The Philosophy Discussion Forum

In her remarks at the grand opening of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center, which requires Illinois residents to present a valid photo ID to prove residency, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett made a land acknowledgment. “We’d also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today,” she solemnly declared. “We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.”

As our Douglas Andrews observed earlier this week, Barack Obama hasn’t even paid all of his contractors for building the monstrosity on Chicago’s South Side. I don’t think for a moment that the land acknowledgment means he’s going to come to a logical conclusion and give the land back.

Heck, no one from any of those tribes was even invited to the ceremony.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 3:52 am

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:02 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 10:04 am

Gary, for crying out loud.

I checked the gauge and you’ve exceeded your question quota, and the generously provided answers go ignored.

Where is your essay on how you separate spirituality from life?
I thought we were agreed that you be posting that.

No more soup for you.
You haven't digested what you have.

Now, you need to do something with the all the answers you've received from all the generous people, and in a philosophy forum … well, what you should do is start applying the answers in some philosophical way that’s other than nein, and in this way logic may penetrate to a depth that enables you to think a new thought.

I'll translate. No more answers for you, until you deserve them.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:25 pm Bullshit.

(continued advice to Gary)

Dialogue isn't a press conference. Wise up.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:40 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:40 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:25 pm Bullshit.

(continued advice to Gary)

Dialogue isn't a press conference. Wise up.

We told you that Trump was a bad candidate. You didn't listen. Now you want the driver's seat. As you wish. Here you go. Don't f*** up anymore. You're welcome.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 12:56 pm To what political party, did Andrew Jackson belong?

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Now, these days, there has been a switcharoo.

The Democrats Party teaches the innocent little children to believe in this switcharoo.

What is the switcharoo? Other than just a cool word ...


According to Democrats, and TDS, The Republican Party is now all the bad things that the Democrat Party started.
The Democrat Party is no longer affiliated with what The Democrat Party started.
You know, things like Democrat's KKK, the Democrat's Jim Crow laws, the Democrat's slavery, the betrayal of Union in favour of power ...

The Democrat Party has not evolved upwards, out of unvirtuous thought and action.
The Democrat Party has just refined it's methods of deception so that now, as a result of their educational efforts ...

Somehow, according to the Democrat Party and their compliant minions, the Republican Party now represents all the hateful crap that the Democrats started ... and still stand for.

You know, things like previously mentioned ... and more.

Maybe even ... evil?

After all, look at all they've done and are trying to do.

Not only shameful, but sad.


(Here come the reactionary arguments from TDSers, arguments that the Democrat Party is different now than in the days of Jackson, just as they've been taught to say. There is also likely to be hollers that nothing in the world makes sense anymore, which a sign that a crack may be appearing in the buttress that has piled up over the years like a termite mound.)

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:36 pm Walker, are you truly blind to the reality that the REPUBLICAN Party today doesn't stand for what it did in 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, etc.? American political parties aren't representing fixed ideologies but instead shifting coalitions of voters.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:46 pm

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:36 pm Walker, are you truly blind to the reality that the REPUBLICAN Party today doesn't stand for what it did in 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, etc.? American political parties aren't representing fixed ideologies but instead shifting coalitions of voters.

Let's say that's how it is. Let's believe you.

Who, then, is responsible for owning slaves, for the Confederacy, for Jim Crow, for the KKK, for turning the hoses on the civil rights marchers, and for betraying the black family in America? It was never the Republicans, of course; they were the party of anti-slavery, of Lincoln, of desegregation, of opposition to Jim Crow, against the New Deal and subsidizing single motherhood and fatherless homes, and so on. And now you say it isn't the Democrats, either?

So nobody is responsible for those things. Things happened, and nobody did them. Neither party can be blamed. This is what you would have to be saying. Are you saying that?

If not, at whose feet do you lay responsibility for slavery, the KKK, the opposition to civil rights, Jim Crow...and so on?

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:36 pm Walker, are you truly blind to the reality that the REPUBLICAN Party today doesn't stand for what it did in 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, etc.? American political parties aren't representing fixed ideologies but instead shifting coalitions of voters.