fractional slacker
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Typical BS conflate the symptom with the cause.
Takes a lot of courage to criticize Youtube. /sarc
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As long as Stef has a beard, I have a beard.Solidarity!
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But they care about clean air and water. A few bad apples in every bunch.
Without the EPA, the Koch brothers might rule the planet.
sincerely,
typcial "progressive" sycophant
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I'm surprised this thread got so long. The answer is no, because philosophy deals with the truth and there is no such thing as race in reality.
I don't know if that's the case. Race as an adjective is real like the color red is real, yes? Both have empirical/practical examples even if not founded through epistemology.
Another example of how race might have some grounding in reality is generalizations. Like Stef has said, generallyl Asians are shorter than Europeans. That has some philosophical merit being that it is a true statement.
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The man had the courage to lie to millions to get into power and then extorted more from them anyways. He then was FORCED into early retirement to languish on his half a dozen estates. <sniff> Finally, his heroism to lie and extort is recognized. They should name an airport after him.
You are a great American just like Shrub 41. The least we can do is honor this great leader with an airpot. I would add to that: schools, federal buildings, a Taco Bell, and a national holiday.
After all, with great nobility and courage he did sacrifice by bombing bad countries to save them from bad leaders.
We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
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I am robot a from the future here to debunk criticism of your future leader: PJ the honorable prophet Robot Master.Please proceed to the nearest word salad buffet and repent for past and future transgressions.
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Ramzpaul is now a target of the speech police over at SPLC. This article is hilarious.
Stefan has a ways to catch up. He is still in the minor leagues. But I have a feeling his anti feminism will catch the attention of the Speech Police Little Commies.
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A few hundread girls are kidnapped by some freak in Nigeria.
No one who is rational can or would defend that.
Does that compare to billions of people who are kidnapped and held hostage by statists?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerian-girl-describes-kidnap-276-missing-23602112
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Lead in gasoline? The greenies will stop at nothing to "save" the planet by crippling energy production and hence reducing population.
Lots of violence in places that never used leaded gasoline or any modern products containing lead.
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I'm not really sure I really understand what you mean by a 'tautology' in context with my earlier post. Racist views are merely preferences.
(sorry, I am still trying to figure out how to multiquote a post)"Racism is an aesthetic. Insofar as it is just a preference."
I might be obtuse, but here is how I interpret that sentence and hence why I consider it to be tautological. What does "it" refer to? I have assumed "it" to be racism. And racism is just another word for preference, yes?
Is there a difference between aesthetic and preference? If so, maybe I am in error calling that sentence a tautology. I think of them as the same. Sorry to be annoying. Here is how I read that sentence:
"Racism is an aesthetic. Insofar as racism is just a preference."
Would it not follow then: "Preference is an aesthetic. Insofar as (it) preference is just a preference."
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Rob tells the truth and calls America a fascist state. Whoa! Probably not a conincidence his career is not doing well, but he is risking future work by saying the truth. Guy has to get some credit for that, yes?
Let's start the stop watch until the thought police come out with their usual racist, homophobe, bigot tub of slander.
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"Ethics, morality and UPB are fundamentally subjective ideologies..."
Compared to what?
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Racism is an aesthetic. Insofar as it is just a preference. The trouble is, that for most people it has been conflated into meaning a violent act. Personally I don't particularly want to hang around people who share this preference. But for merely holding a preference it's certainly not a moral issue. I would probably categorise it within APA, as within the 'rudeness' category. Mostly because racism is to a large degree fairly irrational.
Not sure that is the case. Story du jour: Donald Sterling.He has never, to my knowledge, acted violently or advocated for violence against someone based on their race. However, he has been assigned the racist label based on his request to his girlfriend to refrain from having her photograph taken with a certain race. He has even suggested he his fine if she screws someone from that race, just no pictures.
So in the world of language, Sterling is bad. In reality, his actions are not bad, they are possibly the opposite. Yet without hesitation, he is known as a racist. I find this a bit strange."Racism is an aesthetic. Insofar as it is just a preference." I believe that is a tautology, yes?
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So, is this just another case of someone ignoring the huge elephant in the room when it comes to the economy (the government)?
Caveat: I haven't watched it. TED doesn't have any quality control when it comes to their speakers in my opinion.
Caveat: I haven't watched either. I have yet to hear of a TED talk that celebrates the idea of property rights and no rulers. If there is one, I would like to have a look.
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I don't believe it does. It simply hides them from view.
Thank you for letting me know.
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I am starting to think that maybe entire threads should be covered by the rating system and could be hidden from view, like individual posts are within a thread, while browsing from the Topics pages if the originator's reputation falls below the reputation threshold.
Instead, somebody with a very low reputation can forge on gaming the system by continuing to post visible original threads in the forums and sustain the focus on themselves even though their lower-level replies within threads are hidden.
I second this but would go further. Every -10 gets your posting privileges suspended: -10 one month; -20 one year; -30 gets you the Donald Sterling ban for life.
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Sorry, off topic question. I see the OP has a -33 rating. At what point does the negative rating negate originating threads or posting?
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I too read the first paragraph and didn't feel inspired to go on. Hate to point out the obvious, but if you are trying to defend a positon, not sure it is a good idea to go on the offensive.
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Incidentally I would quite like to hear Stefan Molyneux's definition of 'racism', since he uses the r-word as though it has some validity. The nearest he has come, to my knowledge, is a negative definition, i.e. 'it can't be racist if it's true'.
Seems a valid request considering he did over an hour podcast on the subject while filling in for Schiff without once giving a definition.
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I see. They are not explicitly outlawed, but they have effectively been outlawed. Not sure that will make those in need of gun for protection feel better after the fact.
"As of 2007 about 5.2% of Australian adults (765,000 people)[1] own and use firearms for purposes such as hunting, controlling feral animals, collecting, and target shooting." -
Ralph Nader is at best a nanny state boot licking worshipper. His claim to fame was killing a great car (the Corvair) with fear mongering. He just wants to "protect" the consumer AKA be a parasite. Ralph Nader never had an original thougt in his life.Here's his latest sophistry. Rand Paul and progressives will team up to fight corruption! It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
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Things are much worse in Australia. Of course, Australia was founded as a penal colony (police state) so it is to be expected.If you are pulled over you have to provide your drivers license, your name and your address.You have to submit to a breath test, which involves putting a straw in your mouth and blowing into it.You have to submit to a drug test which involves putting a medical swab in your mouth to collect a saliva sample.Failure to comply with the above will result in punishment, guaranteed. The police never even pretend that you have any rights at all (you pretty much don't). The notion of inalienable is completely foreign to them. Their only goal is to ensure obedience to the state.
Didn't the Aussies recently outlaw gun ownership? Not completely, but in effect they are outlawed, yes?
Looks like "working as intended" to me. "Paper no stoppy the bullets!" -Stefan Molyneux
No doubt. That piece of paper gots lots of work to do. We just need more faith in it. sincerely,
typical minarchistSo the supreme dunces in black robes who worship the state have decided the state can do whatever it wants? Never saw that coming.
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The anti racist thing is another example of non compliant UPB because it says we can use discrimination to cure the problem of discrimination. That is even an insult to a fourth rate thinker. Yet this rubbish is bantered about without question.
It is my opinion racism is to the social marxists what the welfare state is to single moms: more excuses to expand the state.
Here is my approach. An open challenge:Anyone who throws around the fire-breathing scorched earth tar and feathered dragon of the word racism has a duty to answer two simple questions: What is racism? What is not racism?
BTW, the r-word is brilliant.
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These 'anti-racists' are often quite schizophrenic, claiming both to value 'diversity' and to not recognise racial differences.
This is the part that really gets me. It is a violation of UPB saying that differences should be noticed while at the same time saying differences should not be noticed.
BTW, All of your post is a fantastic summation of what inspired me to start this thread. Thank you.
Does the word racism hold any philosophical value?
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IMO race is neither a problem nor an asset. It is not virtue nor vice.
That would seem a rational perspective. However, the current state of society is not exactly rational.
Imagine a celebrity or politician telling the truth about race. They would be drawn and quartered. Race and its noun/adverb -racism- represent the levers to power and wealth.
But like I mentioned earlier, the thing about racism today is it's just another tool to squelch speech and thought. If you point out differences of races, you are a racist. At the same time, to not recognize differences of race, you are a racist. Either way, you can be slimed with the racist tag by cultural marxists and presumed guilty until proven innocent.I have decided to no longer call it the N-word. That's too inflammatory. I now refer to it as the 14th letter in the alaphabet word.