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No problem. There was a massive shadow campaign to alter how the very election was ran, and Big Labor teamed with Big Business and Big Tech to alter e...

I’ll let you know when your opinion means anything.

It felt really good because until then cowards like bush and Obama hid behind bunkers.

Smart.

Trump is so scared right now. https://pagesix.com/2023/03/21/donald-trump-in-high-spirits-team-pumped-over-arrest/amp/

Effectiveness is no measure for leadership, for me anyways, unless one adheres to some statist or collectivist foundation. Hitler was effective. Who c...

It will be interesting to watch the machinations of the state in all this. Their aging citizenry has invested large portions of their lives and income...

It doesn’t make him a bad one, either. The deep state doesn’t want leaders, anyways. it wants a compliant figure head to give itself prestige so it ca...

You might be right. Those with greater resources will create for themselves more access to hearts and minds. But I think the tide is turning. Who know...

That’s a good point. But it isn’t necessarily worse, either. It’s not only that we have more access to information, we also have better access to the ...

I’m probably not the only one to use the phrase.

I see it as a boon to reason. With a greater conformity it was much easier to submit to the general consensus whereas now, given the myriad of doctrin...

Trump has none of the characteristics described in Miller’s lecture, I’m afraid. More nonsense. Trump is so refined and polished, according to Fool. I...

Change in terms of ideology. I can’t predict the future but my hope is that the spell of statism becomes untenable and people begin to claw back the p...

He was fairly nondescript as far as presidents go, except that he did away with what Arthur Miller described as executive tailoring, which is almost p...

I’m not confident he will be convicted or not because the entire system is stacked against someone like Trump. I am suspicious of the system and anyon...

If you give someone money and they do with it what they want it’s your fault for giving them money.

Because they are stupid laws. The US did just fine without them.

Are you not your physiology?

It is possible until the determinist can find anything else in the universe that controls a persons actions. They have utterly failed in that regard.

I’m not an anarchist. I believe in justice and prosecuting someone for non-violent vices such as a campaign finance violations is unjust. Witch hunts ...

It depends on the law because I do not believe in most of them.

Oh dear. You can curate and string together as many of my quotes as you wish and give yourself exactly the story you want to hear. It’s a telling habi...

You quote me out of context and then apply that quote to some other subject. It’s the basest propaganda, but it works wonders on someone such as yours...

Capone, Hitler, Mussolini. Have you ever heard of a false analogy?

I remember when establishment supporters swore he was a treasonous, Russian asset, and now this is the hill they’re dying on. Campaign finance! Clinto...

Is that a “no”?

I don’t know nor care about the details. Establishment supporters have been making the case that Trump was a criminal for years, and let’s just say th...

What isn’t true?

The establishment’s base is resting their hopes on the word of a porn star, a lawyer who plead guilty for lying, and a political district attorney. Th...

It’s typical of his critics to erect some sort of show-trial for political purposes. Impeachments, J6 hearings (complete with a television producer fr...

And just as arbitrary. Does talk about the will have to do with anything else? For some reason you’ve limited the discussion to “cause” only, but the ...

Your causal chain begins rather arbitrarily, at the point where the hammer strikes the tendon, and not in the doctors brain for instance. It begins ex...

I’m not sure, but I suspect that you’re going to eventually say the body is like a Rube Goldberg machine, or that the body does not govern, control, o...

A motor neuron

But isn’t the rising of the leg caused by the contraction of muscle? All a hammer can do is compress the tendon.

Is this you trying to say that certain reflexes are controlled by hammers, and not, say, a reflex arc?

The debate over the argument from illusion is quite extensive, already. Whatever your stance on it it’s an interesting one. The problem is with the id...

Are the activities of the human organism uncaused or caused by something else?

I always took “unmediated” to mean that nothing else is intervening in the relationship between perceiver and perceived. In other words there is no ve...

I just said it regulates itself. I’m not sure how that implies two organisms. How do I make it sound as if there is?

Go for it.

Do you think we stop seeing when we sleep? That we close our eyes and find darkness in order to sleep suggests we might not. The whole time we are sta...

The control the human body has over itself is near total. Every action, weather it’s the heartbeat, the creation and secretion of hormones, the produc...

It organizes the affairs of whomever captures it, capitalist or otherwise. All that changes from one ideology to the next is the class of beneficiarie...

I do think the state is inextricably bound to the economy, much to my dismay. It intervenes in trade on account of its preferred beneficiaries and plu...

To be fair to you I do have a mild contempt for most statisms, whether it be socialist, conservative, liberal, or fascist. The only difference between...

As you know, Nietzsche is no fan of socialism. I only consider what Nietzsche previously wrote of socialists and assume it in this aphorism. He mentio...

Great thread. Good read. The divine right of kings was at least more consistent than the divine right of politicians. Given its premise and the prevai...

I think you guys are just mad at the guy because he exposed the extent of the propaganda you’ve been fed for years in one single segment. So you have ...