James Riley

Yeah, and Liz Cheney ought to run for POTUS. Not to drive a wedge and sink the party, but to offer real Republicans an avenue to redeem themselves and...

Misconception does not equal ignorance. I had an interest, but not enough to pursue it once I cleared up my misconception. Thanks!

I think a lot of it has to do with how the challenge is presented, and who presents it. I like the way Socrates challenged people with questions. I al...

Thanks! I was operating under a misconception about what stoicism was/is.

:ok: I guess the context from my other posts was missing.

To each his own. Nothing is more simple or lacking in complexity than pointing a finger at "big government" with no understanding of how governments c...

I'll take my lead from Sa-go-ye-wat-ha for the time being. I hope you didn't think I used the word "selling." As evidenced from my post, quite the opp...

I live in a RTW state. RTW for starvation wages so the tax payers pick up the tab with food stamps and the Plutocrats laugh all the way to where ever ...

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On the other hand: https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/246157350_2066146360213628_2918682740838288672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730...

There is no problem with big government. The problem is those who own and operate it. And that is not the people. That is the Plutocracy. And make no ...

Joe doesn't grab 'em by the pussy. That's cool with evangelical Christians now. So is cheating, dishonor, lying, cowardice, and vanity. Oh, how times ...

Maybe the Roman Catholic Church itself. Seems like they are the ones that have fallen, relatively. I don't know either one of these guys, but I just l...

You just followed the money. The MIC is all about $. That's why Joe Manchin will support a $7t bill for the MIC but not a $3.5t bill for the people. A...

It's a noisy world and it's good to disconnect. For me, it's reconnecting with the non-human environment that brings the peace.

Part of the same media tilt that I critique is that these guys were the victims of bullying. In fact, I thought a lot of the nation wide anti-bullying...

Three things come to mind: 1. How many of those loners were victims of a pack that was not restrained by a real leader, or by a community that had bee...

I've seen the "pack mentality" in action. When I used that term, I thought I better go look it up. The definition I found off a quick search: "Pack me...

Neither do I. In America, we have this notion of "deserve" which is often tied to having worked hard, or worked smart, or having worked hard and smart...

Follow the money.

Yeah, they don't have to pay for their spending. They run the deficit up, ruin America, turn it over to the Ds to clean up, rinse, repeat. D's are lik...

Same guy. But he was not alone. Most men of the Enlightenment were headed down a liberal, if not radical road.

First, we, as a society, need to distinguish between true capitalism and the faux shit spouted by today's self-identified capitalists who are quick to...

Private property rights is one of the primary liberal tenets. They were further caveated by Smith and other capitalists with the notion of "enlightene...

I don't think one can be depressed, apathetic, and satisfied. But I could be wrong.

Hmmmm. I think I agree. And here I was, hoping I might find magic in stoicism. Maybe I should forget that shit and just get on with life. Embrace the ...

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True. The right is more susceptible to the fear/paranoia/conspiracy factor; and they make good, blind followers with a strong leader. The left is like...

:100: He was also making a deal out of Pete Buttigieg and breast feeding. The whistles are no longer dog. It all quite out in the open now. Pretty soo...

Completely understandable. It's just too bad that folks who want to send that message can't look around and find within their ranks a person of honor,...

I might be living in an alternative universe, but I never saw the stoic as concerned about money, family, schedules, etc. I saw more proximity between...

I don't, and never said as much. Democratic socialism is the ass opposite of that. Democratic socialsm will return the family to it's seat of power an...

It's a different way of thinking altogether. The genious of the indigenous, tribal view toward helping cannot always be understood by one who has been...

No. No. But maybe I should. Yes, but not due to that. I'm too patient, and too lazy, hoping it happens without putting in the work. I'm not so sure me...

I don't like hearing that stoics have angst in their community, much less themselves. I want them out there holding the universe together and on the r...

:100: As Dennis Miller once said "If trickle down isn't fair warning that you are about to get pissed on, I don't know what is." Reagan was a nice, li...

P.S. The thread title should not be "Socialism or families?" It should be "Socialism is families." Or "Socialism and families."

The EU should do what France did when we fought King George. If Trump can turn to Russia for help in his insurgency, certainly we can ask the EU to al...

We don't feed the lazy for them, we feed the lazy for us. We don't honor our agreements for the benefit of others. We honor our agreements because it ...

That's the difference between the left and the right. The right presents their elected representatives with substantial, credible threats of physical ...

:100: That is spot on, as far as allies (sitting with) are concerned. Putin, not so much.

:100: I'm no academic, and I'm lacking in a lot of philosophical terms of art. This forces me to write things out "long hand" if you will. But the ide...

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That is what a person of self-discipline will do. And that is what I tell myself I should do. And, it is what I have been told by others to do. And I ...

My mom and dad both grew up in the heart of the Great Depression. I'm pretty sure no human being in the history of the Earth ever defied the laws of p...

:100: The interestng thing is, the haters are all about socialism when it comes to the military. But it's the MIC that benefits when government's assi...

The Plutocracy is necessarily and increasingly paternalistic. So it is no wonder that its most obsequious subjects are invariably callow. In the US, t...

Thank you bison, for growing my heart with the seeds you have sewn.

I was in search of something to read that would blow me away. Rising to the top of the list was "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. I read i...

I'd say art is the objective absense of waste. All other waste, present or absent, is subjective.