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So Theresa tries to clinch the MV3-deal by offering BoJo and Moggle potential power by resigning, if either wins the Tory vote for class president. Th...

I just read it in the morning news. Absolutely bonkers. Parties are not willing to compromise, they're not in dialogue and nothing has changed in that...

Well, the EU just screwed everyone by putting demands on the short delay. Brexiteers do not fear the option of a no-deal Brexit so it does exactly 0 t...

Wigner: "Hey, that cat is either dead or alive." Friend: "Yeah, I know which one!" Wigner: "No, you don't, it's either dead or alive." Friend: "I'm te...

Now that Parliament has voted in favour of an extension, Brexiteers are faced with the choice of May's deal or a possibly long extension in which a lo...

excellent idea then of Tusk to try and give her an extension... :rofl:

Wait, they voted against a "no-deal Brexit" right? I think your assessment of the Tory strategy is unfortunately quite accurate. We'll see today I sup...

Third time is the charm apparently as May is going to submit the same deal yet again! I doubt a 100 MPs will be cowed into voting for it after the dis...

[ Well Parliament just voted against no deal and they voted against what the EU says is the best deal possible. How much sense does it make to put the...

That's correct, I thought a referendum would've been impossible in the given time frame before March 29. I think the second and better option would be...

The previous discussion revolved around a referendum before March 29. Any extension of the deadline will require that the UK has a concrete reason for...

No deal according to the UK Parliament. A few retards are yelling "transition without a backstop", because, of course, the Good Friday agreements aren...

So. Manafort got a slap on the wrist because the judge identifies better with the perpetrator than the victim(s). Class justice. EDIT: How is it even ...

Based on future people that will exist. Those aren't potential people. That's an important difference. A potential person doesn't exist, eg. it's noth...

By the way, I agree with this sort of thing and other comments you've made about the responsibilities of parents. But I don't really understand what y...

Sure, I can say a lot of things that appear to make sense on the surface. Language is rather fascinating in that way. The above is true but nobody dis...

I think you missed the point (which admittedly wasn't worded clearly) I was trying to make when I say that something that doesn't exist doesn't have a...

Something that doesn't exist doesn't have a will. How do you suggest this works?

I'm going to abbreviate my main arguments against anti-natalism given the time I've already spent on it in the past: 1. Yes, being alive is necessary ...

From what I read in the newspapers it was really entertaining.

Funny because it's true...?

This apparently even happens with what you consider natural selection sans sexual selection. Monkeys who like unripe fruit which is more difficult to ...

Well it's now clear that nobody in the UK has an idea what alternative arrangements should be, which explains the vague terminology to begin with. Wha...

How so? Darwin dinstinguishes artificial selection from natural selection by pointing to human intentionality. Based on that distinguishing feature, s...

As I said, it really depends on your definition where to put the line between natural and artificial and that is arbitrary. Artificial is meant as "ma...

But it would fall in the realm of natural selection on any sensible reading of Origins, where sexual selection is a paragraph within the Chapter on na...

I think the distinction is a bit meaningless anyway. It's not clear what sort of human behaviour is no longer natural but artificial. Or at what point...

:lol: I understand from this you can't read very well or know how to use Google or indeed understand the meaning of the word unsubstantiated. You clai...

No. You can derive it from the contents description in his book, the first paragraph of Chapter IV and by reading Chapter IV in its entirety. You can ...

I'm certain sexual selection is a mode of natural selection. See Chapter IV of Darwin's book: http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/contentblock?itemID=...

You assume those jobs would be lost. Where's the proof? Under Eisenhower you had 8 years of a top tax bracket of over 90% and the economy was doing we...

That suffers too. But Archie's smile makes up for it!

Thanks.

Oh great, now you're being purposefully obtuse. The Bill sets out which Acts need to be repealed to give effect to revoking the Article 50 Notice. Hen...

Repeals If the duty of the Prime Minister under either section 1(1) or section 2(3) is 25e ngaged the following Acts are repealed- European Union (Not...

It is. See? Not so hard to admit you're wrong is it? Yes, it's precisely because this is a forum it is in good faith to take issue with someone preten...

I have an idea for a thread but having trouble thinking about where to put it. "Should we abolish billionaires?" Ethics? Or Politics and Current Affai...

Nice architecture there. The furnishing need a do-over though.

https://en.bab.la/conjugation/english/behove http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-beh1.htm As a forum participant it behoves you to act in good...

You don't know and it would behove you to act accordingly. If you don't know for certain and argue the way you did then you're not doing philosophy bu...

She crafted that rock herself.

Or you can try not taking a position on a minor point you're running a risk of being wrong on and instead try to find out the answer by asking a quest...

Never got round to doing it. Too busy with a second child, my job and attempts for a startup. I always thought entrepreneurship was something flashy a...

Or perhaps you can not be so opiniated about matters you don't know the details of.

Yes, don't let facts get in your way of feeling righteous about how stupid all the politicians and Brexiters are.

only if it personally hurts them. So probably not. The rich are insulated from most everyday problems.

yes, you keep repeating how it was manufactured. An opinion most Brits don't share with you so really an irrelevancy where it comes to the overall per...

Immaterial if you can blame someone else.

No, it isn't. Also, this thread isn't about communism.

I've been primarily interested in his labour theory of value, as a continuation from the works of Smith and Ricardo which is more economics than histo...