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What on earth? It's purely a matter of sensible definition, and rightly so. If it is not the case that a representative form of government, say... lik...
January 21, 2020 at 03:23
Workers' rights had to be established because too many 'employers' treated workers horribly. You are suggesting that we go back to that, or at the ver...
January 20, 2020 at 15:53
Presumably, experts are purveyors of current convention... Sometimes convention is wrong.
January 20, 2020 at 15:44
These two men cannot be allowed to retain the power to directly influence so many people's lives over which they do not have sufficient concern for; p...
January 19, 2020 at 01:25
Grant that the president wanted to root out corruption. Now, someone... somewhere... arguing on behalf of the president tell me... What is the excuse ...
January 19, 2020 at 00:15
If they did it... why can't I? If what they did was wrong, then so is what I've done... He's brilliant at making his own case, that's why everyone res...
January 19, 2020 at 00:10
In a system that is clearly broken in some important respects, it takes more than politicians. Afterall, we already have a bunch of politicians sittin...
January 18, 2020 at 22:59
That's one of the best relevant summaries I've recently read concerning the conflicts of interests between corporate/business entities and the labour ...
January 18, 2020 at 21:22
Nice thread. I'll watch.
January 18, 2020 at 21:02
Not just behaviour... belief. Discussion is how it's started, about universal morality. Universally held/shared moral beliefs... regardless of that wh...
January 18, 2020 at 15:40
Abolishing the identity of a group... whatever that means... does nothing at all to help end male chauvinism, racism, sexism, ageism, etc. Abolishing ...
January 18, 2020 at 15:23
End racism. What on earth could be wrong with that as a goal? So, rather than end racism, you are advocating making everyone suffer from it? 'Misguide...
January 17, 2020 at 03:47
So... The reactor looks like a globe atop a squat obelisk. It cannot be gotten near when it is on and producing this - never before seen by anyone asi...
January 17, 2020 at 03:28
You knew I was off base earlier... that I had not correctly understood the work situation. I had thought all along that that someone who said the cont...
January 17, 2020 at 03:17
It would look exactly like the right kind of effort. It would result in less people being suspicious of everyone. It would make it virtually impossibl...
January 17, 2020 at 03:10
With practical matters that have little or no relevance to moral ones, sure. If one wants to do X, and doing X requires doing A, B, and C, then X 'jus...
January 16, 2020 at 06:11
Drama queen.
January 16, 2020 at 02:08
:mask:
January 16, 2020 at 01:55
The notion of not being able to place one's hands near the reactor(due to 'gravitational waves') contradicted all the later talk about 'placing' the s...
January 16, 2020 at 01:32
Yeah... Looks pretty convoluted.
January 15, 2020 at 16:44
A different kettle of fish. Don't think that that counts as racism. Fairly common in the military. They all have nicknames for one another. Terms of e...
January 15, 2020 at 16:26
Will people always devalue other humans based upon insufficient evidence and irrational reasoning? Probably. That doesn't mean that we ought not do ev...
January 15, 2020 at 05:05
That's not a worry of mine. My worry is that the root problems underlying racism will continue unabated if we approach this with the same fallacious t...
January 15, 2020 at 04:00
I am watching/listening to that Rogan show.
January 15, 2020 at 03:56
I'm curious. I've not watched the link you offered on the moon landing, although I've read a number of different people's writings on it as well as wa...
January 15, 2020 at 03:44
The easiest way to avoid any issues revolving around white privilege and/or the residual effects/affects of systemic racism is to do more than just pa...
January 15, 2020 at 03:30
Yeah... Hopefully, they will take a few months or more to actually do a bit of research and consultation with the right sorts of people, and perhaps h...
January 15, 2020 at 03:25
Have you consulted any of your black friends/coworkers about the uneasiness of the meeting? Like... What the fuck was that?
January 15, 2020 at 03:16
Only for those folk who already think in fallacious ways... all white people... all black people... etc. The beginning of ending racism must include a...
January 15, 2020 at 03:14
I don't buy that reasoning at all. It's akin to saying that simply because one talks in terms of different races, that one absorbs racist tendencies, ...
January 15, 2020 at 03:05
There is a very very real argument to be made about such white people who take it on themselves to express what they view to be the problem and what t...
January 15, 2020 at 03:01
Indeed. Misguided to say the least...
January 15, 2020 at 02:53
How about we 'persecute' the right people... and those, like myself, will be glad to join in. Persecute me for things that other whites have done and/...
January 15, 2020 at 02:49
That's too bad. I've quite a large number of black friends, loved ones, and family members who find it rather odd when white people act more offended ...
January 15, 2020 at 02:47
I would hope not. :yikes: However, I have witnessed otherwise professional minority women, profess much the same view. "Anyone other than another old ...
January 15, 2020 at 02:32
Underwriting all of this discourse are categories. Different folk employ different ones. It leads to all sorts of confusion as well... misunderstandin...
January 15, 2020 at 02:27
I knew this topic would eventually result in talking about minds... horribly so. :brow: The subject/object dichotomy cannot be used as a means to take...
January 15, 2020 at 01:32
All morality is the codified rules governing ones behaviour, and as such all morality consists of that which is considered acceptable and/or unaccepta...
January 14, 2020 at 06:46
So... what's the short of building seven that opens the door to issues with the official story?
January 13, 2020 at 15:53
My bad. The building seven issue... Wasn't it evacuated?
January 13, 2020 at 15:51
Kennedy stood for equal rights. Many others in American government at the time did not. Hoover has been recorded talking about his own serious issues ...
January 13, 2020 at 15:47
It's not just speculative bubbles. I'm referring to the financial agents who created financial instruments as a means to leave those depending upon th...
January 13, 2020 at 15:39
The building was evacuated... yes?
January 13, 2020 at 15:29
Minds consist entirely of thought and belief. Thought and belief are complex; not simple. Minds are complex. :wink:
January 13, 2020 at 15:28
The one issue I have with nearly all explanations of powerful people taking advantage of powerless is talking in terms of "rich" and "poor". Not all r...
January 13, 2020 at 15:11
I've seen no good reasoning and/or evidence to believe any of the alternative explanations for 9/11. I've seen and heard plenty to believe that those ...
January 13, 2020 at 15:08
So, the label "conspiracy theory" has a negative connotation such that calling an explanation of events/history by the name implies that it just ought...
January 13, 2020 at 14:51
So... re-instate the puppet government? WTF??? A liberated country would not have been led by a propped up leader not chosen by the people. Hence, the...
January 13, 2020 at 14:39
So... ignore American protests to American problems as the president? WTF??? This presupposes that the westerners are not protesting injustice and tyr...
January 13, 2020 at 14:37
Talking in terms of probability is nonsense here. A true explanation is one hundred percent correct, regardless of whether or not it has been dubbed "...
January 13, 2020 at 02:28