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Almost all rational discussions could be helped by the old-fashioned distinction between *necessary* and *sufficient* "causes".

This says it well.

@darwintojesus Looks like a sketch.

I genuinely can’t tell if this is a joke or not

@TheCalvinCooli1 Really irrelevant to Iran having nukes and massacring their citizens....

🚨Just in: Tucker Carlson makes the following statement about Islam today: “The forces supporting the Iran War do not want the public to realize that the Quran heralds the Christian savior as a prophet and messenger of the Lord.” Is Tucker a Christian or a Muslim?

@day_willia43436 @EndWokeness Citizens have to learn their place.

@EndWokeness Philly Mayor Charelle Parker: "How dare you tell me, as mayor, how to tax you?" *** That's a lot of nerve for a taxpayer to tell an official how to tax them. 🤪

Philly Mayor Charelle Parker: "How dare you tell me, as mayor, how to tax you?"

🚨 Thomas Sowell debunks the Great Depression’s most entrenched myth “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed. It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment.” “Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down. The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene.” “And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade. It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

I know what it is like to enjoy my angry outbursts. So I'm intrigued. However, the idea that it's about stripping people of their humanity would mainly seem an advanced degree of the indifference one gives the receiver. And to repeatedly choose your enjoyment of feeling empowered over other people's feelings and lack of having actually offended you, progresses to calloused.

...In my book on rage, I discuss how individuals like this relish the hate as a release from common decency. It allows her to strip these two polite officers of their humanity and excuse any conduct on her part. @drjenniferlincoln/video/7624369286970150175" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@drjenniferlin…...

This is a doctor who filmed herself abusing two ICE agents at the airport. @drjenniferlincoln/video/7624221556612418846" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@drjenniferlin… She has been identified as Dr. Jennifer Lincoln and is the face of addictive rage. It allows her to hate completely. What many will not admit is that she likes it. She needs it...

@BrandonStraka I guess atheists would point out that Gate's elitism here isn't bounded by the simple lack of a personality trait.

@BrandonStraka First question: "Who's 'we', Bill?!!" Doesn't sound like it's up to humans!

Bill Gates: "Due to advances in AI, humans will no longer be needed." "Will we still need humans? "Not for most things. We'll decide."

@Andrew_Moser @karol Based on this chart, you just have to believe that if Ted Cruz governed a country, he could die of a massive hours- long paralyzing heart attack, with every one of his staff being afraid to come into the room. You know, because, just look at the chart!

@karol If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times; Stalin’s brand of authoritarianism cowers before the iron fist of Ted Cruz.

A teen cousin showed me this in her AP American Government book. Trump is similar ideologically to Hitler and Bernie Sanders is a touch off the center to the left.

@Andrew_Moser @karol No, they seem to be "equal", minus the total dictatorship, mysterious disappearances, purges and gulag sentences that Ted Cruz just had never gotten the chance to do.

Do they realize that "economic right" implies the control of your own property, thus a distribution of control, while "economic left" means the government owns and controls the means of production, so definitionally more control by government? Thus one side inherently is more authoritarian.

@redsteeze Let's not stoop to believing our lying eyes.

For those of you who don't know, Meghan Hays was the WH strategist in the Easter Bunny costume who had to wrangle Biden away from WH spectators and reporters. She was a special assistant to Biden and in charge of strategic messaging.

@redsteeze Government, as they used to say has a "monoploy on force". It is a frozen force, using implied force, hopefully first, but leveling up to the force necessary. Force is not violence. Confusing the two just makes government itself illegitimate by inferred "violence".

"evictions are an act of policy violence."

@ianmSC "Above us, only ceiling..."

I’ll never forget how many celebrities and extremely wealthy people spent COVID bouncing around between their many vacation homes and having workers deliver everything to them all while lecturing everyone about “all being in this together”

@redsteeze "Computers" didn't "take everyone's job" no matter how popular that sentiment was in an earlier age.

Old man yells at the cloud.

@ScottRagan @JoshPhillipsPhD Do you think that "mine" is the best description of friends retained after graduation? Or is the traditional "my friend" a better fit?

@JoshPhillipsPhD Not gross. You just disagree b/c you don't like her politics, or b/c you're not locked into the job like she's is. Maybe you're jealous. I've been an English tchr for 30 yrs and those students are mine just like I'm theirs. We build relationships that don't end with graduation.

I'm a teacher. The students in my classroom are not "mine." That's gross and creepy.

@l3ftisf0rw4rd @BasedMikeLee No it's not. If you imply that it would take the State's absorption of "everything" to make sure "nothing changes", then perhaps--but that ignores whether that state hearkens back to an older, preserved state. And it, itself is a radical change. It conserves little.

@BasedMikeLee Because conservatism at its highest level is fascism 🖕

Why do leftists obsessively use the term “our democracy”?

As an illustration of atheistic slop, we get the cipher "secular religion", as if to hold a religion implies a wide endorsement of any Communal Shared Vision that have dogma. They want to accuse other people without god beliefs of "religious thinking", and then fail to see that as not a point for atheists or atheism that implies "nothing more"'-- including a doctrine eschewing "religious(-like) thinking" that is not about a god. In a century, the "Atheism has never done nothing by simple Atheism" crowd will still argue that the belief thar Marx could foresee history-- though not a god--is a "religion". But everybody *has* attributes, and nobody is completely described by the attributes they _lack_. So it's not really anything that only the lack of one attribute "never did nothing" and you have to be analysis-resistant, to think you said anything significant. Especially if you admit that attributes or their lack have never done anything by themselves, but *people* who have or lacked that attribute did things. Atheism seems to have a rigor problem, simply by its traditional name. Many atheists cannot accept a Deistic Creator role, because it's too close to a theist construct. The blame-shifting to the common human attritribute of "religion" (not God), would suggest that is not simply about gods either. So their banner fails to describe them. And they often cannot accept the historical derivation of this name which is (a-theos)-ism, which historically asserts the very thing that modern atheists deny, a belief that there are no gods.

Atheism planted their flag on the hill of intellectualism and claimed it. They grew lazy and their arguments tired and boring. Meanwhile theists continued to develope their understanding of logic, reason and science and how they all relate to theology. Atheists still stand up and say, "Look! We still own intellectualism you silly theists!". But they haven't advanced their arguments or understanding. Theists now own them in almost every debate.

If atheists are so good at critical thinking, why can’t they figure out what the implications of “no God” are?

@darwintojesus Or, "no belief", for that matter.