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Enco, your favorite has to be the Washington Post. Here is your buddy Flagler and capitalism without the shackles of government regulation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/05/17/how-slave-labor-built-the-state-of-florida-decades-after-the-civil-war/

Here is where i learned about it Enco.

Unless this author was totally full of shit it is amazing the gist of the book is not widely known. Perhaps it will make its way into critical race theory classes.

So your concept of free market capitalism is utterly…[Read more]

True Davis.

I am in agreement with your most recent analysis of free market capitalism.

Ya know the hypothetical i gave Enco about Slavery is taken from history. Even after it was illegal, way way after Emancipation, major US corporations like Standard Oil paid criminal fines levied against innocent Blacks thereby effectively purchasing…[Read more]

I gotya Enco. You will skirt, avoid and evade anything substantive.

My guess is nothing on this site made any inroads against your ideology.

Oh well. Say la gear.

Ouch on that last line by Davis.

Enco, when you are not an ideologue you can reason your way into a nuanced position that encompasses and treats fairly contrary positions. If you are sucking at the teat and you never bite it even a little you are being religious. Sorry for that metaphor.

How clearly schools need to change. Were i an influence…[Read more]

As a kid I got beat in the free market at my lemonade stand selling Kool Aid cuz my neighbor opened shop selling Zarex.

So i got a cart on wheels and went door to door. It worked.

That is interesting about Rand. Enco is not cashing his gov. handout stimulus check in a meaningless gesture.

Enco if your vet told you your beloved pet would die without a medical procedure that would cost ya a thousand bucks and the only way to pay was with the stimulus would you do it? Or would you let the pet die?

Enco you’ve fallen into a trap.

Writes Enco: You also do know that slavery violates the right of an individual to own the most fundamental property in his or her own mind and body and thus is anti-Free-Market Capitalism, right?

Eliminating limitations on an individual’s exercise of free market capitalism caused by enslavement (emancipation)…[Read more]

Enco writes…Never forget that LBJ was the one who brought us the failed, never-ending War On Poverty, who signed The Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a cynical, racist, vote-grabbing ploy

You are so right. What a bastard in actually addressing poverty! Legislation including expanded social security, food stamps, Economic Opp. Act. That son of a…[Read more]

Now i am acknowledging how seriously deficient a great many theists are in logic. I am on one of those theist/atheist groups in FB and some of their shit is astonishing. No doubt that learning fallacies would help…not enough to defenestrate their mythology but in other ways…

Reg’ story is reminding me of a few things. That story itself is…[Read more]

Davis writes……but why a fuller study of fallacies and critical thinking would be beneficial for all. It is far more than just identifying and avoiding fallacies.

I have a FEELING, an INTUITION, that mastering or improving in identifying fallacies can for some thinkers be a negative. It is like a puzzle instead of ratiocination. It can be a w…[Read more]

No recollection of any attorney in court citing yellow mullet, red herring, nobody knows what a Scot wears under his kilt. It was brave new territory when i ejaculated, non sequitur bitch!

Pope, it most certainly took effort. On the other hand it is something that comes with time in an environment conducive to learning. My hypothesis is that identification of flawed arguments are sometimes preconscious. I am quite certain that is how it was with me as described already. Only time will tell. And as Davis points out we don’t know yet…[Read more]

Davis, i am going to draw again on experience. So i recently revealed to my dad how in Court i sometimes knew an argument was flawed before giving it any thought. If it was not immediately clear to me I would have to ponder. He laughed and said you inherited that from me.

Years ago he told me his mind was in some ways a prison. He had no control…[Read more]