Mikie

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/barr-trump-committed-betrayal-of-his-office-455812 When you lose even Bill Barr...guess he must be caught up ...

Not at all. We believe that you believe every word. Which makes you even more of a cancer.

You're right -- yesterday was just a normal protest. Not a big deal. Media playing it up too much. So are the Republicans. No weapons, no one was hurt...

Because when someone is no longer swayed by truth, by evidence, by reasons -- then they are in fact no longer a rational being. Still a human being, b...

Yes indeed. Glad I'm far from the only one who notices.

A cultist like NOS4A2 doesn't deserve such an articulate response. Don't waste your time -- he's a dead end mentally.

Drop the act of being objective or truly interested in any way. Just jump right to the complete rationalization of what happened yesterday. Spare your...

This cuts to one of the more important issues. In my own rage, I have to remind myself that these people really do believe the election was stolen, am...

Lol.

Yeah and I heard all the "rioting and looting" was really Trump supporters in disguise. Wouldn't doubt it.

What a shocker.

And also have the numbers, training, technology, equipment, weaponry, etc., that should far surpass anything we saw today. If used. For some reason, i...

Nothing seems insane today, but I'd like to know something more concrete. Yeah, they had a goal I suppose. But unlike burning a building spontaneously...

Has anyone gathered anything factual about why the police and security allowed this to happen? How could they not have anticipated this? Where was the...

Captures a lot of it. Especially the parts about neoliberalism and media ecosystems. Despite the latter coming from the guy who helped create the cond...

"History will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome o...

This is what comes of electing a sociopathic con man. What a fitting end: a disgraceful finale to the worst President in US history. To the millions w...

Are you equating understanding and thought (in the sense Heidegger means, in the sense of "apprehension" and "disclosure" )? Because otherwise I still...

In my translation it's "state of mind" -- but regardless, I don't see how this relates to "thinking and feeling" being integrated. What Heidegger is t...

Not really. Where is the equiprimordiality of attunement and understanding to which Josh is referring -- in Being and Time or anywhere else? And how d...

No, one plays less than rationally all the time, in chess and in poker. Why? Because if you can tell, from experience, intuition, instinct, etc., that...

You can most certainly be too rational in chess. And in poker, for that matter.

This really doesn't make much sense I'm afraid.

I imagine it would, but then again the top 1% (and remember, here I'm really meaning the top 0.1%) are very different than the average American consum...

I have no idea, and neither do you. Who's "they"? Christians? Which ones? Protestants? Catholics? Which denomination? Maybe it's "god" as a kind of sk...

What do you care what they say they believe in? Do you care what Hindus believe in? One calls this amorphous thing "God," the other calls it "Brahman,...

Hindus really believe in Brahman and Shiva. Are these truths to you, or do they have no validity? If not, what have you replaced them with? The Easter...

Right -- and "God" hasn't been explained yet. So you might as well be saying I am denying X. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not -- we can't know until you tell...

Apply the same argument to Santa Claus. Just as fatuous. I don't dismiss anything until you tell me what it is I'm supposedly denying.

I can't say if that "something" exists or not, since no one can tell us what it is. Also, saying things like "merely your opinion" is so fatuous it's ...

If Shiva and the beliefs in Shiva's existence and actions have no validity, what have you replaced it with? God is a concept and a word, and a poorly ...

This is excellent. The answer lies right on the surface, for all to see. It's the "winners" of the capitalist system, the 0.1% of super-wealth: the ma...

:yawn:

Yes, it was. Try your spin on someone else.

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Take a look at the quotes again, and then try harder to spin it. "Despite what some other commentators are saying..." This implies they're saying some...

I shouldn't even respond, but in case you really aren't sure:

And what a profound point it is. Too bad those "leftists" can't understand your very stable genius. Why don't the two of you go have fun arguing again...

What's interesting is that it's empirically on par with those examples, yet unquestioningly believed by millions of Americans as if it's a law of phys...

Exactly. The "best explanation" doesn't apply there, I guess. Once again, no specifics, just vague, generalized, tired neoliberal slogans.

I appreciate that, thanks. Some interesting stuff in there, thank you.

You're completely missing the point, and once again creating men of straw. Go talk to scarecrows somewhere else.

Ask yourself: is ANYONE really making the claim that the profit motive doesn't exist? Again, try arguing against real people.

Yes: no evidence, historical or otherwise. Just a childish assertion, as if "profit" is essential in human behavior. In fact it ignores the the core t...

I've heard of the latter, but I myself prefer to use "habit" in the former sense of human behavior. I have nothing against the latter use other than p...

:yawn: Says every capitalist apologist in history. No evidence whatsoever, historical or otherwise, but nice to see you can repeat slogans. No one sai...

This is incoherent. What is the principle of "the 1%"? It's not a principle at all, it's a statistic. It has nothing to do with "resentment" -- a comm...

This is mentally lazy, to talk about "preferences" and "perfect systems." There are no "perfect" systems, and no one is claiming there is. To try to s...

It really can't be separated from talk of profits and expansion, because that's what drives the decisions of the owners, at the expense of everything ...

In that case, as I mentioned, I think we would see drastic changes for the better. And it's not because I think the major shareholders (the owners) ar...