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2023-11-06 14:05:33

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
I'm just saying, understand the arguments you are making, and evaluate their relative strength.

2023-11-06 14:03:50

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
Why aren't you asking that question about the consuls? They're the type of person you expect to have contemporary records for.
Logically, there had to be literally thousands of carpenters in Judea of that time. The existence of these ruins proves that--even if it does not prove the existence of any specific carpenter.
Are you trying to tell me that none of those carpenters had names because we don't have a robust contemporary record?

2023-11-06 13:54:29

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
Well, here's my take: Atheism is not an unreasonable position in and of itself. There are lots of good arguments for it. But selectively misapplying standards of historical attestation is not one of them.
Nobody is challenging the historicity of these men's consulships just because the available evidence is not unambiguously contemporary instead of just ambiguously near-contemporary.
I mean: carpenter vs aristocrat. Who leaves more records?

2023-11-06 13:44:13

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
Broadly agree. Except that my personal opinion is that HRC specifically is an incompetent moron.

2023-11-06 13:36:27

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
Jesus was allegedly a carpenter. Think about that.
But also, look at that list more closely. It does indeed list dates in the 3rd and 4th decades of the 1st century C.E. You shot a little wide of the mark.

2023-11-06 13:35:14

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
Hillary Clinton should never have said that stupid thing about opening re-education camps for former Trump supporters. She makes the job of real democrats infinitely harder by making their worst fears credible.

2023-11-06 13:11:00

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undated_Roman_consuls

2023-10-03 08:28:08

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
Things are spinning out of control, but I can't help laughing a little bit.

2023-09-27 09:26:13

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
I doubt Putin is that smart. He can't even manage his own country without resorting to transparent murder.
I think we have to accept that the US has some foundational flaws in its own system that are finally catching up to it.
Not that the flaws in the US and the Russian system are equal. I mean, Russia has undergone like 5 revolutions in the time the US has had 2 civil wars.
But that's not the point. It's that we can't blame everything on one man.

2023-09-25 12:24:37

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
Probably a lot.
I'm not sure if everyone views it this way, but I think Hitler's case may have one major difference that precludes easy comparison: Hitler came to power because of a PRE-EXISTING crisis, whereas in the case of Xi and Putin, it's pretty clear that they created the crisis.

2023-09-16 12:35:20

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
You are very in touch with your own values in a way most people are not, I'd wager.

2023-09-14 12:55:14

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@npub1lfr…3tl9
It's not about intelligence or non-intelligence. It's about being left or right.
2023 Democrats are basically 1980 Republicans.
So the only way for 2023 Republicans to differentiate themselves is to become Nazis.
The policies they are advocating are stupid and violent. But nobody actually--not even the people advocating them--thinks they are actually good. Just different from what the Democrats are saying.
Thinking never enters the equation.

2023-09-01 06:04:56

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Really? Everybody knew Trump was full of shit for like a generation before he even announced his run for the GOP nomination. Doesn't seem like being known as a problem is his problem.
Like, Trump's problem is that he's stupid. Like the kind of stupid that documents a conspiracy in extremely detailed memoranda.

2023-09-01 06:01:12

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@npub1lrv…tth9 When was the last time calling somebody "liar", even when factual, was an effective political strategy?
To me, Ramaswamy is more offensive as being a cheap little fuzznuts knockoff of Trump. It's so cringe when you see kids trying to mimic "adult" behavior.