Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. Woke isn't an accidental product of algorithms. It's an intentional product of academia. Later, programmers tuned algorithms to intersectional criteria. Yet woke preceded algorithm.
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  2. BBC want to know: "how can we be more efficient in our authoritarianism?"
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  3. Today: "the science is backing us", can often mean "we're lying"; but we don't know we're lying.
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  4. "What drives someone to be like that?" - They are basically all narcissists; but with even more issues. We know that because they blow a fuse when anyone either criticises them, or, describes them realistically as they are!
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  5. Zuckerberg is redeemed by himself, not by me.
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  6. It makes him guilty of "saving the world". We'll never know otherwise because his critics will all be cancelled.
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  7. Cressida - a character in one of Shakespear's plays. Also famous as Cressida of Troy. Cressida, Indigo - why do they all have posh names? "We're asking people, ..." <- no you're not. You're ordering us - like entitled, posh, conceited people always have.
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  8. I think Starmer wanted a conflict. Labour see everything in terms of politics, and anyone who criticises them as "right-wing". A woke political party can't be anything but conflict-seeking.
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  9. J. K. Rowling didn't even say that. She said women's spaces were for women born women; for biological women. Rowling would never use your terminology; she'd never accuse another person of not being "real".
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  10. US Supreme Court just declared it illegal. Fink he can read the writing on the wall.
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  11. They clearly picked the wrong name. Maybe they should have another go as the StraightMax movement?
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  12. As Rina Oh was an adult she knew what she was doing - so how can she claim to be a retrospective victim? She could've left Epstein but she stayed.
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  13. 'born in the wrong body' is part of the catechism of the original transition cult. Once an idea has been ordained as holy words in a cult its hard to change the catechism.
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  14. This woke gen are clearly not satisfied with being different - they want you to be different. The want you to be lucy 49
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  15. Re: Internet archive. Two arguments Internet Archive could use is that 1) they provide copies of books no longer in print (OOP), and or that they provide digital copies (rather than paper copies) of books unavailable in digital form. Consider an OOP book, for example: "The theory of democratic elitism; a critique" by Peter Bachrach, 1968. It is not in print. Nor is it likely to ever get into print again as the audience for it must be tiny. So no one is actually making money by distributing it. Yet at the Internet Archive the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS say "No suitable files to display here. EPUB and PDF access not available for this item". So, had the Internet archive submitted a defence that they made avaiable almost impossible to obtain OOP books - they'd had a more convincing argument. I think the publishers went after them because many of the books Internet Archive scanned were still in print. Had Internet Archive restricted themselves to making available either out of copyright and out of print books I doubt the publishers would've gone after them.
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  16. We can't blame them for their ignorance of nuclear power. Everyone is basically in the dark over nuclear power. They actually criticised the French for taking most of their reactors off-grid for "maintenance" at the same time.
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  17. "Tariffs raise prices" is not a "libertarian" argument. It is a free market, pro-trade argument. The argument is that each country does what it does best. Tariffs are like subsidy. Tariffs suppot inefficient industries.
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  18. Cultural makeup is the issue - not racial.
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  19.  @Wisdomabovegold  Yes. Too many young male Western haters are allowed in. As demonstrated in recent street demonstrations.
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  20.  @KrimsonStorm  Proggies call themselves "progressive"; despite many of their policies being ultra-regressive. I call myself a pragmatist or skeptic - not a conservative. I guess it's habit.
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  21. With computer programming one can do something when the computer program crashes with senseless error messages - one can rewrite the compiler to give more sensible error messages.
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  22. James Lindsay actually recently gave his most detailed defence yet of Liberalism. Here: Introduction to Classical Liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbpA6pVBrw Problems with Classical Liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbufcSxIC4E So Lindsay is taking his critics seriously.
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  23. Thanks for the hat-tip to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. The Concept of Representation was published in 1967. Hanna was born in Germany in 1931 (hence her firstname) but emigrated to the USA in 1938 (hence her second two names). Her Berkeley doctoral thesis (1961) was also on "The Theory of Political Representation". Two books to begin with are: 2016: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, Action - a collection of essays on a wide variety of sources 1967: The Concept of Representation This is one of the few political podcasts which actually recommend books. Why I keep coming back to it. PS: Her name is Pitkin, not Pitkins.
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  24.  @disbeafakename167  But also plenty of moms, transing their kids, who have no judgement.
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  25. Sound vanished at 20:24 GMT. That also happened 20 minutes ago when I was listening to the DarkHorse Podcast - also on trans gender issues. What a coincidence!!
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  26. No one, except a biologist, need do research on "what a woman is". A woman is an adult human female ( OED definition ).
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  27. Alt-culture is ethnicity. Or rather: ethnicity is another culture.
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  28. I tend to agree with Carl on the trick socialism plays on us: it pretends to be a better form of liberalism. Neo-Marxist Adorno calls this trick the "secret Utopia at the heart of reason". This idea actually provides Adorno with the thrust of his "Critical Theory". The trick is to use the ideals of liberalism - universalism, liberty, justice, freedom, equality, excellence - against liberalism - to push ideals to even more universal ideals. To socialism, it you will. You could say the BLM and transing movement took their playbook from Adorno. In fairness to Adorno - he thinks there can be no other way forward, not only for socialism but also for liberalism and conservatism. Lindsay's project has been to try to ken how we got here from there. Why did academia come to conclude that: woke, DEI, and sustainability are a way forward for the West? - when they are clearly just novel ways for us to burn our house down? Yet the path taken by woke was NOT inevitable. So the fact that path was taken out of the Liberal heritage does not mean Liberalism is a failure or wrong. The fact that path was taken at all - must alert us to inherent weaknesses and contradictions within Liberalism. Yet to paraphrase Churchill: "Liberalism is the worst social system, except for all its rivals". I think Lindsay sees it that way. Carl seems to imply he has an alternative to liberalism. Communism, Fascism, and Woke all claim to be alternatives to Liberalism. I think Lindsay, and Carl are both on target here. But in different ways. Lindsay identifies the "Long March Through the Institutions" as key, so does Matthew Goodwin. There's no doubt in my mind that much of academia is intent on using the academy to forward, petty, and non-viable Left politics simply because they can. Lindsay also tracks woke back to its origins in Marcuse's very distinct brand of neo-Marxism. By can large, Lindsay is right on most things. Carl and Lindsay both see weaknesses, and flaws in our liberal societies. Carl believes the flaws are there by design. Lindsay believes the flaws are there by corruption. Carl needs to be more precise. Can he describe his ideas, in more detail, especially which aspects of liberalism Carl would abandon. Otherwise, if Carl calls himself a conservative, likes Christianity, and harshly criticises Liberalism, then Lindsay may classify Carl as yet another "Christian Nationalist". Given US CNs have been harassing Lindsay lately, he's react as he does.
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  29. JRM might agree with one in private. In public he holds the Blairite line we've seen for the last 26 years. No politician with a seat will break the line on multi-culturalism.
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  30.  @Wisdomabovegold  I don't agree that immigrants must be Judeo-Christian, I'm happy with immigrants from the Hindu / Buddhist / Sikh / Confuscian, ... traditions. Because we're criminalized if we criticize Islam in public we speak in coded-language - talking about JudeoChristian when we mean Not-Islamic. We can't call a spade a spade, so we call it a spoon instead and I interpret your words as a discussion on food when we're talking about gardening. The consequences of dumb censorship are a dumb society.
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  31.  @anthonydowney6069  "I guess you'd be happy to accede to every black and brown males demands ..." <- imagining you know what another person thinks is called "projection". In psychology, it's a way we have of "displacing". So, when some stranger projects onto you, one should assume that they are guilty of what they accuse you of!
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  32. What is the point of that analogy? Are you implying that we must all choose between Marxism and Christianity?, that there's no legitimate 3rd, or 4th path? If so: who among you is actually a practicing Christian or Marxist? In terms of people practicing religion there's probably more Muslims than Christians in Britain.
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  33. The woke hatred of Jordan Peterson is real. There's a picture of JP and CR7 standing together - it sent woke Reddit batshit crazy with hate.
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  34. Otherwise known as groupthink. Every syncophant wants to be top groveller because they believe it's the route to career sucess. So they end up as one massive echo chamber for the ONE malicious mind. A psychopath's utopia.
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  35. No need. UK tap water has chlorine in it to kill bacteria. The flouride is supposed to stop tooth decay. Flouride does not stop bacterial growth or infection; and won't preserve anything. BTW: formaldehyde is as harmful to you as methanol - 25 mL/each recently killed 6 tourists in Laos. Oral LD-50 dose (mg/kg body weight) methanol: 300–1,000 formaldehyde: 600–800 Formic acid: 1100 to 1850 methanol oxidises to formaldehyde which oxidises to formic acid.
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  36. But these blokes don't call themselves straight men; they call themselves lesbians!
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  37. Doesn't Kendi have a doctorate? So funny hearing him lost in tautology.
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  38. Presumably because 500 million mosquitoes will be both sterile and relatively harmless. The are lab animals. I know Gates (with Soros) is a favorite evil magnate to poke fun at but every idea his minions come up with cannot be Evil, evil. We should be more concerned with his plans to "fix" the climate, since the climate's not broke.
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  39. She thinks "they are blank automatons who can be easily programmed by messaging" <- they seem to think that of all of us.
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  40. Who is the GB News "editorial director"? Are there specific rules, mandated by government, or OFCOM, which mandate an "editorial director"?
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  41. Global elites will stop at nowt to get us all munching insects.
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  42. Englishman Berger died 5 years ago and was born 95 years ago. His art criticism predates the '60s which is the real origin of woke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger
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  43. The Internet has this to say about ressentiment : ----- Ressentiment is a French word that means a deep-seated feeling of resentment, frustration, or hostility. It can also refer to a sense of powerlessness to express these feelings directly. The concept of ressentiment was of particular interest to 19th-century thinkers, most notably Friedrich Nietzsche. However, Nietzsche did not invent the term, which was already in circulation in his lifetime. Some say that ressentiment is an emotional mechanism that can help explain the psychological foundations of reactionary politics, right-wing populism, Islamic fundamentalism, and radicalism. Some characteristics of ressentiment include: A feeling of being a victim - A reassessment of what was once desired or valued as something undesirable - A reassessment of oneself from being inferior to being noble and superior - Negative emotions of envy, shame, and anger - Other-directed negative emotions of resentment, indignation, and hatred ----- <- So, the Left labelled ressentiment as an affliction of the "right"!! (Although Nietzsche - who brought it into widespread use - described ressentiment as the afflition of victims and socialists !) <- Consequently, we need to invent a new term for the Left's affliction: "Suicidal empahy", and "auto-psychopathology" seem more appropriate since they describe the consequence of Left ressentiment.
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  44. No one wants to live in "15 minute cities". It's an idea dreamt up by prison warders.
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  45. Those will be called apartheit - so won't be allowed.
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  46. And Islam.
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  47. Lindsay has always blocked a lot of people. I remember about 4 years ago when he systematically blocked everyone on Twitter with pronouns in their bios! That must've been tens of thousands of 'em!! I think Boghassian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose all evolved out of New Atheism of about 15 years ago. Before the SJWs invaded and burnt it. One of the important (to them) conclusions Boghassian & Lindsay came to is that we don't change our minds on important topics; not without first experiencing a massive disjunction between current beliefs and wannabe beliefs. To ditch a current belief one must be confident that the replacement will enable us to better move forward with our lives. So in general, knowing that 99% of Twitter users are closed-minded, and are there just to badger you, why wouldn't one want to block most of 'em?
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  48. "Build back better in a more femine way" < - What? With women bricklayers?
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  49. Just put "Mr Joe Bloggs" in your signature; substituting out "Joe Bloggs" for your actual name. Like we used to do before email existed.
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  50. Eco protestors "abandonned the language of civilized debate" <- I don't think they ever knew or did "civilized debate". It is impossible to debate them. They don't understand the concept of evidence. They live in narrative and post-Truth land.
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  51. "Because we have no real Englishmen left" <- No. It's because we've been mollycoddled by the State, so we've learnt to love our serfism. The State has assumed too much power for itself. We need radical decentralization, deStatization, and democratization. We need to recognize the disease first before we can cure it.
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  52. Is Elon the messiah or the pariah?
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  53. The shutdowns have nothing, or little, to do with refuelling. The pretext for the shutdown was fixing "pipe corrosion".
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  54. Gender identity is real. Boys have male gender identity and girls have female gender identity. Changing one's gender or sex is imaginary.
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  55. I would charge them with treason if I could - but it's not just the politicos responsible for this. It is most academia, many NGOs, most establishment media, most contempory politics. It is the whole establishment. Our establishment will not be charging themselves with treason.
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  56. Carthage began as a Phoenician colony. Phoenicia was just North-West of Judea where Lebanon is today. Carthaginians looked just like middle easterners; they were not black.
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  57.  @jacobblanton5179  I agree with your point on the individual. Too much stress there by Liberalism. But Liberalism did evolve in The Enlightenment (1632 - 1789) before Sociology - at a time when Christian Ideology had taken a wrong turn with its wrong prognosis in Natural Law). Even going so far as to dictate a helio-centric world because it saw a theological need for such. Liberalism is NOT a corruption of Christianity - don't even see how you got there - not unless you think Protestantism is a "corruption of Christianity" too! I don't see the "origin of Totalitarianism in Liberalism" either - as you imply. That's an unjust slur. Socialism was already an idea, in France, BEFORE Marx. It was a response to the power of Capitalism. Enlightenment ideas drove electoral reform (ending rotten boroughs in Britain, and gave the US Constitution its template), and practical Democracy was barely a thing anywhere before The Enlightenment. That movement went too far, in France, with the French Revolution; but the French Monarchy was already so corrupt and rotten it was bound to burn down one way or another. Enlightenment ended in 1789. Western ideas post-Enlightenment tended to break away from Empiricism. All that 19th, and 20th century philosophy (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, CT, pomo) traded with Liberal language and assumptions; but much of it was illiberal, anti-Empiricist and subjectivist (See Stephen Hicks). Even the new Liberals such as J.S. Mill, are barely Liberal at all - according to Lindsay: "Mill's consequentialist ethics are illiberal". But we have a cul de sac with ethics. No one poses a responsible new ethics suitable for society. Many of the ethics posed: Marx, Heidegger, etc. are OTT, and badly done. As I read you - I hear a bad conservative thinker: - too many fundamentals and too much monstering rhetoric - no attempt to justify your ideas with actual evidence (citations?).
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  58. Which came first, eco-terrorism or the death cult?, the question must be asked. Is their tendency to darkness and despair the cause of their eco-terrorist attitude, or did their bleak eco-terrorist world-view engender the suicidalism? I think it's a bit of both. One needs a certain mental mis-development to get involved in hating everyone else. We now have entire YouTube channels devoted to cluster B personality disorders in woke politics; such as the "Disaffected Podcast". Also: can we write about suicide on YouTube without getting suspended?
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  59. Is the DEI cult really dead? Maybe not. It could just be a feint withdrawal. Or, more sinisterly, part of their motte and baily defence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kiLJQGft_8&t=16s
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  60. Do us all a favour and list all those people who used to work for Buzzfeed and Vice; so we can avoid their "journalism" in future.
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  61. Boris Johnson: “Will no one rid me of these turbulent voters?”
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  62. Surprise - women who benefit from discrimination are in favour of it! Who'd thunk that?
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  63. Suicidal empathy is where severe ressentiment takes Greens. Auto-psychopathy is another name for it.
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  64. Government needs to end the ban on personal weapons for defence. I can't even keep mace in UK for personal protection at home.
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  65. That was JK Rowlings version of: "OK groomer"
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  66. transwomen are men.
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  67.  @iminumst7827  Transwomen are men Men are not women So: Transwomen are not women
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  68. Why don't "transwomen" activists campaign for their own prison? - a place with neither TERFs nor hetero men.
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  69. In England, Southern water is hard, and Northern water (in, say, Manchester) is soft. Because Mancs get their tap water from reservoirs collected from hills. Norgie land is very hilly too. You should have soft water. I prefer the taste of Southern (hard water) to Manc soft water, despite being a manc myself.
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  70. Chlorine and Fluorine are two of the 92 natural elements found in nature. Every school kid should be taught the difference between them. Also - every YouTube presenter.
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  71. Fascism is right-wing Hegelianism / Statism Communism is left-wing Hegelianism / Statism
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  72. He said: "It is possible for a pedophilic relationship to have a positive effect on both child and adult." Best reply is: "but 99% of the time the effect on the child is negative".
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  73. There's no such thing are pouring resources into nuclear power to get France's reactors back on-grid. The issue is regulation and expertise. Too much and too little. No one makes new nuke engineers overnight it takes: 5+ years. 3 years to get an engineering degree, plus at least 2 years work experience (to prove one can actually do a job).
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  74.  @moose6869  USA uses tariffs against unfair competitors. For example: against China if it refuses to uphold IP laws.
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  75.  @moose6869  Your projecting you bias on to me. I never said that. I think tariffs can be OK when carefully used. For example the threat of tariffs against Canada just saw Canada enforcing border controls.
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  76. It's not ironic. They are not liberals. They are proggies. Proggies favour the Big State. The Deep State favours the Big State. Proggies and Deep State support each other; and think state intervention is saves us from ourselves.
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  77.  @jarretta2656  It's been in British tap water all my life (I'm 71)
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  78.  @theliato3809  No - progressivism is broke down into reactionary thought since proggies became tools of the Deep State. I doubt conservatives ever wanted flouride in tap water.
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  79. German women-only trains will likely be used only by "transwomen". Real women are more likely to buy a car.
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  80. You mean 'Donstructive Dismissal'?
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  81. "physics could be more universal" <- Isn't "universal" a Western, Christian, male, White, idea? <- Isn't "diverse" the so-called progressive alternative?
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  82. It's very unlikely that "⅓ of Pakistan is underwater". I doubt that ⅓ was ever underwater at the same time.
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  83. I guess the "she/her" in the video needs pronouns because she looks a bit like weedy bloke. Most people don't need them.
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  84. No such thing as a 'soulmate' or 'love of my life'. That's a myth. Even if you find someone who 'thinks exactly like you' (impossible anyhow because men and women NEVER think exactly alike) - then, you should really look for someone with high standards who thinks differently enough to bring out the right chemistry in you - and then you need to be very tolerant!
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  85. The notion that algorithms are responsible for woke, did not originate with Tim Pool. He took it from liberal academic Jonathan Haidt and his circle: The Heterodox Academy.
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  86. Who does the FBI's job in UK? Is it MI5?
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  87. That's never going to happen - not without the elites being entirely replaced.
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  88.  @AC-ed1jz  The education industry created this beast out of nothing. They bore the beast, raised it, taught it to hate and cancel us, then set it lose against us.
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  89.  @Crank_Sinatra1  I hope you had a good laugh at your joke. It is way too oblique for me to understand. No one wears hats nowadays - funny or otherwise.
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  90.  @Deadlychuck84  Nonsense? The top search in Google is the wikipedia entry on woke. Written by actual human beings; not algorithms. It was people what did it, not the algorithm.
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  91.  @AC-ed1jz  I'm not speculating with you. Let's stick to the facts. The ideology of woke was created in academia. I cannot say that academia created "all industries"; that would just be a lie, not even speculation. As for "planned subversion": almost everything we do is part of some "plan"; otherwise it doesn't get done. I think they saw themselves as subverting. I'm sure they had little clue where their subversion led.
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  92.  @Deadlychuck84  Q: How did the ideology infiltrate the companies? A: through progammers who had been programmed in academia to believe those ideas.
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  93.  @Deadlychuck84  The reason why I reject this emphasis on the importance of algorithms is because the woke had already captured academia by: - making those ideas legitimate - erasing their critics. - becoming 'authorative' (or expert) due to their erasure of critics. Society became woke by degree. First in academia, left politics, NGOs, charities, IGOs, GOs, media. The commerical sector was the last to fall. So woke was already here, and entrenched, before the algorithms were written. BTW: BLM and anti-police riots weren't due to algorithms.
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  94. Yes. Take the flouride out of the water and put it in the toothpaste and mouthwash - where it belongs. BTW: The idea behind flouride it that it can chemically replace hydrogen in our teeth, and will then make our teeth more resistant to corrosion by acids produced by bacteria and plaque in our mouths. That was the rationale for putting it in water. But, ... it can more readily strenghen teeth if left in contact with them - for example - after brushing one's teeth - don't wash one's mouth out with water. Just spit out excess tooth paste. Better still - have one's dentist paint one's teeth with flouride enamel. There's no rationale for flouride in water. In contrast to chlorine in water - which kills bacteria and prevents disease. Flouride in tap water is another senseless prog. crusade - like COVID vaccines for kids.
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  95. Rich people didn't manufacture woke out of nowt so that they could jump the gun on us with their luxury beliefs. They were only able to be ethically woke because someone else: academics and politicos, had first made it into a (fake) ethical system.
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  96. I'm confused. I was under the impression feminists believed they should always split the bill - because that asserts their independence. Did that old school feminism get replaced by a new school with the axiom: "always let the man pay and take him for everything you can get" - because everything is just a transaction anyhow?
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  97. A few years ago this entire sub-thread would've got everyone in it banned from Twitter. My joke about suicide was one of the 3 strikes leading to my life-long ban from Twitter.
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  98. No sensible rationalist ever believed that "Enlightenment rationality will rule us all". We know conmen and women are a thing; and will ALWAYS be. We know people lie to promote their careers, politics, causes and bank balances. So shall it always be. I'm tired of the anti-Enlightenment crowd and their binary views on life.
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  99. Sue them.
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  100. Good art and culture are still made today - but not by wokes - who are too busy navel gazing - to see the entire culture and soul of humanity.
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  101. "I stand with the underside of history" <- convinces no one. But he's not trying to convince us - he needs to convince himself.
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  102. Can we criticise Liberalism to give ourselves a new label? Will we call ourselves post-liberals?, neo-liberals? Because - if we don't autocritique and honestly describe our ideas, then our critics will label us. Who wants to be called an anti-liberal? Big thinkers in the past, wrote about the totality of human life: history, economy, law, community, reproduction, excellence, mediocrity, political forms, ... They got a lot wrong, but were, at least, able to influence by daring to give a positive vision for the future. Carl will need to as well if he wants an alternative. One cannot have a big picture without drawing that picture. Carl's criticisms nit-pick liberalism. He's not drawn his alternative to it; so I assume - he has none. Then again nor do the WEF, Western academia, NGOs, BLM, nor ecotards. No one does. As I understand him, there's so much Liberalism Carl has to keep that he still sounds like a reformed liberal to me - never a conservative. Then again, today: conservatives sound more statist (or 'Marxist') than conservative.
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  103. ESG-mode? COVID-authoritarian mode? OED are way behind.
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  104. Neither said what you think they said. Your contribution says far more about you than them. It tells me you're an inept comedian.
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  105. "No man can serve two masters: for either he. will hate the one, and love the other; or else. he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and mammon." - Matthew 6:24
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  106. The snooker protest makes no sense. Snooker is hardly a "high emissions" sport. Anyhow, carbon emissions do not affect the climate. CO2 does not cause global warming. It is all just an excuse for Malthusians and Eugenicists to take over society. They explains why they're nearly all posh.
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  107. If everything we love is now queer, we'll never be able to have nor rear babies to adulthood. So humanity will go extinct.
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  108. Nature has been full of garbage blaming humanity for climate change for about 35 years. By "garbage" I mean speculative models claiming to be "settled science".
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  109. I think Carl needs to spend time looking into how mass media terrifies kids. If people see no future - maybe that's the cumulative effect of climate & eco- apocalypse porn? Climate apocalypse porn is spread by mass media - not so much by keyboard activists on the Internet. Social media, in itself, isn't so bad - but groomers on social media gaslighting kids into thinking they are "in the wrong body" - that's bad. When I was a kid - long before the Internet - I was terrified by the prospect of nuclear war. In fact, now that I'm an adult and have studied the effect of ionizing radiation, I know that nuclear war was NEVER the existential threat to the human species that it was presented as. The existential threat nonsense was anti-nuclear propaganda spread by adults = including Uni lecturers - including ONE uni lecturer who taught me. So that's a case study in "depression" if you will.
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  110. Some eco-warriors are quite fascistic; and the actual NAZIs were obsessed with environmental themes such as renewable energy, sustainability, nature reserves, ...
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  111. There are some conservatives who support "climate action" - about 3% of all voters
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  112. NAZIs were very "green", in that they were really into renewable energy, nature and conservation. For example the German Green Party Logo was designed by an ex-NAZI Party member. NAZIs = socialism, environmentalism, Social Darwinism, nationalism. Modern Greens = socialism, environmentalism, Race Marxism, internationalism.
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  113. But Greta didn't set the energy policy. Greta is a product of that policy - not the cause. Critic to Greta: "Do you have any solutions to global warming?" Greta: "My job is to demand solutions - not to provide them" The man-made "global warming" myth set our energy policy.
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  114. A price freeze on energy will just impoverish energy companies, which will lead to less investment, which will lead to scarce energy and higher prices. How about government get OUT of the market by rescinding their climate alarm legislation?
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  115. They actually want anti-rights = the "right" to destroy other people's rights. To destroy - the right of women to private changing rooms - the right of kids to safe medical treatment including good counselling - the right of their critics to have jobs
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  116. Does this journalist have a name?, or is he just another fake lefty owned by the government and corporates? Is the guy unamed because it may as well be ANY government or corporate shill whining at Musk?
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  117. Is drag queen story hour transing, queering, or dyphoria-ing. Or all 3?
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  118. We knew communism was captured years ago, but we didn't know how completely it was controlled till now.
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  119. “Rapid Analytical Sprint" The term sprint comes right out of computer software development. A "sprint" is a period of work done in agile, "scrum", development which achieves specific objectives. It's an aging term now: 38 years old when used in this context. SPRINT: "A sprint is a short, time-boxed period when a scrum team works to complete a set amount of work" It's wonderful how propagandists throw nowt away but recycle hackneyed ideas to get maximum mileage from them. Or maybe - they don't actually have any ideas of substance and are only trying to sound cognate to the times.
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  120. Taking Ls IRL Taking Ls = taking losses IRL = in real life
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  121. What's the point of the right responding to a little niggling from some liberals? Are liberals as harmful to you as Jihadists, antisemites, XR, JSO, ..., or any of the other ultra left nihilists? I think Linsay sees 'woke' as obsessed by their ressentiment. Lindsay literally cited Mein Kampf as 'woke'. From that POV, right antisemites are woke. "Woke" isn't defined by Lindsay or his allies, as a "systematic critique of power relations". White men are being attacked by woke due to their (woke) feminist ressentiment. BTW: Adorno & Horkeimer may have impressive word skills but their critique of reason is dishonest and wrong, No: Reason is not "totalizing". Critics of reason are totalizing, Sargon sails close to totalitarians by accepting any of Foucault, Adorno, Horkeimer, Heidegger,... whinning about reason.
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  122. Can't see the point to that ironic joke. Since, in reality, they'd ban uranium and plutonium.
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  123. Throw that judge in prison where he belongs - after an appropriate trial, of course.
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  124. "gender affirming care" = transing kids, otherwise known as "grooming".
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  125. "Convert golf courses to nature reserves" <- why are they obsessed with "nature reserves"?
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  126. "How can people not realize how degrading this is?" <- Isn't the point of "birthing person" to degrade traditional ideas and expectations about women? It's suppose to degrade you.
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  127. You're asking us to believe what a lawyer says? PS: I'm not accusing lawyers of lying - more like dancing around the truth.
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  128. Here are some ways I recommend to protect your teeth from tooth decay: 1. Brush your teeth twice, or 3 times per day with fluoride toothpaste and floss at least once a day. Don't rinse your mouth immediately after brushing, as this can wash away the fluoride. Instead, spit out excess tooth paste. 2. Avoid acidic and or sugary snacks, sodas, and energy drinks. The sugar feeds bacteria. The bacteria produce acids. Acid dissolves your teeth. 3. Ensure you get plenty of vitamin D, or sunlight. (The action of sunlight on skin makes Vitamin D). Vitamin D deficiency is associated with weak bones and weak teeth. 4. A study found that applying fluoride varnish to children's teeth at the start of the study and again four months later reversed the progression of cavities in more than 80% of the test group. The varnish was more effective than a gel and reduced the need for fillings.
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  129. Originally all drinking water came from rainfall. So all mineral water is unnatural?
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  130. Q: So what do wokes, groomers, and journos have in common? A: Narcissistic self-entitlement. Ah, that's their real common cause. Woke is just a cover for it.
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  131. The kids shown "This Book is Gay" are 8th graders - 13 to 14 years old. The author: Juno Dawson, is a British transgender woman, ex primary school teacher and "best selling Sunday Times author". The book was included in what the teacher called a “book tasting” "to give them a smattering of fiction and nonfiction to choose from on a day that we call ‘Reading Monday,’” Bonner said. “We just read and celebrate. It was not assigned reading, but it was one of the books that students could choose. It is written for teens and covers coming out, stereotypes, flirting, safer sex, and diagrams of how to do it.
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  132.  @newhappythoughts1628  I defer to you. I've not seen the book, but have only copied what media say about it. I personally think parents should be able to vet, in advance, books with controversial content.
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  133. It was having a bad effect on civilization, but not only Twitter: all social media.
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  134. Transactivists seem to be demanding a right to take away all our rights. You can resolve that paradox by realizing the activists support anti-rights - not rights.
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  135. Don't think Carl called anyone 'scum'. More a case of literally describing what they do; if you think that's scummy, so be it.
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  136. It seems the Maui fire was due to a falling tree bringing an electricity line down. This proliferation of electricity lines is required due to the elites renewable energy policies.
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  137. They'll identify as transwomen - if challenged. Once they find the get out clause, they all be part of it.
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  138. If challenged sex offenders can just call themselves "transwomen"! Oh!, they already do?
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  139. I'm a person with an immigrant background. The left totally lost the Culture War with me. I used to be a lefty, pretty far Left too. The modern Left are so fucked in the head that I want nothing to do with them.
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  140. Black Lives Matter - if killed by a white person; but to say BLM when killed by a black person will be racism.
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  141. Can one still call a hairdresser or beautician a groomer?
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  142. It's basic politics. The fewer answers they have and the less able they are to defend their ideas - the more authoritarian they get. Like NAZIs.
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  143. Giovanni Gentile (Italian: 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian Fascism, and ghostwrote part of The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) with Benito Mussolini. He was involved in the resurgence of Hegelian idealism in Italian philosophy and also devised his own system of thought, which he called "actual idealism" or "actualism", which has been described as "the subjective extreme of the idealist tradition" <-- wikipedia
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  144. I don't think liberals get luxuary beliefs by "thinking about" them. I think they arrive at such beliefs by not thinking at all.
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  145. She's the voice of the uncensored. The voice of reason was long rubbed out by neo-Fascists running the likes of Twitter.
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  146. A spook organization, such as the CIA, would want to know the names of nonces so that they could apply the infomation to arm-twist people in the interests of national security. In fact, some already suggested spooks were behind Epstein.
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  147. At the end of his 3rd crushing victory at Cannae, Hannibal's generals advised him to march on Rome and take the city. Hannibal declined because he had no siege equipment. Had he taken Rome, history would've turned been less Western.
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  148. IMDB claim "Olivia Wilde is a modern day renaissance woman" Take that Jordan Peterson !!
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  149. The exercise demonstrates just how moronic their idea of socialism is - it is basically Statism
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  150. "Women can have a penis" <- Some women are already penises; real pricks.
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  151. Lack of boundaries is "terrifying"? RUBBISH. This is the weakest aspect of Carl's thinking = rampant speculation consisting of word games. If teenagers are depressed, there are specific reasons for it - not wishy-washy speculative nonsense.
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  152. I feel things have improved in the last 18 months. We're now talking about ONLY allowing women into women's sports and prisions. In USA, Trump is talking about banning so-called gender affirming surgery for kids. Why did things get better? I think because of the long-form video interviews and presentations such as: - What is Critical Race Theory? | James Lindsay / New Discourses : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BED_D6Hc6TU - Understanding Psychopathy | with Jon Uhler, LPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgoIx7vPTs - Tom Nelson - debunks climate doom: https://www.youtube.com/@tomnelson2080
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  153. The Right sometimes think the Left, in California, are Marxian. They aren't, they are mostly confused. The Left have this dream of "freedom". If you want: - live on the streets, do hard drugs, don't work, live by crime. At the same time, the Left also despise actual Freedom. In fact: the Left have been dissing Libertarianism overtime since the mid-1990s. The arrival of "communitarianism" on the Left marked a concerted assault on Libertarian ideas and, it seems, a refusal to cooperate on campaigning for actual freedom. 'Frisco is the Left's alternative vision of Freedom; their anti-Libertarianism. They ain't LARPers, they are strickly table-top and computer games - fantasy only.
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  154. You mean: "like me establishing an organisation called ‘Save Puppies Now’, and then just funnelling all of my donors’ money into training dogs to attack people & buying mansions for myself"
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  155. Lindsay's terminology is not as explained here. You're so bad at explaining him, you basically misrepresent his ideas. Lindsay is a critic of Alinsky's radical leftism. “The real action is in the enemy's reaction.” ― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals Lindsay is worried that leftist provocation will precipitate the right into far right reaction. That section of the right who're likely to be provoked he calls the "woke right". Lindsay was never a leftist. He was a classical liberal. He's still a classical liberal today. He was once a "New Atheist" before woke/PC killed it.
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  156. Sound like a "conspiracy theory" to me.
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  157. It is not deliberate sabotage. It is the expression of a green zeitgeist. They believe proper energy accounting is "climate denial". They are insane, or sociopathic - not malicious. Much like the social darwinists over a century ago who created eugenics - a different sociopathic zeitgeist - were not really "responsible" for mass abortion and the holocaust.
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  158. As a "person of colour" <- his description of himself. He objects to being called a "coloured man" What do we think he calls white people: "white"?
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  159. When they accuse you of "being hateful", throw the accusation back at them. Tell them that the accusation itself incites actual hate against you. Telling someone "you are hateful" is, itself, hateful.
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  160. "Trump wove the noose for his own neck" in 2018 <- Trump never saw the scale of the problem facing him; and failed to take a number of measured he needed too. The US Republican Party will be foolish to support his presidential candidacy again. They need to go beyond Trump. US Republicans need to take a longer term view in support of freedom. The issue was never the crazy lefties. The issue is the Maoist State. The one in China, and the other in Washington.
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  161.  @puncha.commie194  No one needs to support white, black, brown nor any race nationalism. Support U.S. Nationalism instead; any other kind of nationalism amounts to intellectual treachery.
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  162. The essence of England began with Alfred The Great. He, his children, and grandchildren created the idea in response to the existential threat of Viking invasions and conquests.
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