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    Thread: Misanthropy
Post: RE: Misanthropy
(02-28-2024, 01:22 PM)mordant Wrote: All of this is independent from whether or not one "hates humanity". For me, it isn't a question of hate. I have compassion and empathy for humans and their stru...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 82 5,541 12-07-2024, 04:00 PM
    Thread: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
Post: RE: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
(12-06-2024, 11:06 PM)mordant Wrote: Democrats, particularly at the national leadership level, are as delusional in their own way as MAGATs. I predict that they will continue to cater to wealthy don...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 32 571 12-07-2024, 03:13 AM
    Thread: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
Post: RE: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
(12-06-2024, 08:35 PM)epronovost Wrote: As far as policy goes; I think they should lean heavily towards medicare for all, higher taxes for the rich and corporations, laws strengthening unions and sa...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 32 571 12-06-2024, 10:32 PM
    Thread: After The Election
Post: RE: After The Election
(12-06-2024, 04:30 AM)Dānu Wrote: I think people are self-radicalized by their group identities.  Thus right-leaning persons are made right-aligned, left-leaning persons are left-aligned, and centri...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 146 4,263 12-06-2024, 11:16 AM
    Thread: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
Post: RE: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
(12-05-2024, 10:41 PM)epronovost Wrote: This would largely be my position. The Democratic party can succeed if it commits more actively to its defense and strengthening of the welfare State and it's...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 32 571 12-05-2024, 10:43 PM
    Thread: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
Post: RE: Democrats in 2024 -- win, lose, or draw?
I think Democrats are just about where they should be in the face of the facts, as well as our limited abilities to deal with them while working within our institutions. The one exception is our poli...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 32 571 12-05-2024, 10:41 PM
    Thread: After The Election
Post: RE: After The Election
(12-05-2024, 08:42 PM)Dānu Wrote: Show of hands: how many here think Democrats are sitting around thinking to themselves, "I hope the economy tanks.  Wouldn't that be great?" Not me.  I assume the e...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 146 4,263 12-05-2024, 09:05 PM
    Thread: Climate Change
Post: RE: Climate Change
(11-26-2024, 11:07 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: The malthusian bet has historically been a bad one. If climate change continues as projected, then we are witnessing the beginnings of the sixth great mass exti...
 Alan V Science, Engineering and Mathematics 1,080 246,392 11-27-2024, 01:01 AM
    Thread: Climate Change
Post: RE: Climate Change
To respond adequately to climate change required humanity to take action long before it became an increasingly obvious problem, because of the inertia building up in the system. That always offered a...
 Alan V Science, Engineering and Mathematics 1,080 246,392 11-25-2024, 07:48 PM
    Thread: Word association thread
Post: RE: Word association thread
Euclid
 Alan V Gaming 24,447 833,123 11-24-2024, 08:49 PM
    Thread: Is This "Art" or a Total Con?
Post: RE: Is This "Art" or a Total Con?
In 1917, over a hundred years ago now, Marcel Duchamp signed a urinal "R. Mutt" and submitted it to an art show with the title "Fountain." He called it and several other similar objects "readymades."...
 Alan V Movies, Television, Art and Literature 14 523 11-18-2024, 09:02 AM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
ghost
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-15-2024, 12:47 AM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
(11-14-2024, 05:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: None of that is even comprehensible until you’ve clarified what exactly you’re talking about.  This Politico article discusses what I am talking about.  ...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-14-2024, 06:04 PM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
(11-14-2024, 12:10 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: The honest truth is I believe I'm so right and so honestly right it seems obvious.  I actually try to avoid participation in the Politics Forum when ther...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-14-2024, 12:51 PM
    Thread: Oil and gas are a 'gift of God', says COP29 host
Post: RE: Oil and gas are a 'gift of God', says COP29 ho...
Many people are great at rationalizing what they want to do anyway. Their emotions and desires rule over their intellects, such as they are, most likely because they have little if any real intellect...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 1 83 11-14-2024, 12:38 PM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
(11-14-2024, 03:00 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Yeah it's definitely not that I have an expectation of convincing anybody of anything.  Most regulars here are kind of old and set in their beliefs and n...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-14-2024, 11:03 AM
    Thread: Word association thread
Post: RE: Word association thread
French
 Alan V Gaming 24,447 833,123 11-14-2024, 12:57 AM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
(11-13-2024, 03:15 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: (11-12-2024, 07:16 PM)Alan V Wrote: I don't understand why you are engaging in Republican apologetics.   Most Republicans support Trump's border polici...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-14-2024, 12:12 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
From a CNN article: Quote:Larry Summers has some unsolicited advice for President-elect Donald Trump: Don’t keep your campaign promises — unless you want to send prices skyrocketing once again. Summ...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,925 11-13-2024, 08:14 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
(11-11-2024, 04:20 AM)Cavebear Wrote: As bad as Trump is personally, I suspect he will be a "fine, OK, whatever" President when it comes to his advisor's suggestions.  And he chooses crazy idealogic...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,925 11-13-2024, 09:31 AM
    Thread: The new key to the White House
Post: RE: The new key to the White House
(11-12-2024, 03:05 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: When discussing border policy, many people start with the position that those to the right of them (generally more restrictive policy, less “compassion”)...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 179 4,547 11-12-2024, 07:16 PM
    Thread: Climate Change from Alternative Viewpoints
Post: RE: Climate Change from Alternative Viewpoints
(11-11-2024, 11:38 PM)pattylt Wrote: Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t China dump more pollution than the US?  We just dump more per person. China is the highest CO2 emitter, with the U.S. in seco...
 Alan V Spirituality, Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories 251 44,966 11-12-2024, 10:17 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Somehow Trump won by being a denialist: denying climate change, denying his criminal behaviors (fraud, sexual assault, obstruction of justice, theft of classified information, election interference, i...
 Alan V World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,925 11-11-2024, 12:45 AM
    Thread: What are you currently watching on YouTube?
Post: RE: What are you currently watching on YouTube?
Alan V Memes - Images and Videos 3,518 271,048 11-11-2024, 12:34 AM
    Thread: What are you currently watching on YouTube?
Post: RE: What are you currently watching on YouTube?
Death threats against Democrats.
 Alan V Memes - Images and Videos 3,518 271,048 11-10-2024, 05:32 PM