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True - but have you ever talked to somebody from Argentina? :d

Certainly. I said nothing about 'correct'. I was talking about what's most common, and yes, there's lots of variation.

Personally, I'm perfectly fine with people making whatever arrangements...

Oh, that's GOOD! :dY>

Obama would be much, much better, but he had his shot. Amy Klobuchar or Pete Buttigieig would have been better presidents, for all that the right would have gone insane about a female or gay...

You do seem to be indulging in a lot of straw men. 'Best possible'? Who said that? Better than some of the alternatives, and any with an 'R' next to their name, doubtless. But, yes, sometimes ha...

'Betrayal' seems too strong, although I do think it's a mistake. It might just be worthwhile IF McConnell lives up to his side of the bargain.

FWIW, the 'average' human pattern (varies a lot, obviously) seems to be something like formal official male-female pairs, with responsibility for children, but with quite a bit of unofficial activity...

Here too. AFAIK we NEVER call the Secret Service the "SS".


For reference: Treason charges require helping foreign enemies in wartime. 'Seditious Conspiracy' is the statute I think applies...

Both dialects of Latin, and the grammar is similar. But Spanish is a lot easier for a native English-speaker to pronounce correctly, and phonetic spelling helps a lot. It certainly makes you...

And how'd that work out for Austria-Hungary, Japan and Germany?

Blaming everybody but Mr Putin and his desire to reassemble the Soviet Empire is simply absurd.

He'll get over it.

Let's say 'caused problems' rather than 'paralyzed' and I think it would be more accurate (if vaguer).

And then we demonstrate exactly how it's done. :rolleyes:

A modest proposal re #1425: restrict ALL private ownership and use of guns to those with two X chromosomes. Heavy penalties for anyone with a Y chromosome caught with a gun.

Yeah, yeah, I know...

OK let's say 90% +/- 10%. We tend to focus more on the disagreements, obviously; a chorus of 'yep, yep, yep . . ' is pretty boring.

Possibly open for someone just as dreadful, but not so nuts and much more component. Ron DeSantis? (shudder)

If I were a conservative, I would be praying to whatever gods I believed in that Mr Trump would go to jail, or better yet, just quietly drop dead of a heart attack or something else quick.

And here we come to the questions again. Bobbys, are you also a traitor to your country? Answer them.
1. Did Mr Biden legitimately in the 2020 presidential election? If not, why not?
2. What do you...

If that's the case, then she had to choose between loyalty to a party led by someone who attempted a coup to overthrow the government, and loyalty to her country.

And here we come to the questions...

And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a perfect example. Tom and Mr. Baxter and George. and Peerie Maa and I agree about 95%, and probably 99% on all the really important things, yet posting an...

Yeah, Basque is related to Martian, I think. Up there they speak North Castilian Spanish, with the 'th' sounds for Z and C, and actually using vosotros other than in church, sort of the equivalent...

One of my standard posts in the Bilge over the years seems to have been some form of defending Christianity, a version of 'Yeah, but that's only one subset of Christians, and a fairly small one." ...

That C&P may have more falsehoods per line than anything ever posted in the Bilge. Bobbys, with all respect, that guy knows less about liberals than he does about the mating habits of penguins. ...

Where in Spain? In some places folks have an accent VERY different from what one normally hears in the US (Mexican, Puerto Rican, and the more northerly parts of Latin America); sort of like if...

Well, I obviously disagree. Aversion is common in almost all cases, but not universal. But does that really demonstrate either a genetic basis or the opposite?

Source.

I don't think so Again, learning and genetics. Learning can reinforce or diminish the hard-wiring, or even overcome it. But really, none of us have enough evidence to demonstrate much of anything...

All too well. But Hitler was 34 at the time of the Putsch, and 44 when he became Chancellor in '33. No guarantees, of course.

I like 'Brown Shorts' :dY>

I dunno, it seems to me to go way, way beyond rational calculations of how to stay in power, particularly lately.

Let us thank whatever gods there may be for his incompetence at plotting a coup.

The more I hear, the more I'm convinced that Mr Trump actually is mentally ill, almost in the 'talking to fireplugs' category. His Narcissistic Personality Disorder (link, again) makes him entirely...

This made sense in the late 18th century, when South Carolina and Massachusetts were probably more different than Argentina and New Zealand today. (It's not about speed of communication, that's just...

More accurately, I think genetic + cultural is accurate. I think it fits the evidence better that culture alone.

An analogy on a larger scale might be language. Languages vary a great deal,...

I would say a very few cultures. Many more have strong sanctions against it, or are OK with it as something done by a small minority.

It doesn't have to be genetic, but I think it probably is to...

States in 1789 were individual things, quite different cultures and ways of life. It could take weeks for a letter to get from New York to Philadelphia, and moving people and goods around was dodgy...

Let's say 'has a genetic component'. Again, I don't think anyone is arguing that it's entirely genetic, like eye color (I was going to say hair color, but hair dye is big business); much of it is...

A 'disgust reaction' is just a stronger aversion, an unbroken continuum from indifference to slight dislike to totally repulsed. People fall at different places on the continuum.

Guys? Really? It's a hypothesis, a plausible one, but damnably difficult to confirm or falsify. I understand you think it's wrong, and that some think it might be socially-politically awkward were...

Defending against his own worries, albeit unsuccessfully. These guys really don't seem to understand that in the event of real trouble (his imaginary 'foreign invasion' or something similar) their...

Histrionic, much? 'Our planet's destruction'?? Really? You vastly overestimate human power. We can do damage surely, cause a bunch of species to go extinct, mess things up a lot, but even if we...

So do I. I would prefer Bobbys would answer them honestly. My suspicion is that if he were to do that, he'd get more criticism than he's willing to put up with.

Well sure - but there is also an enormous amount of variation in the behaviors those genetic urges turn into, both among individuals and between cultures, far more among humans than most other...

All reasonably complicated organisms (most mammals anyway, bugs I doubt) have both hard-wired and learned aspects to behavior. The ratio of learned to genetically-determined is a lot higher in humans...

:d Oh, that's a good one! Too obvious, though.

You have indeed, and several others. Bobbys and woodpile have never even come close to a response, and that needs to be made very, very obvious; I think we need to know if we have enemies of...

I think terms would be a good idea. Implementing it would take a constitutional amendment. Don't bet more on it than you want to lose.

Impeachment is easier, but not under current circumstances.

Wrong.

Oh don't be silly. I will indeed vote against every Democrat who wants to criminalize abortion every time I get a chance (in primaries), and you should too, except when the alternative is worse -...

Hey Bobbys! Show us that 'Clown Boy' isn't accurate; answer the questions!
1. Did Mr Biden legitimately win the 2020 presidential election? If not, why not?
2. What do you think of the attempt...

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That's a misunderstanding of what Dawkins meant. He was NOT talking about genes for selfish behavior, but the straightforward idea that genes that are better at making copies of themselves will...

I agree. It's not going to happen, but I think in this case floating the idea won't do any harm.