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The freedom to vote trumps the freedom to choose…I don’t even know what that means. I was saying people can now vote for the legislation they want in ...
August 27, 2024 at 07:18
I do not think that. Now women can vote for the policies they want. Isn’t that what you want?
August 27, 2024 at 06:41
I don’t think the feds should have any say in the matter. Do you?
August 27, 2024 at 01:25
It’s just a messaging tactic! The proposals don’t actually matter because they won’t get through Congress. Why do Harris supporters love messaging, an...
August 26, 2024 at 15:44
Vance already showed his family off with his wife giving an amazing speech, putting to bed your little race fantasy once again. As for abortion, now p...
August 26, 2024 at 15:36
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Free speech also entails letting people curate and manage their own platforms, even if they resort to censorship. Though censorship is anti-philosophy...
August 24, 2024 at 18:03
Just another supercut of the media coalescing around DNC rumors and reporting it. https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1827173323098226721?s=46&t=I...
August 24, 2024 at 15:06
RFK rips into his own party, the deep state, and endorses Trump. An important speech. https://www.youtube.com/embed/n15oCfLdmXI?si=k-BkgDY56WYBomYZ
August 23, 2024 at 19:15
Imagine JD Vance doing this. https://twitter.com/collinrugg/status/1826842582217036133?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
August 23, 2024 at 15:36
I suspect Europe, as the crucible of the worst ideologies, will have more of an issue than over here and much quicker. Same with what’s left of the co...
August 22, 2024 at 17:58
True enough. But the fracturing of these parties and the subsequent realignment is very interesting to watch. Who knows what will become of them over ...
August 22, 2024 at 16:23
It’s been that way for a while. It’s the establishment vs. the outsiders. Many warmongering neoconservatives like Bill Kristol, David Frum, Michael St...
August 22, 2024 at 15:56
Biden’s inner-circle worked to conceal his decline, according to the WaPo editorial board. But in their obsequious adulation for Biden’s wisdom in ste...
August 21, 2024 at 23:53
You didn’t watch “White Dudes for Harris”? The only things missing are the white pillowcases. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/...
August 20, 2024 at 20:57
Everywhere and nowhere.
August 20, 2024 at 17:18
Where do the whites go? https://twitter.com/catholicvote/status/1825584819520032912?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg
August 20, 2024 at 14:59
Nicely put, thank you. I'm curious what this "structure" is, and more, what it really amounts to. I've been told of "tribal structures", "social struc...
August 19, 2024 at 17:12
Figures. It contradicts what I believe so I better stop reading it.
August 19, 2024 at 16:05
I think you’re right. Under those stipulations one cannot justify self-defence. But it also reveals how counterintuitive pacifism is. It is the sort o...
August 19, 2024 at 15:53
Well, the House GOP finally released their impeachment report regarding Joe Briben and his crime family, outlining several impeachable offenses. It’s ...
August 19, 2024 at 15:48
I guess it depends one what kind of societies we’re talking about. A common trick is to conflate a state or nation as a society. I just don’t know how...
August 19, 2024 at 06:51
Maybe you could give me an example of “a structure of relations”, then? Maybe a picture of one that is not “atomized individuals”? You cannot because ...
August 19, 2024 at 02:06
I wager the association between you and your friends, should you have them, is non-hierarchical, as is much of the association between you and the oth...
August 19, 2024 at 01:37
I know what a hierarchy is. My contention is that political and power-based ones are not natural. But you have to bring up vague associations like “hu...
August 19, 2024 at 01:25
Still, if less and less workers put money into the fund, and more and more recipients seek to benefit from it, exhaustion of the fund is inevitable. T...
August 19, 2024 at 01:09
How many hierarchies have you formed?
August 19, 2024 at 00:58
I don’t know why people in a city would want to support a Hunter/gatherer lifestyle. All I’m saying is groups of people living anywhere needn’t impose...
August 18, 2024 at 22:13
They didn’t have to. They just wanted to. Now we have to adhere to the hierarchy or risk being punished.
August 18, 2024 at 18:48
I was addressing your point that it would “be reckless to pass it because it would exhaust the SS trust fund sooner”. How does taxing your social secu...
August 18, 2024 at 18:37
It makes no sense to me. The money in the fund has already been confiscated as taxes, for example, via payroll taxes, and added to the fund. That is m...
August 18, 2024 at 17:16
In politics and government the hierarchy is artificial and conventional, not natural. So this type of hierarchy is not inevitable or born of necessity...
August 18, 2024 at 16:56
I like the idea, personally. I’m against all taxes. I also think it is fundamentally absurd to tax money that has already been collected as taxes. So ...
August 18, 2024 at 16:02
Executive orders are interesting. I don’t think they’re so transient when it comes to the institution of government itself. They can direct the execut...
August 18, 2024 at 15:19
The implications are interesting. One concludes that reality is a construct of the mind, the other, not a construct at all.
August 18, 2024 at 01:08
Their record. If given power, what will they do? Harris has been vice president for the past three years and I can not name one thing she has done, fo...
August 18, 2024 at 00:39
I do think it’s appropriate because it’s newsworthy. The duty of a journalist is to publish it.
August 18, 2024 at 00:33
If I had wanted a reply I would have quoted you. But the topic was a good one, however naive and obsequious the opinion of it was. For future referenc...
August 18, 2024 at 00:27
Luckily the past can give us a hint. Both were heavily involved in past and current administrations. No predictions required.
August 18, 2024 at 00:24
Ideas come into being at the moment of expression, and persist as long as the expression does. It’s why we often write them down or record them if we ...
August 17, 2024 at 19:40
We should obey because we do not want to get harassed, kidnapped, or killed by others. So we do our best: shuffle along in the hopes that every move, ...
August 17, 2024 at 16:00
Yeah, I don’t get it. Now abortionists get to vote for the policies they want.
August 17, 2024 at 01:43
I just wonder whenever I write a post, your name appears shortly after. It’s odd.
August 16, 2024 at 14:39
My eyes glaze over whenever I see your name, Xtrix. No good questions, responses, and even the insults are boring. Gotta try harder, man.
August 16, 2024 at 14:23
It’s not about policy at all, is it?
August 16, 2024 at 14:18
Not a single interesting thing has come out of you.
August 16, 2024 at 14:16
The Trump campaign was hacked and the data given to the press, but they won’t report it because publishing emails is now verboten for them. Are you al...
August 16, 2024 at 13:28
https://twitter.com/postopinions/status/1824248696789205473?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg Nice little op-ed.
August 16, 2024 at 03:57
They’ve been doing it their whole lives. No doubt they’re good at it, if branding is your principle upon which to judge. With an army of campaigners a...
August 15, 2024 at 22:32
No, don’t be fooled, communism is not cooperatives and more democracy. These little tales are what they tell you to trick you into giving up your free...
August 15, 2024 at 16:03
https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1823905620585480435?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg Perhaps too scared to face hard-hitting question, whether ab...
August 15, 2024 at 15:57