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The rats are fleeing the ship, starting with illegally-appointed Jack Smith. The corrupt, political persecution has failed. Now he has only a few mont...
November 13, 2024 at 15:45
Crazy times. DOGE https://twitter.com/politico/status/1856512562382180588?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 13, 2024 at 02:16
I doubt she remembers anything. She’d have to form new memories. You cut it in half. So how did you as a person die if both halves of your brain survi...
November 12, 2024 at 18:02
I've never been a brain. My memories and personality have only ever related to a certain organism. I would remain as one organism, except I'd be one t...
November 12, 2024 at 17:23
Sorry, I thought I hit “post” days ago. I would be deceased. Jane would identify as Jane because it is Jane that is still surviving, still alive. I sa...
November 12, 2024 at 16:14
Terrible choice of it happens. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1856151469419794642?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 12, 2024 at 15:23
I hope this happens, big league. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1856097181205172267?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 11, 2024 at 23:26
I mean you’re turning inquisitorial, Tim. The winds of narrative aren’t blowing your way so while you sound off on your censorial feelings you also se...
November 11, 2024 at 21:41
Same. Legal positivism is extremely boring, unfortunately. I remember much of it was drawn from John Austin but I cannot be bothered to read it.
November 10, 2024 at 21:47
The best defense for legal positivism was arguably put forward by Herbert Hart. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Law
November 10, 2024 at 21:25
I get it: you can’t substantiate your beliefs. You don’t want to see your errors collide with truth.
November 10, 2024 at 21:19
Moral behavior versus an official’s dictates. One prescribed by reason and the other by monopoly and power. I know which one I favor.
November 10, 2024 at 18:34
I don’t think Trump will make it to his term with broken people like this running around. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1855665922477842439?s=46&t...
November 10, 2024 at 18:31
That’s a common straw man. Anarchism does not consider people to be self-sufficient islands, and therefor does not suffer from it. Rather it considers...
November 10, 2024 at 18:27
Does your government not deal in drugs? You have neither claim nor argument. What is a crime to you, then?
November 10, 2024 at 17:53
The state shows no disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. They tend to only punish those who threaten their m...
November 10, 2024 at 17:19
When elites look down on voters because they lack degrees, here’s what the educated look like: https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1855331430613880939?s...
November 10, 2024 at 17:11
Another way to formulate it is that the government has the monopoly on crime. It can do and get away with theft, murder, kidnapping, for example, whic...
November 10, 2024 at 16:49
The EU already capitulating, and Trump isn’t even in office yet. EU may consider replacing Russian LNG imports with those from US, von der Leyen says ...
November 10, 2024 at 16:18
I love all this fortune-telling. Why would black and brown people have an issue?
November 10, 2024 at 16:07
Yeah but you have Stockholm syndrome. You like being stolen from and told what to do by a bunch of pencil-necks, the younger the better.
November 10, 2024 at 15:48
Trump appears to have better advisors this time. https://twitter.com/nikkihaley/status/1855441295998640559?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 10, 2024 at 04:41
If government personnel are discriminating against you because of something it shouldn’t discriminate against, then yes, the government is the enemy. ...
November 09, 2024 at 22:43
I don't know. I don’t get similar intuitions. I suppose these beings would neither be you nor jane, but a mix of the two, a chimera. On the one hand y...
November 09, 2024 at 19:48
It isn’t the only essential organ. The heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs are also essential. Hence the phrase “vital organs”. And the vital organs are ...
November 09, 2024 at 18:49
Imagine a state enforcing historical and scientific truth and you’ll be imagining the most evil regimes in history.
November 09, 2024 at 18:03
The person uses his lungs and mouth to speak. The brain is only an organ of the person, like the lungs, heart, bones, etc. You are not speaking to a b...
November 09, 2024 at 17:54
Thanks for the response, Bob. I’m aware that’s the theory of republicanism. But it cannot be shown to be the case in practice. I suggest the opposite ...
November 09, 2024 at 17:40
All human being go through that stage, just as many of them go through the stage of childhood. Zygotes, neonates, children, adults—these are stages, n...
November 09, 2024 at 16:35
There is joke in there about big government.
November 09, 2024 at 16:30
He seems to be a job-holder, to me, someone who does politics for the salary.
November 09, 2024 at 16:29
That’s patently untrue. Brains can’t speak. A great deal more is required to utter a single word. You wouldn’t wake up, for one. You said yourself bra...
November 09, 2024 at 16:27
This is hilarious. https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1855068507290956271?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 09, 2024 at 02:14
Crazy story and turns out to be true according to FEMA. The hatred and evil runs deep. The worms have travelled deep into the anti-Trump brain. https:...
November 09, 2024 at 01:11
Sure there is. Technically we could film or track the entire life of a human being from beginning of his lifecycle to the end, and the identity of tha...
November 08, 2024 at 17:02
How many brains have you met and had a conversation with? I’d say it’s white because that’s what you looked like before.
November 08, 2024 at 16:59
Why is it still a person if you remove one organ, but not a person if you remove another? You would still be you and I would still be me. We can compa...
November 08, 2024 at 16:51
The differences between you now and you at the beginning of your life are profound, but at each stage you were present and identical to both. No kind ...
November 08, 2024 at 16:20
The New York Post has the best covers. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1854850516242563072?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 08, 2024 at 16:03
I never said there is no difference, only that one has developed out of the other.
November 08, 2024 at 15:52
…or a body. The only difference between a zygote and a conscious adult is time. All adults were zygotes. The so-called moral difference is immeasurabl...
November 08, 2024 at 15:51
Yet not a single person you’ve met was a brain. So there is no moral difference.
November 08, 2024 at 15:28
Yikes. https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1854760849291829688?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
November 08, 2024 at 05:47
The administration is taking form. Trump names campaign manager Susie Wiles as his Chief of Staff, the first female to be appointed to the position. h...
November 08, 2024 at 05:45
Yes to both questions. The GOP of Bush and the neoconservatives is largely over, with many of them now voting Democrat. I hope the Democrats can have ...
November 07, 2024 at 16:38
It’s called “churnalism”. The press in other countries parrot the press from the United States. This way they can save costs on doing their own journa...
November 07, 2024 at 16:05
Three issues give me to reject the proposal. My methodological individualism leads me to oppose the sociology. A nation does not impose its values on ...
November 07, 2024 at 15:53
His opponents come from all parties, so it isn’t really about parties. I remember in 2016 they were chasing down Trump supporters and beating them, at...
November 07, 2024 at 15:47
He took on both parties, destroyed them both, and ended many despicable political dynasties. But most of all the behavior of his opposition pushed me ...
November 07, 2024 at 15:19
I’m feeling pretty good about it. I overestimated the effects a corrupt press has on public opinion and figured Harris would win, or they’d kill him, ...
November 06, 2024 at 14:47