People are usually pleased to see my bacon double chub
People are usually pleased to see my bacon double chub
What responsibility is it of Quebec’s to police how other provinces and the federal government treat non quebecois?
Zappa was no hippy
IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?
Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as “man is the measure of all things”, that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.
With this argument in mind we can see why “rhetoric” is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.
The Chinese Room by Searle
This is him focusing on that. This statement makes it clear that the status of the Falklands is not his priority.
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so instead we get pissy about plastic straws, a regulation imposed on corporations by the government.
So, you agree people should not start drinking Coca Cola, and for their own health and finances they should make every effort to stop drinking Coca Cola.
Are you suggesting people should not be encouraged to quit smoking?
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In no universe is coca cola “all you can afford”. You could replace it with tap water and be better off in every way.
I hate corporations so I am going to continue buying sugary bullshit that I don’t need, and get pissed off at anyone who suggests I give the worst polluters less of my money
-the anti corporate position.
You could always not buy their completely non essential products, but suggesting that rarely gets a good reception from the “obsessively whining about straws” crows.
None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.
You can just look at any objective metric of wealth or wellbeing and notice Sweden very often near the top of the list. You don’t need to invent some theoretical internet opinion in your head to be mad at.
It is Kwantafyeable
I once ate Jeans Beanganoff and I didn’t poop for 3 straight days.
“the weapons it’s using against its Anglophone linguistic minority”
Bill 101 and the nothwistanding clause that allows it are not new things. If Ontario or Manitoba were going to use that precedent to limit francophones ability to work in French in Ontario they would probably have done that by now, not that Ontario or Manitoba have ever needed any encouragement to push for the assimilation of these people.
If by weapons (such ridiculous hyperbole) you mean that Quebec is going to spend less on subsidizing foreign students in Anglo Universities, I feel like the anti Indian sentiment in Anglo Canada is going to push them in that direcion already.
Quebec is not responsible if the the rest of Canada chooses to pretend that the status of English is somehow equivalent to French in this country and institute English protection laws. In fact I would argue that is the right of any province, regardless of how unnecessary it would be, and no business of ours.