David Brin

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  Okay, back to typical, lawyerly self-justification and emphasis on pique. What in the world makes you think your current behavior, waging war instead of discussing ideas, actually supports your underlying assertion, that I misbehaved and you did not? 1) It...
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  SEF Haven't seen you around in some time. Hoping you've been well. As for "insult"- folks can use whatever epithets they want, toward me. But ascribing evil actions and goals to me, like declaring that I demand others "kowtow" to...
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  Let me add that it is not just the Five Accountability arenas we have on our side. There are other factors on our side, that cynics are too teleological to even notice. For example, we also have very powerful MEMIC...
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  Jiminy Christmas! When he decides to drop the cynical-lazy snarker reflex and step up, this J Thomas argues like a grownup! Notice, all, that his response this time was to do the one this grownups do in disputation… he attempted...
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  I wrote the following for the guys under my own blog. And realized it gives the answer J Thomas demanded... (even though he refused to answer the dare that I offered, first. === Alfred I disagree. Any huge asymmetry of...
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  Seriously? You treat a guest with such acid, puerile sputum, and are surprised that adults only come by this place as "drive-by?" Charlie raised some very interesting and cogent points, despite my criticism that the overall goal was tendentious... ...on...
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  J Thomas thanks for replying. I won't be hanging around but I am glad I caught your reply. Alas, while intelligent, it simply doubled down on the dolor. You try to shrug off the two hundred year western-democratic enlightenment experiment,...
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  Charlie… as usual you have a lot of cogent and insightful observations to offer us. Alas though… sorry, man… but did you notice that the only factors in your lengthy list are dolorous ones and excuses for cynicism? Yes, I...
• Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
  Congratulations, Charlie. Excellent run-down of a highly Improbably Bestiary. It shows not only the range, but the common thread of the modern sophomore who must have some memic idol -- a way to declare himself in-the-know and superior to the...