Forum users also die twice, the first time when they stop coming back and then again when their life ends.
Which is why I don't think bumping threads like akratic's and brute's is a great idea. But I digress...
Forum users also die twice, the first time when they stop coming back and then again when their life ends.
You don't like actual controversies here, do you, as opposed to will 4% be ok or should it really be 3.7%. Completely your privilege, of course. You must realize that arbitrarily intervening to shut down discussions may itself drive some people away.
Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:58 pmI just looked up what “dog whistle” is on urban dictionary....yeah....I just try to remind people who say things like “White people are ________” what it would sound like if they changed it to “black people are ________.” That the left is normalizing this language is a sort of perfidious psychological subterfuge. (I think this is what Jordan Peterson means when he talks about “not ceding the lingual territory.”)
And when I state this, and tell people I won’t submit to the self-loathing, I am denounced as a neo-Nazi tiki-torch-waving MAGA hat guy. Cool. And some people think this didn’t push white people to vote for Trump.
Those darned swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, with their long legacy of slavery and voting for Obama
Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:36 amMy employment has been threatened multiple times, for nothing to do with performance, but because of the dominant anti-white male narrative (HR issues).
Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:20 pmIt is very easy to say that Cultural Marxism is a phantom bugaboo until you are on the receiving end of an HR complaint and false sexual harassment accusation because “hey, it’s open season on white guys, say whatever you want and they cannot fight back.” Where I roam in the halls of Corporate America, I do not hear anybody touting the inferiority of minorities and women but I do hear a good deal about the white patriarchy oppressing us all. I can’t (and wouldn’t want to, anyway) make fun of a black person’s dreads, but it is perfectly acceptable for my boss to relentlessly make fun of my “generic white guy comb-over haircut” and repeatedly tell me that I only have what I have because of my white privilege (as if my hard work had nothing to do with it). And I know that white men on the receiving end of this who do not succumb to the pathetic self-loathing often, as Peterson explains, conclude “If you want to play the identity game, I will play, and I will play to win,” and before you know it, they are parroting the alt-right. The IDW stands aloof between extremes of dark ignorance with a torch saying “There is light here in the middle” and thank goodness for that.
Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:35 pmI don’t need the empathy. I’m just rejecting the anti-white male ideology. I was brought up to treat people with courtesy and respect, regardless of their race or gender. I don’t need the current leftists to tell me what is required of me to be a good person.
Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:29 pm“The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of right-wing extremism.”
-Jill Stein
*****
(At a book reading attended by Mister Imperceptible):
Salman Rushdie: And these idiots that voted for Jill Stein, they are just as bad as those who voted for Donald Trump.
Master of Ceremonies: Er...uh....we’re going to have Jill Stein here for a forum next week.
ffj for Presidentffj wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 11:03 am@Dave
Jill Stein.
There has to be DNC strategists right? Backed by their overlords? I just don't understand the strategy the Dems are employing. They have had years to construct a valid threat to Trump.
If I were the king of the DNC:
Hillary, shut up and go away. You lost, deal with it.
All candidates are not to mention Russia or impeachment, in the context of you know what, it's time we stood on our own two feet and not rely on third party's to do our dirty work
All candidates on the far-left, thank you but we have to win the electoral college, it's not going away, so shut up about how evil it is and strategize around how the system works
All identity politics candidates or anyone that mentions voter ID laws, thank you but like Clinton, you need to go away. Americans are sick of this shit.
Hot topics:
abortion, safe but rare
guns, I will uphold the Constitution first and foremost and work within that context to lower deaths
borders, we are a sovereign nation but a kind one
race relations, we are all Americans first and proud of it and will always celebrate our great diversity
LGBT, we've come a long way, baby. Let's have a party
No one is to mention how evil the orange man is, but replace that low-hanging fruit with plans and policies that will benefit all Americans without mentioning identity politics
We will once again embrace the working class and never call them names or insult them. We will also not call out any one particular group as victims.
We will not tolerate violence against our political opponents or their followers and will be very vocal about it
Does such a person exist? Well spoken with command presence? I bet there does, but apparently 4 years isn't enough for the DNC to find them. This is a bit of a rant but it astounds me how inept this go-around has been in response to Donald Trump.
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Joshua Kennon wrote:stand@desk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2013 5:30 pmhttp://www.joshuakennon.com/thoughts/
Great Wisdom for ERE Minds!
This is basically our media in a nutshell, the “anchor” or “reporter” keeps trying to redirect Gabbard into talking about Russia or HRC drama and all Gabbard is interested in talking about here is the issues.ffj wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:17 amRefreshing, even if it didn't come from Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjzBJWUyWI
By serving my self-interests, am I part of group 2 (winning)? Or by by not voting, am I part of group 4 (ignorance)?jacob wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:14 pmI try to make the forum a welcome place for (3)... while discouraging or at least not encouraging the other types.
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/simpl ... havio.html
Fair point, but I think in the case of someone speaking who has lived in the White House, been a Senator, and been Secretary of State, the interpretation of "a [foreign entity's] asset" is most plainly understood in the vernacular/context of government officialism. In this case it would translate as 'spy'. Further when the language "being groomed" appears in essentially the same context, it implies direct interaction/coordination rather than something coincidental like a sailboat taking advantage of a fortuitous tailwind.jacob wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:16 pm
Key to this, I think, is to realize that a scale exists between being an asset in the deliberate sense (like a spy, which against the law---which is always lagging reality) and an asset in the exploitative sense. The term for the latter is "useful idiot". Note that there are also so-called "useful innocents". There's a fine line between idiot and innocent. "Useful" also exists on a scale. "Innocent" vs "Idiots" is just a matter of euphemisms.