RogueAI

OK, fair enough. I'm not trying to be a prick. I like arguing and attacking assertions I think are false. This is a philosophy forum. You're going to ...

Really? I'm thinking of the case of Bill Clinton, who furthered a lot of my goals, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him because of his behavior...

I want to unpack this, because it seems demonstrably false. What was morally reprehensible about Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Obama, for example?

Really? There's no disqualifying behavior a politician can partake in that would make you not vote for him? To take an obvious extreme case, what abou...

Trump's comments on the Central Park Five case don't strike you as racist? Just a tiny bit? Has Trump ever gone after white kids like that?

I agree. I don't think Trump wants anything to do with this. War with Iran means higher gas prices, a lower stock market, higher inflation and higher ...

I think that's obvious, but I don't think it's obvious to Amadeus.

Why do you think Trump escalated the situation by deploying marines? We both agree the NG was enough, right?

Do you think the rioting was so bad the Marines had to be sent in?

What is Iran going to do about it? Their last attack on Israel couldn't get past their missile defenses. Hezbollah has been severely weakened. Iran wi...

This is one of the loosest MB's I've been on. People routinely insult each other here, even the mods do it. It's all great fun. You can get away with ...

They hired him again! After he said competent white men should be in charge! Aren't you asking me to do an incredible suspension of disbelief when you...

It sounds harsh, but how many people have been killed or seriously hurt here? Isn't that a useful metric for how bad rioting is? Some cops went to the...

Can you think of a comparable situation in a democratic administration?

I've lived in L.A. County most of my life. I remember the Rodney King riots, wondering if the rioters would make it to my area. What's going on now is...

Oh, that's not the only thing: "A speechwriter for the Trump administration has been fired following reports that he spoke at a white nationalist conf...

It was terrible that Biden said that, but what do his actions show? Does he act racist? Did he hire someone who said "competent white men must be in c...

I think we crossed a Rubicon in 2020 when Trump tried to steal the election. In the aftermath, there was a bipartisan vote to impeach and convict him,...

Why is what not happening? The foreign aid scenario I talked about? Because some things are a little too on the nose even for the Trump Admin to pull ...

It's funny how people thousands of years ago warned us about people like Trump. Truly there's nothing new under the sun. Regarding human behavior, tha...

It would be legal to double foreign aid to all countries with majority white populations and eliminate foreign aid to all countries with majority blac...

Hanover, are you an American citizen? The Abrego Garcia case has been in the public eye for months here. It's like the Dreyfus Affair. These kinds of ...

What law was it that said Abrego Garcia should be sent to CECOT?

Do you see anything racist in brown immigrants being sent to CECOT and white South Africans being welcomed as refugees? Anything at all?

It's awful. I'm ashamed to be an American.

Really? You need a court opinion to figure out whether a non El Salvadorian person should be sent to an El Salvadorian prison? What about returning Al...

Do you think we should be sending immigrants to an El Salvadorean prison?

And the Constitution is just a piece of paper with some words, right?

It's very complicated. You could be here seeking asylum, or protected by DACA, or on a student visa, or on a waiver by the Biden Administration which ...

It is, except a past president called us a shining beacon on a hill and we have a proud history of welcoming immigrants and one of our iconic monument...

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On the other hand, there have been umpteen number of people who's lives have been turned around because they were able to escape from horrific conditi...

Jesus, Amadeus, just ask chatgpt to explain it to you! "I'd also posit this is a privilege, rather than right, but that could be nitpicking here." Yes...

They don't age out. They have to renew every two years so we can verify they're keeping their noses clean.

No, DACA recipients don't have to be pursuing citizenship. You get a S.S. number and eligibility for state id.

It does though. DACA is still in effect. The latest court ruling on it is people already in DACA can renew and are safe from deportation.

Neither Bush nor Obama had this problem, and they deported countless people. That was because they approached the problem in a humane way. They didn't...

I withdraw that last comment. I'm going to edit it out. I don't want to be insulting.

Oh, I think he cares about his Big Beautiful Bill passing and being called a pedophile. Trump's a narcissist. Musk is inflicting narcissitic injury. T...

Ok, let's imagine it's tax reform and the President's children stand to benefit enormously from the president's tax proposal, as well as the president...

Right, could it be any more obvious? Trump's bromance with Musk has blown up in his face and here's a useful distraction and a way to make him look li...

I'm not attacking Trump's argument, I'm questioning WHY he's doing what he's doing. This is not a fallacy. In criminal law, is the motive of the accus...

Are you saying it's an ad hom to consider a president's motivation for a particular action??? Let me give you an example: say you have a corrupt cabin...

True, but a president salivating over the prospect of sending in the troops to an American city is much more disturbing. I've lived in L.A. County mos...

A biological woman who looks very much like a man. Has had sex change operation, double mastectomy, hormone treatment, etc. What restroom do you want ...

But a pzombie is supposed to be a non-conscious duplicate of me, and I am a rational agent, so if the pzombie isn't a rational agent, it's not a pzomb...

No, but eliminative materialism is just so out there you reach an axiomatic level where further argument is pointless. What more can you say when some...

The inverted spectrum problem is still alive and well. No brain scans or neural activity measurements will ever convince me that your experience of re...

We were talking about intuitive appeal. The physics changed from becoming something a child could essentially grasp to something nobody, 100 years aft...

That's true, but remember pzombies are supposed to be identical to us except for lacking subjective experience. Humans aren't ai's. Would a rational A...