Rapp snitches.
Or, as Trump might say, "Bring back the autopen!"
To be explicit: The person you're responding to didn't say it but they have as a premise that when it comes to political systems, lack of empathy is the defining characteristic of fascism (I'm not saying I agree with the premise, I'm saying they had this premise). If you accept this, then their argument is not logically wrong. In contrast, your example is logically wrong. In the "two feet" example you're point at one attribute of something, not a defining characteristic. The correct example would be "All bipeds have two feet (by definition). Bob has two feet, therefore Bob is a biped". The gibberish you produced is logically wrong, while that of the person you're talking to is not, but you're too stupid to understand that.
> Fascism is a lack of emotional intelligence, which is basic intelligence. Empathy and compassion are a form of basic intelligence. (_AND THEREFORE, fascism lacks empathy and compassion_)
This doesn't follow. Fascism can be a lack of emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence can be a form of basic intelligence, empathy and compassion can be a form of basic intelligence, and it can still be the case that you lack emotional intelligence but have empathy and compassion (you might simply lack in other aspects of emotional intelligence).
There's a lot more detail, and delivered in more professional way
Just learned that the federal government has long term leases on office buildings that congressmen have a financial interest in. More disappointment.
It would be, but both mass media and people attention spans have changed, so it would be very different in a lot of ways.
The stuff currently happening in the US is unusual for the US but mild compared to Putin's Russia which Trump seems a little inspired by. At least you don't have people falling out of windows yet.
What's more wild is how much of the US believes that the other party would be much worse.
To be clear, Republicans are absolutely the current cause of this insanity that's going on. The two party system doesn't help, but Republicans have committed insanity while claiming everyone else is doing worse. Trump is a literal pedophile who openly admitted to hating immigrants his entire life. We all saw this coming.
But corruption has been part and parcel of US politics. Or are we supposed to believe that things like the Chappaquiddick incident were actually innocent accidents?
When I was younger I remember thinking that George Bush pardoning Scooter Libby was outrageous. Then I found out what these people were up to routinely.
This whole headline in incredibly comical: https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-rel...
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/dem...
Crazy world
And i think that similar preemptive pardon here, without charge and thus any guilt admission, wouldn't allow the fund seizure.
He lied under oath about his knowledge of gain of function at the Wuhan lab. He is guilty of at least that.
You’re a hell of an optimist.
I’d say that it’s just as likely that the pardon sharpie is being readied, just as soon as the super PAC donation clears.
Plenty of people would happily flush their career down the drain to run away with their family and $90M
Both have cherry-picked their life experiences to support this view.
Pretty sure they'll both be fine as long as they still have access to that money.
I don't have the knowledge to sanity check the claims, but I would've figured someone would be getting rolled by now. I recall that the dad was scrubbing socials along with the son, but that could be token harassment.
Watches? You can also be right. Though, I don't think you need $90 million to spend <$1 million on a watch to splurge.
This is a petty dispute. I'm not gonna go put a bullet in someone who over a petty dispute like this. Nobody is, not even thieves and other people who live outside the law. That's just absurd. Someone who I've wronged in doing so (i.e. someone who likes them) might put one back in me. Or there might be other consequences. People let those things go because it's just not worth it vs the risk of consequences.
But say I can do something that will cause the government to go after someone for me at no risk to myself... That's basically what happened here.
This is basically an attempted (we'll see if it succeeds) DDOS reflection attack but with government.