Fair enough.

That’s kind of my point. However, I take issue with the notion of a “true self”. If the girl you mentioned grew up in Victorian England, would she be repressing her bisexuality or would she have simply been straight? In other words, the “true self” may be at least partially environmentally determined.

A person holding a gun up to your head also gives you a choice — that doesn’t mean he isn’t forcing you to act against your will. The point is this: when somebody says that doing X is a choice they imply that doing ~X is not unreasonably difficult.

People can choose whether or not to act on their homosexual inclinations, and the ease with which they can choose not to act on them increases as their rating on the Kinsey scale decreases.

To be fair, no conservative has ever said that.

Well, given that in the past men openly practiced pederasty in many cultures, how would you like a society in which pederasty made a full comeback?

What part of “more like height” don’t you understand?

It’s pretty clear that when a society accepts homosexuality, the distribution of people on the Kinsey scale shifts to the right. In other words, engaging in homosexual activity really is a choice for many people, it’s just easier to make that choice now than it was before. The conservatives were mostly right on this…

So, for many people, being gay is a choice after all...

^ What they are looking at:

Uh oh.

Given that most of the violence in black communities is directed at other black people I don’t see how making those communities less violent would only benefit white people. Do explain.

(1) At least when it comes to his political theories Chomsky is nothing more than a classic ideologue — somebody who develops a theory first (stemming, of course, from his personal moral value system) and then selects facts to support that theory instead of looking at all the facts first and developing a theory that…

Noam Chomsky? Is that you?

They never had a chance to invade the West because they got defeated in a most humiliating fashion by Poland (which had just gained its independence). But they absolutely had that aim:

Yes, and I implied as much in my previous comment.

The Worldwide Communist Revolution was a central component of Marxism since the beginning of the movement in the mid-19th century. Hardly something that the “US rolled out” (were you thinking of the “Domino Theory”?). In the early 1920s the USSR absolutely did try to bring this revolution about by attempting to invade…

In general, yes. Not in the case of the war with Mexico, however.

The Military hasn’t protected the US since 1945, Diplomats have.

Crickets.