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None of what Robert says about women is an indication that on balance women are not up against it. Suffrage movement should not have even been a thing. Some very tough women in that movement who lost their lives for the cause. Earn less for same work. Proved themselves during WW2 by doing traditional male’s work. In Israel females have to serve in…[Read more]

It is a truly tough call on who he should have as his VP. Were i advising him i would want to take polls in battleground states. Each choice draws in some undecideds and repels others so it requires a data and a little analysis.

Another point about the right wing speaker in that video is that the historical references are inapposite. The Overton window has changed. It was a different time during civil rights. Americans as a whole are a bit more advanced.

Unseen i am gonna resist analyzing your legal analysis-even after ten years retirement from law i am reluctant to think about it. I have law dreams though and even go through some complex analysis and application of legal formulae.

Yeah it would be fun to see what Trump does with Bottoms. Bottoms up. Biden down. Low energy Joe can’t get it up,…[Read more]

Yeah Reg, the due process clause does.

I am not buying what he is selling. If riots become too violent and with too much frequency then it is a factor. But in and of itself the police supporting Trump cuts both ways. Police have never been so vilified in US. For the police to support the racist candidate who opposes the advancement of blacks and egalitarianism in general may serve to…[Read more]

My understanding is that choice of VP is not usually very important. It is more an issue of not making a bad choice like S. Palin. For the current election is probably has more importance than others. Lets suppose it is 15 percent of the voters who are undecided how much consideration will they give to Biden’s VP?

One factor is Biden’s apparent…[Read more]

Unseen i am with you 100 percent on being optimistic about Biden. He has already agreed to work with his old buddy Sanders. And it is clear that the trajectory of history is contra the old reactionary regressive US that is embodied by Trump. The only thing that gives me pause and favors Trump’s reelection is the issue of whether the hard core…[Read more]

There is very little doubt that our immediate field of vision influences our perception. However that kind of data is akin to anecdotal evidence. Around me i hear vitriol and derision for Trump and his supporters. So that surely influences me. And i acknowledge his core supporters are like the morons we witnessed in the Trump rally video-painfully…[Read more]

Biden?

It is almost entirely about Trump. You could have a teddy bear, a soccer ball named Wilson or a lifer and there would be very little drop off in support. Furthermore there is an excellent chance that Biden will be caught up in the progressive zeitgeist and be more active than Obama.

If anyone is feeling Trump is going to win i am game…[Read more]

blows me away to watch elephants paint.
once again the depth of non human animal to the forefront…

Genuine Elephant Artwork

The way Davis has reasoned through those issues is precisely the way we as a species do not. If all humans approached issues in the way Davis does we would not be so contemptible, so tribal, so easily led.

How do we go from the 1 to 5 percent of human population who reason (wild guess) to a majority? How do we go from being infants to being adults?

Davis rightly points out that cancel culture cuts both ways. And if ya think about it that is what happens when groups or institutions have a concentration of power. Powerful Islam and powerful christianity would sooner cut your nuts off, stone ya to death, auto da fe your sorry ass and burn you at the stake as look at ya for saying anything…[Read more]

Unseen, you linked a vid that includes a snippet of Chomsky chiding a student about speech. I gave the quote. It is a nonsense viewpoint that Chomsky gives. There are so many nuances to take into account. Even our pinnacle A1 political speech can be censored under some circumstances. Sure you can burn a flag as a political statement. But lets…[Read more]

“if you’re in favor of freedom of speech you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.” On first blush it is hard to argue with the notion that one’s discomfort or horror at another’s speech is insufficient basis for censorship. After all we cherish speech as a core value and as an aspect of freedom. Sorry Mister and Mrs.…[Read more]

Chomsky enunciates the standard superficial rationale for unabridged free speech. It is weak. It is a foolish consistency.

Reality furnishes too many examples of how bad ideas have the longest legs. Exposure to new ideas, contrary ideas and argument are nearly futile against the adherents of ideology. The ultra religious, hard core racists, political ideologues and cultists are not amenable to reason. You argue until your blue in the face and their neural firewall…[Read more]

Unseen, you expressed very well my understanding. And wtf are the dynamics of the power that has upended the oft-lauded notion of free market place of ideas? It would make a nice documentary to see how the fuck we got here. If it started at the unviersities it certainly has spread into the greater culture. Ya just keep hearing about people getting…[Read more]

Ya can’t make this shit up. Ever since the emergence of Trump it has been bad fiction.

Bring on AI!