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The entire point of TDS is an attempt to invalidate opposing views. Even you must realize this on some level.
March 23, 2020 at 19:14
So you and a cartoonist making a medical diagnosis. Is this somehow productive? If you believe it is then kindly present a reasonable argument to supp...
March 23, 2020 at 18:57
This coming from you of all people. :lol:
March 23, 2020 at 18:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrtwXqqc6g&list=RDojrtwXqqc6g&start_radio=1
March 21, 2020 at 03:03
Shows that he must be cracking under the pressure and what a terrible leader he is. Pence answered the same softball question by the same reporter in ...
March 20, 2020 at 20:57
I only mentioned Trump/Republican policies. Projection?
March 20, 2020 at 15:17
Other voters think that tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, building a multi-billion dollar wall, driving up the deficit, blah blah... won’t have any...
March 20, 2020 at 05:46
You fight by not defending the CCP. Yup, sounds about right.
March 20, 2020 at 00:33
What are you doing to “fight back”?
March 20, 2020 at 00:16
It plays well into his supporters xenophobia, seriously.
March 19, 2020 at 21:15
He’s a god damn socialist. :razz:
March 18, 2020 at 17:23
I got a TRX thing and some bands the other day in preparation for this eventuality. You can get a full body weight workout and it doesn’t take up any ...
March 17, 2020 at 15:51
Congrats to you benefactors. :party:
March 17, 2020 at 01:54
Simply put, Libertarians primary value personal liberty, whereas Liberals (American at least) value fairness and care above liberty. Are you still equ...
March 16, 2020 at 15:46
I’m rather shy by nature so the social distancing thing is going to be a walk in the park. I imagine it will be tough for extroverts.
March 16, 2020 at 01:44
I think that a true libertarian’s ideas might sound more reasonable if they pretended to be a conservative or liberal. Anyway, a ‘socialist’ could sta...
March 15, 2020 at 22:10
The point is simple, other minds (environment) can deliberately condition or manipulate the conditioning of a brain. In this way, it cannot be said th...
March 15, 2020 at 20:09
:lol: but not yes if others (part of an environment) deliberately condition a brain?
March 15, 2020 at 18:44
Point is that the conditioning is in part responsible for the level of stress. Conditioning can be external to the effected brain, can it not?
March 15, 2020 at 18:22
A person may be conditioned to not be fearful of swimming with orcas, or at least be much less fearful than others. https://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront....
March 15, 2020 at 17:36
Another meaningless example. An extreme (or stupid) position requires extreme support.
March 15, 2020 at 16:50
The only meaningful example you could give to support your position would be that of a human being who would not experience stress under any circumsta...
March 15, 2020 at 16:36
The notion that liberals are closeted socialists is another sticky idea, apparently.
March 15, 2020 at 16:27
Italy has 15k cases and 1k deaths? That’s around 6.6%
March 13, 2020 at 21:56
I don’t consider all lending with interest a bad thing, whereas I consider all murder bad. I think people would vote for legislation that restricted t...
March 07, 2020 at 21:41
It’s a little hard to consider that predatory when payday lenders, for instance, charge over ten times that interest rate and knowingly target those i...
March 07, 2020 at 20:57
Hopefully someone is paying him. I hate to think he’s getting all butthurt for nothing.
March 07, 2020 at 20:05
How is that a defense? It could indicate trolling behavior.
March 07, 2020 at 19:51
Punshhh has a point, you make a caricature of yourself with this kind of crap. Like a wind-up troll doll set to auto repeat.
March 07, 2020 at 18:04
I don’t know the statistics but I would guess mortgages and credit card debt comprise the bulk of personal borrowing in the US.
March 07, 2020 at 16:01
I believe that’s the point, maintaining the status quo, or better still, Making America Great Again (pre civil rights act).
March 07, 2020 at 04:07
I don't recall any disagreement with 180, but that doesn't mean my little pup tent is in the same campground.
March 06, 2020 at 22:59
Your view is clearly biased. Didn't you read the world bank study?
March 06, 2020 at 22:27
As the world bank study supports, that depends on opportunity. A prisoner can escape their confinement and validly claim that it was 100% their indivi...
March 06, 2020 at 21:34
Let's face it, it's an overmans world.
March 06, 2020 at 21:20
Actually, having just skimmed the world bank study that you link to, it appears you're being somewhat misleading. The study supports the importance of...
March 06, 2020 at 21:16
Around only 56 years ago the civil rights act was helpful. 100% of those who were discriminated against and escaped poverty prior to the act could leg...
March 06, 2020 at 18:13
According to selectorate theory it makes political sense in an autocracy, and that’s why democracy tends to be favorable for the masses.
March 06, 2020 at 16:51
I already offered an extreme example of predatory lending, that of payday loans.
March 06, 2020 at 15:43
If I lent you a sum of money for low enough interest you could make a profit by simply investing it. Is that a simple enough example of non-exploitive...
March 06, 2020 at 08:45
Nonsense. It’s basically an exchange of value (including future value), which as I’ve explained can be generous from the lender side, fair, or exploit...
March 06, 2020 at 07:08
Lenders or renters may give more than they receive in order to help others, make a fair trade, or take advantage of those in a weaker position. You se...
March 06, 2020 at 01:09
Payday lenders have low losses and high profits (34%+ return on investment).
March 06, 2020 at 01:00
A clear example of the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer is found in predatory lending, which pretty much all banks are involved with, btw. ...
March 05, 2020 at 23:51
rather than the will of nature (will to live)?
March 05, 2020 at 23:04
I'm actually in Westlake currently. Is that bad?
March 05, 2020 at 22:58
I guess that I just don't see how the concept of nirvana or "inverted nirvana" (suffering) plays a useful role in what you're saying.
March 05, 2020 at 22:50
If we saw through the illusion then life/death wouldn't be so much of a concern, so they say. "Inverted Nirvana" is samsara or a continuation of suffe...
March 05, 2020 at 22:41
"inverted Nirvana" is antithetical to the concept of Nirvana because the concept points to an absence of polarity. For instance, in Buddhism, nirvana ...
March 05, 2020 at 22:23
What kind of dreamworld does Sam live in where this only applies to religion?
March 05, 2020 at 03:54