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by jupiviv
Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:30 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

@Avolith I turned my response to you into a series of articles, only the first of which is currently visible due to a glitch caused by Diebert's administrative incompetence.
by jupiviv
Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39502

Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

The ensuing is an expanded version of what was originally intended as a response to Avolith's comment in the latest Trumptopian thread. What exactly is ideal of spreading truth? ...*I'd say that spreading truth is something different from truth itself, and if truth is the highest value, then spreadi...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:31 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Rhett: When people make racial groupings, they are doing it on the basis of observable DNA based characteristics. Jupiviv: All characteristics of life are DNA based. So, you acknowledge that when we make racial groupings, when we say that, for instance, 'Those people over there are African', there ...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:08 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

For the hypothetical impressionable young lurker who discerns what differentiates me from David: stop searching for reasons to be truthful; there aren't any. There is no enlightenment. Anyone who says otherwise is deceiving both themselves and you. And there is your nihilism in a nutshell. That jus...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:49 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Reads like you were drunk when writing it. Ah, interesting. That explains a lot. It does. A philosophy that if confronted directly can only fall back on a handful of syllogisms and pretentious phrases like "breaking through to enlightenment" belongs to obscurity. For the hypothetical impr...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:52 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Earlier in this thread, Vishesh made the observation that while you seem to offer “interesting insights and information that showcases a breadth of literature", the impressions you tend to leave are “thoroughly immemorable". He couldn't have put it any more succinctly. This has always bee...
by jupiviv
Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:16 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

The left represents too great a decline to the Last Man - it has become utterly feminine rather than working for the working class person. They represent and support completely the weak non-disciplined 'anything goes' views of women. All the media I used to read, when I was sympathetic to the left,...
by jupiviv
Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:30 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Also @Diebert why did you remove my image bro? It was obviously making a point directly relevant to the discussion. So if I upload like an image from a non-OCR'd pdf you'd delete that too? Is this bot-like modding policy really called for?
by jupiviv
Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:17 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

I think you are lost in it all. Can you locate for me the place where your link says what you are claiming? It's an article about human genetic variance not the validity of racial groupings. When people make racial groupings, they are doing it on the basis of observable DNA based characteristics. A...
by jupiviv
Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:42 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

It seems to me that you are equating all variations as having equal magnitude or effect, which is extremely unlikely. The surest sign of dipshit alt-right text-chat crusaders is this utter inability to distinguish between generic syllogisms/categories and actual claims. In this case - little thing ...
by jupiviv
Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:45 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

have parents of diverse Indian and Jewish ethnicity I'm not convinced the Maltese people should be considered fully human. I think you guys under appreciate the role of narrative and persuasion as a polarizing and driving force for macro events. Because it's impossible to construct a useful underst...
by jupiviv
Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:30 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

What a nonsense. Pedophilia has little to do with any political affiliation. While strong opposition to the right or fighting fascism does. It’s interesting how the word “political” is often used to cover up a multitude of sins. Well technically it's words/phrases that are or can be interpreted to ...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:27 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

I never used to be anti-right. I used to see the value of conservatism acting as a brake on progressive reform. Too much reform, performed too quickly, rarely works out well for society. But over the past couple of decades the right has changed beyond all recognition. It has jumped the shark and is...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:13 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Logically, the most extreme opposition against full is empty, against white is black, against ignorance is truth. Those are binaries, so extremeness is irrelevant. And yet deception, paranoid, fear as well as mental health issues are rampant in all layers of society and politics. In other words, yo...
by jupiviv
Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:41 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Googling will not help you understand meanings, it helps you just replicate some endlessly, without effect. Google helps me not to make up my own meanings, then make up academic meanings the former correspond to, then proclaim the differences between the two don't really matter because "everyt...
by jupiviv
Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

... all of causality appears as ordinary finite things, because they are necessarily bound up with the rest of it. Appearances are the opposite of infinitude. If you insist on non-dualism, we still cannot speak of causality "appearing as" since it would be at the same time not appearing a...
by jupiviv
Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:28 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

No, racism ought not to relate to "generalised DNA groupings" because there is no reason why something like that should be applied to humans, in which vastly more genetic variance occurs within so-called human races than out. But 85% of genetic variations exists within local populations ....
by jupiviv
Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:20 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Jupiviv, you come across as having so many interactive flaws that i dont think its worth my time to engage with you on this topic. Identifying the gaping hole in your point about immigration was more than sufficient to discredit everything you wrote. To quote myself recently describing Diebert's hy...
by jupiviv
Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:06 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Actually so far all my predictions continue to win. You were saying the (exact) same political chaos stuff as now. The "genius" of Trump's victory was the fact his opponents were uniquely unpopular and overconfident to boot. I prefer your earlier analysis of the "genius" term: &...
by jupiviv
Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:29 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Bush did 9/11
Replies: 4
Views: 12516

Re: Bush did 9/11

Diebert van Rhijn wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:30 pmYou could start with supplying a graph on the variance of the distribution of unusual trading over the decades.
Occurs in different contexts hence not useful to compare correlation with insider trading between different instances over decades.
by jupiviv
Sun Sep 22, 2019 3:42 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

The views i referred to are the primary views i am coming across on social media right now. Its easy to justifiably label mainstream people as insane. False equivalency. Anti-racists reject the racialist definition of "race" but that isn't denial of the existence of racism or race classif...
by jupiviv
Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:23 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

There is no ground being combated, at least not of the philosophical variety. You like all other reactionaries have simply decided to project onto a crumbling political/economic status quo your febrile idylls of a world-to-come wherein you shall receive what you're owed. In any case, I have engaged...
by jupiviv
Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:12 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Well this is a topic that does need a good thrashing out. Actually it's joined at the hip with Trumptopianism, since Trump is just a more sophisticated David Duke. These days i am seeing two poles, people that call any distinction regarding culture, religion or DNA as racist, if they so choose, and ...
by jupiviv
Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:18 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Trump is without doubt an anti-system guy Well this perspective certainly explains why all of your predictions about his presidency fell flat! If anything he represents the attempt to restore the neoliberal world order by directing white settler-proletariat indignation upon coloured folk with some ...
by jupiviv
Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:22 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

That just looks like an attempt at a personal attack, bluster, suggesting an inability to hold ground if you engaged with the topic. There is no ground being combated, at least not of the philosophical variety. You like all other reactionaries have simply decided to project onto a crumbling politic...