Recent content by ProphetOfTruth

I went into all of the Disney movies with as open of a mind as possible. I enjoyed Rogue One and regard Solo with a shrug-and-a-meh. I openly despise TFA as a soulless, sackless, cowardly capitulation by Disney, Kennedy, and Abrams. For all the prequels' many faults, they at least tried to take...

When your sentiment is effectively "Trump is a politician and all politicians lie, so we spend less time criticizing him than we do the press because the press shouldn't lie," you're grading him on a curve at best and giving him a pass outright at worst. Everybody lies. Some lie more than...

There’s nothing wrong with calling out the press for misreporting, as I did on SpaceBattles over the Covington Catholic fiasco for example, but I respectfully find your sentiment here extraordinarily fucked up. Trump is our nation’s leader and the most powerful man on the planet. The notion...

The current nominations have thus far displeased me immensely. There is only one proper selection to be made... This guy! The Elder God is fascinating not merely because he's voiced by the late, great Tony Jay, but also because he's more manipulative bullshit artist than all powerful entity...

That the victorious Union was not as punitive as it might have been to the defeated Confederacy owes to political pragmatism, not moral concession. They wanted to mend the nation and reconstruct as quickly and efficiently as possible; rounding up all the CSA leadership and hanging them for...

Hitler's also responsible for "battles" you seem willing to grant a level of moral leeway to by starting the wars those battles comprise. I'm not sure why fortitude in total service to an indisputably wicked cause is worthy of public celebration on the sovereign soil of a nation that wicked...

If it is ever credibly demonstrated that the inconvenience in gun registration would directly exacerbate rates of gun violence by disarming victims that would otherwise be armed if not for the inconvenience of firearm registry, I'll graciously concede the point.

Not to invoke Godwin, but where would you like your hypothetical statue of Arnold to be placed? To the left or right of our very tasteful and equally hypothetical Hitler monument? @OliverCromwell made an eloquent case why it's morally repulsive to publicly commemorate the CSA.

Because the Confederate in question was most likely white and born in America and bin Laden was neither of those things.* *I'm halfmostly joking But your eloquent point is well taken. No one here would support a statue of publicly erected statue of bin Laden; I suspect many wouldn't even...

Pretty sure if you're suggesting China is the Westernmost country with a patriarchal history, I should redirect you to the Questing & Roleplay section where you're welcome play your fantasy scenario out to your heart's content.

That may very well be the case. But assuming exorbitant gun crime is attributable entirely or primarily due to population density, wouldn't it stand to reason that nations more population dense than the US also have inordinately high rates of gun violence? To clarify: I think that our...

Still zipping around with that that goalpost, I see. With few exceptions, women were largely treated as subordinate at best and objects at worst. The fact that men often suffered historically as well due to miserable conditions (and more often than not from the decisions of other men, not...

Sure. But then that would broadly be examples of men oppressing other men, but you sure seem eager to move that goalpost.

In 2019 alone, the US has had more than 250+ mass shootings That is a disproportionate amount of injury and fatality. The fact that the shooters themselves comprise a relative minority of the population is irrelevant. Offenders don't need to comprise 30% of the population for their crimes to...

Not on the scale that men have oppressed women and certainly not in "Western civilization" as we know it.