Michael

What you actually said was "And it is entirely relevant since the same people that are rightly jumping on Trump for possibly breaking the law--and wro...

I go by what the experts say. They're the experts. From here, "The Federal Election Campaign Act states in unambiguous terms that any contribution by ...

If you're not claiming that Hillary's crimes determine whether or not Trump Jr. committed a crime then your accusations against Hillary are irrelevant...

You're absurd, and your attempts to save face are comical. You were in the wrong. Accept it and move on. Whether or not Trump Jr. committed a crime in...

What difference does that make? I can't give someone £10 without them being indebted to me, but I can give them a Fabergé egg or compromising material...

If I'm arguing that John murdered someone and Agustino is arguing that he didn't, and you respond by saying that Jane murdered someone, then your resp...

Relevant to my argument with Agustino over whether or not Trump Jr. committed a crime? No, they're not relevant. So if you want to bring up Clinton's ...

I don't care if Clinton or anyone else also committed a crime. I'm arguing that there's a case that Trump Jr. did. Pointing to other criminals is a co...

According to this, "to minimize foreign intervention in U.S. elections ". Then the Russians providing Trump Jr. with compromising material on an oppon...

OK? I'm arguing that there's a case for Trump Jr. having committed a crime in meeting with the Russian lawyer. I'm not claiming that nobody else has e...

The "why" isn't relevant. The law forbids it. As I said, a no strings attached donation is illegal under that statute.

It doesn't intend to prevent any kind of discussion with foreign nationals. It intends to prevent receiving money or other things of value from foreig...

Doesn't say anything like this in the statute.

The law says "make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value" which expressly states that this "other thing of value" isn't money....

Doesn't have to be illegal. According to this, that would be illegal. I believe the actual law (or one of them, at least) in question is § 110.20 Proh...

e.g. "If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!" It ...

Why is that? Because they're too biased to listen to reason? Because there are no reasons to favour Democrats over Republicans? Or because political a...

http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/trump-kool-aid.jpg If only it'd said "covfefe"...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/398887965302091776 He's his own worst critic.

I don't think the term "post-truth" refers to falsity. As explained here, "Post-truth politics (also called post-factual politics) is a political cult...

Mid-20th century, according to a Harvard Professor:

Trump's just trying to feed his ego and bank account. Not only (if at all). He's also doing terrible, and apparently criminal, things. That's why so m...

I think this is just grammatical confusion. He seems to mean it in the sense of saying that being yellow is a property of a lemon. Does it then follow...

Consider his example: "the lemon is yellow". He's not saying that the lemon is identical to yellow. And so when he says "reality is truth" he's not sa...

You've already given the conclusion: No things that want to suffer are things that suffer. I'm simply pointing out that you can see this from a Venn d...

I suppose the difference with that example is that it doesn't include the tacit premise that only cats are mammals, whereas the first example does inc...

This seems pedantic. You could always rephrase Mongrel's claim as "But I think you'll agree that difficulty ascertaining what is true is a separate is...

Wouldn't the "things that don't suffer" and "things that want to suffer" circles overlap? So the "things that want to suffer" and "things that suffer"...

Lots of swearing, so NSFW and all that jazz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUky4_A7Zw4

I'm in the mood to watch The Thick of It and In the Loop. Also heard Veep is good.

No, it is.

Oh look, Scaramucci's gone now. I don't know how anyone can actually believe that Trump knows what he's doing. The White House is the fucking omnisham...

The party not of Jesus, duh.

He's trying to be Malcolm Tucker.

Nah, I hate Trump because he's a prick. You really do live in an alternate reality.

@"jamalrob" @"Baden"

The conclusion doesn't follow.

Yeah, and this leads to anti-vaxxers, homeopathy, faith healers, and other alternative (i.e. fake) medicine.

I'll go with the four I mention in my profile: Wittgenstein, Dummett, Putnam, and Chalmers.

Anscombe, on morality.

There is no paradox. You're just talking nonsense. @"andrewk" was spot on here.

You're not making any sense.

So X is a friend if X doesn't intentionally harm me, and X is a foe if I can defeat X easily. Then if someone doesn't intentionally harm me and if I c...

As I brought up here, consider a cup of coffee. Coffee "happens" when water mixes with coffee beans. The water is real, the coffee beans are real, and...

I didn't say they're more real. I said they're independent of perception (assuming scientific realism).

Or to put it another way, an apple is to observation and the independent environment as coffee is to water and coffee beans.

I'm not saying that there isn't object permanence. Consider a collection of bricks. Is it a building? Only if it's structured and used a certain way. ...

It's not a matter of whether it's real. It's a mater of whether it's independent of perception. Something can be real but dependent on perception. The...

There are millions of fools in the world. I don't have millions of friends. Therefore not all fools are friends. There are millions of fools in the wo...