A machine is a tool. The purpose is determined by he/she/they who build it and wield it. One purpose is indeed to prevent insurrection from anywhere. ...
If aliens visited Earth, they would hob-nob with the intelligent life (rocks, plants and animals), have a good laugh about the hairless, toothless, tw...
:100: Bingo. And the list goes on. Who is government to stop me from dumping metric shit-tons of hazardous waste into the air or the river? And then f...
You are right. And those who aren't deluded DO call them criminals. And it is hard to distinguish. That's part of the plan. Let me tell you how it wor...
Yeah, let's just tax more, like the 90% marginal rate I heard we had when the U.S. was in it's prime. Of course there was a raft of exemptions but it ...
Not fast enough, apparently. Musk made some $36 billion in one day. Only a sap would think it was "his" money and that the markets and invisible hand ...
That government intervention is done at the behest of the 1%, the corporations, the MIC, and the capitalists who use it to limit competition and line ...
Yeah, $7 trillion/ten-year defense budges will do that to you. Anyway, no matter how high inflation gets, do you think we will ever pay true cost for ...
There does seem to be a certain restraint exercised by Gates, Musk, Buffet, Bezos, et al. They have the money to hire the best advisors on how the gam...
As long as you don't pretend to be against that stuff like a good little Christian evangelical, then yeah, go for it. But he could, literally, shoot s...
I think similar assessments were had for the Tea Party. But I'm no expert on these things. I'm on the outside looking in, thinking that a house divide...
:roll: I thought of another analogy: I am talking about how the gun is manufactured and how it is operated. Then you come in with your irrelevant agen...
That's because you are incapable of understanding the truth of the matter asserted (the reason for which the argument was made) and are hell-bent on s...
:100: Not even the evangelical Christian right was so stupid as to think Trump actually gave a rat's ass about fetuses. They just sold their soul (and...
It's just another irony in America. Kind of like bootstrapping, personal responsibility and other myths. Our military is exalted beyond all measure by...
Agreed. I just see her like Mr. Smith goes to Washington and question her (or anyone's) ability to remain pure after getting kicked around by the conn...
Which adds absolutely nothing to the conversation or the analogy I was making. Another opportunity for you to try and get your stupid and irrelevant a...
Screw VA and NJ. Burn the house down. Vote against the BBB, against the infrastructure bill, against raising the debt limit in December. Teach the Dem...
Sure there is. We don't need a state program to put up a blue wall, a green wall, or any other kind of wall. Groups of people can do great good, and g...
:100: :up: It’s funny we should be talking about the philosophers, philosophy, Stephen Hawking, technology, the technologist, science and scientists. ...
They stole it from the original. 1210, if I recollect correct. Not that I was there, but I saw it on t-shirt attributed to the Khan. :grin: P.S. Just ...
Probably should have lead with that, but thanks. Sounds like Street. A list of alternatives that are not alternatives. At least you gave a tip 'o the ...
Okay, assuming that is correct, I don't think being aware of the subjectiveness of ones will to power to automatically qualifies one's views as being ...
Speaking of progress, as I remember it, the lilly-livered left ran from the honorable term "liberal" when Newt, Limbaugh, and crew spit it out like a ...
Don't forget socialism. " Taft explained that the great issue in this campaign is “creeping socialism.” Now that is the patented trademark of the spec...
Well, that's easy. In the U.S., just don't give personhood to money, follow the state and federal election and voting procedures, and the end result w...
He reminds me of the Limbaughs who point out that "Nazi" has "socialist" in the name, so they must be socialist. You know, like the PDRK must be the p...
Ah, but you are wrong when you say I "aggrandize" the state and do it at the "expense" of my own freedom, just like a fascist would say. :razz: The st...
I do know what it is, which is precisely why I don't look to fascists for my cute little one liners. You know, like a fascist would do. Yeah, that's w...
I like that one, so long as it (they) account(s) for the absence of it (them) sel(ves)f. But it also sounds a little bit like universal panentheism, w...
Now I agree that that-there is beyond the scope of this thread. I argued it with Frank. It's like the state's different reasons for punishment: it dep...
I defended one of five people (the ring leader) charged with conspiracy. The rest plead out but my guy walked. I found conspiracy to be what they call...
My chain saw keeps quitting on me. Anyway, yeah, there is no argument on that. In fact, that is what I said: "Any lens is only our own. The relationsh...
I'm thinking that I was sticking to his question here: Where they *live* in the *now* without all the moral hand-wringing of men, that rings of innoce...
If there is a "need" to examine, then who has that alleged need? Certainly not the guy steeling the bread. That was my point. Only those with a full b...
It may be somewhat disrespectful for me to make fun of such an icon, but whenever I say his name I hear Steve Martin in the back of my head. Same with...
It would be cool to study bison, or even take the satellites over Africa to look at Cape Buffalo or Wildebeest: animals living in a "relatively" unmol...
If you were not married to your hypothesis, then it is not a conspiracy theory. Genuine intellectual curiosity is what distinguishes the two. Once you...
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