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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

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  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  never a jw

  Slim
  

  "pathological liar". I paraphrased Harris, because he implied it. Trump, just as many other of his ilk can be proven to be liars, but I wouldn't go as far as comparing him to people in mental institutions. If you can prove it, then show me the evidence.

  
  

  Cofty,

  You have thrown plenty of insults, but I won't play victim lest you compare me to JW's.

  Please deal with this statement "parroting your biases". Exactly what are my biases? I agree with you on the essence of Harris' podcast. I said so more than once.

  I just feel that he is a high caliber intellectual who is capable of delivering his message more effectively. I said so multiple times too. Exactly what are my biases? Have you failed to notice that I implicitly have stated my admiration and respect for Harris? The reason I am disappointed at his podcast is because no one else, other than the late Hitchens, can practice the dialectic method better. His podcast is better suited for Bill Maher.
  

  
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  I have been nothing but respectful.

  add sanctimonious. What the hell, I will help you prove your point
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  "buffoonery", "clown" "awful man", "pathological liar", "jackass" are insults, not evidence. Why is it so hard to see it?

  (insert this between the two paragraphs above)
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  never a jw

  You offered no valid comparison at all.

  Yes I did. JW's response to evidence is avoidance or dismissal. Similarly, that's your response to my critique of Harris' podcast. This may be the fourth time that I write it and likely you will ignore it or offer a feeble response, along the lines that Harris proved or demonstrated that Trump is "clown" and a "jackass". At a high level of intellectual or scholarly discourse that is unacceptable.
  

  Deal with it honestly and intelligently, or the comparison applies
  

  
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  I compared you to JW's and offered my reasoning for the comparison. It is true that I voiced only my opinion. I also implied that most people here, including me, are not intellectuals. The standards for our discourse are different from those of leading intellectuals like Harris.Did you miss that point??
  

  No irony whatsoever. The big irony was pointed out in my previous post, but as a good JW would, you missed it. May I point it out again

  You seem to be confusing evidence with arrogance and insults. Cofty
  

  .No confusion here. You are the one who seems to be confused. Quite clearly, anyone with a bit of honesty and reasoning abilities realizes that "buffoonery", "clown" "awful man", "pathological liar", "jackass" are insults, not evidence. Why is it so hard to see it?
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  My commitment is to follow the evidence wherever it leads. You seem to be confusing evidence with arrogance and insults.

  No confusion here. You are the one who seems to be confused. Quite clearly, anyone with a bit of honesty and reasoning abilities realizes that "buffoonery", "clown" "awful man", "pathological liar", "jackass" are insults, not evidence. Why is it so hard to see it?
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  Cofty,
  

  Your cause, as may have been mentioned before somewhere else, is "I am always right" or at least "I have to be right"

  Either you intentionally or unintentionally missed my point. Let me rephrase it as concisely as possible. My problem with Harris is not the essence of his message, it's his delivery.
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  never a jw

  The world needs more voices like Sam Harris, Ayan Hirsi...

  Agree. Just tell Harris to unload his emotions before he records his podcasts. He is an intellectual for God's sake!
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  "beneath contempt".....pleeeeease

  The big problem with JW's is that they have an undying and unreasonable loyalty to a cause. You too.
  

  "Jackass", "clown", "pathological liar", "awful", is just emotional loaded language that deepens the division between the two camps. There's more effective and persuasive ways to describe Trump if you want to undermine his popularity.
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  My comparing you to a JW has merit because you dismissed my evidence without a thoughtful response.

  My premise all along is that Sam Harris in his podcast did not adhere to the objective analysis and decorum expected of intellectuals and scholars. I doubt he even attempted that.
  

  Sam never proved that Donal Trump is a clown or a jackass, even metaphorically speaking. He, however, has a good chance of demonstrating that Trump is an unprincipled business man, a misogynist, a narcissist, a shallow, unlettered and uninformed person with no political savvy for public office, especially the presidency. But he is not a clown or a jackass. That's just plain loaded ad hominem,
  

  Regarding Sam's implication that Trump is a pathological liar, doesn't pass the test. He may be an unprincipled man who lies as needed when he wants to advance his goals, but not a pathological liar..

  An "awful person" is just a broad, vague and useless description that can not be subjected to any objective analysis. "awful" can only belong in the opinion category.