Philip Müller

Atheist, Philosophy enthusiast and D&D nerd. I design stuff @footnotestorams

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

Organon - an app that teaches deductive logic and assists in the development of arguments.

[GrumpyViking @3Vikings1]

@philipmuller Can we see the cover of your thesis? It was a thesis right?

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

What's especially beautiful is that this moneybag who could never point Ukraine out on a map is now telling me, a guy from Donbas, and my community that we are actually ethnic Russians and want to go with Russia.

There's not a single drop of intellectual humility or sticking to the fact the world could not be that simplistic.

Maybe it's that you have no idea what you're talking about?

And that the vast majority of "ethnic" Russians" (who actually identify themselves as Russian-speaking Ukrainians) don't want to have anything in common with Putin's totalitarian hellhole, especially following terrible devastation that Russia brought upon Ukraine's south and east, where it swept off entire cities and regions?

Maybe it's that, especially given the catastrophe of 2022, even more eastern Ukrainians chose Ukraine and the West, so that's why they fled the war to settle down in other parts of Ukraine or in Europe?

Or maybe this is why a very large part of the Ukrainian military at war is the people of Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipro, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson, who hate Russia and fight it fiercely, knowing what it has done to their homeland and their own families?

How many men and women of Mariupol fight to have their revenge and defend the country from the plague of Russian fascism, next to the ones who lost their loved ones in Russian missile attacks on Lviv?

How many so-called "ethnic Russians" who have always identified themselves as Ukrainians now stay in free Ukraine, work jobs, pay taxes, run charities, send donations to buy drones, and take care of disabled veterans?

How many want to live in freedom, dignity, democracy, and pursuit of happiness, too?

But you know, David Sacks, in his infinite arrogance and ignorance, thinks he knows better.

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@DineshDSouza ‘relatively’ doing some insane heavy lifting here

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta She did want to cut taxes. Actually, her proposals would’ve cut taxes more than Trump’s on lower income families. Here is an estimation of Harris (left) and Trump (right).

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta Okay I think at this point you’re just referring to his general tax plans. These are not designed to counter the tariffs, they are just another policy. For example, Harris also planned tax cuts (but no 20% tariffs on all imports).

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta Look I know that Trump wants to pass tax cuts. That is not contested. What is contested is the “10% tax cuts across the board” claim, and I don’t see any evidence of that in the article you linked

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta Can you link me to an article or something that discusses his across the board 10% tax cuts?

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @KellyScaletta I'm not assuming that at all. Even if domestic cars cost the same, the reason why currently they aren't competitive is because they are more expensive than everything else. While now you have cheaper options, then you'd be forced to buy what is now the most expensive one

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta Sure but 1) I don't think Trump has proposed across the board 10% tax cuts and 2) the tariffs themselves as a policy would still be inflationary and still make everything more expensive

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @KellyScaletta Yes but not relative to now right? They'd be cheaper because everything else got more expensive. The cheapest car then would be what the most expensive car is now

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @KellyScaletta Like, what is the mechanism by which tariffs make American-made cars more competitive?

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @KellyScaletta Yes, but why would American cars be more competitive?

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta He wants to do 10-20% on all imports and 60% on China. Can we both agree that at least the first part is, and I'll use polite language, undesirable?

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @KellyScaletta It might not increase the cost of existing American products, but they are already significantly more expensive than the competition. That is why making everything else more expensive makes them more competitive. You're making the most expensive items in supermarkets the baseline

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@HardMoneyMax @LetsHitAMillion @KellyScaletta So just to be clear, are you then acknowledging that an across the board tariff, as Trump proposed and campaigned on, is stupid?

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@dnevin_david @CartuneNetwerk You understand right that the very reason people might start to buy American made products is not because they got any cheaper, but because all imported alternatives got at least as expensive? It will literally make everything more expensive.

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@GoblinQChesh @PalaeoPhilo @TrolleyDave1971 @solo1y @stephenlaw60 I’d really love to participate, but I feel a bit out of my depth on this topic atm. It’s been a while since I actively discussed philosophy

[Emerson Green @waldenpod]

It’s so trivially easy to imagine a world almost identical to ours but with better evidence for theism, the resurrection, etc.

If your view can’t handle that obvious fact, you need to rethink your view

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@JHamillHimself @BeardedHeretic_ @GoblinQChesh I mean I don’t think that’s the point right? I don’t think @BeardedHeretic_ believes that JK Rowling caused nazism or that she caused Berns, and I certainly don’t believe that.

But this is not what it is about…

[Philip Müller @philipmuller]

@1karus_ How do you find these??