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  • Took me a few seconds.

  • It is perfectly reasonable and fair to judge someone's character by the company they keep. Particularly if they know the company is disreputable.

  • If this were Gate instead of Trek, ascension instead of Q power, and Goauld instead of Borg, then the answer would be Anubis.

  • If you're not advocating for political violence, then why mention the guillotine in the first place?

  • What I think it that normalizing political violence is extremely dangerous. That it will inevitably be turned back against the very people who advocate for it. And that people who advocate for it must have slept through history class.

  • He's outspoken about dogs with fleas, but lay down with them anyway.

    I don't know about you, but I don't count that in his favor.

  • That's not what I said at all. You're clearly lying.

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  • I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree.

    Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.

    At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes.

    The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

    -Richard Feynman

  • “A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution,” he told Coppins a few months after Jan. 6.

    "But I lay down with the dogs anyway."

  • Yes. I'm also familiar with the history of the French Revolution and why it's not an example to be followed.

    They and the elites they serve deserve to be terrorized.

    Normalizing political violence inevitably, and sometimes literally, will blow up in your face. Just ask Robespierre.

  • There is no Constitutional right to have the government enforce your contract.

    The right to petition the government for redress of grievances is enumerated in the First Amendment

    The Contracts Clause has nothing to do with enforcement by the courts.

    The Contracts Clause prohibits states from passing laws to prevent one of the parties to a contract from enforcing their rights in court, which is exactly what the moratorium did.

  • The insight is that your claim doesn't survive a logical analysis.

  • The "Reign of Terror" is so called because the revolutionary government literally adopted "terror" (as in murdering people who disagreed with them) as an official government policy.