Michael

They've worked before. They might work again. Didn't America's war of independence stem from riots?

The full statement: "But I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong, and, through my faith in God, I am working to set thin...

"Sec. 5. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on December 29, 2016." The charging document was referring to the day that the sa...

That was the call where he was told what Russia will do, which he lied about. And "But, uh, responding to your, uh, telephone call and our conversatio...

Did you just not read the transcript I posted above? In response to Kislyak saying that "that's something that we have to deal with" in response to sa...

Both. You really are clutching at straws here. Flynn was charged with and pleaded guilty to (under penalty of perjury) lying when he claimed not to ha...

He did ask Kislyak to refrain from escalating. You can read it right there in the transcripts. It is false to claim that he didn't ask Kislyak to refr...

The charge says: The transcript says: Claiming that there are "some contradictions in the Mueller charging documents" because the exact phrase "refrai...

'This is Exactly What Collusion Looks Like': Attorneys Say Declassified Flynn-Kislyak Docs Confirm Flynn’s Guilt Here's the transcripts. For those who...

Trump supporters (you?) think it's "a laugh" that someone died like he did?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266380510344949761 What the hell? He didn't sacrifice himself for a cause, so saying that he "will not hav...

Yeah, they took out the part about them being a "traditional public forum."

Also this: Which users are they going to monitor? Why are they monitoring them? I don't know how to read this as anything other than Big Brother track...

A traditional public forum is something like a street or park; "public property which have, as 'a principal purpose, ... the free exchange of ideas'"1...

There's this: It's not clear what it means for this to be the "policy" of the United States, but if the intention is to legally declare social media t...

This was the first time it happened.

If you had the power you wouldn't use it though.

Apparently this is a draft of Trump's executive order on social media.

I think it was rhetorical?

Well now I'm conflicted. Is that a good or bad thing?

@"NOS4A2" Earlier you posted an opinion piece by someone saying that they'd vote for Biden even if he boiled and ate babies, and claimed that this was...

OK, so now I've (ab?)used my mod power on him (with a ban).

I don't know what you mean by this. I haven't deleted or edited any of your posts.

Legitimate criticism isn't pointless harrassment. Outlaw what behaviour? Do you have a concrete example? Surely you're not saying that it should be a ...

They say it doesn't happen (much) because there isn't (much) evidence for it. I previously linked to a report by the Heritage Foundation that found ~1...

It's weird to me that campaign donations by corporations count as speech, but that's what Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC decided.

Here's how England, Scotland, and Wales do it.

Wanting to vote by mail is a valid reason.

The White House has this report from the Heritage Foundation. 1,071 proven cases of voter fraud (doesn't specify if in-person or mail-in). Their websi...

That's election fraud, not voter fraud. Trump claimed that "Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulen...

Bi-sexual at best.

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is that languages influences (weak) or determines (strong) how we understand and perceive the world. An example would be wi...

There isn't a big enough facepalm on the planet to respond to this. Veracity of statements by Donald Trump Being a liar doesn’t mean you can’t be a go...

Hilary is far more intelligent than Trump. Having expert advisors is a good thing. Trump’s “many decisions” are almost always the wrong ones. Trump se...

Given that a Clinton presidency would be better than a Trump presidency, Trump's greatest achievement is a net loss.

I seem to recall @"Marchesk" being a direct realist at one point. I'm sure I remember us arguing about it a long time ago.

Yes, that looks about right. It seems consistent with how naive realism is summarized here: "the character of one’s experience is explained by an actu...

A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour by Keith Allen is an example.

Nothing. I just think that your description of the difference between direct and indirect realism here isn't right, given the problem that the direct ...

The epistemological problem of perception is the question over whether or not things are (independently) as we see them to be, not over whether or not...

I think this is equivocation. The fire engine "being red" in the sense of "having properties that produce the experience of red in human beings when s...

The surface of the apple reflects light at a certain wavelength, that light stimulates the eyes, the eyes send a signal to the brain, the visual corte...

I don't think this distinction properly addresses what it is that direct and indirect realists are trying to say. They are trying to argue that we eit...

Yes, it could be considered an abuse of language because language didn't develop to properly explain the true nature of perception, it developed accor...

That's not what people mean when they say that the object of perception is in the head, and I'm sure you know that, so this is an obvious strawman. Th...

I don't understand how this relates to the distinction between direct and indirect realism and the epistemological problem of perception. You seem to ...

So much for philosophy then.

There is more than one reason to warrant an investigation and so this is a non sequitur. In the case of Trump there was an official whistleblower comp...

I didn't word myself properly. You have previously criticized Biden for the things he was accused of saying or had admitted to having said to Ukrainia...

What's a corrupt nothing job?