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Have an example. An element of this set: {1,2,3} Specify the condition "is an element of this set which is not equal to 1 or 2" Determines the set {3}...

Is it so difficult to imagine that in a burgeoning organised working class, when they have political institutions and alliances, that they will be abl...

I already gave you this: TLDR; freedom is in part freedom to exercise one's powers, and freedom from preventable sufferings that limit them. If powers...

Eh, I guess we'll see what happens. Trump's insistence on screwing over the country's diplomats has been pretty stupid.

It was an invitation, I'd've hoped you'd responded to the substantive bit rather than playing the "I'm not playing that game but really I'm still play...

This is an excellent way to hedge your position and avoid thinking. It seems you've already decided that a socialist worker's movement ends in gulags ...

In some respects they are exemplars of cooperative ownership. But their existence is fully consistent with the usual hierarchical mode of organising a...

Something apparently lost on @"Chester", why correct me when it's his mistake?

So like... you see a supermarket like the Co-op or that company Mondragon and immediately put it in the same box as Stalin?

What do you think socialism is defined as?

Think that's an overstatement regarding the leadership position I think. The US's military position has not been weakened due to the coronavirus, they...

Ok, so you know what they mean but have no idea how they apply, or the connection between long term health conditions, comorbidity and chronic illness...

The left is so dominant in UK politics that a right populist movement sets policy, an old trade unionist that stood for old left values in Labour was ...

I don't think you know, or care, what acute or chronic mean.

One other thing. The UK was still paying out its extant slave owner recompensation until 2015.

Aye. And the majority of them do not see the majority of the profits their labour facilitates.

Reality's not here right now, please call again later. You again? Reality is in a meeting, can I take a message? Ah I see, thank you for the email, we...

I should've said: "I'm sure Dessalines cut them off"

If I had the photoshop skills to make a Dessalines Picard facepalm I would.

Only holds for closed systems. If you consider the Earth apart from the sun, it gains energy constantly. If you put the sun back in, the sum of energy...

And the slave revolts making it a ludicrously costly investment.

@"frank" has a medical qualification and is working in a hospital treating covid patients. If he says chronic, it's probably chronic.

I don't think it's too obscure to think of power and freedom as interlinked. You can only do a thing if you have the ability to do so. It can be more ...

Apply the same logic to capital. They can only live on us for so long.

It's impossible to be vigilant all the time, or even all but a tiny fraction of the time. We're hardwired to take shortcuts. It takes a lot of effort;...

LNC doesn't give you a logic by itself. It says very little about valid inferences; or plausibility of claims; or evidentiary status; it just tells yo...

What laws does the logic you're talking about follow?

Do you think there's more than one logic?

There's always the question of which logic is appropriate for the task, and which describes people's conduct the best. Say we go back in time and peop...

Aye. I'm hoping that in the wake of it wage repression stops. I'm also hoping that the demand shock prompts that. But I don't think it will happen muc...

Yes. It remains true that the US stimulus package is not addressing the huge demand shock, seeing as it is mostly adding liquidity to stock markets at...

They're evidently not doing a very good job at being a solution.

Common sense is over rated. The only reason anyone would say that anything non-trivial is common sense is because they cannot or will not justify it f...

Hey but the stock prices are returning to above their enforced minimum! The markets are more liquid, people are spending money, things will return to ...

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I'm glad you enjoyed it. Something I want to draw a distinction between: framing and priming. Priming is when someone shows you a picture like this: h...

The choice of rules doesn't ultimately matter much, what matters is what theorems you can derive from them. All the classical propositional logics hav...

Intellectual hygiene. The reasons for accepting a specific claim will depend on the claim and the evidence for it. I doubt there is a general recipe t...

Something I've always wanted to ask you, do you think a law can be immoral?

Having a contractually obliged political organisation of heterogeneous but align-able interests that spans every aspect of the private sector is extre...

For America? Not that my opinion matters. Redistributive measures (suggest huge progressive income tax and treating all assets gained and held as taxa...

I mean, I'm British. We're the trope codifiers for modern imperialism/neocolonialism. It isn't a coincidence that we can both go to a foreign country ...

America's politics is set from the ground up to be a gigantic spectacle. Everyone who reads the news can't help but become intimately familiar with Am...

Republicans do not have to give a flying fuck about Trump's sexual assault allegations, they only have to pretend to legitimately care and appeal to l...

I don't want to talk about your sexual life.

For if you want another datapoint: If we're talking about talking about sex, I don't find it distasteful when people do, unless it's exaggerated/bragg...

I guess I don't understand the significance of the question to you. So I'll offer a deflationary response. If it is required to hear the entire thing ...

Why the hell are you complaining about the LSE's biasedness when you're citing "conservativehome.com" as a source

Presbyterian in the streets, Joycean in the sheets.

I'm done now. You are impossible.