Then you just lost the bet, because the mind is an appearance unto itself - not a reality, but the product of brain processes. The lingering experienc...
I disagree. Computers will be around as long as civilisation remains. Maybe, in a century, the only humans left will be living in the ruins of civilis...
What is the problem? The problem is that people don't understand scientific method, or the truth value of the knowledge established thereby. This is b...
"the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently l...
Yeah, that's funny. Almost as funny as synthesis saying Marx was a brilliant economist. He wasn't an economist. There's nothing in his writings about ...
Given that political correctness is a dictatorial dogma, yes, I think Amazon and Google and everyone else, should refuse to tolerate intolerant left w...
Yes, those companies are capitalist - but it can hardly have escaped your notice that there's a pandemic of political correctness going around - infec...
I get what you're saying in the opening post, and agree - if what you're saying is that Marxism wasn't great to begin with, but the Frankfurt School, ...
It wasn't facebook that hosted Parler, as far as I know, nor Amazon. It was google. But it was left wing political correctness nutters moaning about p...
I'd never heard of Parler before it was de-platformed by left wing, political correctness nutters who have no interest in free speech, but only want t...
Adam Smith described it as an invisible hand. It would be madness of the highest order to dispense with it. — counterpunch Adam Smith? Wealth of Natio...
that the Invisible Hand at the heart of capitalism is a miracle that affords personal and political freedom — counterpunch No. I don't suggest there's...
I have to admit I was otherwise engaged in the year 2000, by personal matters. But never before 2016 have I been aware of claims the process was rigge...
No it hasn't. Gerrymandering aside, there was up until 2016 - a general belief in the integrity of the process and a tradition of coming together afte...
Nearly Half Of Democrats Think The 2016 Election Was ‘Rigged’ NOVEMBER 18, 2016 By Sean Davis Nearly half of Democrats think the 2016 presidential ele...
In other words, your opinion has no validity because you're white. Which is exactly what I said the concept of white privilege achieves - de-platformi...
White privilege is a concept that delegitimises opinions based on skin colour. The infamous example is that of Lawrence Fox on Question Time - told by...
We all want much the same things. The question is how we bring that about. Do you really believe that de-platforming straight white males is a way to ...
It's strange how you can be so astute in some respects, and so purblind in others. I was raised in a working class household. I left school, worked in...
The fact is, you don't know what the cause of death was, and deciding whether it was murder is absolutely not your call. — counterpunch The world may ...
Typical. I'm the white working class majority that Labour used to represent, but now don't because they have been overrun by politically correct ideol...
Your opinion means less than nothing to me because I have a very great disrespect for the virtue signalling motives behind it. The fact is, you don't ...
Labour were built by my forefathers to represent me, but I cant vote for a Labour party overrun with politically correct, far left ideologues. They do...
Floyd was arrested. He resisted arrest. He was restrained. The restraint may have contributed to his death. What was racist about it? What was murder ...
No. I'm perfectly fine with a diverse society. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of political correctness - and the weakness of political correctness giv...
The people here are not random. They are self selecting. They are here to share and discuss ideas. Not all ideas require support. It's perfectly accep...
I cited anecdotal evidence for the idea that resisting arrest is more likely to get you shot. It's common knowledge that police don't judge the crimes...
The facts cited are from the Bureau of Justice Statistics - data sets from 2003-2012. I have mentioned this in previous comments. Mentioning it every ...
I cited evidence; albeit somewhat anecdotal. Dylan Roof - alive. Michael Brown - dead. Roof - gave up. Brown - resisted. It's not rocket science. The ...
I have no explanation. I'm not looking for one. I'm merely pointing out the politically correct hypocrisies. It feels very uncomfortable to be speakin...
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck fuck - will you LISTEN. The raw data doesn't show that: The study concludes that, but only AFTER the data has bee...
It's a fact, not a theory - that black people commit significantly more crime, and more violent crime in particular. I looked at the statistics, and 1...
I have an answer - let's give everyone free speech, and let them say what they like, because to my mind, people who say hateful things - it says more ...
It's the hypocrisy I seek to highlight; not the casual anti white racism per se. It's that you would be screaming blue murder if someone made a simila...
Depends on what you mean by exploit. Is 0.7% of GDP in foreign aid exploitative? Is vast amounts of charity, given by British people anytime there's a...
Nor did my tutor in statistical methodology when I studied Sociology and Politics at university. Nonetheless, I know my way around SPSS, and I passed ...
The same explanation applies. The systematic racism of political correctness is a consequence of the individualism and cowardice of white people; that...
Government should buy up all the poor quality housing stock, demolish it - and build more and better housing on the same site, and then have a governm...
I know systematic discrimination exists. I call it political correctness, and I fucking hate it - precisely because of how it plays out in relation to...
Corbyn and his ilk are the problem, not the answer. The working man doesn't want a zero sum, identity politics game played against the Eton-Oxbridge s...
Thanks. This is my philosophy - and as far as I know, it's fairly unique. That said, it is based on quite extensive reading. If you want an enjoyable ...
If you think providing the title of a book - not even a passage from that book, just the title: 'Debt: the first 5000 years' - constitutes evidence th...
I was afraid someone might ask that, but then, I was also afraid someone wouldn't - so, here goes. Meaning. The surviving organism has to be correct t...
That's very nice of you to say so Tim but my name is chosen wisely. I just work better responding to others people's ideas than explaining my own. I'v...
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