Yep, its textbook victim-blaming. Also, there's the whole thing about it being patently untrue; obeying the law is no guarantee that you won't be assa...
Unemployment is down to 8.4%... an incredibly high/bad figure (probably has something to do with the economic crisis Trump is currently presiding over...
From what I've seen, its a pretty standard argument among NT scholars and especially apologists that the historicity of Christ himself is the best exp...
Certainly there's a difference, but I would suggest that in the present environment its not a difference that makes much of a difference (in terms of ...
I don't accept the premise that failing to pander to rightwingers on this issue or in general will cost Biden the election, if anything the opposite s...
Its par for the course, unfortunately. Its like Pelosi and the House re-authorizing the Patriot Act, absurd Pentagon/defense budget increases, etc wit...
Honestly I don't understand the concern over what Trump might say, or with anticipating or pre-empting the right's disingenuous arguments. They're goi...
I think you accidentally managed to say what is actually the case here: bothsidesism is indeed an "assault on common sense", since there is no equival...
aaaaand there's that vacuous bothsidesism, right on cue. :roll: And Joe Biden doesn't get to decide what constitutes protest or not (any more than you...
Doesn't matter. The law sets out specific requirements to qualify as a legally valid self-defense or defense of property claim. In order to justifiabl...
I doubt it. Feel free to post it if they do, but obviously we shouldn't be holding our breath on that one. Among the many other asymmetries and false ...
(and of course Rittenhouse was already a criminal before he even pulled the trigger: he was illegally open-carrying + violating curfew... and yet the ...
moreover, the fact that something was foreseeable or predictable doesn't mean its therefore justified. If you were Jewish and decided to walk down the...
No doubt. More videos, shifting goalposts, changing the subject. Its remarkable the flexibility bad faith grants one in an argument, eh? And of course...
There was no mob in the video. Just a girl saying mean words. And you're here crying about "intimidation by a mob" and "harassment" and "my poor bum i...
Did I "blame the victims"? Not at all. I didn't blame the couple in the video: I said nothing that even implied as much. I just pointed out the usual ...
Nice try, but the couple "harassed by unhinged protesters" weren't being threatened by any mob, they were being shouted at by a girl holding up a cell...
And I thought liberals were the ones who were supposed to be the "snowflakes"! Yikes that's pathetic. Crying because someone said something that hurt ...
Wow, has Jordan Peterson honestly never read Nietzsche? Not only is this a mischaracterization, this is pretty much the literal exact opposite of Niet...
I mean, I know what you mean, but I tend to think that trying to anticipate and forestall whatever disingenuous BS Trump and the GOP is going to argue...
at least its been amusing to see the rightwingers twisting themselves into pretzels trying to figure out how to attack Harris- she's a cop but also sh...
Yep exactly. There's a (double) standard here that must be respected. (btw, aren't you a MN/U of MN guy? You see that Ilhan Omar won her primary- and ...
the more positive news today, imo, is that Ilhan Omar steamrolled her rightwing-funded opponent in her primary this evening (woot!), which effectively...
And the Harris pick is... meh. Would have preferred an actual progressive or someone with a less wildly inconsistent record, but there certainly were ...
no, see, white identity politics (like the white identity/grievance/fake-victim politics that got Donald Trump elected) magically doesn't count as ide...
You are most assuredly in over your head here, and this latest post is only further proof of that- the burden of proof applies to anyone making assert...
But this is contradictory, and that's the point- causes precede their effects (i.e. temporally), so if you're trying to talk about the cause or origin...
Well, once you figure out precisely how we can meaningfully extend talk of temporal or causal relations backwards in time to/past the Big Bang singula...
You still didn't answer the question. Its a pretty straightforward one. You made a serious of assertions. I ask you, on what basis do you make these a...
Its sort of funny (in a grotesque way) how often people say they like Trump because he's "real" or "genuine" or "honest", given that he's one of the m...
Well, actually, yes you can. Whether time genuinely originated at the Big Bang (a legitimate possibility) or our ability to meaningful posit or unders...
I asked you a question, which you didn't answer. I'll ask again. What is your evidence/arguments for the following assertions- Or does your evasion of...
(that said, his writing style is far from traditional or straight-forward- especially in Zarathustra and his aphoristic works- so its often unclear ho...
I certainly would, though I guess YMMV on what you consider "detailed". But there is indeed a description (more than one, in fact, as it was a recurri...
Um... right. I never said that it was. But that doesn't mean it must be infallible and certain knowledge either- like I said, there's a good deal of m...
Sounds like an oxymoron, and not what I meant in any case- i.e. that it seems fairly obvious (and certainly plausible at the very least) that there ca...
Well sure, but utterly unquestionable/infallible vs. a matter of faith strikes me as an obviously false dilemma- there is ground in the middle, right?...
you can certainly disagree with Nietzsche's prescriptions on this point, but he actually had a pretty robust and detailed view of what was to come nex...
I imagine most would agree that good philosophy should involve sound reasoning, no? And sound reasoning renders faith superfluous/unnecessary (faith c...
Hardly smoke and mirrors or sleight of hand, though certainly an inconvenient or awkward situation for (at least some) theists. But given the current ...
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