A poor argument.

A woman is an adult female of the human species. Any man can try to look like one but the biology ultimately betrays the act.

I think the word “absurd” is better applied to your conception of existence and not so much to existing things. This is why we ought to rid ourselves of such mental containers—“existence”, “universe”, and so on—to make room for the less contrived. Any set of things is not itself a thing.

Another Trump-era hoax collapses. Do you remember falling for this one?

Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor kidnap plot case collapses

What’s next?

I’ve seen a lot of anti-Russian atrocity propaganda that I feel it important to show the other side of it. I am not in any position to negotiate ceasefires nor contribute to them, and don’t think anyone else here is, so I think we can focus on whatever we want.

“ A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv.

“He’s still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he’s still alive. He’s gasping,” a man says as a Russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded, is seen still breathing. A soldier then shoots the man twice. After the man keeps moving, the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia-war-news/russia-pows-ukraine-executed

More Biden family corruption. It doesn’t seem to end. Imagine if this was another president and his family. We’d never hear the end of it.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/06/gop-senators-release-more-receipts-showing-the-depths-of-biden-family-profiteering-with-foreign-enemies/

The rouble is back to what it was before the invasion. Remember when Biden bragged and called it the “rubble”? Hilarious.

Maybe it’s the other way about. You’re doing exactly what I caused you to do.

What is silly is the amount of time you’ve spent to say very little. I have to wonder why you tried to refute my initial point.

Yes, I comprehend it. But you don’t cause me to comprehend it, is my point.

I think you’re trying to insert a chain between two disparate events in order to say one caused the other. Sorry, I don’t see it, or you haven’t made it clear, one or the other.

My point is that neurons cause particular neural activity. The body performs the actions, therefor it causes them.

Trump conspiracy theories in a Joe Biden thread. I guess it was doomed to happen.

The only consistency is that neither will likely ever be sentenced because of their corruption.

Every fishing expedition, with the force of the American justice system, has found very little in the case of Trump. Even Stormy Daniels lost her case and owes Trump money.

On the other hand, minor investigative reporting, in combination with the actions of an inept son, has uncovered a great deal about the Biden family, only to be met with censorship by Big Tech, The Media, and the Deep State.

There is zero consistency.

The tendency towards collectivism is too great, towards individualism too rare, that there has never been a society that values the individual. Man seems unable to peer beyond his categories and generalizations long enough to care about the flesh and blood human beings that enter his proximity every day.

“Intentional pattern”…nifty phrase, but “patterns” is a weird way to describe mechanical sounds, and “intentional” would apply to any sound we make on purpose.

The reason we understand another’s words is not because “intentional patterns” float through the air, but because we can associate meaning with another’s sounds, all of which requires a level of understanding acquired through years of active learning, trial and error, practice, and so on.

Myriad investigations into Trump—lawsuits, committees, district attorneys peeking through his life. Nothing like that against Biden.

While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.

The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.

But the new documents — which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden — illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.

https://archive.ph/TTGgz

More Biden family grift and corruption. Of course we knew about this for years, but we suppressed it for political purposes.

I’ll pass on the YouTube video.

Cells in the inner ear transform vibration into electrical signals. No other thing or force is causing this to happen or performing this activity.

The effects of spoken words on a human being is the same as all acoustic waves, at least the ones our biology is capable of detecting. The waves vibrate the ear drum. So spoken words can effect human beings insofar as they vibrate another’s ear drums, like all sounds, but beyond that the words have no effect. After that all subsequent effects are caused by the biology. So we should not being saying words cause such-and-such reactions in human beings (taking offence for example), when human beings are the causes of such reactions.

I don’t understand. Why is it magical thinking to believe pricking a person with a needle would cause them to feel pain?

For instance?

So in what way is Western propaganda similar to Russian propaganda? What would you even qualify as propaganda?

It has become exceedingly difficult to find what Russians are saying about any of this. Any view that could be construed as Russian or anti-Ukraine is met with censorship of the highest order. Anything that comes out of it is immediately deemed “Russian disinformation”, whether true or false.

Here in Canada, the Federal broadcast regulators have banned Russian media country-wide. All media is focused on the one-sided, pro-Ukraine narratives. It’s not even subtle.

According to Russia’s State Duma speaker:

“US President Joe Biden himself is involved in the creation of biolaboratories in Ukraine. An investment fund run by his sun Hunter Biden funded research and the implementation of the United States’ military biological program. It is obvious that Joe Biden, as his father and the head of state, was aware of that activity.”

https://tass.com/politics/1427005?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.com&utm_referrer=google.com

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop confirm the truth of this.

Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president.

Hunter introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he was a board member, for a “science project” involving biolabs in Ukraine, the e-mails show.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/hunter-biden-played-role-in-funding-us-bio-labs-contractor-in-ukraine-e-mails/amp/

The Biden family and the “Delaware Way” is at the epicenter of the Ukraine crisis, from start to finish. It’s no wonder it’s all kicking off during his presidency.

Seven in 10 Americans expressed low confidence in the president's ability to deal with Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Biden's approval fell to 40 percent in new NBC News poll.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna21679

No shit. Gas prices, inflation, Afghanistan, Covid…one wonders how anyone can retain any confidence in this regime.

Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” is back in the news again, this time as real and authentic, and not the Russian disinfo Biden propagandists made it out to be. Anyone who had observed the contents could have told you this years ago.

The original story, broke by the New York Post, was maligned as Russian disinfo by former intelligence officials, and subsequently banned in the media before the 2020 election. Had it been any other candidate’s son, the story would have been front page for months. But the mass suppression of the story benefitted no one but a single candidate, now president, the same one sinking the country into the abyss.

I would disagree. The contact of a needle and a pain receptor causes pain.

I would agree. The other person causes his own actions. The act of hearing my words, processing what I said, and recoiling in horror are the effects of which he is the cause.

It’s hard to believe because humans are largely incapable of running such a scheme. The current state of affairs is largely due to their incompetence rather than design.

I don’t believe that, though. What I do believe is that they often don’t like to hear it.

I don’t know what you mean.

Yes. The implications are dire for many people, especially the censors.

It’s magical thinking, I’m afraid. No causal link can bridge the thought and the event. But magical thinking is quite common. Tell anyone that their words do not have the effect they believe they have and they often recoil in horror. So much of society hinges on the belief that thoughts and words have such effects.

Zelensky is banning opposition parties. Weird.

“ For Life, Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists Party and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc”.

https://www.axios.com/ukraine-ban-political-parties-russian-ties-af264ecd-9ad4-4e98-9f87-76f32300fd5f.html

The war has been going on since at least 2014. Ukraine has been fighting its own people, (those Ukrainians the west likes to call “Russian-backed separatists”) ever since the American-backed coup, after which the country was flooded with American tax-payer dollars. The Russians have been exploiting it on their end. Both have been accused of torture, bombing civilians, and other crimes against humanity. NATO and Russia have been playing “war-games” at each other’s borders the whole time.

There are no innocent victims here. Putin’s invasion is the self-fulfilling progress of this sort of conflict.

Conscription is morally wrong for the same reason forcing anyone to do anything is morally wrong. But it is morally right to defend one’s family, community and property. One ought to fight, but he ought not be conscripted to fight.

That’s silly. But it’s also silly to “consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern”, to stockpile bio weapons, in labs in Ukraine. No amount of sarcasm will alleviate that one.

The bio-weapons labs…er…bio-defence labs in Ukraine should be investigated. Any facilities designed to “consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern” should involve a modicum of transparency, if not for safety, then at least to waylay the fears of potential enemies. Given the corruption and strife in Ukraine, perhaps even more is needed.

But it’s far too late for the US to do anything about these facilities, now. Like American assets and man-power in Afghanistan, it was all sacrificed on the incompetence of the current administration.

It’s an age-old battle. The idea that things can be measured and detected is anathema to those who posit things that cannot be measured or detected, so it’s good to defend the principle at any chance we get. More than this, learning to value what is there rather than what isn’t is an important task of philosophy.