It’s hard getting normies to admit that if soft drinks weren’t so heavily subsidized by the government at every step of manufacture and distribution, there would be less overall obesity.

Oh, it’s far too late for that. As the kids say, he’s cooked. He’ll be complaining about hypothetical Appalachians invading New England or New York or the United States (all actual examples, see below) in the nursing home.

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Late Alexander (The Nature of Order) is slightly less blatant and aims at a higher level of abstraction, but the effect is similar.

It really shouldn’t be permissible to blatantly misrepresent the content of a bill before the state Senate. There’s absolutely no carveout for racist speakers in the any draft of the bill that I can find.

At least some minimal notion of hospitality with respect to migration is part of that Enlightenment. (Kant’s Perpetual Peace is emphatic about this; Derrida annotates the relevant section with fresh eyes in Hospitality vol. 1, the first lecture and ff.)

That said, I also agree with you that symbols are not fully formed at birth and it is not the case that what they represent never changes at all in the course of their history.

By your standards, civilization in the United States has been dead for a long time and shows no signs of revival.

Amazon accumulating even more control over the ebook market is not good news for authors and publishers.

This is an aggressive misreading of OP. Many countries’ militaries are routinely criticized for the sexual assault perpetrated by their soldiers. When US soldiers do it in Okinawa, for example, they can and have been turned over to local authorities, and their actions are disavowed. [1] Criticism of this pattern of sexual assault in Okinawa is not a call for the military to uphold some “impossible standard.”

If you want to try again to generate a valid counter-argument to OP you need to research SA committed by IDF soldiers and demonstrate that it falls under either 1) or 2) above, or some other form of logical refutation. Presenting yet more data about Hamas is neither effective nor persuasive to that end.

[1] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-24/mar...

>>> Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that complicated.

>> This is nonsense and you know it.

It’s apparent from the copious evidence presented here (with which you do not engage) that the original claim was, in fact, not nonsense. A real counter-argument would show 1) that these events did not occur or 2) that there were consequences for the assailants.

> Then Israel has at least several criminals, just like every other country on the planet.

Irrelevant false balance on a literally global scale. May I use this example in the logic text I’ve been workshopping?

So it draws from an opinionated sampling of the “western canon,” not exactly the list I would choose but then again I’m not a classics educator. Some clear choices for providing fig leaves against claims of Christian bias, but it seems kinda obvious that this is designed to lean in that direction. Few people are reading St. Athanasius or St. Bede the Venerable in their secular liberal arts classes.

Today’s article by Peter Baker ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/artemis-ii-la... ) was yet more political drivel and very light on scientific goals, just a token mention of follow-on missions.