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[M]en are, that they might have joy. 2 Nephi 2:25 in this life I shall have joy.... 5 Moses 10. (Spoken by Adam.) One of the things I really liked about being LDS was the notion that the purpose of people was to have joy. Not just joy in heaven, but joy right here on earth. I hadn't thought much abo...

At this point, the Trump faithful believe that there was election fraud and that Trump actually won. However, the faithful will leave if he cannot make his case and he will then concede. I don’t think so. There’s a relationship in play here. On one side are folks who do not have a functional relati...

I just listened to an episode of Hidden Brain that explores the role of "hate radio" in the Rwandan genocide and attempts to use radio to change people's attitudes and behaviors in its aftermath. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/13/890539487/romeo-juliet-in-rwanda-how-a-soap-opera-sought-to-change-a-nati...

ajax, can you give me an example of this ‘equality of results’ nightmare that you are now pitching as the soon-to-be new normal in Joe Biden’s America © ? Is this, like, when everyone gets to use a paved road that was built using tax dollars? Or are there better examples of this forced equality ? W...

I don't favor changing the electoral college beyond getting rid of the electors. The framers set up a system intended to balance the deeply conflicting feelings we have about democracy. The divergence between the popular vote and electoral college are due to some long-term demographic trends that i ...

This is the perfect example of what Joe Biden means by Americans seeing each other. Ajax isn't seeing liberals. if he were, he wouldn't be so far off in his descriptions of them. What he is seeing is a caricature of liberals fed to him by Fox and Breitbart. There are extreme anarchists on the left w...

He still has sole authority for the next couple of months to launch a full-scale nuclear attack on anywhere. If he threatens to use the launch codes, they will let him stay in the office as long as he likes. Maybe life on the outside isn't so bad for him, but if his legal downside is as grim as som...

Socialism is the removal of individual choice in how you spend or don't spend your paycheck. It's no longer equality of opportunity but equality of result. It's where incentive to work longer and harder are taken away It's a form of bondage as evidenced by things like the Berlin Wall. Freedom is no...

Equality of result is taxation? What does equality of result have to do with natural monopolies? You know what? Don't answer. I'm done herding cats for a while. Is this a new straw man? Why are you equating taxation to ‘equality of result’? Also, should I feel put upon by being forced to pay taxes ...

Socialism is the removal of individual choice in how you spend or don't spend your paycheck. It's no longer equality of opportunity but equality of result. It's where incentive to work longer and harder are taken away It's a form of bondage as evidenced by things like the Berlin Wall. Freedom is no...