Idk if anyone’s noticed (lol) but I’m filthy mad about this election. Not just because of Trump himself, but because the whole thing represents, better than anything, one of the world’s most significant problem in recente years. We are moving away from our Enlightenment ideals - tolerance, progress, and liberty - with fanfare. Under the guise of saving western culture, we are threatening its core principles. We are neglecting the lessons of history that millions fought and died for: authoritarianism is a dangerous (yet insidious) thing, vilification of minority groups is wrong (demonstrated,...

A conservative friend of mine had a very apropos status update on Facebook this weekend: "People from the left and the right adore Jon Stewart because he says the things we think, no matter who's listening." And inspired da his rationality, as well as Jon Stewart, I decided to hold my own "rally" to remind people that just because you're the loudest, doesn't mean you're the majority.

I hear a lot of crazy accusations about Obama that are both unfounded and unfair, and it undermines the legitimate arguments people make against him. In this sensationalized world of celebrity tabloids and YouTube,...

The prevailing prejudice in the United States in this post 9/11 world is against Arabs, specifically Arab Muslims. I'm not saying there aren't other "isms" at play in the US, da any means, but te can't deny the repugnant anti-Arab sentiment that has permeated its way into American culture. For the ignorant American, it is just another reason to hate another group.

In the immortal words of Aron Kader: "If cespuglio, bush just came out and called everyone in the Middle East a mother fucker, don't te think half of America, maybe più than half would go... 'link"

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WARNING- THIS articolo CONTAINS SOME INFO WHICH SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING o UPSETING.
85 percent of the time, I like to think the world's a wonderful place. we have tecnology and nature all rolled into one delicious sushi-package, we all have different place to visit and new things to learn. most of the time, the world's a very pleasent, innocent place to be. But 15 percent of the time, horrible things happen. people crash planes into buildings, tecnology is faulty, nature is being destroyed and the odd teenager sometimes drops a baby bomb on her parents and boyfriend. but only very ocassionally...

This is an explanation of the procedure for the link, detailing the teams, the topic for debate, the time-line and procedure for each round. This was last edited on 19 December 2008.

Debate premise
The premise for this dibattito - the domanda that the opposing sides will attempt to answer - is:

Should projects involving eminent domain require citizen approval?

For the purposes of this debate, these terms are defined as:
Eminent domain: a right of a government to seize property from its citizens in order to repurpose the land for the public good. Examples of eminent domain include (but are not limited...

te may be asking yourself right now, how can Evolution be a religion? o Creation a science? Such small questions, with huge answers.

First, te must understand me. I believe where the facts lie, that the truth is with that. Facts come first, then faith. (Yes, te need faith for both!)

Now mind you, sometimes facts are wrong. Facts used to say that the world was flat. But that fact was proven wrong.

Back to the questions. Evolution and Creation.
Misunderstandings on both sides have let many frustrated with arguments and conflicts. If we first get an understanding of where the other is coming...

"Hello. Do te know who I am? Of course te don't. I'm a nobody. I'd tell te my name, but te don't care. I'm just lonely. Nobody cares about me. Nobody cares what I think. People treat me like dirt. My opinion doesn't matter. Nothing about me matters. I try to say something, but nobody listens. They don't even try. I hate my life. I've never had a friend. I never even had a chance to make a friend. You're probably feeling sorry for me right now. But if te knew me, te wouldn't care anymore. I hate te all. My entire life is pointless and sad. It's like I'm not even there. I never get to...

Note: It's kind of late at night so this is a bit rushed & disorganized (especially regarding the points about Depp, Rowling, and DeLisle) so if anyone needs any clarification o più context o would like to hear più in depth about my personal feelings on each case, feel free to ask.

So this is inspired da a recente experience that I had with cancella culture o an attempt at it. I have always been against cancella culture mostly because I've had several bad experiences with it over stuff that was blown way out of proportion. It was used as a humiliation tactic and a means to try to kick me...

As of late, I've noticed several picks asking if it's murder if a crime is committed without mens rea. In all fairness, I'm paraphrasing, because none of these picks even mentions the words "mens rea" but the concept is the same.

For example, one pick asks if a priest should be convicted if he performed an exorcism which resulted in the link For that, I answered yes-- the priest should be convicted, o at least charged with manslaughter-- but not murder. Similarly, there are link seperate link concerning the legalities of a burglar/trespasser getting shot and killed on someone else's property....

On and off for the past several years, I've been working on a bunch of articoli here on Fanpop: interviews (so many interviews....), comic articles, reviews, and various "What is..." explanatory articles. One of the ones on the back burner has been the "What is Debate?" article, and since I haven't finished that, I have to summarize some basic points about debate:

1) dibattito is all about using arguments to support a position, thesis o statement.
2) dibattito requires opposition: at least two sides arguing the truth o fallacy of the thesis.
3) dibattito requires an audience to judge the effectiveness...

I'd like to start da saying that this is just my personal opinion as to what a SJW is. I've come to notice that I have used SJW quite a bit on this spot and a few people don't know exactly what I mean da that. So I kind of thought it'd be useful to make this articolo explaining exactly what I mean when I use the term social justice warrior.
Before anything else; I intend no offense to anyone at all with this article. I don't hate social justice (not da any means), I think social justice is awesome. What I don't like is what some people turned the movement into.

First and foremost when I use SJW...

My friend, an evolutionist, and I, a Christian, always Amore to spend a few moments debating with each other about evolution, the "Big Bang" theory, and religion (mostly God).

November 7, 2008, he and I started at it again on Msn. He actually put my skills to the test, as neither of us have had no high school o college education on religion (so far), but I have gone to Church weekly, and will hopefully continue doing so. My friend, is frankly just extremely smart (I honestly can't elaborate on that....

I believe in debate, discussion, and discourse. I believe in listening. I believe in multiple sides to every issue. I believe everyone is worth listening to. I believe there can be fault on "all sides," and that we can all be guilty of misunderstanding each other.

I do not extend these courtesies to racists.

Ideas are dangerous. They are wonderful and they are disastrous. They can be used and misused as weapons o agents of peace. But when te are met with a truly deadly weapon, giving it the benefit of the doubt and letting it do its thing will get te and many others killed.

When it comes to...

link, the only feedback I received revolved around definitions of racism. Sure, the concept of reverse racism was partially what the articolo was about, but it was also about what problems nonwhites have that whites don't face. It was also a lista of grievances that need to be fixed. Those points were completely ignored.

When te say that reverse racism doesn't exist, white people completely ignore the problems you're saying nonwhites face and the changes te want to make to fight them. Instead, they do nothing constructive and just argue on behalf of whites. We - people on both sides of the debate...

Explaining What Makes America Great and Why We Must Protect It!

RUSH: Okay. Folks, let me get (for me on a Friday) a little serious here for a moment. I've had conversations in recente days, weeks, with liberals. Every time I mention this to you, I get, "Why are te hanging around them?" Well, te can't avoid 'em, and I'm not afraid of them. I like engaging them sometimes, because these people, many of them are just following a script. They've got their template, their narrative, and life is very compartmentalized and if something doesn't fit the little cocoon that they've woven for themselves...

While Scrivere linkI became fascinated da school boards. I had been to school board meetings before the book was in my mind. They were meetings that were not too different from the one I described in fiction. They took place during the late 1970’s, at the height of a three-week teacher’s strike.

As a high school senior, I thought that the teachers were foolish for walking out on their students. I had the union president as a teacher; she used post-strike class time to pontificate the union position—and I resented it. I felt that I was being used to carry the union’s message to my parents....

I found myself typing a long reply to one of MajorDork74's commenti on his link. If you're too lazy to click on the link, the image is a bumper sticker which says "If it's OK to call cespuglio, bush Hitler, then I say it's OK to call Obama Muslim."

And the general response was, "Call him whatever te want, but this statement doesn't make sense... how is being a Muslim as bad an insult as being called Hitler? I'm sure te can think of worse and più accurate things to call Obama."

The Major returned with, and I quote: "Obama does a lot of things that people do not know about. How do te know he does not...

Okay, okay I admit so far communism doesn’t seem to have worked too well, what with Stalin with his work camps and his unrealistic 5 years plans o Mao with controversial philosophy and catastrophically cultural revolution. However firstly I’d like to argue that the modelle cited above don’t actually correspond to Marxism in its purest sense, at all. Mao’s theory, in fact has little o nothing to do with Marxism. Mao’s conviction is più about the population’s ability as a whole to achieve anything through hard work and determination has nothing to do with the conventions of communism,...

The origin of life: During Leggere an interesting novel about Dawkins and his theories on evolution, I discovered this particular bit. Dawkins has no solution for how life actually evolved, o arose. Dawkins says: 'It is a complete mystery' (if te wish to know more, read chapter 13 of The Greatest mostra On Earth: the Evidence for Evolution)

I would like to point out that I have not really found a viable explanation for the origin of life, yet. I suppose that people assume it was the Big Bang and the consequential events following after, which caused life to erupt in the form of micro-organisms....

I see the concept for Schrodinger's Rapist getting a lot of flack. People, when confronted with this idea, say things like "This is stupid. Not everyone is a rapist!" o "This is just feminist propaganda meant to instill paranoia in women and make them afraid of men."

I personally think that everyone who wants to abide da the theory has every right to do so. Let me give te an example:

About two years fa I was seventeen and during Halloween break I was working in my Mum's office. But there was one giorno when my Mum couldn't drive me home and I had to get the bus. This was all fine - I was perfectly...