Recent content by Neonanocyborgasm

I have read some dialogues, Apology, and Republic. My conclusion is that Plato is over-rated. The dialogues and Apology are interesting because they challenge prevailing cultural views on things that show them to be nonsense when examined by reason. Republic, however, is a travesty, in that it...

You might do better next time not to be so transparent in your racism. It only worked the first time in 1932.

Your observations are nothing new. It's on my to-do list, but Hannah Arendt is a good source, from what I've gathered from learned sources on the internet, on human behavior under totatilarianism. The short version is that people who follow totalitarian philosophies know that they are obeying...

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Pence, as bad as he is, doesn't have the fan base of Trump, and so is therefore limited in his destructive power. It remains to be seen how complicit or not he is in this administration. I suspect he knows what's going on, but wasn't part of the original conspiracy.

The first thing I thought of when I heard about this was GATTACA. I even remember, when I watched it in theaters, that this movie would never work as long as medical information remained private. No one could discriminate because they wouldn't know who to discriminate against. But if an...

Ahh, so he put to rest those rumors about his illiteracy.

Because Trump is a liar and fraud so his words don't mean anything.

It's interesting that despite the Republicans being obsessed with repealing Obamacare for 6 years, holding votes about it too many times to count, they haven't done it even once since Trump was inaugurated. You'd think they'd jump at the chance to do it now that their man is in office. Either...

I'm trying to find sense in this statement of yours.

His speeches are hollow. If he means anything of what he says, let him take action.

All indications are that it was written by Bannon and maybe also Miller. There's an article in Atlantic where the language of several executive orders were reviewed. They all sound like someone wrote them without any experience or knowledge of the issues they contained. They were not reviewed...

Bannon is like Goebbels. He's the cunning propaganda minister and manipulator that is overjoyed at being at such a high rank of power, especially since he hasn't done anything to deserve even less. He's finally getting to implement all the crazy nationalist agendas he's been dreaming about. I...

You'll find this attitude of "life at any cost" selective. As I said, the ones who cling to it are conveniently the same doctors who never have to deal with death. The ones who are taking care of patients at the bedside when they are morbidly ill are more appreciative of the understanding that...

Never read it but it's often quoted in the medical community in passing, for the jokes. My impression is that it's still accurate.