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Ivy, Biden is so far gone. I have no idea how he would have done at age 30, 40, 50 or 60 but at this point his brain is disintegrating.

It is such a joke to evaluate Trump’s claims as though they are ideas worthy of debate-as though he is sincere and has concerns about it. His BS about voting fraud is a tactic, a strategy and ultimately a…[Read more]

But Ivy he asked supremacists to stand by. That is not alarming, right?

That was some entertainment. We watched the bully make Wilson the soccer ball appear old, senile, confused, uncertain, incoherent and effete. Not only did he fail to stand up to Trump’s bullying and interruptions with one exception but he missed opportunity after opportunity…[Read more]

Unseen,

Women have not emerged from the stranglehold of religion until recently-in some places still have not. Suffrage movement started in 19th century but rights in various nations begin around the first world war and for some nations much later. Rights to enter into a contract or to inherit are/were discriminatory. Attitudes towards women…[Read more]

Unseen although i mostly agree with you i don’t think it is fair to compare achievements in art and science unless it is the last few decades. Opps for women were so limited. I also think there may not be as many power hungry would-be CEO’s or heads of state but there are some. Opps again limited do to discrimination.

Unseen, i don’t think anything i said is dogma. The part you quoted is simply an argument against the notion that natural is equated with don’t change it cuz it is natural.

I absolutely agree with you as i have indicated that there are fundamental differences between males and females. Those differences have a biological/evolutionary provenance.…[Read more]

IT IS NATURAL. Something a sexual predator might say to a vulnerable sort. Something that does not justify eating certain mushrooms and plants that are lethal.

Something that is used to justify exploitation of the most vile and disheartening. Something like manifest destiny.

Nature loses its significance when it is no longer in nature. Add…[Read more]

Unseen, society is simply a community of humans living within a culture. If we accept society as natural then we probably accept the consequences of that designation. Why fuck with natural? But we know that cultures cause some pretty fucked up circumstances. Who wants to live in Puritan Salem, Nazi Germany or one of today’s theocracies?

I think…[Read more]

I am the last of the conspiracy supporters. Not saying there are never conspiracies but mostly it is paranoid thinking.

Am thinking about the stock market. Does it seem utterly weird how it has come back to what were already bloated highs or nearly so? Pandemic…unemployment…specter of civil war or some form of chaos..businesses…[Read more]

This gender argument is a vicious game of tit for tat. Had an uncle who was tit-smart and denied the perceived equality in tit and tit. Told me how he’d give tit for tat but not tat for tit. That reminds me of a time we walked into the forest to fish in an idyllic trout pond. As we arrived a few skinny dippers were just finishing. I commented that…[Read more]

I would think that primitive cultures would be instructive. Or is that a bias on my part to assume that modern cultural overlays will be missing?

No doubt there are innate differences but what may truly complicate matters is neuroplasticity. And that means that what may appear as an innate difference is a response to the environment that at once…[Read more]

Good rant Ivy.

Michael don’t be offended by my jabberwocky talky. The only part i mean is deluded.

How many prophecies does it take to delude the lewd and rude dude who is inspired but fooled?

Do the legalities play a role when he has decided he is not leaving?

March on DC Tcultists. Now what?

Davis you make a point about elections that i made half a year ago. I said we have no idea which events or circumstances will transpire and influence this election. Indeed there have been major developments.

However this election is distinguishable from prior in that Trump is incredibly polarizing. He is worshipped as white jesus or despised and…[Read more]

I don’t think Trump has a chance of winning the election legitimately. Does it matter? He won’t leave voluntarily. Either he is forcibly removed or we have the consequences of our acquiescence.

The reason confirmation bias is such a prominent aspect of our dialogue/polemics is because we are married to our ethics/morality/ideology. We don’t ponder weak and weary upon a midnight dreary. It is not like we arrive at a conclusion after weighing the facts and having formed ethical principles that are rational. We see things in the simplest…[Read more]

Unseen, that is a bit like Twain’s, “You show me where a man gets his corn pone and i will show you where he gets his pinions.”

So it is prepacked and mindless principles governed by economic station which relates to political affiliation and tribalism. In USA the left and right are so similar. It is disheartening. The narrative is adjusted to…[Read more]