180 Proof

A freethinking, (economic democracy) left-libertarian interlude: "Free" of - freedom from - • ethical responsibility or • legal accountability or • ev...

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“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charg...

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Ah, I see, so Hitler painted the walls of his bunker with his brains because he was a National SOCIALIST too ... Gotcha. :ok: :roll:

Old old story: In the US, the majority of beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white women; as well as majority of recipients of Welfare (i.e. publ...

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i.e. Holocaust (... round earth, safe effacious vaccines, moon landings, Jim Crow segregation & lynchings, etc) denial redux. I guess self-described "...

Academic fashion is a mean crutch. But okay. :sweat:

Well, then, your "neoplatonist" interpretation of Spinozism rules-out Spinoza as a "panpsychist". :up:

Interesting non sequitur, but we're discussing Spinozism and its specific uses (senses) of terms. E.g. Spinoza explicitly states (re: Ethics, section ...

Okay. But I'm not locking anyone out or fortifying against new, anticipated, arguments for the proposition. I'm just calling it out as an incoherent c...

My response isn't "about building fortresses", just laying my cards on the table so we can dispense with bluffs and bluster and call everyone else's h...

My 2 qubits: " :fire: "

In utero polyrhythms of mother and foetus-baby's heartbeats (compounded further with twins, triplets, etc), I suspect, deeply 'wires' us (mammals) to ...

Check my post history on the relevant threads. Bedtime here, mate. Back for more tomorrow. Btw, tr45h LOSES GEORGIA AGAIN. :victory: :mask: https://ww...

Agreed. So stop 'titling at swastikas' for a couple of months and wait to see, like the rest of us on the barracades, what modes of critical resistanc...

I'm not objecting to SLX's comments - just pointing out that his ad hominems on Biden are graffiti'd with vacuous, often glittering, generalities - wh...

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Still rearranging the deck chairs on the USA Titanic ... and from your well-stocked dinghy no less. Must be that old 'hands-off iceberg avoidance' met...

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And your prescription, comrade doctor?

“Through the tax code, there has been class warfare waged , and my class has won. It’s been a rout.” ~Warren Buffett, 2011

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Likewise, it is the mark of a radical democrat to be able to vote against an autocrat without uncritically accepting the shil-technocrat alternative. ...

We're trying like hell. :mask: On the ground here in Atlanta, in the midst of the pandemic, the struggle to keep all potential Democratic-leaning vote...

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This lefty Yank thanks you, brutha. Spot-on. Amen. :100: :clap: SLX's gone fult-tilt 'church revival' hoping to exorcize a 'lesser evil' by speaking i...

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:up: The US has had 'our Pompey' (Reagan) and 'our Julius Caesar' (Dubya) but not yet 'our Augustus'. This accidental, premature 'Nero' (Trump :point:...

:chin: Cogitations on 'The Cogito' - some old threads via my posts: (emphasis is mine)

Well, SLX, your rants - a few of which do hit the mark - are not "critical" of either IMO so you "may as well be a Trump supporter" too like Hindu, NO...

Xmas comes early and will last years if Biden appoints HRC Attorney General, allowing her to oversee federal prosecutions, and/or assist with state pr...

Damn.

Post-Nov. 3rd election results as of 1:30pm EST on Friday, Nov. 13th: Biden-Harris won Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, ... and flipped "red states"...

"God" is merely a hyper-fetishized empty name.

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On what basis do you assume that the future state of entropy is a "return" to the past state and, therefore, that "activity" itself is not fundamental...

"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will ...

Death. "There is no god but Death, and Sleep is her prophet." — Thus Spoke 180 Proof :death: :flower:

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Like "my language", what does that mean?

Apparently - see Nixon. (And with 12 sealed indictments referenced in the Mueller Report plus being named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Cohen...

President-elect Biden.

Succinct. :up: Pauline Christanity - 'our faith in Christ's faith' ... :roll: (just as "the bible" is a bronze age anthology of secondary, tertiary, e...

:100: :up: If the Trump Crime Family is not living in exile somewhere like Saudi Arabia or Turkey or Brazil or (Oleg Deripaska et al not withstanding)...

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november reading • Isonomia and The Origins of Philosophy, K?jin Karatani :up: • John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life, Kenneth Womack re-readin...