How Trump can win the election!

[Thumpalumpacus]

Oh dear, reading Rand? Better lay into some No-Doz and upgrade your BS detector ... she can be pretty sly.

[Jesster]

Oh dear, reading Rand? Better lay into some No-Doz and upgrade your BS detector ... she can be pretty sly.

Yeah. Ayn Rand is crap.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Reading her works (I avoided her fiction, only read her philosophy stuff) was useful to me. I did buy into it for a while, and so while I reject her basic premise regarding altruism, I do still think she has some good points. She fetishizes individual liberty far too much, in the sense that she seems to reject the idea of a social compact outside of the avoidance of violence.

The main benefit I got from her was not in economic philosophy, and in finding and strengthening the rational underpinnings for my atheism. Before I read her, my atheism was inchoate, unreasonable. After reading her, I found my rationality and pursued it. (Sagan and Randi also played major roles.)

[Edwardo Piet]

Rand sees everything in black and white. I looked into Objectivism a few years ago and quickly realized it's ridiculous.

[Jehanne]

You didn't get that bullshit off a liberal web site.

No, none of it.

[Jehanne]

Unless it's under oath, lying is not a crime, and certainly not a crime worthy of occupying a very expensive S-Max cell.

The crap about women wanting to be first among equals is just that, crap. It's true that some women would like that, but generalizing that to women is sloppy thinking. It sure doesn't comport with my experience, which is that women are happy in a relationship when they simply feel heard.

Yes, perjury, which is lying under oath is a federal crime:

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-cha...rjury.html

And, there are SuperMax prisons that house non-violent offenders.

[Jehanne]

Bill Clinton, the President, was found by a federal judge to have lied under oath, which is a felony.

LOLOLOLOL.... So after all that, the worst you can come up with is lying about a blow-job? Yeah, well - that tells me everything I need to know, about validity of your accusations...

Sure, prisons are FULL of people sentenced for cheating on their wives and lying about it in front of a judge... And even if we accepted, that Bill is a FELON for that - you still have NOTHING on his poor, mistreated wife, whom you seem to nonetheless abhore equally.

I voted for Bill and could care less whose mouth his dick was, but yes, he did lie under oath about it; a federal judge ruled on that:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...e-1.904790

P.S. Prisons are full of drug offenders mostly.

[Jehanne]

Drumpf's losing...

He's racist, rude, disrespectful, says all Mexicans are rapists and ALL Muslims are evil. This orange rotten butter sock is your vice presidential candidate.

If your for Drumpf your for what I stated above.

And the economy was never good. Communism has really bad flaws... but sadly so does Capitalism.

I heard Ayn Rand is cool, better read her shit I guess. Sounds fun.
Unless....

Atlas shrugged...

OHHHHHH

I am not voting for the asshole who is also a lying adulterous cheater.  But, I am saying that climate change is Trump's last card, which, if he begins to play it correctly, might get the ball at least back on the court.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Unless it's under oath, lying is not a crime, and certainly not a crime worthy of occupying a very expensive S-Max cell.

The crap about women wanting to be first among equals is just that, crap. It's true that some women would like that, but generalizing that to women is sloppy thinking. It sure doesn't comport with my experience, which is that women are happy in a relationship when they simply feel heard.

Yes, perjury, which is lying under oath is a federal crime:

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-cha...rjury.html

Hence my caveat, which was the very first sentence in my post.

And, there are SuperMax prisons that house non-violent offenders.

I wasn't arguing that there are or aren't Supermax prisons for nonviolent criminals. I was saying that lying -- even under oath -- is not a crime worthy of such expensive punishment.

That said, I'd like to see some support for this claim of yours.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I am not voting for the asshole who is also a lying adulterous cheater. 

That's good, because he's not running for office.

#informyourselfgoddamnit