Recent content by jardiniere

We steal from everybody.

I held that job until I graduated high school and got my first full time job in 1977 making a whopping 3.75 an hour.(snip) Today, that would be just shy of 20 dollars straight out of high school.

Oh, yeah. <Staff Edit> democracy. What this nation needs is dictatorship. That's what's really popular. Bye, folks, this is too much for me.

Until anti-abortionists can comprehend that not all killing is murder, and that there is instead, some other underlying agenda that isn't about saving babies, this topic can't move for them. I am pro abortion, because I see that the people who are, don't like abortion either but do want to...

You know what else is not illegal? Killing humans. Think about that, too. All the myriad ways taking human life is not only not illegal, but sometimes even honorable; even in God's own eyes. This surely must have some bearing on how one goes about deciding one's moral stance on abortion, which...

I think it's very important in a capitalist society like ours to understand free speech rights. Too many people here are making false claims, and I don't think it's because of malice, but because of ignorance; which is always fixable. No one has the right to use someone else's platform to...

I'm an old existential pragmaticist, care of Spinoza and Peirce, so conversations of the type Plato has are a bit of "not where I'm at, at the moment', but still enjoyable reading.

I live my life by trying to simplify it. To that extent I've given up slang for the most part, as it's simply easier to use proper* terms for many things, like men, women, child. Not guy, not gal, not kid. And addressing with common honorifics seems safe. This way, I seem to offend the least...

Hyperbole doesn't actually strengthen your argument. People are most often taken seriously when they avoid exaggerations and quality-focused adjectives. State facts, then your opinion on what they mean to you, and you have a stronger base for people to consider your arguments seriously.

This is an aside I had while reading this thread. I just thought it interesting enough to share. Please don't reply to derail this thread. What is also interesting is the overarching realization that contemplations of the nature of actions and intentions cannot occur without multiple levels of...

Family Dollar security guard killed after telling shopper to wear mask

Thanks. I really can't tell sometimes when people are being hyperbolic or not when online. To think that someone would kill another for being asked to wear a mask seems incredible to me, yet it has happened, and I worry if it's because they are conflating limiting freedom and liberty with...

Does this mean you are willing to kill American citizens for these issues? I know you are hoping something serious is avoided, but if it can't, are the issues you described above valuable enough to kill your neighbor?

But the OP doesn't say he has that power, either. He would just claim he does, and rely on the Supreme Court to be slow enough in the knock down of his claim to corrupt the election.

So Trump does this, let's say. Now the states that are "Democrats" vote when they should, the others stay home. This will then surely-without doubt-be labeled a rigged election and cast doubt on the winner winning the election "fair and square" because of the lack of votes for the other party...