Recent content by Swammerdami

I hardly follow political personalities and hadn't even heard of J.D. Vance until he did or did not fornicate with his couch. So the above comment confused me. Uhhh ... I guess that so many people who might have a clue detest the psychopathic brat, that that psychopath has no choice but to...

Nope. I never denied that the commercial promoted racial symbolism -- (don't know why it's specifically "Nazi") -- what I doubted is that people said "Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi." (What is the "default right-wing view"? That the Jeans/genes homonym is a coincidence? Seriously?) I think Miss...

Oh Criminy! The Bullshit Machine takes phrases out of context to create Lies; stupid Americans then vote for Real Fascists; are you part of the solution or part of the problem, thebeave? Do you have a cite that anyone, "far left white-hating Communist Islamo-terrorist" or not, called Miss...

Or very different systems of chronology. FDR died three months before the Trinity test.

One thing that this discussion has demonstrated is that I have a much more pragmatic approach than you do. One might even exaggerate slightly and say that you favor authoritarianism, so long as the authority is The Law™. What would you say about Martin Luther King, Jr. who deliberately broke...

(Perhaps this belongs in a different thread. Help?) Richard Reeves is a top scholar and writer. He discusses his book Of Boys and Men and its themes. The link is to BOTH a video, and a transcript. I will NOT try to summarize his many-faceted and very intelligent discussion, but a key theme...

I DO read your posts. I even clicked LIke! on a recent post on this topic; and followed up here by EXPLICITLY agreeing that "Newsome's proposed gerrrymandering may be strategically useless." It was always your claim that it was MORALLY wrong that was erroneous, and with which I disagreed...

Is there any precedent for today's U.S. government? France during the Reign of Terror qualifies, but what else? Even Hitler didn't surround himself with the very stupidest drunks and crooks he could find the way Trump has done. And of course Hitler was a vigorous and intelligent man who had...

Newsome's proposed gerrrymandering may be strategically useless but I applaud all opposition to fascism. At this point the "same-same" mentality when comparing the Trumpists destroying American democracy with those opposing the fascist take-over shows complete ignorance of history, and total...

Where do I start?? Do you think zero equals sixty-five? :confused2:

The Great Pyramids of Giza were built thirty centuries before Brahmagupta developed the concept of Zero. And apparently Zero remains a difficult-to-understand concept even today. I'm too lazy to Google "Inanities of Zero" so I'll invent some sarcastic ones: * If cannabis is legalized, there's...

I'd never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was already dead; and have hardly paid any attention even now. The Google summary tells me enough: Google's summary was poorly phrased. I've added "opposition to" in brackets to correct an ambiguity. I don't disagree that DEI often goes too far, but...

So. When asked to substantiate your claim that A did B, you respond with non sequitur, making the (unsubstantiated!) claim that C did D. No, don't bother blurting out that E did F. Save the neuronal effort for contemplation about your own cognitive inadequacies.

Doubt this very much. Trumplickers just like to fantasize that rational good-spirited Americans behave like Trumplickers and MAGGOTs. Evil is what they know, and they assume that all humanity is as despicable as they are. Of course the MAGGOTs would wallow in glee if someone like Stephen...

Yes. The fact that a jury endorsed the fascists' lies is quite sad. Apparently 12 (or more) of 23 grand jurors from the Eastern District of Virginia agreed to indict on 2 of 3 counts. There are mechanisms for prosecutor and judge to remove potential jurors. IIUC, there is no "defense...