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I don't think you know what category error is. Or at least, back to my point, you're not communicating as though you do. I think you're strawmanning my point - no one asks you to a…

> The video footage doesn't show how disruptive he was being; but I find it reasonable that he was clapping in a way that the the person running the public comment meeting had spec…

Because it simply isn't. Philosophy isn't about wordy refusals (ironically the same complaint you try to levy) but about reasoning, knowledge, and abstract ideas. None of which com…

I'm struggling to find a counter argument in your response. You say it is a deeply prejudiced argument? Why? You say blinders? What are those? What is a philosophical statement? On…

Honestly there are so many levers we could pull off within Capitalism to both meaningfully improve the lives of people while keeping together all the things that are genuinely good…

What does this mean? I thought Meta has something like 80,000 employees. Meta had about 1,400 H-1B employee petitions last year. Even if we assume that number held for Meta's entir…

I think it is easy to argue that the Chinese govt exerts pressure in "unique ways" - see Jack Ma's 180 in attitude after house arrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma#During_…

There's a whole wikipedia article discussing how it is both a logical fallacy and how it is often used as a tool of propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Please do…

What facts would you point to, to argue that the Democratic party is "owned by Israel" more than the Republican party?

Hamas support or Palestinian support?

> and it quickly grew beyond any reason Why did it quickly grow?

> 100% of white western civilization Do the republics in the Caucasus region (and Russia) count in this calculation or not?

> However, the situation has also been significantly escalated by often-violent obstructionists Do you think the protests leading to escalations were done simply? Or BECAUSE of the…

Does anyone have a good understanding of the reasoning behind these targeted operations being in places one wouldn't typically associate with the average illegal/undocumented immig…

> A cyberattack targeting an oncology journal has taken it offline that published a peer-reviewed study from Tufts and Brown University exploring links of COVID injections to newly…

I'm missing the well-reasoned argument with subtlety. It sounds like parent is saying that "X is a natural product of evolution and hardwired" so "X must be ok". I don't see subtle…

I don't see a rebuttal to his point that you are okay with people getting put into secret prisons as long as you're not inconvenienced. Are you just complaining that you were calle…

> Also easy to forget how much negative sentiment, on the opposite political side, there was prior to the vaccine being approved. The NYT had an article on how it would take 10 yea…

What are the long lasting anatomical changes? Would love to learn more because my kids were bottle fed.

Let's also talk about the how of the enforcement not just the what. Would you be saying the same thing if you HAD a valid Vietnamese tourist visa and was snatched off the road and …

> We are basically paying them to get their degrees here. If they are the best and brightest of the world and typically stay back and contribute significantly above the median empl…

I think reasonable people will agree that Bitcoin's energy consumption had huge impacts on costs of power with very little to show for, at least for the average user. What are ways…

A lot of Trump's support comes from people wanting to and happy to blame immigrants (of all kinds) for legitimate grievances - such as unemployment, expensive healthcare, housing, …

I think I need to just post the Sartre quote over and over again. The inability or disinterest of certain factions of the right in having a good faith argument is just genuinely fr…

It is a bit ironic to post this in a thread where someone who arguably wielded only words succumbed to someone wielding violence. From Sartre: > Never believe that anti-Semites are…