that ...

Whining? Not me. Perhaps if you call me another name I’ll whimper a bit, but not likely.

Sure, there are some legitimate criticism in your Gish-gallop, but then again it’s sprinkled with outright falsities and DNC lies.

I’m not going to refute every point of your Gish-gallop (they will only be dismissed anyways), but that you’re repeating, almost verbatim, the rhetori...

Troll away. I’m always game.

I don’t think you’re trolling me, I think you have an over-inflated sense of your implied abilities and seek to exert them on people who disagree with...

You question the character of millions of people you’ve never met? I think you’re beyond defence at this point.

Well the “yelling fire in a crowded theater” analogy was used to justify the censorship of socialists handing out pamphlets criticizing the draft. The...

Look how quickly your unethical and politically expedient diagnosis has turned to me. And you question my character?

Yet here you are quibbling about my use of hyperbole. I suspect some slight projection here, because not only are you failing to demonstrate critical ...

That’s not true. Diagnosis involves much more than observing a patient talk.

The “undeniable evidence” is the cherry-picking and quote-mining of his opponents, and not any clinical examination. It is deniable on those grounds.

There has yet to be a clinical test of Donald Trump, and as such, you’re breaking the Goldwater Rule. The only man who has submitted the president to ...

Word policing. I’ve already admitted my hyperbole, yet you’re still quibbling about it pages later. Is this is a demonstration of critical thinking? N...

Both. I did separate them. It was you was quibbling at my use of hyperbole and “poor critical thinking”, my speech and my thinking. Speech, thought. O...

Hyperbole and other figures of speech is language. If your word and thought policing is your idea of critical thinking, I want nothing to do with it.

I said it doesn’t mean that they are right, not that they are wrong. For instance slavery was permitted by law. Were they right to do so?

I don’t respect your opinion. I suspect it. There are countless uses of hyperbole in this very thread, but you never show up to wag your finger at the...

Of course that’s true. But that doesn’t mean they’re right, and that’s why we refrain from appealing to popularity. I think the opposite, that to beli...

I think you are relying on the homunculus fallacy, that we are like some little being inside the body being pushed around by this or that instinct. Bu...

But also, the dictum is used in the service of censorship, so I think some opposition to it might be necessary.

Yeah I think it is unwise to yell fire in a crowded theater. My only contention was the legality of it.

Why is it a common feature of your speech to attack the player and not the ball?

Sure they could, but they could not. There are a bunch of videos of Christopher Hitchens yelling fire in the venues in which he was giving a speech. H...

Why is hyperbole a common figure of speech? The extent to witch you are willing to flee from the topic of the conversation is astounding. Sorry pal, t...

Money is one of the most important inventions in human history. Though not all people believe in the same god or obey the same government, they are al...

Bad idea or not, one is free to do so, and we should refrain from perpetuating that myth.

What if you heard a word from a language you do not understand? It’s a word, it has meaning, but it could only cause confusion. Did the word cause con...

Yes, there should be no law regarding speech. But that doesn’t mean adults should be allowed to abuse children. Parents should immediately remove thei...

Allowed by whom?

I’ve abandoned the label “atheist”, personally. I no longer pretend to be nor define myself as being without something that doesn’t exist anyways. Now...

Just to be sure, the “yelling fire in a crowded theater” analogy was never law, but an analogy. The case in which the Judge (Oliver Wendell Holmes) us...

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not first amendment standard any longer. That’s a common misconception. The current standard is “immanent lawless...

Fake news is the latest bogeyman of censors, who, like China before them, use it to justify censorship and state regulation of the internet.

Exactly right. Pretending speech causes the movement of matter is essentially to believe in sorcery.

Hyperbole is a common figure of speech. You do have a point with your rigid hairsplitting and trivial objections, i’ll Give you that, but then again i...