Quote from: Verbatim on August 21, 2016, 12:46:34 PM

uhhh noam chomsky is actually the most intelligent person in the universe

>expert in linguistics
>talks about economics

Honestly the only people whose opinions on economics I trust less than socialists are economists.

Vapid lyrics, dull subject matters, boring, inoffensive instrumentation, poor vocals that all sound the same, conservative values...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nik-UstmCjw

Country music is terrible and the culture associated with it needs to die in a dumpster fire.

i can't wait for round 2

One candidate is actively belligerent toward Russia, and represents the greatest enemy of Putin's pluralist ideology

The other would rather engage in a less aggressive and invasive foreign policy

GEE I WONDER WHICH ONE THE RUSSIANS WILL BACK UP

CLEARLY THEY JUST WANT TO UNDERMINE OUR PRECIOUS DEMOCRACY

NEVERMIND US MEDIA VILIFYING PUTIN EVERY RUSSIAN ELECTION CYCLE AND ACCUSING HIM OF ASSASSINATION AND VARIOUS OTHER UNHUMANIST SINS

GOD (secular agnostic deistic god, not the bossy Christian god) BLESS COCA COLA AND WALMART AND DEMOCRACY

>PC port of formerly Xbox-exclusive game
>no controller support

I'm trying to avoid parties myself these days. I've found women are my vice and parties generally lead to me mixing them with alcohol and drugs. Don't need that shit.

OT: I'd say go for it.

Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy

I'm here for what I get for coming, not what I'd get for skipping : ^ )

Quote from: Nick McIntyre on August 17, 2016, 01:46:08 AM

Quote from: Soporific Slash on August 17, 2016, 01:44:10 AM

He's very clever and videos he's in are absurdly entertaining but I'm not sure I'd give him any more credit than that.

Wasn't there a time he made Piers Morgan look like an ass (not hard tbh) by pointing out he had a disabled kid backstage?

I believe he was pointing out that Piers Morgan was using the deaths of children to push his political agenda. And then later on he discovered that Piers planned on bringing out a kid in a wheelchair to support his argument but decided against it.

that's such a Piers Morgan thing to do.

Latin 1
Ancient Warfare
(((College writing)))
Intro to film
Earth Science
Intro to religious studies

Just taking kind of a bullshit semester while I figure out what major I want.

Quote from: Dan on August 16, 2016, 10:09:06 PM

I've never been there. In what way were they assholes?

Ive seen a lot of people getting road rage over there. And you can get shot for just about anything in north philly

that's urban new england in general though

Just a somewhat eloquent conservative. Nothing new or special about him.

>not a populist
>hates Trump
>supports Israel
>is a (((tribesman))).

Kinda shit-tier to be honest.

Quote from: Grozny on August 16, 2016, 10:08:16 PM

Quote from: Joyce Byers on August 16, 2016, 10:00:27 PM

Quote from: Grozny on August 16, 2016, 09:53:59 PM

Quote from: Joyce Byers on August 16, 2016, 09:51:03 PM

Human rights come from morality, not the government.

Civil rights come from the government.

morality comes from God or the next best thing, and guides rulers into offering civil rights and freedoms for those under their leadership, for the good of the nation.

FUCK the enlightenment tbh

Morality is a constant, but is interpreted in different ways by humans. Therefore, human rights are interpreted in different ways. Whenever I speak on the subject, I'm obviously referring to my interpretation of it.

Not everyone believes in God, but almost everyone believes in morality, and so to claim that morality solely comes from God is just incorrect.

functional morality can only come from an unwavering God or God-like fixed source.

If morality is subjective or in any way impermanent, it might as well not exist at all.

I don't give a fuck what people believe, people are fucking retarded.

Morality is fixed, and just because everyone believes different things about it doesn't mean that it's not. Needing a giant, omniscient deity to tell you what's right and wrong may be necessary for some people, and that's fine, but that doesn't mean that's the only source of good and evil.

"God" doesn't necessarily mean an abrahamic sky wizard

The existence of suffering is where morality comes from.

This is, funnily enough, a pseudo-religious stance

If you were to suddenly learn that there is objectively no God or fixed source, does that mean torturing a child to death would suddenly cease to be immoral?

Yes.

The nuances of the subject go deeper than religious dictates.

I think you fail to understand that there is far more to religiosity than ritual and sky magic, on a societal and individual level.

Quote from: Grozny on August 16, 2016, 09:48:13 PM

then you are legally protected but these rights """"exist"""" only as long as the government in question continues to uphold them.

I mean, has anyone ever argued that rights exists in nature and aren't man-made? Your proposition was always the way I saw it, going through history classes. If our government was dissolved overnight, rights wouldn't exist.

Maybe it's my lack of experience on the subject talking, but. . .

class is making that argument right now. The cult of Human Rights is extensive, but largely informal and mostly serves as a propaganda tool for the imperial humanist globalist movement.

Quote from: Grozny on August 16, 2016, 08:55:51 PM

Holy shit shut the fuck up you don't have rights nobody has rights

i don't understand what you mean when you say this

my constitution guarantees my rights, even if rights do not exist in nature, fundamentally

then you are legally protected but these rights """"exist"""" only as long as the government in question continues to uphold them. At which point the discussion moves from "is X a right" to, "why should we (those in power) care about or legally protect X".

Rights are nothing more than legal protections that have been meme'd and venerated into pseudo-deistic magical entities that somehow transcend the material.