How Philosophers/Politicians/Political Commentators Say If They Love You
(Related part 1).
JD Vance: Well, Usha, do I love you? Of course. I think we can have a reasonable discussion about certain aspects of my love, but this line being pushed by Joe Biden and the media for four years that there’s any debate about whether I love you is totally ridiculous gaslighting, and I think it’s good that the Trump administration has been standing up against it and saying enough is enough.
I also think, Usha, that it’s interesting that you’re concerned about my love, when we have tens of millions of criminal illegals flowing in from across the southern border, destroying the love felt towards people like Laiken Reilly by killing them—whose name Joe Biden couldn’t even say correctly. The reason so many Americans are having so much trouble finding love is that tens of millions of criminal illegals are pouring in, raising housing prices so that they can’t start a family, committing crimes so that they’re fearful to go out and meet people in their neighborhood, taking jobs so that they don’t have any romantic prospects, and directly dating people so that there are no women left to date the hard-working Americans left behind in small towns like my own.
Clavicular: Well instead of loving you and spiking my cortisol, I could dedicate that time to bone-smashing and mogging.
Meat-eating animal lover: Hey girl, I’m going to torture, kill, and eat you.
Timothy Williamson: Well, err, you might be suspicious of love. But things similar to love are clearly present in model building in the natural sciences.
Judith Butler: My love for you is not a pre-discursive essence but rather a performatively constituted repetition of citational practices that, while never arriving at a stable ground, nevertheless produces the effect of an ontologically persistent attachment whose very impossibility renders it all the more urgent.
Scott Alexander: There was a French nobleman in the 13th century who went out in search of Italy. When he reached Italy…
Michael Huemer: Yeah so you might wonder (chuckles) why do I think I love you? I don’t know, it like seems totally obvious (chuckles). And so…anyways…if it seems obvious, it’s not my job to show that I do love you. It’s your job to show that the totally obvious thing—that I love you—is false, okay.
Liron Shapira: My wife, what is your p(love)?
Generic EA: I guess I think my high-level take is that I like love you or something plausibly?
Eliezer Yudkowsky: It’s not about whether I love you or hate you. It’s that your body is made out of material that could be used for paperclips.
Do I love you? Of course. The way we know this is by analogizing it to evolution, where people love other people in their ancestral environment. This is a rock-solid proof that I am totally certain of.
Hey girl, you remind me of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
[Writes 50,000 word sequence about love].
Marco Rubio: Let’s dispense with this fiction that I don’t love you. I do love you. For four years, we’ve had a Marco Rubio who loves you. (Chris Christie cuts in): There you go, that’s the speech everyone. (Back to Marco): No but I think this is important. It simply isn’t true that I don’t love you and want to make you more like the rest of the world. When I’m commander in chief, we will have a commander in chief who loves you.
Joe Biden: Do I love? Look. What I’ve—and this isn’t just—look. I’ve said, I think, look, love, yes in terms of that.
Vasco Grillo: I value you as much as 2,548 soil nematodes.
Elon:
Woman: do you love me?
Elon: 🎯
Donald Trump: Well you have a lot of people asking whether we love—and they say “sir, do you love?” We probably are doing love better than anybody. We’ve been loving at a level that nobody could believe, and the media says (official voice) “Donald Trump doesn’t love,” I probably love more than anybody has ever loved in terms of—and if you take a look at what they’re doing—where we have been rebuilding in terms of this and so many other things—where you also look at the southern border which was wide open, wide open, under sleepy Joe—they did open borders, can you believe it? They did open borders and we’ve won big on that and love and so many other things that they don’t know what the hell to do.
Dean Withers: You don’t think I love you? Ohkay, sure, sure buddy.
Plato:1
Socrates: Why does not the shipbuilder love his ship? And what of the painter? Does he not love his artwork? And does not the politician love his city?
Glaucon: Why not all the time Socrates.
Socrates: Ah, my good friend Glaucon, but do not they love them under reasonable conditions.
Glaucon: Why, I suppose that is logical to assume Socrates.
Socrates: So then would it not follow that I love?
William Lane Craig: Well, Jan, the priiiimary reason to think I love you is the inner witness of my love. That said, there are a number of, in my view, sound, philosophical aaarguments for my loving you.
Michael Knowles: You have this modern liberal view that I don’t love you, which nobody believed in human history until five minutes ago. Then you have the view of Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and all the doctors of the Church. I think I know which one I’m going with!
Noam Chomsky: The view that I “didn’t love,” you was repeated in a high-profile message relayed from Nixon to his close advisor.2 This view was held without the slightest shred of credible evidence, and a number of eyewitness reports contradicted it repeatedly.3 This did not stop the administration from expounding on it at length, or the American, French, and British press from repeating it uncritically, for several years, until the propaganda line had finally run its course.4 At this point, instead of walking back their original claims which everyone at the time knew to be false, they simply stopped saying them, and acted like they never had.5
Mike from GB news: Suppose I was to turn the coin around and ask “what if I loved a false cabbage?” How would you feel about that?
David Bentley Hart: From within the mellifluous and sonorous vibrancies gamboling fervently in my nous, each chord throbs pulsatingly for you, very unlike Ed Feser, who kicks puppies when he sees them.
Cameron Bertuzzi: Why is EVERYONE overlooking these SEVEN strong ARGUMENTS for me loving you?
Nick Fuentes: Look, okay, saying I love you would be a bit gay, okay. It’s a bit homosexual to say to a woman “I love you.” What a cringe and gay thing to do.
You could add Jordan Peterson: “Look, it depends what you mean by ‘I’, and it depends what you mean by ‘love’, and it depends what you mean by ‘you.”
Very smart to put JD Vance first to capitalize on the popular crackpot theory that he’s planning to divorce Usha soon. My attention was CAPTURED and HELD. Good stuff, funny stuff.