Wow. I can't believe I missed the whole "corporations are basically Stalinist entities" thing. In what way are corporations "Stalinist", latour? I'm curious to know the socialist theory that leads you to this conclusion.
I stand corrected. You said something that seemed mean and hateful to me, but it turned out that it was my own prejudices and narrow view that made it seem that way. When I looked more closely, and paid more attention to the alternative interpretations, I saw that I was wrong in my interpretation, and that you are not as hateful as I had thought. Thank you. While we're on the subject of interpreting poetry, I admit that I'm still a
Delicious irony! Latour is a socialist who believes in freedom of speech. Let us quickly pass over all the people who tried to implement Socialism on a large scale, and discovered that freedom of speech was one of the first things that had to go. Anyway, latour's employers probably don't give a rat's ass about his personal beliefs, so long as his work is good. But what happens when he has a side gig where he actively undermines his
Philomedy, you're not talking about hating racism, here. You're talking about hating racists. You know, real people who for whatever reason have bought into a corrupt and hateful ideology. And what you wrote is hateful, intolerant. You appear totally disinterested in them as people, totally unininterested in finding out what led them to this evil place. Totally uninterested in understanding them, their pain, their ignorance. Totally uninte
Of course they're making up the rules as they go along! The first generation to see the Internet is still alive. The Internet disrupts social paradigms and systems of human interaction that have been in place for thousands of years. It may well be another hundred years or so before we've even begun to figure out a new set of rules that even comes close to the stability and security that our old social rules gave us. Everybod
Since politicians are universally incompetent and corrupt, I find that the best approach is to figure out which faction relies the most on vicious namecalling, rather than inane press releases punctuated by the occasional thoughtful debate, and then oppose that faction wholeheartedly.
Such intolerant language, Philo! So judgemental and violent! "It makes you fucking die inside..." "It makes you a coward..." "Mother fucker, you don't even try and hide it..." "Damn right, I'll deride it!" "... the garbage that your mouth has so often cited..." "I don't see how you could be so damn nearsighted..." "There's a natural law..." So this is how you tolerate and respect and though
My answer is no. Bush is a party man, and a politician. Since the party he proclaims allegiance to--the Republican Party--is the major coalition faction that most closely aligns with my conservative principles, I tend to vote for his party, and to support his administration. But it's not like I believe that he's always going to do the correct thing according to conservatives. In fact, he doesn't always do the conservative thing. </
Gene, for every soldier you find who opposes the war, there is another soldier of equal or greater qualifications who supports it. John Kerry found several veterans to support his candidacy. And it turned out that there were several more veterans willing to oppose it. Even the families of soldiers follow the same nullifying patterns. Casey Sheehan's mother opposes the war, but the mother of one of the other soldiers that died in the
Tell me one major issue the Democrats have backed the president on. Hell, getting a fully-qualified non-liberal supreme court nominee approved is be a major accomplishment in Washington these days. Anyway, so what? You're still just arguing that I should make sure to elect a conservative with more backbone next time. Let me put it this way: To the extent that he gets things done, I like what Bush does. I only wish he'd ge
See, the real problem is that Bush should've learned the lessons of Katrina before Katrina hit, so that he could apply them to Katrina. Presumably Nagin and Blanco should've also forseen the Federal incompetence, and made alternate plans accordingly.
Fair enough, Gene . You've actually touched on my only major problem with this administration. So I'm stuck with a President I mostly agree with, but who has completely screwed the pooch on one of the fundamental conservative principles: smaller government and less federal spending. That's my problem. Your problem is that one of the fundamental liberal principles is larger government and more federal spending, and all the Demo
What does this cartoon even mean?
We make exceptions for charitable donations, for what I think are obvious reasons. Would you really promote a system that encouraged people to give more money to the government, and less to private charities? Has there ever been anything government has done, that's made you believe that you can trust them with more of your money?
Another strawman: the lowest income brackets are the recipients of taxes, in the form of social program and even cash handouts. Neither a sensible flat tax nor a sensible progressive tax would touch these people, for whom we are actually collecting the taxes. I don't think anybody on either side of this debate seriously thinks that taxing the very poor makes any moral or economic sense. Try not to get sidetracked from debating the me
"Too close to call" is right. Personally, I think it tends to be a little too positive, but I'll not dispute the overall picture. Nice work, IG. Thanks!
So... before Pong was invented, everybody roamed the streets mindlessly slaughtering each other, because they had no safe release for their uncontrollable mudering urges? You get good at what you practice. If you practice filling your mind with thoughts and images of violence, you'll become an expert at thinking of violence. You can't tell me that filling a 15 year old's head with GTA will have the same effect on that kid and his com
Sure, but like all rights, this one has limits. My right to life is limited by what I do with it. If I threaten your life, I've passed beyond the limits of my right to life, and if you kill me in self defense few would complain that my rights had been violated. Personally, I believe that our right to privacy is limited by our impact on the world around us. To the extent that I impact the world around me with my thoughts and actions, to t
Like everybody else, Mormons aspire to ideals they can't consistently attain.
Sweet. Nobody ever uses the word "puling" anymore. Let alone correctly. Let alone deservedly.
I believe it's called the "right to association" and we all have it. It's our right to choose who we associate with, according to whatever criteria we like.
Gene, for your service to country and community, I am grateful. For your parading it around as a catch-all excuse for some of the most incredible tomfoolery... not so much.
Ah, but Righwinger , what if we're not trying to bring them freedom? What if Iraqi freedom is just a side effect of greedy and ignorant American efforts to arrange things for their own benefit? I don't believe this, but what if we pretended for a moment that this is the case? Doesn't that still leave a gaping hole where the opposition presents its own positive side effects to blowing people up? Unless the positive side
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Thank you, Gideon. Your articles have been real eye-openers for me. The more I read, the more I respect you and your point of view. I'm a humbler and wiser man for paying attention to your story. Again, thanks!
Curses! Hoist by my own petard! You win this one, ParaTed! But we shall meet again. And the next time, victory will be mine! This I swear. No petards were harmed in the making of this post.
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