America is a Failed State Without the Rule of Law
The following was a post I made in a discussion thread elsewhere, but I thought it was worth putting here. My apologies for the weird...
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The following was a post I made in a discussion thread elsewhere, but I thought it was worth putting here. My apologies for the weird...
I love that Republicans think Democrats are mad because they sent non-white immigrants to a blue state. I love it, because this reveals...
White Supremacists Suck At Math I'm getting more than a little tired of listening to conservatives talk endlessly about how violent...
The January 6 hearings are in the news, so of course, any time you want to discuss the coup, Republicans will change the subject like...
We all know what's coming. We know what's coming because we've seen this same story countless times in other countries that banned...
There is no doubt going to be a backlash over the recently leaked Roe v Wade ruling, and Republicans are going to lose big in the next...
Not me personally. I'm not a public figure. Not enough people know I exist to be the target of the kind of yelling that drove Lindsay...
...white privilege has always been something that could be granted or revoked...
Thousands of years ago, the Euthyphro dilemma proved that you can't get morality from religion. At best, religion can trick you into...
Every so often, there are articles about the rate at which people are leaving Christianity in America or the rate at which people are...
Overwhelmingly, "world history" in America focuses almost exclusively on Europe, and American documentaries follow this pattern. Enough...
White liberals have this perception that Republicans are racist, therefore Democrats are "not racist" (in the words of Ibram X Kendi, who...
Let's imagine that one morning you wake up and discover that you have healing superpowers. What you do next depends on...
The Bible is not teaching morality, but teaching Christians to confuse obedience with morality, exactly as the Euthyphro dilemma predicted.
We Americans learn about our rights and civil liberties as teenagers. We are taught that your freedom ends at the tip of your nose.
I'm half white. I'm all too aware that I have to be pretty diligent about monitoring my own thoughts for possible racist influence. If I...
Even if each and every protester was vandalizing and looting, it would still be wrong to murder innocent African-Americans.
Just in case any Republicans are reading this, let me introduce you to an American saying about civics: your freedom ends at the tip of...
Well, we have another measles outbreak caused by anti-vaccine morons.For reasons that are unfathomable to me, many seem to think that...
All too often, we hear the argument "Well, how else do you explain morality, therefore God" arguments from theists. We can talk later...