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The entertainment value alone is enough for me to endorse your theory. I’m into it.

Gotcha. I misread it. Biden is such a dud that removing him would be a political mistake. Perhaps they believe letting a criminal run the country is a...

Coercion carries with it the threat of violence. It is such that if you refuse to conform to a demand you are then subject to force in a way that resu...

And if they can?

Looks like the GOP will be investigating various allegations against the Biden family. No doubt they’ve been taught that such is the way for an opposi...

Of course you can’t.

Trail and error proves the merits and demerits of any moral principle. Slavery isn’t inherently wrong—it could have been used in a charitable way as t...

Well, saying “it can” also implies that “it cannot”. The point is, again, that the authority has to justify it.

It’s the authority that has to justify it. All I know is that if I see a father stop his child from running into a busy street I’m not going to questi...

An authority must be legitimate. For instance it can be justly reasoned that a father is the legitimate authority of his child. A politician is the le...

The Mueller investigation began when AG Rosenstein buckled under Democrat and media pressure after Comey’s firing.

I refuse to believe everyone in the media didn’t know what “collusion” meant, and therefor what they were reporting on was true. Again, the Muelller r...

“Collusion” is synonymous with “conspiracy”, as explained in the Mueller report. No one from the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russ...

There you have it.

I wish I could call them errors. “Russian collusion” and the multi-million dollar investigations, the red scare, the lives and careers and reputations...

If the agent determines all of his actions then yes he has free will.

Is he not his ingrained predispositions?

Yes.

You hold the same standards for news as you do politicians? No wonder fake news works so well.

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson has a great compendium of media mistakes, lies, and propaganda in the Trump era. https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/50-me...

I’ve already argued that the actions we take while slipping on a banana peel are myriad, but invariably have to do with avoiding slipping. The moment ...

nothing pops into the head, as if from nowhere. I think; and whatever contents could be said to be found in that act are freely generated by me and no...

It is enough for your act to originate in you. Whether an action is willed, determined, directed, chosen, intended, controlled, conditioned, dictated,...

Nope. Free will pertains to living beings, in particular humans.

Neither. When one slips on a banana the actions he takes range from trying to limit the harms of slipping (trying to regain balance, extending one’s a...

I think that’s a fair analysis. But, of course, there is no such syndrome. It’s less to do with mental illness and more to do with belief and propagan...

Forgive me, but I have trouble with the “ability to do otherwise” principle of free will. Many have taken it as a priori while I can hardly wrap my he...

True. Right and left are relatively meaningless in the Trumpian context. He is hated on all sides.

It does not mean that you do them un-freely either. The action is generated without cause or input from anything else in the universe. There is no res...

It doesn’t. To rule out the possibility of free will one will have to show that thoughts, or any action for that matter, comes from somewhere or someo...

Well said. It is a phenomenon on the level of mass psychosis, even a religion. He’s both folk hero to his supporters and folk devil to his detractors ...

Fair enough. But, just to say, we can read the opinions of the highest court in the land to discover why in fact it was overturned.

What if RBG didn’t die? Any speculations on what would have happened had she lived?

Trump finally announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. Get your popcorn. https://twitter.com/realdailywire/status/15927059716292321...

Counterfactuals. Such speculation is fun, no doubt.

Is it a “They would have” but they didn’t, sort of argument?

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I apologize and thanks for clarifying. The legal outcome, though, is decided by the Supreme Court, and has zero to do with party politics. My point wa...

A non-sequitur is when the logic does not follow. I thought we were talking about the differences between the two parties. Then you mentioned Supreme ...

I’m not sure how. As I understand it SCOTUS ruled that abortion was not a protected right under the Constitution in that case.

It would not have happened if there was an amendment to the constitution affording people the right to an abortion.

The only viewpoint under consideration when it comes to voting is deciding which person you want to decide matters for you.

None of which was legislated in congress.

I’m against voting in general. But I don’t think we should get rid of the parties. Parties can change. Party civil wars are welcome, in my opinion.

A dead guy was elected in Pennsylvania. It reminds me of the Artemis Ward quote, “inasmuch as we don't seem to have a live statesman in our National C...

The most pernicious justification for censorship at any institutional level that I notice is that such and such information will cause harm, and is th...

This is one of the perils of utilitarianism. One cannot fathom the entire results of one’s actions, and one can never be sure what will produce the gr...

I suppose that as we age we develop a set of moral principles with which we will live by. We justify our actions according to these principles, and in...

Linguistic activity does not have the causal effects you claim they do. At best such activity makes concrete what the speaker thinks. Here they reveal...

I didn’t feel anything this time, unfortunately. I suppose a higher quality of sorcery is likelier to have an effect.