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Encogitationer, do you want to protect invidious hate speech?

Unseen i am foggy on it. Have not studied it since law school but i think prior restraint has a specific legal meaning and is not interchangeable with censorship. But i don’t feel like looking it up.

You are right about the way the supreme court ruled on the hate group. There is a case from Skokie Ill. which has/had a large percentage of Jews…[Read more]

In retrospect it would have been better to have video coverage of all vote counting. We knew Trump would cry the blues up and down with mail in ballots. We could have avoided recounts or allegations of chicanery by having close circuit viewing.

Reg, after witnessing bomb odds on seeming non contenders in the breeders cup today i am not sure i can calculate those odds.

Not sure i follow you, Unseen. Enforce prior censorship? Ha? Do you mean prior restraint?

The way things may play out so that first amendment free speech is invoked is as follows. Government passes a law making it illegal to burn the American flag. Joe Blow burns it and is prosecuted. Joe’s defense is first amendment is violated. Or Christian…[Read more]

Are there dangerous ideas?

YES! It is axiomatic. It is a consistent theme in history that humans are utterly flawed. Were it not so absolute dictators would be enlightened. The USA at its formation would not have been concerned about checks and balances in government. The endless liturgy including…who killed Christ…the Jews killed Christ…[Read more]

No Unseen you are wrong in asserting that in US nobody has wisdom to administer censorship nor do they have the authority.

The government has the authority and censors certain speech and limits other speech.

You have a bunch of junky slippery slope hypotheticals. It is really not that complicated. The government has a duty to protect its most…[Read more]

There is very little issue regarding Trump’s willingness to cause untold deaths. He has done nothing to fight climate change. He has actively encouraged deaths in the pandemic. He caused unnecessary deaths in the Ukraine.

Everything about him shows a callous disregard for the masses even the ones who are not living in shithole countries.

Encogitationer, i aint arguing against free expresssion. On the contrary i am in favor of it except where it ought to be curtailed. The USA has many instances of limiting free expression. I get tired of reading the absolutists in free speech trot out the same old tripe. It sounds great if you are in 6th grade. Just cuz you are offended is not a…[Read more]

I agree with Davis in his approach to hate speech.

There is a corollary concept that has been articulated ad nauseum. It is that in a free marketplace of ideas good ideas survive and bad ideas perish. That notion, that bromide, would have been flushed had its message any validity. Religions, superstitions and a myriad of bad ideas would find…[Read more]

Damn modern technology and population integration!

I get so nostalgic for the old time religion.

You see our true colors…that is why i love you…so don’t be afraid…

Sure hope we are wearing dark underwear.

Unseen i agree with you. Capitalism has a great many flaws in its actual application if not its theoretical.

I have to assume that the government will have leverage to reduce health costs when it is the only insurer paying the bills.

Affordable Care Act aint so affordable. It is over 600 per month for a single person with zero health issues in 50s.

In terms of cost of medical care? Recently went to an ER and was pretty sure i had-lyme disease and only needed a script for antibiotics. Only had bp, respiration and pulse taken…no tests…doc saw me for 2 minutes and…[Read more]

Ivy, before you use that 1492 law to attain Spanish citizenship you may want to investigate whether you will have free reign in Spain. In Germany Jews who i surmise mostly fled persecution in Russia are legally required to live in designated areas with other Jews living nearby. I have no idea if it is the same in Spain but of course ghettoization…[Read more]

Glen, I was very disappointed in Hitchens when he debated Craig on the topic of morality. But on balance i find him a solid thinker.

Will you give a few examples of his failings?

That same campfire under the stars is where it began. Fire is so fucking cool when it is not burning the house. Starting/maintaining fire is a critical function of earlier man that lends itself to ritualization and hierarchy.

It is goddamn mesmerizing gazing at a fire in the dark of night with embers crackling. It aids our imagination. That is…[Read more]