Kenosha Kid

There's a lot of buzz about courageous talk now, e.g. #MeToo. It's been effective to an extent, and within positions of power. I recall Colin Firth pu...

JP's specific appeal to the alt-right has been boasted by none other than JP himself, who has rationalised that appeal as him actively reaching out to...

The EU and the UK bear comparison. Both are highly devolved, albeit from completely different directions. Both have parliaments that vote on legislati...

Seems kind of anti-parallel with Dostoevsky's line: It also reminds me of meme theory. But it could be more literal: A cage is for removing the freedo...

Evil man :rofl: Tbf though this is the Not Trump candidate being not Trump.

Do you always just pick a word and guess the argument rather than reading? I never said he was anti-Semitic.

What a fucking surprise. ------------------------------------------------- I think everyone else got this covered. He wrote a self-help book but a bun...

I think you were at my school. You know how since Trump took office people have a newfound affection for Dubya..? I think counterpunch has done the sa...

How did turning a blind eye to high crimes come from your consideration of open discussion?

Obstruction of justice, bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States, campaign finance violations, financial fraud, tax evasion, money laundering....

An open discussion, but no so open its brain falls out. Remembering the lessons of the past is also useful, so that we don't make the same mistakes. O...

Me too, although I now get taxis and I've become an alcoholic as long as it's in hand gel form ;)

I think a safe space to discuss solutions and implications is a great idea, but a poor endgame. Four vaccines in under a year is pretty good. Even if ...

Yeah, turns out White House toilets work just fine.

Continue not invading the Capitol, I imagine.

It was a beautiful thing.

Trump logic: my mid-pandemic rallies were bigger, so we must have won the election. There were very few people at his farewell speech btw: mostly medi...

A philosophy of disasters would be an ethics. You'll need some assumptions about responsibility toward both existing humans and future generations. (I...

It's almost perfect, isn't it. Except that the Joker was an (evil) genius with supernatural logistic skills.

If Christopher Nolan had made a Batman film in which, despite being obviously unhinged, vile and unfit for office, the Joker got a huge number of supp...

I have no idea if she was a junkie, it doesn't seem relevant. But, yes, she was a criminal scumbag. Which also isn't relevant. Your racism is insultin...

Yeah bullshit. White woman in a mob attacking police officers is fine.

That's a good thing.

When someone kneels on the neck of a black man for 8 1/2 minutes until he's dead and you think an accurate description is: one doesn't need to know ja...

The guy should get a job at McDonald's, he flips so frequently.

So... An empty set.

Apparently 3 in 4 Republicans approve of overturning the election results. It's not a danger: it's a reality.

Yeah, a general boastfulness would probably cover it. It seems like Democratic Presidents are becoming increasingly hardline as Republican ones become...

That's fine for things that have one function. But a related question to "how ought I to behave?" is "what is the purpose of my existence?" This is wh...

I'm not saying this as any contradiction, but the thing that sticks out is how Biden keeps taking credit for stuff, and not good stuff. Usually an arc...

:rofl:

Something I am also keen on. First, there's ample scope for philosophy grounded in naturalism without having to subscribe to less explanatory ideas. S...

Yes, I think it's the peculiarity of the English-speaking right that social conservativism, social order theories, economic liberalism, traditionalism...

True. That's not an argument for blind acceptance of anything. But, yes, *my* worldview is very much ingrained with my methodological naturalism, larg...

Yes, for all the above reasons. I mean, maybe there's some unfortunate maximally disadvantaged edge case, but generally, yes. Being economically disad...

No, vegetable and microbial life could have gotten on just fine without us. Same schema though: 1. What actually is it? 2. Can we explain what it supp...

I don't think you can have read that right.

It is bullshit. Marxism is basically dead outside of philosophy and economics. Never met a Marxist scientist in my life. Plenty critical of unconstrai...

Yes, you and others keep pushing this line, then you receive the obvious response -- that this isn't about deaths during arrests, this is about police...

We don't need to imagine anything in this case. It happened less than two weeks ago. Trump was apparently not under much threat since the crowd didn't...

That a bunch of violent Trump supporters will storm Congress to stop the inauguration of a democratically elected President? Where could they have got...

Accusing black people of faking evidence of race crimes against them with nothing but moronic conspiracy theories: racist.

Floyd was murdered lying face down with the cop's knee on his neck for 8 minutes. Cherry-picking the facts doesn't make you less racist: it makes you ...

Got that right. That's why they're so often contradicted by it.

What is it with fascists always telling people that they didn't see what they saw? Same deal with the lynch mob at the Capitol.

Not being able to eat them because of your finances is discriminatory. Not eating them irrespective of your finances, sure, that's your choice. No bee...

Oh, but I do. Everyone deserves a fair trial but that unfortunately for you includes video footage, eye witness testimony and coroner reports. These t...

Actually you'll find plenty of it in modern technological culture. Schools being forced to end subjects that aren't vocational, people encouraged into...

Bunch of yankers.

Which, of course, we do. Twice. Just seems to be something that racists like to pretend is shrouded in a mystery that isn't there. "Killing", btw, doe...