Capitalism is the reason for climate change. That’s a fact. Holding your hand to help you understand it isn’t of interest to me. When a system values ...
Yes, it is. Short term profits, all else is externality. That’s the only reason we’re here right now. You’re not a philosopher, and you have no soluti...
But he, and he alone, has the solution. No clue about what he's talking about, or about pesky technical details, but he's got the solution. A solution...
By definition it does. Not everything unconscious is "automatic," true. It helps to give concrete examples: things happening at the cellular level are...
There’s nothing to be convinced of— it’s a simple fact. Yes, we can develop as human beings and we can think and plan and develop awareness. The fact ...
True— but this can be said about literally everything. In some ways. In other ways we’re all mostly automated, unconscious beings. There’s no way arou...
Try meditating and see if you can find where or what the self is. In Buddhism it’s called “anatta” (Pali) — non-self. Just impersonal changing phenome...
Yes, but you know as well as I do that doesn’t exclusively mean threat of violence. There’s been progress even under our oligarchic system. If we rese...
Because police brutality continues, yes. But by that standard the anti-war movement wasn’t successful either, nor the early civil rights movement, etc...
That’s just silly. Talk to an organizer about why, but the reasons are fairly obvious. It’d be as effective as the WU in the 60s. May make us feel bet...
Shot dead by whom? Cite your sources— seems bogus to me, or hiding context. There were massive protests all last summer, millions of people in fact. T...
When I was younger, my mother bought me "Looking at Philosophy," which was fun. I like "Story of Philosophy" by Durant, as well. Those are fine for an...
As if you have, or have ever had, any principle whatsoever. I think four years of Trump took away all doubt about the "integrity" of conservatives in ...
Well that's speculation. It's hard to say. Maybe they want structural changes in the form of Keynesian policies. Maybe they want an end to what's call...
The majority of Americans are in favor of taxing the rich, free public education, student debt relief, universal healthcare, climate change mitigation...
You're completely wrong about the first point. It's typical of those who apparently believe voting is the only political action available, in fact (no...
What exactly are you implying by "accept"? I accept the electoral college too, and death for that matter. I don't like any of them. I work to change w...
Indeed. Despite it being explained to you over and over again. I guess some people just need to believe they have a secret that solves the world's pro...
And getting worse. But really because of the greed of only a few countries. Otherwise we could sustain our population for a while. Still, to outright ...
I want to commend you for an excellent post, and very informative. Nice to have someone who knows what they're talking about. Good luck getting throug...
But this leaves out crucial details of the actual circumstances. There's a difference between "bowing down" and being a realist. Right now Manchin is ...
And it strikes me as naive to believe adding a like button is beneficial in any way. What’s the goal, exactly? What does it tell you? What is it encou...
I think the whole idea of rating is useless for this forum. We're (hopefully) here to discuss things -- it's not a popularity contest. When it turns i...
Take your Ayn Rand bullshit and stick it.. No one is interested -- least of all me. I agree with ssu that history is important, and that both parties ...
Lol. So confused! What is this "reference" you ask for?! I'm a wealth of information about this subject, having read and worried about it for years, b...
I see it a little differently. I would add racism and fear of "White replacement" on your list of bloody chum. It's become just as embedded in the par...
I haven't yet, but this is the second time it's been recommended to me. Look forward to getting around to it. They do look more insane to me, yes. Tha...
No, it's you who need to listen. I didn't say a word of that. You've put those words in my mouth. I'll repeat: you preach about something you don't un...
No, it can’t. I’ll present just as much evidence to support this claim as you have with yours: my gut feelings. Just stop already. You don’t know what...
Okay— then why go around repeating this dream over and over again? Are you an engineer? Or geologist? Or geophysicist? No? Then enough already. No one...
Yes, and that’s pretty suspicious to me. It doesn’t take long to provide some links or references. So far it’s been nothing but gut feelings, which is...
An important point, and worth mentioning again and again. There are indeed differences between the parties, despite being beholden to special interest...
I see no reason to take what’s written down too seriously. It’s kind of a joke, actually. For example: The oil industry in Texas has received huge sub...
But that could just as easily be delusional. I think you're caught up in a semantic jumble. People love to throw around "science" and "logic" and "ath...
The trillions of dollars transferred to the wealthy due to (mainly) Republican policies for the last 40 years. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_paper...
Well that's the base. All of that seems to be true: fear of being "replaced" by minorities, fear that their way of life is changing for the worse, som...
Exactly right. I was thinking along similar lines. Yes but you have no empirical basis for this. If it’s simply a gut feeling— who cares? If you’re go...
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