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You can find that one in the anti-Trump trophy case, with all the other Supreme Court losses. It appears abusing the courts and weaponizing the justic...

I would never dismiss anyone’s beliefs and concerns so long as he was talking about them. But activism is not conversation. It is anti-social, ill man...

You have no other choice because believing media reports is how you form your beliefs. How could you operate without them?

For BlueAnon, making such statements before all the facts are out is the going rate, these days.

I think the phrase “luxury beliefs” coined by commentator Rob Henderson encapsulates some of the psychology and dynamics. These are beliefs and activi...

Causation in general is a fraught notion itself. It's been discussed for thousands of years and the theories as to what it is or means still vary to t...

The Senate Intelligence Committee report relied on the Intelligence Community Assessment of January 2017 and the testimony of its drafters, all of whi...

Venezuela banned the private ownership of guns and ammunition in 2012. They stopped issuing firearm licences and confiscated thousands of guns. Ten ye...

That’s right, and guns are great equalizers of power. A small woman can drop a very large man. Unfortunately, leaving everyone defenceless is a by-pro...

It may be effective to ban weaponry, but is it unjust? I believe so. It's a brute fact that not every gun owner is a potential murderer, and not every...

One of greatest myths perpetuated by the Russia hoax is that the Russian “developed a clear preference for candidate Trump”, “aspired to help his chan...

So-called wokism is the same old racism, injustice, and tribalism dressed in another garb. Beneath the strange arguments and complex surface-level man...

I don’t agree with it. We should recall that in the mouths of Nazis and their critics, the claim of The Big Lie is used to smear their enemies as chea...

I read your words if and when I want to. I focus my eyes, move them along the sentence, think about them, consider whether I should bother responding,...

If it worked all the same you wouldn’t have had a problem discussing human beings, but you invariably chose machines engineered by human beings to be ...

Tulsi making some serious allegations. Inserted here for historical record. https://youtu.be/Dx37JTVKhRk?si=Q2NPJc_XUndRQZ8x

It’s the other way about. We affect words. We direct the soundwaves, transduce the signal, interpret the vibrations and electro-chemical symbols. What...

The common incompatiblist argument is that if you have no control over the past and the laws of nature, you have no control of the consequences of the...

Unfortunately they didn’t have access to those files. More to come, too. Buckle up.

Verbal nouns inevitably lead to ambiguity. But in this case the answer is relatively easy. A painting is “that which is painted”, the combination of p...

It’s a criminal referral for what DNI Gabbard called a “treasonous conspiracy”. The DOJ has taken up the referral. What’s the trivial part?

I don’t know how biological autonomy is compatible with causal determinism. Yesterday you made some interesting comments about human beings and it all...

And what would a medical examiner say killed him? Is their answer a reduction to the absurd? No, you equivocate between “kill” and “murder”. I think y...

They are mutually exclusive because the push didn’t cause the death. Medical examiners can examine the body and find out exactly what did. Maybe they ...

I think you embrace the reductio ad absurdum. The push killed him, with nothing to say regarding the impact with the ground. For me and medical doctor...

I wasn’t aware of the whistleblower information, or that Obama and his crew ordered a reassessment after they lost the election. Is that old news?

And here are my arguments and objections. There is more to causation, but you cannot quantify what that “more” is. That’s a problem to me. So I’ll sti...

Then what is this “more”? Counterfactual dependence? After this therefore because of this? Unlike computers, humans control the inputs. Humans can pic...

Speaking of conspiracy theories, the BlueAnon dupes of Russiagate are in for some more surprises. DNI Gabbard just dropped some frightening info. http...

On the other hand, one argument for keeping children away from voting might be that it gives them the opportunity to live their formative years withou...

You believe turning on the stove causes the water to boil. I believe the transfer of heat causes the water to boil. The problem is there isn’t always ...

Not so much of a democracy then.

Let everyone vote. Cradle-to-the-grave government requires cradle-to-the-grave participation, so why not?

The problems with counterfactual reasoning are not new either. You don’t believe the transfer of energy has any effect? So the transfer of momentum fr...

You disappeared for a couple weeks there. Did you finally find a little angle to exploit?

I believe it means we come to agree with an argument by assessing it with our own reasoning and judgement. Great, a new theory of causation. I can giv...

If any one of the people claiming to have the power to animate human beings with words animated me with words, it might show that they possess the pow...

Yes, it’s obvious various brain regions light up when we read and come to agree with something. How about you persuade me that the universe revolves a...

I’ve given you countless opportunities to demonstrate your powers and move me with your words and you haven’t been able to. There is really no excuse ...

Given your claim to some empirical fact it should be easy to devise some empirical test of it or some demonstration that anyone can observe. If words ...

Thanks for the info. Aren’t words an effect of the understanding? One must understand the language in order to know what the symbols mean, for example...

You said it was an empirical fact that we do so, nothing about it being possible or impossible. I’ve quoted it in full numerous times. I’ve corrected ...

But you refuse to say what would falsify it. Nor can you give us a demonstration of your powers. It’s not a non-sequitur to note that the evidence aga...

If there is no way to test or observe your theory and contradict it with evidence, it’s pseudoscience, I’m afraid. But a question remains: if your wor...

Then what would falsify your empirical fact that you persuade people with words? It’s a simple question.

Then what would falsify your empirical fact if not the empirical fact that you’ve persuaded no one?

“I simply acknowledge that it is an empirical fact that we do persuade, convince, provoke, incite, coerce, teach, trick, etc. with our words. It's not...

I never said that, though. What does your basic reasoning tell you about misrepresented arguments? A complete lie.

I do know what a non-sequitur is but you have been unable to explain why the evidence against a claim (that I am not moved by your words) does not fal...

Language, laws, government, and other products of the imagination change with the rise and fall of custom and usage, but the biology from which they a...