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Biden was given no subpoena. He voluntarily disclosed them, but after taking them and possessing them and doing god-knows-what with them for a number ...

Last year there was a case not unlike Biden’s, and she was sentenced to 3 months and fined. Biden’s snafu more comparable to this case and not Trump’s...

I was speaking of politics, collectivism as the principle of giving the group priority over the individual, and individualism as the principle of givi...

Feel better?

Well, you’re not getting any swings in, that’s for sure. You’re not fighting anything. You’re staring at a screen reading words. Is this really the ex...

You’ve made a little caricature and premise your judgements on it. You poison your own well. Then you froth and seethe wherever I appear despite claim...

I don’t see politicians as more than job holders. They certainly aren’t avatars of any one ideology. You’re just trying to make a last-ditch efforts t...

Nope. Most people are collectivists, I wager.

Apparently not. After all my rhetoric you haven’t figured out that I’m opposed to collectivism. All we have are these weird gymnastics.

I voted for Trump. You never Figured Trump as a collectivist. But somehow I voted for a collectivist. The weirdest contortions.

According to you and your imagination.

Proof positive.

You’re just making stuff up now. I invite you to grapple with the ideas, if you can. Let’s see an argument.

I’m glad I did vote for it. It achieved all I ever wanted and more. There are plenty collectivist capitalists, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, ...

The brute fact is that we are objects, not unlike tables and chairs. Human history, I think, has yet to come to terms with this. We have continually r...

There is some great insight in what you wrote. It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it. So long as the State makes the seizure and distributio...

Again, fascism is the direct result of you kind of politics. I wonder if you’ve thought any of this through.

Racism and slavery, fascism and communism, war and nationalism, were some of the worst products of collectivism. We’re still crawling from the rubble ...

In my interpretation the intellect doesn’t receive it so much as it generates it, like a caricature, by including some properties and excluding others...

It’s pure, reactionary fanaticism. The idea that people aren’t living their lives according to the fanatic’s own ideology is repugnant to him. They mu...

He willingly turned them in a decade later. What a hero!

Rousseau implies this point when he takes pain to differentiate between the “general will” and the “will of all”. His contrast between these two sets ...

I agree that individualism is a personal belief, but so is collectivism. And it is no collective decision if others accept either of these principles....

I think from the perspective of non-duality the activity (thinking) and the entity (the thinker) are one in the same. There is no difference between a...

Collectivism and individualism are protean political terms and are always subject to debate, so the notions of "true individualism" and "true collecti...

I’m not sure any sort of affirmative action is needed. The surest way to corrupt the youth with Communism would be for the government to outlaw it, an...

You didn’t mention the length of time Biden had them for, and that Biden was only Vice President when he took the documents and did not have the sort ...

I didn’t say I was unsure about the practice. I was unsure about the answer to your quibbling question.

Does “effective” entail being easily controlled?

You are expressing every individual’s primacy. If you realize the primacy of the individual you afford him rights and defend those rights against infr...

It’s true. I just don’t know the answer to that question for those particular arraignments.

Any declaration of universal human rights.

Though I can can see a benefit in both, the question of what happens to those who do not wish to conform to those ideals remains a problem.

If everyone is an individual, and the individual is given primacy, it follows that no one is excluded.

Not to mention the wars on the First Nations, colonialism, manifest destiny. Collectivism, through and through.

I suspect through family and kinship.

Chairman Mao makes this explicit in his diagnosis of The Party discipline, of which he sees the failure of the minority to submit to the majority as o...

But collectivism isn’t.

It means to me that individualism is more inclusive, that it concerns itself with more human beings, even all human beings, whereas collectivism is ex...

Yeah. I think one satisfies the desires of both, while the other is incalculable, leads to factionalism, is self-contradictory and dangerous. One is j...

“What’s best” is what concerns me. For the individualist one would violate another’s rights if he violates the rights of an individual. For the collec...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/collectivism

Yes. Men afford others rights and they also take them away.

That was a good read, Baden. Thanks for sharing it.

The freedoms we afford to other individuals.

with one you’ll be violating someone’s rights while with the other you won’t.

I agree with this, big time. Even reducing intentionality or consciousness to brain activity is a step too far. In every single case, Intentionality a...

I don’t think there is anything evolutionary about governments. They’re just there, the technological remnants of predatory men, who have long ago dev...

Every time a bird puts a twig on his nest he is incurring a debt to wilderness.

Most of it I do not remember. Memories are fleeting.