Kenosha Kid

On the other hand, voting to convict would be a great way of cheaply cleansing one's own sins before one's voters, which was my apparently unfounded c...

Because none of those things can be shown to reasonably expect as a consequence a violent coup in the Capitol. It's not about causality -- the 25th am...

Yes. I'm not defending him, I think he's a turd who loved every second of the chaos he invited. But I don't think there's a solid line from what he ex...

I don't have permissions to view what I guess is a lunatic right-wing propaganda site. Can you post evidence that the Capitol riots were staged by Ant...

Yes you can. They're called co-operatives.

We thank you for your services ;)

It can't, of course. His more moderate language was undoubtedly through gritted teeth, but nevertheless is less ambiguous than "fight like hell" which...

The Raffensperger angle seems less prone to interpretation. Given that Trump told his supporters to "remain peaceful" and, eventually, to "go home", I...

Maybe it's different where you are, but here it's no one's sole job to collect carts. That's one of many things they have to do. You savage animal.

That is true, or "I'm not going to play with those other children, mummy, in case I get fucked off." But neither fit the above context

:up: To hell with those people who just see you as a +1 to their friend count.

Now it's down. We wouldn't want one of those. https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106820154-1610134632566-106820154-1609964834963-gettyimages-123045...

Says the guy who repeated the conspiracy theory that the Capitol rioters were Antifa in disguise...

Fair enough, editing fail. My response was perfectly reasonable. The fact that it's fatal to your argument and you don't want to deal with it doesn't ...

Isn't that an argument that human beings are absurd, not the universe? I do check the cosmological scale from time to time. It can help put things in ...

I'd already read your post. I assume you're just into dealing with even the obvious criticisms of it.

I took that on board and waited two hours so as to give you a more considered response, which is this: Pretty big if.

Argument against impeaching Trump: All of the sycophantic, opportunistic congresspersons who supported him these last few years knowing what he was wi...

That future changes will be required as we change technologies is not a coherent argument against changing technologies, especially when the current t...

Oh FFS, "racist" is not a pejorative term against racists. Likening it to the N-word is beyond stupid.

Had not heard that. He also said "The devil is in the details" when discussing the difference, although that is the difference between at best one deg...

What does Jim Sensenbrenner have to do with it? Either way, seems a bit hysterical to bemoan the loss of civil liberties of some future bill being loo...

Anti-terrorism is... bad?

For sure, the bases of moderation and suspension/banning should be explicit in those T&C's. It is frustrating when platforms augment this with unoffic...

That makes more sense, but as I said earlier: The broken teleporter is a nice redux of the ship Theseus paradox which concerns continuity of identity....

I'm not denying its relevance to a separate point. I'm saying it's irrelevant to the post he quoted. As I say, fantasy is not my bag.

It feels perverse to actually have to point this out, but... More and more energy on the grid comes from renewables: that is the trend. Your country h...

The question is not pertinent to the quote, or to me, frankly, as I don't concern myself with magic. Reincarnation is not similar to two things being ...

Natural selection itself doesn't need to. The point stands: the appearance of intention does not imply intention. Fool me once...

In set theory, these would be the same set. Your insistence on a difference nonetheless is precisely the circularity in your argument. This is not a s...

And what they stand against: that which all decent people stand against. I'm not going to lie, this was a great cliffhanger. Brett has gone all in. I ...

In other news, negotiator pressures jumper off roof in violation of his free will.

It's a little bit wrong, but this made me cackle. What a whiny little bitch.

I completely agree. It seems quite ridiculous to me to compare the T&C's of services provided by private interests to state censorship, especially as ...

What is it with these people who cannot tell the difference between free speech and a book deal?

It doesn't matter. The point is that optimisation in nature can occur without teleology. Even if you disagree that natural selection is incidentally t...

It's odd, though, isn't it that they are inspired by a man born into extreme wealth who feels like he alone should get what he wants at the expense of...

Natural selection :)

This is interesting, and quite compelling. Yes, it seems difficult to avoid this point, also made by unenlightened, that ultimately his racism is attr...

There's a LOT of us. I mean them. This explanation -- and I'm not dismissing it -- gives weight to a great gulf between two very different kinds of pe...

Let me rephrase, as I'm not expressing myself well. I know Trump thought his supporters to be fools. He said as much when he said he could shoot a ran...

I get that, but why do they want to hear *that*? And, as I said to Hippyhead, it seems more like whatever he says becomes what they want to hear.

Therefore there is no basis upon which to insist they are different. The question is meaningless. "I" am Kenosha Kid. If you were speaking to George C...

Are we also not to use words like monist, dualist, physicist, materialist, realist, pragmatist, etc?

There's no obvious route from that to racism, misogyny, ablism, ineloquence, stupidity, or the demonisation of the free press which his supporters wou...

I don't think it's a terrible idea, but it does seem kind of pointless. Just wait a couple of weeks and arrest the tyrant. There is good reason to sus...

Engaging with them is pointless. They are not reasonable people. They embrace hypocrisy, invention, whataboutery, and swerving contrary evidence and a...

Exactly this. Once upon a time, sure. But based on current knowledge, it doesn't suggest dualism, since we know of other physical laws that yield that...

I think that's presupposing the answer to the question. Did he do that or did they? Almost everything he did seemed to highlight him as a disastrous c...

As others have pointed out, you postulate a difference between materially identical worlds, then conclude that these materially identical worlds are d...