Doug Morris
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5 hours ago, whYNOT said:
No one can coerce loyalty to a country.
What about coercing obedience?
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5 minutes ago, tadmjones said:
Who is dying 'of covid'?
It's still one of the leading causes of death.
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7 hours ago, tadmjones said:
All cause excess death still above the five year average in most western countries , virtually no media stories as to any possible theories on cause/s. Blank out, mass evasion of reality.
Could it be because there are still a lot of people dying from covid-19?
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2 hours ago, Jon Letendre said:
the blatant evasion and dishonesty tactics such as above
Can you be more specific?
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29 minutes ago, Jon Letendre said:
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz:
"Today, of course, the greatest threats to civil liberties come, not from the right, but from the left."
We need to resist all threats to civil liberties, no matter where they come from.
Another quote from the same Alan Dershowitz interview:
And we're seeing extremism on both sides of the political spectrum. And the one thing about extremism is you don't need dissent. You don't need due process if you're an extremist because you know the truth with a capital T.
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On 9/14/2023 at 7:58 PM, Jon Letendre said:
then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,”
Ambiguous. Is there any clarifying context?
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14 hours ago, Boydstun said:
Additionally, there might be thermodynamical and information-theoretic reasons and limitative theorems of logic (I'd have to research it) that might bear against the validity of the concept all-knowing.
How about the argument that knowledge is gained by a process, and no one can process everything?
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1 hour ago, tadmjones said:
Perhaps a better second question would be “ do you support a law that limits the total currency supply to an actual physically possible amount of species”
Since our fiat money has been totally divorced from specie, this is currently meaningless.
We could ask "Do you support a return to the gold standard?" Right now most politicians would probably answer something like "No, that doesn't work."
We probably can't get the gold standard back without first doing a lot of teaching. But we may be able to get a balanced budget. A balanced budget would curb inflation and slow the growth of government, thus slowing the slide into destruction and buying us more time to teach the need for limited government.
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2 hours ago, Doug Morris said:
Unfortunately I did not have time to red your entire post.
Spelling correction: "red" should be "read".
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Unfortunately I did not have time to red your entire post. Even what I did read would probably take a long time to unpack. Here are three points to start with.
O'ists do not have to vote for a major party. We can also sit out the election or vote Libertarian. I have done a lot of the latter. Ayn Rand herself advocated the former in at least one case.
The strategy is not to make everyone an O'ist. It is to win over enough intellectuals so that Objectivist thinking will dominate public discourse, in which case the social ballast will be guided accordingly. This will take a long time.
Many people who read Ayn Rand's novels do so for the story and/or the feeling. It takes work to get the philosophy out of the novels, which most people don't do.
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EC, you may be talking about this: https://legal-explanations.com/blog/what-is-gang-stalking/
I also found a Wikipedia article which indicates that people who think they are victims of gang stalking are delusional.
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It sounds like your roommate could be responsible for at least some of this. Can you change roommates?
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Have you considered fleeing the country?
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David Odden, do you think our system of democratic elections and orderly transfers of power will survive?
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13 hours ago, necrovore said:
An article about the implications for the rule of law:
How much is there to back this up?
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Have you considered at least emailing the OP to law enforcement?
Have you sought legal advice?
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19 hours ago, HowardRoarkSpaceDetective said:
So then, if immorality and ignorance are not synonymous, what essentially is immorality? Cowardice? Dishonesty? Bitterness? Why do we neglect to focus?
Immorality is irrationality, the failure to use one's mind. Using one's mind includes acting on one's conclusions. A neglect to focus can be motivated by cowardice, dishonesty, bitterness, laziness, whim-indulgence ...
I didn't put a period because I was not trying to make an exhaustive list.
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4 hours ago, HowardRoarkSpaceDetective said:
whether Howard Roark or John Galt could choose to do evil. The answer was something along the lines of "They just wouldn't," which was not exactly a satisfying answer.
I am physically able to deliberately and voluntarily stick my hand into the flame of an active gas burner. But I just wouldn't.
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On 8/16/2023 at 2:13 PM, Boydstun said:
To do my bit to stop Mr. Trump from winning the electoral votes of my state in 2024, I'd vote for H. Clinton again were she the opposition candidate.
Trump threatens, and has damaged, our system of democratic elections and orderly transfer of power. He'll probably do even more if he wins or comes close. If he wrecks our system of democratic elections and orderly transfer of power, we'll be left with a contest of physical force to see who gains office. Whoever wins that contest, having used force to get power, will probably use force to keep it, and we'll have a dictatorship. This is a more immediate threat to our rights than the gradual slide into statism that the current Republican party can only delay and tweak, not prevent.
To do my bit to stop Mr. Trump from winning the electoral votes of my state in 2024, I'd vote for H. Biden were he the opposition candidate. (Yes, I said H.) I'd vote for a yellow dog. I'd vote for that apparent serial killer that was recently arrested in Long Island.
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38 minutes ago, tadmjones said:58 minutes ago, Doug Morris said:
Hurd’s post is dated for today, so I don’t understand to which articles you are referring.
Articles found by googling the title of Hurd's post.
39 minutes ago, tadmjones said:Was there a war in Ukraine in 2001?
No.
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1 hour ago, Grames said:
Nothing will come of this except Trump will become stronger.
In the primaries.
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About the Russian aggression of Ukraine
in International Politics
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She would probably have a more complicated, nuanced view of America, and still see a big difference between American mentality and Russian mentality.
Culture takes a long time to change.
Russia's government is still authoritarian.