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It’s theft on a grand scale.

Tell them the race of those involved has no bearing on anything in the entire process.

In short, it accrues to its power and benefit. The state has no real mechanism to earn wealth of its own so it must take it from those who are product...

Representationalism is odd in that it always assumes an image or “representation” (“a pixelated appearance”) of what is seen, but can never show us th...

Your instincts are correct here. It’s morally wrong. As the case proves, any race-based inclusion leads to race-based exclusion. When you make an effo...

Is the method of pretending others say things they didn’t say a bad habit or a tried and true method of deceiving fellow travellers?

Isn’t the mind, too, an abstract object? An idea? How do we experience abstract objects with other abstract objects, ideas with other ideas?

As usual, misrepresentations, made up logic, and other absurdities. The statist knows he can start a corporation and compete with the very corporation...

If you experience the world through the five senses, what being and with what kind of senses do you experience abstract objects?

One wonders why, since corporations control the United States, one doesn’t just start one. It’s relatively easy and inexpensive to do. Once done he co...

Tickets are worth things because people work—I’m not so sure what that means. As far as I know currency is usually valued according to what, if any, c...

Watch the faithful statist reserve a special code of ethics for his government that he refuses to hold to any other group of men and women. Wealth sho...

Taxes are quite an old concept and they haven’t helped much yet. I’m not sure a little more will do. And they might even have a worse effect, which is...

Yes, I accept the former, but not the latter. I don’t think taking people’s money or property is the right thing to do. I don’t think advocating to ta...

You can do no more than to try to belittle me, whether to pad your weak theories or to make yourself feel better, but the fact remains that your oliga...

You said these oligarchs will shaft me yet you cannot say how. Odd, that.

I don’t own a Tesla, use Facebook, and am largely unaware of Koch industries. If they ever strip me or anyone of our human rights I will stand in oppo...

Uh oh, those those scary oligarchs. Can you name one and how he’ll hurt me?

I said “public health”, not “universal healthcare”. I also never said public health is fascism. Maybe pick up some glasses.

A quasi-fascism already revealed itself among most western nations under the guise of public health. Entire populations were stripped of their human r...

Dems and republicans of the establishment variety, to be clear. I don’t think it’s a conspiracy because that would entail some cunning and foresight. ...

He’s Jason Bourne.

Dopes falling for a show trial…again. https://twitter.com/GabbyOrr_/status/1541940680716599298?s=20&t=y8uIyJvHxeMTQsNytlTs8A https://twitter.com/Peter...

I’m one thing, the cup is another.

Yes, in every case it’s me that exists. No cartwheel, no backflip, and no model of a tea cup. We need not insert other, invisible things into the form...

The manner in which it exists is wholly relevant. It doesn’t exist at all. You cannot take a string attached to the word “dream” and attach the other ...

Does a walk exist? Does a cartwheel exist? Does a backflip exist? Our language no doubt attempts to abstract actions from the extant being that perfor...

I exist. I experience. But it doesn’t follow that something called “experience” exists. I don’t think it would be impossible to be wrong. There are ot...

The shame of technocracy and one of the downfalls of the current system is that the Supreme Court ought to stay out of such decisions. This is why Roe...

I’m saying if it exists it has a position. You told me it exists but where it is doesn’t matter. The epidermis, then. The epidermis is in direct conta...

The previous pandemic and the response of governments, left and right, proves there is little difference between the two in terms of their statism and...

If it exists it has a position. We ought to be able to point to it. I’m afraid I’m terrible at math. What would the Markov blanket be in biological te...

Your claims treat experience as a thing that exists somewhere within the human body, with other things (“nodes”) between it and the tea cup. Yet the o...

The direct connection I theorize, and can observe, is the skin touching the tea cup, the hand grasping it, the arm lifting the hand, the light hitting...

You’re seeing everything in your periphery directly. A picture or video of a rock is a rock seen indirectly. I wouldn’t say you’re seeing the rock dir...

I mean to say we can only experience that with which we are in direct connection, not that that which with we are in direct connection is that which w...

I’m not sure I understand. When I observe people interacting with the world, I assume they are experiencing it. Do you mean to say that only a part of...

It does follow that we experience the world directly and that there is a connection between oneself and the object for the same reasons I stated earli...

My distinction between direct and indirect pertains to viewing the world. The TV screen, being in the world, is viewed directly, as is anything else i...

Adjectives describe or modify nouns. Though it is certainly unavoidable, I believe turning descriptions or modifications of nouns into nouns only conf...

I don’t think we’re brains. So I don’t see how it is possible that an experience is in the head, and more, that we can experience such an experience. ...

They hired a big producer from ABC and aimed to show it all on prime time. It’s an obvious show trial and campaign ad for establishment candidates. Ne...

I didn’t say that. Those are direct quotes of other people. When Hitler and Mussolini agree with you, it should elicit the desire to do the opposite.

The solutions, if we can call them that, would require despotism to enact and enforce, exploitation to fund, and the expansion of state power and bure...

Fair enough.

Right, we can store information in books rather than in our brains. I’m not sure what that has to do with politics. The state isn’t an organized socie...

Where an action begins, that’s where it was determined, chosen, decided upon. If nothing else can be shown to begin an action, nothing else can be sho...

So long as the state grows freedom and liberty doesn’t. Our political sort in life will invariably be decided upon its whim and fancy.

We experience the outer world directly rather than indirectly, like through some subjective Cartesian theater. We don’t experience “consciousness” or ...