tom sarbeck

Unseen I never said that. I don’t know who said that. Not my quote at all.

In just about every democratic country other than the United States there is no absolute free speech law. Never has been and unlikely never will be. There are limited rights in some countries and effectively in all of them there is 99.9% free speech. In most European…[Read more]

Guess I did avoid that question. He’s unhinged, and what he does next I can’t predict. He’s likely energized by his fans who are energized by him, so he can carry this energy into 2021 after he’s no longer potus. He also has another possible outlet for expressing himself (this clip from AP news):

Allies of the president, including his eldest son,…

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Yeah I highly doubt there will be widespread violence. My question is: if he had a realistic opportunity to stoke serious violence (thousands of deaths) would he do it…even if just to attempt to “save face”?

He might try. But at some point, even the most rabid Trump supporters will have to realize that there is no road to a Trump win. This is purely anecdotal, but in my local newspaper’s comment section which is normally noisy with pro-Trump–even hateful comments about anti-Trump comments, is now strangely quiet.

I personally feel that if anything…[Read more]

Unseen I know you have this strange idea that you are gifted in brevity but as your posts grow increasingly longer (and sometimes superfluous) it does make me laugh.

Encognitaor…do you still stand by your claim that the US hyperoverspending in the military has helped make Europe safer (considering your military adventures in the Middle East has clearly made life more dangerous for us?). Considering military numbers in Europe are 50,000,000 I’m curious which country would invade Europe if the US wasn’t…[Read more]

Also I don’t live in the US (nor do quite a few of us here) and there are VERY FEW countries other than the US who have such an extreme version of free speech (nor are any European countries that I know of, nor Canada NZ etc clamouring for it). America can allow all the bigotry and life altering hate speech they want. Doesn’t mean the world should…[Read more]

Hi Glen,

If you’ve faced life altering racism, homophobia, trans-phobia or some other kind of bigotry then I apologise. Have you? Honestly the overwhelming majority of people who have no problem with hate-speech are those who have never suffered from it. I have and I can tell you suffering from hate speech is life altering for many and creates…[Read more]

Unfortunately people do act dangerously on ideas. Within the United States alone when politicians rant off hate speech cases of violence, prejudice, discrimination, harassment and vandalism against LGTBQ+, minorities and other groups go up (including murder). This is especially the case when the hate speech equates groups of people as “not human”.…[Read more]

Glen that’s all easy to say when you don’t have to deal with the prejudice, discrimination, aggression, violence and criminal acts of (directly from or encouraged by) racism, homophobia, trans-phobia and other forms of bigotry.

The sun’s been driving climate for billions of years. It’s physically impossible for anything on Earth to have more of an impact. I think I know what you meant to ask in the survey, but I won’t take it as worded so imprecisely.

Even the statement on CO2 is ambiguous. Of course it’s good for plants, but “good for all life on Earth”, what does that…[Read more]

I’ll check out “You are not the Target” if you recommend it. I thoroughly enjoyed The Tao of Pooh (a secular explanation of Toaistoc metaphores). It gets a little hokey sometimes but it’s a real fun read.

Glen I’m not against generic motivational speaking. What I am against is overly broad claims (just like your friend said). You don’t need to give false promises and absolutes to motivate people. There simply isn’t enough data about how effective these kinds of books are (do people who are already driven read them for example?) but there is…[Read more]

A deflection, not addressing the points, making a joke instead of responding. It’s what I expected. Please don’t let me stop you repeating nonsense conservative talking points.