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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I literally just had an argument with one of those people last night. Friend of a friend, backing Trump because he claims that Trump would "at worst" be too stupid to do any real harm to the country or world "like George W. Bush" and that Trump will defend good Christian values.
Which, over the course of the discussion, was revealed to really just mean "Trump will criminalize abortions." He was a Single-Issue Wonk trying to dress it up as a generalized political platform.
Also spent over an hour trying to convince me that Objective Morality is a scientifically provable fact based on the Higgs-Boson Particle being a thing. When backed into a corner over the inability to scientifically prove that cannibalism is morally wrong, he even whipped out the ultimate Christian Pseudo-Intellectual fallback: "Prove to me that God doesn't exist."
edited 28th Sep '16 9:16:29 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Wait, the higgs?! Everyone knows objective morality is derived from photons!
But no seriously, deets. The fuck does the higgs boson have to do with objective morality
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Senate Votes To Override President Obama's Sept. 11 Lawsuit Veto
Something from my local paper, related a bit to Y'all Qeada: members of an Idaho militia group, 3% of Idaho, are claiming that their leader took money for Idahoans arrested in the original standoff with Clients Bundy.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article104649526.html
edited 28th Sep '16 9:58:12 AM by sgamer82
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Probably because it was nicknamed the "God Particle", though it's been awhile since I've heard it called that. Some people misinterpreted this as meaning the particle had anything at all to do with proving existence of God, which it did not.
Higgs, the actual person who first theorized the particle's existance, came to dislike the nickname because the completely bogus religious parallels the nickname created. I believe it was a publicist trying to come up with an attention-grabbing title who actually originated the term.
edited 28th Sep '16 9:58:25 AM by Falrinn
Shit like this almost makes me believe in Karma.
Delicious irony
New Survey coming this weekend!According to that article from Huff Po, Trump cut off medical care to his nephew's infant son who suffered from seizures.
Why the hell isn't this more well known? I knew Trump was bad, but I didn't know he was that fricken' evil. I mean I can kind of understand being such a douchebag to people you don't care about or have any connection to. But your own flesh and blood? I would have liked to see how he would have responded to that during the debate.
edited 28th Sep '16 11:23:20 AM by Mr.Didact
Stand Fast, Stand Strong, Stand Together"in general, the media treats it as a veterans-only condition."
I call that vet-fetish, something I saw a lot in US media is that vet seen to exist as huge rock start who kill bad guy and make america safe for whatever other people do, , after that they dont seen to exist, in the same vein PDTS is something that happen to poor soldier who kill a lot of bad guys, nothing else, nothing more
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Saudi-Arabia has been stepping on enough toes - the Yemen war, the Iran scuffles, the nebulous relationships between Saudi citizens and Islamic fundamentalism - that it's no surprise such a bill would pass.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
No, Trump is about as evil as it gets without actively murdering people. And I certainly wouldn't put it past him.
edited 28th Sep '16 11:29:50 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.His ideas on economics, race, and war certainly kill lots of people indirectly, but if you were to issue indictments for such things, they'd have to apply to large swathes of our business and political leadership.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"edited 28th Sep '16 11:58:10 AM by nervmeister
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Pretty much, he kill horrible muslim to protect america, everything else dosent exist and dosent really need too
Also is the narrative of "if you dont fight your problem in awsome way, them your problem arent real" many people dismiss thing if they didnt show how is "suposed" to mean, a vet strugling with PTDS? understandable, a women or minority have it for whatever other reason? whinner.
edited 28th Sep '16 11:44:04 AM by unknowing
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"His logic was that science worked for years on physics, trying to perfect our understanding of it, and something was missing until we theorized and discovered the Higgs-Boson. It was always a part of the world, we just couldn't understand the whole picture until we discovered it.
Thus, in the same way, morality is a physical objective law of the universe and we are merely discovering it piece by piece as we go along.
It's the tortured mental gymnastics of a person creating logical chains from a preconceived conclusion rather than deriving conclusions from a chain of logic.
Delicious irony
Oh my god, that's great.
With the debate behind us, I really feel much more confident in Hillary's impending Presidency than I have in a while.
edited 28th Sep '16 12:00:40 PM by TobiasDrake
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Another Trump staffer leaves over Russia connections
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[[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/stop-pretending-you-dont-_b_12191766.html
? Time to stop pretending the Clinton hate isn't misogynistic]].
EDIT: There a reason my second link won't do what my first one did and pothole normally?
edited 28th Sep '16 9:10:27 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar