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The crime is the same and just as stupid in both cases. It’s a witness tampering crime used to prosecute political opponents who inconvenience congres...

It's (D)ifferent when we do it.

That’s a good point. I mean, slavery works. Utilitarianism can justify injustice so long as the greatest number are happy.

It’s communist in name, intention, ideology, belief, and practice. It’s just that “capitalism” is largely a bugaboo. No economic system which is not c...

I think China has proven it does work. A couple years ago they had the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, for example. ...

The pseudo-scientific justifications for using race have long been discredited. One does not have certain phenotypes because he belongs to some subgro...

Aside from the stupidity of using race as a taxonomy with which to order human beings into this or that category, the negative effects of racism alone...

The appeal of race consciousness and racial identity politics to supporters of it is that they get to retain the use of race as a heuristic in their t...

The pendulum metaphor doesn't work for me because I think it is all fruit from the same poisonous tree. The current racism is largely an extension of ...

Activist scholarship is dog shit, in my opinion. Woke corporate racism, that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion mantra, flows straight from that rotten core...

This is funny. https:/theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/democrat-jamaal-bowman-fire-alarm-house Obstructing an official proceeding is what Trump was...

We continually have to view our own nose. This isn't because "the brain receives, organises and integrates cognitive data, along with memory and expec...

I don’t doubt that. But it’s difficult to be xenophobic towards members of groups that do not exist, like a race, rather than towards groups that do e...

How so?

I think you’re right. But the question for me is: upon what grounds should I stand? Making sense of “what is there” seems to me paramount, and not ent...

A congresswoman’s job isn’t to govern, I’m afraid. Her job is to legislate, to oversee the executive branch, and to fund the federal government (or no...

I do. But I think racism is an aberration of thought and belief rather than a feature of some particular system.

I think you’re right insofar as metaphysics is an exercise in imagination and intuition. But I also think metaphysical inquiry can help other forms of...

It has also been used as catch-all phrase for woke racism, which may or may not have anything to do with CRT proper. The worst thing the opposition ca...

You assume on the basis of race and descent, like every racist in the history of mankind. If you hadn't made assumptions on the basis of race and desc...

I’ll point you to the OP and the arguments.

We have back-peddled so far that Critical Race Theory and its racist assumptions are mostly mainstream. The pseudoscience and false taxonomies of race...

The big, bloated, and corrupt institution could use some time off.

Who cares?

The impeachment inquiry into Biden has begun. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66954626.amp Now we have to deal with the inevitable politiciza...

We know what a stop sign means because over our lifetime we have come to learn what a stop sign means. We know the word “stop”, use it often, understa...

The meaning is invariably in the human being. The meaning of a word, for example, is only constant at the point of a speaker or listener, her body, an...

You’d be surprised. I would argue Canada places more power in the hands of its leader than does any other western country. Trudeau invoked the Emergen...

I feel the same way about all things digital. Maybe it’s the medium, or that all of it is largely a string of ones and zeroes, and a portrait of the a...

Sorry, I was using the word in the non-technical sense. But thanks.

If you assume that everything exists (which I do), including hobbits, determining what a thing exists as becomes paramount to their ontology. For me i...

I already said that Pomerantz and another prosecutor resigned. As you have clearly read from the article, there are more prosecutors involved, includi...

I like the phrase and I too have an object-oriented ontology. I also express a “flat-ontology”, I suppose, at least insofar as objects cannot be ident...

I was quoting one of Ankush Khardori's sources from his article in New York Magazine. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/mark-pomerantzs-revealin...

I was writing about the prosecutors in the district attorney's office (note: "the prosecutors", "the criminal prosecutors", not "the attorney general"...

How is that possible when the sentence you quoted refer to other people? It’s clear to me where the distortion lies. At any rate, that’s my public ser...

I didn't say she chose not to bring a criminal case. I said "prosecutors refused to pursue the case". You even quoted it. Is this your idea of good fa...

One-sided stories, churnalism, contextomy, card-stacking. Propaganda as a public service.

When dealing with Fooloso be prepared nonsensical analogies and other sophistries. You can't think of any reason why criminal prosecutors would refuse...

Another odd find in the Biden saga. Still, no evidence Joe was involved. Just his address, his son, his family, Air Force 2, and so on. https://www.cn...

I know what a civil and criminal case is and the difference between liable and guilty. No need to scurry around and gather disparate quotes and author...

Fraud is a crime but prosecutors refused to pursue the case. I wonder why? “Liable” is becoming the common theme because guilt escapes you. New York i...

It isn’t standard procedure to tell a general in a foreign army that he would warn them should the US attack.

You’re just quoting disparate paragraphs from all over the internet. You’re not pointing out much. None of it gets into what Milley said to the Chines...

Clearly I was speaking about the unnamed official, not the named one. We heard it here first. Lawyers get to determine what an “enemy” is.

Thanks, unnamed official. He gave aid and comfort to the enemy behind the back of the president. He admitted to it in his book.

Milley, broken with a moral panic, went around the back of duly elected president and informed the CCP about Trump in order to cool tensions. He viola...

An embarrassing moment for Trudeau and the Canadian government. Trudeau, Zelensky, and the Ministers of parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrain...

Odd accusations, and as usual without argument. I’ll pass.

I don’t get the complaint. But I’m still interested to read how what I wrote is a counterpoint to what I have proclaimed in other places.