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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What do you think of Nietzsche? |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2023, 4:40 pm
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Replies: 55
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| I view Nietzscheanism as a failed attempt to instill meaning in a meaningless world. Yeah, he's pinning hope for humanity on strength, while simultaneously acknowledging types of entropy that can destroy almost anything (strong or not). But I think Rand is worse. And they're both better than mainst... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2022, 11:35 am
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Replies: 42
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| It's probably relevant that the Thomas Jefferson Foundation which is made up all the white descendants of Thomas jefferson and his wife officially recognise that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemmings' children. I don't find any mention of that on their website, nor did googling their bo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2022, 3:10 am
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Replies: 42
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| ...it was established that black descendants of Sally Hemings carried Jefferson's DNA. The study authors had to retract that claim: It is true that men of Randolph Jefferson's family could have fathered Sally Hemings' later children [including Eston]. Space constraints prevented us from expanding o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2022, 2:21 pm
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Replies: 42
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| Jefferson started raping his 15 year old slave Sally Hemmings when he was in his 40s. It continued for several decades. Hemmings bore his several children of whom her descendants carry Jefferson's DNA. That's not quite true. Hemmings was a legally-free French resident living in Paris at that age, a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2022, 1:43 pm
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Replies: 42
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| Did they stop making them because they were unpopular or did people stop buying them because they just weren't being made? I gathered that they didn't sell well. I often think that what gets made isn't driven purely by popularity and consumer demand. A lot of people don't care about the keybaord, a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Chesterton quotes |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2022, 2:11 pm
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Replies: 3
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| In the past I've posted quotes and excerpts from Mencken and Machiavelli, but here are two from the opposite end of the cultural spectrum: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conserva... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Republicans in a no win situation of their own making |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2022, 1:59 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Republicans are still a majority in the House and in the majority of state legislatures, thanks to gerrymandering. So it will be a while, if ever, before Democrats can attain one-party control. Given that Republicans won the 2022 popular vote , you can't honestly attribute their majority to gerryma... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2022, 12:49 pm
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Replies: 42
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| You do realise that large scale extraction equipment can't be deployed in every developing country right? Who pays for it? I spent a decade working in R&D and have lived in the Andes, so I'm decently familiar with what goes into building machinery and deploying it in remote places. Usually big ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is modern feminism a type of female supremacy? |
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Posted: 07 Dec 2022, 12:06 pm
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Replies: 34
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| The OP's question would be a lot easier to answer if we defined terms. Who qualifies as a supremacist? Does it only refer to people claiming publicly that one group is broadly superior to every other, or deserves broad preference? Or does it include people using back-handed methods* to achieve the s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2022, 9:42 pm
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Replies: 42
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| Small children sent into tunnels that cave in and children breathing in excessive amounts of pollution into their little lungs... Correct, although open pit mining can be automated quite a bit: https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/Garzweiler_coal_mine_Germany_CREDITLukassek_S... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2022, 1:07 pm
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Replies: 42
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| a lot of electronic components made with coerced labor could be easily made without it. switching to ethical means of production/cultivation or mining means the cost is too high and the company simply can't compete anymore I can't speak for tea harvesting, but in the case of electronics assembly th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2022, 2:18 pm
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| It's not hard to imagine. We wear shoes/clothes, eat fruit/vegetables, drink coffee and tea and use tech with components that all rely on slave labour. Yeah, society as a whole is cold/callous. And senseless too, as a lot of electronic components made with coerced labor could be easily made without... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Had an epiphany on feminism |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2022, 1:53 pm
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| I guess I got confused because of all the flame bait dox has been posting everywhere else... maybe im having one of my 'crazy' paranoid times again? I honestly dont know. What has Dox posted recently that qualifies as "flame bait?" Back when there was still a lot of intellectual debate on... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thomas Jefferson on slavery |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2022, 12:05 am
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Replies: 42
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| Jefferson wasn't half as hypocritical as Hamilton, who pretended to be an abolitionist but owed the entirety his wealth to marriage into a cynical family of slave-holders. Hamilton took part in managing their plantations, personally signing orders to buy and sell human beings. And while he did event... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Scoreboard: Clinton: Zero. trump: Hundreds. |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2022, 6:26 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Clinton was caught with 2,000 classified messages on a server that she set up for the sole purpose of breaking public records laws : https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Roe v. Wade is history |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2022, 1:28 pm
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SpiralingCrow wrote: Birth control is not covered on health insurance. [...] Viagra, however, was covered by insurance.
Viagra for ED is definitely not covered by Medicare or normal insurance plans. It's only covered for its original purpose, treating pulmonary hypertension. |
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