Gregg R Thomas

I read somewhere that Trump suffers from ‘delusions of adequacy’.

Is Bernie right? That the Dems lost by being concerned with stuff the working class considers secondary (democracy, abortion, and I think I could add LGBTQ rights, since Trump ads locally were often about boys competing in girls’ sports). Sure she talked about taking on price gouging, but she really had a hard time separating herself from Biden.…[Read more]

There is a suggestion that Vance has somehow arranged for Trump to be poisoned with arsenic.

Bear (in Central Park) with me for a second….but did you consider where RFK put that brain worm when he had it removed? That could explain a lot.

Right now, my larger fear is that liberals lack the introspection to see where they went wrong, the discipline to do better next time and the humility to change.

Trump didn’t win. The corrupt and clueless Democrats lost.

Christian Nationalists Feel Their Dark Prophecies Are Now Coming True

There’s a quote often attributed to Sinclair Lewis that has gone viral again and again since Donald Trump first ascended to the White House, fodder for liberal memes on Facebook and reposts on the platform X: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and…[Read more]

Trump’s mental decline has been as precipitous as it’s been obvious, so there’s something no one is talking about: J.D. Vance inheriting the presidency. It’s not certain, but it’s a distinct possibility.

Trump is who we (Americans) are now:

Weirdos yesterday. Normies today.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong” beliefs.

–F.A. Hayek

Unseen wrote:
Mathematics may have originally grown out of a need to solve real world problems in physical reality, it has gone way beyond that. One obvious example is prime numbers and another is imaginary numbers.

My point is that in the same way that mathematics has grown way beyond its beginnings, morality is the response of normative…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Mathematics may have originally grown out of a need to solve real world problems in physical reality, it has gone way beyond that. One obvious example is prime numbers and another is imaginary numbers.

But 97 rocks can never be divided into groups of the same size, because 97 is a prime number.  Similarly, even imaginary numbers…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
OK, so now absolute morality is just values “one holds dear”. So, if one culture holds sex with minors in high regard, and another will lock you away in jail, they are both following absolute morality. Got it. Yeah, see I don’t buy that.

When religious folk talk about absolutes they are talking about specific laws set down by th…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Facts are in one realm and values are in another one and never the twain shall meet because facts are value neutral

You’re right, I’m being a bit glib and disingenuous. It’s true, they’re different realms, and we don’t treat them the same when making judgments of what to do. We take both into account. In a way,…

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