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.)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroecono...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Some more news: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/03/panama-papers-biggest-leak-history-exposes-global-web-corruption https://www.craigmurray.o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig The Princenton Study being here: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_an...
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...
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. <....
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...
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