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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And in a free market, vaccines could be made available over-the-counter and administered by Epi-Pen™, and if you wish, shipped by climate-controlled truck to your door right beside the Omaha Steaks. No trips to creepy Dr. Moreau Islands required. And the supply would be plentiful enough to meet demand for far less than…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Are all you guys still supporting government-run health care after all this?

Has there ever been a more corruptive, governmental force in a civilized country, bent on destroying a health care system than what’s happening now? The damage seems so intentional. Even the incompetence seems intentionally made as permanently…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
But I can attest today that a Jesus Fish on a work van or business sign doesn’t necessarily equal trust or quality. Televangelists and Noah’s Ark theme parks do not help matters either.

I think the “trust” thing works both ways with religious people.  I’m always suspiciously on the look out for tell-tale hypocrisy.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Tribes and clans can be and were dismantled by travel and trade between different peoples.

Travel and trade come into the story.  But in the first place, if family, clan and tribe ties are dissolved to a great extent, then people become individuals.  And religion provided the trust necessary for individuals to trade, o…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced.

I think she’s right that science has had ideological…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
* (That Christian Apologist Gish Galloping Galoot I once told you about one time even went so far as to claim that the entire Enlightenment experiment and even Atheism were the product of Christianity! That takes some real mental gymnastics!)

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point.  The Western…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Scientific objectivity is a myth

I argue a more accurate view of science is that pure objectivity is impossible. Once you leave the myth of objectivity behind, though, the way forward is not simple. Instead of a belief in an all-knowing science, we are faced with the reality that humans are responsible for what is…

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jakelafort wrote:
Opposition to Trump

By “opposition” I mean “telling the truth”, which is opposition to Trump by default.

jakelafort wrote:
Opposition to Trump by disseminating daily/weekly summaries without political spin or charged terms associated with either party.

You’re talking about the BBC.  I get multiple programmes of this nature every day.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Views and conduct run counter to everything which can actually tear at the fabric of who we are as an institution. We need your help.

Thanks for that Reg, I’ve never heard of Ministry before. I just listened to the entire album, and see that they and their founder Al Jourgensen has been around and influential for…[Read more]

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jakelafort wrote:
It does however having something for the eternally moronic goddamn white trash…

Awesome observation, it’s  not just the lefty white trash.

Unseen wrote:
That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations.

I’ve heard that before.  Also that Trump supporters tend to think in a very group-oriented way, they think that groups have to compete, and that their group has to win.

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