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Meanwhile... China, Trump and the USA have all agreed to 3 completely different trade deals. Also original/legal borders of Britain to be restored at a time-window near you. Gleefully awaiting death of imperialist liberal (later, social) democracy that bled us white for 200 years.

. . . many discussions I've seen end in "look at the whole picture" or "add hundred small things together to make one big". That's precisely what has me worried. The argument the left is currently presenting seems to be "We don't have any strong actual evidence of wrongdoin...

I'm not making any sort of argument . I'm glad you agree that you're not making any kind of rational argument. That response is depressingly intellectually dishonest. Just plain depressing. Hey Dan! You know what else is depressing? David Quinn wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:45 am [To jupiviv]Again, t...

The link perfectly explains why the law didn't cause mass incarceration. Even your tiny fragment mentions "many factors" which means certainly not "instrumental in doubling the prison population". The trend was already there meaning it's highly speculative at best and the articl...

Race concepts do not and have never played any well-defined role within credible scientific work on human genetic diversity. Thus, attempts to "justify" race concepts with scientific findings on human genetic diversity that occasionally partially overlap with race concepts necessarily req...

That racism both historical and current is not separable from attempts to "justify race concepts scientifically". Science doesn't justify anything, least of all socially constructed categories that were and are motivated by political and economic factors and that have altered drastically ...

The only way to address it with the urgency and coherency it requires is to install the best minds into power and give them the power to rule authoritatively over us all. It would mean trusting in their ability to devise the most intelligent and effective policies and obeying their edicts without q...

"The Hundreds Of Ways Trump Has Trampled Science" Both sides trample science, about equally. You are not looking at both sides of the picture. No reasoning or evidence is given. Not even a link to a supporting article. Just a blanket assertion that seems solely designed to highlight his o...

Anyway, the problem/contention is precisely this baseless assumption that racism both historical and current is separable from bad faith attempts to justify race concepts scientifically. But it's exactly that assumption you're failing to back up. Why even bother asserting it again? As if that means...

If you read back you'd see I was first addressing racism , not races. Then (local) population , not races. Then genetic variance , like seen over a continent, not races. This seems to frustrate you to such extent that you need to modify sentences and present it as my quote now? Sure I'm the one get...

Genetic differences between groups of people classified as "races" are real, therefore those groups are as genetically different as I want them to be. I think they are different enough to be classified as races. Anyone who disagrees with me is irrational because they deny the existence of...

But the gamergate affair clearly had a huge impact and seems to have completely eviscerated him. You're not making a rational argument. All you're doing is making personal smears and personal attacks. When you make a rational argument then I might have something to respond to. All you've offered so...

The media makes stuff up all the time, and they're not sued or kicked out of business. This is just a meaningless claim like everything else you've written on this thread. What data have you consulted regarding the percentage of inaccurate or fabricated info reported by MSM sources? Let me answer t...

Pam Seeback wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:50 pm As I see it, having the understanding that one thing causes another as if they are independent objects or in the case of selves, independent subjects, is the same thing as declaring things to be inherently existing. jupiviv: No, causing each other means d...

As I see it, having the understanding that one thing causes another as if they are independent objects or in the case of selves, independent subjects, is the same thing as declaring things to be inherently existing. No, causing each other means dependence on each other. Pam Seeback: Another way of ...

He holds Biden responsible for the large prison population (mostly debunked in the world of facts ). Abby happily agrees with all of it as if she ever had an opinion herself. That link says: We found many factors drove mass incarceration, including trends in the states that predated the 1994 law. B...

Free speech advocates not acting in bad faith allow restrictions on speech in instances they consider to be unequivocal abuse of it e.g. sedition, incitement to violence, libel. They're just unwilling to extend the exact same reasoning to instances of bigotry and misinformation damaging the lives o...

... how can the right to free speech exist in a meaningful sense if it does not also grace its bearer with the duty of speaking honestly without any regard for life and happiness? It can't, because nothing would prevent the abuse of this right towards dishonest and self-serving ends at the expense ...

Perhaps you were always as childishly irrational as this underneath the fancy talk of loving reason and hating irrational religion and emotions. Or maybe you decided to just give up on actual reasoning at some point, in favour of squeezing what little joy you can out of popular reactionary anti-fem...

According to the most recent figures I could find, Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims[/url] since his inauguration. That comes from the media, which makes billions of false and misleading claims every day. All mainstream media outlets including Fox news provide fairly accurate coverag...

Widespread death and destruction is unambiguously worse for human life than even a *total* lack of rights. Death and destruction in terms of physical happenstance have little to do with worth, value and meaning, let alone wisdom. I 100% agree! But Kevin wasn't talking about choosing wisdom over lif...

And as something of an aside, but still kind of relevant to the point about whether women would want an abortion if they had to carry out the abortion themselves, that same question might be asked of parents who have the misfortune of Fetal Anomalies Incompatible with Life. For that percentage of b...

If it weren't for Diebert's ineffably frustrating habit of trying to play the Devil's Advocate and apply the Charity Principle all the time Diebert is a ruthless hypocrite who has banned me 1000s of times just for asking permission to post pictures. Also he suspends me once per fiscal quarter for h...

Your can critique the usage of the term "baby" or state that 34 weeks abortions are very illegal and undesired. But probably not many could easily destroy their own baby shaped tissue in cold blood after projecting the idea of being or becoming on it, no matter what the scientific view on...

My impression is that a significant proportion of women are pro choice regarding abortion. But, they arent saying they want to kill their baby, they are saying, they want someone else to kill their baby. If those same women were given the ability to safely kill their own baby, would they do it? Eve...