Zappa was no hippy

IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?

Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as “man is the measure of all things”, that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.

With this argument in mind we can see why “rhetoric” is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.

Remember when they AId Harris as a demon and she the result looked hot as fuck

Dude, I’m not your mom for you to complain to about the state of things. What I said is 100% true, and whinging won’t make it less true. This is how these huge companies stay in control of our lives, and now this is how they are going to install fascism. Do with that info what you will.

None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.

ok, so you didn’t understand. you misquoted the aboe poster by leaving out the “over herself” part. That is the key part of the above posters point, that Hillary did try to become president for real, but screwed it up. The above poster was asking if you really believed that Hillary never even tried to beat Trump and become president. I am pointing this out because you are essentially talking past the above posters point.

…over herself

I pledge my allegience to queen Frang and her mighty state of Hysteria

Ru Paul would be a terrible president.

The funny thing about the language issue is that the really hardcore seperatists here would be 100% behind someone who resented needing to learn French in Alberta or elsewhere, and that is what all of their controversial language legislation is all about. They want to create a situation in which a francophone need not learn any English at all in order to live and prosper in Quebec.

I think that is a a pointless goal and I don’t support it, but I find the people who really dislike Quebec and it’s influence have very similar attitudes to the nationalists here, while not being aware of it.

Your desire to learn French is admirable and I can say it is a silly and beautiful language, and it will teach you a lot about English while you learn it.

People from the ROC hating Quebec without knowing anything about it is normal, but I have never seen someone forget the St Laurence River exists before.

Look for ”talking crosses". They are big crucifixes wearing mayan petticoats. They are a symbol of the Caste War and People of the Cross. They still receive offerings to this day.

Are there no prisons! Are there no workhouses!

“Lemmy sucks.”

You are top comment. I always hated this “reddit sucks” attitude that everyone always adopted, especially when taking the most common and popular opinions on the platform.

Star trek is a big plate of mashed potatoes. People eat because it isn’t exciting.

They are animals so no

Yes

Incognito mode is not for Google, its for my girlfriend. Do people really not understand this?

Let’s not pretend that imbalances of power aren’t an enormously popular fetish for all kinds of people. I have never met a woman who wasn’t into it to some degree and I suspect the vast majority of men are into it too.