The 2024 Presidential Race Thread

Thebrownblob

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Is that a thinly veiled personal attack?

I’m just asking Mr. Ox to explain what issues he has with Bertrand Russell.
It’s not thinly veiled. You are in no position in this forum to question someone’s use of words. And he used Bertrand’s own words to frame the issue with your quoting a crockpot.
 

Sportello

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It’s not thinly veiled. You are in no position in this forum to question someone’s use of words. And he used Bertrand’s own words to frame the issue with your quoting a crockpot.
Nice. You admit to personal attacks, and you're good to go.

It's pretty rich that you would describe Bertrand Russell as a 'crackpot'.


Here's what Mr Ox left out, the first paragraphs of a long Wiki article;

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS[7] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.[8]

He was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians[8] and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism".Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy".[10]

Russell was a pacifist who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League.[11][12][13] He went to prison for his pacifism during World War I,[14] and initially supported appeasement against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, before changing his view in 1943, describing war as a necessary "lesser of two evils". In the wake of World War II, he welcomed American global hegemony in preference to either Soviet hegemony or no (or ineffective) world leadership, even if it were to come at the cost of using their nuclear weapons.[15] He would later criticise Stalinist totalitarianism, condemn the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, and become an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament.[16]

In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".[17][18] He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963).



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vantexan

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You know all it would take to end all this controversy is for Biden's cabinet and Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment. They only need a majority of cabinet members. Any reason why they wouldn't? Don't want a Democrat to be the first removed that way? That they're worse off with Harris?
 

Thebrownblob

Well-Known Member
You know all it would take to end all this controversy is for Biden's cabinet and Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment. They only need a majority of cabinet members. Any reason why they wouldn't? Don't want a Democrat to be the first removed that way? That they're worse off with Harris?
Hilarious that the Democrats could be hoisted by their own Pittard, they wanted to do the same thing to Trump and now may have to be done to them. Lol irony this is what Irrational hate gets you.
 

Thebrownblob

Well-Known Member
Nice. You admit to personal attacks, and you're good to go.

It's pretty rich that you would describe Bertrand Russell as a 'crackpot'.


Here's what Mr Ox left out, the first paragraphs of a long Wiki article;

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS[7] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.[8]

He was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians[8] and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism".Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy".[10]

Russell was a pacifist who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League.[11][12][13] He went to prison for his pacifism during World War I,[14] and initially supported appeasement against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, before changing his view in 1943, describing war as a necessary "lesser of two evils". In the wake of World War II, he welcomed American global hegemony in preference to either Soviet hegemony or no (or ineffective) world leadership, even if it were to come at the cost of using their nuclear weapons.[15] He would later criticise Stalinist totalitarianism, condemn the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, and become an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament.[16]

In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".[17][18] He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963).



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He left it off, or it wasn’t important to his point?

I admitted to personal attacks? I don’t think so. I think I was making a personal observation on you..
 

Wally

BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Biden's idea of fixing his border disaster was allowing 5,000 illegal immigrants each and every day and giving automatic work permits to asylum recipients—a sure fired way to insure more for more illegal immigration flooding.
 

Next Day Err

Well-Known Member
Biden's idea of fixing his border disaster was allowing 5,000 illegal immigrants each and every day and giving automatic work permits to asylum recipients—a sure fired way to insure more for more illegal immigration flooding.
It’s a big country and they do a lot of good for our economy. That’s the other side of the coin.
 
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