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I like to compare Trump to Mick Jagger. Jagger is only barely a musician, but he has charisma out the ass. He can't play lead guitar worth a shit, but...

We all agree that Trump is not an articulate intellectual, like Obama for example. And we probably all prefer articulate intellectuals because, after ...

If we wish to abandon all evidence from the real world, then I agree I'm totally wrong.

Those of us who think Trump is stupid are not smart, at least not on this particular topic. They may be very smart on other topics. What's really happ...

I don't wish to prove anything to you. You win. If you'd like to disclose how old you are I would be willing to have more patience with someone who ma...

Generally speaking this whole thread is confusing two different things. Is Trump evil? Yes. Does that automatically mean he's stupid? No. This is a ph...

Blah, blah, blah, college sophomore punditry. And if you really are a college sophomore, then ok, pretty good. Keep going.

I agree that he has skillfully walked the line between legal and illegal. Apologies, meaning no offense, but the majority of this thread is really lit...

And yet he has taken over half of the world's leading superpower and earned the attention of almost the entire planet, while you honk your little post...

If you are in your twenties then your comment is understandable.

Well, this is a bit sweeping, isn't it? There are many millions of Trump voters, and only the tiniest fraction of them have taken part in any public d...

Well, what he explicitly said for at least months was a consistent pattern of blatant lies which became the foundation of the invasion of Congress. Wi...

Oops, someone beat me to it...

Now you're referring to communication. Again, I was referencing experience. Experiences do get translated in to abstractions for purposes of communica...

It's very normal though. I've had this conversation a number of times in a number of places and it always goes exactly the same way. So for this piece...

That's a good question. My answer would be, in moderation. A good analogy might be our relationship with food. Some is clearly necessary, but more is ...

This could be clever and funny, if it was posted on Facebook.

Again, you're commenting on the suggestions without bothering to understand them, or perhaps even read them. The exact opposite of what you just said ...

Yes. But please note the comment of mine you are quoting refers to experience, not understanding. Understanding is an experience of our thoughts about...

And I too am being a curmudgeon by challenging the prominent placement of the kinds of lazy little posts which you like to clog threads with. There's ...

Yes, that's the usual pattern on this subject, and very many others. Given the popularity of that hobby there can be a place for it. My argument is th...

If you don't like this thread, find another one to read.

As seems normal, you apparently haven't bothered to read my suggestions, and thus appear not to understand them. But you still want to have a fixed op...

Yea, more wisdom from you. I think we under estimate Trump at our peril. Is he evil? Indisputably true. But is he also very street smart? True again. ...

Ok, fair enough. To a significant degree I've lost faith in humanity. I'm pretty cheerful about that most of the time, but when pressed to explain I h...

Yea, ok, I can hear that. Cowardly does seem accurate. So is there any point to another impeachment then in your opinion?

In an earlier era I was a full time public safety activist here in Florida. Long story, but again, same story. People would show up at meetings to dem...

But they don't have to show up. The Republican senators could liberate themselves from Trump just by not showing up to vote. Seventeen senators not sh...

I admire how insanely clever your lazy little remarks can be.

Ok, so you're saying that few to none of the nuclear weapons sites link to each other because I'm somehow creating an obstacle? You're saying that the...

Are you sure that's all that's required? I'm hearing jabber about there needing to be another vote specifically about banning him from running. I'm he...

Ok, I can hear that. Really, I can. So here's a little story. About a year ago I made a somewhat serious effort to engage by becoming a nuclear weapon...

It's my probably too often stated opinion that the underlying source of all this social conflict is the knowledge explosion, especially it's accelerat...

I may have missed this. What exactly would have to happen for Trump to be legally barred from running again? I'm getting the impression from NPR cover...

Agreed. And if I could add, not just educate them, but be educated by them where possible. That's surely implied in the concept of not holding them in...

My reply is not meant to be insulting either, we're just chatting, no worries. My attitude arises out of about a billion hours spent in the north Flor...

This is true enough. One of the things that happens with age is that you've heard all the ego driven melodrama merry-go-round noise so many times that...

I hear your points, really I do. But I would answer your question this way. The kind of weirdo that exempts themselves from social media could be the ...

I must admit I'm having trouble figuring out why I should be concerned about being banned from Twitter, Facebook and the vast majority of social media...

I haven't used the word absurd so much, but I get the general sentiment. I spend a LOT of time in the woods. When I'm spending the entire dawn to dusk...

Been writing along those lines too, for example, see here. As I currently see it, reason alone is nowhere near close to sufficient for making such hug...

Amen brother. A philosopher interested in nuclear weapons! It's a miracle, a sign from God!!! :-)

This does seem a very important aspect of specialist culture. Specialist culture brings great new powers, some of which present grave new threats, and...

Welcome to my world! I've been working on that for 20 years, a work still very much in progress. Don't know if this will be workable for you, but my s...

Ok, I hear you. And again, the chances of the site being altered, especially to my specifications, are most likely extremely low. This is likely just ...

If that's true, then wouldn't that make you the bad singer who should just relax and keep singing? I think your thread raises all kinds of interesting...

Then please know this. I've had this conversation quite a number of times on a number of different sites, and it never leads to much of anything other...

My head is shaped like an H and I can't do anything about that. It's all my mom's fault!

So here's an attempt to further define my vision of what an Article section might look like. None of the following is proposed to be a "one true way",...

Link seems to be working, thanks for that. Took a quick look, yea, some interesting ideas there, agreed. Seems to this self appointed authority :-) as...