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Mikie

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"Absolutist on free speech" is the reason to be against finance reform for campaigns? At least I know now to ignore everything you say.
April 28, 2020 at 15:53
There's nowhere to go or hide from climate change. That's pure delusion. Helping elect Trump all but guarantees we're going over the edge. We have to ...
April 28, 2020 at 15:52
Hmmm...
April 28, 2020 at 15:07
Yeah, that's the reason. :)
April 28, 2020 at 15:05
Yeah, I'm awful I agree. Now by all means go get Trump elected again.
April 28, 2020 at 15:00
Yes. If other countries can do it, so can we. Corporations, no -- at least not the ones involved in fossil fuels, of course. And not governments that ...
April 28, 2020 at 14:57
I didn't say they had a stellar track record. Is it better than climate change denial? Yes.
April 28, 2020 at 14:56
You're too stupid to understand, but mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people is exactly what has changed the DNC, regardless of their robbing Berni...
April 28, 2020 at 14:52
Okay bud, you're right. Your expert adolescent analysis is too overwhelming. Let's teach those DNC guys a lesson they'll never forget and elect TRUMP ...
April 28, 2020 at 14:49
Everyone knows both parties are beholden to corporate interests. That goes without saying. What you continually ignore is the reality of differences b...
April 28, 2020 at 14:40
Lol. It's just a fact, actually: voting third party or sitting out helped elect Trump. That's not "gaslighting," and quite apart from blaming people. ...
April 28, 2020 at 14:34
Wonderful. It worked well last time, didn't it? This is true only for those who believe pushing a button every four years it the most important thing ...
April 28, 2020 at 14:31
Sure. Who's saying otherwise? We're talking about actually voting, not rolling over to the DNC.
April 28, 2020 at 14:28
No, electing Trump was tried in 2016. That actually happened, in no small degree thanks to those who sat out or voted third party (or even for Trump, ...
April 27, 2020 at 23:16
I would love to do that more than anyone. There's no proof that that works, and it was tried in 2016. We simply can't afford to do it again, because i...
April 27, 2020 at 22:52
As far as the OP -- I'm glad to see very few voting for Trump. But those voting third party or not voting, depending on the logic (safe state or not),...
April 27, 2020 at 22:48
Yes.
April 27, 2020 at 22:43
You leave out the most important: climate change. It would be nice to have a planet in the future, I think. So yes, I value any chance of making that ...
April 27, 2020 at 22:42
No, he's being realistic. That's the unfortunate choice -- it'll be Biden or Trump. That's A or B. What requires delusion is voting for Donald Trump a...
April 27, 2020 at 22:39
In many ways, both those "marginal differences" in the most powerful country on Earth actually do make a difference. Although in this case, it's not a...
April 27, 2020 at 22:33
Right, so let's throw votes away and re-elect Trump. Because THAT'S what changed the DNC in 2016, of course -- not this silly "organizing and activism...
April 27, 2020 at 22:30
Or the environmental regulations being destroyed, the Paris Accords being scrapped, the climate change denial of the former oil lobbyists now running ...
April 27, 2020 at 22:26
This is your reasoning? Or 3: progressives elect Biden and continue to hold his feet to the flame -- something which is totally impossible with a Trum...
April 27, 2020 at 22:22
He's already made concessions. I mentioned some already. Is it more or less "delusional" than believing Trump will be swayed by pressure? Electing Tru...
April 27, 2020 at 22:18
Let me make it as simple as I can for you: It's precisely that we want to have an administration we can influence (we progressives), thus being the ex...
April 27, 2020 at 16:48
OK, this is actually a valid point. I would hardly say I'm "hurling abuse" though. All right -- yet one can hardly blame someone for getting frustrate...
April 27, 2020 at 16:42
Biden is a terrible candidate? Amazing -- you've figured this all out already. Tell us more.
April 27, 2020 at 16:39
He's already agreed to a $15 minimum wage, thanks to trying to court Bernie voters. He's much more open to progressive environmental policies than Tru...
April 27, 2020 at 16:38
Yes.
April 27, 2020 at 16:35
We don't know if he raped her or not. But if he did, no one is saying that's right. He should be tried and convicted. There's also a thing called the ...
April 27, 2020 at 16:34
This is a very good point indeed, and the most important. It's completely ignored by the likes of "Baden" and others, who are determined to help Trump...
April 27, 2020 at 16:32
Yes, very simple: help re-elect Trump, clearly the most evil and most damaging. And why? Because a) it'll make you feel better about yourself, b) Bide...
April 27, 2020 at 16:30
Yes, by voting your conscience like you logically pure humanists. So admirable. Get Trump elected -- but that's beside the point. Biden is just as "ev...
April 27, 2020 at 16:28
Yeah, you and "Big Money Hustla" make strong points.
April 27, 2020 at 16:24
You'll fit right in. Better match for you.
April 27, 2020 at 16:22
More brilliance. Try Twitter.
April 27, 2020 at 16:21
"Won't adopt any of your ideas." Yeah, to political hobbyists like you, who do nothing except give your very deep political analysis (and thankful we ...
April 27, 2020 at 16:18
That point has hardly been "missed." No, it isn't. A vote for Biden is a vote to get Trump out of office. Then the work continues: not the analysis of...
April 27, 2020 at 16:13
Such righteous people, determined to vote their "conscience" yet again. Such pure convictions. Sure, Trump will be re-elected and continue destroying ...
April 27, 2020 at 16:07
I agree -- but no one is arguing that. Maybe. But perhaps not even that. It's not that scientists have to even understanding their sense of "being" (a...
April 27, 2020 at 15:38
I campaigned for Bernie, so I guess that makes me "progressive." I was and still am livid at the DNC's shenanigans (for the second time). I'm not alie...
April 27, 2020 at 15:19
I won't expect you to understand, since it's nuanced, but no I'm not. I don't like Biden at all, nor am I a "self-righteous Dem" -- I'm pointing out a...
April 27, 2020 at 15:11
Exactly. Like I said: try Twitter.
April 27, 2020 at 14:59
No, as I've demonstrated over and over again -- from the OP onwards -- that the issue for analysis and discussion is phusis. "Elaborations on the Heid...
April 27, 2020 at 14:56
Which I explained. Take one example: the supposed opposition of Parmenides and Heraclitus. Heidegger rejects this. There was also no metaphysics in Ar...
April 27, 2020 at 04:00
Here here.
April 26, 2020 at 23:58
"More being"? What does that mean? Dasein's existence is care, which gets re-interpreted later as temporality. Our thrown-ness, our falling, our proje...
April 26, 2020 at 23:52
There is no such "rule." But showing up just to announce you "don't think this thread is a good idea" is completely pointless. Generally grown adults ...
April 26, 2020 at 23:49
Great response. I think you've understood Heidegger well.
April 26, 2020 at 23:46
That's not what he's saying -- from my reading anyway. In fact "existence" is reserved for the being of human beings in Being and Time. To understand ...
April 26, 2020 at 23:44