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I'm not voting for Hillary (largely because I don't live in a swing state. I strongly dislike her so no point in calculating the lesser of two evils.)...
July 08, 2016 at 06:25
Eh, I disagree very strongly some of what you said. I think a far better account of what really happened is that there has more recently been a collap...
July 03, 2016 at 14:18
How did you get to the conclusion that the rise of Trump lead to the Left to die? I have the opposite perception with regards to the election, largely...
July 03, 2016 at 02:47
Well those in power always use concern for security scenarios for near non-existent cases for justification for policies that take away the civil righ...
June 24, 2016 at 05:20
Just because racial matters aren't explicitly written in the legislation doesn't mean it's not a racist policy if it has that intention behind it's ex...
June 23, 2016 at 18:21
The idea of a terrorist watch list with respect to gun reform in of itself is strange. If someone is really suspected and identified as being a terror...
June 23, 2016 at 15:08
The terrorist watch list is overwhelmingly used by those in power for their own interests. You have to think about the consequences that it will likel...
June 23, 2016 at 14:19
Some articles on the matter: http://gawker.com/the-democrats-are-boldly-fighting-for-a-bad-stupid-bil-1782449026 https://theintercept.com/2016/06/22/d...
June 23, 2016 at 13:30
"Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroecono...
June 22, 2016 at 18:43
I understand your reaction quite well because I've had similar lines of thoughts myself. I still don't really understand how the fear of death (and in...
June 17, 2016 at 19:31
Not sure about Epicurus' particular position or framing or Molier's interpretation, but is it possible that can be part of the mental trick Epicurus n...
June 11, 2016 at 18:03
I think the problem with the inability to endure pain or anxiety is largely due to "being too absorbed" whether it be in the moment, concerns about th...
June 11, 2016 at 12:31
I don't take anything he says as the source for what I expect from him (though it's a window to how far he will possibly go). Rather I look at the peo...
May 31, 2016 at 01:37
I'm most worried about its potential effects on the internet... what I read so far is disastrous.
April 26, 2016 at 06:19
Of course I agree, but part of the fight to open the path of letting an ideal situation to come to fruition is to politically strategize in taking as ...
April 06, 2016 at 17:41
I discussed that with a friend and this is what we concluded on: The problem with that argument is that sometimes lesser evils can be transformed to s...
April 04, 2016 at 20:20
With regards to your first point: If voting for an alternative candidate or not voting at all can actually make a difference in fighting against oppre...
April 04, 2016 at 19:29
Some more news: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/03/panama-papers-biggest-leak-history-exposes-global-web-corruption https://www.craigmurray.o...
April 04, 2016 at 01:50
I provided an argument in the OP for why we should. Because abstaining from voting is the same as a half-vote for the greater of two evils, even if th...
April 03, 2016 at 22:12
Well I agree with what you said about Al Gore, that's the nature of the Democratic Party, a party of liars. They're all neoliberals who don't care muc...
March 30, 2016 at 22:30
In: The media  — view comment
What I'm trying to say is probably not that far from what you believe (and what you're trying to say to me) I'm probably just having a hard time commu...
March 30, 2016 at 12:20
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I said the incentives that drove the proliferation of the terrorist organizations and surge in terrorist attacks. If we're talking the incentives of t...
March 30, 2016 at 12:03
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Oh I wouldn't go far to completely deny that, I thought you were talking mostly about the incentives that initially drove the proliferation of terrori...
March 30, 2016 at 11:48
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Hmm? Maybe I misunderstood the intentions of your words then (if so, I apologize for coming to rash assumptions) or the way your words were constructe...
March 30, 2016 at 11:31
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Well maybe you consider it shallow because you don't understand the specific circumstances in the Middle East. If you actually read the scholarship on...
March 30, 2016 at 10:32
It went quite severe in Arizona this time though. Which is that people registered as Democrats and had proof of that, but when they went to the polls ...
March 29, 2016 at 17:12
Also, if you weren't paying attention to the alternative media (websites like Alternet), there was massive voter fraud in Arizona. All the corporate m...
March 29, 2016 at 08:09
Sanders still has a huge disadvantage (but that was said since the very beginning of his campaign, and the middle, and a month or two ago) but the mom...
March 29, 2016 at 08:07
Sent you a PM about newspapers and media.
November 15, 2015 at 22:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig The Princenton Study being here: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_an...
November 13, 2015 at 17:03
Maybe that's the point, it exposes falsehoods in reasoning rather than providing knowledge.
November 05, 2015 at 01:42
http://thephilosophyforum.com/following ^ The following page, this one is personally big for me. I would be happy if all the following posts were grou...
November 02, 2015 at 01:19
I think he had an issue seeing my username or something? Or he's just saying that to tease me. I've been talking to him for the past 2 years or so. <....
October 24, 2015 at 16:22
Ahh I see alright. I just wanted to see the underpinnings of this whole website.
October 24, 2015 at 02:54
Well if we're here to stay, then we can't do anything about it and just enjoy our time here. But is it possible for this to function as a boycott to t...
October 24, 2015 at 01:19
Just taking my part here in case things go bad. Hopefully this forum won't even be required in the end but who knows.
October 24, 2015 at 00:03