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That's the one you like the most, but doesn't make it a technical notion. I think you did misunderstand. I mean by "technical notion" those used in th...

That may very well be true. I'm more inclined to think that the context/conditions in which they live influences their attitudes, beliefs, and values ...

The New American Aristocracy Just found this article. An old thread, but relevant to the OP.

So far as I can see, there's no technical notion of metaphysics. You're aware of its humble etymological beginnings in Aristotle. You ask any person a...

I reject both of these, because I think the "subject/object" distinction, though very old, is not very useful. So I guess that rules me out of discuss...

6 democrats voted against the bill. Kudos to them for standing their ground.

Divided Democrats Lurch Toward Vote on $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Looks like the progressives will cave. No surprise. Oops, I mean I'm very surpr...

If only Trump were in office...a conservative Supreme Court for 40 years wasn't quite damaging enough. Clinton's picks would have probably been just a...

Eh, it's just typical angry, immature internet drivel. I'm just having fun and so's he I'm sure. Who gives a shit.

Well he's read Dan Everett, so there goes Chomsky!

Yes, we know your position -- we're going off the cliff either way, so stay home, don't vote. :ok:

:rofl: Says some guy on the internet about the founder of modern linguistics. (Because of the Piraha of course! lol)

"Same action." lol Two tracks. One goes off a cliff. The other goes through a dilapidated bridge that's likely to crumble. You're on a moving train. D...

Me and Noam Chomsky. I'm happy to be in such company. Apparently that's all he's done fro the last 60 years as well. :rofl: You stick with Zizek.

Voting against Trump is certainly a survival tactic, yes. I'm very glad to have taken the five minutes to do so.

I do? News to me -- and contrary to everything I've written for the last two years on this very forum. But if you say so! Who am I to argue about my o...

Yes, what I'm getting at is the silly, childish, black-and-white "logic" of @"StreetlightX". According to him, we're both perpetuators of an evil syst...

Indeed. Perhaps Marx shouldn't have studied at the British Museum... :rofl: True -- and voting for Biden (or getting a job) doesn't necessarily make o...

Yes, capitalism does force people to make terrible choices. Unfortunately, living in a purist fantasy doesn't change the reality of needing money to e...

Exactly right. "Getting a job is not supporting capitalism." It's being against poverty. At least in the economic reality in the United States. Likewi...

By voting against Trump. Voting against Trump is not supporting Biden. But when there are two choices, it just so happens that to vote against Trump m...

Not easy solutions -- zero solutions. I think capitalism should be dismantled. Participating in it is perpetuating it. There, I feel better now.

It's an absolutely trivial point that a 10 year old can understand. Provided they haven't spent years reading Zizek and other intellectual frauds, liv...

Me too, which is why I voted against Trump. Who was far worse than Biden -- a point I realize you can't understand.

Yes yes, we all get it. You're against the two-party system. Good, now sit on the sidelines and stop supporting it. This way you can feel good about y...

Yes, you're correct. The different being that he feels both parties are two sides of the same coin, and I think that's silly and based on a very, very...

Right, so an equal impediment, as I said. There is no better or worse in this case, thus no reason to vote for or against either party. Brilliant anal...

How heroic. You forgot to mention: "Called out and equated." Wonderful. What about the illusion of "both parties are the same"?

So now it's back to both parties being an equal impediment. The solution being...? Not to vote, I presume. I'm sorry you can't make simple distinction...

I guess those who hold jobs support capitalism, as well. Oh if only I could live in idealistic fantasy.

If we're too ignorant to understand which party is a greater impediment to the values we claim to hold, then it's worth sitting out and watching. 3 Su...

So now the democrats are the worst party. Got it. If you believe that, then you're right: vote Republican.

And thus helping the worst party get into office. I guess that'll change the two-party system!

Which in a two-party system, means working against efforts to stop it from happening. "Red button leads to disaster. But I won't push the blue button....

And ensure the Republican party gets into office. Like in '16, which led to 3 Supreme Court appointments which will determine American life for the ne...

@"StreetlightX" - but that was tongue-in-cheek. I would also take offense.

I agree -- the Democratic party should be much more progressive. That's why it's important to support Bernie and other progressive candidates. Now com...

Fair enough. But it's good to decide based on policies as well. Yeah, pretty basic stuff. Now try explaining this to your buddy.

I mentioned logic.

No, the subject is which party, if any, one should vote against. You pushed against voting against Trump in '16 and '20. One result, among many, was w...

3 Supreme Court picks and 54 appellate judgeships later -- the decisions of which all citizens have to live with for the next 30 years -- and still th...

No, plenty can be done, and one should take five minutes out of one's time and vote against the greater impediment to one's objectives. You apparently...

Plenty can be done— party politics (and voting) is minor: vote against the leaders that make it harder to enact change. The rest is the hard work that...

Let’s do a thought experiment. Both parties will do active harm to the environment. Take that as a given. In this context, what’s the strategy for tho...

If you’re referring to drilling on public lands, I already acknowledged that— I also added to the list. What I was demonstrating before about the inte...

Then you’re simply not paying attention. Ask any environmentalist if they’d prefer communicating with Bernie or James Inhofe about climate change.

Sorry, but Bernie getting no results vs. “actively making things worse“ is indeed a clear distinction.

So in your view they’re worse than Republicans on climate change. So I assume you would vote Republican— or help them get elected by not voting at all...

Some of them. Not Bernie. Not Markey. Not Warren. Not on this issue, anyway. Every member of the Republican Party wants to not only do “active harm,” ...

If not democrats, then republicans. One of these parties is worse on climate change. So vote that way. But despite fantasies, the US is a two-party sy...