The missing "examined" threw me for such a loop lol
Didn't think I'd ever find so long a quote from Silent Cal. Great guy!
Wrong! The deal is he gets a raise and promises to let MORE people loot our stuff!
Wherever good people gather in his name, there he is.
Old Soviet Saying
"If everything's so good - why is everything so bad?"
Absolutely beautiful. Well done. PROTECT THE UNBORN!
Easy solution: increase defence spending! /s
The top link is just a link to a BBC article, not a link that has anything corroborating the 96% claim.
Have an updoot this is gold LOL
Didn't this already happen? I swear some days I feel like I've crossed my timelines.
There's a few more mundane reasons. Money from private donors who want to dilute the conservative vote probably is the driving force.
People who want to do good but do not arm themselves with knowledge are the easiest to pervert to good-sounding evil causes.
Often, the greatest right-wing figures started off on the other side. Thomas Sowell, George Orwell, the list is nigh inexhaustible.
If only. I'm on call some weeks, phone has to wake me up in the middle of the night if something's wrong. Wi-fi has to stay on for other reasons too. No, I'm well and truly shackled to tech to make a living for now. Still, I suppose less phone use before bed would help. Thanks!
Oh snap I didn't realize these started near exactly at midnight est.
...on that subject, anyone have advice for insomnia?
When the time comes, the Lord will tell you what to say. Don't worry about not being perfect, just know you're headed in the right direction.
Damn right!
This here's what the fog of war looks like. I don't know that anyone has a complete picture. I certainly haven't had the foggiest idea what's been going on since March of '20. But I've kept my chin up and focused on doing what good I can in my life and in my local sphere, and I pray that's enough. Cheers mate, and good luck with the burnout, its a bitch.
So...we send them weapons...we give them coordinates, intell, strategy, funds...we tell them when to fire, and at what. We're basically at war already. God help us.
Implying the system is not already toppling! I like your optimism.
Right on.
Hold up, how on earth would the mother have Hep B but not the baby? Is that really their best explanation?
His reasoning is weird. From what I could gather, he believes that the best we can do is to view reality through a framework that can more or less predict the future. His framework he calls the "persuasion" framework, and he talks a lot about who is being more or less persuasive and how this will impact events and policy.
The problem is that occasionally, such frameworks break down - if reality slaps you in the face, you can either abandon your framework or cling to it. When everything was fine he'd use his framework and it could be right or wrong but it was more or less sane. But as the clownworld framework started becoming more and more accurate, he started to falter a bit, and with covid it completely collapsed - in no world did he believe that the government could make such a huge misstep as to employ weapons grade societal manipulation to poison their tax and voter base.
The issue isn't that he's not rational, the issue is that he's following a model that's wrong. People who were more cautious with their health won over those who went with the herd. Him lashing out, however is in his own words "Not very persuasive", and so naturally his audience is falling out.
Its sad to see, but I hope he thinks on it all for a while and cools off. He doesn't want to admit he's wrong, and as a result is insulting his fans - a pretty bad move. Anyway, I've babbled for long enough, cheers.
Smart people will wade through garbage to get at the truth if they have to. The people you're talking about are more accurately called "educated". But thanks for the PSA all the same!
The original that you linked had it, not sure what happened to the picture lol