Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Under Portland’s old commission-style city government, we were governed by some fairly nutty no common sense commissioners who passed experimental laws like the one that made public drug use legal.

My brother, a sociologist by education, said “That’s among the nuttiest things I’ve ever heard. Don’t they know about the broken windows phenomenon?…[Read more]

There was an evening market not far from where I live last night. They were not afraid of being assaulted.

Your arguments are made moot due to the fact that we have, not just a new mayor, but a new form of city government.

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Portland, Oregon recently underwent a major overhaul of its city government structure, which was approved by…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So all of the Antifa and Autonomous Zoners of 4 years ago are no longer there, waiting for another chance to create trouble? Are there not some of them among today’s rabble? All of the roadside encampments are cleared out? So the City Fathers and Mothers have everything under control? I find that hard to b…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Strega and Unseen, I am no fan of the Military serving as domestic law enforcement.

At the same time, I seriously doubt that Portland has improved from what it was 4 years ago, as shown here:

That is a profoundly DUMB statement.

Four years ago there were wandering mobs of protesters in the central city which included…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
Quick shout out to @unseen – hope you’re OK mate, I gather Portland is under assault from the military – can’t believe I’m even typing this – stay safe!

Portland is not the dystopian hell Trump seeks to have The Great Unwashed believe. He’s sending troops to liberal cities in preparation for having people used to seeing troops avai…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
You do bring up a great point, albeit in a different thread. What is meant by “good faith” and “bad faith?”. And how can you tell who has which?

That is a good point.  I think that good faith debate follows the charitable rules of fair play and doesn’t use underhand or aggressive tactics to try to win an argument…[Read more]

@RegTheFronkeyFarmer wrt the last link, for “simulation”, it’s a duplicate of the Sean Carroll link. (I fixed a typo elsewhere, so I’m betting you were in a hurry today!)

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Next year the 250th anniversary of 1776 will see MAGA […]

LOL [sic… I mean, maybe no one should laugh], please don’t publicly state any dates of when you might visit USA!

Quick shout out to @Unseen – hope you’re OK mate, I gather Portland is under assault from the military – can’t believe I’m even typing this – stay safe!

Thank you Reg!

The perverse and indefatigable super glue fixation on Jews accelerates instead of diminishing. One might have expected in the wake of the holocaust and with the growth of the left and the putative humanist values the latter would appertain.

While Rome burns the greater part of the judging world condemns the most worthy nation one could hope to…[Read more]

Simon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.

Likewise, it’s unproductive to seek to silence people we disagree with, in good faith.  It’s more productive to engage with them and debate.

Enco i don’t see it.

I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.

If you want to assert that all of the necessary conditions were in place…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, I don’t know how to post a reply to an update, so I’ll have to post it here. Trump would have no pretext for using the National Guard or Military on cities if the Mayors and City Councils and Judges had a handle on things. What happened to Irina Zarutsa in Charlotte, NC is just a single example of how rotten lif…

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