Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
23hr ago
By then Trump will no longer be president and it will be someone else's problem.
Hopefully, someone who knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery!
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
8d ago
Many African countries have also improved economically.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
Dark humour is like an un-vaccinated child: it never gets old.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
I meant if everyone applies your proposed course of action, including the lower-albedo populations. We are no longer living in the age of "We have the Maxim Gun, and they don't."
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
That has a vague shred of plausibility because the Totenkopf did not originate with the SS, at least according to Wikipedia, they adopted it as lineage from Prussian and imperial military
"Evil cannot make; it can only mock."
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
My more pagan impulses say you punish the rival tribe when they misbehave and harm your tribe.
So when a foreigner in your homeland stabs to death someone in your tribe you torture them for a month. Then you post their mutilated body on your city gates for a year as a sign of what happens to someone who kills a UK citizen.
Now try to consider what happens if that maxim is made a general rule. I highly doubt that it would make for a more peaceful or prosperous world.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity,
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
("You like Kipling?" "Dunno, I've never kippled!")
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
10d ago
· Edited 10d ago
If you're referring to Amy Coney Barrett and Merriam-Webster's usage note in the entry for 'sexual preference', please note that at least that particular lexicographic outfit considers their vocation to be describing how words are used, rather than prescribing how they ought to be used; thus they were not, like Willy the Word Decider, decreeing the term to be doubleplusungoodspeakful, but noting that many other people had taken offence at its use. (This is the same reason that certain four-letter words for below-the-waist bodily functions are listed as more taboo than four-letter words referring to the loss of eternal salvation: the man on the Clapham Omnibus will take more umbrage at "Fuck $NAME1" than he would at "God damn $NAME1".
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
I’ll even admit torture can have value. Perhaps for information. Potentially to discourage future bad behavior in your enemy if you have sufficient power. Like the guys who killed Nowak. I probably feel they should be executed. And I might even want to discourage that behavior in others in the future by not giving them a clean death.
But as the wise man said: “If you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say 'We're the good guys' and do bad-guy things.”
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
This is something called Chekhov's gun, which is a storytelling principle that says if a gun is shown on screen, it must be fired later in the story.
Note that in the original form, the principle was that 'If a gun is shown on stage, it must be fired later in the story.' Live-theatre productions usually do not have as elaborate set decoration as film or television.
it's completely inconsistent with the show's genre, which has no magical elements up until that point.
But was it portrayed as actually happening within the storyline, or was it a dream or hallucination? (I haven't seen the show.)
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
That's not to say it's true or accurate, any more than Islam being able to compel suicide bombers means Mohammad actually flew to heaven on a winged unicorn.
Minor nitpick, but the animal on which Muslims believe Muhammad flew to heaven was not described as a 'winged unicorn'; it is usually depicted by less fundamentalist denominations as a winged horse with a human face.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
The biggest difference is that Floyd was human excrement.
Less of this, please.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
I think the 'eggshell skull' principle would apply to this case.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
11d ago
Or, as the Rightful Caliph put it,
A car with a broken engine cannot drive backward at 200 mph, even if the engine is really really broken.
"Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence", December 2007
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
16d ago
There is a kind of ant called a 'gam·ergate' (from the Greek words 'γάμος' [marriage] and 'ἔργον' [work]) which is, unlike many ant species, capable of both work and reproduction.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
17d ago
It rgas always felt to me like something broke in the world around 2010 - 2013.
Maybe we owe the Mayan Calendar people an apology....
(What does 'rgas' mean? I couldn't find any relevant results....)
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
23d ago
Every good normal, local football team loving, sydney sweeney gooning person hates people with [autism] and loves to see them suffer
That would disqualify them from being considered 'good'.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
26d ago
"'No.' is a complete sentence."
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
27d ago
So how would you have handled the Depression? If you woke up on 4th March, 1933 as Mr Roosevelt, how would you have proceeded, knowing that your active attempts to solve the problem are the only thing keeping the Republic from falling to either the jackboots or the proletarian abyss?
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
27d ago
...he stays fairly active....
That's not what I heard. It was my understanding that he believes the human body to be akin to a non-rechargeable battery, used up faster if one moves more.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
27d ago
A senile kleptocrat who had innocent civilians murdered in an attempt to intimidate the public into surrendering their human rights.
To what action of Mr Biden is this alluding? (I'm guessing that the first three are Mr Clinton and the Branch Davidian fiasco, Mr Bush and the War Of Terror, and Mr Obama and 'Fast and Furious'?)
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
27d ago
· Edited 26d ago
I don't think 'gay condom art' is the best metonym for 'worthless USAID spending'; if it convinces some fraction of gay people to wrap their todgers, there will be fewer cases of HIV transmission, leading to less need for funding anti-retroviral medications, which I recall many esteamed members of this forum found objectionable.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
29d ago
Well, I just happen to disagree with him on that particular point. (Is it not written, only half facetiously, that a rationalist is someone who publicly disagrees with Eliezer Yudkowsky?)
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
1mo ago
There's a certain type of mind, over-represented among the singulatarians, that's deeply uncomfortable with the entire notion of power relations and social status on a fundamental level.
The 'fundamental level' is that they cause a lot of human misery to those who find themselves on the bottom end.
Identifying the problem is philosophy; figuring out how to fix it is engineering.
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