President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump

I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?

So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at

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28 April 2019 at 04:18 AM
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also gotta say that "philosophy is dead" is the coldest take itt

what is consciousness, when do robots get rights, how can you know something is true

people have been pretending that hard questions don't exist for thousands of years


trump slop is gross and embarrassing

not funny, not even amusing

they look like something Goebbels would commission a MAD magazine illustrator to prepare as a Rockwell lampoon


by Wearwolf

wan & co., when you post a need to deny its biological underpinnings, it reads like bigotry-motivated race science

He has plenty of those views to share too.


by Wearwolf

what is consciousness

I have an update!

LLMS have taught us that intelligence is an emergent property of language and it follows that consciousness does not exist.


On the other hand, my own consciousness is the only thing I have ever actually experienced so it is the only thing that CAN'T be an illusion.


by Wearwolf

Rococo, why don't you think truth and reconciliation can work in America?

I have said before that I think the way we receive our news and other information is a huge impediment to promoting truth or reconciliation.


by amplify

Conservatives pathologically reinforce traditional gender roles.

That's why their women all have maralago face and look like drag queens and the men pose with guns and rev their engines. It can't just be masculinity and femininity, they want an exaggeration of gender characteristics so they're sure what's going on.

I take your point about the women who populate Fox News, but it's a little more complicated with the men. A lot of things that seem to be in vogue among the MAGA men -- plastic surgery, liberal use of bronzer, photoshopping the heads of old men onto the shirtless bodies of gymbros, etc. -- were not what I would have associated with masculinity when I was a kid.


Guyliner, Looksmaxxing, butcher a wild boar. it's a bizarre mix. Culture has...folded in on itself.


by jalfrezi

I’ve never used a dating app and I find this hard to believe when one of the things people fantasise about is genitalia.

I've never used a dating app either, but part of the explanation also could be that pre-op transgender women are only a tiny fraction of the people on dating sites. You probably can't sort for heterochromia either.


by Land O Lakes

So then what does it mean? If a person gets voluntarily intoxicated, should they be conned out of their money?

Please give a specific example.

What punishments are you looking for intoxicated people?

I don't understand the question.

Why did Jesus turn water into wine if he didn't dig people getting hammered?

The wine Jesus made had little or no alcohol content.

Even wine with alcohol content can be enjoyed without getting drunk.*

*I suspect everyone except you knew this factoid already, so glad I could enlighten you.


by amplify

Guyliner, Looksmaxxing, butcher a wild boar. it's a bizarre mix. Culture has...folded in on itself.

A bizarre mix indeed.


by geezerchess

The wine Jesus made had little or no alcohol content.

How do we know this?


by Trolly McTrollson

The Republican obsession with trans people needs to be studied by psychologists for decades. Maybe the greatest moral panic I've lived through, they literally can't stay focused on anything else. Gas is headed toward 10$/gal because there's a shooting war in the Middle East and Rick is melting down over dating apps.

Rick is a Republican?


by geezerchess

The wine Jesus made had little or no alcohol content.

Was the bread gluten-free? I have celiac.


by Rococo

How do we know this?

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*Disclaimer: My sharing an article from this website should not be construed as an endorsement of the content-creators or owners or other content on the site.


by geezerchess

Rick is a Republican?

rick doesn't vote for Republicans or Democrats as far as I know.


by geezerchess

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*Disclaimer: My sharing an article from this website should not be construed as an endorsement of the content-creators or owners or other content on the site.

As I'm sure you realize, the link you shared doesn't reflect some sort of Christian scholarly consensus. As best I can tell, this seems to be a minority view among Christian scholars.


by Rococo

As I'm sure you realize, the link you shared doesn't reflect some sort of Christian scholarly consensus. As best I can tell, this seems to be a minority view among Christian scholars.

I understand it is currently the minority view.


by amplify

I have an update!

LLMS have taught us that intelligence is an emergent property of language and it follows that consciousness does not exist.

language is a tool created by consciousness

it cannot be its cause

in LLMs we infer intelligence but really they just reflect our own

parrots trained to utter phrases know not of what they speak


by geezerchess

I understand it is currently the minority view.


by amplify

Was the bread gluten-free? I have celiac.

I dunno.


by geezerchess

I understand it is currently the minority view.

Lol, Flat Earth Theory is currently the minority view as well.

Christians simply love this ****. Always such brave martyrs, persecuted so severely for their "controversial" beliefs.


by Rococo
by geezerchess

Rick is a Republican?

rick doesn't vote for Republicans or Democrats as far as I know.

Let's just imagine that "Rick is a Republican" is shorthand for "Rick will carry water for whatever key-jangling distraction the GOP is currently pushing, regardless of his voting patterns."


by Trolly McTrollson

The Republican obsession with trans people needs to be studied by psychologists for decades. Maybe the greatest moral panic I've lived through, they literally can't stay focused on anything else. Gas is headed toward 10$/gal because there's a shooting war in the Middle East and Rick is melting down over dating apps.

I should add that I don't think this is a moral panic at all among a lot of the people who influence the social agenda of the Republican party. For a lot of those people, the seeming obsession with transgender everything is 95% tactical.

I would make the same observation about a lot of social issues, but especially this one. I think that a lot of the Republican derposphere is constantly on the lookout for issues where they believe the progressive edge of the Democratic party is misaligned with middle America. And the goal with those issues is to blow them up and make them seem like signs of imminent and profound social decay to people who are easily manipulated by their social media and news algorithms. And if the right wing derposphere can force the entire Democratic party to take the bait and assist in blowing up the issue (which is often the case), then all the better from their perspective.


by checkraisdraw

Wait you said semantic, now you are saying word salad. Rick are you actually this stupid that you don’t know that those are not equivalent terms?That’s wrong. “Humans are born with 2 eyes” has an unspecified quantifier. If it means “some people are born with two eyes” that is obviously true. If it means “all humans are born with two eye

Hilariously, the fact that some people are not born with two eyes is CRITICAL to evolution. It's not just some triviality to be ignored, it's how evolution works. Without these random mutations, life as we know it wouldn't have evolved.

But yes, the statement "people are [generally] born with 2 eyes" is correct. The statement "people can only be born with two eyes" is just as incorrect as saying biological sex is binary, or even gamete production is binary.

While some may consider the difference trivial, it is not, and in discussions of a technical nature, precise language matters greatly even if some try to dismiss it as semantics so they can continue to be transphobic.

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