Youtube comments of Mark Pawelek (@mark4asp).

  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. It's easy to spot hate and exaggeration in the media. As soon as one person accuses another of "spewing" or "spouting" - rather than speaking - that's the point you know they're lying to you.
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  3. Questioning facts and logic - gets you a PhD or a promotion Questioning feelings - gets you cancelled
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  4. One criticism : Misha didn't name this University in Hell she attended. So how will potential students know how to avoid it?
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  5. This is now my favorite presentation on Free Speech. I've read entire books on the subject in the past; but as a rationale: why free speech is essential, nothing beats this.
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  6. BBC want to know: "how can we be more efficient in our authoritarianism?"
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  7. It's like something out of the Middle Ages. Barbaric actions driven by magical thinking.
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  8. Today it's a hackneyed post-humour 'joke'
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  9. Cancel culture isn't the biggest problem with woke; equity is. Equity promotes inequality and special treatment for favoured groups. It is entirely in opposition to equality. Fairness depends on acceptance of equality. A person who longer values equality above other values, will also not value fairness. It's as simple as that. So don't expect fair treatment from wokes or any other group who promote 'equity'.
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  10. That's a test for a narcissist, not a test for a psycho.
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  11. Today: "the science is backing us", can often mean "we're lying"; but we don't know we're lying.
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  12. Some of the books Paul Taylor name dropped. - The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, And Ecclesiastes, By Robert Alter (translation & commentary), 2010 - Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study Of "Brainwashing" In China, by Robert Jay Lifton. 1961. Republished: 2014. - Darkness at Noon. Arthur Koesler. 1940
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  13. The way Jaron sits on the fence re: Hunter Biden and prevaricates in support of his allies is classic.
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  14. I didn't "grow to resent" legacy media. Legacy media transmuted itself into a propaganda machine which resents me. My values didn't really change. Legacy media changed.
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  15. Did you mean to say that the lie is: "liberalism and openness" would tend to progress? Either way - it's what the postmodernist said 60 years ago. Yawn - life is an old record player stuck on the same groove. Heard this one so many times.
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  16. Outsourcing fossil fuel to Russia isn't really a policy. It's a consequence of a policy; a kludge.
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  17. Think globally, act hypocritically.
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  18. "socially awkward people" - people who appear to have no useful skill when you first meet them. "siciopaths" - people who seem to be perfection when you first meet them.
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  19. "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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  20. Zuckerberg is redeemed by himself, not by me.
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  21. Peer-reviewers do not check calculations or raw data. A peer review takes about half an hour, and is just a reality check. Just a basic read.
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  22. At first I thought: the last time Europe was this united was during the heyday of the Roman Empire. But even then: Northern Europe wasn't in that! So, Europe has never been this United before.
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  23. Why would anyone feel guilt something they had no part in?
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  24. Because that was their starting position.
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  25. It makes him guilty of "saving the world". We'll never know otherwise because his critics will all be cancelled.
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  26. Andrew Tate represents a more extreme version of Jordan Peterson?! <- Have Spiked gone crazy? There's no connection between them.
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  27. Early on Lionel did say: "Even assuming that all the climate activists are correct ..." It seems if your video says "climate" anywhere in it, you get that warning.
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  28. In energy policy we're spending more money for more expensive, but less electricity. That's is by design. They want to country to fall apart.
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  29. Does anyone have evidence to contradict this claim? For example, as a kid, did anyone go to school with him in Cardiff?
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  30.  @stefaniemoses1768  Gender is mythic. Sex is real.
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  31. I can't speak for the nation, only for myself. I already distrusted Boris before COVID. Doubly afterwards. But this wasn't about Boris. It was the statists who made COVID worse than it should've been. Weird to listen to statists moan about Boris torpedoing their authoritarianism. "If there are so many black people dying, why aren't they on the priority list?" <- Maybe we should've been telling black people to take vitamin D in winter? I'd advise it. Works wonders for me. I personally never had a COVID vax because the safety trials were perfuntory and rail-roaded.
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  32. "political leader in the western world" <- the people causing this aren't going to condemn it.
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  33. Evil people are evil in different ways. Some of them know they're evil; not all.
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  34. Adulthood is linked to taking responsibility in life. It's evidently linked to sexual and biological maturation too. But the essential point is kids have no responsibilities = they cannot be 'adults'. How can people be offended by KS? Easy. Their lifestyle is their identity, and KS threatens some ot that. She's not the only philosopher cancelled by identity fanatics.
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  35. Gaad asks the question: "Why do some of us believe in merit?" A: Because, during our lived experience, we learnt that hard work brings success in life, those of us with talent, who work hard, skilfully, and seek continuous improvement, are successful. Reality tells us to believe in merit. Personally, I never believed that 'equity' and diversity hires could lessen the imbalance in race, or sex, in particular career paths. I did believe that more effort put into education, could overcome these imbalances in future. But during my career as an educator, I came to believe that only good parenting, a good school and social ethos will put kids on the road to life success. An educator needs a good school system to work in; because the ethos at the school is so important for the majority of school kids. During my time as an educator, some (failing) kids actually asked me, several times, how much money it would take to bribe me, so that I'd pass them on their exams; especially some of those of central South Asian heritage. Bribery, corruption, and an ethos of nepotism will be the fruit of diversity hires and running the workplace on racial quotas. Because - when we tell kids that merit is secondary to race, and sex in life - we're educating them not to believe in merit. They won't believe in seeking excellence. Promoting diversity destroys their futures, for a short-term, feeling that we did the right thing. All the disastrous kids (including potential future psychopaths) I came across - who didn't work hard, did not seek excellence, turned up late, ... - behaved that way because that was their culture and ethos. Many of them were, totally unskilled at educating themselves.
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  36. "How The Media Promotes Transphobia" <- Just dumb. There is no such thing as transphobia. It's a myth invented by trans rights activists to monopolise our attention and steal the political agenda away from more important things.
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  37.  @fatmonkey4306  When I read 1984, long ago, I pondered whether there was an actual war going on. It occurred to me that, to Big Brother, the purpose of the war - to enable authoritarian rule - was more impotant than the war itself.
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  38. 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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  39. Ed Davey was the energy minister under the Tories first term ten years ago. Ed began the process of rising energy prices - which are due to market manipulation and government promoting inefficient, more expensive energy. The is done by giving subsidies to so-called renewables, and adding even more taxes for conventional energy; taxes never applied to renewables. Energy companies aren't to blame - they are victims (like us) of the Tories energy policy. In fact Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, Scot Nats all share the same energy policies. They are all equally responsible for higher energy prices.
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  40. 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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  41. Did you mean to say "evil psychopath"?
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  42. Predictable. The Tories have always been fanatical at centralizing and grabbing power. They all suffer from a I'm-a-God syndrome.
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  43. Accommodating a small number of people, is NOT the issue. Transing kids is. "We're here, we're queer, We're coming for your children." <- They really mean that.
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  44. The take I got from 1984 was the "three empires at war" may not even be at war! After all, how do we know they are at war? The message I took was: "enemies may be fabricated by elites to keep their own populations in line, through fear and misinformation." For example: much like the COVID-19 enemy was fabricated as an existential threat. So I find it fascinating that you see it entirely differently to me, as: "Each side might even want to be less authoritarian but they fear it would hive their enemy an opening to destroy them".
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  45. Why wasn't that data kept? Because they weren't interested in finding out? Because no one provided grants? Because a generation of activist doctors seem to have taken over?
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  46. It seems Michael Bailey plans to republish in a different journal, which is edited by someone with a backbone. It's best to republish because in a few decades time some people will forget it was retracted due to political pressure.
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  47. 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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  48. Calling outsiders "Nazi" is a bit like early Islam calling unebelievers: apostates, polytheists, ... It works to force your supporters into line; especially when there are well advertised penalties for unbelievers. It happens that way because that's how societies evolve or form. Social mechanisms tend to force us into tribes. We have innate weaknesses to join these unthinking tribes, religions and ideological machines. Andy West's "The Grip of Culture" documents the creation & features of these tribe/pseudo-religion(s).
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  49. Bill Clinton is the antidote to Oligarchy? <- No, not quite; but I think Clinton's financial advisors will agree with you.
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  50. Pure psychopaths are limited in the damage they can commit; because we can track them due to the damage they do, often to themselves (as well). It's the dark triad types I worry about. The dark triad is a combination of 3 anti-social traits: - Machiavellianism, - sub-clinical psychopathy, - and sub-clinical narcissism. Sub-clinical = can not be diagnosed as such (as a psychopath or narcissist) by a psychological test. For example, their narcissism is often covert. Their psychopathy does not violently damage people they come into contact with. These dark triad types can, and do, rise to positions of power and influence.
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  51. The pronoun religion seems imposed, from above, to me. I don't believe that 95% of journalists went mad over a 10-year period.
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  52. I got this yesterday "you're edging next to racism, friend". First they call you a racist, then a friend! No - my friends don't call me racist because I'm not.
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  53. When the two talk about the "stories" in the book they reveal how captured they are by postmodernism. Facts are not "stories"; although - in postmodernism - everything is a story.
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  54. "Why are they all wearing synthetic, oil-based clothing?" <- Asking them why their ideas make no sense is itself senseless. Why would we expect them to have sensible ideas? It's performative politics. They're actors on stage, engaged in a senseless plot. The government and BBC do the same thing to a lesser degree. BBC critics - such as myself are literally banned by speaking at the BBC. Hallam is clearly mentally unstable - mad. Authoritarian, censorious, good versus evil politics I see in the Green, Tory, Labour, Scots Nats must inevitably lead to some version of Hallam. Because when one bans debate on a topic - it inevitably leads to madness in society, and to giving mad fanatics a platform - while denying sane debaters a platform.
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  55. The paradox is that Tolkien, apparently, wrote Lord of the Rings to be a specific British folklore & myth we'd never really had. I mean the Welsh had Mabinogion. But Boewulf is set in Scandinavia. Arthur was composed by a French Guy and even our patron saint is Syrian!
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  56. The issue is their: 1. clothing 2. language 3. how they present themselves. 4. actual narrative in the story It may be OK, provided parents give written permission for it; but even so I would still have reservations. Explicit parental provision for this is the minimum I'd accept.
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  57. US Supreme Court just declared it illegal. Fink he can read the writing on the wall.
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  58. At that point, you need to move out of frisco. When the machine stops you doing your job.
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  59. Wrong image. She; not LBGQT enough. Woke isn't just about rooting out racism. It's also about promoting intersectionality.
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  60. It's a mockumentary, or should that be wokumentary?
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  61. They clearly picked the wrong name. Maybe they should have another go as the StraightMax movement?
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  62. The state has always outsourced censorship to private bodies. For example, during the French Enlightenment it was the Catholic Church (an IGO). Hollywood hired Will Hayes in the 1920s who was opposed to outright censorship, because “self-regulation educates and strengthens those who practice it.”
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  63. "I don't see ideas changing, people just double-down" - Winston My ideas are radically different today than they were, even a decade ago. About the only thing constant is my atheism. But I only really became an atheist at the age of about 27! Prior to age 27 I was a mystic agnostic. I was once very far left. Today leftism disgusts me.
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  64. Whoever replaces him will be worse! - but that beggars my imagination.
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  65. Unless your previous brand becomes very toxic - in which case not rebranding will be the "extraordinarily costly thing".
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  66. Ella says: "making farming more efficient makes it greener" <- greens don't believe that. Greens don't follow any rational accounting system and it is impossible to communicate with them because they have entirely different standards. Greens seem to think that with 'organic farming' humanity and nature will live in 'harmony'. Farmers will farm side-by-side with rabbits, foxes, and all sorts of wildlife. Green harmony doesn't fit in with any kind of accounting of productivity, and efficiency; harmony seems to be more of a mystical aim.
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  67. These banks are probably all being run by Tories - which may explain why they're shutting their critics down.
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  68. The best way to hide a cover-up, grift, or fraud is by making it look like a cock-up.
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  69. He'd not destroying our economy just to make a bit of money.
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  70. 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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  71. 99%
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  72. Difficult for us to calculate the role that psychopathy plays in the contruction of ideas & ideological frameworks.
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  73. "Progress" was pwned by US Democrats. So I think we can say that "progress" is woke, rather than woke is progressive. It's such a compromised word; an entire catalogue of, literally, reactionary ideas were branded progressive by the Dems. Instead, realists should talk of advancement, or improvement.
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  74. No one told Thaddeus that the British stopped the slave trade in 1837 and proceeded to police the seas to eliminate it.
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  75. Irresponsible, grandiose fantasies - the human condition. Which destroyed 6 lives in this example.
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  76. What bias? When you accuse people of bias - you must state exactly what that bias is. Because only then can we know whether the bias is harmful. For example - if I have personal friends in the computer programming industry - how does that distort my ideas? And, does that distort my ideas for good or bad?
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  77. I was pretty unconvinced by Kevin right from the start. On top of that - people who have to deal with psychos daily (e.g. ex-prison counsellors) tell us that very little a psycho tells us is likely to be true. So psychos cannot be diagnosed by surveys; only be their behaviour. The second thing they tell us is that academics know f-all about psychos.
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  78. Konstantin is really a satirist. Read Gulliver's Travels, Animal Farm, or Don Quixote - satirists are often intellectuals.
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  79. At first glance, I'm surprised that Chris was badly bullied at school. But not so much when I learn of Chris's high honesty rating which means he can't bully back. His is much like my story. This is why I hate pop culture anti-bullying narratives - bully the bully. [ E.g. as presented in mass media ]. Pop culture is so dishonest. We feel good watching it because the bullies get their comeuppance. Yet how bullies get it is a lie we tell ourselves. Hate being lied to.
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  80. A directors cut should be the original before the studio recut it to censor, shorten or simplify it - the directors cut should show his original intent.
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  81. From my PoV - Brexit was a rebellion against anti-democratic EU. Listening to Freddie Sayers redefine Brexit in this interview is annoying.
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  82. Apparently, Michael Shermer wrote a book on Conspiracy; if the background scenery is to be believed. He's written a lot of books. I read one of his early ones from 3 decades ago: "Why People Believe Weird Things"; it's honesty and sincerity impressed me then but it didn't actually deliver and explain why people believe weird things. It just explained they did; Shermer too. His weird beliefs could've killed him. He was shocked into skepticism by an actual near death experience due to belief in weird things. Shermer was a skeptic when there were hardly any. His skepticism predates New Atheism by at least a decade or two. Today, many ex-New Atheists call themselves skeptics. That must be in homage to Shermer; because it's certainly not in homage the the skeptics of the Enlightenment; who will rolling in their graves with how narrow-minded, and authoritarian, the "skepticism" of many ex-"New Atheists" is.
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  83. Please report his name.
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  84. From time to time we're all weak. But there's a huge difference between states of weakness we find ourselves in and the condition of weakness we put ourselves into. One is an accident of life, and the other is near suicidal pathology.
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  85.  @jesperburns  Patrick Moore is not a "paid shill". Nor is Greta. Greta is a manipulated.
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  86. He basically sounds like any British toff too :- conceited, narcissitic, vainglorious.
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  87. How is Carl not liberal? Does Carl disbelieve in democracy, rule of law, free-speech, political rights, free market?
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  88. A narcissist is unlikely to kill you with no warning. What'd be the sense in that? They'd want you to know who did it! Not every psycho is a narcissist.
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  89. Why do we want to go beyond the "Standard Model of Cosmology?". Aren't standard models supposed to be the "consensus view"? Aren't we all supposed to be boot-lickers for the consensus view today? Philosophy got "lost in the woods" post-enlightenment. Hegel lost us. But Kant and Rousseau misled the way. 230 years wandering lost in the woods.
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  90. It's a scam, not a hoax. "Hoax" makes it sound like a practical joke, "scam" tells us that the motives of those doing it are sinister.
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  91.  @bustacap3791  Does everyone you despise always "spew"? Have any of them ever been known to speak, or write?
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  92. So where can I find a list of woke/ESG O/S projects to ignore and/or boycott? And, where can I ask this question? I just found a similar question at Reddit but it's basicly blocked with a "no comments allowed" block and a dumb reply along the lines of "linux has always been political".
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  93. Do you have personal ememies at the Heritage Foundation?
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  94. She said he originally "came from Cardiff". Was she lying? Did he originally come from Syria?
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  95. I don't think so. Try living in poverty. You will not understand it. You will just live it.
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  96. A: On the other-side. "Hitler wasn't a socialist" argument can begin: 1. Hitler was still in the German army when he joined what was to become the NAZI Party [ German Workers' Party. After he joined it was renamed: "German National Socialist Workers' Party"), although Hitler earlier suggested the party to be renamed the "Social Revolutionary Party" ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party 2. Hitler was essentially a state spy looking out for potential subversives. This was a time of revolutions; so the German army were legitimately concerned about what radicals such as socialists were up to. B: Having said that (above), Hitler was a "German people's socialist". He was against "International socialism". He was an anti-Marxist. ERROR: Hitler didn't call Marx unscientific. The NAZIs were contemptuous of both science and ideas. NAZIs believed in intuition, not intellectualism. I've a tiny disagreement, I'm with TIKhistory on most of what he says because the facts and history are clear. BTW: Marx's habit of slandering his opponents as "unscientific" makes little sense. Because, you guessed, Marx and his Marxists aren't scientific! Marxists have no empirical methods; their methods are driven by Marx's metaphysics : 1. "Historical Materialism" (including his class analysis of everything in history). 2. Marx's economics (where almost anything goes - provided it's "anti-capitalist" : e.g. Malthusian eco-poverty is now "anti-capitalist"!, as was Pol Pot, as is Keynesian Marxism. 3. Dialectical Materialism - which is ... - er what - what is it? A Marxist will never tell you so why do you expect an answer from me? 4. Revolution.
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  97.  @bohanxu6125  I have no disagreement regarding those 3 methods of reasoning. But, everyone should also be taught basic scientific reasoning (how to experiment, how to hold a variable constant, how to infer a scientific law), as well as reasoning from empirical evidence (how to apply actually existing evidence). Add those as 4., and 5. Another idea I have is to take actual policy debates, and redo them - to take arguments which politicos actually used, in reality, to decide policy and reapply them to look for flaws and or improvements to their arguments. Nearly all university degree students should also study statistics too. Note: "simple proof based mathematic" reasoning (such as proof by induction?), is harder than you think. If mathematicians find it hard, imagine how hard it'll be for the rest of us?
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  98. '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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  99. The end point of capitalism is not the commodification of everything. It is merely the accumulation of more capital. Commodification is merely a way to accumulate; a means to the end.
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  100. One of the most useful things on the Internet are these long form interviews and discussions. One of which we're listening to now.
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  101. Thanks for the reading list Chris. I've only read two of them; the 2 Orwells. But I will commit to reading at least ten I've not read. If those ten are good I'll read all the rest. I'll most likely read the first ten on the list first. PS: for all you lazy people: you can get them as audio books if you're too lazy to read. Listen to them last thing at night, when you're driving somewhere or otherwise journeying.
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  102. “It’s interesting to watch Glastonbury and look at the audience and not see any black people there ... I’m always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals,” he continued, adding: “I think, ‘Wow, that’s still very much a dominant culture thing’.” - Lenny Henry
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  103. It's so amusing listening to them make up reasons why they lost. Clueless political commentators who know less than I do. Yet it's their full-time job!
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  104. I thought this would be a funny pisstake; but no - Tom takes himself seriously, and is obviously fanatically loyal to the woke cause. So, it's more leftwing demonization and hate speech; a kind of left wing moral panic discourse. Fascism hasn't existed as a thing in politics for 77 years. Not since 1945 when all the Fascist regimes in Europe ended.
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  105. The problem with philosophy is: a lot of it is: - speculation - specific to a culture, author's personality, class position, or Zeitgeist of the times. That doesn't mean you should ignore philosophy. It's means: keep in mind the author's motives. Look for authors who are willing to admit their motives, strengths and weaknesses to their readers. Look for author's who tried to know themselves. "Each man is furthest from himself." ― Friedrich Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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  106. Russia isn't under threat from the West. There is an obsessive internal dialogue in Russia about the threatening West. It's not a real threat. In contrast the occupation of Eastern Europe for 45, or more years, was a real thing; even though that's no longer a threat either.
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  107. Given her new series is in England, you really need to normalize ignoring her; unless she steps out of line. When we devote all our attention to enemies - real and imaginary - we destroy ourselves.
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  108. 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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  109. "We unlocked the Twitter files" Not quite. You got the redacted Twitter files. Perhaps next weekend the real, unredacted files may drop, if the FBI haven't managed to delete them.
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  110. Prioties! We have a Labour government. The #1 petition here, now at 2.76 million, is to call an election - to remove that government.
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  111. Such is their competence at presenting their "case" that I often think these people deliberately undermine their own arguments.
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  112. "They never just try to sell it" to us because, for 99% of us, there's no cost-benefit to renewable energy.
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  113. 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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  114. A massive study from 2015 showed that 17 times as many people die from cold compared to those who die from heat. So the norm is little old ladies dying from cold. Q: What was Obama's plan for that? A: more expensive electricity.
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  115. Regarding the beaker peoples who eat and drank milk products. It's recently been discovered that milk contains an essential nutrient: C-15:0 fatty acid. Apart from milk the only other common source are fish heads and skin. So that could explain the very quick genetic replacement by beaker people's DNA - they were likely healthier than most natives which would've given them advantages in combat.
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  116. Another paradox or irony; Malenkov kept himself alive by being weak. No enemies = no existential threat. We're passengers, or mere observers, in our own lives. But what is the purpose of life? Is it to stay alive or to make our (positive) contribution to the world?
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  117. Amazing how close my comment is to yours. I wrote and posted my comment without reading yours. These thought leaders and influencers like Sam need to be more rigorous in defending their ideas. If they want respect from me. For example when Sam tells a lie he needs to defend his lies, or renounce them. LOL - Apparently, Sam thinks I'm an "odious person" because I strongly disagree with some of his ideas (I agree with most). I strongly disagree him because Sam told lies; which I called out. I dislike lies. I find lies and liars odious myself.
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  118. Parallels between this and the Islamic groomer gang scandals are remarkable. Both happened because "political correctness" enabled it. Politicians enabled both.
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  119. Tim Pool tells Twitter exec they have a "Liberal bias" They are neither liberals nor Liberals. They are insane authoritarian creeps.
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  120.  @thewr0ngchild  You watch too many Hollywood movies. Why would they be "in the deep rainforest" in the first place? If they were there to expose logging, they'd stick to roads because loggers must have roads.
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  121. Apart from bots who's still on Twitter?
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  122. Because Russia - rather than Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria, Roumania, ... needs those resources and Russia is such a 'tiny' country?
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  123.  @ἀγάπη-ο6υ  "What about" <- You critiqued your own point. You raised a "whatabout". The point being that only 0.01% of trans people, at most, are intersex. The 2nd point, being that there are several intersex conditions and giving them all the same name doesn't unify them; or make them all the same.
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  124. "LA Palisades Fires - What REALLY Happened?" <- 8 minutes into the video and we still haven't been told what REALLY caused the fires.
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  125. He's in the tribe of elitists. Narcissists who love to look at themselves.
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  126. Sociopathy and psychopathy are not on/off switches They're gradations or scales of behaviour.
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  127. Bully the bullies !
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  128. You need to make the video you want us to see. If you know so much about "Islamic, Indian and Chinese philosophers", then why aren't you telling us about them?
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  129.  @realhashimdiab  But philosopher means something slightly different in the West to the "East". The Western tradition begins with the Greeks, 2600 years ago. Since he wrote in a Western language: English, you should assume he means Western philosopher. Had he wrote "World Philosopher Tier List", you'd have a legitimate complaint. Had he wrote in Farsi but excluded Persian philosophers you'd also have a legitimate complaint. Also, because he's only talking about Western Philosophers, he's able to talk about the connections between each; which would not be the case had he included philosophers from other continents. When including philosophers outside the Western tradition, one should do a new video for each distinct, relatively isolated (from the West) tradition.
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  130. Make America Work Again
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  131. It's surely easier to move out of California than to homeschool one's kids ?
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  132. Did I hear you say the: World Sociopathic Forum?
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  133. Seems to me that Yale and Princeton law students behave as a clique of 'hanging judges'. This can't be good.
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  134. Is calling someone TERF hateful? I think it's designed to be so.
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  135. 3rd post about "drug cartels". I'm beginning to think someone's pushing an agdenda.
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  136. "When you ask people they care about ... Number 2 is climate change." <- Giggling on the floor when I heard that. Stopped watching. Too much comedy for the day.
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  137.  @pawelsiemek3355  Undergraduates are 18 to 21 in the Britain. Woman = adult female person. Female = one of 2 sexes in sexual creatures such as mammals. Females carry 'egg' eukaryotic cells = gametes. In sexual reproduction, two parents produce gametes that unite in the process of fertilization to form a single-celled zygote. Gametes are haploid cells with one copy of each of the 23 chromosomes, and the zygote is a diploid cell with two copies of each of the 23 chromosomes. In humans the zygote produced then develops into an embryo. Females carry the larger gamete, also known as the 'egg'. "Woman" is NOT a state of mind - in the sense that a male cannot "feel like a woman". A person teaching young people that men "can feel like women" - in a literal sense is mind-fucking with their head. Likewise anyone teaching young person that they can "change sex" is abusing the younger person. One who takes money to tell these lies is without any moral compass.
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  138.  @pornsakpongthong1092  They could try to be more convincing though !!
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  139. It's not simply copy/paste. They look for particular phrases and sentences which build an argument. Then they modify the argument to radicalize the final argument to make it "theirs". However, to do that, they invariably fail to cite where their argument came from. That is NOT accidental. They have to obscure the origins to their ideas to make those ideas seem radical. Otherwise we, the reader, might see their ideas as trite. For example when Lindsay & Co rewrote Hitler as a feminist rant for publication in a High academic journal that's Lindsay & Co commenting on just how trite woke arguments are. It's not as simple as not knowing what they're doing; as Matt implies here. It's more a case of conning themselves into thinking their ideas are radical. Woke is a kind of intellectual self-hypnosis.
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  140. This is garbage. Was it written by computer as well as being narrated that way? When the Turks finally conquered Constantinople to end the Eastern Roman Empire they, basically, killed or enslaved all the Christian population; then repoplulated the city with Turks. Yet later the narrator lies to us by claiming the modern population were "descendents of the byzantines".
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  141. Wokism reminds me of both Leninism, evangelical religions, & all the isms, schisms & lifestyles I've encountered in my life. With most isms-schisms it's join now, do as we say, and we will change you (for the better). Wokism isn't like that at all; you're not required to change yourself, you just have to change other people by badgering, censoring & cancelling them; not so much by talking to them, but possibly by talking at them. It's a bit like Leninism in the way it concentrates on changing other people without much emphasis on changing oneself. Like most progressivisms: Wokism has that Utopian aspect. Except the Utopianism isn't really there at all - unless we consider witch-finding a kind of Utopianism! Wokism has a dream of Utopian with nothing actually getting better and everything getting worse. So paradoxically - Wokism is similar to old-skool blue-rinsed Toryism, but without the self-improvement. So wokism ends up dividing everyone against everyone else, and putting everyone into a ghetto where you're banned from talking to everyone except those in some other intellectual ghetto.
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  142. He came to these conclusions at least 3 decades ago.
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  143. People who try to ingratiate, and appease Maoists don't understand any of: Maoism, politics, nor the real world.
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  144. "groups of humans will always resort to the most extreme means possible to retain their superiority over others" <- hyperbole? I find groups of humans will resort to the most convenient, and pragmatic means. Not the most extreme. Extreme means are only attempted when less extreme methods have failed.
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  145. The modern academy is politically biased - against everyone who's not left, or who criticises any left ideas. Because the academy embraced: "Repressive Tolerance" (Marcuse) and Paulo Freire's "critical pedagogy". You call PraegerU "right wing". In academia, "right wing" is a demonization - not a description. Demonization of other ideas are basic to both "Repressive Tolerance" and so-called "critical pedagogy". I don't consider myself "right-wing". At various times I've considered myself: anarchist, marxist, postmodernist, ... From listening to PraegerU I get the impression they're more based than "right-wing". Yet because I'm critical of some crazy ideas the Left has adopted I'm certain they'd expell me from academia. Basing that on all the people the far left (with help of postmodernists) have expelled in recent years.
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  146. "We all thought this can be contained within the humanities." <- Apart from those of us who studied climate change, and found that scientists had sold out to TPTB. So NO - it could not be contained. I'm fascinated by this discussion on the counter-enlightenment because I think many people countering the counter-enlightenment; AKA: progressives, conservatives and even liberals are, for me, part of this counter-enlightenment! Here is a quote from a self-styled critic of the counter-enlightenment: "With increased freedom and mobility, the spread of literacy, the decline in infant mortality, the pro longation of human life and the alleviation of physical suffering through modern medicine have come a potentially catastrophic degradation of the natural environment, the depletion of vital and irreplaceable natural resources, the advent of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and the dystopic possibilities of genetic engineering." - Counter Enlightenments, by Graeme Garrard, 2006 With allies like that who needs enemies?
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  147.  @stefanlaskowski6660  I can't reproduce the argument in Milton in less than 2 minutes, as I can with Peterson's argument. In the past, I tried to justify free-speech using Enlightenment ideas like fairness & justice. I assumed other people had my concepts of fairness & justice. But the right & modern left don't. I think Jordan Peterson's argument will work with everyone.
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  148. I watched it to give it a chance. I wasn't going to trust all the YouTube reviewers because I suspected they had an agenda. Anyhow - they were right. It is bad.
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  149. I've met thousands of people in my life but never ever met a Fascist; so where are you people finding them? In contrast, every second person I meet is happy to call every other second person "Fascist" without knowing much about them, and, crucially, without having talked or listened to them. None of these Fascist finders read Adorno et. al.'s "Authoritarian Personality" book.
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  150. Perhaps a fork is in order? Rinux or Linust for the version with Rust, and Fossilized Crud for the version without?
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  151. Sam's not as bad as some people. I'm with Sam about 80%+. But there are one or 2 crucial issues he's pushed but has not personally researched - so he got wrong. Probably because he took his advice from clever debaters. Lots of philosophers are wrong for that same reason. Philosophers are brilliant at decieving themselves.
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  152. Climate change alarmists are concerned. <- thank Truss for small mercies.
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  153. It certainly would not have been funny had he mentioned it because one isn't allowed to make any jokes about the "religion of peace".
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  154. Nice to see Stella O'Malley think it's hillarious that a teacher has been jailed for refusing to call a boy a girl, or whatever !!! Ho, ho, ho.
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  155. Identity is a fundamental fact of human nature. <-- but must Identiy Politics be a fundamental fact of social life?
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  156. Banks don't have rights. People do. Banks have privileges.
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  157. 1) Trans children don't exist. Must we have these endless discussions about fantasies held by activists? "Children are receiving treatment for which not a whole lot of evidence exists" <- No evidence exists. The purpose is not to benefit the kid, it's to further the career of the activist or medical professional. Surgeons experiment on kids to fulfill a made-up trans-metaphysics they're fixated on, due to some sexual kink they - the surgeons - developed. Prove me wrong?
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  158. It's the unhinged, violent response we (and cops) should be worried about - not it's 'cause'. It does not have a 'cause' as such. Much like football hooliganism (when random passers-by were violently attacked after being accused of supporting some other club!). The 'cause' is mindless groupthink and hate for other people outside one's group.
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  159.  @L_Martin  It's not belief which need to be protected; it's ideas.
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  160. Andrew Gold asks "why did DiAngelo do it"? Why not simply cite the authors she plagiarizes? Simple: Because she wanted to say something (make something up) but the texts she was reading did not explicitly support what she said. Detailed: See below. Some of the passages DiAngelo plagiarizes are summaries by ONE source of other sources. For example Nakayama and Krizek cited Gans(1979) to make a point. Then on Waters(1990) to elaborate on that point. But they were applying their conclusions to a "small group of white people" whom they interviewed. DiAngelo plagiarizes Nakayama and Krizek, and included the citations to Gans and Waters to subtly change the point being made. For example DiAngelo makes it about Tiffany and she uses that plagiarized work of Nakayama and Krizek to change to thrust of the argument by changing key passages. Because Nakayama and Krizek cited Gans and Waters to make specific points their research had a logic to it. But DiAngelo takes those passages from Nakayama and Krizek (without attributing them to the authors), cites Gans and Waters as well to make a slightly different point. But is her writing valid? Did she read the texts by Gans and Waters which she cites? Are the conclusions DiAngelo comes to logically valid. It seems not likely. Her work could just be made up! So this is why she plagiarizes. She cuts and pastes serious sounding text to cite writers (Gans and Waters) who she's probably not read to make the argument she wants to make. It's novel. Because no one said before. So it gets the PhD. But it's likely not true. Because she never read Gans and Waters. She merely read other people who had read them. Gut 'n' paste PhD. Some of the passages DiAngelo is accused of plagiarizing. https://freebeacon.com/campus/robin-diangelo-plagiarized-minority-scholars-complaint-alleges/
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  161. Why no details of the tens of millions of Hindis slaughtered & enslaved in these conquests ?
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  162. The mRNA COVID vaccines are experimental. -- Phase III trials were only partly done; even then the problems with them were covered up -- No phase IV trials were done -- If vaccination were a choice Fraser would have a fraction of a point. But the vaxxes were forced on us on peril of losing our jobs and right to move freely. -- significant numbers of people are harmed by side-effects of these vaccines - because the way they work is misrepresented to us, and to politicos.
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  163. Curious fact: About 600 BC Greeks believed humanity was only ten generations old and was descended from the gods. About 600 BC a Greek traveller visited Egypt and told that origins story to an Egyptian priest. The priest shows the Greek his ancestral tree doing back 300+ generations. So the Egyptians, especially the royal family, were meticulous in recording their ancestry. Anyhow, the open-minded Greek went back to Greece and eventually, Greeks no longer believed humanity was only a few generations old.
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  164. All the other examples I remember of people "embarrassed to be german" at least has german efficiency and techology to be proud of. But now Germany has become inefficient and post-industrial.
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  165. 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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  166. "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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  167. Cultural makeup is the issue - not racial.
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  168.  @Wisdomabovegold  Yes. Too many young male Western haters are allowed in. As demonstrated in recent street demonstrations.
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  169.  @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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  170. Every secular ideology doesn't have to create a victimhood ideology. Human rights have been highjacked by the juristocracy as a weapon for them to control and rule people wtih. The original human rights of the Enlightenment were negative rights w.r.t. one's governors. For example: the right to vote, right to a trial, to a fair trial, free speech. These were rights which did not impinge upon other citizens. They were really citizens defences against an over-bearing state. The idea of positive rights is where it all went wrong - these were concoctions of legalists, and lawyers, and they are often "rights" exercised against other individuals. Lawyers institute their juristocracy by innovating on, and even inventing, positive rights to divide and conquer society. Positive rights should be called priviliges.
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  171. Trans activists are intellectually incoherent because their ideas are intellectually incoherent. It's almost as if they've been educated not to think critically - to babble uncritically. It's not only sociopathic men. Their leftist "allies", thought leaders and commissars are also intellectually incoherent.
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  172. Did Tom actually make an objective point about "cancel culture"?, or is this just buzz-word/fashionista Web? He complains about lack of evidence by critics of cancel culture. Where is Tom's research and evidence? Pot calling Kettle. One can actually look at this leftish activism objectively (email-mobbing, no-platforming, SJW-politics, bullying by coercision). I did. There is an increase. Cancel culture is widespread in acdemia, media, and even in NGOs. It is designed to create an SJW-friendly monoculture - but only in these institutions. Cancel-culture isn't going to lose you a job on a building site. So why and how? 1. Cancel culture doesn't come from the traditional left (which I'll define as a univeralist left). It comes from the particularist left (identitarians, pomos). 2. Cancel culture victims are generally NOT right. Since academia, mass media, and NGOs have already been cleansed of the right. Victims tend to be liberals and universalists. Victims may be identitarians too - but not members of Woke fashion indetities such as BTQs & "equity" supporters; unless the BTQ being cancelled is anti-woke. 3. Cancel campaigns give wokes something to do, and a politics to belong to.
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  173. Nonsense. About 2300 years ago, the Greeks figured out the earth was kind of spherical. The ancients even managed to get a close estimate of size of this sphere. How does he not know that?
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  174. Part of the issue here is the difficulty one has finding out exactly what happened: fraud or incompetence. Institutions need to start auditing raw data. They should also keep duplicates of raw data, recorded at source. There should be clear protocols in place such that there's always a copy of raw data available for audit. At least then these "dog ate my homework" excuses would no longer then tenable. Start randomly auditing data - looking for basic mistakes such as the silly mistakes noted above. If cheats thought they could get caught they may think twice. If they had the raw data themselves, they could even employ programs to check everyone's work - looking for duplicate IDs, and applying statistics to look for clear anomalies indicating possible fraud which warrant more detailed investigations. PS: I looked at one dodgy paper in energy policy 7 years ago. The raw data was copied from EU publicly available data, OK. They took a 7-year period and simply recorded the percentage change over 7 years, OK. 6th year maths I can do in my sleep. But the percent changes published were 95% wrong! - when checked. It wasn't me who found this because it would never occur to me that professors with PhDs can't do year-6 maths and that when they do basic maths for a new paper they don't check each others calculations. It took another - a PhD student to catch this.
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  175. (1) "Charlie Kirk is: 'just like an unhinged Jihadist'" <- except he doesn't enslave Yazidis, bomb civilians, or cause other mayhem, ... (2) "Conservatives are against anything which supports the LGBT community" <- there is no "LGBT community". There are T-activists who hide behind the shield of LGBT. <- the outrage is specifically directed at transing materials. Namely - materials directed at kids designed to mess them up psychologically. Materials which glorify genital mutilation, nullify families, take kids away from families to give the state control, ...
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  176. We're looking at "modern wisdom". You tell me that story-tellers are full of real modern-wisdom! I've personally not found that. Art, novels, movies are not wisdom. Williamson seems to have a set of ideas he looks for. For example, he lists 100 essential books to read; and many of those books are very pragmatic; not theory laden like most academic books. Williamson isn't interested in speculative nonsense such as left academic studies or novels. He'd clearly a person who sees wisdom as some kind of template to live a real life by. BTW: Williamson isn't the only person to have a go at Claudine Gay for "knowing nothing". Gay is a grifter who only got her job due to the reverse racism of DEI which parachuted her into position and allowed her to persecute other black heterodox (independent) thinkers at Harvard. Here whole life is ultra privileged.
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  177. Men should not compete in women's sport, because men are born with a different genetic makeup - which leads to different bone and muscle development. This leads to men being physically stronger and faster. As Sharron reveals in this interview. Transwomen are men. They are NOT women.
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  178. How come Tom isn't talking about fake experts from Leftwing think tanks? I particular - why does Tom never criticise the eco-fascist "experts" from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and all the other green, anti-humanist, NGOs?
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  179. I don't think the police claim that they were "taken and killed"? What leads you to think that? Who would want them?
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  180. Matt isn't wrong. You said it yourself. What does mean: to "be cancelled" by Matt? Does it mean he's blocking you? I doubt it. Does it mean he's lobbying YouTube to shut you down? No. What's the consequence of Matt's cancellation?
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  181. The "ideology" we find in media is simply a distillation of the biases of the journalists who write media. Every society has a culture or cultures and ideology of media is generally the unconscious expression our the journalists culture which we encounter. Some of us only notice ideologies which rub up against our own biases and view-points. It is impossible to represent any idea to another without putting an ideological spin on it. Your critique of ideology is ancient Marxism, and idealism. Only Marxists critique ideology, because only Marxists think there's such a thing as an objective viewpoint. Objectivity is a myth. Ideology is the norm; and hegemony is the form it takes. That does not mean we should rejoice in this state of affairs. It probably means we should look for more heterodox sources for news, reporting, and opinion. I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Woke is a fabrication the left created for themselves because they needed common ideas to unite behind for their own anti-hegemony. Since after the early 1990s the left basically gave up on Marxism/communism. So we had a left fragmented into Feminism, Anti-racism, anti-capitalism, gay rights, environmentalism, ... - isms/schisms. Woke puts these disparate movements into a straight-jacket to unify them in the same way Marxism, or Fabianism had once unified the left. To existing oppositional left ideas woke bolts on myths of anti-colonialism, DEI, and Sustainability, Net Zero, virus paranoia as ideals. Woke is a meme to unite modern leftists.
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  182. 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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  183. "Punish her" is probably an understatement. Psychopaths want to hurt people.
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  184. "Stephen Hicks is off-the-scale wrong on postmodernism" Hicks wrote a book explaining postmodernism; but his book isn't really about postmodernism! Hicks book is about Western philosphy post-Enlightenment; and Hicks puts Kant and Rousseau on the outside the Enlightenment tradition. I think Hicks is right. Hicks' point is that post-Enlightenment ideas (everthing since ~ 1790) are essentially subjectivist; and these subjectivist ideas have no way one can refute them. One cannot refute these subjectivist ideas on the facts because the concepts in post-Enlightenment thought aren't arrived at by evidence. So we critique them by logic instead? But these post-Enlightenment thinkers don't use your logic. So they're not listening to your critique. Hicks is interested in how we can refute and bypass these post-Enlightenment schools. I think it's a good project. Better than anything any of the post-Enlightenment dudes and dudesses have.
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  185. He doesn't mean 100% of people would become NAZIs - just most, or enough.
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  186. This guy is such a reprehensible person. Who develops a coke problem in this day an age? It's more addictive than booze and way more expensive. Molly is far more fun. Plus all the lying, and media manipulation.
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  187. There are two editions to this book: 1st - 1986, and 2nd - 1992. The 2nd edition also has a reprint by a different publisher. The 1st edition is discussed above.
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  188. Trans activists promote transphobia - by the idiotic things they do including - gaslighting kids on social media such as Tumblr into thinking they were "born in the wrong body" and should change it. - destroying young minds with transactivist idiocy - opposing counselling for those with gender dysphoria - destroying opportunities for women in women's sports - persecuting and attempting to cancel their critics
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  189.  @Rydonittelo  The replicants in Blade Runner did. Isn't their lives and desire to live one of the main points of the movie?
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  190. War? How is murder war? Killing random people is maybe war against humanity, but certainly not a war of liberation.
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  191. Nihilism or suicidal empathy? The latter. Nihilism has no upside. Suicidal Empathy, at least, elevates its adherents to a state of moral elitism.
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  192. Is it hot on Venus due to adiabatic compression of the atmosphere? Venus has 92 times as much atmospheric mass as earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_process
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  193. "it's economic purpose" <- teaching kids to mindlessly repeat the curriculum and not to think for themself has an ANTI-economic purpose and outcome. A society full of group-thinking yes-people will not produce the innovation on which a good economy depends.
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  194.  @MrDorbel  Patrick Moore is a clever guy. Given most of the "climate science" were hear about in mass media comes from idiot journalists cherry-picking impossible doom scenarios to frighten us into energy poverty - it's strange you all obsess of PM - who has no influence at all on what my TV or radio tells me about "the climate". It's as if people like Paul Money can't think outside propaganda mode.
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  195. I'm listening to an American moan about the US health care system. In the UK, our heath care system is a disaster. The NHS waiting list is now 7 million. UK doctors risk their career should they give health care advice contradicting government diktat. The US does NOT want our centralized authoritarian system. It didn't begin like that. yet, once the state gets it's mits on something the tendency is towards silencing all critics. So I do NOT understand why leftists promote central control of the economy but expect critical thinking to flourish in such circumstances! The interviewee, Marianne Williamson, misuses the term "neo-liberal". She basically uses it as an insult for free-market supporters. In reality neo-liberalism is state interference in the economy (and in everything else). Neo-Liberalism began in the 1960s when economist Milton Friedman proposed legal action against polluters as a market-like system to stop pollution. Since then, the vast majority of neolib market-like "correcting" mechanisms are statist - they rely on laws to enable such neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism is therefore ANTI- free market. Yet lefties don't want to understand this. To a leftie, neolib is just an insult to throw at supporters and enablers of capitalism. Labelling anything neolib signals one's anti-capitalism, without saying "capitalism". Yet the term has a very distinct meaning in economics and policy. A shame we lost that level of diagnosis.
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  196. I'd leave a job right away if my boss had severe anti-social personality disorders. Better not to destroy your live simply to live from day to day.
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  197. Climate change is NOT about the changing climate. It is a proxy eugenicist / Malthusian discussion. Climate change is an attempt at a grand ("Platonic" - see The Republic) noble lie. Like previous noble lies it's elite group-think. But unlike Socrates' noble lies and most from the past (religions, nationalisms, ...), today's noble lies are ONLY here to scare us - not to inspire us. Our elites no longer lead, they think they "nudge". Climate sensitivity is pseudo-science. "Greenhouse gases", do not drive climate changes, nor does pollution, nor anything man-made. The sun dominates climate changes. Climate models are bad; varying from could-do-better to absolute garbage. Greenhouse gas climate models are the garbage. These are the official, IPCC, WEF, green-NGO models. These model validations discussed here are pseudo or illegitimate science. In real (working) science it does not matter who validates a model because empiricist research is competence-based. Skilled empirical scientists agree. That's why the research is accepted as a validation. No theorist, nor modeller validates their own theory or model. But "climate change" is elite groupthink; a noble lie. Elites only want to hear lies. More importantly, they only you to hear lies. So, ONLY modelers and IPCC spawn are allowed to validate climate models. Non groupthink is rejected by scientific journals, and the researchers are monstered as 'climate deniers'. Big journals are all run by elites. For example, James Hansen is a modeler and greenhouse gas theorist. With good science he would not be validating his own work. It's a shame Sabine was bought into the groupthink. I guess she makes too much money from elite funders. It really is evil lying to kids about the world ending. Sabine should be ashamed of herself. PS 1: Sabine has been invited to discuss this with expert doom-skeptics, but she refused as there was no payment for her. PS 2: Not all noble lies are elite. For example: woke, Marxism, feminism, ... are anti-establishment. But anti-elite noble lies are all dreamt up by academics. None are validated (AKA: they don't work either). PS 3: Other climate models, those unofficial, non-IPCC ones are interesting but every one of them - I "believed in" - disappointed me.
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  198.  @lilbabyjessie8686  1. I have degree (1st class honours, Open University, UK). I went through college. I have a scientific education too. (HND Chemistry & Microbiology). I also studied philosophy for 3 years part-time: I attended a seminar given by lefty philosopher Peter Dews on "Modern Continental Philosophy". So I understand how to debate. 2. I understand the scientific arguments for man-made climate change and I consider those arguments to be based of sketchy, illegitimate, dishonest, science. Bad science is called fake science after the bad science has been called out and explained, and the "scientists" responsible for it refuse to defend their ideas. 3. Q: Why are the arguments for man-made climate change dishonest? A: Because proponents will not debate. People who will not debate are evil fanatics. They are evil because debate is fundamental to democracy. Climate alarmists crap on democracy be refusing to debate. They are evil because they are contemptuous of democracy, free speech, and the Open Society. 4. If you don't believe these 'bad climate scientists': "how can you believe any scientists ever?" A: One can believe scientists on the basis of the evidence they're willing to give us. It's all about evidence, and the quality of such. For example, the organization "Sense about Science" < https://senseaboutscience.org > have a motto "Ask for evidence". Skeptics of man-made climate change, such as I, stress different evidence. 5. "why would the earth start to naturally warm up right after the industrial revolution, that just seems like too much of a coincidence to me" Earth's climate is not "stable". It changes seasonally, by location, and in cycles : in tune with natural drivers. The sun is the overwhelming natural driver of climate change. This is proven here: < https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y1YDYDF/ > Much of the time earth is warming or cooling. So it is a coincidence it warmed in the last 250 years; a trite coincidence. 6. "Climate change" is a Malthusian scare. It destroys of faith in society, the future, and our own ability to think for ourselves. 7. "Climate change" is run by the ESG Cartel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9ZuApy9KU> of evil financiers and capitalists. Malthusian scares have a terrible history: the Second World War began due to Malthusian concerns of the NAZIs. Obviously, there's the Left, Dems, enviro-NGOs and such but the reason why you hear about it all the time is due to the ESG Cartel. The reason social media censor climate alarm skeptics is due to the ESG Cartel. If you want to understand where the "climate, trans-person, anti-heterosexual, anti-White" agenda comes from watch the video above. It may have been invented in academia but its in society because Big Finance put it there. < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9ZuApy9KU > 8. Who is this "drug pusher"? Are you referring to me or Candace? [Be careful when you compare people to: "drug pushers". I may refer to Moderna, or Pfizer by that term but I'd never say it about another person unless I wanted to be banned.]
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  199. Ricky Gervais is an experienced comedian. It's hard to bully a comedian because they just brush it off to reply with caustic attacks on their critic.
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  200.  @holesondressage  Only time travellers could be on the "right side of history". Only people who can properly look into the future.
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  201. Central planners did decide on nuclear power in France in the 1970s after the French suffered electricity droughts following oil embargos related to Oil states warring with Israel. It worked out very well for them. At that time in the 1970s the French had a lot of diesel-powered electricity which vanished or became very expensive under the embargos they suffered. I'm not a big fan of central planning, but once in a blue moon it can succeed spectacularly.
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  202. "How did you become so hateful?" is like: When did you stop beating your wife! You can't answer it and you can't not. For a friend to resort to such dishonest debate indicates you lost your friend long ago.
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  203. 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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  204. Did he say he didn't "feel at home"? I don't think so. That's your interpretation.
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  205. "Racist because you're white" "Homophobic because you're not gay" <- thost are political abstractions. Non-discrimination by not supporting reverse discrimination is NOT a an abstraction.
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  206. Many Russians with Polish names and/or Polish ancestry were murdered, by the state, in the Great Terror from 1937 - 1938. Such people (with Polish connections) were actually the main victims of the Great Terror. Why doesn't the narator tell us that?
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  207. Politics is obsessed by it.
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  208. Dr Tracey listed 5 signs of Low self-esteem: - I criticise and blame myself for things - I'm eager to please people by going above and beyond to make them happy - I'm self-conscious, and I second-guess myself. - It's hard for me to assert my needs - I focus a lot on my weaknesses. I think Dr Tracey forgot one important thing: "I allow other people to unfairly criticse and blame me. I take their unfair criticisms on board."
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  209. Vanity, or Vainglory, and Hubris and the leading name-change candidates.
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  210. Cosmic Skeptic: - never gives an actual real world example - insults other people - calling them 'idiots'; pretty hateful eh? - based on his intuition, judgement (so-called), and opinion - the thinks he should be Hatespeech Finder General How hateful is it to call another person a 'fascist'? Why are the censors always the same people accusing random innocents of fascism?
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  211. Imagine a world where the only information sources you trust are government, their approved media organizations, and 'experts'; where you distrust your friends and colleagues and assume they are either liars or fools. That's the world they want us to live in.
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  212. Trump told the truth about some things - which is why they hate him.
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  213. Rob Henderson's luxury beliefs are similar to Gad Saad's suicidal empathy beliefs. Except suicidal empathy beliefs can also harm the believer too.
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  214. I can't believe how conceited she is. She wants 40 years of colonialism to even begin to fix the issue. Yet, the problem is lack of civil society in Afghanistan. Islam controlled everything there for over 1300 years. British civil society it 400 years old. Beginning with the reformation, grew incrementally since then. She thinks we can build civil society & Western values in 4 decades? The wonder is we didn't leave decades ago. I'm told we didn't do it the "right way". What "right way" is that? What evidence is there to show there was a "right way"? In the whole interview she never even mentioned the role of Pakistan ISS in sponsoring the Taliban. Would she like us to take over Pakistan too?
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  215. 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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  216.  @disbeafakename167  But also plenty of moms, transing their kids, who have no judgement.
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  217. For me, Marx is as much an economist as Freud was a psychologist! Their theories are sunk because each proposed non-empirical / non-scientific methods/systems to ground their ideas in. They both allowed themselves too many degrees of freedom. I think "too many degrees of freedom" is flaw with nearly all pseudoscience. I don't doubt that theism features in Marx, but you will not convince a Marxist of the error of their ways by pointing that out. I would simply tell a Marxist or Freudian that their methods allow too many degrees of freedom; and that every time that happens an idea/critique/theory will go badly wrong. They always have. PS: Using "degrees of freedom" here is more than just the statistical sense. Because our minds automatically impose systems on our ideas. When we allow ourselves any scope at all for interpretation - that interpretation is wrong 99.99% of the time.
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  218. "new age segregation" <- old age segregation; straight out of feudalism
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  219. Now Toby is calling Woke a controlled opposition. It certainly feels that way to me!
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  220. Barbary pirates were still active about 200 years ago. The US navy - of all people - stopped them.
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  221. 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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  222. Hitler was a National Socialist. Communism is supposedly internationalist. That may be why Hilter's communism was so short lived.
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  223.  @aleccap5946  "dreadful as Mayor of London" - but not as bad as Sadiq Khan
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  224. It takes a person 1 hour's cycling to make about 1 cent worth of electricity. 1 cent will not even pay for the food consumed to make the energy you expend. It certainly won't pay for your time.
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  225. (1) A lot of government stops innovation. Q: Why no new nuclear power in USA (like breeders, Gen IV, advanced nuclear)? A: It was regulated to death. e.g.s * US NRC classifies thorium as "source material" - i.e. atom bomb risk. In reality no bomb uses thorium. * Process to do new isotope separation of lithium is stopped by spooks in USA. Because it would make lithium-6, which in theory can make tritium, which in theory can make a H-bomb, which in practice requires an A-bomb to set it off! So the real H-atom bomb proliferation risk is actually A-bomb, not lithium-6! (2) Apart from out-of-control regulation, another problem with state is it conforms to no cost-benefit discipline, which market system forces on one. Too many projects just waste money. Partly because they are politically led and politically interfered with. E.g. Green energy technology like wind farms, solar power. All of it subsidised and basically a waste of resources. Mazzucato's own economic dogma: Keynesianism encourages this kind of waste with "investment for jobs" ideology - which is itself wasteful of resources. Better to have investment for value added. Interesting that Mazzucato seems to agree with more wasteful green energy investment, and gibberish like green QE. (3) The real opposition to state participation in economy was political. Was initially led by market fundamentalists. Then market fundamentalism became mainstream. E.g. PPFI. Refusal of UK state to fund essential infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, power plants. Instead state demanded private finance which requires 2 × to 3 × more interest on capital, so forcing actual cost of infrastructure up 2 ×.
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  226. 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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  227. Lot's of harm is done by people who are trying to save the world. <- we see the harm more when people become mechanized as cogs in propaganda machines. Which both of these 2 are. I can't take these two guys seriously. The problem isn't that there are "never any problems". The problem is enviros are bat shit crazy anti-humans. Every single argument they present is dehumanizing & promotes bureaucratic control over our lives. The only way environmentalism is done is by annihilating human freedom. "Alternative healers can fix our health" - here they are BS-ing me. Alternative healers are bat-shit crazy people. Which doesn't mean government knows best. Government controlled by Fauci knows what's best best for Big Phama - not what's best for people.
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  228. Renewables aren't even great when you superficially understand them. The power and energy densities are too small. RE depends on weather, season, day/night cycle, latitude..
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  229. "Peterson Misses The Point of Postmodernism" <- So what is the POINT?
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  230. “Vacuum energy is positive and has a constant density throughout space. Thus, increasing the volume of space increases the total amount of vacuum energy, which requires work. It is the opposite of a gas, whose energy and density decrease as it expands. When that happens, the gas exerts positive pressure. In contrast, because vacuum energy is positive, it exerts negative pressure, so galaxies on the largest scales are pushed apart, not pulled together.” <- Nonsense on so many different levels it's comical. The author uses a negative comparison with gas as a metaphoric example! Can't do that, 1) gases are actual matter, Vacuum energy is not. Real gases exert pressure. Fictional vacuum energy pulls things apart.
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  231. Yarvin is a bad role model for dissidents. He makes many good points, but then undermines himself. His criticism seems to be that our current system is one of experts, NGOs, GOs, and IGOs running the world. They take so long to do anything that nothing gets done. For example, there's a new estate being built half a mile from me. 25 years ago they built an access road to the site and 25 years later? That estate is still not done! These criticisms are valid - we can no longer get anything done; because our current system promotes bad ideas. Because authority is separated from accountability and responsibility. The whole trend in governance is one of giving ever more power to expert-GOs and NGOs; and to dis-empower all systems of accountability. But how is "monarchy" the answer? Where's the accountability in monarchy?
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  232. LOL. The first two years of your undergrad degree were when? It's a good 105 years old, at least. It began with Marxism in the Soviet Union. "Politically correct" described strict obedience to policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as decreed by its central committee. AKA: "the party line". The idea had certainly made its way to the USA by the late 1920s. In general "politically correct" is a complement when used by a Party activist, but an insult when used by one suspicious of The Party.
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  233. Alt-culture is ethnicity. Or rather: ethnicity is another culture.
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  234. The narrative of climate change, given by media, elites and academia is a myth. He clearly needs a more sophisticated level of expression. If only scientists were taught to express themselves as novelists and poets do!
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  235. 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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  236. So we learnt one lesson from 1984 - anti-Imperialism; and all 'right thinking people' are anti-Imperialist today. States don't need to be imperialist to do harm - a good statist will tell you that.
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  237. Upheld, not "respected". "Respect" is part of the language of identity. Making everything Identity is the problem.
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  238. "This is bad" fraud.
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  239. I'm not sure the scientism movement was ever anything but a political / social / religion-replacement movement. Remember scientific racism and eugenics? - the same kind of people owned that too; & wanted to use it for much the same agenda as they use climate change today. The original sin idea is a useful way to bully people to do your bidding. It's more inevitable that they'd adopt a modified original sin - not so much interesting.
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  240. Modern psy-ops experts, all of them schooled in the history of scare-mongering at Uni, saw that it worked for Christianity, so it can work again for atheists. 99% of greens are atheists.
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  241.  @taketimeout2share  The scientific method is an objective process when done properly. But science, especially when corrupted by politics and money, is an excellent source of deceit - most especially scientific models and cherry-picked statistics.
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  242. Decline in surface solar activity is due to changes within the sun. We understand the cause. It's due to double magnetic cycles which interfere or reinforce with each other. It will last another 33 years: 3 short solar cycles. We just began the first cycle. Sun has both short term (11 year) and long term cycles (up to 2100 years). The cycle we're about to witness is an approximate 400 year solar cycle. Maunder minimum conditions cause climate change. We can get both warmer and colder weather. Climate conditions of 17th century were associated with the premature death of one third of earth's population. Be afraid, be very afraid. It's not surprising we're just hearing about this as it descends on us. BBC are censoring climate news and calling everyone who doesn't champion man-made climate change a "denier". So scientists who studied this solar effect are basically banned from BBC. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yqIj38UmY
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  243. Same people promoting diversity also promote censorship. They believe in uniformity of ideas - but only their ideas.
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  244. "Caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain - not upbringing" <- That statement is highly disputed, based on no research I know of, and amounts to a harmful opinion.
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  245. UK gov recommendations are based on guesswork and myth. The maximum dose of vitamin D sold in UK is 4000 IU. This is still too little! UK gov should up the recommendation to 10000 IU vitamin D per day during winter.
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  246. No one is voting for it - apart from fanatics - because we don't know about it; and nearly every other politician agrees with it. No politicians are significantly opposing it.
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  247. How many wars has Putin started now? 4, 5, 6?
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  248. Politician: "It's high time to make the public accountable and punish them if they do wrong"
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  249. People do NOT blame the Frankfurt school for wokeness. They blame Marcuse. Him but especially one of his post-grad students: Angela Davis, the famous Black Panther. How come Richard doesn't know this? Did you not bother reading James Lindsay? The Frankfurt school began in 1921 when a businessman funded leftist scholars at Frankfurt. It was more sociological in the early years and did include some actual Marxists, for example: Henryk Grossmann. Horkheimer took over the directorship in 1930. In the 1932 the Nazis took over Germany; the F.S. moved to the USA soon after. Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of Englightenment was name-dropped here; with a claim that it exposed Enlightenment Reason as an Instrumental Reason (see Max Weber for more on that). The book did no such thing. But it duped some of its readers. Read it if you don't believe me. Both these philosophers were reasonably well read in European philosophy. But instead of attacking the distinctive, often empiricist, rampantly skeptical, reason of The Enlightenment, A&H chose to direct their ire at reason in general. To pose the deranged claim that reason is a (totalitarian?) attempt to control the world done in bad faith. But they don't do this by referencing actual Enlightenment authors!! They just state it and back those claims with parables (e.g. re: Odysseus), rants against consumerism, ...; it's a kind a leftist Nietzscheanism. It's crazy that a book so inept could so influence a generation of Western leftists! And it did!! If you have time to waste - read original Nietzsche before you read this rant against reason.
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  250. That was the simplified version !!
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  251. Isn't that identical to how the NAZIs began World War 2, except it was Danzig, not Crimea?
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  252. Better question: "How does a person with a degree in psychology turn into an evil murderer?"
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  253. Woke hasn't meant what it originally meant for well over a decade. We want to talk about what woke came to mean in the last 10 years. "We" being liberal minded people. We'd have agreed with woke in it's original meaning. But today's woke: - privileges so-called marginalised groups: LGBTQ, black people, ..., intersectionality - is authoritarian & anti-authoritarian at the same time - hates Western history and heritage. - performs politics in a childish, narcissism form
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  254. Uranium glassware?
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  255. Unfortunately, these people without a scientific mindset are able to pass degree exams, get themselves degrees and call them "scientists".
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  256. He's not the brightest spark. One must be pretty dim to fall for the standard greenhouse gas atmospheric model.
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  257. Comments on this story are bizarre. Many people - many thousands of miles away - giving us detailed explanations of what happened & who did it; based on no evidence. Often blaming "Bolsonaro's henchmen" or "drug cartels". Speculation & projection are bad things. We should not do it with news. Definitely not publicly. It may make you feel good to project evil onto Bolsonaro. But it's not making you more credible commentators as I see it. It makes you less credible. It also encourages mass media to make stuff up. Media air stuff they think you want to watch - they sell viewers to advertisers. This (speculation & projection) are a big reason why "news" media is more biased & worse today than, say, 10 years ago.
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  258. Education has fallen to this so-called "child-centered" nonsense. It is not child-centered. People who really care about kids put effort into their education. Equity is about dragging down all kids to the lowest level.
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  259. I hope you gave her Orwell's Animal Farm, Swift's Gulliver's Travels too. My dad rightly looked down on me for reading Tolkien. He thought I should be reading Kafka. Everyone must read The Trial.
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  260. Identifying as a cat comes from the furry movement. These furries - as they call themselves - often dress up in animal informs Kids love that. According to prison counsellor Jon Uhler, the furry movement is a great hiding places for paedophiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELAtwIxL5k
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  261. Exactly when was that 100 year period of Pax Romana? Give us the dates. I recall war and conflict were a permanent feature of ancient life. Pax Romana operated in Europe and North Africa, but not in the middle east where Roman armies were in conflict with the Parthian, followed by, the Sasanian empires. We don't hail Rome for Pax Romana, but for its legal system and governance (despite the emperors).
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  262. It's not a surprise to me. We see similar dishonesty with the man made climate myth.
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  263. After the COVID-19 lies they told, I believe nothing the establishment tell me about anything. Whenever they tell you something, you first question should be: "based on what evidence?"
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  264. The best response to a form such is, not only, to not complete it but to explain why not - by writing over it with something along the lines: "there are only 2 genders. I refuse to complete your nonsense form - designed to gaslight and F---wit patients. This waste of NHS resources disgusts me"
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  265. LOL. I see my main comment vanished!! Who deleted it? Does Chris have a bot cleaning his comments and disinfecting skeptics and critics like me? Or is it just an issue with YouTube? I see my most recent comment, but the more important comment I made earlier is invisible!!
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  266. 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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  267. "I tend to see most of what's going on as intentional and I think they use the perception of what they're doing as incompetence as a way to cover up for their crimes a lot of the time. So I think ultimately what what we're seeing is an effort to, sort of, steer the world towards what I would refer to as a neo-feudal model" -- Whitney Webb.
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  268. That was so un-PC but so, so, true.
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  269. "Is it OK to be white - 26% of black people disagreed" <- that's only a quarter in the hate group.
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  270. Don't believe people - believe in their arguments. Imitate the intellectual habits and practice of those with believable arguments.
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  271. I was banned from Twitter for supposedly "spreading misinformation", according to this shill for the establishment - the BBC "reporter". I have to refer to him by this name because the establishment press (BBC, Guardian, ...) don't name the guy. In fact: I told the truth. I was banned for life from Twitter for telling the truth.
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  272. Tom is one of a tiny minority of Leftists I can take seriously. He's one of the few I don't think are just lying outrageously at me. I see him as lying accidentally - due to misconceptions. Probably because he's not immediately identifiable as a intersectionalist, postcolonialist, gender warrior, feminist, nor critical race theorist. Tom sounds like a Marxist. I'll give you all a clue about what the culture wars are mostly about and where they come from: intersectionality, postcolonialism, identitarianism, gender bender theory, feminism, critical race theory. Q: What do these 6 counter cultures have in common? A: postmodernism, and epistemic relativism: AKA: "my truth" versus "your truth". LOL: The left sound funny, if not cynical, when invoking free-speech as part of their "culture war" progressivism. The inventers and promoters of "repressive tolerance", "safe spaces" and "no-platforming" reanimating the zombie corpse of free-speech they spent the last 4 decades murdering. Tom does it without the slightest trace of irony; yet full of disdain. Is Tom's zombie obeying orders today?
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  273. The psycho talking to K Kisin has a PhD. He's a meglomaniac, possibly a political fanatic or dark ASPD. Shouldn't the media have a screening policy to filter out maniacs such as this who refuse to answer any question? How can one have a "debate" with a person who has no concept of fair debate? BTW: There wasn't a "loss of control" of legal & illegal immigration. There was a policy of maximizing immigration. The Tory Party did it. Why? Ask them, not me.
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  274. Good point. JBP is so used to this. He's been in their bear pit before.
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  275.  @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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  276.  @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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  277. No. I would take the maximum allowed in UK, which is 4000 IU per day. 1000 ng = 1 µg = 40 IU 1000 µg = 1 mg A safe dose of vitamin D leads to a blood level above 50 ng/mL in blood. Any level above 50 ng/mL and below 150 ng/mL of vitamin D is considered safe. Vitamin D exists is 3 forms. It is stored in fat cells. Vitamin D3, from fat, or sunlight, is converted to the active vitamin D form in the kidneys. Vitamin D3 is the normal form found in pills and capsules. A recent study found that, after several months, of a dose of 20000 IU per day, people still had blood levels below 100 ng/mL of vitamin D. None of them developed Vitamin D toxicity symptoms. Everyone in UK should take at least 4000 IU/day. It's a good idea to take vitamin K2 with the vitamin D. Taking vitamin K2 with vitamin D3 helps to ensure the calcium transported by the vitamin D is absorbed by your bones where it's needed Vitamin D toxicity? Only ever seen with truly massive vitamin D doses! "In the 1940s, vitamin D was thought to be effective for treating rheumatoid arthritis and massive doses of 200,000 to 300,000 IU/day were given. It was soon realized that these massive doses resulted in vitamin D intoxication, including hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, nephrocalcinosis, kidney stones, and soft tissue calcifications." Read: Holick, M. F. (2015). "Vitamin D Is Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought: A Historical and an Up-to-Date Perspective". Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 90(5), 561–564. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.03.015 https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00244-X/fulltext
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  278. "They make these racists evil" Indeed they do. Racism existed in the past because it was institutional: Social Darwinism. etc. Racism was regarded as GOOD. Racism kept the race and our 'blood pure'. So the racists weren't evil; they were pillars of society. The institution was evil - not the people. Woke keeps telling us 'racism is institutional'. Given that: why are the script writers so thick that they're unable to represent how institutions work?
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  279. So Tom Nicholas admits there are "culture wars"? Does that make Tom a "right winger", Trumpist, or Fascist? I was under the impression the Left has denounced the very concept of culture war. I've already listened to Tom's culture war offensive against Jordan Peterson here on YouTube. Is this video Tom's culture war against the culture war?
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  280.  @stinkoshatter-shield2096  Debates about transing kids are "inconsequential"? In the past 10 years we've witnessed an epidemic of rapid onset gender dyphoria. It could only have happens via the Internet through social contagion. It not just Christians who consider combatting ROGD a "priority issue". This atheist here does too. BTW: once a person undergoes medical sex transition s/he commits to medicalization for life. Testosterone administered to females will cause hair loss, voice deepening, and significantly increases risks of cancer. The outrage here is genuine.
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  281. We need to neuter this cat nonsense. Too much "stroke my back and I'll scratch your thigh" business going on among elites. Their paws need trimming.
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  282.  @PiOfficial  Renewable energy depends on: - weather - seasons - day/night - your location - especially latitude. People need - energy on demand, not when nature says:- "I'm ready to give you some energy now"; If the energy isn't there when it's needed it's useless, or - constant energy:- for example to power street lights, a server farm, or a long-distance journey. Renewable energy is also land intensive - compared to high density fossil fuel energy or even higher density nuclear power.
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  283. 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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  284. Systematic reviews are NOT necessarily better than individual studies - because with a single individual study the researchers can aim to use the best empirical methods and can do their best to eliminate bias and error. In contrast, systematic reviewers will NOT know how much trouble the original authors of a study went to to achieve "scientific perfection" - i.e. to eliminate error, bias and use the best possible data. I don't trust systematic reviews - and in practice Ioannidis, 2005, showed that many reviews were actually cherry-picking which studies to include!
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  285. Better still. Put ReactiveUI for .NET in the title
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  286. I see your irony. A pseudointellectual is someone who can pwn their opposition by bypassing and short-ciruiting debate.
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  287. Jared's list is: 10. Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit 9. Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations 8. Frege - Foundations of Arithmetic 7. Boethius - On the Consolation of Philosophy 6. Crispin Wright - Truth and Objectivity 5. Nietzsche - The Gay Science 4. Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature 3. Augustine - Confessions 2. Alasdair MacIntyre - After Virtue 1. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
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  288. No one is "born is the wrong body". We are all born in exactly the right body.
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  289. People being deliberately biased but calling themselves 'honest'.
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  290. 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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  291. Apart from accusing people of racism, does she have any other ideas? if so, what are they?
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  292. Ex-US gov sercurity services employees at Facebook 17 - CIA 37 - FBI 23 - NSA 38 - DHS Many of them in senior managerial positions.
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  293. 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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  294. Normalization of "Jews are the new NAZIs" horrifies and disgusts me.
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  295. I was trying to understand this demonization of Darryl Cooper. Initially I thought it was liberals getting hysterical that their great hero Churchill was dissed. But No. Woke already did that and the Libs stood by passively as it happened. So why is Darryl Cooper getting dissed so heavily? Because we, the West, turned WWII into a foundational myth for today, and Darryl questions it. The myth begins with the conflict between Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. Everytime we discuss entering a conflict today we begin with the question "Will we be Winston Churchill, the hero, or Neville Chamberlain, the weakling?" Whenever TPTB go to war, the media always decide: "we'll be Winston Churchill, the hero". Darryl Cooper thinks it's time to rewrite the myth for a better one. Hence his demonization by TPTB.
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  296. Wokeness is easy to explain. There are personality traits (dark triad, and dark tetrad), which are selected for by Left wing politics. People who support "progressive politics" often have these dark triad and tetrad traits. Such people seem to have taken over many university departments. Woke = dark triad and dark tetrad people.
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  297. "passive-aggressive nagging" - AKA catty-B hissing ? "corporate HR" - AKA Corporaganda ? We need punnier code words.
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  298. Sam Harris doesn't really know much about biology, the immune system, nor the history of vaccination. Why would anyone take his advice on it before mine? Sam Harris is a fake skeptic.
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  299. Between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak who is the least climate fanatical? [ ] Liz Truss [ ] Rishi Sunak
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  300. Perhaps he believes that philosophical fallacies are Fascistic, or "modernist"?
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  301. It's no kind of religion; it's more a pathology.
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  302. "They didn't know what a psychopath REALLY was." <- I think most psychologists would define a psychopath as someone with no empathy for other people. A psychopath is definitely not someone who passes or fails a test with 11 questions asked. Primarily because psychopaths habitually lie. Most of us lie when we must - but we normally tell the truth. Psychos just lie for the sake of it - unless the lie will hurt them! I love the notion that the psychologist here, Kevin Dutton, thinks he knows what a whole group of people: psychos - REALLY are. BTW: No one suggests that all psychos are bad. People suggest that psychos who commit a lot of crimes are really bad. Here's an expert on bad psychos talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgoIx7vPTs
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  303. Who deserves to be counted as part of the Enlightenment? Rousseau was maybe too speculative. I'm not saying everyone who speculated should be excluded. The argument should be over who to INCLUDE and why. I say include all those who applied empicist reasoning. I'm not against including some works of Rouseau - just tell us which of his ideas are evidence-based! Perhaps we could include Rousseau's writings on music!
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  304. Pomo sits very well with dominant discourses and regimes. It's a perfect legitimation of illegitimate power. To pomos, the very idea of a illegitimate / legitimate distinction is absurd. Pomos also share, with those in power, the attributes of narcissism, hypocrisy, and cynicism.
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  305.  @jamesbowman639  The views I gave out above come from my experience of talking and debating with pomos. I studied it. "Pomo sits very well with dominant discourses and regimes." <- I'll repeat for you. Just my own experience, of course. You, yourself, may have had a more positive encounter with pomo.
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  306. 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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  307. Because it's trendy to be obnoxious today?
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  308. I cannot understand Sabine Hossenfelder. What hope is there for me in understanding the universe?
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  309. What about criticisms from the political left? Will you be dealing with those criticisms of the Frankfurt School too?
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  310. Not one single post defending the climate scam! Sign of the times. 1 year ago, this critical post could not have been made (here). Today it cannot be attacked. Because all the "climate crisis" believers seem to have dissolved back into the poo they were evidently made from.
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  311. At this stage, I consider most Tory MPs to be psychopaths.
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  312. Why are the suicidal empaths always women?
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  313. I hope you asked him what his alternative to democracy is? Given: we already "abandoned democracy" a while back, I also want to learn: 1. What system are we living under now? 2. Is there an alternative to this current (non-democratic) system we live under?
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  314. No really. They put that "climate change" note on EVERY video which mentions climate change or climate science. Every single one. What Simone says is wrong. She has no sophisticated climate science understanding. "Environmental Management" is not science. Simone parrots globalization, green activist and UN agenda. Where are we today? We/re warmer than the Little Ice Age of a few hundred years ago. Slightly cooler than in the 1930s. Cooler than the Roman Warm Period and several degrees cooler than the Holocene Optimum of ~ 8000 years ago. Heat & cooling of the earth. The atmosphere is a blanket which keeps earth warm. Heat is lost slowly - not by radiation but by convection. The atmophere is much thicker closer to the surface. Radiation does not predominate until the stratosphere (20 km up). The globalist climate gaslight - AKA greenhouse gas effect - is a lie. The lie is designed to make us fear fossil fuel emissions. It applies a bad heat loss model which makes heat loss all about radiation. Radiative heat loss is very fast (speed of light). But earth obviously does not cool that fast - so they possit vast backradiation in their models to counteract the vast radiative heat loss - they suppose. By making earth's cooling ALL about radiation, they conned you all. Actual heat loss is mostly convective in the lower atmosphere. The 3 methods of heat loss convection, conduction, and radiation vary with temperature and atmopheric thickness. In the thick part of the atomsophere - closest to the surface : the troposphere - convection dominates. In the thinnest part of the atmosphere : the stratosphere and above, radiative heat loss dominates. Midway between the thickest and thinest layers of our atmosphere conductive heat loss dominates. This is NOT how the "greenhouse gas effect" works. It is a broken model. The greenhouse gas effect does NOT describe the reality of our atmospheric behaviour.
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  315. Was the COVID mass formation natural or was it induced? - not by plan - by government. In the early days of lockdown those who questioned the lockdown on social media were jumped on authoritarians who - to me - sounded like cops or spooks. It's clear the government has detailed some cops or spooks to damp down dissent. Not saying government were organizing a mass formation - they were damping down on dissent.
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  316. Marx absolutely underestimated the state and its innate tendency towards authoritarianism. In Marx's time, the 19th century: state powers and duties were limited - basically to war, policing, law. Marx never forsaw that the state is a power for itself. When Marxists sieze the state apparatus, they remove all the brakes on state power when they abolish civil society; which they will inevitably do; as they believe all civil society is a capitalist conspiracy to limit their power and to stop the revolution. Marx clearly got his ridiculously optimistic view of the state straight from Hegel. Marx's notion that, under communism the state would wither away is so fanciful it has to be one of the biggest speculative blunders of all time.
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  317. These are 4 transing books, sold by Target, aimed at kids : - "Bye Bye, Binary", by Eric Geron (Board book) - "The Pronoun Book", by Chris Ayala-Kronos (Board Book) - "What Are Your Words?" - by Katherine Locke - "The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish", by Lil Miss Hot Mess
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  318. You can safely take ten times that amount of vitamin D = 10000 IU / day.
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  319. Woke scripts are due to ESG guidelines applied by asset managers. Movie producers look for woke scripts so that the movie gets the investment it needs. Lefty script writers (& producers) are not all thick robots regurgitating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. They may be influenced by anti-capitalism, feminism & anti-racism, but they aren't writing scripts according to their commissar's directives. Why is it happening? ESG guidelines applied by big asset managers: Vanguard, Blackrock, ...
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  320. 21 years ago I used to read the Guardian. Oh the shame. I hate myself for supporting such abject, nay: evil junk.
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  321. Unless they can convince you of a climate crisis, they have no influence over you on climate policy. Radical climate policies, such as net zero, mandate this catastrophe mindset - otherwise we'd not accept the policies. 'Who benefits'? The policy machine - everyone in authority who's bought into the agenda of net zero and state control over us.
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  322. I haven't been getting bad colds in winter since I began taking 8000 IU vitamin D every day.
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  323. Does woke cause this, or, more likely, is this pathological behavior, best codified as "woke"? In other words, which came first: the Devil (as a symbol of evil), or the evil, as people doing real harm to other people? I think evil came first, then people rationalize their evil away by calling it "social justice". Otherwise evil people can't live with themselves. Woke is a set of ideas, invented post hoc, to justify evil done. This is why, woke, social justice and the "culture war" are so arbitrary, senseless and incoherent.
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  324. If, what I hear out of US higher education is valid everyone's gaming the PhD system. This kind of plagiarism is probably one of the easiest to do. She's basically taking plausible sounding passages from other people. Changing one or two key words or phrases to argue for some other point. The fundamental problem is that in many areas of social "science" there is no science. There's only rhetoric. A student with a hypothesis (such as white fragility) should have to show it with empirical evidence. She should've been required to do actual research. This would involve rephrasing her white fragility idea as a testable hypothesis. Then doing empirical work to validate or falsify that hypothesis. But education is now so corrupt that this sort of rigorous work is poo pooed. Instead, soft and woolly academia rewards innovative ideas - even when they are garbage. Hence: PhDs awarded for what is essentially garbage writing. This is the legacy of the long march through the institutions. Not so much the Marxification of education - more the enabling &, even mandating, of rhetoric and idiocy. This problem with rhetoric dominating the work of soft "sciences" is particulary bad in education - of all places. Her PhD is in education. Don't stop with DiAngelo. Sack her PhD examiners too - they enabled it. They are the source of the actual corruption destroying academia.
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  325. Isn't queer a synonym for exhibitionist?
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  326. But there's also Redox O/S. So why add Rust to Linux? Why not simply treat Linux as a black body implementation to be mimiced. Just like Linux mimicked Unix? Ensuring that you don't also mimick bugs. One cannot make other coders write literate, readable, clean, bug-free code.
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  327. How do you know he tells his therapist the truth? A good psychopath can fake remorse as they have an whole lifetime of fakery to draw on. Effective psychopaths a infamous for their lying.
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  328. Reason cannot be at the helm; because we, as humans, are unreasonable by nature. Some of us can overcome our unreasonable nature. But many can't. What you dis' as "greed and the thirst for power" is just practical reason in action. Machiavellian reason. You privilege reason, yet at the same time, you can't describe a system where the reasonable person can be in command to run things reasonably! How does the purely reasonable person win against the Machiavellian?
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  329. "Anti vaccine conspiracy theorists" :- are needed to call out the statist & big pharma vaccine shills such as Fraser Myers
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  330. The Blairite faction of the Tory party are in conflict with the traditional Tories. Blairites outnumber the trads. Also, I bet there are more Blairites in the City than trad Tories. Truss can't do anything, anyhow, because she needs the Tories on her side, by either being them, or by replacing them.
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  331. (1) "If you think you've found the truth you don't seek it" "The gate-keepers of reason have all fallen" In centuries to come, Boghossian will be mined for quotes. (2) I disagree with Boghossian on somethings: - gay marriage. OK, for you to call yourself gay, and OK to declare you're "married". But, ... the institution of marriage is established and subsidized (tax breaks) because it enables better child rearing. That's why we value marriage. Gays don't rear kids, apart from a tiny minority of lesbians. BTW: aren't most lesbians themselves, childless? - 'climate change'. I was shocked a few years ago to see armies of ex-new atheists, 'critical thinkers', and kow-towing to the climate hysteria psychopathology. I think Peter Boghossian is the best philosopher working today. A gem. (3) PS: "The Epistemology of Democracy", by Elizabeth Anderson. 2006. It that the journal article PB cited?
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  332. "I've always thought it (pollution) was a load of bullshit when I heard people complaining about that" <- This pollution scare has been needling me all my life. At least from the day I read coffee caused cancer so I had to give that up. From the day my elder sister told me "tomatoes cause cancer" so she won't eat them. Pollution has been one fake scare after another stealing my attention away. Now Johann joins in: stealing my attention while trying to get me focused. I wonder whether Johann is more interested in me buying his book than me sorting my attention out?
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  333. You should have Whitney Webb on to talk about Epstein.
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  334. But Galadriel doesn't die. And the audience know that. So - even when there's a firestorm which roasts life and sucks the oxygen out out the air - we know Galadriel will survive that.
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  335. History of Philosophy books are too much like compendiums which introduce the themes and the 'who did what when' but won't help much with developing a philosophy. IMHO: Plato and Aristotle are outdone by The European Enlightenment. Apart from Descartes, not typical of The Enlightenment - but in opposition to the previous Christian Philosophy which rules Western thought. I recommend 4) "The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters" by Anthony Pagden as a good introduction to the European Enlightenment. Also: buy an introduction to philosophical fallacies such as 3) 'How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic' by Madsen Pirie. This is an amusing book which pretends to teach you how to abuse rhetoric, but actually teaches you how to spot it. So I'm voting YES to the first two recommendations, and last (Russell, Blackburn, and Mill)! 2) Think, and 1) 'Problems of Philosophy', and 5) 'On Liberty'. I numbered my recommendations in the order in which they can be read. Generally the list doesn't have enougth modern philosophy books in it and doesn't explain how far philosophy ran off the rails in the last 250 years (under the influence of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Pomo, ...) especially since the end of the Enlightenment and Hegel (hiss, hiss, but you still need to read him (or summary of his ideas) such is the reach of his shaddow).
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  336. The world is no more nuts than it was 5 years ago.
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  337.  @realhashimdiab  No. It's not my duty to read every philosopher and look at every idea ever thought up before I post to YouTube. I'm only concerned with the ideas which got me where I am. Those are the only people whom I can talk about. So Jared wasn't talking about Bayle or Montesquieu - he was talking about the thinkers who influenced him - "Western Philosophers". BTW: I doubt one can personally understand Confucian thinking unless on understands tha history and culture from where it came.
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  338.  @realhashimdiab  @realaymandiab So according to your logic, or argument :- Were I an Hindi, writing a blog post - considered philosphical - I would be mandated to write about Chinese, Arabic, Greek, and general world philsopophy - despite not being an expert on such. You clearly don't think that. It's not woke or PC to say that at all. It's also a daft stance; because it's utterly impractical. In order to understand, say Chinese philosophy, one would have to be steeped in Chinese history, religions, and culture. No one has the time to study every culture, and every philosophical tradition which ever existed. It seems to me you're quite hypocritical on this topic. In that you'll only try to bully white, Western, men to talk about ALL philosophy; whilst being content to let other writers post whatever contingent philosophical ideas they have. Because that's how you've been educated to think and behave.
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  339.  @realhashimdiab  Do you think Buddhist philosophy should be included? If "yes", then wouldn't that be quite demanding? If "no" then woouldn't that be too exclusionary - according to your reasooning? Discussing Buddhist philosophy is hard because - in order to understand Buddhism - one needs to live it. Because Buddhism is really not just its ideas - it's more a set of practices which lead to, and demand, particular states of mind and lifestyles. So to achieve these states of mind requires rigorous self-discipline. Most people would think these demainds are: unfashionable, impractical, unsociable, and overwheliming. 90% of people can't even attempt to live such lifestyles.
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  340. But these blokes don't call themselves straight men; they call themselves lesbians!
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  341. Winning the ideas debate doesn't result in you winning the 'war' - because institutions have their own momentum - but - you still need to win the idea debate - for yourself - because you need to have confidence you're right.
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  342. Greens are sociopaths. It's as simple as that. I think their sociopathy precedes their Malthusianism. Their Malthusianism provides the excuse for their innate sociopathy. Evidence: look at the Green's hate binge against Bjørn Bjørn "I think most people are actually well-intended" <- Likely. But most people are not setting policy.
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  343. Doesn't Kendi have a doctorate? So funny hearing him lost in tautology.
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  344. The ban was senseless virtue signalling; as they could've mandated that plastic straws be made of naturally recyclable plastic such as cellulose.
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  345. Isn't this what happens when you hire insane fund managers?
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  346. Q: What makes us postmodern? A: It's fundamentally whether I trust myself to think through things. I do trust myself, therefore I'm not postmodern - although I'll concede you may be - certainly if you call yourself so.
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  347. BTW: My little history of skepticism - banned for 1100 years in Europe before its revival after Galileo - is more than a parable. It is the reason why I am neither a socialist, nor a conservative. The revival in skepticism led to progress, capitalism and science. Which led me to writing this comment on Ryan's post; explaining why skepticism is NOT a meme. Science, like skepticism, is NOT a meme either. It is a method. It must be practiced in order to be understood. It is not enough to know how science and skepticism are supposed to work. You can write a book on either - without practicing either - but you will only understand them when you do them. From my experience in society I have NO confidence in either socialism nor conservatism to keep science and skepticism healthy. Without healthy skepticism society will die.
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  348. "In America, the parents got together and they became a powerful force" <- If you have kids, join your PTA, and find out what they're teaching. Catwomen, and Moon-people are video game and Disney characters. Not real things.
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  349. 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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  350. Postmodernism formally arrived in 1961 with the publication of Michel Foucault's "History of Madness" (in the Age of Enlightenment); 61 years ago. Despite some initial success Pomo does not influence Western Philosophy, and we rarely hear about it from actual philosophers except when they dis' it. Yet pomo is firmly entrenched in Academia within various far left 'theory' disciplines. Where we find: Feminism, Queer studies, Transgenderism, Critical Race Theory, Anti-colonialism, Film Studies, media studies, leftisms, ... there we also always find pomo. Hand and glove. Pomo gives these disciplines or studies credibility. Most ideas from such 'studies' lack good empirical support; but pomo can legitimise them as Big Ideas! Ideas instead. Ideas which explain the world to the students of such 'studies'. The very "cultural logic of Western society", to cite Nicholas. The 'theorists' who teach such lefty studies never develop new pomo ideas. They use pomo as a weapon against their critics. Pomo is epistemically relativist; which means: it promotes skepticism of truth claims. Pomos say 'truth is myth', in the Foucauldian, and Derridean senses. 1. From Foucault we hear that 'truth' is established by regimes of power, and is used by such regimes of power to establish domination over us. So 'truth' is a tool of 'power'. 2. From the Derridean side, they tell us that every meaning associated with a sign (such as 'racism', for example) gets its meaning from a network of other signs; from the meanings of those signs which denote or connote 'racism'. Given people from different ethnicities, sexes, cultures, and identities disagree of the meaning of some signs, no two people are likely to give the same meaning for 'racism'. So there's no irreducible, stable, meaning to 'truth'. And many meanings are contested. As I already said, philosophers long ago refuted both these points made by pomo (above). But the modern academy is an istitution where academics don't need to listen to critics of their ideas. For example climate alarmists, say, non-alarmism is 'denialism', and they refuse to debate or listen to 'deniers'. That such 'deniers' cannot be allowed a platform to speak. The modern academy turned itself into a machine to manufacture bias and closed-mindedness. Q: Yet, given pomo is intellectually vacuous, why is Michel Foucalt now the most cited author in the humanities? A: Dispite its wrongness, pomo still does a job, or two. Pomo gives one a license: 1) to speculate. Pomos gives one a set of academically 'respectable' ideas to cite: books and papers. For example, one of these pomo 'masters' (Foucault) is cited more than anyone else in the humanities. Peter Boghossian calls 'idea laundering' the practice of getting a junk idea published in an academic journal and then having your friends and allies cite your publication in support of their own junk ideas. Furthermore, the production of vacuous speculation, founded on previous speculation is now a career path within academia. 2) to disregard one's critics and their evidence; and to celebrate closed minds and bias. "Postmodernism is the academic far Left’s epistemological strategy for responding to the crisis caused by the failures of socialism in theory and in practice" - Stephen Hicks: "Expllaining Postmodernism", in the chapter "Responding to socialism’s crisis of theory and evidence". Citations: 1. Idea laundering: https://www.wsj.com/articles/idea-laundering-in-academia-11574634492 2. "Expllaining Postmodernism" - free audio book! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcNjHNXnEE, narated by its author 3. epistemically relativist: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/epistemic-relativism/v-2
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  351. I'm coming around to think your Psycho Mantis definition may be closer.
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  352. 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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  353. 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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  354. Correction: an endless sea of fake crises.
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  355. We need to ask ourselves: why is academia full of batshit crazy activists dedicated to gaslighting young people?
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  356. ​ @lilbabyjessie8686  "read their minds" means to project. Projection - AKA attributing ideas & motives to the person one is arguing against - is a common logical fallacy (or group of logical fallacies). It works to deflect away from the issue at hand - like a red herring. The issue at hand is "is there such a thing as man-made climate change?" to another issue, which in your case seems to be "what are there motives?" I cannot read their minds and I don't see why I must demonstrate mind-reading skills before you give me any credibility.
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  357.  @lilbabyjessie8686  Apart from disagreeing on causes of climate change, Scientists also disagree on method (on how to do science). For example: method : -- modelling versus empirical measurements -- can attribution be made for man-made change? - Many statisticians don't think a one-time correlation meets standards required for evidence. -- using statistical tricks on noisy data -- validation and falsification of hypotheses. What's valid, what's invalid? -- cherry-picking - one must consider all evidence; even the evidence which contradicts an idea. cause : -- warmist - it's man-made -- lukewarmist - some of it is man-made -- 'slayer' - hardly any of it is man-made The reason I'm certain I'm right is because many causes of climate change have been considered in the past (at least 10); but climate alarmists only ever talk about man-made climate change. As if they think they can ignore the history of climate science going back hundreds of years. As if science only began in 1988 when the IPCC was created. I considered all possible causes of climate change. The typical alarmists only blames humanity for climate change without looking at all the evidence.
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  358. Global elites will stop at nowt to get us all munching insects.
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  359. Incels aren't kids
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  360. We know lots of people have been on the "wrong side of history". But "right side"?
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  361.  @phoenixjim0527  Point taken. Yale Law School is seriously neo-Marxist though, eh?
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  362. Monkeypox = double-stranded DNA virus. Monkeypox infections. A recent study found: 98% were gay or bisexual 41% had HIV 95% of infections were inferred to have been transmitted through sexual contact
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  363. Enlightened governance is what our rulers think they're giving us.
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  364. Sabine claims that General Relativity "fails in many circumstances". Strangely enough she doesn't tell us what these circumstances are.
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  365. They are not even left wing communists. Radical yes - because they support a culture war against men, heterosexuality, whites, educational excellence, working economy, freedom. There radicalism is their culture war.
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  366. Pre-1939, Germany secretly lobbied Poland 8 times in the 1930s for a joint invasion of Russia with a plan to annex the Ukraine (This is mentioned in Timothy D. Snyder's book Black Earth, 2015). The Poles rejected Germany's enticements; perhaps because they knew the Germans would likely stab them in the back, and then invade Poland.
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  367. The skill is called debate. It works by taking evidence and generalizing from the evidence. With debate, one isn't allowed to take a theory first approach. Having said that, KK was clearly generalizing here. He gets away with it because if you interrupt him, he'll be able to defend his generalizations - because he'll only embrace such a generalization when he's been convinced by evidence! Most people just regurgitate arguments they've heard. A skilled debater regurgitates arguments they've acquired from a bottom-up (facts first) perspective.
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  368. Do not abandon thinking but stop calling it a "multiverse theory". It is scientific conjecture; only. "multiverse conjecture" <- fixed
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  369. 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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  370. 100 µg = 4000 IU. No study ever showed vitamin D toxicity at that (low) level. You'd need to take 25 times that amount, for months, to experience vitamin D toxicity. µg = mcg; is pronounced micrograms.
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  371. "No one cares" part of this is terrifying. The next scary part is "scientists" modifying dark matter to accomodate their simulations.
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  372. Talking about philosophers is senseless. Talk about their methods instead. Not so much about what their final ideas were, but about the thinking which led them to have those ideas. That's how one should teach wannabe philosophers to philosophize. In my system, I'd be putting their philosophical systems on teirs, not the philosophers themselves.
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  373. To be followed by "Bad Vibrations"?
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  374.  @pawelsiemek3355  10-11 year old kids getting their head messed up - by older people - on TikTok are NOT adults.
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  375. "Being bad is basically the same as being dishonest" <- Didn't we already know that!; I mean intuitively.
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  376. Julian Huxley - his brother helped create UNESCO and was its first Director General. Prior to that he also helped create the WWF. In total he was key to founding at least 4 NGOs/IGOs! Was H.G. Wells in on that "secret group" too? Is it fair to call them a "secret group"? It implies secret society.
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  377. 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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  378. You got your units mixed up. 180 mg would be a massive, dangerous, amount of vitamin D to take. No one would sell you that amount. Did you mean to say 180 µg? 10000 IU per day is safe.
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  379. Q: What causes "climate change"? A: The Beauford Gyre discharge is a significant factor. In the North Atlantic, a climatic change is caused when the "Beauford Gyre" discharges. The Beauford Gyre is a current in the Arctic - basically north of Canada. Over time, water in the arctic looses salinity - it becomes less salty. That's caused by freshwater releases into the Arctic as ice melts in the summer and rivers flow into it. Eventually the disparity in salinity between the Arctic and the North Atlantic is such that the gyre discharges. A massive body of relatively fresh water will flow from the Arctic - between Canada and Greenland - into the North Atlantic. This is the Beauford Gyre discharge. As a result the North Atlantic will become much cooler. This affects weather in the Northern hemisphere - especially European weather - as the discharges significantly affect the Gulf Stream - which warms North European coasts. - a colder ocean significantly changes the climate in regions close to the coast - such as Northern Europe. As weather in such regions is dominated by ocean air currents.
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  380. No one wants to live in "15 minute cities". It's an idea dreamt up by prison warders.
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  381. Spiked must stop pussing-footing on this issue. There's no significant man-made climate change - it can be scientifically shown that climate alarmist models and data are senseless. Spiked must accept reality, and you must stop pretending that you can ally yourself with climate change alarmists and fence-sitters such as Shellenberger, Lomborg, etc. Net Zero was always their plan. They want to completely abandon use of fossil fuel. Man-made climate change was nothing other than a pretext for their Malthusian intentions. "Net Zero is a nice idea" <- No it is not. It is an evil Malthusian idea. "I'm not a climate change denier" <- Not even pussing-footing or fence-sitting there! You use their terms, then you accept their mentality. There are NO "climate change deniers". Every climate alarm skeptic knows the climate changes.
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  382. Critical Theory has never been evidence-based. As such it allows one to say almost anything about everything. It gives the critic endless degrees of freedom. When Critical Theorists can 'theorize' plausible sounding ideas to convinve themselves, then, obviously, they'll do that. Publishing theory is easier than publishing fact. I don't think there's a 'long march through the institutions' with a plan to attack the culture. I think corrosive ideas about the culture are inevitable when infinite degrees of freedom are available to academics to promote their ideas.
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  383. ​ @danielbrooks7764  If you listen to Peterson, it's clear he dispises postmodernism for 2 main reasons: 1. Pomo promotes a victim mentality worldview in which we're all victims and subjects of "power". This "power" is never really described in a way which enables us to counter it or deal with it - so pomo gives out no good advice on how to overcome the "power", we're led to believe, has been "inscribed" within us. So those who swallow the postmodern myths find themselves wallowing in despair. Peterson is a therapist, and advises people on how to sort their lives out. People wallowing in despair cannot sort their lives out. 2. Pomo is intrinsically epidemically relativist. It encourages one to believe in any old thing as "my truth". In practice this encourages people to ignore facts and reality. It isn't a good way for people suffering psychological issues to deal with them.
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  384. "A thing happened. Here's what you should think about it." "A thing happened. Here's what we think about it." <- that's Joe Rogan!
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  385. Speculations, not theories.
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  386. This is not boring. It's more sickening.
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  387. "That God is non-material" <- "Material" is a magic word on the left. It's the spell which takes other mysticisms (dialectic, gnosticism, speculation, pomo, sustainability, alt history [ e.g. women's class, racial oppression, Foucault's histories, ... ] ..., whatever ) and fits that magic into Leftism for leftists. There may be anti-Marxist Leftists but they are still spellbound by ideas claiming to be "materialist". But materialism is NOT a rigorous system of thought. Materialism ends up being a way of telling other people what one wants to believe. A person who wants to take material evidence seriously calls themself "empiricist" not materialist. Empiricism is rigorously defined and used by science. In contrast, those who wish to gloss over evidence dis empiricism as "crude science" but eulogise over "materialism" - with ever looking into it deeply - nor trying to justify it. I've found labelling oneself materialist often means one is Marxist - but not always. It basically gives one crude pretexts for believing the "material evidence" one wants to believe - if one bothers to try to justify one's ideas at all. Materialists mostly justify their ideas to themselves - with this spell : "I'm a materialist" - yet spend all their time attacking everyone else.
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  388. It's the only real influence.
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  389. Those will be called apartheit - so won't be allowed.
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  390. And Islam.
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  391. So how did CRT academics manage to explain CRT so badly to their students such that the kids turned into a seething mass of haters, and authoritarians?
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  392. 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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  393. There are 2 sexes. Each sex has an associated gender: 2 again. Gender is the social aspect of sex-based identity. There cannot be more than 2 genders because there are only 2 sexes.
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  394. The AMOC cannot collapse. Why does Sabine think it will? What will make it collapse or weaken? LOL - a science video-cast where Sabine predicts catastrophe but she cannot explain why?
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  395.  @achaeanmapping4408  Tendentious. 1. You haven't defined "progressivism". 2. Nor liberalism 3. Easy to dis liberalism - provided you can set the definitions of what you think it is. 4. Original 17th and 18th century liberalisms were attempts to limit state power. Quite successful. Still here 200+ years later. 5. What's your plan to limit state power once you've done away with "liberalism", human rights, fair trials, ...? 6. With all the kids trying to burn down Western culture, responsible people should push back against cheap criticism of a liberalism which they imagine.
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  396. "Build back better in a more femine way" < - What? With women bricklayers?
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  397. Johann believes the biggest cause of attention loss "might well be air pollution". He interviewed lots of scientists. Q: But did Johann look at their evidence? Q: If so, can he cite me the most compelling evidence, so I can examine it too? I want to read their published studies. <- those are a couple of questions Chris should've asked Johann. In general, I prefer to look at the evidence when asked to make massive changes to my life (such as moving to the countryside because the "city is so polluting", or Johann's been told it is. Johann needs to tone his presentation down. - waving his hands about, - hyping scare stories without showing he has evidence at hand, or that he's looked at the primary evidence in detail. I'm not persuaded by eco-warriors seemingly off their heads.
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  398. Advice to students. Re: challenging Left dogma in universities. 1. One cannot win every battle. Don't even bother arguing unless you must. Because - see 4 below 2. Don't waste your time doing essays. Avoid those "studies" courses. Learn how to use data. Do some statistics courses so you can legitimately infer correlation from evidence. Do a course on skepticism, or logic, too if you find one. Like Schermer's course: Skepticism 101. One should also master debate. Learn all the logical fallacies. Apply them to criticise everything. Everyone uses logical fallacies - even great people and geniuses. So this can be a great source to make good points for your essays. 3. Evidence, evidence, evidence versus laundered ideas. When reading the left, check evidence they provide in their citations. Is there any? Most likely the Left will cite "laundered ideas". These are untrue claims, nonsense ideas, or theory-laden conjectures published in academia which other activists use as a source to build their nonsense ideas on. Hence: nonsense piled on nonsense. 4. By and large - you cannot change other people's minds. Research in psychology shows this. That led Peter Boghossian to develop his "Street Epistemology" technique. Which, at least, allows people to explain why they believe an idea. Knowing why we believe is the first step to revising our opinions. PB wrote a book on this "How to Have Impossible Conversations" 5. Young people, especially those without responsibilities are going to be mainly left/liberal no matter what. Just accept, & live with that. 6. Prefer Thomas Sowell to Scruton, or JB Peterson. Sowell argues against dogma by directly citing evidence. Evidence-based reasoning is the habit you need to develop which they cannot mark you down on. You may even change a professors mind with it! Thinkers such as Scruton and Peterson are worth reading too, but don't try to cite them when writing your uni-essays. PS: Boghossian on Idea Laudering https://www.wsj.com/articles/idea-laundering-in-academia-11574634492
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  399. I don't think Poststructuralism is Postmodern. Poststructuralism is still 'modern', in the sense pomos define "modern".
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  400. Kids should be reading the truth. Society cannot function without items made from oil and fossil fuel. Nightmare scenarios and models invented by climate nihilists will only give kids nightmares.
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  401.  @gilian2587  The climate models are nearly all lies. Modellers neither listen to their critics, nor attempt to validate their assumptions against empirical studies. Modellers "validate" their models by reference to the projections of other models! This approximates fraud, and deception - not "truth". This is the legacy of fraud bequeathed us by the modern Left - who almost universally, legitimize and condone it (as you just did)
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  402. There are no crocodiles in South America - except in Zoos.
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  403. 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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  404. 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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  405. If Tories run Britain, how and why did they allow all academia to be dominated by the far left?, & the Left's fake academic disciplines based on "Theory" (AKA: speculation). Disciplines such as Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and worst of all: Paulo Freire's theories. Were the Tories alseep? How and why did Tories allow woke and cancel culture to achieve such power? Why did Tories allow fake charities such as Mermaids and Stonewall into government? What did the Tories think they were NOT doing? Did you think you were creating a controlled opposition? Or did you NOT notice? Note the epidemic of ROGD among children was first noticed in the USA in 2014 (but it began before that). What have the sleeping Tories been dreaming about for the last 8 years?
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  406. Given the claim "psychopaths can benefit society", please give us some specific examples. Theoretical scenarios don't count. Also: given the well documented harm done by psychos, please do a cost benefit analysis, CBA, which will tell us whether the mayhem, etc., balances these benefits. It seems psychos only respond to CBA. They analyze us to figure out whether to spend their time gaining benefit by using us.
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  407.  @sportscarman5  You're defining those people (security) as psychos - I'm not. My definition of a psycho is narrower than Kevin's. As I see it, people with no empathy for others are psychos. The rest (their behaviour) follows from that. When I say "no empathy" I mean zero empathy.
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  408.  @Rusheman13  You have a very wide definition of Fascism. Today: "fascism means anyone who isn't our side". It's been misused for at least 60 years; since the 60s; especially by the far left. How cute you don't ken basic reality.
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  409.  @Rusheman13  Name some of the "many people in the US do believe in this way of running society". You cannot. I've encouontered a lot of Americans online. I never came accross a single one who believes in dictatorship. Not one. I dounbt you've encountered such a person either. Leftists like your live in reality distorsion field fueled by your own propaganda. Propaganda designed to scare people witless so they'll support you.
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  410.  @Rusheman13  WTF can I do? If I don't sillyberate you swank, cocky pro-dommes and prima-dommes you'll whip me (literally) off youtube. So I join you in word subversion. Let us undermine the dick-tionary: Swankers of the world Unite! Free the repressed.
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  411.  @somerandomdude4588  me: "Gender is mythic. Sex is real" you: "no, mark, it’s not" What? Did you say: "sex is not real" or that "gender is real", or both?
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  412. It's bizarre. When I first came across pomo, 4 decades ago: on the Left - all the pomos were jubilantly anti-Marxist, and anti-Utopian. The non-pomos were, instead, often into "Critical Theory", which although suspicious of practical Marxism, still aspired to some kind of Utopianism, and respect for Marx. But anti-Utopianism and Leftwing thinking are kind of incompatible - like water and oil. So a group of Leftists created a paradoxical fusion of Critical Theory with Postmodernism - just over 3 decades ago. They did this slyly by creating: Postcolonialism and Intersectionality. This fusion of incompatible ideas only works by them avoiding debate. This explains their love of safe spaces, no-platforming and non-debate.
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  413. There's not even a greenhouse effect on earth - let alone a "runaway" greenhouse effect. No one ever showed a greenhouse effect for Venus. A 1969 scientific paper claims such an effect but it's not a model, nor an empirical study. It's only a claim. No one can write a greenhouse gas model for Venus. This is all just guesswork and metaphor - not science.
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  414. I may not blame the Frankfurt School for woke, but there's still a lot of blame we can heap on them. Marcuse was their worst.
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  415. Didn't Kendi once believe that white people were literally alien invaders from another planet?
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  416. "Gluttony, sloth, envy, greed" <- Not to forget narcissim, habitual lying, ... The poblem with listening to two people congratulate each other as Andrew and Carl do here is lack of tension. Boring.
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  417.  @theeffete3396  The story-telling and characters were pedestrian. The situations unbelievable and unrealistic. I'd find that boring because there 'd be nowt I can identify with - no characters, no plot lines, not even any motivations. So an explanation of boring seems appropriate. We tell if something is boring us - even when we're unable to say why!
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  418. Since I was about 16, I believed that UK news was biased; but I interpreted that as unconscious bias. It's conscious bias today. Far worse.
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  419. The main reason I'm listening to this is because I want to know which college Helen thinks was the "most woke in the USA". To me, they all seemed equally woke. So, hyperbole in titles can work to sell your product - to sensation seekers such as myself.
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  420. 1. Build some full-scale applications. You can put them on your CV. They can be web apps, mobile apps, or even desktop apps. If in doubt build mobile apps. 2. Go out and meet other developers. You can meet them at conferences (some of which can be very cheap, especially the geek cons). Or you can meet them at technical evening talks (found via meetup.com). They will give you advice. 3. Some companies will recruit you based on a programming test they give you or a small number of programming problems you solve. You can entirely by-pass recruitment agents doing this. They will take you on based on what you can actually do. 4. You can apply for any junior programmer position in the world too based on your primary programming skill alone.
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  421. Feminists told me that all men are engaged in misogyny. I hink feminsts convinced themselves to hate men, hate reproduction, and hate the world. They justify their beliefs as "lived experience" - meaning they are under no obligation to explain nor justify their hate. I was walking up the escalator at London Bridge tube once with a feminst comrade of mine, almost 30 years ago. The ancient escalator made a continual screaching/whining noise. I said: "Oh God, it sounds like babies being tortured to death" She said: "let's hope it is"
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  422. This explanation of the greenhouse gas effect, GHGE, is factually biased, and misinforms. When explaining earth's cooling Sabine only talks about infrared radiation. But there are 3 ways heat is transported: conduction, convection, and radiation. Sabine takes her cue from the self-styled "Climate Consensus" (CC), who are the IPCC, and your government, and other authorities. They claim that, at the surface of earth, cooling is: W/m² 390 ------- 79% radiation (infrared) 24 --------- 5% convection and conduction 78 --------- 16% latent heat transport 492 ------- total In practice all that latent heat must be transported by convection. So the simpler version has 21% convection and conduction / 79% radiation (infrared). But their (CC) claim for 390W/m² of average infrared cooling, at the surface, is a massive exaggeration; achieved by misusing the Stefan-Boltzmann Law. In fact the operation of the Pirani gauge shows actual cooling of the surface immersed in an atmosphere will be 99.6% due to convection and conduction, with hardly any infrared [ see (3) ] When the Stefan-Boltzmann Law was derived, 150 years ago, experimental derivation measured cooling by objects in vacuum. Earth's surface is not in a vacuum. When, in face, objects cool immersed in air they cool way quicker. 250 times faster. -------------------------------------- IR radiation ---- Conduction/Convection Sea level ---- GHGE model --------- 79% ---- 21% 80+ km --------- 0.004 Torr ---------- 79% ---- 21% 76.2 km -------- 0.02 Torr ------------ 50% ---- 50% 33.5 km -------- 10 Torr -------------- 0.7% ---- 99.3% Sea level ------ 760 Torr ------------- 0.4% ---- 99.6% Eventually when the atmosphere is very rarified - at high altitudes - radiative emission will cause most cooling. ( in the Mesosphere !). GHGE "theory" says that a radiative imbalance causes the GHGE and this imbalance happens far below, close the top of the Troposphere! Our new understanding that heat transport below 76km is dominated by conduction & convection rules out GHGE warming of the surface. Since the theoretical surface warming is due to the ToT being higher for GHG with more CO2 in the atmosphere. See Hansen 1981. James Hansen's influential GHGE model (no doubt still used by many to calculate "radiative forcing" ) depends on radiation escaping at the ToT = Top of the Troposphere - about 10 km above our heads. So that model is clearly nonsense. Basic fact-checking tells us that at 10km the pressure is ~ 523 Torr, and the balance there is still close to what it is at the surface ( > 99.5% conduction/convection). Yet Hansen calculated his GHGE based on: "The basic physics underlying this global warming, the greenhouse effect, is simple. An increase of gases such as CO2 makes the atmosphere more opaque at infrared wavelengths. This added opacity causes the planet's heat radiation to space to arise from higher, colder levels in the atmosphere, thus reducing emission of heat energy to space. The temporary imbalance between the energy absorbed from the sun and heat emission to space, causes the planet to warm until planetary energy balance is restored." - Hansen et al, 1981. To summarize Hansen - the GHGE is due to the radiation window (to space) beginning at a higher (therefore cooler) place at the top of the troposphere. Because it's cooler there - energy is emitted with less energy! So a GHGE is ALL about where this atmospheric window to space opens. Is it 10km above (ToT) as Hansen modelled it, or is it +75km above where reality says it should be? Note: In earth's atmosphere: Troposphere ~ 0 - 10 km Tropopause ~ 10 - 20 km Stratosphere ~ 20 - 47 km Stratopause ~ 47 - 53 km Mesosphere ~ 53 - 84 km Mesopause ~ 84 km Thermosphere Citations: (1) Hansen et. al. 2011; Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11, 13421-13449. doi:10.5194/acp-11-13421-2011 https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1140 (2) Altitude/pressure conversion: https://www.sensorsone.com/altitude-pressure-units-conversion/ (3) Tom Shula: A Novel Perspective on the Greenhouse Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk
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  423.  @enderwiggin1113  Sabine H doesn't get to define the meaning of the GHGE. If she wants to publish a paper to influence climate scientists then nothing's stopping her. The modern idea of a GHGE derives from the application of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law to determine radiative emissions from earth's surface - 390W/m² according to NASA's (wrong) calculations. This application is invalid because S-B Law cannot apply to earth's surface as it is not in a vaccuum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk Sabine H entirely ignores this discussion. In addition alarmists also treat earth's surface as a black body which it is not. The emissivity of earth varies from 0.65 to 0.95. Nowhere is it = 1. A black body has an emissivity = 1. I calculate earth's average emissivity = 0.92 Which means: even by their own logic NASA are over estimating that 390W/m² claim by 8%. Fraud to the left of us, fraud to the right! BTW: GHGE is not a hoax - it is a fraud. There is a GHGE, but the size of the effect is fraudulently presented.
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  424. Radio 4 removed many of their best shows and presenters, to be replaced with ? I'm an ex-Radio 4 listener. I don't know whether the ? new stuff was all "woke". It probably was. It was certainly irrelevant to me. By the time I stopped listening to Radio 4, Tom Hartford was the only remaining presenter, from 7 years ago whom I still wanted to listen to. All the other greats, and their shows, had been culled; presumably for not being woke, or yout enough? The degeneration in the World Service was even worse.
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  425. How is your professor able to see into the future like that : to already know your evidence before reading it. S/he could make a killing doing the stock market with that kind of clairevoyance.
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  426. - They literally have no idea. - Because they're conflicted between their authoritarian Moaist / Leninist tendencies to stuff us all into Gulags, their cartoon ideas of liberal freedom to put us all on stage as drag queens - and their Moaist vision of struggle sessions to de-Capitalize us. - Over a century, the endpoint of Western communism transmuted from workers state to sustainable (poverty) economy, to transvestite state. Marxism became one massive self-contradictory playbook for psychopaths and meglomaniacs to hoodwink people into giving them authority to boss the rest of us around.
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  427. Marxism is a way to declare everything in the world evil without blaming the evil on idividual people. Instead - blame it on Capitalism, and those who profit from it. So on the surface - it looks like a victimless solution to equal distribution of resources. In practice this does not work. Just look at the level of hate against Elon Musk today. YouTube is full of mindless, pseudo-Marxist trolls libelling the Musks and JB Petersons, ... Modern Leftism is barely anything else but shit-throwing. All aimed at individuals. What is canel culture except the organized application of focused hate against individuals! Intellectuals pretend to themselves there are no victims but in practice the whole of society becomes victim to socialism - as happened under the Soviets. USSR - a never ending catalogue of atrocities against people. A systematic brutalization of Russia which ultimately enabled war-mongers such as Putin to rule - Begining in the (Russian) Civil War with murder of class enemies, - moving onto the famines induced in Ukraine - Holodomor, - then the Great Terror of 1937/38 when 3 quarter million Russians were executed - half a million of them being Russians born with a Polish surname - who were murdered - without trial - just because they "might be" traitors and Polish agents. - Next we move on to WW2 with the muder of all Polish officers who surrendered to the Russians when they partitioned Poland to enable the Nazi-USSR alliance which made WW2 possible. - Lets add over 1 million German POW to the list of murder victims. - Do not forget the Gulags - about 18 million were processed through Gulags and at least 10% died due to the brutality. Communism is a pychopath's Utopia - rise to the top by pretending to believe (or by conning oneself into believing?) in Marxism. Then act like the worst pychopath by punishing people - all the while - telling your victims - it's all to enable the Socialist Utopia - this pain is all for your own good - I'm watching you suffer - not because I'm a callous psychopath who measures my success in life by how many victims I can dominate. No comrade. It's for our children's good - for socialism. Every fix they try: DEI, social credit system - will be gamed by psychos. Indeed the "fixes" will force everyone to play that same game of corruption to get ahead. The communist party system was easy for covert narcissists and psychopaths to game - as documented by Polish psychologist Andrzej Lobaczewski who wrote a book on how ASPDs gamed communism to ruin Poland. In short: excellence, competition, level playing field, - all the things communism wants to destroy - are the best way to run societies - bottom up solutions - to enable an emergent system = Western Capitalism - not top down fixes - which enable grifers and grift.
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  428. Liberal democracy - isn't so much an idea or set of ideas. It is a set of compromises. For example - the compromise between science and faith - the Peace of Westphalia - which was a compromise between faiths There is ALWAYS conflict; it's intrinsic to human relationships. Liberal democracy was an attempt to deal with everlasting dispute by establishing frameworks for that: voting & representative democracy, political rights, debate, free-speech, religious toleration, ... The Crisis of Authority is the elites reneging on previous agreements.
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  429. In the last "ice age", AKA: major glaciation (about 20000 years ago), at one stage atmopheric CO2 fell to 180 ppm. That's barely enough for plants to live on. At 150 ppm most plants will die. During that glaciation, widespread desertification was experienced all over earth, Rain forest extent fell to only 10% of its current extent. BTW: there is no greenhouse effect. CO2 does not warm earth's surface. It does not make earth warmer - the sun does. CO2 does boost plant life. The idea of cutting CO2 is a gaslight. The elites have you where they want you - terrified of plant food ! - and bigging up their deranged geo-engineering agenda. Environmentalists are truly evil people. Carbon sequestration: Is insane. There is a carbon equilibrium between oceans and atmosphere. The ratio of carbon is about 50 : 1; with more atmosphere in oceans. So when CO2 is added to the atmosphere, it will predominantly ( 50 : 1 ) dissolve in oceans; and stay in oceans. In the ocean, CO2 reacts with carbonate to make bicarbonate. Most ocean carbon is bicarbonate. So: a carbon sequestration will - in the long term - REMOVE carbon from oceans! <- Insane! Oceans have about 38,000 Gt of carbon. The mass of oceans is about 270 times greater than the atmospheric mass. So the carbon in the ocean dominates longterm. Adding Iron to oceans stimulates growth of plankton, which is fish food.
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  430. "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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  431. Victimhood, victim mentality, AKA victim complex is a known psychological disorder, or mental illness (if you prefer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_mentality It's the basic mechanism of left-wing politics today. Climate Justice, Islam, transgernderism, anti-racism, ... They are all orientated around victimhood. I don't think the victim-mongers see themselves as virtuous. It's far more the case that they see their oppressors / perps as "evil". This adds ressentiment to the victim mentality. There is not reconciliation with perps for the victim-mongers. At the same time the victim-mongers have no positive alternative - they only have their hate.
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  432. Ups and downs of the Igers and Kennedys of this world make a saga in itself to rival all the pap they put in their "narratives". Let's thank Mike Zeroh for narrating reality to us.
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  433. The West is what happens when we glue Christianity to Greek civilizationj. Add Roman Law and (republican) political systems. Experience our history of Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, and remember that history made us what we are. Freedom of expression - is best by test. We have free speech - not because everyone has a point of view we must listen to. We allow it because sometimes 1% of people have something very important to say. Something we must listen to in order for society to prosper and thrive. It's not possible to decide, in advance, who is right who we must hear - that's why we allow free speech. Because banning free-speech allows ASPD types and authoritarians to grift and corrupt society.
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  434. "whites owned slaves" - Maybe 0.01 percent of 'em did. But the rest - 99.99% did not. "capitalism relied on slavery" - This bullshit was invented by Karl Marx to guilt-trip Capitalism into self-destruction. They say capital accumulation - in the early phase - was crucially dependent on slaverey. In reality: banking provided capital - not the profits of slavery. Without slavery Capitalism would still have taken off, because the banking systems were already in place. The super-profits from slavery simply enabled those slavers and slave owners to become capitalists. Without such slave owners - other people would've owned the railways, cotton mills, mines, ... The scientific revolution, market economies, Intellectual Enlightenment, and innovation drove capitalism - not slavery.
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  435. According to wikipedia: Element-115, "moscovium is an extremely radioactive element: its most stable known isotope, moscovium-290, has a half-life of only 0.65 seconds." In Bob Lazar's talks element-115 is more stable. It features in an "island of stability". Obviously there are different isotopes of element-115 : Isotope ½-life Mc-286 20 ms Mc-287 37 ms Mc-288 164 ms Mc-289 330 ms Mc-290 650 ms As we can see above, the most stable version of element-115 is Mc-290. This has 115 protons and 175 neutrons in its atomic nucleus. It's half life is less than a second at 0.65s. I suppose there may be a version of element-151 which is very stable but it will, likely, have a greater atomic mass than any found so far. It's a shame Bob isn't able to describe the precise isotope of element-151 which he said was used in the alien tech. That would make his story credible beyond any doubt. 32 years ago, when Bob said he worked attempting to reverse engineer alien tech, we would've been able to precisely identify the mass of the nucleus of element-151. This is one of the first things the researchers would've done. Surely Bob would know the precise isotope of element 115 used by the alien tech. If Bob's story is true, maybe he's keeping it a secret, that might be part of an agreement he reached with the US government - to stay alive! It's a shame no skeptic interviewed Bob Lazer. The first question a skeptic would ask is what is the precise isotopic makeup of this alien element 151?
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  436. Introduction ot this video is played out. Almost fell asleep thinking to myself - is he actually going to make a point with evidence - or will he just go on and on?
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  437. Applied maths: - Probability and Statistics. I like Andrew Gelman. - Linear Algebra - Calculus. Both Differentiation and Integration. You need to be able to invent your own equations; and solve them. - Discrete Mathematics - maths used in the foundations of computer science. - Engineering. - Physics and Physical Chemistry - Operations research - this is a grab-bag of methods used for solving business problems. - Modeling. - Learn a good functional programming language, or 2, such as F#, OCamel, Haskell, Clojure, Rust, R, ... I imagine R will be high the list because is has a sophisticated statistics library. You should be able to author fully tested code - code which tests itself for accuracy and perfection. "testable code". - Machine Learning. This is an application of applied maths. Not nessarily in the order above. The first 4 in the list are the maths. The 2nd 6 are what one does with the maths. You notice that a lot of it is not maths as such; but all of it applies maths. It's not a list a mathematician will give you. But I cannot imagine a practical person with a career in problem solving leaving any of the above out.
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  438. I tried hard to like this series. But after episode 6 I was done. Given up watching.
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  439. How callous do authorities have to be to say "this wasn't terrorism", while keeping a straight face? - turns my belly inside out. This is terrorism.
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  440. Is Elon the messiah or the pariah?
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  441. It acts like a conspiracy but isn't a conspiracy - because no one conspires. Certainly no one is in control. They are NOT trying to build a new moral compass. They believe they already have it. They are trying to enforce the "moral" compass they have. Their problem is: their moral compass is immoral! - to the extent that their, apparently moral decisions lead to worse outcomes - not only for their "enemies" but for them! Like: ULEZ, "heat pumps", single parent families, actually going through a trans process and becoming a medical patient for the rest of one's life. "It's a genuine hatred" <- Looks like it. Is it ressentiment. Didn't Nietzsche already describe this? Isn't ressentiment a manoeuvre to get one to hate oneself? Like transing, "climate crisis", BLM? See the pattern there? Their ethics now become clear. They hate Western institutions. Their moral compass is to enforce their hatred on us. They want everyone to hate as they do. So - in a sense - their target is the past! They want us to hate our history, morals, institutions, to everything we are, want, ... This is NOT Liberalism. Ressentiment is not an inevitable outcome of Liberalism.
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  442. Why does the soft left not stop the hard left? Because there are no real Left & Right. Those are just narratives dating from where groups sat during the Estates General of the French Revolution. Reality is there's what works and what does not. As a rule, the 'Left' decided that everything which exists (i.e. which works) is the 'Right': capitalism, the Family, every institution, cops, human rights, history (especially statues), freedom ... are all "The Far Right' to the Left.
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  443. She was a marxist feminist.
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  444. Greatest solo of all time? John Coltrane playing "My Favourite Things"? Sidney Bechet playing "Somertime"? Thomas Chapin playing "Night Bird Song" Something by Eric Dophy?
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  445. The only thing Alex Epstein gets wrong is his notion that "CO2 is a warming gas". There is no empirical evidence for that. The climate is driven by the sun, not the man. The whole climate obsessive movement put it's energy into propaganda and scare-mongering - putting NO RESEARCH into the hypothesis that "CO2 is a warming gas". As such - despite tens of billions of dollars in physical science research funds - the fake scientists driving the scare-mongering never bothered to validate their hypothesis that "CO2 is a warming gas". They take it for granted and demonize anyone who asks questions with slurs such as climate denier, fossil fuel shill, Fascist, flat-earther. Q: Why does everyone believe this (harmful man-made climate change) if it isn't true? A: They don't. Most people just take it on authority. The elites censor, and demonize their critics. Most people are cowed by the elites into accepting elite anti-humanism. “It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.” - Professor emeritus Hal Lewis
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  446. New money too, Soros, also supports the Left.
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  447. Peter's using a more confrontational form of street epistemology here to what we're used to.
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  448. "Saving the planet" was always a fake narrative. Taking a dig at people for failing to make fake stories come true is a bit OTT.
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  449. Was the "consultant" running the disinformation expose team at the NYT a spook, or ex-dem?
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  450. The shutdowns have nothing, or little, to do with refuelling. The pretext for the shutdown was fixing "pipe corrosion".
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  451. Peterson was more of a therapist - looking at, and listening to, others to hear what ails them. Giving us advice to help us overcome our despair. What would you have done had you found yourself in Peterson's shoes?
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  452. In general, lefties are more easily bullied by media gaslighting over fake health concerns.
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  453. Andy Slavitt : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Slavitt I explain people like Andy Slavitt in terms of Dems developing a culture of censorship and internal monologue. The Dems literally only talk to each other (internal monologue). If any of them are found talking to Reps they'll be demonized as rightists, libertarian, Fascist, or Nazis. Their culture of censorship means everyone is wrong apart from them. So they're happy to deplatform everyone. They literally think "libertarians are Nazis". So censorship and internal monologue depend on each other. The former enables the latter; and the latter justifies the former.
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  454. Banning, censoring, cancelling critics. What a coincidence that the government's spook / 77th Brigade agenda aligns so well with the transers. One might almost imagine it's by design!
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  455. 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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  456. 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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  457. "Why didn't Poland ally with Germany against the commies" - question answered by Timothy D. Snyder in his book Black Earth, 2015
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  458.  @sjsomething4936  So the "public review & criticism" of peer-review will, itself, be a peer review!
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  459. "But uisn't that a failure of eduction as well Matt? ... If that's what's taught since year dot, is it really their fault?" The failure of eduction is one where ONLY one idea - wokism - is taught as legitimate, and other ideas are cancelled as illegitimate. We see this mass cancellation and censorship by the elites in the climate 'debate' too. As they're the perps, then YES. It is their fault for messing up education.
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  460. When the IPCC refer to "climate change" they mean man-made change - by their definition. IPCC use a different term - "natural variability" - to refer to natural climate changes. This is by design of the politicos who run the IPCC. Any scientist who disagrees with this IPCC stance - of implying ALL climate change is man-made - will not be invited to IPCC meetings. If Sam Harris considers this unbiased reporting then I have a lovely bridge he may be interested in buying off me.
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  461.  @gianni_schicchi  With empirical evidence
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  462.  @gianni_schicchi  The ecosystem does not change the climate. It responds to climatic changes due to: variations in : - techtonic plate shifts (which may alter ocean circulation) - volcanism - long-term solar cycles - short-term solar cycles - even shorter term weather variations.
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  463. The world is not a "model", it's real.
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  464. Art? Most of it is just stories. With the stories representing the societies those stories came from. By making everything woke they hope to erase history to give us what social blueprint? It will not be a blueprint for woke society because woke is anti-society. Woke is the sum of its cancellations. Nothing to cancel? No woke left.
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  465. The UK energy crisis was manufactured over decades. 1988: It began 34 years ago with the making of the UN IPCC - with a remit to blame humanity for all "climate change". To stop CO2 emissions made by buring fossil fuels. 1993: fuel duty escalator (new Tory tax) 2001: Climate Change Levy 2008: UK Climate Change Act. Only about 50 Tory MPs voted against it. 2010: Tory Government. They appoint 2 Liberal energy ministers during their first 5-year term who proceed to make ALL new UK energy projects 'Green' (apart from Hinkley) recenst: Boris gets a new girlfriend (a fanatical Green). UK Asset Managers create ESG: Environmental and Social Governance - which give these Asset Managers a way to bully and cojole industry into Green and Woke policies. For example: under the pretext of "saving the environment", mainstream media do no debate the sense, senselessness, or viability of any of these Green projects.
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  466. How do you teach someone English when they don't know anything? You can start by naming things. For example hold onto a cup, point to it with your finger and say cup. Gesticulate so that the other will mouth the word cup.
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  467. 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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  468. The normal ratio of Mg isotopes is 79% : 10% : 11% (for Mg-24 : 25 : 26, in that order). Why doesn't Lex ask precisely what this abnormal ratio of magnesium is?
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  469. But NPR is ideological garbage now. How do the left explain that? Wasn't NPR supposed to be the golden standard for objective news? What is "the left" anyhow? When I listen to the Left all I hear is controlled opposition = whatever billionaires want to tell us.
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  470. You're justifying Mafia 'ethics' here. Instead of degenerating to a vigilantte society woudn't it make more sense to change the law? That might become possible were we able make society more directly accountable by promoting, say Swiss style, direct democracy? Current Western-style representative democracy is obviously broke big style. Our 'representatives' do the bidding of elites and billionaires.
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  471. It's not "value free", nor an "analysis", when you sound happy that the "evil" capitalist got his come-uppance.
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  472. Fascinating. I don't listen to much RB, as I find him a bit too dramatic and OTT in his presentation. RB radicalized by his audience!
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  473.  @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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  474. The green movement persuaded me that left-wing politics, and policies were - at best - performative victim mongering - blaming humans for being human. I'd given up on progressivism long ago. Today's leftwing movements are full of people and policies promoted by antisocial people: dark triads, narcissists and sub-clinical psychopaths. "Out of the crooked log of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" - Immanuel Kant
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  475. Missing window shutters. Apart from that I can't fault him.
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  476. I'm over a decade younger than him, and no longer trust my balance.
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  477. Bullies don't generally only mock people - it goes a lot further than that.
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  478. Left-wingers are group thinkers. As such, lefties support ideas on the basis of whether they're told the ideas are right or left-wing. Because the lefty hasn't worked the ideas out for themselves they can come across as stupid. A right winger, in contrast, does not need to understand ideas as the right basically go with 'what works'. So a right-winger only has to point to something working to say I agree with that! Many left-wing ideas are idealist, utopian or whatever. As such, the person who originated the ideas only has to promote a plausible sounding rationale to be taken seriously by the left. "The system is rigged against the poor" <- Evidently. The market system depends on money. Yet I don't see how this relates to many left wing policies such as climate scare, transing kids, trashing Western history, hating white people, ... "The right wing are full of racists and fascists" <- At this point, you've lost me. I'm pushing 70. During my life racism and fascism have never been so marginalized. The left have become an army of resentful, hateful people. This ressentiment and hate is justified as "critical theory".
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  479. My red pill moment was when I realized all the "progressives" are unified by their hatred of the existing order. And in their hate they are happy to destroy precious institutions such as: equality, universal rights, 'free speech' - which is the cornerstone of another precious institution: 'Democracy'. Now, I too, may hate the existing order, but I don't think we can throw it away without putting something better in place. Progressives have nothing better. Like Marxists, they think if they just burn what is, new & better things will arise spontaneously. You know: like they DID NOT in Cuba, Vietnam, China, Russia, ...
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  480.  @zacheryeckard3051  It certainly posed no existential threat to me. I caught COVID twice; but each time I my immnue system overcame the disease within 1 day - with a little help from some meds the US DHS would like to ban so that Big Pharma can make loads more doh. I hope Big Pharma are paying their shills well. Are they paying you?
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  481. CIA have, apparently, been doing this for a decade. Why?
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  482. Critical Race Theory, CRT, is a very weird thing. Previous Marxian writers suggest CRT, & all ideas obsessed with identity, are antithetical to Marxism [ see: Kenan Malik, 1996 "The Meaning of Race" ]. Malik's argument is fascinating & compelling. Yet CRT was descended from a fork off Marxism called Frankfurt School "Critical Theory". Not just a fork, but from only one Frankfurt School writer: Herbert Marcuse. Without being Marxist, I basically agree with Malik's 1996 analysis of the identity movements. Yet I will not deny that these modern Critical Race Theorists see themselves as Marxists, they call themselves Marxists, and they act like Bolsheviks.
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  483. Immigrants didn't shut down German industry. Mass immigration into Germany began in 1961; 64 years ago. In 1961, Germany signed an agreement to recruit Turkish workers, known as "guest workers". Around 876,000 people came to Germany from Turkey under this agreement.
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  484. BTW: Thunderf00t cannot even label his diagrams properly. He begins with a chart labelled "GLOBAL AVERAGE SURFACE TEMPERATURE". It is not. It shows temperature anomalies with respect to the previous 30-year average. It does not show averaged temperatures.
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  485. 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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  486. Chris Rufo for president - come on Americans - you know it makes sense.
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  487. 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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  488. "Independent scientists" - cherry picked by eco-fanatics. The eco-fanatics who cherry-picked those "independent scientists" already knew what they were going to say - so how "independent" can they be - when no scientist who dares to disagree will be asked for advice? Job interview question "What is your view on climate change"?
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  489. “Intellectuals” are more dangerous than “Pseudo-Intellectuals” Because “Intellectuals” are clearly held in higher esteem, and it seems we're not allowed to criticise them.
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  490. 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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  491. Is Nick Gillespie a bit of a woke/pomo? Economically & politically libertarian but it seems his head seems owned by pomo/woke relativism. What was it Reason wrote a few years back, the "culture war" is a myth? But, here's Nick in full Culture War mode dissing Matt Walsh with vitriol in his voice. Because Nick is a Federalist despite calling himself a Libertarian? We need to ask him:- "What is a woman Nick"?
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  492. Popstar news isn't really news. Ex-popstar news even less so.
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  493.  @zachlong5427  You may need "faith", but we can put our faith in lots of different things. In practice faith becomes a doctrine which justifies all sorts of different things by different people.
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  494.  @robertmacdonaldch5105  His argument is that it's a good think enviros are constantly lying to us because scary lies help them get their own way. I can address that. It's BS.
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  495. @Vryn Thorn Wrong. Humans are inclined to take myth, spooky causes, and group-think seriously - even when it's contradicted by reality; but that is not necessarily "religion".
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  496.  @zachlong5427  We need to teach ourselves. That means we need to be prepared to question our teachers. When they tell us suspicious stuff we should demand they back it up with evidence. For example, aged 21, in an undergraduate genetics class I was taught that the Linear no-threshold dose-response "theory" (LNT) was settled science. The lecturer told me "we are certain of this" when I queried his explanation in class. Today, experienced scientists are calling out LNT as a fraud. A fraud which earned a Nobel prize for its leading exponent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCRiw6Lg0i8
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  497. Are any of her claims based on evidence? She cites her own study, but is it an empirical, or speculative study? 1) The "causes of this decline". <- I'm willing to accept that if there's a decline, there will be environmental causes; but I'm using an expanded definition of "environment". So will we be analyzing socioeconomic factors too? Of course not. Our researcher, knew the name of the perp she was going to convict well before she began her "research". She spits out the word "chemicals" with real vitriol in her voice. If fact everything in our environment is chemicals: the keyboard I'm typing on, floor I stand on, all the food I eat, air I breath, ... This con-trick enviros scare us with - "fear the chemicals". Tiered of hearing it. Tiered of being told to fear my own shadow, by a bunch of leftist authoritarians, and anti-freedom fanatics who want to ban everything, so the reckless, anti-democratic, state can have more power over my life. Same state which gave us COVID lockdowns, net zero, mandatory vaxxing, transing kids, ...
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  498. If I put a post on the Internet asking whether "babies are racist", I would be banned, lose my account for life. Yet when political grifters, academics and fraudsters "ask" this dumb racist question they are promoted, awarded with degrees and promoted to the judiciary, NGO execs, HR bosses, ... How did evil people take over the world so easily?
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  499. This diagram of the predicted island of stability shows none of isotopes in the island has yet been synthesized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability Even so - none of these isotopes are predicted to be perfectly stable. They are just relatively stable. Meaning - even the island of stability isotopes will still be radioactive.
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  500. "The think they're doing the right thing" - nowt worse than selfish narcissists and psychopaths who believe they have the moral high ground to do evil.
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  501. Pomo is pop culture philosophy. Will you debunk it for us?
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  502. The physical reactions they get: nervousness, hyperventilating : those are real experiences they're having. I genuinely do not think they are faking it.
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  503. This is where Jordan Peterson falls down. He doesn't understand woke or Marxism. He thinks they're "ideas" because, on the surface (in academia, for example) they manifest themselves as Woke/Marxist ideas using wordy conceptualizations which properly play all the language games of the elites. The woke/Marxist drive is really a disgust with current hierarchies. The current hierarchies attempt to accommodate themselves to this disgust by instituting DEI, ESG, 'Climate action', etc. But none of that buys off the disgust. It may buy off the activists! - as it seems to have done with BLM!
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  504. I didn't know Scooby-Doo had any fans!
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  505. HTF do you sound like working class if you had a posh education? Did you deliberately cockneyfy your Queens English? Sheesh; sounds like a act of genuine depravity.
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  506.  @sumthingwickedly  I was joking.
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  507. "Waste heat will boil the oceans in about 300 years" <- Loony. Heat is defined in physics as a movement of energy from hot to cold. The heat on earth eventually goes to space. It doesn't stay in the ocean. The vast majority of waste heat produced by people doesn't even get to the ocean. The sun warms the ocean, not the people.
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  508. Mad dame?
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  509. Actually there is - much like there was freedom of expression: - in France in the 18th century - despite attempts by the Catholic Church to censor it. Despite Diderot suffering 3 months in prison for his 'Letter on the Blind'. - in Russia under the Tsars. - in Russia under the Soviets - they still had Solzhenitsyn. Despite the millions of critics exterminated by the Soviets. Once the light of free expression is loose, it cannot be captured in flask again. and dissapeared. The West (apart from the USA and Argentina) is currently run by idiots who have yet learn this crucial lesson from history.
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  510. #27 is slightly wrong. I think you meant: - (biological) evolution is real, and biological sex plays an important role in it for humans - biology is cis-propaganda, and anyone can make up their own sex
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  511. The Left routinely called everyone else Fascist for over 4 decades. I remember this nonsense from Trotskyists in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I was still a teen. The difference today is it's no longer just the far left alone. Today all the left are doing it.
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  512. Untrue. Vitamin D3 builds up in your body. It is stored in fat cells. D3 is an inactive form of vitamin D. The active form, in your blood, is made from D3 in your kidneys. 10000 IU of vitamin D3 per day is safe. Ten times that is dangerous. Vitamin D toxicity is only ever seen with truly massive vitamin D doses! "In the 1940s, vitamin D was thought to be effective for treating rheumatoid arthritis and massive doses of 200,000 to 300,000 IU/day were given. It was soon realized that these massive doses resulted in vitamin D intoxication, including hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, nephrocalcinosis, kidney stones, and soft tissue calcifications." - Holick, M. F. (2015). "Vitamin D Is Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought: A Historical and an Up-to-Date Perspective". Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 90(5), 561–564. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.03.015 https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00244-X/fulltext
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  513. Don't be daft. Fracking is NOT an issue in red wall seats. People in red wall seats care about the money in their pocket. The Tories are now owned by their Blairites. Tory Blairite philosophy is Big Tentism. So every bat-shit crazy idea the media hypes gets to be treated as an issue by Tories because chattering classes say they care about nonsense. Tories are worried about what the chattering classes say about them in the media. Tories are pussies. In reality the chattering classes talk about luxury ideas - such as fracking bans; even though most of the chatters don't really care! They talk the talk; they don't walk the walk. So Tories make luxury ideas - such as a fracking ban into policy - appealling to no one but a bunch of loony XR activists - who are the only people who really care about fracking bans!
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  514. His salary is seven figures. The Sun said he was on a six figure salary. So not likely
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  515. Next Democrat administration - assuming there will be another - need to divert some funding into new singing lessons for activists. Current singing by Dem activists - designed to break glass everywhere and turn police dogs insane - is not working. Cop dogs wear ear-muffs and the glass is hi-tech scream resistant.
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  516. Boris Johnson: “Will no one rid me of these turbulent voters?”
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  517. Except we did not cut down all the trees. Globally there are far more trees today than 100 years ago.
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  518. Lex knows tonnes of stuff about spying. Way more than most people. I was surprised he brought up the subject of Yuri Bezmenov. The interview with "Tomas Schuman" regarding Soviet subversion of the West was published in 1984 and is only available on cassette tape. FFS who listens to cassette tapes today? Who even has a cassette player? In addition, Lex is such a fawning sycophant when he interviews the elites and establishment. Come clean Lex. Admit you're CIA. Only just noticed, but the accusation by Blake McKean below is clearly a false flag to put people off Lex's trail!!
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  519. Journalists don't make stuff up. They generally cherry pick things which other people make up. He says he's "protecting sources" but more likely he's repeating gossip. Activists make stuff up.
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  520. Surprise - women who benefit from discrimination are in favour of it! Who'd thunk that?
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  521. Trusting your gut is the last thing you should do. Psychos are engaging and they insinuate themslves with us. To catch one, one must be able to bait and trap them.
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  522. The earliest known use of the mortar was in 1413 in Korea. It's not as if British troops had nothing else on hand. I can't see the application for this grenade launcher, which breaks your shoulder should you try to use it as the rifle it once was.
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  523. I quite liked her in Orphan Black; she was quite entertaining. Shame she contracted wokemania.
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  524. I remember fake scientists claiming to be skeptics first. I call myself a skeptic because I take my model from The Enlightenment. Namely from Immanuel Kant's answer to the question "What is Enlightenment"?, from 1785. Summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Enlightenment%3F#Basic_understanding "Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity (Unmündigkeit)." He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding, but from the lack of courage to use one's reason, intellect, and wisdom without the guidance of another. Kant argued that using one's reason is considered dangerous by most men and all women.[in 1785!] He exclaims that the motto of the Enlightenment is "Sapere aude"! – Dare to be wise!" I take this to mean "think for yourself"; take nothing on trust. "Skeptics" who take ideas on trust are not skeptics; they don't think for themselves.
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  525. Why are you interviewing these anti-human maniacs "Just Stop Oil". How about interviewing their critics as well?
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  526.  @anthonymorris5084  Critics who agree with the main premises of "Just Stop Oil" ? I would not call such people "critics". There were no hard-nosed critics along the lines of: "we cannot drop everything and dance to the tune of every eco-loony psychopath"
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  527.  @bigalthelegend5007  Genuinely good people will talk and debate you. Those with high traits in psychopathology and narcissism may ignore, blank or censor you.
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  528. Suicidal empathy is where severe ressentiment takes Greens. Auto-psychopathy is another name for it.
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  529. Today: Mastadon only has just over 1 million users. Twitter had 436 million last January, according to Statista.
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  530. 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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  531. Secular rationalism is easily undermined because we are not, by nature, rational. Yet, we're able to fake rationalism, and also able to learn it. Yet some of us can't. Some people are just wrong; beyond redemption. That is one aspect where I differ from Christians. I don't have infinite capacity to forgive. Christians criticize secularism at their peril. Secularism enables Christianity. It does not threaten it. The speaker went wrong as soon as he began to dis' "secular humanism". Secularism is a system to prevent one religious creed dominating society. For example: Pakistan is a non-secular state. Israel is a secular state. A lot of religiously inclined people pose a conflict between secularism and faith. Secularism is the idea which ended the 30-years war of the 17th century in Germany between Catholicism and Protestantism. The war which killed 7 million and devastated Germany. Secularism is a good thing. There is a conflict between secularism and faith. But, likewise, there's conflict between every faith against all others. Something called multiculturalism is NOT a solution to that - secularism is a solution. Multiculturalism refuses to judge bad ideas. Secularism will judge certain ideas as systems as bad and will reject them. The speaker should've been railing against multiculturalism rather than secularism. Unfortunately he undermined his own message by blaming the wrong target. By all means attack humanism - if you wish too. But never, NEVER, attack secularism unless you desire its alternatives: fanaticism, and fascism, or the everything goes of multiculturalism - which will, likely, destroy itself. Modern Christianity failed to respond to Islam. Led astray by Pope Francis. Christians haven't taken the threat of Islam seriously for what is is: a plan for world conquest and domination. If, as a Christian, you doubt me, then you must spend more time studying the perils of Islam. Perhaps more time talking to actual Muslims; to figure out, for yourself, why their biases are all for Islam; even for Jihad. Christians have been lulled into seeing Islam as an ally against the atheists. Maybe it is? But secularism and atheism are 2 entirely separate things. Any Christian who thinks secularism is a greater threat to them than Islam is not looking at the facts on the ground. Read some history books.
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  532. Apart from everyone who disagrees with Twitter faves suspended or banned what's to uncover? It's fun watching these liberal jackboots fall over their own shoelaces. No it ain't. It's old hat. It's boring and sad now.
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  533. But I wish woke government felt guilt over funding porno-grifters.
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  534. A good list, but one important point not made is that fallacies are often meta-fallacies: - such as projection and deflection. Projection and deflection are often unconscious, or spontaneous. * Projection: one projects when one "reasons" by imagining what other person thinks, recounting a precis of it to them, then condemning the ideas in the precis. So projection can include many fallacies (ad hominem, strawman, whataboutism(s), ..., because we find it almost impossible to precis what another person actually thinks (as opposed to what we imagine they think) * Deflection: talk about something else, it avoids facing the actual topic under debate. Can often be done by recounting an example, or story, or evidence which is either tangentially relevant or irrelevant. - and multiple-fallacies - which may even be overdetermined. In such a case one identifies the prime fallacy, but, one may even fall for a hidden fallacy entwined with it! Also - bad evidence. Common examples of bad evidence are: * bad statistics. For example weak statistics which may have been compiled using one or many of: cherry-picked data, bad sampling, too few data points, weak randomization, weak correlation, obscure of errror-prone maths such as fourier analysis, principle component analysis, or machine learning applied to 'dirty', or 'noisy' data. * bad modelling. Bad models can have unrealistic assumptions, simplistic, irrelevant, logic (such as game theory algorithms), unrealistic causal chains, inappropriate science, hidden maths: embedded within - such that the argument being presented, or supported, actually obscures itself AND is wrong! Models are never evidence. They are tools for speculation. If you take a lesson from this talk, I think it should be to practice steelmannning, and to argue empirically (from the evidence), not from logic. Learn to walk before you run. An empiricist, such as myself, probably thinks every argument made purely from logic is either a fallacy fallacy, or castle made of sand, or some other self-befuddlement!
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  535.  @marisamorais3150  But, saying yes to a sociopath or psychopath can lead to worse consequences.
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  536. "expand the mind", "sacraments" <- This kind of religious fanaticism does psychedelic fans no good. It indicates an uncritical, fanatical, fan-base.
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  537. How is mathematical modelling - employing a parametized greenhouse effect (which is itself a more basic model) "science"? Models built on models - nothing ever validated. Modellers are such terrified jerks they cannot debate anyone in public. None are able to explain why my refutations of their crude, simplistic, wrong models, are illegit. Scientists misused science by redefining science to mean playing tricks with maths. This divorced science from the real world. They do it this way because they know man-made climate is the ONLY thing influential purse-holders in control of funding want to hear. Alarmists - in contrast work with no gravy train funding - on a shoe-string - yet still manage to more or less completely explain how and why the climate system is solar-driven. To shore up their credibility - so as to maintain their monopolistic access to funding Alarmists lie about skeptics being "fossil-fools" - funded by industry interests. Alarmists are dishonest, libelous scammers. Skeptical scientists - at CERES (Soon & Connolly & Co) can explain ALL the behaviour (warming, cooling) of climate over the past 150 years. They base their work on empiricism - it is bottom up. Has Sabine even bothered looking at it before deciding who is right in science? I don't think so. Man-made climate studies are top-down science. Models first. The twist data to straight-jacket into their models - so as to pretend to be doing empirical work. Climate alarmist scientists Sabine kow-tows to are ignorant of basic empirical work. They likely think it's below them. Alarmist skills: Libel, telling fairy stories, monstering good people, jerking off TPTB. Man-made skeptics skills - working on a shoe string to debunk man-made climate lie and explain how the actual climate works.
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  538. That'd be personal, and rude. But they could've asked: "Does calling for the genocide of fentanyl abusers violate Harvard's rule on bullying and harrassment?"
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  539. In my case Sam Harris already lost 100% of his audience for the crimes of shilling, and character assassination. Sam claims to be a philospher. When philosophers make claims to truth they need to prove first that they ken basic, or simple truths. These are clear claims about the real world. Sam has failed there (for me); getting waylaid with groupthink. So I can't trust what he tells me about a basic truth he's obliged to know. It follows that I can't trust him in meta-truths (philosophical truth) either. I'm with Sam on Israel. Not with him on his hate for right-wing media - not because I'm a right winger - I'm a lefty - but because the modern left have gone stark-raving mad, and full-psycho.
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  540. 10,000 IU of vitamin D per day is safe. You'd need ten times that for months to overdose.
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  541. Without risking prison we're not even allowed to talk about Islam. They censor everything they want to gaslight us over: trans-people, Islam, climate crisis. There's no proper debate on any of these topics - by design.
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  542. "Unreliable social media posts get the dose of Ivermectin wrong" <- but they do no believe there is an effective dose of Ivermectin. Therefore they believe every dose - social media inspired, or not, is WRONG !!
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  543. If there was a bill before congress which limited the amount of time activists could spend shitting in our heads ... The problem isn't the people on social media - it's the psychopaths making gibberish up in universities then demanding we rubber stamp their lunacy into law.
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  544. I think Must will discriminate against incompetency, and in favour of competence.
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  545. They, "progressives" such as WaPo and RS seem to hate Christians so much that they'd prefer to support child abusers by dissing people who campaign against abuse. Are they sick, evil, dumb, vainglorious? Or all four? The RS headline reads: Sound Of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer Politicizing an issue such as child prostitution with this kind of hate language just to get your revenge on an imagined enemies comes across - to me - an old lefty - as just about as sick and evil as it's possible to get.
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  546. The second worse? Worst than Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao? Much of the writing of the Frankfurt School is ambiguous and speculative. Could this ambiguity be a reason why it became popular? It became what its followers wanted it to be. The ultimate floating signifier.
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  547.  @johnwayne7509  The Frankfurt School had no "misinformation campaign". They were generally just deluded and wrong.
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  548. Trust what the government want you to believe?
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  549. You're right about woke once having an exact meaning but the meaning was first changed by the Left who translated it into some version of 'politically correct'. It was only after woke became censorious and dogmatic, that the right picked up on it as an insult. It wasn't 'rightwingers' who printed those T-shirts found in the cupboard at Twitter. Nor is it just right-wingers laughing at them.
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  550. What happened to the good old days - when potential shows had pilots? If people liked the pilot they went ahead with a series. A typical pilot costs < $1m and could often be completed within a week.
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  551. Agreed. For Rand to be Nietzschean, she'd have to have the same method as him. But I dount anyone can explain Nietzsche's method; least of all his followers!
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  552. "For Hunter Biden, that was a mistake, ..." < - brought a smile to my face. I thought Greg was saying Hunter made a mistake. - Oh yeah - like the million other mistakes he made!! <- no journalists told the truth because they are pathetic poodles owned by billionaires.
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  553. Joe Biden = not my president Gad Saad = my wannabe president
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  554. Virtue epistemics is good. I'm persuaded I must read: "The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology", 2011, by Jason Baehr. So - I'm up-voting you. I doubt whether freedom from cultural bias is such a good thing. Surely it's more important to be biased in favour of good cultures than to tbe free of any bias. No one is bias-free. This idealization of "bias-free" is debatable. Freedom from cultural bias could be a useful tool - similar to devil's advocacy - for the purpose of analysing ethics and comparative ethics.
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  555. So many anti-nuclear myths in this talk, I lost count. 1. "Uranium is runnng out" <- The institute who authored the study Sabine cited are an anti-nuclear power think tank. There's loads of Uranium. Nuclear fuel can also be made from Thorium. One Physics Nobel prize winner estimated there's enough Thorium in the earth's crust to supply all the energy needs of humanity for the next 20 billion years (which is far longer than the projected life of earth and sun) 2. "Nuclear power is expensive" <- Everything is expensive. Also: levelized costs of energy is a nonsense idea - because no renewable energy stands alone. "Levelized costs of energy", is basically: dishonest, anti-nuke, pro-renewables, propaganda. Because levelized costs, don't measure dispatchable power - which is the only useful power. Nuclear power is dispatchable. Wind and solar are not. 3. "Nuclear power plants take ages to build" <- Everything does today. For example, as I write, they've been building a housing estate near me for over a decade. Still no people living in it! 4. "Accidents in nuclear power plants are a nightmare" <- No one ever died due to a radiation accident in a civilian nuclear power plant. Chernobyl was military technology in a dictatorship. 5. "Fast breeder reactors are cooled with sodium" <- They don't have to be. They can be cooled by molten salts. 6. "Molten salt is highly corrosive and quickly degrades containers made to hold it" <- Really? So why are solar power plants trying to use molten salt to store heat? I agree with Sabine's conclusion "let the market decide" I disagree with Sabine's climate paranoia. BTW: To fans of nuclear power - everytime you try to scare people by citing climate paranoia you are just giving the scare-mongers more fuel to burn me, and you, with.
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  556. They are trying to create demographic crisis.
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  557. I think our leaders (in the West) believed they were now at the End of History, and it was a green, woke end.
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  558. Have your read Elazar Barkan's 1992: "The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars" ? Interesting book which covers much of the same ground. It may be a bit Marxian though. 3 decades since I read it. I thought it a good book but I've never seen anyone else cite it. This issue of race is what clearly demarks Fascism from Communism. Facists wanted to build their politics on national identity. Due to pre-existing empire building, need for nationalism, and moral grandstanding of middle classes (Eugenics) - race - became key to national identity. In contrast, the communist vision was internationalist. That did not stop communists doing race crimes - but it stopped communists developing an ideology which justified such crimes. Racism was a facet of German Fascism; not the main driver. The Great Depression was a bigger factor in putting the Nazis in power & the threat from Soviet communism.
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  559. She's cheated honest people - honest people who didn't get their paper published because it didn't make sexy claims like hers. Honest, boring, people who tell the truth to their students. Honest people who has their careers stymied by cheats.
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  560. Democrats = Dark Triads meet suicidal empathy to parasitize and game it. We already have cognitive diminishment with the Democrats.
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  561. "Some people claimed that OO has failed. Which, ... is clearly, nonsense." <- It depends what one means by "failed". If one means: - has contributed to mountains of bad, often untestable code, and - enabled & enshrined many bad programming habits then Yes. OO has failed. What are the objectives of OO anyhow? Here's one Internet answer to the question of "what is the purpose of OO": "The following are the benefit of the OOPs concept: Using the OOPs methodology, one can - enhance the code reusability and - save development time. - Easy message passing establishes communication between classes and objects. - Using functionalities like data abstraction and hiding, - OOPs ensure the security of the code." Eh? Hey: OO-fans: any evidence for any of the above. For example "save development time"? In comparison with what? Also: Who's development time. The time of the "write-once, read never" coder who authored it, or the poor bastards tasked with maintaining it? The (negative) issue with FP is that it closes down the coder's degrees of freedom. A FP-programmer should exercise discipline to avoid bad techniques and bad code. No such prohibitions inhibit the mind of the typical OO, corporate, coder. To the extent that peer review is absent, they are free to author garbage. So too with the FP-coder, I hear you say. But a coder who chose an FP language ahead of the more, (in demand?) OO language, or even the coder who chose to author with FP-styles within the bounds of an OO-language - must exercise self discipline to narrow their degrees of freedom down. If the main criteria is speed (to production), and project managers, and product owners mainly care about speed - much code will continue to be authored in a "write once, read never" style. How many of the PMs and POs who "manage" product development even know what the difference is between FP and OO styles of programming?
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  562. Do Corporaganda and catty-B swanking destroy creativity in the arts? I doubt it. As Mae Jest might have said "Is that a pun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Penned by a real (fake?) warrior against cancel vultures.
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  563. If I accuse someone of "not understanding Hegel", I may very well be complimenting them. Spinoza's Ethics entices me. Not read it.
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  564. Wearing a pink frilly dress, the trans activist who recently poured tomato source over Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand said s/he did it because s/he "wanted her to be full of blood", and s/he accused Kellie Jean of "advocating for our genocide". Why should we be surprised that terrorism happens (Aiden Hale) when when one goes about liberally accusing almost everyone of fascism and genocide?
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  565. Identities are just sets of behaviours: habits. Being a man is not just an identity; it's more a biological state. I blame the Left for the current mess. The Left are obsessed with the notion that everything is social, which comes with its concurrent 'blank slate' view of humanity. Today's identity politics are entirely Leftwing constructs; and the plan to build a left alliance around identity politics is at least 4 decades old. So the fictions of the trans movement is, a by-product of the Left building political alliances. The Right are happy to go along with this identity politics because the Right acknowledge no particularly positive politics of their own. The Right is more than happy to see the end of class-based politics (so the replacement of class by identities is a big win for the Right). If the right had pushed back against the worst of idetntity politics this trans nonsense would never have been the success it became.
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  566. Is Julia Hartley the only journalist with balls in Britain?
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  567. That was JK Rowlings version of: "OK groomer"
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  568. One small correction: evo-psych is a bit psycho. They (evo-psychos) have a tendency to make stuff up. I'm personally an evidence-based rational skeptic. So I say people who 'believe in' evo-psych are the flip side of nutty progressive woke professors.
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  569. They also support the lie of a "climate crisis". I think the billionaires are the main reason our politicians bought into this lie. If they can bully us into wasting trillions in resources on net zero and similar nonsense why can't they do other mischief too?
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  570. Did someone say: "the habits which make students oppose freedom of speech are the same habits which make them depressed"? These habits and patterns of fear are engineered in us by government, media, establishment, billionaire funding, to control and pacify us. Using deranged socialists as tools who think they're going to create Utopia by leading us through Hell : - climate crisis scare - COVID extermination scare - mandatory vaccination with vaxxes having NO Phase 4 clinical trials and only curtailed Phase 3 trials. - sexual transitioning is good, therapy is hate-speech and transphobia - free-speech is fascism - all whites are thick racists - too thick to see their racism unless they've attended an indoctrination course in Critical (ha ha!) Race Theory. They've lost their minds. The kids at colleges oppose freedom of speech because their professors incoctrinate them into thinking it is Fascist, hateful, and will warp them. With traditional defenders of free-speech - such as the ACLU - entirely taken over by woke.
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  571.  @alwynwatson6119  Name the anti-woke strawmen. What's genuine woke?
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  572. The SJW (woke) believe they revolutionized liberalism by replacing liberalism's old ideas liberty, equality, freedom and economic growth with diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability. In fact, no new social system will work when it's just dreamt-up. Liberalism worked by being tried from the bottom up and found better. Woke can only be imposed top-down. Like all top-down systems it must fail. Woke cannot overcome it's defects because they never debate. They have a Maoist mentality to debate : shout down the opposition!
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  573. Woke means anything a SJW campaigner promotes.
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  574. So woke is a cherry-picked position; and uses Motte-and-Bailey fallacies to advance and defend itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy It advance in the name of civil rights but is ultimately an attack on civil rights.
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  575. Regarding some of the questions at the end. Hallucinogens - are sometimes linked to personal enlightenment, or egolessness, and then linked to Buddhist concepts. The hallucinogen experience is NOT like the above. Writers like Leary and Huxley were reckless and irresponsible, to imply there was some kind of connection. The term 'Enlightenment' should be reserved for the Western concept which is derived from the collective intellectual project of Western thinkers from 17th century on. See Immanuel Kant "What is Enlightenment?". Buddhists already have technical terms for mystical insight: Nirvana, bodhi, or even 'awakening' (if you MUST use a Western word). Use the Eastern terms for these experiences. The 'hallucinogen' experience is better associated with 'mystical' experience of drug use in indigenous American society. Use mystic-drug-use - if you must us a term. The experience is hit-and-miss; often within the same session. Literally 'heaven and hell' as Huxley put it. It is pretty much essential to have guides who aren't on drugs on standby to help you if you get into a psychological mess during hallucinogen use. Read up on 'set and setting' . I feel qualified to write about this because I experienced all 3 states above: Western Enlightenment is simply thinking for oneself. 'Dare to think' as Kant described it. It requires a technical understanding of debate, evidence, avoiding logical fallacies, ... Because the first person to fool is yourself! It's an on-going process. It literally never stops! There will always be some socially accepted fallacy your mind, or society, got conned into; which explains why you always need to examine the evidence for yourself. Buddhist Enlightenment (Zen, Nirvana) is best achieved by following technical Buddhist meditation and practice: 'Loving-Kindness' (in one's thought, action, and meditation), and Zen meditation. It is key to conquer one's wondering mind, endless speculation, ... Once more: an on-going process. PS: 'Loving-Kindness' is a technical term in Buddhism.
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  576. I'm still wating for my reparations from Germans who forced my father into slavery during WWII.
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  577. transwomen are men.
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  578.  @iminumst7827  Transwomen are men Men are not women So: Transwomen are not women
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  579. Why don't "transwomen" activists campaign for their own prison? - a place with neither TERFs nor hetero men.
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  580. The Left cannot and will not debate anything. Given it's impossible to talk to the SJW Left, calling "OK Groomer" on them is about the only option remaining. It's generally reservered for trans indoctrination of kids. Drag Queen story hour certainly looks like grooming.
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  581. OK, So I've listened to ex-CIA analysts explain how they were supposed to get on board with the TQ part of LGBTQ. So if this was only about money laundering why did they need to convince their analysts to support this agenda?. Analysts don't launder money and don't interact with the public much at work. Analysts are not field agents, nor operations staff.
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  582. Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit. Not even a work of philosophy according to some people.
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  583. Carbon capture and storage is literally spending money to harm nature. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is literal plant food. It is he substance upon which all life on earth depends. The more CO2 in the atmosphere - the healthier the biosphere is. They want to spend billions (initially) to degrade the biosphere. Ultimately it will costs us trillions.
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  584. Do you think there's any way she will have a honest debate with a skeptical critic of her climate doomism? I doubt it.
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  585. 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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  586. 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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  587. To summarize: Factors which allow one popultation to take over can be: martial, genetic, memetic, technological, cultural, mobility. Did I miss any? These factors can weave into each other. I'm leaving cultural and memetic as 2 separate things. An example of a memetic driver for population expanse could be Islam. But an example of a cultural driver can be population collapse due to low population replacement rates we see in technologically advanced societies today. Factors can be pro- or anti- population expansion. Each group is subject to different mixtures of factors. At key stages one factor or a combo become decisive.
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  588. The term "conspiracy theorist" annoys me for many reasons: -- the term was invented by US spooks in the 1960s to discredit people who didn't trust the official narrative of JK Kennedy's assassination. -- in UK law, Conspiracy is the name of an actual law. Criminal conspiracy is thing which can land you in jail. Labelling someone a CT implies they're criminal. -- people, in and out of government, actually do conspire - in secret. They brain-storm tactics and strategies to achieve their ends - which involve misinforming the public -- it's one of these debate-ending diss-words - like Fascist, Trumpist, transphobe, homophobe, racist, flat-earther, climate denier. As such it's used to spread hate and mistrust, to stop debate and actual critical thinking.
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  589. I came to the conclusion that Sam Harris is a massive hypocrite. He claims to represent reason, but in many ways he's a traitor to reason and to the "intellectual honesty" he says he wants to represent. Much of the Left seem like that. He claims his master value is to be "honest". I don't think so. I think is master value is to be an accepted member of his tribe. Much of the establishment are like him. Notice how well he avoids debating his skeptical critics, such as myself? I'm not his only critic.
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  590. Kids cannot protect themselves. Adults must protect them against genital mutilation.
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  591. Fascism is right-wing Hegelianism / Statism Communism is left-wing Hegelianism / Statism
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  592. 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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  593. The modern left - the 'woke' - influenced by Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, German (Nazi) Volk environmentalism, and Nietzsche's most famous and successful progeny: Michel Foucault! . Yet they spend so much of their time calling the rest of us Fascists! One, literally, cannot make this stuff up.
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  594. Only the transwoman is "offensive" because they literally are. The go out of their way to be in your face; demanding to be in women's spaces, sports, prisons, jobs, ...
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  595. JBP basically says that DEI is a lowest common denominator luxuary belief for someone who needs some kind of modern, 'ethical', system to put them above the "hoi polloi" (AKA - you and me). So "Marxism" has gone full-circle. Beginning as a practical politics, supported by workers, which proclaimed it did not need an ethics - "Marxism" in its modern incarnation of DEI, is now an elite belief system supported by some bosses (or rather their grown up kids[1]) which is ONLY an ethical system. But - then again - only an ethical system in theory - because practically speaking, real D.E.I. would rip into tiny pieces and disintegrate any actual society which attempted to implement it! As any actual, old skool Marxist would tell you - see "The Meaning of Race", by Kenan Malik, 1996 - which intellectually destroyed D.E.I., only 28 years ago. [1] E.g Baroness Ruth Hunt, is one such "kid".
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  596. 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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  597. Matt Walsh needs to say "uprooting the trans tree" should never involve violence or illiberal coercion against people identifying as trans. Illiberal coercion of kids is what we should be trying to stop. I'm a lib; but when Matt says "erradicate the trans cancer", I can't actually tell him he's wrong; because I think this trans meme is purely destructive to society; and has nothing positive in it.
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  598. Methane is not an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Nor does the term "potent greenhouse gas" have a scientific meaning, or definition. It's objectively a meaningless term.
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  599.  @mathboy8188  There is no empirical test to measure the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. The numbers are all gamed and modelled. Fraud as "settled science"
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  600. Anti- gene-technology too. Yet more Green policies shutting down industry and innovation.
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  601. Yes. But why not up your dose? I found 1 year supply of vitamins D3 (4000 IU) with K2 on the web for only £13.
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  602. Calling Hitler mad is, itself, a kind of madness. The madness of not even trying to understand.
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  603. Foucault does not generally deal with power. Nor do his followers. For example take the "micro-physics of power" - one of Foucault's key ideas. Is it really just a floating signifier? Foucault's landmark 'text' (AKA: 'book', to you) was published in 1961: "Madness and Civilization". Derrida's différance arrived on the scene in 1967 (in book form); he coined the term in 1963. In these last 6 decades academia has been pontificating poststructuralism at us. Yet how have they developed and elaborated their pomo ideas? They have not. Let us compare. Take, say, narcissitic personality disorder. One can't quite quantify it, but one can do tests to tell oneself whether one is 'suffering' from it. Or, more realistically - whether other people are suffering from you. So we know it's a thing. It's elaborated and can be diagnosed. How did postmodern sociologists further elaborate their central Foucauldian concept: 'the micro-physics of power'? [Discipline and Punish, 1975]. They haven't. 47 years after it arrived in academia, countless PhDs later, the term is as woolly and ill-defined today, as when Foucault invented it. This is the essential weakness in Leftist "theory", and "theoretical work". It's all speculation: metaphor and similie piled on top of narrative and parable; stories. As such it can be interpreted as anything one wants it to be. The term: 'floating signifier', was widely used in poststructuralist semiotics by 1980. It means a sign which has been emptied of meaning by its use in so many contexts such that the meaning is overloaded and exhausted. A bit like a linguistic version of 'how long is a piece of string?'. Q: How much of pomo is simply 'floating signifiers'? A: Nearly all of it.
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  604. If loss of anonymity is the price paid for free-speech I'll take free-speech.
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  605. If government had really been worried about COVID they'd promoted daily high dose vitamin D and early treatment for disease victims. By "early treatment" I mean treatment with medicines such as anti-virals like: ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and, even, quercetin. Instead we heard nothing about taking high dose vitamin D, and nothing but lies and slander about anti-viral drugs I mentioned.
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  606. Reality: "The ONLY threat from nuclear is from weapons". Summary: Scaremonger over NPPs because during a war, they can be hit by cruise missiles, artillery, or whatever, and the "radioactive fallout will be devastating": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2bW5Cm8PQ Well, I don't actually know what you think because it's all by implication: bad things must happen. Given you hardly talk at all about the reactors, what purpose did your nonsense headline serve? Unheard is supposed to be some kind of modern, thinking, conservatism. Yet your headline is red-top hysterics: "The real nuclear threat is not from weapons". The headline is gibberish. The history of the 20th century, of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, shows that the "ONLY threat from nuclear is from weapons". I note how they have no one to argue against your hyperbolic, speculative, headline : "The real nuclear threat is not from weapons". No one here understands the real threat, you don't have technical expertise. None of two speakers here: Freddie Sayers and Andreas Umland know anything about nuclear engineering and how nuclear reactors work. I wonder how much their fear depends of ignorance? If Russians want to cut-off electricity, they only need to bomb transmission lines next to the plant. They don't need to touch any power stations at all! One reason why Germany and Europe need so much Russian energy is Germany shut down most of the 20% of their electricity generation which nuclear power once provided. FACT: Ukraine has 15 VVER nuclear reactors of total capacity: 13.819 GW. Chernobyl era reactors are all shut now. The 15 reactors are located at 4 plants. They also have 3, much smaller, research reactors. FACT: Russian financed media publish scare-mongering stories about Ukrainian nuclear reactors. In the last conflict, 2014-2015 Russians tried to use social media - such as Twitter - to scare-monger over nuclear power with bot accounts. If you won't interview someone who understands nuclear power, you end up repeating nonsense.
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  607. Wikipedia has this to say about TRNN: "TRNN does not accept funding from advertising, governments, or corporations - it is sustained through donations from viewers and foundations, and has a small for-profit segment." <- But these foundations are all created by billionaires, such as Rockefellers, Gates, Soros, and dozens of others. Isn't TRNN controlled opposition too?
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  608. Calling woke "radical far-left ideology", kind of, legitimizes it for the far left! Woke is actually antithetical to what the left originally wanted : equality. Woke is so antithetical to equality that I tend to think of woke as controlled opposition : a set of ideas for the Left to destroy the Left! Which begs the question - who is running this pseudo-opposition machine, and why? Does the state, itself, have intentionality? Is woke the state's machine for controlling the rest of us?
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  609. What next: "Playboy Story Hour"? Sexy women in stilettos and skimpy outfits teaching todlers the art of seductive shimmy and the relative price of a backstreet B-J compared to a night in a top Mayfair pleasure spot?
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  610.  @my-spinning-wheel  Doesn't matter what postmodernism "would say" about bridges. Can any postmodernist build a bridge without it quickly falling down? So we can't "still dance together" unless we can get from one side of the river to the other side.
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  611. There are lots of good books about the climate - written by a whole load of people - with very diverse backgrounds. I did about 2 or 3 hours climate science reading every day for about 2½ years (mostly during my absurdly long commute). There are also key papers you need to read.
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  612. Postmodernists had a term - floating signifier - for concepts such as socialism - ideas so abstract that the meaning can float freely - or - they can pretend they have a "meaning" - a substance to it - just because they've a word.
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  613. The government fix to a problem is going to be worse than the problem.
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  614.  @DieFlabbergast  Q: By whom? A: By people who planned it. Much like the climate and net zero PLANS, the transing scam is no accident. Q: Simple, one-size fits all? A: No, it's not simple. For example, the same people financing it didn't dream it up; but, there were - theorists - people profitting from it, such as doctors - politicos (on the left). Pushed by ideologically driven NGOs, charities, medical associations. Climate scam: - their theorists were climate modellers - renewable energy suppliers, and electric vehicle companies profit from it. Even farmers profit by converting their land from green to brown field, after 15 years. - politicos galarore. Nearly all UK political parties are in tune with it. Pushed by every green NGO - financed by US foundations. Similar structure, both scams are driven by anti-humanism. The climate scame explicitly so, and the transing scam by proxy transhumanism (which is itself an antihumanism).
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  615.  @DieFlabbergast  “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
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  616. J Butler wants a "politics of care". They've a weird definition of "care" which involves fucking kids heads up to convince them they've been "born in the wrong body"
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  617. A common accusation against JBP made recently is he won't answer his critics' questions! JBP can hear them but they're accusations not questions.
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  618. I was never party to your climate goals, only captive to them. So drop the "we". It's a tell fraudsters always use.
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  619. Q: Why does String Theory (misnamed) get a free pass? A: Could it be because armies of physicists built their career on speculation but cannot accept that their hours of speculation aren't "science". Or maybe because - rather than be skeptics -most people would rather believe in any old crap such as inflation, dark energy and dark matter? - making "inflation" a flaw of human social psychological interactions? "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!" - Wolfgang Pauli
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  620. "When you start denying reality there's no natural limits" <- So Lionel Shriver has a slippery slope argument. "Even assuming that all the climate activists are correct" <- Wait a minute!! She knows that the climate activists are wrong. I know that too. There are good reasons why they ban my arguments everywhere. It's because they're liars. They're pure fantasists. I expose their lies.
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  621. Rogan asked: "What Started the Cultural Fixation on Gender?" These 'woke' gender ideas came from Feminism and the Gay Movement. Originally, in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when they began) these were both called liberation movements (Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation). I'm surprised that Colin Wright doesn't remark on this. Instead Colin described his first encounter with wokes of 'New Atheism'. That's, maybe, when they first hit the culture scene in a big way. It's not the origin of the ideas. Feminist and the Gay theorists both saw/see heterosexuality as normative and oppressive. Feminists call it the Patriarchy, and gays called it Straight society. Gender wokism is a rebellion against normativity and oppression. Wokes are saying nothing should be normative and that a claim to normative ethics and behaviours is "Fascist". Q: How is gender wokism a rebellion against oppression? A: They see normativity as oppressive. So a rebellion against sexual normativity is a "sexual liberation" to them. Although both women's and gay rights groups make a big thing of "diversity and fairness"; their understanding of diversity isn't literal; it's more "diversity" as "anti-normativity". This nicely dovetails into Postmodernism - which is also anti-normative.
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  622. "Taxation should be imposed on drug companies to enable independent trials." <- You mean state-funded medicine - like in Communist China? I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong with that!!
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  623. Climate change fanatics take climate model projections literally. COVID vax, lockdown and mask fanatics take COVID infection model projections literally.
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  624.  @tonyromano6220  I think you meant to say: "Media reporting of climate science is complete nonsense" Actual scientists (doing experimental and observational work on climate) are OK. It's the modellers feeding lies to the media who are the issue.
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  625. Modern Eugenics is called "climate crisis"; it's basically anti- all humanity now.
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  626. There are no Polish tanks in Ukraine. After being given to Ukraine they became Ukrainian. Those in the video are fake Ukrainian tanks. Not even Leopards; but some Swedish rip-off design; filmed in Sweden.
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  627. He definitely belongs in California, not UK.
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  628. Is there even enough room in Transylvania for them all?
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  629.  @xuserakx  "tens of millions" means 10m, 20m, 30m. Something like that. 'tens' is plural.
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  630. It's because socialist politics mostly seem to be about monstering people the socialists disagree with.
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  631. As soon as John said Robert was "much disliked by pharmaceutical companies", then I knew I loved the guy.
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  632. Human Rights are now a stick to beat us with. Because they are entirely understood in legal terms and our lawyers turned against the people to side with the globalists. When human rights first became a thing, during The European Enlightenment, they were demands made by the people: - right to vote - right to free speech - right to liberty w.r.t. the state - right to property I fear those of us who still laud some ideals/ideas of The Enlightenment must now ditch rights because our elites own them and use them to oppress us. We must go back to The Enlightenment and redo it; recognizing the blunders and mistakes it made, but taking inspiration from its method: skeptical empiricism, and its desire to improve the political & economic situation.
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  633. "ideas (memes) competitively evolved that way" <- No, they did not. Let's take meta-ideas (AKA philosophy) as an example. Q: Why did Greek philosophy vanish from the West, and only "return" in the Middle Ages in a very Christianized form? A: In 529, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian outlawed non-Christian, Greek, philosophy in its homeland. Political diktat = nothing to do with "evolution of ideas". Skepticism had been one of the 3 or 4 main schools of Greek Philosophy - it vanished from Europe for over 1000 years; making a come-back after empiricism took root in European science in the 17th century. Naturally, when it came back, the original ideas were no longer there ("Skepticism" now meant something different); but the forms of Greek philosophy returned to us. Forms = as in how it was done.
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  634. @Devil's Logic > Where does or how dies the thought/idea to outlaw and diktat > came from in Emperor's mind? That's you projecting onto me. I never said that, and didn't think it either.
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  635. @Devil's Logic I never said it came from the emperors head. I said it was a diktat. The Byzantinium ruling class did it. Let's build a timeship, go back, and ask them why, or we could read what they said about it. Anyhow - it certainly had nowt to do with "evolution". Skepticism sprang back 1000 years later, after 1600, when Galileo looked at Jupiter through his telescope and saw 3 moons circling it, breaking throught the crystal sphere's holding Jupiter in its orbit around earth. So "progress", led to Galileo, who led to the revival in empiricst based skepticism, which led to the Enlightenment, which led to this podcast Ryan made. This is not a virtuous meme circle - it's a virtuous skeptical circle.
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  636. Basically - skepticism is a cultural practice which must be defended and used - otherwise it can die. As it did after 529 for about 1100 years in the West. Skepticism is NOT a meme. Had Ryan said "group think", rather than meme I'd been more impressed. Listtening to this nonsense by Ryan just makes me thing you evolutionary psychologists need to attend History 101, followed by Skepticism 101 - then you'd know enought about the world to ditch this moronic meme idea. 1. Mandatory vaccination - using vaxxes which had no Phase 4 trial and a truncated Phase 3 trial was not a MEME. It was the excise of power by a an elitist, ruling class, led by sociopathic billionaires. Not due to a bad meme they accidentally developed - but due to a lust for power and money.
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  637.  @jacquiollard8784  You gave your kid a smack when he was endangering himself.
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  638.  @Tryunderstandingsarcasm  Did you suffer an attack of dyslexia when your eyes read this? : "media has been calling Trump modern day Hitler for the last 8 years"
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  639. Other people explained to Rachel that she's wrong and should make an apology. But no one ever taught her to apologise; and although she may be an 'actor' apologising is a role she's never played. Her feminism doesn't help her here because it teaches women - that apologising is evil - what the patriarchy want.
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  640. Please tell. Which study found "softening of the bones" from too much vitamin D? Please cite that study. I'd like to read it.
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  641. Despite criticizing Joe, I love his content. I'd love Joe to do a show on what's gone wrong in politics; and can the Swiss model save us?
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  642. Why are 4 year old kids wearing lipstick? Abnormal for both girls and boys. No one is afraid of trans kids or even trans adults. It's the sometimes deranged parents who often made them that way; and the fanatical trans activists who scare us.
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  643.  @dhayes907  But Tom would likely say that most of the left isn't Left. In my experience, socialism is always a competition for a purer pure-land. Never getting there; because there's no pure land to be had.
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  644. More importantly - she did not name the still-liberal sanctuary university she moved to.
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  645. The vocal is awful. Way too histrionic.
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  646. Tories run government as a gaslight operation to con the public. I'm, kind of, happy they are exposed on this; possibly exposed by the some of people the people they hired to gaslight us!
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  647. Tuesday funny.
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  648. Childish wisdom and teacher ignorance.
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  649. ‘Divisive’ rhetoric = essentially defines the gender studies movement. They have, like, 77 genders. In reality there are only two genders: male and female. 2 becoming 77 is "divisive" (by definition). "Transgender must be erradicated from public life" <- when the ideas are used to - trans or groom kids - indoctrinate kids with alternative lifestyles - take women's spaces away from them; including their safe spaces - destroy women's sport by allowing men to compete. - promote 'equity' in public life, such as employing trans people outside their competence, based purely on their trans identity.
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  650. Sulphur - Iodine cycle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur%E2%80%93iodine_cycle
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  651. Heritage can also be a warning to the future.
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  652.  @moose6869  USA uses tariffs against unfair competitors. For example: against China if it refuses to uphold IP laws.
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  653.  @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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  654. Here's Tom Whitehead's career, from LinkedIn 4 Idiots version: Provincial journalist -> national journalist -> government propagandist -> "Communication Professional". Cabinet Office. For me, his previous job as "Head of Strategic Vaccines Communications", Department of Health and Social Care; gives the game away. May 2022 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo. Communication Professional. Cabinet Office Sep 2021 - Apr 2022 · 8 mos. Head of Strategic Vaccines Communications/ Department of Health and Social Care Oct 2020 - Mar 2021 · 6 mos. Head Of Communications. Department for Transport (DfT) Sep 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos. Deputy Head of News. Department for Transport (DfT) Jul 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos. Deputy Head of News. Department for Transport (DfT) Mar 2012 - Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos. Security Editor. Daily Telegraph. Oct 2008 - Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos. Home Affairs Editor. Daily Telegraph. Mar 2005 - Oct 2008 · 3 yrs 8 mos. Home Affairs Correspondent. The Daily Express, London Oct 2001 - Mar 2005 · 3 yrs 6 mos. Senior news reporter. Press Association, London Jan 1997 - Oct 2001 · 4 yrs 10 mos. Crime Correspondent. Nottingham Evening Post Jul 1993 - Jan 1997 · 3 yrs 7 mos. News Reporter. Leader-Times Series, Nelson, Lancs 1990 - 1993. Student. Leeds Metropolitan University. BA Hons 2.1: Economics and Public Policy, Socio-Economics and politics
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  655. Diversity, and Intersectionality are mere weapons deployed by Decolonization. Decolonization itself is just another, long-winded, way of saying 'tear down capitalism'. Given that, it's no wonder diversity must fail. On top of all that multiculturalism - isn't what it says on the tin. Multiculturalism is now subservient to Islam.
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  656. Climate models are junk; because they are untested and not validated. They are literally pseudoscience. It's possible to write a basic greenhouse gas effect model with a climate sensitivity for CO2 anything from 0.01 to 11C. How can we tell which model is right? Do we just take the scientists' word for it? There is another way. We could test and validate the models independently by asking independent scientists to find tests for the models. The scientist interviewed here Prof Tim Palmer is so biased he simply cannot see the problem with his preferred models.
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  657. Bill standing in the middle of the street, wearing no body armour, exchanging gun fire with two normies = daft. He's supposed to be a survivalist, not a suicidalist. I'm sure even gays will find Episode 3 boring too.
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  658.  @claudiaalejandra9974  "gay reactors" more likely to be exploding than thankful.
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  659.  @claudiaalejandra9974  Episodes 3 and 7 were reasons for me to stop watching. In contrast, gay reactors only watch gay romance; nowt else mattes to them; they just brush off boring plots, unrealistic characters (survivalist acting like a suicidalist), ...
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  660. At last, someone explains why the Germans lost so quickly. The alternative to invading Russia was probably to invade Iraq via Egypt, via Libya (perhaps in the early part of 1941?). Britain had granted independence to the Kingdom of Iraq in 1932, though the British retained military bases, local militia in the form of Assyrian Levies, and transit rights for their forces. King Ghazi ruled as a figurehead after King Faisal's death in 1933. On 1 April 1941, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and members of the Golden Square staged a coup d'état and overthrew the government of 'Abd al-Ilah. The Golden Square (or Four Colonels ) were a cabal of pro-Fascist Iraqi Army officers. During the subsequent Anglo-Iraqi War, the United Kingdom (which still maintained air bases in Iraq) invaded Iraq for fear that the Rashid Ali government might cut oil supplies to Western nations because of his links to the Axis powers. Then again, Iraq wasn't on Hitler's menu. Ukraine and Russia were.
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  661. Does she correctly identify the problems? What has she to say on Net Zero, the Climate Scam, the Woke, Trans, and anti-racism scams, ... Does she even recognize them as scams?
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  662. Wow - another Hollywood movie addict. One does not "stumble upon" a cartel coke operation.
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  663. It's actually more of an "impurity spiral". First one alters the employment structure to give leading positions to ideologues. For example, by making equity a criteria for employment. Next one finds that only liars, and those with a weird sense of "truth" can get these jobs. Because only such people believe that black is white, men are women, ... Finally, the psychopaths, now in power, alter the state even more so, to solidify their power.
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  664. 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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  665.  @jarretta2656  It's been in British tap water all my life (I'm 71)
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  666.  @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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  667. You feel doomed because you believe lies media tell you. There are no climate problems to solve. People in charge can't fix imaginary problems.
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  668. German women-only trains will likely be used only by "transwomen". Real women are more likely to buy a car.
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  669. The Arctic is not melting. There is as more ice there today than 2 decades ago. Doomsday nihilists are as incompetent as you've always been.
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  670. The latin phrase: 'deus ex machina': in Greek and Roman drama, refers to a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation. More generally, in all narrative, it refers to an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event, ..., introduced unexpectedly in the story to resolve a situation or untangle a plot in a seemingly magical way. The problem with using such devices in your story-telling is one's audience are likely to lose their suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief: is the intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something unreal or impossible in reality, such as a work of speculative fiction (often sci-fi, fantasy and horror), in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment. The importance of suspension of disbelief in drama, and the dangers of deus ex machina have been written about for over 2300 years. But I guess the Rings of Power showrunners missed that key lesson in writing school.
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  671. Hoggan's English edition (350 pages) has few footnotes but the original German edition is 930 pages; and has all the footnotes. PS: Out of curiosity I found this on the web. I don't have a copy.
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  672. ‘We could go carbon free tomorrow, but we wouldn’t have an economy' argues Ross Clark <- I censored my reply because I know they'll just report me. Climate loonies don't debate. Remewable energy is more expenseive. Our government's attempt to cut us off from fossil fuels is causing all the problems.
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  673. We already had CTT - Critical Thinking Theory. It was formulated in the European Enlightenment - over 200 years ago. You know - the same ideas which made the US Revolution and your constitution. The problem is the Left, Greens, and Liberals have been destroying this Enlightenment heritage of critical thinking for the past 50 years while Conservatives slept.
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  674. Politics of climate change will kill the left. Maybe the current right too. Hopefully it will create a real culture war between those of us who are critical and aware (think for ourselves), and those who "trust experts". I notice the trend is those who "trust experts" are losing, ...
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  675. Thanks Kate for fighting back and fighting for yourself. You're a hero to me.
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  676. To be more precise: woke culture and politics are the practical aspects of how Marxists take over society. Violent revolution is just the beginning - the takeover of the state. But the state is NOT society. Communism (& "utopia") haven't arrived until society has been re-engineered. Woke is the practical means by which this is done.
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  677.  @PiOfficial  There's no benefit to me reading you BS and lies.
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  678. The Enlightenment abolished slavery - not Christianity.
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  679.  @aristocraticrebel  The Enlightenment was not any kind of Christianity.
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  680.  @aristocraticrebel  "secularizing Christian slave morality" <- I recognize no such project among Enlightenment thinkers. There were Enlightenment projects to: 1. overthrow Christian Natural Law beliefs (by showing they were evidentially wrong) 2. imagine societies ruled by competence, not aristocrats. 3. end intolerance (such as the 30 Years War - which killed 8 million people in a war of religious intolerance) 4. advance learning. Which of those projects (1 - 4) did you think were bad?
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  681. But the Enlightenment was a neo-Christian movement. In particular Enlightenment's universalism - on which rested human rights, free-speech, universal enfranchisement (to vote). Universalism began as a Christian idea. The Enlightenment inherited it.
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  682. The BLM / 'Critical Race Theory' idea that ONLY black people suffer racism, and ONLY white people cause it has taken over much of the black identity movement. That is the basis for Dianne Abbott's error.
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  683. Sociopaths don't only keep eye contact for an unnervingly long time. They don't blink much either. Because they can't get embarassed, as they don't emphasize with us & don't ken morality. "Sociopath stare isn't always done by sociopaths" <- And some who stare aren't always sociopaths. Alone, none of sociopath finger-prints mean much. It's when you see them all together in one person you need to run a mile.
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  684. The climate scam depends on simple models of a greenhouse gas effect made from 1967 onward. None of those models are validated against reality. Tom Shula debunks it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk Shula's criticism is simpler that Nahle's.
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  685. "Climate scam", is better; a grift can actually be based on an element of truth.
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  686. Starmer is more authoritarian, more Stalinist than Corbyn. Corbyn had far more Trotskyism in him.
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  687. They all seem to be on the FBI payroll.
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  688. Pseudoscience = scientific ideas which aren't based on good empirical evidence; but which have fooled scientists. For example: Lysenkoism, Linear No-Threshold, ... Both Lysenkoism and Linear No-Threshold got massive support from the establishment. I would not class Mesmerism as Pseudoscience because no scientists, nor establishment ever supported it. Likewise for homeopathy; who ever supported that?
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  689. You mean 'Donstructive Dismissal'?
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  690. At his best - when on psychology. At his worse when using Religion and meta-theory metaphors to "explain" society.
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  691. Some of the loony ones (XR, Just Stop Oil) do "care about the climate". Like Red Guards cared about communism in China, and trans-teens care about their gender identity. Yes - the climate change issue was ALWAYS a pretext for Net Zero. They literally do want to end fossil fuel use. All the climate activists want that.
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  692.  @SailingSoWhat  In the same way that hiring security guards, installing CCTV and alarms, putting hidden tracking IDs on wares, making your building burglar proof - all just makes thieves steal more carefully?
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  693.  @SailingSoWhat  Q: Why do they make up fake data? A: I don't think they plan to. I - more often than not - something goes wrong with the real data. For example, they plan to survey 50% male and 50% female - but the actual survey doesn't have enough of one sex. or the interviewees don't answer one question sensibly. By the time you find your data is unusable - they paper is almost ready for publication and it's either publish - or lose your paper - lose your grant, and maybe lose your PhD. So in policing this data collection by demanding they record the actual results at the time of collection - one plans to stop this retroactive data fiddling - which is so seductive. LOL - the researchers who wrote that 2016 paper I talked about previously claimed that their (bad) data was independent of their actual argument made in the paper - so - despite the obviously wrong data their paper should NOT be retracted! Maybe other forgers feel that way?
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  694.  @emberarashi1987  Four transing kids books, sold by Target: -- Bye Bye, Binary, by Eric Geron (Board book) -- The Pronoun Book, by Chris Ayala-Kronos (Board Book) -- What Are Your Words?, by Katherine Locke -- "The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish", by Lil Miss Hot Mess
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  695. With the trans, we see: a. victim mentality and persecution complex. For example, the belief there are many "Fascists" in the USA working towards a trans "genocide". A belief inflamed by the "liberal" media for political purposes. b. entitlement. For example: 1. their belief that they have "rights" society denies them. Such as a right to trans (verb) kids who are "born in the wrong body". They'd go so far as to confiscate kids from parents to do this. 2. Audrey Hale seems to have believed there was some alternative trans life she missed out on. Better, alternative histories - stolen from them by an oppressive normie establishment - is a theme with the woke. c. they are incomprehensible to the rest of us. d. alienated from normality. They can only talk about their predicament with fellow fanatics. e. sense of specialness. Consider: What other people and movements share some of these characteristics above, and their grand ressentiment? Are any of those others violent too?
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  696. The butterfly effect is a hypothesis, or artifact in a model. It's not a real thing. Prove me wrong? Just cite empirical research which shows a butterfly effect - just show me the evidence.
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  697. "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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  698. For me, a strong argument, is one which rests on foundations, or first principles of communication. Deal with the core issue. This forces me to deal with the opponents argument. I must convince my oppoents they are wrong by understanding them, steel-manning them, and then explaining to them why their argument is wrong. Ideally I should reframe their argument in terms which undercut it. I will probably have to understand my opponents motivations as well. So that I can explain to them how and why their original arguments undercut their inner, or core, objectives.
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  699. Re: Terror Management Theory. It's a fact that much political activism today makes either existential threats against us or accuses us of wanton killing. For example: 1. Climate. At the last COP, politicos (I think Hilary Clinton) invoked 'the planet is burning' meme. The climate debate is framed to be both threat to our existence and an accusation that we're wantonly killing. 2. The trans issue. When parents were required to give permission for the kids to go ahead with medical procedures they were told their kids would kill themselves unless the trans procedures were allowed. In fact the opposite is true. Suicide rates are more prevalent after a person undergoes medical procedures to trans their gender. 3. BLM. The whole thing was about cops killing black men. In fact, today in the USA: cops are more likely to kill whites than blacks, and other black men are a far greater danger to most black men than any other section of society. 4. Palestine. 'Gaza genocide', says it all. Once one campaign crossed into making unverified existential threats, they all want to do it. As if they can't be taken seriously unless they do.
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  700.  @desuvult15  Apart from the abortion argument none of these are really existential threats. I never heard of the Kalergi Plan up till now, and I'm fairly certain the vast majority of critics of immigration aren't invoking it. I think criticism of immigration is criticism of multiculturalism and equity - people are tired of senseless anti-Westernism. To me, your criticism goes along the lines : "they want to defend themselves so they're clearly planning all out nuclear war.". You're using a straw man. I think critics of immigration are saying something beyond what I hear them say, too. For example, the critics are often criticising immigration of anti-Western people - such as Islamic extremists. Critics aren't worried so much about immigration of Chinese people, from, say Hong Kong. I certainly don't think "these are justified", but nor do I think elites are justified in importing vast numbers of young men - who hate Western culture - into Britain.
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  701. One cannot expect evidence to be released yet. The murderer may have had accomplices. The manifesto should be eventually released.
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  702. Humanity is not at risk of extinction. Because carbon emissions are NOT harmful, there is no greenhouse effect, back-radiative forcing is a lie, and the climate crisis is hyperbole, or lies (if you prefer). Q: How do I know that? A: The notion that carbon emissions, CO2, and methane are 'harmful' is based on the idea that they are greenhouse gases which warm earth by means of back-radiation, AKA radiative forcing. So the eco-extremists tell us this 'heat', or man-made warming will kill us one way or another. The radiative forcing idea itself depends on the idea that earth's surface is predominantly cooled by emitting (infrared) heat. For example, the IPCC say that 95% of earth's surface cooling is radiative, the other 5% of cooling is conduction/convection. But that IPCC claim is a lie. In reality: 0.4% of earth's cooling is due to radiation cooling, and 99.6% of cooling is conduction/convection. Were earth predominantly cooled by conduction/convection. as it is, the back-radiative warming of earth ('global warming' and 'climate change') vanishes. Evidence: See Tom Shula Interview (recommended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk White paper: https://tomn.substack.com/api/v1/file/e69c101b-e8df-4067-aae3-010608fbfbff.pdf
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  703. A better way to understand woke is as the results of dark triad behaviors. As explained by Jon Uhler here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgoIx7vPTs This isn't to say that all, or even most, wokes are dark triad types. No they're not. It's more the case that woke is engineered by dark triad types and many innocents (especially young ones) fall for their gaslighting.
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  704. Richard Betts is owned by the global elite. He's just a modeler who writes models to fulfil the global elite's Malthusian agenda.
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  705. 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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  706. 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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  707. Hallam is a political extremist. Trigger talk about, or to, extremists. That's the trigger in their name. ESG made extremism into a norm; not Trigger.
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  708. I could not believe the 8% score. I had to check it for myself. But, yeh, it was 8%. Doesn't it make more sense to spend our time talking about good shows? There's likely any number of bad things one can say about badly written tales. Boring.
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  709. Douglas Murray is slightly erroneous here. Mathematics is NOT the Western way of knowing; empiricist reason is. Much maths has little to do with the real world (with empiricism); for example n-spaces, where n > 3, are fabulous creations but reality shows the world we live in is a 3D space. PS: 'fabulous' as in fantasy, not as in fab, cool, good, ...
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  710. If your problem has a typo - the issue is with the person who set the problem. At the time they set the problem they should've written out the solution too (their 'marking sheet'); at which point they should've discovered their typo.
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  711. Ron DeSantis
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  712. I think TRIGGERnometry is too easy on its interviewees.
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  713. "He's been banned from all social media platforms" <- Well done. Does he have a friend? My flatmate also wants to meet a sane person. On reflection, having me him, he's batshit crazy; and phobic of way too much. Aren't Twitter supposed to help people like that?
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  714. Why is Ryan talking about a "Darwinistic pressure" to spread bad ideas? There's no such thing. The very notion of a meme is the most successful "meme".
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  715. The Sun say the perp is a male presenter, at the BBC, on a six figure salary (£100k to < £1 million). That's nearly everyone except Lineker (who's earning seven [not six] figures). The victim is female. Another source said it was a "news anchor".
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  716. 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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  717. I thought "how the left lost its mind" would be about climate hysteria, woke, DEI, "transkids", St George Floyd, and many of the other gaslights they've been trying to fry our minds and consciences with. But Russia-Gate? That's not really a thing outside the USA.
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  718. Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger - all dissident classical liberals. The kinds of people who, you'd expect to support free-speech and civil society. Styx implies The Problem is opposition to free-speech. I think the real problem is deeper - the disintegration of civil society, and attempted take-over of society by Leftist-run non-profits. These activist NGOs are not really part of civil society because many of them seem to reject freedom and free-association; which are values civil society is founded on. Or, if they're not actively against civil society, they seem to be doing their best to destroy it by accident. Leftist run NGOs think Corporates have too much power and influence in society, and don't play by the rules. Their counter-play? :- play dirty too. This is a bad recipe for civil society, in that it encourages only EVIL people to participate. If you're not EVIL, and not pwned by them, they will chew you up, cancel you, and make life hell. Most political parties were already, widely infected by this Machiavellianism. We need more free association and less tribalism. Machiavellianism leads to tribalism. It can lead nowhere else. My, Leftist, take on this is: Corporates are now so powerful that they want to be the ONLY influence on policy. Corporates fund most campaigns and NGOs. ESG, is, for example, a Corporate Plan. It seems most Leftist activists don't even know they're ultimately funded by the same Corporate elite who run Wall Street. Corporates are, famously, under-handed in their ways (Machiavelli - without ethics), so it's no surprise they fund Machiavellian antics. Yet this Corporate funding of activists destroys civil society - because traditional civil society - which doest NOT have policy and campaign agendas directly driven by Corporates - is in the way - like cars on a motorway the corporate Tanks want to drive down.
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  719. These 7 tells are each logical fallacies. There are surely more logical fallacies someone in thrall to cognitive dissonance can show which reveal their tutelage to it? There are well over a hundred known logical fallacies. The question I want answered is: which logical fallacies one can fall into that are not a nefarious way to hide our cognitive dissonance?
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  720. NO such thing as theoretical physics. That's just another term for a branch of maths. The only real physics is real physics, not theoretical ...
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  721. They can't see that their projections (about you) are projections and are triggered by mindless groupthink. They think they understand you better than you understand yourself. This groupthink, or bubble, she's in (criticl race theory, queer theory, ...) is itself a product of a bullying culture she's put herself into. A kind of Maoism. Now she wants to force her Maoist groupthink onto us; because it's become her worldview.
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  722. Female-identifying-men FIMs? We already have words for them: Autogynephilic men, or Transvestite, or Female impersonator.
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  723. Yes.
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  724. As soon as the kid answered "so much of the privilege I have ..." - a BS-alarm goes off in my head, presumably triggered by that CSJ-keyword: "privilege". You basically know that what you're going to hear is The Narrative. It's boring, and cringe, having to sit through The Narrative. Give me a Bible-thumping preacher instead. Oh no!, that's actually what we have isn't it? Bible-thumping nonsense for the 21st century.
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  725. Funny thing about the "science" of man-made climate change: everyone must believe in it otherwise you're a conspiracy theorist, a fascist or denier. Yet I haven't met a single believer who's able to explain this "science" to another person. I seems to me: every consensus scientist believes in something they can't explain!
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  726. It's debatable whether Muhammad ever existed. We have no good evidence for him. He certainly didn't live in Mecca at the end of the 6th century because Mecca didn't come into existence until a century later. The first documented mention of Mecca was 740.
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  727. Hilarious manipulation. I question the existence of neutrinos. Someone calls me out, and I reply. The callout is highlighted by Sabine, but my reply is trashed into the waste. Here's my reply again. What evidence is there for neutrinos? What experiments / observations show them? How many validation experiments/observations do physicists believe are needed for us to accept these ghostly "particles". What would be a suitable falsification experiment / observation which will convince Sabine that neutrinos are fictional?
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  728. No such thing as - born in the wrong body - more than two genders Just about every idea originating from social justice is a gaslight. Theses ideas confound and befuddle us. They enable sociopaths to find niches for themselves as influencers, bosses, even politicians. How? Because only psychopaths and sociopaths can fit themselves comfortably into a world run on the basis of psychopathic ethics.
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  729. Sad times for the past 12 years with a Tory government trying to destroy Britain. Labour are no better.
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  730. As well as Putin's fake black activists in Moscow, I can attest to his fake anti-nuclear activists who were ONLY ever active against Ukrainian nuclear power plants and, somehow, never had a bad word to say for Russian or Chinese NPPs.
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  731. Trump won because he understood why Clinton first won: "The economy stupid" 1. White working class voters in USA are not the Democrats' "group" 2. US Democrats are not Liberal. They are woke moral blackmailers. 3. US Democrats are not Progressive. Their policies are de-industrial, anti-wealth; even anti-human.
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  732. We should be singing hymns to carbon. It's the basic building block of all life. Instead eco-fascists demonize it as planet destroying. Are they evil and mad, or just doing it for money? Atmospheric carbon is good. It's plant food. There's not enough of it. More CO2 in the atmosphere causes world-wide greening, especially in arid areas. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth There's so little CO2 in our atmosphere because plants and algae sequestered it away for billions of years, into limestone and fossil fuel. Atmospheric carbon is now dangerously low. If it falls to 150ppm life on earth stops because plants die with so little. It fell to only 180ppm in the last glaciation. (ice age) Money <- Yep. My conclusion too.
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  733. LGBTQ+ is a religion now? There are gay people who disagree with Pride. So why can't non gays also dissent?
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  734. The Western 17th century revival of Skepticism founded itself on empiricism. In contrast the modern woke-postmodernist, revival of Skepticism does the opposite - founds itself on social constructivism. Can we really still talk about grand narratives? To me, one concedes too much to pomo by accepting their labels and categories. Social constructivism, EDI, ESG, woke? Aren't they the real grand narratives today? - one can hardly make a living today without accepting their dogmas.
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  735. 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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  736. From the left - all men are regarded as "right wing" unless they can be categorized as some victim group. For example had Joe been black, gay, Muslim, trans, blah, he'd be classed by them as "left wing".
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  737.  @rw7276  People lack awareness. Q: Why? A: Could it be that instead of teaching civics and basic politics - like pathocracy - our unis are teaching youth to follow the idiot woke religion?
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  738. "Net Zero is a Utopian Fantasy" <- Net Zero is distopian and it's not a fantasy; it's evil government policy.
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  739. No. I think we still owe our American friends; since there's no obligation on us to listen to Ellen; but no one can escape Megan-harry
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  740. Disney is not pushing "a" political ideology. It's pushing a set of political ideologies.
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  741. Were they ever journalists? I put it to you: they were always spooks. That would explain why they behave like spooks. Just because they have journalist in their job title doesn't mean they're journalists.
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  742. 20 years ago, Germany was the 3rd most powerful economy behind USA and Japan. Today it's economy is destroyed. They did this using an energy policy called Energiewende. Energiewende is pussy compared to Labour's energy policy - hard-core, anti-industry, net zero.
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  743. Progressives do seem blind to authoritarianism; but proggies aren't all the left.
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  744.  @JosseNoy  Junk book. Entertaining - but not even philosophy; and certainly not history. Anti-history, if anything.
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  745. Have you read the Policy 2025 document? In comparison with what other policies are they "radical" Please cite the poll or survey you read to conclude that "most Americans do not want them" Also: How do you know that: "His Project 2025 pitch to you was incredibly deceptive". Did you have a spy listening in to the pitch?
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  746. Who does the FBI's job in UK? Is it MI5?
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  747. The new, woke, führer.
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  748. Don't call Eddie Izzard a woman. Do NOT even call him transsexual or a transwoman. You may call him transgender if you must. Prefer 'fake woman'.
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  749. Does Rachel even like olde movies - like original Snow White? Seems so! Well at least she can learn.
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  750. I don't personally don't mind changes to the lore by writers. It's their bad changes and bad writing I can't stand. 2nd point: they should also add to the original, not subtract. Subtractive, incompetent storytelling - is obviously going to be bad. Production houses pick up on stories because the stories worked. Why are producers picking writers, with their own "vision", who hate stories which worked?
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  751. That's never going to happen - not without the elites being entirely replaced.
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  752. Is Wolf part of this? Her "climate crisis" book seems to have encouraged many lefties to behave as obnoxious a-holes - "spewing out" accusations of fascist, climate denier, racist with machine gun rapidity. It's as if the index of one's Leftism today is marked by how many such accusations, and how few rational arguments one is able to generate. PS: "spewing out" - I appreciate the hypocrisy here. It's intentional. It's their phrase.
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  753. a. Jordan Peterson - "Why Postmodernists Reject Logic & Evidence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTBOU77czpY b. JP: "Pomo came about when Marxism was no longer credible. But "If you were a French intellectual you had to have a lot of corpses piled at your feet before you were willing to accept that you were wrong." The piled up corpses of failed communism can be ignored when one is able to legitimately reject objective truth. So postmodernism arrived just in time. The perfect Leftwing Zeitgeist legitimised epistemic relativism. Further, since pomo, the Left tripled their excuses for ignoring objective reality. They now have Paulo Friere, and standpoint theory to convince themselves "my reality" is more legitimate than objective reality. Academia has never been this leftwing; and has never embraced epistemic relativism with such fervour. Those two are not coincidental. One explains the other.
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  754. Thanks. With Timothy Snyder's 'Black Earth', this gave me the best understanding of why WW2 was even more barbaric than WW1. I look back on those Dinner table conversations, where the Oxford History grad, 1st class Hons, would tell me that Hitler "must've been mad", because nothing else made sense. I knew that was wrong (because Hitler was clearly 'sane', in a similar way to how fanatics and psychopaths are sane) but I didn't have a compelling argument why Hitler was sane. Now I do.
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  755. The existence of nuclear weapons is NOT an existential threat to humanity; as Chomsky thinks. Which is not to say, I think one of the 10, or so, nuke powers should use one again. Fossil fuel companies are NOT destroying life on earth. More carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere is good for life. CO2 is plant food. It's already led a blooming over earth (15% greening over the whole earth). Why is Chomsky such a serial doom-monger? What is this disease coming from academia which hates humanity and The West? Were I able to talk to him: I'd convince him, with actual evidence, that humanity has bright future. Isn't it weird how he quotes the US state for evidence to support his doom-mongering - while cursing them under his breath? Tell Chomsky to read Pinker, or some other optimist. Pessimism corrodes one's soul to acid. It's an unhealthy mental state. Pessimism never leaves to good solutions. The interviewer did a reasonable job here of holding this ancient lefty to account, but somehow forgot to question his blind pessimism.
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  756. I'm actually thinking of rejoining Twitter - having been banned for life by US spooks (I think).
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  757. Victim mongering is worse addition! Seem like you went from one to the other. Grow-up, take control of your life.
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  758. Some people think woke is a new version of Marxism with cultural identity appendages. <- reality is the other way around: woke is a new version of identity with Marxist political appendages. Those Marxist political appendages being: commissars, cancellation, authoritarianism, struggle sessions, ...
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  759. Authoritarian liberals?
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  760. I still think trans is very social contructivist. The notion that "you can force other people to see you the way you want them to" - seems ultra-social contructivist to me. It's clearly objectively false : even if you manage to force people to kow tow and prostrate before you, and to outwardly "respect you" - you still cannot stop them resenting you for it. The trans demand to be called by their pronouns is a demand we buy into their social constructivism. To buy into their social constructivism is to call our own world a kind of matrix - the matrix of "cis-heteronormativity" the trans think they've escaped from but which they think we're still trapped in. The Matrix was directed by a pair of trans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis So it seems to fitting metaphor to describe how they think the world is.
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  761. McAfee is the 3rd Epsteined by deep state recently. Jeffrey Epstein - Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City, USA Jean Luc Brunel - La Sante Prison, Paris, France John McAfee - Barcelona, Spain PS 2: Netflix have a documentary on McAfee due out soon: "Running With the Devil"
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  762. You can overdose on vitamin D; but to overdose - you need to take ten times what you're currently taking for several months. 10000 vitamin D daily is safe.
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  763.  @michaelgaskell7408  Relatively speaking: the Amazon if unpopulated. So not full of "henchmen".
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  764. The biggest problem with journalists is not so much their lying, it's their obession with only presenting one side of a story. COVID lockdowns were a consequence of this.
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  765. Compatibilism. Soft determinism (or compatibilism) is the position or view that causal determinism is true, but we still act as free, morally responsible agents when, in the absence of external constraints, our actions are caused by our desires.
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  766. For me, the core problem with the left is it's rejection of objective facts and objective truth and it's embrace of "lived experience" as an episteme. The Left's turn woke is a symptom of it's sloppy epistemology; not the actual bug making it ill.
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  767. @@grayelentrenadorpokemon3245 But, ... - why pick those two things rather than two others? - what about all the ways the two things complement each other? Dialectical materialism gives the thinker endless degrees of freedom to apply their subjective bias to arrive at, a conclusion - they probably already had in mind - before the philosophizing. The capitalist and the working class both want better things. They also agree with each other.
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  768. @@grayelentrenadorpokemon3245 Can you see how people looking for ideas which work may want to ignore dialectical materialism? I've noticed that many of the worst ideas in history were arrived at speculatively, or by elaborating on already established speculative ideas. So I have both a deep fear and abiding hatred of speculation.
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  769.  @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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  770.  @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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  771.  @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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  772.  @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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  773.  @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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  774.  @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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  775. Nothing stops woke inventing some new mind-fuck and declaring it the latest woke or "progressive" idea.
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  776. Chris Williamson give a "precise and accurate summary of how the West has declined": @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqOY04NzaI#t=2520
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  777. James discovered there wasn't an "independent left" for his ideas. Why not? Because today's left wing ideas are based on notions such as "systematic racism". But that is an abstraction. When we look into it we find it's based on a whole series of other abstractions. Today's left wing ideas are a network of abstractions in our heads, each supporting other abstractions: an empire of fiction. Knock one of these abstractions down (such as 'transwomen are women', or 'living in the wrong body' and the empire of abstractions itself is at risk. James takes a sledge hammer to much of the crumbling abstract concoction of modern leftism. There's no independent left because the left keeps its coherrence by intellectual bullying. Critique one Left idea and they label you as a Fascist. Perhaps they know that their empire of abstractions stands or falls in total? All or nothing. "The Left is either delusional or they're lying" <- It's more the case they can't allow themselves to criticise any aspect of the dogma (this 'empire of fiction'). They are both afraid of thinking for themselves, and afraid of being outed as Fascists, Racist, Climate deniers, ... blah blah. The more anti-Enlightenment the left become, the more they sink into the quicksand.
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  778. "we will embed four Principles for Change across all our work – diversity, connectivity, resilience, and engagement – and these principles are reflected in our allocations." Annually: £207m = Arts and Humanities Research Council £362m = Economic and Social Research Council However - since 'diversity' is now core to EVERY research grant - it's not unfeasible that any of the remaining £8m billion might go to a project promoting diversity.
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  779. There is no significant greenhouse effect in earth's climate system. The confusion over the GHE began with the IPCC and their energy balance diagrams. The IPCC claim earth's surface cooling is: ______________________ W/m² . . % Infrared radiation . . . . . . 398.2 . . 79 Conduction/convection 18.4 . . . . 4 Latent heat . . . . . . . . . . . 86.4 . . . 17 IPCC say 79% of cooling at the surface is due to emission of infrared radiation and 21% due to conduction, convection, and water latent heat. The IPCC told a bold lie. In reality, earth's surface cooling is no more than 0.4% due to radiation. Earth's surface overwhelmingly cools by conduction and convection. Tom Shula explans this, and explains how the behaviour of the Pirani gauge means there can be NO meaningful role for radiation cooling the surface, nor lower atmosphere (troposphere and tropopause). Tom Shula's: explantation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk
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  780.  @enderwiggin1113  The IPCC numbers are senseless and evidence free - in fact - contradicted by what we learn about how the Pirani gauge works. Yet you're complaining about me not substracting back-radiation (which is 99% fictional). Did you ever complain to the IPCC about them making their numbers up off the top of their heads?
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  781.  @enderwiggin1113  Please source the detailed breakdown then, with a citation. For: - radiation - conduction/convection - latent heat transport too (if you want) According to NASA GISS, average OLR = 398 W/m². Their cooling numbers: 398.2 W/m² - infrared radiation 86.4 W/m² - latent heat (of water) 18.4 W/m² - 'thermals' (conduction and convection?) They also say: 340.3 W/m² - back-radiaton, therefore 57.9 W/m² - net radiative cooling But those figures are disputed by me, and many other people. The are armchair physics. Modelled numbers with no emprical validation. 35 years of 'climate crisis'; costing us several $ trillions so far. Complete disinterest in validating those numbers shows the people behind them are fraudsters.
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  782.  @enderwiggin1113  You are cheating by giving a net number. Because you already did a lot a modelling trickery and stage magic to get your the that 30% number. 398.2 W/m² - infrared OLR (radiation) - 340.3 W/m² - back-radiaton, therefore 57.9 W/m² - net radiative cooling
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  783.  @enderwiggin1113  Watch out! Cavemen are on the prowl today.
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  784.  @enderwiggin1113  The Stefan Boltzmann Law can be misinterpreted in many ways. It's an empirical fact that at 1 amosphere pressure and ~ 65C, the sensor in the Pirani gauge looses 250 times more energy via conduction and convenction (of air) , ~100mW campared with with its radiative losses (0.4mW). You can do that experiment with a Pirani gauge yourself. You better do so - as you are in reality denial, and you'll only believe it if you see it for yourself.
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  785.  @enderwiggin1113  No Nobel prize for Tom Shula. The Nobel committee only give the prize to establishment arse-lickers.
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  786.  @enderwiggin1113  "What you have checked yourself?" <- Good point. Everything climate alarmists tell me about the climate is lie built on lie, model built on model. All of it carefully tuned to give the maximum catastrophe effect. None of their countless projections of doom and apocalypse ever materialize. That sounds like fraud to me. In contrast, I'll give Tom Shula the benefit of the doubt, for now. I'm eager to hear what more established skeptics have to say; such as Curry, Lindzen, Happer, Nikolov, Zeller, Stallinga, Soon, Connollys, Rex Fleming, Yong Zhong, Scafetta, ... If any proper scientists raise an issue I'll consider that.
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  787.  @enderwiggin1113  Because your argument contradicting facts are worth nothing. The Pirani gauge is a scientific instrument meeting precise standards. Your "what about the backradiation from ..." fails because the gauge itself does not care about back-radiation. When you get a sensor you use the sensor - you do not attack another sensor to the sensor - as you think we should do.
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  788.  @enderwiggin1113  I suggest you study how the Pirani gauge works to understand it. If you have a better gauge - as you seem to think you have - write a patent - or, if you want to be nice, send a letter or paper to the people who make these gauges.
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  789. You do not use it by trying to measure radiative loss by the enclosure. One measures raiative loss by the sensor - because - it is a sensor.
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  790.  @enderwiggin1113  But is wrong. And scientists in the early twentieth century never bothered with a greenhouse gas effect. That did not begin until the cult began within atmorpheric modellers.
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  791.  @enderwiggin1113  Red herring. You keep adding red herrings. If Dines 1917 used a Pirani gauge, tell us. I am only talking about Pirani gauge. Because it is a simple thing, which works in a known way. If you can explain the behaviour of the Pirani gauge at 1 atmosphere without it cooling overwhelmingly due to conduction and convection - then explain away.
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  792.  @enderwiggin1113  Logic, theory, and whatabouts do not prove emprical facts wrong. You keep ingnoring the fact that the Pirani gauge is a simple instrument, and it's operation falsifies the 'climate crisis' by showing the greenhouse effect is insignificant as the amount of real radiation was overestimated 250 times over.
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  793. Thanks for all the replies below. I've tried to improve my refutation above. Please disagree with that instead.
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  794.  @enderwiggin1113  Why the IPCC subtract back-radiation - so will I.
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  795.  @enderwiggin1113  0.4% due to radiation is shown by the Pirani gauge. The Stefan-Boltzmann Law cannot by applied to earth's surface - as the Law was derived by measuring cooling of bodies in a vacuum but earth's surface is bathed in an atmosphere. Just a Sabine ignored convection and conduction above - so did the IPCC - and so do you (it seems).
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  796. An Orban or three.
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  797. "I Was Wrong About Cancel Culture - Why I Changed My Mind" <- I have a massive issue trusting anyone who once believed in cancel culture or censorship, or routiely acquiesced to it. 1. We can actually be hurt by cancel culture. 2. So we should take basic precautions against them. 3. While, at the same time, fighting them Don't go from one extreme to the other - from acquiesced with it - to having no fear of it. "We can only be hurt by cancel culture if we consent to it" <- that's not actually true. I know lots of people who've been significantly hurt by it by ignoring it. Unfortunely - all of us must take basic precautions - such as controlling our language.
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  798. Keen is idiotic on climate change, and fanatical too - like many other leftwing climate mongers. The climate threats we face all relate to bad things which can happen if average climates get colder - which is likely - because we're in a relatively warm phase right now. So we need to guard against cooling - NO climate engineering can stop cooling. Keen is just another globalists leftwing scaremonger. Keen lierally said the climate in the past 10000 years has oscillated between +0.5C to -0.5C - which is a lie. An irresponsible lie. The oscillations are much greater than that. The sun is ultimately responsible for such climate cycles. We are NOT destroying a stable climate. No such climate has ever existed. Most of the climate of the last half million years has been bitter Ice Age. The doom-mongering warming predicted by climate mongers such as Keen is impossible. He reels of lie after lie. Conceited irresponsible doommongers such as keen disgust me. People such as him gave us the COVID disaster. It began with the Chinese Communist Party. Everyone copied their idiotic lockdown - on the advice of "academic experts" such as Keen.
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  799. When their hair is pink, do they even think? When their hair is green, they're sure to be mean.
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  800. Niall Ferguson is an establishment zombie mindlessly repeating what the establishment press tell us. The establishment press agenda is clear: panic and gaslight the public. Whether this be over climate 'crisis', COVID-19, vaccination, transgenderism, 'systematic' white racism, the strategy the fake news media follow is unstinting. Q: Why do they do it? A: Just over a decade ago world economies blew up in the Global Financial Crash, GFC. Many young people seemed to be becoming anti-capitalists. Capitalists panicked. Some of Capitalists, such as asset managers: Blackrock, Vanguard (& others), who control much of the world's capital, created Environmental Social and Governance, ESG, criteria for the capital they managed. Satisfied protestors seem to have backed off. The Left tell us that the issue is no longer Capitalism. The problem(s) today are: whites, transphobes, 'environmental criminals', fossil fuels, anti-vaxxers, Brexiteers, ... In a nutshell, panicking and gaslighting the public keeps the heat off them and on imaginary enemies such as J.K. Rowling, Trump, 6-Jan, me, ... Ferguson is their circus clown - here to distract you. The mechanism which controls agenda setting is ESG = Environmental Social and Governance. The more a media company panics us over climate change - the more activists they employ to alarm us = the higher their ESG rating = the more investment friendly they are = the smaller target they are for the woke Left to criticise.
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  801. Will you put in a word for - Adorno's skill of never listening to the music he criticised, or - Guattari's skill of pseudophilosophizing by inventing words and pretending they have meaning, which equates to knowing next to nowt about the philososphical heritage he criticised; or - Horkheimer's skill at pretending people could be critical of ideas they have no understanding of, by the mere trick of calling themselves "critical theorists" & making the rest up, - etc.?
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  802. You're still allowed to criticise people - on single points. You should not be spending entire episodes, & even multiple episodes, of The Quartering criticising your allies on slight misjudgements they made.
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  803. Had drag queens been present at the pub doing Drag Queen Story Hour with kids - would Albia still be against the protest? Ask Albie: "Do you think it's possible that the event was cancelled due to the protest?"
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  804. 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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  805. This isn't the first time Konstantin and Francis have been conned. They are so naive it's funny. Funnier than their jokes.
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  806. What is 'replacement theory'? It's the idea that there's a plan (AKA 'conspiracy') to replace Western White populations with non-white populations by importing non-Whites (immigration) and by bullying Whites into childlessness (via: feminism, climate hysteria, trans-philia, White guilt, and atheism). PS: In media and Dem language - every plan which, and every analysis, which some other group think, or speculate on, is called is a 'conspiracy theory'. There are basically 2 groups of ideas in Dem minds: their ideas and 'conspiracy theories'.
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  807. " consistently appearing on the American Library Association’s list of frequently challenged books" <- I looked for Animal Farm on ALA's list of challenged books but could not find it in the top 100 books challenged for the past 30 years. So what definition of "frequently" are you using here? Is it the definition where Lefties make stuff up on demand?
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  808. Is the elf with a crew cut Sauron?
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  809. I doubt Dylan was ever a gay man. Always hetero IMHO.
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  810. MONKEY BRANCH - to leave one relationship and start another one has already lined up.
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  811. Men do the same thing with their jobs.
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  812. "Using every single brain cell they have to lie to your face". Because they cannot admit to reality as it flies in the face of their woke ideology - that we can all be what we want to be. No - I can be a woman as much as I can be a horse, or a Martian - which is to say: not at all.
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  813.  @hyhhy  I doubt that. Shame. Maybe you're right? I distrust lefties and anti-Americans, due to all the lies they told me in the past.
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  814. I'd say Fascism has always been right wing AND left wing. For example, Hilter was the 51st member of the NAZI Party (then called The German Workers' Party (DAP)), which he joined in 1919. At the time, Hitler was still in the German army, working for military inteligence with a brief to monitor the activities of the left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Adolf_Hitler#Army_intelligence_agent
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  815. If these were aliens they'd begun by showing their DNA and biochemical evidence - had they any.
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  816. Climate change did not cause the fire - as BBC tell us - climate mitigation - more power lines - triggered the fire.
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  817. "woke" seems to have become a dirty word. The "left" no longer try to defend it, eulogize it, nor even tell us it never existed as a thing in recent years, and its critics cannot "define it". SJWs now concede woke was their agenda, its meaning synonymous with SJW politics which are "diversity, equity, inclusion" and sustainability, DEIS, with an emphasis on gender-bending and race-baiting tactics. This is like playing soccer against a team with no defenders. The left set their defense up to play off-side tactics against their critics "you can't even define 'woke'", "woke is just right-wing paranoia". But then your defenders are red-carded as lies, ...
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  818. This hydrogen economy nonsense has been going on for a good 45 to 50 years. 46+ years of living on myth. I have an undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry book here published in 1978 - "Chemistry of the Elements" by Greenwood and Earnshaw which includes a whole page on "The Hydrogen Economy". It wasn't happening back in 1978, and we're no closer to their dreams today either.
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  819. Alex is supposed to be a philosopher, yet he talks cliches and cannot defend 'points' he makes. He can't tell us what he's against Elon Musk. Alex is flush with luxury beliefs. Just like the toffs Rob Henderson describes.
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  820. The first rule of power, authority, and legitimacy is: never admit you have doubts. It's not so much that they're blind and mindless - more the case that being in power makes them look that way.
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  821. I don't think "performative dissidents" have a "nihilistic vision". Form my view, its the conformists to authoritarianism who have the "nihilistic vision".
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  822. 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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  823. Vitamin D: Apparently good for regular sleep too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRouH9wlSM
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  824. 100 km/hour isn't that fast. It's = 28 m/s = 91 feet/second
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  825. Micro-physics of Power - a floating signifier? Foucault's landmark 'text' (AKA: 'book', to you) was published in 1961: "Madness and Civilization". Derrida's différance arrived on the scene in 1967 (in book form); he coined the term in 1963. In these last 6 decades academia has been pontificating poststructuralism at us. Yet how have they developed and elaborated their pomo ideas? They have not. Let us compare. Take, say, narcissitic personality disorder. One can't quite quantify it, but one can do tests to tell oneself whether one is 'suffering' from it. Or, more realistically - whether other people are suffering from you. So we know it's a thing. It's elaborated and can be diagnosed. How did postmodern sociologists further elaborate their central Foucauldian concept: 'the micro-physics of power'? [Discipline and Punish, 1975]. They haven't. 47 years after it arrived in academia, countless PhDs later, the term is as woolly and ill-defined today, as when Foucault invented it. This is the essential weakness in Leftist "theory", and "theoretical work". It's all speculation: metaphor and similie piled on top of narrative and parable; stories. The term: 'floating signifier', was widely used in poststructuralist semiotics by 1980. It means a sign which has been emptied of meaning by its use in so many contexts such that the meaning is overloaded and exhausted. A bit like a linguistic version of 'how long is a piece of string?'. Q: How much of pomo is simply 'floating signifiers'? A: Nearly all of it.
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  826. I don't mind them saying “right wing discourse”. I mind that they cannot autocritique their own gibberish.
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  827. 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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  828. LGB movement - defined themselves with the slogan "born this way". Unquestioning acceptance of this slogan enabled trans activists to latch on to it making LGBT. They turned a political slogan into the foundation for their self belief: "man in a woman's body". It can only get worse from here.
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  829. 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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  830. Rome also entirely destroyed Carthage. I see two analogies between Gaul and Carthage. 1. Both featured religions which, according to the Romans, included human sacrifice 2. Both posed, or had posed, existential threats to Rome. Hannibal, of Carthage, nearly destroyed Rome. During his wars he employed many Gallic warriors. The Gauls themselves had sacked Rome in 390 BC. Rome never forgave that. Just before their war against Hannibal, the cult of Dionysus had become problematic for Rome - with many young Romans enticed by it. Rome responded by banning Dionysian practices within Rome unless they'd been OKed by the Senate. The Romans took it over!, and pacified, or civilized it. LOL - by analogy - imagine the Tories taking over raves such that all DJs and molly dealers had to be certified by national government. Likewise - Christianity was persecuted by the Romans for the first few hundred years; as it too was seen as an existential threat to their society. So the Romans were fiecely hostile to all religions they saw as incompatible with the values of their civilization.
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  831.  @toomuchinformation9795  It is a symptom of a sickness; a pathology. Explaining the why and how of the fad will reveal this sickness. Clue: the ultimate cause was not 'leftism', nor too much 'freedom', and liberalism, nor even The Internet, ...
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  832. Q: How do we know this is not the "natural rate"? A: The Left, who support this, do not believe in innate human traits. They believe in the blank 'slate view' of humans. They believe in nurture not nature.
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  833. I'm not sure whether they're 'useful idiots' or useless psychopath enablers.
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  834. "I went to SOAS" <- I don't know what that is? How can he not know what the "School of Oriental and African Studies" is?
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  835. Most people listening to this aren't going to know what "neo-liberalism" is. The left don't know; or - if they do - they never give a technical explanation of it. Thankfully, Novara give, sort of, explanation. But they mostly just dis' it. Everyone is neo-liberal today. Neo-liberalism assumes free-markets act as an abstract principle. Neo-liberalism seeks to solve all problems and provide all solutions using market-like mechanisms. Everyone (well 95% of you), subscribe to neo-liberalism - apart from a tiny number of statists such as Novara. One problem with Novara is their explanation of what "they" are doing, and Novara's pretence that "they" are all doing the same thing for the same reasons. "They" in Novara's words are - basically - everyone who's not Novara. In Novara's mindset, I'm "they" too. Novara say "we" all the time. So they can pretend to be talking about me and you, too. But, no - they're not speaking for me. Novara are Marxist authoritarians. They speak in the name of an abstract principle called the workers. To whom, they appoint, and annoit themselves as 'leaders'.
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  836. I don't have a problem with physicists or anyone else speculating about whether an asteroid was "alien tech". It's all OK. But when physicists tell us they're "doing science". That's what I object to. No. Doing science is when you write a testable hypothesis. It's not when you make it up.
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  837. The Japanese also believed, in a sense, that the USA began the war on them by imposing trade sanctions on Japan in response the the Japanese colonialism of China.
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  838. Although he's not a climate alarmist, Michael Shellenberger enables them. The alarmist position is built on an inability to, and contempt for debate - "the science is over". This idea gives alarmists their moral mission
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  839. There is no greenhouse effect. There are just bad models, as explained by Dr Roy Clark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsM4aOmCb_U
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  840. Precis: I don't think there's a difference between free-speech & free-thought. We need free-thought to solve problems. If it's not "free", it's not thought. When we think we will always encounter bad, perhaps evil ideas. The very process of thought throws such ideas up. We ponder them, then dismiss them. We generally think in words. We use speech to organize our our psyches. Thought is like a seminar: question and answer session. We pose ourselves a question in speech & answer it for ourselves. Instead of posing ourselves these questions, we can also talk to other people. For its ability to adapt to the transforming horizon of the future, society must allow its members to think. This is why we need free-speech. People are desperate to be treated as 'someone who has something to say'. We desperately want to be taken seriously by other people. It's the basis of personal relations. Try basing your own personal relations on any other principle but this; "well 'good luck' to that!" Free speech is just this principle of open & honest communication extended throughout society.
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  841. Thanks for this. Very useful; even more fascinating. The whole issue of ghosting and withdrawal is fascinating. Thanks for going tha extra mile to cite the studies.
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  842. It's wrong to call them Marxist, and also wrong to call them Liberal. They're officious, authoritarian, progressive statists. They're un-Marxist because they reject its critique of capitalism. I doubt many of them ever read much actual Marx. Nor are they 'liberal'. They reason they join or start 'liberal' NGOs is to take them over, to turn them into pseudo-state bodies. Examples of the pseudo state in action would be Twitter before Musk took it over. They obsess with power and control over other people but don't see it in those terms. Instead they see themselves as 'progressive' - rooting out evil in society. That may be the 'evil' of: 'fossil fools', patriarchy, transphobia, transgenocidals, white supremacists, vaxx-deniers, fascists, ... The common theme here is not so much how they eulogize archetypes (Hollywood girl-boss, transwomen lesbians, 'Saint' George Floyd, holy wild life = polar bears!, transkids, climate crisis) These archetypes are paper tigers - not real. But they believe them 'real' because their new morality is against anyone who opposes, or doesn't fall for the paper tigers, or are presumably responsible for harming them. Like the fake archetypes they eulogise over, the groups and ideas they oppose aren't real things in any meaningful sense either. They're: false flags, gaslights, and strawmen, ad hominems ... They think like that because they apply other logical fallacies too - to railroad their woke religion through: bandwagons (AKA: group think), appeal to authority, false dilemma, hasty generalization, and, of course: outright propaganda ... They apply almost every single common logical fallacy - repeatedly. This is because they don't do 'debate'. They can't see the faults in their own ideas. I think they consider 'debate' to be dishonst, will-to-power, in action. Notice how transmanians, COVIDistas, climate worriers, ... will never debate you. A lot of people blame the dissolution of Western thought which give birth to woke on postmodernism. But we need to consider the Rawlsian philosophical movements of the 1980s which followed on from pomo. This was a revised post-Kantianism - an obsession of ethics and morals - which views ethics and morals are the key driver of history. Whether the ethics are: anti-racism, anti- antitrans, climate crisis, ... these ethics almost always take the form of anti- anti; in that their high moral ground are the morals of what they oppose; and what they oppose is a cliche and the anti-human. So their anti-humans they "hate" (AKA - whom they need to fix) are the transphobes, anti-vaxxers, anti- climate action, racists, anti-woke, anti-DEI. They want to root-out or persecute paper tigers who, don't believe in their own holy, paper tiger, archetypes. So apart from blaming woke on real & pseudo Marxism, and postmodernism, one must also fix the blame on the liberal's 'solution' to society's ills: Rawlsianism.
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  843. 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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  844. Educated? What does Andrew mean by educated? In conversation, psychopaths can be some of the most persuasive people. Does that make psychos educated? I guess so. But it implies education has a very dark side to it.
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  845. No one debates on the internet to win the other person over, to change minds. All internet debate exists only for the bystanders. To win neutrals over to one's side. Internet debates don't win people over just like that - in one go - most people will need a clear line or argument, evidentially supported to accept that your point is valid. So when you cite evidence in support of points made, remember to actually cite it (with a link, author, date, etc.) so the by-stander can see you're legit. Also - when opps use fake evidence, ask for a citation from them. I've seen NO public debates where one debater changed the mind of another who'd already formed a substantial opinion. Which isn't to say I never changed my mind. The best refutations I accepted where revelations that my existing opinion was over elaborate, or ideological. A good example of this was the application of Occam's razor. "Mark - I don't follow your line of reasoning because it's too complex. This ... is a simpler way of looking at things" When people form an opinion on the basis of some moral framework, or guidelines - it's is almost impossible to change their mind.
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  846. Sue them.
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  847. Pre-Musk, I was not banned for life at Twitter for publishing "disinformation". I was banned for a post I made describing a real experience I had. On Twitter, one normally only sees - in one's feed - posts by those one follows. Unless one a) specifically searches for something, b) reads adverts, or c) reads posts selected by the algorithm "for you". As such it's difficult for disinformation to enter one's feed unless one specifically looks for it, or foolishly follows people who habitually post it. Most accounts in my feed are edited by one single person in control. There's little scope for government to apply mass censorship - without a mass-purge of these distinct individuals publishing their opinions, citizen-news and research. The advice to give people on twitter is - follow accounts you trust, unless you're specifically there to read what the "other side" have to say on an issue. By now, I only follow accounts I trust. BTW: I was able to get back on Twitter, but only with a brand new anonymous account. The European Enlightenment was the product of many single individuals communicating via books, pamphlets, letters, salon discussions. Enlightenment communication was bottom-up; just like Twitter is today. TPTB really fear this bottom-up communication; just as they did during The Enlightenment. They cannot control what we think, nor what we discuss.
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  848. There are 2 genders, one for each sex.Telling kids that there are more than 2 genders is miseducation. Does this drag queen have an education Honours degree? - as required by all teachers in UK schools.
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  849. UK left, like the SWP, supported the UK Labour Party since 1980s. Since Thatcher.
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  850. The problem with Chomsky is - he is a communist - he looks at the media and sees an anti-communist conspiracy - in truth, media was anti-communist, because communism simply does not work as a economic system - anti-communism is an "ideology" in the same sense that self-preservation is.
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  851. 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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  852. The weakness of Conservatism is that it's an alliance, and some (not all) tendencies in the alliance are not just anti-intellectual, but also border on anti-human. Conservatives themseleves, treat these anti-humanists among them as a cute quirk - a strength - a sign of their diversity. Anti-humanists among conservatives are the reason I'm not a conservative. OK - so the socialists, and liberals both have their anti-humanists too. Given that, ... I must pick my politics on the basis of which - among all of you - have the least evil (& least influential) anti-humans! among you. What do I mean by anti-human? I mean people who worship, and subsume their life, to an idea which is objectively harmful to humanity as a whole. I may be atheist, but I'm not one of these new atheists - like Francis. As a rule, I don't classify religions as anti-human (except some 'new' religions, and some fundamental ones).
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  853. "Crazy to unpick all the good work feminists have done" <- when will a feminist admit that they invented the gender nonsense upon which the trans movement is built? This trans identity gender-bender nonsense came from the gay and feminist movements. Those are the kind of difficult questions I'd like to see KS answer. Instead of daring to get to the roots of the sociopathy (which sees men running women's rape crisis centers, and a medical industry built to trans kids). The interviewer plays at devils advocate, as a way of ignoring the difficult questions he knows KS will not answer.
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  854. "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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  855. Lacan was a bloody Hegelian! So how did he become "postmodernist"?, I suppose : although Hegelianism is technically incompatible postmodernism - both creeds seem to be unified in their statism.
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  856. Leftists actually are stupid people. I define stupid as both ignorant and afraid to learn the truth. Is that an OK definition? As an ex-leftist, I know this; my lived experience showed me it.
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  857. Nuclear war kills 5 billion people? I don't think so. The issue with these catatrophic numbers is they're made to terrify us - so that the anti-war (or pro-war) prophet can moralize and pontificate over us. Nuclear war is bad. It could kill hundreds of millions. It will not kill billions.
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  858. The politics is the only thing to see. The climate agenda has always been about replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar.
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  859. Because they can't think for themselves. Partly because they don't have access to unbiased, true, information. But - especially since they reject rational thought.
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  860. My Twitter account was cancelled by the US Dept of Homeland Security - not by the "mob". That does NOT mean there's no "cancel culture". "Cancel culture" is a culture of censorship and authoritarianism promoted by authoritarians and their poodles. Poodles such as Tom Nicholas.
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  861. "Social Justice is not 'like a religion'. It is a religion. Their God is the all-seeing eye at the end of history." - James Lindsay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mS-9YQPztc
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  862. "Elite solidarity" <- I love how BUS takes a word - solidarity - which was associated with a oppositional movement - the Polish working class - to become a by-word for the Western left. Then inverts it against the left - to decribe it as a tool of oppression against the working class: elite solidarity.
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  863. The NAZI's were right wing and left wing. It is better to understand NAZIism in terms of it being a specific kind of authoritarianism. Likewise Stalinism is a different kind of authoritarianism. The NAZIs were anti-communist. For communists: all anti-communists must be "right wing"; by definition. They even call libertarians "right-wing" today, so the meaning of right and left wing has mutated so much. NAZI = eugenic, authoritarian, explicitly anti-intellectual. communist: anti-eugenic in name, authoritarian, implicitly anti-intellectual.
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  864. 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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  865. "Sugar withdrawal is like opioid withdrawal" -> No it isn't. I've never been addicted to an opiod, but have been to sugar. Just because we use the same word for our habits: 'addiction', doesn't make the two experiences even remotely comparable. I gave up sugar, practically overnight, about 22 years ago. I discovered sugar was a bad nutrient. It makes us fat, rots our teeth, makes us diabetic, ... There's no upside to it. For example: no sugar rush. In fact eating a lot of sugar makes us sleepy. So I just decided to stop eating sugary foods. It was easy to do. There was no physical withdrawal - as with opiods. Nor was there any mental withdrawal. I needed nobodies help to do this. On the contary: the rest of society made it far more difficult than it should've been by adding sugar to many processed, and snack foods. Today, I even restrict my fruit to a minimun to elimate fructose from my diet. Once I'd eat apples, and other high fructose fruits - many per day. Today I have, at most, about 3 or 4 oranges per week; and very rarely have other fruit. At least one chocolate bar per day was my normal habit. Today I never touch chocolate unless it's sugarless or Christmas. PS: I have witnessed opiod, and other drug addictions, first hand. Comparing it to sugar relativises how bad many drug addictions are. Please don't do it.
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  866. In many cases it's even worse: anything which isn't them is "far right" in their eyes
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  867. "if we evolved to see reality as it is" "but we don't see reality as it is" So what does that say about ... reality? No - what does it say about either evolution or how we think we perceive, or how we think we evolved? It says evo-psych has some bugs in it. Those aren't necessarily the bugs the Left sees in evo-psyc h. I'd say our story-telling abilities bulldoze us into accepting group narratives which can be harmful to the group. We accept these group narratives because going along with the group is generally good for us individually - if, for example, we want to influence or command the group. Influencing or commanding the group is an evolutionary adaption. So harming the group can be a good evolutionary adaption.
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  868. Top video
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  869. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler - This is a good counter to The Dispossessed
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  870. "What makes a man a Sophist is not his faculty but his moral purpose" <- Clearly wrong. What makes one a Sophist today is whether one allies with intrinsic or with instrumental reason. Those driven by instrumental reason have no great respect for objective truth. Those driven by intrinsic reason aim for objective truth.
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  871. (1) Peterson is, obviously, not talking about postmodern philosophers. He's talking about modern Leftists, who justify their ideas on idea-laundered postmodern texts. (2) "Derrida is interested in democracy" <- Is that the same Derrida who was a French Communist Party member? Communists aren't exactly famed for their love of democracy. Wisecrack is so good at showing us his prejudices and biases.
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  872.  @abelabel3664  Where is communism democratic in its core or skin? Communism is democratic in its imagination.
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  873. Regarding the message: A lot of people think we can, all of us, everyone, isolate and keep the message in a jar somewhere - like a jar of honey - to be dipped into ocaisionally. But it isn't like that. We all have different messages, or different things we consider to be "the message". Despite massive immigration into the USA, up till about 2015, there was still a core set of values, stemming from Christianity and the Western Cannon, which we all still understood. Not all us us held to every aspect. But every aspect was part of the narrative of the West - so we knew where stories were coming from, and where they were going, even if we didn't always agree with them. Even ideas such such as feminism, anti-racism, had themes we could all connect to - because these derived from key Western ideas: liberty, equality, merit, freedom, fairness, justice - we all knew and accepted - inside out - being Westerners. Woke inverts this. So the thing woke does is to trash these values of the West, to invert morality. It's key "message". But woke, kind of, uses Western ideas to trash them. It's like a can of acid which corrodes. Not a jar of honey. For example: woke anti-racism says that white people are instrinsic oppressors, ... No one will go along with this unless they already got, and accepted, the woke indoctrination. But most of us never did. We never took those woke 101 university courses. So we find these new woke scripts absolutely baffleing. Which brings me back to that jar of honey. For wokes - the message is their new metaphysics - it is entirely alien to most people - for Bob Iger not to know this is laughable: the woke tell their tales for themselves, to themselves, to an imaginary woke audience - which barely exists.
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  874. ESG-mode? COVID-authoritarian mode? OED are way behind.
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  875. The "free press" was never a thing. It was an aspiration. That was then - when the alternative to a "free press" was Fascism and Stalinism. Today, the establishment have taken control over the media and - in response to appeasing their Leftwing critics of the GFC (global financial crash) - asset managers created ESG - "Environmental and Social Governance". Asset managers manage much of the world's financial assets as agents of pension funds (for example). These ESG guidelines promote woke and environmentalism. This is the real reason the mainstream media are woke and environmentalist. This bizarre thing is just how far the media have cut themselves off from Joe & Jill Public. Media employees are all University graduates today - many of them somewhat posh, or alienated from the masses. Back then, news people were basically working class. In a nutshell modern media are pro-woke, urban Leftwing elites.
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  876. The invention of LISP began in 1958. The concept of FP only began to be formalized in 1975 with ML. Let's just agree that: LISP aids the FP-style.
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  877. How is Elon Musk deciding who lives or dies? If he really is, can we have a concrete example of a person living (or dying) due to something Musk did? This lefty whining annoys me. Musk didn't put anyone on the streets of 'Frisco. The drug trade does. Likewise for Gates - if you're going to accuse these billionaire philanthropists of "deciding who lives or dies" please back up the accusation with evidence. BTW: I don't think saving Picasso, saves more than one life (his). Saving the life of a doctor, or engineer instead is more likely to be "effective altruism". For me, effective altruism only becomes evil when people use it as an excuse to lie to us; perhaps to gaslight us into "doing good" for the world.
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  878. What an annoying man. How conceited is he?
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  879. "People percieve progressives are arseholes" <- People notice those who act like arseholes; and ask themselves why are so many "progressives"? What does progressive even mean?
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  880. The history of these pseudo-Jacobite secret societies - who wrote the book on that?
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  881. You first.
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  882. As a boy one gets to lecture the rest of the world about our evils. Can't do that if you're a man (or even a white woman); because a white adult is speaking from a position of privilege; which s/he admits to with the 5th word they spoke. As if admitting to privilege somehow erases your exercise of privilege! Comical and inept.
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  883. The problem with Disparu is that it's about all the things we should ignore and boycott due to how bad they are. Are there no good movies or series worth watching?
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  884. "Climate Change is our own fault" <- Nonsense. There's is no greenhouse effect. The incompent greenhouse effect is not science & has nothing to do with climate. It is one massive pseudo-Marxist gaslight. Carbon dioxide, CO2 does not heat the climate. CO2 is, in reality, good for the environment. It is plant food. The greenhouse effect barely qualifies as a model since it is so incompetent. Notice how they never debate the greenhouse effect? That's because they know it's garbage, ideology, and does not pass the test of scientific model.
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  885. You left leaning NPC friends are easily bullied. You need friends with more backbone.
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  886.  @LinA-it9vd  Did you mean to say accept "disinformation"? It never was information. It was always a lie.
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  887. This is a pseudo critique of education. Schools are needed for most kids. Most parents could not sucessfully home school if they tried. OK - I partly agree - some parents can make home-schooling work for some kids; but not if they work 9-5.
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  888. Maybe the Disney CEO let the writers run riot with woke scripts so they would lose all public sympathy. So that he could replace the writers with AI?
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  889. Of course this is terrorism. Maybe not within the strict definition of law; but certainly in terms of our everyday understanding of the word.
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  890. They are not AOC supporters. The LaRouche Organization (anti-war, progressives) claimed the two young men were from their organization.
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  891. Oh yeah? But vitamin D toxicity is only seen at levels above 100000 IU per day. You'd need to take it for months to get there. Please stop scaring people.
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  892. BTW: Making quilts is nowt to do with science or maths.
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  893. Someone does not understand woke, social justice and critical theory. It is not a set of ideas, ideology, or ethics which the left follow. Woke is a post hoc rationalization for bad and hypocritical behavior. Simples really. The idea of "equity" gives "our side" (the left) leeway to do what they want but demonizes other people who aren't us for calling people "dude", or "guy"; for using ordinary words in an everyday context. Woke is a get out of jail card for - hypocrisy, - careerism built on destroyed careers of one's rivals, - making stuff up as convenient, and - general bad faith. No wonder the scum out of Hell are "woke".
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  894. Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006. About 2 years later they had 8 employees. Twitter needs more than 6 employees. It needs a couple of developers; engineers to take care of servers, backups, mirroring and sharding. People to sell and adminster ads. People to approve blue ticks. Plus some minimal moderation.
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  895. Another Democrat blames Republicans for the culture of hate and toxicity against Trump which they created.
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  896. Why does Spiked assume giving up one's car is desirable? Not one person I know who has a car will go back to live without a car. The green agenda is bonkers. It is anti-democratic because they know no one supports it. Their ideas are unreasonable because they've never been debated, and they never answered sensible points. Because they know no one supports them, they have total contempt for people who don't support them. It's not something you'll see from them in public unless you're an anti-green activist.
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  897. As I watch this I find it remarkable that I'm already using the best options! That's not because I have a 6th sense and am able to recognize and avoid woke software. It's because non-woke software actually has a better user experience. Who'd known that concentrating on software performance gives us better software?
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  898. 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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  899. "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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  900. "boy trapped in a girls body" <- Think how batshit crazy that idea is when you take it literally. Metaphorically it may make sense. A literal girl can never be a boy.
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  901. Progressives hate liberalism. The hate began in earnest with New Labour about 1997. I noticed how a new breed of political activist arrived on the scene who were dedicated to destroying libertarianism and liberalism; done in the name of collective good. These ideas originated with "communitarianism" - a mid-1990s academic fad.
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  902. More than human approach : "A more-than-human approach is a theoretical concept that acknowledges the interconnectedness of humans and non-human entities, such as animals, plants, technologies, and natural systems. It's also known as a post-humanist approach." AKA - it's anti-humanism given a fresh gloss of paint.
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  903.  @UKsoldier45  In the late '80s to early '90s I often read it every day; although I never had a sub.
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  904. Thanks Sabine; compared to most people you're the 'real thing' - a genuine nice person; although somewhat mistaken re: the GHE
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  905. "The surface warms and emits infrared radiation" <- (1) Yes; but the amount of infrared emitted is a tiny fraction of what the IPCC & 'climate consensus' claim. You cannot show us empirical data to validate those IPCC and modeller numbers. Those numbers are armchair physics and ridiculous. Outgoing infrared radiation is exaggerated 200 times over. Over 2 orders of magnitude. "The radiation is trapped, by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere" <- (2) This no longer matters; due to point (1) The most important greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. <- (3) This no longer matters; due to point (1) "The outgoing infrared radiation heats the atmosphere from below." <- (4) The amount is insignificant; due to point (1). The atmosphere is warmed by conduction and convection. In reality, proven by the behaviour of the Pirani gauge, the vast majority of surface cooling is done by conduction and convection; Not by radiation. Of course some radiation is present in thermal equilibrium with kinetic energy according to a complex 'thermalization' process. Watch Tom Shula's video to understant point (1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk
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  906.  @larrymorley2579  "Excess warming" does not happen in the first 20 m. The problem with the greenhouse effect is it was exaggerated 200 times over. Tom Shula shows, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk, that the surface is mainly cooled by conduction and convection - not by radiation. That conduction and convection do 250 times more surface cooling than radiation. That's just an inconvenient fact of physics for you. Cooling mostly by conduction and convection (at the surface) also explain why earth's surface doesn't get very cold at night; because infrared travels at the speed of light. Of course, regarding the final cooling to space - that's all radiation. But radiation doesn't dominate conduction and convection until the stratosphere; 40 miles above your head.
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  907. But Johnson was owned by the WEF, so getting rid of Boris must be considered a plus?
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  908. Why Learn Rhetoric? <- So that we can defend ourselves when it's used against us. For example by implying there are reasonable and unreasonable debates; and that unreasonable debates end in lies, fraud, and bad policy.
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  909. 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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  910.  @timwildauer5063  Well, tell us. What REALLY did cause them? Youtubers: stop trying to turn L.A. fires into clickbait.
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  911. "lack of diversity/equity/inclusion is inherently indicative of discrimination/unfair" <-that may actually be the case but reverse racism simply destroys you and your people.
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  912. No they are not measurements of anything, They are racist ideologies; designed to divide and fragment society. The ideas are basically all created by neo-Marxists.
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  913.  @Einygmar  No. Diversity/equity/inclusion are proscriptions. It is an attempt to redefine core ethics / values of society. Top down. Invented by neo-Marxists but promoted by billionaires and elitists. DEI is an elitist's formula to replace existing values with new values. The values elites wish us to have are DEI / multiculturalism / globalism / sustainability. To replace current values they demonize and monster freedom / equality / meritocracy / nationalism / fossil & nuclear power / Western values. It really is as simple as that. Peter Theil even admitted that elites want open borders = anti-nationalim = globalism. DEI is a new religion. Elites always invented religions. Just as they invented Islam & many of the forms of Christianity (Catholicism) we have today. If you listen to what elites specifically ssy they are totally open about it.
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  914. Plausible explanation for socialism.
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  915. 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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  916. 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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  917. 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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  918.  @cathlaurs9754  Maybe the script writers wrote an impossible character? They do just make it up - as you well know. I have no problem with made up stories. I have an issue when people draw on characters from fiction to comment on reality. As if fiction was more real than reality.
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  919.  @felipealem6590  If anyone lied to me as much as that I'd be as wary of them as I would a known psycho.
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  920. cold blooded killer = psychopath. If remorse doesn't come from empathy with other people where does it come from?, duty to God?, feeling you sinned? If Tony's remorse comes from empathy then why's he unable to feel for other people? (those he kills in cold blood) Seems like fake remorse to me. Maybe Tony lying to himself as well? Dear Chad - you injected Tony Soprano - a made up character from TV into a real conversation about actual psychopaths. Why? Only to tell us he wasn't a psycho. Why'd you do that? I'm not interested in TV - I'm interested in the way real people's brains work (or don't). I think you're just confusing the issue by talking about mish-mash characters script writers make up to sell us entertainment. That annoys me (reasons I gave above). I honestly don't care what Tony S is as he's fiction.
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  921. 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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  922. LGBTQI+ is an acronym of middle class influencers to explain why they are morally better than the rest of us. Not so much for supporting LGBTQI+, as it's not a thing. More so that they can demonize the rest of us for "not supporting LGBTQI+".
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  923. Why don't you save us time? Tell us.
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  924. The issue with neutrinos is there aren't any. Why does physics need fake particles?
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  925.  @maxv9464  What experiment, or obsevation, in physics demonstrates the neutrino? As I see it the neutrino was introduced to balance a maths equation. Making it about as real as the crystal sphere view of the solar system.
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  926.  @maxv9464  One validations experiment. What falsification experiments and observations have been tried?
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  927.  @maxv9464  1. If the detectors all work on the same principle they are the same validation experiment; repeated many times. As I see it, you really several different experiments - detectors working on different principles. I assume these detectors are NOT detecting every neutrino. Suppose the detectors only detect one in a billion, then how can you say what they detect is a neutrino? If you had a detector able to detect all the neutrinos which impact on it - I'd concede your neutrino.
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  928.  @maxv9464  I think a falsification experiment should be designed as such; in such a way as to satify a particle physics skeptic - should any such people exist. If no such people exist, particle physics has some serious problems.
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  929.  @maxv9464  We do not deny gravity because gravity is a THING. So we plausibly have a graviton, or gravity wave to explain it. What THING does the neutrino explain?
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  930.  @maxv9464  No other particle explains what? You gave no description of any experiment nor observation. Do you really think the magic words "neutrino detector" suffice to convince me? I'm not the only skeptic of the orgy of speculation which the so-called "standard model of particle physics" seems to be. Nice to see you're now taking lessons from climate modellers by naming critics of speculation: "deniers".
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  931.  @maxv9464  "Climate chage denial" <- What do you know about how climates change? Do you know a fraction of what I know? Have you considered you may be the real "climate change denier" here? Don't wonder into a debate about evidence unless you have it (evidence). The problem with neutrinos is: no one can explain why we can't detect ALL the neutrinos (they expect to find), nor can they explain why ONLY A TINY FEW can be detected - why are they special?, nor why they're not detecting some other anomaly instead. In circumstances such as that asking for multiple experimental validations is conservative - not denial at all.
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  932. I'm surprised the Geiger counter electronics aren't sheilded in any way. The counter tube should be exposed but the electronics sheilded.
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  933. "The way to solve climate change is through technology" - KK There isn't actually anything real to "solve". Emitting CO2 is good for the environment - not bad. CO2 is plant food. More CO2 in the atmosphere leads to an environment teaming with life. How is more life on earth a "problem"? Who is it a problem for? The so-called climate crisis is an auto-gaslight. We manufactured a psychological crisis by guilt-tripping ourselves. There's no actual evidence for a crisis, emergency, not even for a problem.
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  934. I read one of Holland's history books: Rubicon, and thought it good. Nominally, Holland, and historians are grounded in facts. Based? Yet listening to Holland talk about a global environment "collapse" is weird. Environments have rarely been as healthy in the past as they are now. I wish Holland took the same factual, evidenced based, approach to the environment as he does with the history!
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  935. There are some conservatives who support "climate action" - about 3% of all voters
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  936. 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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  937. Dark matter is hypothetical stuff used to balance equations because physicists have bad math. Were I a physicist, I'd want to balance my equations without using dark matter. Maybe one should try that instead?
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  938. No. It's been said that the purpose of woke propaganda is to corral their own people into promoting woke mind memes To keep them thinking inside the box. Woke can only do that if they dominate the conversation on woke and trans issues. They can only dominate by monstering and cancelling their critics. The quiet and nice majority avoid the issue because they know nasty words will be deployed against them if they step out of line. We see this in spades with "climate change". An army of online activists will descend on anyone who counters the climate crisis narrative. Activists routinely deploy nasty words. They don't want a conversation. They want to reduce everything to simple memes; to dominate meme production. Once an issue has been politicised: climate change, transing, BLM, police brutality, ... then the woke will attempt to shout down voices contrary to them. Quiet, nice people know, instinctively, what issues to avoid. They will, mostly, avoid all the Left's culture war causes.
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  939. The problem with calling it a "cock up" and telling Brigden he's a "conspiracy theorist" is that Big Pharma companies made tens of billions; all Big Pharma's critics were censored & removed from the internet. If there's no conspiracy going on - why do that?
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  940. They don't believe they will start a nuclear war. They think they're playing poker against Russia and their pair of Queens will never be called out because the Russians will back down. For this to work everyone has to hold to the same stoney face.
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  941. 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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  942. Accusing people of being NAZI or Fascist is a far left thing. I've seen people do this since the early 1970s. People making these accusations could be: stupid, not libertarians, or just bad-faith (left) anarchists. I was going to say "or the FBI", but I think the FBI would be better trained.
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  943. "They basically guess maths." "To the extent this maths makes falsifiable predictions, they've been falsified." But then, they invent new maths. "This method of theory development is not scientific." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVF0Yu7X24
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  944. These pseudo-sciencey channels are making YouTube money; at our intellectual expense. They're our problem, not YouTube's.
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  945. How is that funny? Did you "crazy" instead?
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  946.  @elephantintheroom-francois494  You acquire more capital. You certainly do not "commonify everything". No point to that unless you can acquire more capital from a commodification. "commodification of everything" is buzz word lingo for pseudos to distinguish themselves from everyone else. Tipping your hat to Marx. Lingo for people too superior to say marketization.
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  947. Has Konstantin Kisin been reading Andy West's book "The Grip of Culture"? which deconstucts the Green Cults of pseudo-climate and pseudo-environmentalism?
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  948. "The greatest lie" to be revealed. <- Tease post. With no summary. Seriously folks - there are so many of these greatest lies that I feel some kind soul should collect them all and post the summary of the greatest lies. Yet every lie wants tot be greatest. None are interested in being merely great. The all aspire to be the lie of lies. Sorry folks - there is no lie of lies - no "lie to rule them all".
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  949. As I understand it, no one ever made a cobalt bomb. Leó Szilárd theorized it in 1950. So the world is going to be ended by science fiction?
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  950. Why build it in C++ when they could've used Rust?
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  951. Rant. I've never been able to understand this obsession with ethics which philosophers have. So much so, that they study book after book on it! My philosophical obsessions were always epistemological - mainly because it's so simple, but so many people get it so wrong. It leads to a puzzle. Why are you - the rest of you - so bamboozled over what is real? Most of us (AKA: you) have an epistemology which is back to front. It follows, that my obsessions revolve around: why do we (AKA: you) get reality so wrong? As I see it - misunderstanding epistemology, in practice, philosophical systems always lead philosophers misunderstanding reality? For me, this obsession with ethics the rest of the human race has is a kind of sin because it leads so many of you to evil: to want to impose your views on everyone else - always badly - because you misunderstand reality so badly too. Although I am an atheist, when I talk about most people 'getting reality wrong' I'm referring to both the common people and the intelligentsia. So my study of epistemology - doesn't lead to a theory of knowledge but to theories of error, or mis-knowledge. Misinformation, as the media call it. I'd be interested in what happens when ethics meets misinformation. AKA: Lies and deception. Because one sure way to get followers is to taut one's ideas as ethical - when - if they're based on misinformation - they must surely be anti-ethical. Which leads to a question for Jared, or anyone: What is a good book on Bad Ethics?, on Ethics gone wrong? So Jared's choices are alien to me. Yet I still love that he gave us this video. Of the books in the list, the only one I object to is Hegel. Because Hegel's meta-story of human nature inverts reality. It cons its readers into thinking they're seeing through to an underlying reality (or chain of causation) when they're merely be ing told a tall story by a master storyteller. Alternatively to #10, one may as well have added Tolkien or J.K. Rowling as Hegel. But hey, thank God there's no Heidegger in your list. Heidegger - even more of an anti-philosopher than Hegel!
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  952. How long ago did you graduate?
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  953. That's called fake science, not actual science.
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  954. Nonsense. Read Snyder's Black Earth. Most of the holocaust happened in Eastern Europe where state legal systems had first been destroyed.
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  955. What is The QAnon "conspiracy theory"? Why is it called that?
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  956. People who call themselves left are particulary prone to these "existential" pseudo-threats. I've met lefties who don't fall for it, but they are terrified of standing up and calling it for the fraud it is. Why are the left so easily bullied? Is it perhaps the definition of leftwing today? People who are easily bullied by wokes and doomongers?
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  957. J K Rowling didn't "lose her mind" - the left did when they said "transwomen are women". No folks. Men (AKA 'transwomen') are men. The Drinker doesn't know basic biology. The gut rot has clearly done his brain in and killed the critic.
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  958.  @Rydonittelo  Coming from a replicant who's just about to die, the speech makes sense. Coming from Galadriel who's immortal, it's nonsense. Agreed?
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  959.  @Rydonittelo  The replicant, Roy, believed he was dying. That's why he made the speech. In reality: an actor mouthed words given him by the director. So I'm not interested in what really happened. I'm interested in what the narrative told us. There was nowt in that movie narrative regarding your philosophical nonsense. Perhaps you need to make the movie you clearly want to watch - where toasters tell us about the meaning of electrical existence?
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  960.  @unstoppableforcevsimmovabl1701  Stop legitimising murder. It's barbaric.
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  961.  @unstoppableforcevsimmovabl1701  I'm saying it to anyone who legitimises murder, by which I mean targetting civilians to kill.
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  962. Loneliness & ennui have long been known to be part of the human condition. Nowt to do with social media.
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  963. 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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  964. JP was a therapist, or applied psychologist. Did you do any applied psychology (therapy)? If so, is JP exaggerating the suffering many of us inflict upon ourselves?
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  965. BTW: Pomo is hardly "philosophy". It is more anti-philosophy. It's also misnamed. They should've called themselves anti-modernists.
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  966. Trans-Taliban! Transiban?
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  967. Alex misunderstands cultural christianity. He should put off his article until he knows what he's talking about. How about writing a set of questions and emailing them off to various cultural conservatives? Better that than guessing what someone thinks and writing it up.
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  968. Greens destroyed Germany by mandating expensive renewable energy. Greens also shut down nuclear power. But the commentator here blames Merkel!! Merkel was pro-nuclear. She shutdown nuclear power because the German Left and Greens demanded it. Because of Germany's proportional representative system the Greens and Left were alwasy in power in some form. In a coallition when they weren't leading it. Q: What is this amazing new energy source? <- Freddie's asking the wrong person. He should be asking the architechs of policies which subsidised and mandated "green" energy.
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  969.  @realhashimdiab  If you see connections between the concerns of Chinese philosophers and "some random British Philosopher from the last two-three centuries" then please tell us all about it. We want to know what those connections are. I'm especially interested in connections which are extra-cultural, or outside of culture. One point I'd raise is - had there been deep connections between the concerns of the Western tradition and, for example, the Chinese philosophical tradition - them some philosopher would've found those connections and written about them by now. But please don't question me about it. Tell us about the connections you found yourself. I was wondering how long you'd take to accuse me of "racist", "exclusionary" tendencies while claiming to be my "friend". Not long I see. A "Westerner", talking about the philosophical tradition of the West is NOT racist. No more so than an Indian talking about the philosophical tradition of India would be. BTW: My own interest in the Western tradition is mostly my interest in The Enlightenment and Empiricism. I have no racial bias, but I may be biased by my relative lack of interest in Stoic, Christian and Ethical philosophy, and my actual antagonism towards anything metaphysical. As Groucho might say: "Those are my biases, and if you don't like them, ... well, I have others."
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  970. "Trans genderism has it's origins in Feminism"? "My truth" was invented as "lived experience" by feminists in 1889 (in Australia!). The second part of Simone de Beauvoir's ground-breaking book "The Second Sex" (published in 1949), is called "Lived Experience". Modern epistemic relativism of "truth is what I want it to be" began with Feminism; Postmodernism copied it. <- Discuss!
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  971. Richard Grannon is crazy. "Consensus" has nothing to do with science. Evidence is all that matters. Legit evidence - real-world observation and experiment.
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  972. 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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  973. She is precisely right on the Left / Muslim 'alliance'. I'm not sure she described the "woke right" properly - I'd say they are antisemitic, Christian nationalists, and generally anti-Imperialist (they want less globalism - especially when it's not US-led). All 3 groups are also profoundly anti-democratic. [ meaning "democratic" in its wider, traditional meaning - not our hijacked 'democratic' institutions owned by political cynics.] All 3 groups: militant Muslims, their Leftist allies and the so-called woke right are driven by ressentiment. Nothing much there but ressentiment because they have little 'positive' sense of what they want (apart from control over the rest of us). I say 'nothing positive' because - their 'positive vision' is one of domination over others & submission to dogma and autocracy. My definition of 'positive vision' is pluralist in the sense that anyone and everyone should have an input to society ( except those with cluster A, or severe cluster B personality disorders and/or criminal intent ). I think these two themes - ressentiment + anti-democratic - combine with many people in the 3 groups above. They are anti-democratic because they have no trust in reason, nor their ability to persuade us. That distrust leads to an anti-humanism which fuels their ressentiment. In politics no alliance is possible with such groups; as any attempted alliance leads to your own suicide / subordination / defeat. PS: Woke right - a phrase invented by James Lindsay. ressentiment - in its Nietzchean definition & French spelling.
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  974. Postmodernism isn't really philosophy. It's more a rejection of philosophy.
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  975.  @stunns2003  Postmodernism is the "established narrative"! - like natural Law was to to 17th century first generation Enlightenment writers. In the sense that pomo suffuses everywhere and dominates academia.
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  976. I'm still banned by Twitter; for dubious offences Twitter concocted. I'm neither right-wing nor Republican. If anything, I'm Libertarian. Musk is not a free-speech supporter.
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  977. I'm 71 today. Back when I was 3, nuclear fusion was "20 years away". It's the perrenial miracle energy, always just a few more tens of billions of dollars and decades into the future. Having lived throught 68 years of this propaganda, I now have more confidence in flying cars than any practical nuclear fusion technology.
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  978. Debate, rationality, objectivity - are patterns of behaviour one learns by practicing. Given the Left have been trashing debate, rationality, objectivity for decades they no longer have the skills to behave. It took about 3 decades for them to go insane. It will take the Left at least another 3 decades to learn that debate, rationality, objectivity are good things and not "Western imperialism"
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  979. Climate tipping points are myths promoted by climate catatrophists and anti-human psychopaths. Designed to panic and scare us into supporting climate alarmism such as Net Zero - which is an energy policy made to impoverish and disempower us. There is no science of climate tipping points. It's myth, ideology and propaganda. Tired of listening to psychopaths scare little kids out of their minds with the anti-human climate scare. Such psychos are worse than Religious extremists. At least with religious extremists they have a clear dividing line between the real and spirit world. In contrast climate maniacs attempt to turn everything into politics. They destroyed climate science by - turing it away from empiricism towards modeling, conjecture, and apocalyptic scare stories - branding themselves are fake saviours of humanity, and holy eco-warriors - demonizing and monstering their critics - refusing rational climate debate. Climate alarm is a deranged death and insanity cult.
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  980. We almost banned nuclear power due to fears over its possible role in generic mutation. In contrast, today they want to mandate vaccination.
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  981. There's only one version of science, but there are loads of ways to misrepresent it.
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  982. Sissy's first kid is a narcissist. But a nice one. It dawned on me about 3am New Year's Day. When she told us how important her imaginary friend was to her in childhood; after she's already monopolised the conversation for about 2 hours. Hey narcissists - don't tell us about your imaginary friends. It's a tell - classic symptom of narcissism.
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  983. "If they genuinely believe their headed for a Utopia" <- In practice the Left are NOT driven by their desire for Utopia. They are driven by the need to hate and stymmie the "right". They basically have a massive number of things they hate as right now : the family, businesses, government, the populace, non-gays, non-trans, non-Greens. They basically hate everyone who's not them. Leftism turned into a death cult. The interviewee is wrong on the Enlightenment. As a rule, prior to Rouseau, the Enlightenment didn't really have a goal of socialism, or Utopianism. Socialism, in fact, was born in France later. The Enlightenment ended with the French Revolution. Unfortunately the post-Enlightenment of Hegel, Marx, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Woke. dreamt up these post-capitalist Utopias and falsely claimed the Enlightenment justified them. Everyone seems to have swalloed the Left's lie. PS: One Enlightenment thinker Condorcet did in fact author a "progressive" book just before he died. No one of any significance was influenced by it.
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  984. Brian Keating talks too fast, and spends too little time reflecting on and trying to falsify what he just said. I'd like to ask Brian a question: "What would it mean for you to talk to another person for 5 minutes without speculating?"
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  985. {f you have X-rays why not show them right away? If you have DNA then get a scientist to show that it's non-terrestrial. for example by explaining what it means for alien cells not to have mitochondria.I presume the alien tissue does not have mitochondria in it? I want to listen to a skeptical scientist report on this. I don't want to hear a bunch of true believers pat themselves on the backs.
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  986. Re: "Why Now?" It's not clear to our toff news reporters and "fact checkers" that they're dishonestly biased. They believe themselves honestly biased. Biased with superior morals to me and you. Q: What is that morality and why is it both so elastic and woolly, yet also very specific & precise? A: In response to criticism over the Global Financial Crash, GFC, by "Occupy Wall Street", and the Left, asset managers instituted "Environmental and Social Governance", ESG. ESG is a set of woolly criteria for running a company. ESG institutionalizes business support for woke and green issues; it's the pretext for media SJW support and censorship of such. I think they began ESG about 2015. The effects weren't immediate, but it's built up a momentum. It's not so much that everyone in establishment media became woke overnight. They became owned by ESG over the past 5 years. PS: "Asset Managers" are financiers who manage assets of wealthy institutions such as pension funds, foundations, charities, and the like. They often have strong links to Investment Banks. Some big asset managers are: Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street, Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, ...
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  987.  @enderwiggin1113  That makes sense. But why does EVERY planet/moon with an atmosphere show a lapse rate (positive temperature increase) as the atmosphere increases in density? https://pasteboard.co/EBhZimHOZu6E.png
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  988. 1) Sam Harris has Trump derangement syndrome. NEWS guys: Trump is not the US president. 2) We know precisely why and how The Left go wrong. James Lindsay says: "Marxism does not know how". The Left are, obviously, not all Marxist, but they share an "all power to the state" mentality. The State does not know how either.
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  989. John Clauser - 1 Global Elites - 0
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  990.  @Binkyboy34  Any who takes the IPCC are serious, objective science - does not care about scientific integrity. Do you take teh IPCC seriously? The problem with the IPCC is they are subject to imense pressure from politicians. For example: before a WG1 report is published, the politicos first agree on, and publish their: "Summary for Policy Makers", SfPM. No scientists are involved in writing it. After teh SfPM is agreed, the scientific report: WG1 is edited - to make sure it agrees with the SfPM. The SfPM is a short report - suitable to other politicians and those without a scientific education. It is the only thing politicos ever read.
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  991.  @franckr6159  Should one trust a YouTuber on science ahead of a leading world scientist? Now - there's a dilemma, NOT. Sabine is ignorant of climate science. She's an armchair theorist who's never done any important experimental work. Who is SH to tell me what experimental values say - she does not care much for them. She mainly cares for her career as a YouTuber - and "consensus" which is established by theorists, political meddlers & media. There is no such thing as scientific consensus. SH undermined herself as soon as she began to give credence to climate papers she's not read & to quote a "consensus". Dr Clauser, in contrast, did immense experimental work. I trust an experimentalist to tell me about facts. There is no greenhouse effect. The whole idea is groupthink, modeling, hypothesis, politicking, or some combination of such. Do not take my word for it. Read James Hansen's papers. Read what he did - not what he claims he did. Study the science and you'll see for yourself. Two sides to this diagreement: alarmists - try to shoehorn facts to fit their theories skeptics - consider facts sacred
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  992. 1. Why is every Internet channel having a go at blokes? Put a brake on it please. Don't dis' "nice guys". We need more of them. 2. BTW: I like your discussion of Nietzsche. Nietzsche by example. Also: the changing nature of Nietzsche. Instead of the usual "this is what Nietzsche thought", or worse "this is what Nietzsche REALLY thought"!!
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  993. It's bixarre listening to people such are Big Think telling us how to industrialize such a huge slice of the planet to "save the climate". Same people whining about digging us fossil fuels.
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  994. This isn't news. It becames news when something changes. Why is this channel called "on demand news"?
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  995. "listen to one of these people speaking about something that moved them" <- would I believe anything they tell me? <- do they believe it?
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  996. "What is a scientific consensus?" Man made climate change as presented by Bret Weinstein and the IPCC is also a fake, authoritarian 'consensus'. Bret needs to look into his own soul and accept his own complicity is the corruption of science.
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  997. "She's a King", Why not a Queen I hear you all say? She's have to be gay to be a queen!!
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  998. "sadly much-maligned JavaScript" Did you mean to say the "joyously much-maligned JavaScript"?
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  999. J.K. Rowling "correctly gendered" India Willoghby. She did not misgender. When a group of people - TRAs - habitually defame liberals, such as JK Rowling, as "fascist" - they have no cred with me. Rather than call India Willoughby male or female; better just quote his bio: India Willoughby. Ex-Jonathon Willoughby. Self-styled: she, her; "World’s 1st Trans Newsreader. 21st Century Suffragette, indisputably Female. Woman Of Year"
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  1000. It's not "dividing society". It seems to have captured alot of the elite media types. They don't count as society; they're often very anti-social.
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  1001. If you think no one will ever look at your data, you won't go to much trouble to fake it.
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  1002. There was a lot of upper class conceit back in Victorian times. Snobbery So Marx basically reversed that with his ideology - turned it inside out. Turned proles from an object of fear and derison of the upper class - to world saviors. It's all so black and white. Just like Anti-Fa today. Marxism is the cartoon version of history.
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  1003. The Tories sold out Britain to a WEF/Globalist pipe-dream and fantasy, of a world without borders. Insane by orders of magnitude. I'm unsure whether the Tories fell asleep, or were drugged by the promise of forever power of new politics (eco-austerity, divide and rule, ...) made to them by Globalists.
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  1004.  @jamesm.vanwinkle3282  "Virtue signalling for social status" <- No. They really believe in their ethics and morals. Not enough to stop hypocrisy - but enough "to believe what is right", or what they're told is right.
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  1005. Give us an example of something you think Rob Henderson "doesn't actually know or understand", otherwise we may conclude that you do not know or understand anything. The first thing you need to understand is that if you want to convince a stranger on the internet - do it by explaining specifics before expecting an audience to believe generalisations about a 3rd stranger.
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  1006. 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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  1007. Drinker lectures Hollywood celebrities. Makes a change.
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  1008. @Carl Collins Your standards are way too low.
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  1009. Matt Taibbi thinks progressives came to think that "everything was permitting in getting rid of Donald Trump". Does that include promoting the notion that: - a man can become a woman by simply claiming he is; so must be treated as a woman. - all white people are intrinsically racist so it's OK for progressives to hate white people - "climate change deniers" should be banned because they, too, disagree with Democrats, and "progress"? - vaccine companies are angelic, and one is obliged to take their products despite them doing shoddy phase III trials, NO phase IV clinical trials, and their gene therapy products not even being vaccines? PS: I never voted for Trump. I don't even live in the USA, but your spooks banned me from Twitter for questioning too many Dem "narratives". I went from liking Dems 2015, to dreading them today. Progressives came to hate freedom because they were taught in UNIs to hate everything Western: liberty, material progress, free speech, truth; to consider people the enemy of "progress". Weird notion of "progress" progressives ended up with.
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  1010. This cultural fixation on gender has to be understood as a leftist attempt to gaslight us. The actual transactivists who promote it are, largely, not transsexual, and they're often not gay either. To what end? Other than to pursue a culture war, we can't easily see any purpose to it. It's as if the real political issues (whatever they are) became so hard to campaign on that a group of people - call them wokes, culture warriors, or whatever, emerged. They situate themselves as High Priests in society. Yet all of them are, basically, atheist! Few of them have any real education in philosophy or ethics, but they insist ONLY their dogma and rules will be allowed in social discourse on ethics. It's a kind of cultural Stalinism.
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  1011. I'm more likely to call Konstantin "left-wing"! But that doesn't make me more "rigth-wing" than him. It merely means that the left are more obsessed with exclusion. They have a whole list of monsterisms: Nazi, Fascist, MCP, transphobe, poplarist, climate denier, fossil fool, nationalist, cis, racist, ... But these monsterisms are not so much designed to exclude people. Monsterisms function of bully their supporters into line, into the woke/DEI/socialist world-view, ... Being in this worldview doesn't mean they know why they're there; it means they fear being outside it. Disagree with me? Then riddle me this: why are so many young women calling themselves transmen? Not because they are: but because they're psychologically bullied by fear of being called transphobes. AKA: brainwashed, gaslit, or whatever other term you have for psychological bullying.
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  1012. Was Boris side-tracked by COVID and woke? Communists setting his non agenda!
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  1013. What Greenpeace has to say is "science news"? I consider what most of what Greenpeace has to say about anything to be lies, fraud and psychopathy.
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  1014. Philosopher King <- No such thing. It's a concept dreamt up 2400 years ago by a philosopher called Plato. Unfortunately for humanity when all those other Greek philosophy books were destroyed (over time, war, and history) Plato's books survived. So accidents of history are responsible for the titles of Egg Head YouTube videos today.
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  1015. Is drag queen story hour transing, queering, or dyphoria-ing. Or all 3?
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  1016. There were also the so-called D-O events (Dansgaard–Oeschger events) - rapid warming episodes, typically in a matter of decades, each followed by gradual cooling over a longer period. In one case the warming (in Greenland) was +8C in 3 steps of of 5 years. So there are natural shifts in climate; but a rapid D-O warming is far harder to explain than a cooling. Since there are many cooling events and it's far easier to cool a climate than warm it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard%E2%80%93Oeschger_event But, ... surely such a rapid warming would've melted loadsa ice so causing the mythical doom of AMOC collapse! Are D-O events correlated with AMOC collapses? I don't think so!!
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  1017. When Peterson says postmodernists “don’t believe in biology” he means pomos take identitarianism so seriously that when someone says "as a transwoman I've always known I am a woman" - pomos interpret it as literal truth. That men can be women (& vice-versa), or always were - if they imagine themselves as. This is nonsense. Biological organisms - every one of them - are determined by their genetic code. None of us have a homunculus of the opposite sex inside our heads telling us who and what we are. Our biololical understanding of nature is not a narrative - it is a science. The science sometimes goes wrong - because it is corrupted by narratives and personal ambition and by cynical attempts to use it. When biology sticks to strict scientific principles and method it gets the world right. The pomo view is that biology is a narrative told us to pressure us (by power) into conformity and subservience. - Truth can set you free = me - Truth is a myth told to enslave you = pomo
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  1018. "He uses multiple verticals that have nothing to do with each other to invalidate each one" <- the entirity of pomo thought is just a collection of rhetorical tricks and narratives told to discredit everything and everyone who came before - told with little understanding of why those who preceded us thought as they did.
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  1019. The science on the greenhouse effect, which is behind man-made global warming, is actually "settled", but in the other way. According to the model, the greenhouse effect idea works like so: 1. More CO2 in the atmosphere makes it more opaque to infrared 2. At the T-o-T, top of the troposphere - infrared can be freely emitted to space (because the atmosphere is thin enough up there - especially the CO2). 3. With more CO2, and an atmosphere more opaque to infrared, the altitude, at which CO2, can freely emit radiation to space is HIGHER. 4. Because of the Lapse Rate, this higher altitude, still at the T-o-T, is also COOLER 5. The Lapse Rate is tropospheric cooling with increasing altitude (note: the statosphere shows the opposite (warming with increasing altitude) 6. Because it's cooler, radiation emitted has LESS energy. 7. Because less energy is emitted, more energy is being TRAPPED. Thew!, what a tortured chain of logic to give us the 'climate crisis'. They made their model work saying earth predominantly cools (79%) by emitting infrared radiation; and only 21% of cooling is due to conduction, convection and evaporative cooling. They needed so much infrared because they had to turn much of it to back-radiation - at the surface - to get the man-made warming. It's been shown by experiment, using the Pirani gauge (Tom Shula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS55lXf4LZk), that at earth's surface, only 0.4% of its cooling can be due to infrared emission. So 99.6% of surface cooling is due to conduction, convection and evaporative cooling! In the atmosphere, energy exists as radiation or kinetic energy of molecules (the faster the molecule, the warmer it is, more energy it has). There's an equilibria between radiation and kinetic energy - called thermalization. Radiation will not dominate until the atmosphere is very thin - beginning about 40 miles up - well into the stratosphere - where the temperature gradient is opposite to the Lapse Rate! So, the altitude at which radiation can be freely emitted does not get colder with more CO2, it gets warmer, negating everything in the warmist model. PS: The atmosphere has 5 layers: troposphere - cools with increasing altitude (The Lapse Rate), until the tropopause statosphere - warms with increasing altitude, until the statopause mesosphere - cools with increasing altitude, until the mesopause themosphere - warms with increasing altitude exosphere - so rarefied that it may as well be vacuum.
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  1020. I've not noticed the "far right thriving". What do they even mean by a "far right"? Is there a definition they work to?, or, are they making up categories such a "far right" so that they can grandstand and wave their morally superior, self-conceited egos at us?
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  1021. We knew communism was captured years ago, but we didn't know how completely it was controlled till now.
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  1022. "Eric", discussed here, seems to be Eric Weinstein : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein - worth listening to some of his interviews.
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  1023. We can't really call them activists can we? Unless, we call The Inquisition "activist".
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  1024. For the Enlightenment, I recommend Anthony Pagden's book "The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters". Strictly speacking it's not a history or summary of The Enlightenment, but it presents a unified story of such, and it is a deep book.
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  1025. “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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  1026. "No one's going to be winning any Oscars for this one." <- We alread know that. Oscars reserved for woke.
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  1027. "Talk to the climate change people" <- as if; they are ignorant fools who believe what criminals running the world tell them to think.
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  1028. Iodine pills are probably more useful to the average person than a Geiger counter. If there's a severe radiation release near you, go away or do one iodine pill daily for about 3 months afterward - to protect yourself from Iodine-131, for about 10 of its half lives. After 80 days (ten half-lives of I-131), the environment will no longer present an existential risk to you.
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  1029. Was the BBC put under pressure by the British government? The BBC IS the British Government.
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  1030. It is not "common sense". It's an empircism-first approach to understanding the world. KK is applying the methods of the European Enlightenment ;but not the "big thinkers"; more the little thinkers. KK is more Denis Diderot than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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  1031. Police arrest a second suspect. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/brazil-police-arrest-2nd-suspect-for-amazons-missing-pair/ A local fisherman - not a drug cartel member. Cocaine isn't grown by the river (it's grown on the side of hills), nor is it a drug trafficking area.
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  1032. The fact he got published, shows he was right about there being a formula for getting published. Anyone who ever tried to converse with a Nature editor on the topic of climate will know that. Interesting that SB considers "climate change deniers" to be worse than her enemies. Sabine: who are these enemies you have who are worse than "climate change deniers"?
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  1033. Taking Ls IRL Taking Ls = taking losses IRL = in real life
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  1034. He bullies by playing the victim. The 2 go hand-in-hand
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  1035. 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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  1036. Can't see the point to that ironic joke. Since, in reality, they'd ban uranium and plutonium.
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  1037. Before the post-1950s growth in universities the average student IQ = 120. Today the average undergraduate IQ = 102. We don't need universities to brainwash and program midwits - mass media can do that. Because when the university is turned into a machine to brainwash midwits it must also become a place where potential genius is be stunted. We only need universities for people with actual elite capability. For an Einstein, Nietzsche, Boghossian, Bohr, Euler, Newton, Fibonacci, ... For the people we need to evolve a better world. Narrow obsessions of the woke elite: diversity, equity, inclusion, sustainability, intersectionality, ... are actually harmful to the long-term progress and functioning of societies because institutions which program ressentiment into people are harmful to the society they supposedly exist for.
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  1038. She'll probably try to turn the issue around to accuse her accusers. But they won't be accused of white fragility. They'll be accused of bening MAGA-adjacent.
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  1039. "This is who Elon Musk is, as a free-speech absolutist" <- He thinks Elon's a king who secretly poisons people! No, he's not. He's a billionaire who openly fleeces people. <- I don't think Elon is a "free-speech absolutist" either. He's been in charge of Twitter for nearly 2 weeks, hasn't he?, Elon still hasn't recinded my ban at Twitter - imposed on me by the U.S. secret state = the Department for Homeland Secutiry. <- This actor gives a bad rendition of Herbert Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance idea. It's a hypocritical idea, shilled by bigots. Marcuse said you need to ban fascists (and possibly "right wingers"). I'm not a Fascist; nor a "right-winger". I'm anti-fascist; of the original variety - not one of the Anti-Fa forgeries. <- Listening to self-styled progressives and liberals shill for the authoritarian state kind of turns my stomach. Hang on while I get my sick bag.
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  1040. Throw that judge in prison where he belongs - after an appropriate trial, of course.
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  1041. US 2022 elections will be on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested.
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  1042.  @BeneathTheFoogyDew  I never said they could stories not. But the purpose of a story is fundamentally at odds with facts. Postmodernism basically says everything is a story, or narrative. Not everything is. Nor is every fiction and ideology a mere "story" either. Postmodernism thought it had explained ideologies by reducing it to narratives, stories, parables and metaphors. But that only set our thinking back by imposing its story "arch-narrative" on everything - which is really just a grand mystification. Time to bury this befuddling pomo meme. I recommend "The Grip of Culture" by Andy West, as a very different take on grand narratives and ideology.
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  1043.  @willmercury  If you think it's "ideologically- motivated", explain the ideological motivations behind it. Is your accusation of "ideologically- motivated" just a logical fallacy? Just a clever ad hom?
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  1044.  @paulaustinmurphy  I disagree. When they collect key facts, the pomos have a reality distortion field affecting them - called bias. They encourage themselves by seeing their bias a good thing. This "my biases are good" attitude now afflicts everyone and everything. This is how I distinguish facts from stories (or narrative) * Facts = what happened. All of it - the facts which 'fit the narrative', plus those which don't. * Stories = When we tell a 'story' we leave our certain facts which contradict or break the narrative. So, yes, a set of facts can be a "narrative", provided one recites those facts as a story (leaving our any facts which don't fit). But a narrative (of facts) does not tell the total, undiluted truth.
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  1045. Q: Explain the ideological motivations? A: We don't like to criticize our own group; so we leave out inconvenient facts. Like pomos do when they recite their narratives of power/knowledge, postcolonialism, genderism, ... Like the establishment do when they give us their DEI, and ESG goals. Like the climate nutters do when they always bias the narrative of "good environment hurt by bad humans" by censoring out reality (facts) which don't fit their goals. Like the educational establishment do when they give us "progressive education", ... Bias is often unconscious. PS: I probably don't use "ideology" like you do. For many people ideology means politicized ideas. For me, all ideas are politicized anyhow - so it's all ideology. So it's something we have to fight our minds against. Skeptical thinking mandates us to search out those inconvenient - contra-narrative - facts and forces us to tell those facts too.
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  1046.  @nickcrosby9875  Consensus? No - we never reach a consensus. That's a myth. A group may reach a consensus. For example: Marxists, Muslims, Woke, Trumpists. But "we" can never reach a consensus. I look at consensus claims as attempted power grabs.
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  1047. "Oppenheimer was a bit of a lefy" <- So much so, that in the 1930s, the US Communist Party held meetings in Oppenheimer's home.
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  1048. "Somehow we're going to bury God, then everyone will be living in a rational paradise" - Peter Ha ha. Made me laugh. I suspect even many of the new atheists are borderline insane. In the way the "born again", and pure-landers are. Look at Sam Harris. Rational much? I can't say for sure because I was never part of new atheism, although I cheered it on! Since it ended many of them changed their names to "skeptic" - but they aren't. They think skepticism is a hammer to bash off-beat and slightly loony ideas such as: homeopathy, astrology, flat-earth, alien saucers. Most of these born again "skeptics" are just bullies and name-callers. Same people who hammer astrology fall hook, line and sinker for woke nonsense such as self-ID, climate hysteria, anti-poplarism, uncritical race theory, gender-bending, ... My "skepticism", in constrast, is just my attempt to channel Enlightenment empiricism. I suppose the safest term for me is "empiricist" or "based". Peter makes a lot of sense to me, but I never understood his climate alarmism. I suppose Pinker, Dawkins, Harris, most of those new atheists are climate alarmists. Maybe Peter took it from them? All the best to the Uni of Austin. If it can keep out the evil administrators, and "we only recruit politically correct" mentality - it should turn out excellent. Oh, and none of these mean, hateful, "studies" courses please.
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  1049. Our religious leaders - such as Rory - believe in a God called Gaslighting, and a church called Politics.
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  1050. Norah Vincent died via assisted suicide at a clinic in Switzerland on July 6, 2022, aged 53.
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  1051. Higher production values!. Similar game-graphic / synth pop intro.
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  1052. There were few alternatives back then. OK, one could find the truth out but it took a lot of investigation on one's part. One often needed some skill in forming search engine queries. Today I can just listen to a podcast; back then I couldn't.
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  1053. As if a new woke audience are going to start listening to Radio 2 and take over from the previous OAP audience! This is self vandalism from the BBC. Wokes out there - are playing their games - or whatever else they do. Many of BBCs woke target audience probably don't even know what a radio is let alone how to tune into one! Didn't the BBC also wreck Radio 4?
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  1054. "We have just got to take the lefties word for it about glaciers and polar bears" <- You forgot double exclamation marks at the end of your ironic sentence. The internet does not naturally do irony, which is why one must be explicit about it.
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  1055. Calling anyone "fascist" is outrageous. I'm not having any she/hers nor he/hims dictating my speech - nor any journos.
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  1056. "gender affirming care" = transing kids, otherwise known as "grooming".
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  1057. 1) When talking about "needing to understand the Ukraine", why didn't Pilger mention: Holodomor, the Gteat Purge, the mass deportations to Gulag slave labour camps, the Sovietization, ..., how mass deportations from Ukraine began again under the Russian invasion. 2) But I really want to see John Pilger asked about transing, EU, Brexit, Trump, DEI, social and emotional learning, equity, ESG, why corporations are obsessed with transing kids, ... <- all that culture war stuff.
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  1058. The story may be debunked but it sounds exactly like the thing the modern Left are prepared to die on the hill for.
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  1059. Joe Rogan uses politicised science to bully Candace. It's not working; she's a strong woman.
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  1060.  @AnthonyMartinez-ym8nr  Hasn't Rogan recently interviewed climate alarmists: Lawrence Krauss and Andrew Dessler? Didn't one of them say "I refuse to discuss climate science because the science is settled. I will only talk about mitigation". Didn't Rogan nod his head in agreement? Rogan is easily conned by fake scientists like this using anti-science arguments to bully people into line.
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  1061.  @lilbabyjessie8686  So now you want me to read their minds? They, presumably can read my mind when they attribute my motives. I can't read theirs'.
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  1062.  @lilbabyjessie8686  "Scientists", as you call them, are just regular people. They are about as honest or dishonest as Jill & Joe Public. They are not special people immune to lying or dishonesty. As such - when they can get away with it they may fake data & even publish fraudulent research - if it helps their career. [ Yes - I can give you plenty of evidence of scientists doing just that ]. It is far easier to fake data to get results which fit whatever hypothesis one proposes than it is to observe the ideal supporting data in reality. So, we must be as circumspect taking advice from scientists as we'd be taking advice from used car salesmen or drug pushers. At the very least : every scientific study we accept as evidence should only be taken seriously after it's been replicated. In a large scale replication experiment of recent studies, only ~ third of the results were replicated. The majority of the scientific studies could not be replicated. Furtherance of ones career is as good a motive for creating fake science as any other motive.
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  1063. Weird choice of "philosophical" sci-fi. I guess everyone has their own definition of "philosophy". It seems that for many of you: philosophy means speculative.
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  1064. I don't want to eulogize "experts", but, ... Why are we discussing this with a "Professor of International Relations". If epistemic relativism has taken over universities - shouldn't one be asking philosophers or psychologists why? I raise this point because elsewhere, in another debate, a poster claimed that no one should be taken seriously outside their subject domain! - implying that nowt Prof Stokes says about epistemic relativism (AKA: truth is a Western myth), or postmodernism is to be taken seriously! So we have a paradox - people who think "truth is a myth" telling us that "only subject specialist experts know the truth"!! That's obviously tosh. But why are the best minds at universities telling me it?
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  1065. Ah, so not their ignorance and marketing incompetence at all. It's all part of the masterplan!
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  1066. When I hear "her penis", I think "you prick"
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  1067. Invasion? Not really "serious", and a series, not a movie, but..., it used to only happen in kids TV & movies. Are they all for kids now?
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  1068. You diagnosed a symptom but aren't addressing it by giving us a counter debate style. For example, should we refuse to debate or talk with those who degrade and mock opponents? Because that plays into their hands. Such people are forever trying to censor and cancel their critics. Because they often believe that they can push their ideas by stopping public expression of all ideas contrary to theirs.
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  1069. A. Pomos keep telling me: pomo is more a state of society than just a state of ideas. pomo philosophy means 2 things: 1. Derridian decontruction 2. Foucaltdian power/knowledge B. Truth is a multifaceted word. (Both A.1 and A.2 above share this attitude [it's a myth] to "truth"). Within philosophy truth has a long history and is essential to any philosophical critique. Pre-pomo used truth as a way to criticise bad ideas. So when pomo comes along to tell us truth is myth or worse, then they trash the entire history of philosophy prior to pomo, and the very possibility of critique. By trashing philosophy and truth in this way, pomo takes dishonesty to a new level of cynicism and narcissism. C. Louis Althusser? = not a postmodernist. He was a Marxist. His introduction is a red herring, a whataboutism. Jaques Lacan = not a pomo either. What's with the whataboutisms? D. Government may not be run by pomos but pomos share ideas & attitudes with government: Cynicism and narcissism. E. Peterson's criticism of pomo is a little OTT. But since pomo criticises and trashes the whole of philosophy prior to pomo - I think Peterson's response is appropriate. When the philosophy war descends to nuke weapons. Nukes will go in both directions.
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  1070. Free Speech is a paradoxical issue with respect to climate. Triggers should try to interview free speech "activists" such as Index on Censorship; who tell us they're the "voice of free speech", that they "campaign for free expression and promote debate". So I had a look at what IoC have to say on climate change at their website. They ignore industrial scale media censorship (Sky, C4, BBC, ...) who promote "climate crisis" by fraudulently telling audiences extreme weather is 'climate change'. IoC writers dehumanize climate skeptics as "climate deniers" (their language). They worry about UKIP policy documents back in 2014 but haven't a word to say regarding UK government climate scare propaganda. Guess who funds IoC? That well known "climate denier" and funder of "fossil fuel shills": Charles Koch. The very same billionaire who is about the most hated man in the world by eco-activists. Did I say "paradoxical"?
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  1071. Dave Rubin said: "the Left know what they want" No. Wrong. The Left don't know what they want. They know the world we live in is evil. They know they want to change it. They don't know what they want to change it to. Yet, following Marx, they want to tear everything down, so that they can start argain. This is partly why so many of their modern ideas are crackpot beyond belief. "Women born in men's bodies". No, they're not joking. They took a Monty Python comedy script from decades ago but believe it's real!! Unless we believe their same madness - we're supposed to be "evil" people (Facsist, transgenocidal, extreme right, ..., blah) I guess we know why they think the world is evil - because most of us disagree with them, on their crackpot ideas.
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  1072. "Convert golf courses to nature reserves" <- why are they obsessed with "nature reserves"?
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  1073. It would not be cool for our leaders to the run by postmoderns. It would be hell. Oh, wake up. It is hell. These comics give us COVID lockdowns, and promise climate lockdowns. Were our leaders even more disconnected from reality it'd be even worse.
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  1074. Anti-semitism and, also anti-Americanism. Ask a Muslim about anything happening in a Muslim country; especially about politics. Within a few minutes they'd find a way to implicate Mossad or the CIA over some random evil. How does this Manichaean anti-semetic worldview originate? Is it Islam itself? The story goes: at Islams birth, the prophet fled for his life to Medina. There were 3 jewish tribes there. One by one, his enemies from Mecca attacked. One after another a Jewish tribe sided against the prophet. The first 2 Jewish tribes were expelled from Medina for their sins. The 3rd were exterminated after the 3rd attack from Mecca was repulsed. It's no dount a 'hate crime' to complain of anything narrated in the Koran justifying such mass murder on the basis of religion. Yet muslims accuse Israel of mass murder (genocide) in Gaza everyday. Sickens me.
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  1075. Accountability is the cure for bad ideas. The reason there's so little accountability today is because our politicians have divested themselves of power and responsibility for decades. By farming out power to: QUANGOs, IGOs, GOs, expert panels, judges, even charities and NGOs, So we now how tiny cliques such as the Bank of England, and the Climate Change Committee - who have more power over our lives than any of our elected politicians. None of that power in any way accountable. This neutered system is what Curtis calls Democracy. I call it anti-Democracy.
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  1076. Almost every single non-woke YouTube channel I subscribe to seems to fail on me sometime after about 5 minutes. This is the only one today when I reached the 8 minute mark.
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  1077. The Wikipedia explanation: "Noble gas is translated from the German noun Edelgas, first used in 1898 by Hugo Erdmann to indicate their extremely low level of reactivity. The name makes an analogy to the term "noble metals", which also have low reactivity." ... "The term noble metal can be traced back to at least the late 14th century and has slightly different meanings in different fields of study and application"
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  1078. Always a joy, for me, when the YouTube algorithm recommends one of Joe's videos. Alongside Peter Boghossian - Joe is surely my fave Internet philosopher. I just now searched Joe's channel for "Intrinsic Instrumental rationality" but found nowt. I'd love Joe to do a video on Weber's concept of Intrinsic versus Instrumental rationality - because I think this is the defining issue of our age! It seems the university has now been entirely colonized by proselytizers for instrumental rationality. That this preference among our elites for instrumental reason had a detrimental effect on society - in that it corrodes the value society places on objective truth. It's now become hard to defend objective truth, because one is never defending it against a concept of subjective truth - as no one advances that as an ideal. Instead, pragmatists (AKA - ends-justify-the-means) thinkers will argue for pragmatism or even for a "utopian" concept of truth. This pragmatic version of truth will be "if it works for me, it works". The Utopian version of truth will be, for example: "I want to live in a world where trans-people have rights, so, ... when I say "people can be born in the wrong body", or "I can be any gender I want to be" - what I really mean by that it "we should be able to". In other words - activists will create the "utopian" societies they want to live in by framing the social conversation in their terms - not in terms of objective truth. Another example of utopian truth trumping objective truth are the Net Zero policies enacted by elites to stop "climate crisis" and "global boiling". Religion - as a pragmatic - ends-justify-the-means - project poses the same dilemmas for truth as activism.
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  1079. Why do people present vapour ware as real technology? There's no big money in it for journalists doing this. One explanation is "climate activism". Climate activists flood media with apocalyptic man-made climate doom stories. This propaganda depresses people and depressed people tend to despair - they lose their motivation. Q: So how do we keep ourselves and other people motivated under the pressure of climate doom? A: The answer is called "climate optimism". Climate optimism commits one to always see the bright side of renewable energy. Activists are taught to balance the climate doom with an equal measure of climate optimism.
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  1080. Woke originates in Rousseau? I can't see it. Why not just blame woke on the '60s? I think woke is a shotgun marriage of postmodernism and Kant. More correctly neo-Kantianisms like Rawls. Post-modernism destroyed the foundations of Western reason; and taught that the West was evil, and that the 'other' was sacred. Neo-Kantianism came along with new value systems. As likely as not: woke didn't need neo-Kantianism; Kant would've been sufficient. I'm looking at Feminism, and the Green movement too through the refraction of neo-Kantianism; they are both value systems. Much of their value systems end up pretty arbitrary. This is a characteristic of Kant - like it or not. I guess Starkey can square the circle by blaming postmodernism on Rousseau!
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  1081.  @ChristMerch  40 - 50 years ago they - the media - believed in objective truth. They admitted they were biased but believed they could overcome, or mitigate bias by aiming toward objective truth. Then the Left were colonized by Postmodernism. Belief in objective truth vanished and the Left became mindless partizans for propaganda. I know, because I watched it happen.
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  1082. They are way too kind to Stalin. "After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin was able to take control of the government, and began to form the gulag system. On June 27, 1929, the Politburo created a system of self-supporting camps that would eventually replace the existing prisons around the country. These prisons were meant to receive inmates that received a prison sentence that exceeded three years. Prisoners that had a shorter prison sentence than three years were to remain in the prison system that was still under the purview of the NKVD. The purpose of these new camps was to colonise the remote and inhospitable environments throughout the Soviet Union. These changes took place around the same time that Stalin started to institute collectivisation and rapid industrial development. Collectivisation resulted in a large scale purge of peasants and so-called Kulaks. The Kulaks were supposedly wealthy (comparatively to other Soviet peasants) and were considered to be capitalists by the state, and by extension enemies of socialism. The term would also become associated with anyone who opposed or even seemed unsatisfied with the Soviet government. By late 1929 Stalin began a program known as dekulakization. Stalin demanded that the kulak class be completely wiped out, resulting in the imprisonment and execution of Soviet peasants. In a mere four months, 60,000 people were sent to the camps and another 154,000 exiled. This was only the beginning of the dekulakisation process, however. In 1931 alone 1,803,392 people were exiled." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Formation_and_expansion_under_Stalin
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  1083. Now that there are so many politically orientated charities - many of them woke - it's getting harder to argue that giving to charity is better altruism than creating a new charitable foundations - as Gates seems to have done.
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  1084. Twitter woke employees having a bad time with Musk? Cheer-up, Twitter boys, girls and things, Take a break from woke, go joke. It's Halloween. Time for partying (like everyday at Twitter), and costumes. Get your costumes here: https://greenfallacies.blogspot.com/2022/10/halloween-costumes.html One for every gender. PS: Apologies for not posting these 3 (joke) images directly but that recklessness already cost me my Facebook account!
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  1085. To those people who've read his book - is Robert Plomin able to put a check on his speculations? I'm only interested in what the data shows, and what can cause it.
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  1086. How will we ever know they are a "true intellectual" unless they venture into the public sphere to give us their argments to to face down the pseuds?
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  1087. intersectionality <- no such "discipline". intersectionality is just a left-wing diatribe against civilization there to hide a Marxist hate of such.
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  1088. Callousness and psychopathy are not the same. Psychopaths are generally skilled liars, who lie to gain advantage over us and callously take advantage. So far, Abigail's said nowt about deception and lying.
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  1089. Seems it's open season on Veritasium. See: "Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc Did the "fact checkers" only just discover "Propaganda" and "BUSTING!"? Or, more likely, did they fall out with Veritasium?
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  1090. Jordan Peterson understands that Marx's ideas led to communism and it killed 100 million, or so, people in the previous century. None of Marx, Engels, nor their intellectual descendents ever bothered to tackle the democratic deficit in their ideas. 100 million Spectres are haunting this debate.
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  1091. "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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  1092. 1) The residence time of carbon dioxide, CO2, in the atmosphere is about 7 years. Take some CO2 out of the atmosphere - then the ratio of the partial pressure, PP, of CO2 in the atmosphere to the PP of CO2 in the oceans will be upset. So, according to Henry's Law - the oceans will release more CO2 into the atmosphere to replace the CO2 you, so expensively, removed. The amount of carbon stored in oceans is about 50 times greater than the atmospheric carbon. Henry's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_law 2) Carbon dioxide does not "heat up the planet". That's a nonsense claim.
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  1093. Re: strange union of Postmodernism and Marxism. Even weirder is "LGBTQ+ for Islam". They're existential threats to each other. LGBTQ+ is an intellectual threat to Islam and Islam is a material threat to LGBTQ+. In constrast, Postmodernism and Marxism are mostly dead ideas. Last time I looked I could only find a single Marxian economist trying to do new work. Postmodernism has had nowt new added to it in over 4 decades. Surely it's easy to take two dead dogmas, to cherry pick bits from both to apply them as crutches?
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  1094. Do Postmodernists know what they're talking about?
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  1095. "I'd like to see Elon simply withdraw Twitter service in countries that oppose free speech" Why?
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  1096. The blame is on globalists actually. They basically split us up into little isolated groups, each dependent on state power. It's identity politics but is as old as divide and conquer.
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  1097. New Statesman are experts at giving us alternative facts - AKA lies. They resent other people doing the same thing.
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  1098. Surely if it's not drama - it's, eh, avant guard comedy?, or maybe their AI-authors have massive bugs in them? That's it. They're using AI authors, which collect other plots and melange them together. But add continuity errors, and contradictions. Oh course, the show-runner never bothers reading these scripts.
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  1099. 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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  1100. Did Dan say Luna or Looney?
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  1101. There are nearly one million Palestinian Christians, and 177,000 Israeli Christians. Nothing to say about these people?
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  1102. But how does Kemi propose to beat our real enemies: the Globalists? Dose she even recognise the threat?
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  1103. Still waiting for what should've been Kemi's first question.
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  1104. "Marxism, Stalinism, Nazism, Postmodernism, Feminism" <- 4 ideologies driven by ideology. 1 ideology driven by anti-ideology!
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  1105. Which perfectly explains their weekly meetings.
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  1106. Same people who tell me they don't know what "woke" is!
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  1107. Joe's explanation of Leiter's ideas don't seem to touch on free speech but instead on freedom to access to information. Free speech, for example, in the political and policy realm are about what solutions to social issues can be advanced. For example, the so-called "climate crisis". This is an example of a minority of political and scientific elites forcing the rest of society into neo-Malthusian, neo-eugenic social policies (such as expensive, rationed energy). They did this by trashing free-speech and open enquiry in the scientific realm. It's not so much that freedon of speech is great. More the case that censorship and restriction of enquiry is catastrophically bad.
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  1108. 1) The story of how Trump bought Twitter seems plausible to me. $44bn for a loss-making web site employing less than 10k people! Made no sense to me. 2) You may hate Twitter now, but prior to Musk buying it I was banned for life from it - so were about a quarter million other people - mostly because we'd questioned COVID authoritarianism and gaslighting. Why does James Ball think supporting free speech is right-wing? How does mass banning of Twitter users prevent misinformation? I never made any racist posts on Twitter, nor incitement. But this joke of a journalist - James Ball - just accused me of being a "racist right-winger". This is attack on free-speech & democracy by intellectual pigmies pretending to be journalists. This journalist clearly did no good research. Because one cannot attack free-speech without also attacking democracy - given free-speech in society is be bedrock upon which democracy rests. I suspect both these presenters are spooks - they promote mass spying and censorship. If they're not spooks what are their motives? BTW: I was banned from Twitter on the orders of ex-spooks. Read Michael Schellenberger for the truth behind the Twitter mass bans. Not James Ball.
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  1109. What is a good book on Bad Ethics?, on Ethics gone wrong? On ethical systems which people, or societies, thought they had but which turned out to be actually evil.
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  1110. It is an Islamic thing. Charlie Peters should study the actual history and reality of Islam. Robert Spencer - The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran Darío Fernández-Morera - The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel Yasmine Mohammed - Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
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  1111. "So what if I'm a Fascist?" <- she's lose her job & expert status had she said that <- Yet, communists killed more people than fascists in the last 100 years
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  1112. How was progressivism entirely colonized by anti-humanism? Modern progressivism = pro-abortion, pro-transing, pro-euthanasia, pro-lockdown, anti-growth, anti-equality / pro-'equity', pro- untested, harmful, mandatory VAXxes. I know your answer will be either: - progressivism was always owned by anti-humanism, or - progressivism was bought by WEF/billionaires I don't buy either. Those answers imply that all progressives are venal, uncaring, careerists; ready and able to 'spew' any old crap the elites want them to.
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  1113. Are you aware of the political spectrum? Or are you a mere useful idiot for those funding and manipulating the ideas which animate you?
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  1114. Mallen Baker is a propagandist and this video is propaganda; not a good interview. Triggernometry just aren't competent enough to unearth the truth. Their interview is pathetic. At no stage do they give Mallen Baker a single difficult question. Mallen Baker is a snob who cherry picks doom-laden mathematical models predicting a climate dystopia. He's not a scientist. He knows nothing about 'climate change' or science. Mallen Baker calls himself "not remotely ideological". You can't make it up! He is an ex- activist and professional politician; ex-leader of the Green Party. He is ONLY an ideologist who claims to be "in the middle". He literally LIES in this interview about wind and solar being cheaper!! Science is an empirical enterprise; it's all about experiments, tests and observations under controlled conditions. Scientists call these tests: validations and falsifications. A falsification is an experimental test which looks at core scientific ideas and attempts to empirically refute the idea. For example, in 1887, when Michelson and Morley discovered (for sure) that the speed of light was constant for all observers, they incidentally falsified Newton's physics. In addition, the failure of anyone to find an 'ether'; assumed by Newton, was also a falsification. 18 years later, A young Swiss patent office clerk explained new physics. Man-made climate change has been falsified time and again. Science is clearly too boring for Triggernometry, so they end up with a wishy-washy interview like this. With self-styled experts, like Mallen, who literally don't know the first thing about climates, are eulogised. Mathematical modellers, Mallen Baker idolizes, don't do science. They play with computers. Mallen Baker fell for the models because they gel with his gloom-laden eco-doom future. The mathematical modellers he idolizes refuse to do science (the don't try to validate or falsify their ideas) and they refuse to debate real scientists who do such empirical work. These modellers are fraudsters not scientists. The Greens also refuse to debate actual science. It's almost as if they made a pact with the establishment! Oh wait a minute, they did make a pact in 1988 when every Green NGO agreed to be the propaganda foot soldiers for made-made global warming. The IPCC mathematical modellers cherry pick everything. 1. IPCC brief is ONLY to look for evidence FOR man-made climate change. There is no attempt to look at natural climate change causes in the IPCC documents. 34 years of documents and reports. No serious investigation into the climate made. 2. The establishment only appoint 'scientists' who agree to write propaganda. Those scientists aren't actually scientists. Gaining a science degree doesn't make one a scientist. Doing science makes one a scientist. Doing science means discovering how the natural world works. It's all about doing tests, experiments, observations. AKA validations and falsifications. 3. The most important document IPCC author: the 'Summary for Policymakers' is entirely authored by politicos - not by scientists. The only role scientists have wrt the Summary for Policymakers is to retrospectively alter the WG1 science report such that nothing in the science contradicts what the policymakers decided. This SfPM is the only thing our politicians ever read about climate change. They live in a mindless echo-chamber. Their minions (IPCC policy wonks) write reports to summarize The Science. IPCC SfPM reports are, in reality, fake science. 5. The IPCC began in 1988 when their first act was to recruit every green NGO and green politician to be their propaganda foot soldiers. 6. Mallen Baker is a propagandist, partly responsible for the doom and gloom his hacks in the Green Party manufactured. "Solve the problem of climate change". <- There is no problem. The sun controls the climate not the man. There are mathematical models refuted by actual data and experiment. These modellers - like the green activists - refuse to debate their critics. Triggernometry cannot interview on this topic because they are too biased and neither is a scientist. 34 years of establishment sponsored brain-washing made them too biased to interview on this issue.
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  1115.  @kevinoneill2090  Everyone who "believes in" man-made climate change is an extremist to me! I you, personally, "believe in" man-made climate change then show us the empirical evidence which convinced you to "believe in" it. I've looked for the evidence. No one can show me any of it because there is no evidence. Armies of green zombies are happy to call me a "climate denier", but not a single one of them have seen, or read, any actual scientific evidence for what they "believe in". I'm familiar with greens who debunked AGW - I read Peter Taylor's book "Chill" over 5 years ago. Mallen Baker does not come across, in this interview, as a green skeptic (AKA: a skeptic who is green).
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  1116. They're not (generally) doing fraud, nor even junk-science. So the traditional methods of correcting science do not work. You may say that data homogenization in climate science is "fraud" but they don't see it that way. Instead they think they're "improving" science. The same kind of data tampering happens in particle physics too: nearly all the data is filtered out - based on obscure criteria. From the remaining "signal" they make their particle physics.
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  1117. "Shop's owner cited 'lack of generational wealth/capital seed' as the reason" why it shut (according to the Daily Mail) <- shocked to see that capitalists don't support anti-capitalism!
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  1118. "May be a minority" <- people who researched it seem to think AGPs (autogynephiliacs) are the majority. 60% or so, of "transwomen".
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  1119. Q: What's wrong with saying "transwomen are transwomen", or "transwomen are women"? A: In reality, "transwomen are men". I'll side with TERFs on this. It's unnecessarily confusing to call men women or to label women as men.
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  1120. No. At least one can stand on astroturf. Tories are more quicksand, or virutal astroturf. Fake of a fake.
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  1121. One question we must ask: 1. Did she get hormone treatment such as testosterone? Excessive male hormone supplementation has a long association with agression and violence - which is why it's a controlled drug in the UK. I just heard she began transitioning to male about a year ago without the support of her family. This transition involves taking high does of male hormones such as testosterone.
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  1122. "Laying off underperforming workers!" <- What a great idea!
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  1123. The problem with this argument "never believe anything on the internet" is: - authorities are sometimes lying to us - mass media are often lying to us - TV is often lying to us - your best friend, whom you sometimes seek advice from, ... Even your university professor may be lying to you - perhaps - without even knowing it! (or worse: fully or partially knowing it)
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  1124. 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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  1125. Originally all drinking water came from rainfall. So all mineral water is unnatural?
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  1126. Guardian declare Bros a "winner" with a 4-star review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/10/bros-review-billy-eichners-all-lgbtq-romantic-comedy-is-a-winner . Yet, strangely, it didn't make their 12 best LBGTQ+ movie list? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/29/favorite-lgbtq-movies-nighthawks-tangerine
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  1127. 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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  1128. Liberty is impossible in autocracries. Autocracies also become corrupt quickly so business doesn't do well in such a situation - not in the long term. "The tyrrany of the majority" <- This is only bad when the majority are "tyrranizing"; as in the French Revolution.
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  1129.  @WhiteCavendish  Liberty without government is called anarchy. I'm not sure it's existed anywhere, at anytime. Maybe for Robinson Crusoe alone on his desert island. My point is that Liberty is not an abstract thing - Liberty within a community depends on government - because some force has to contend between rival individual claims. Government is related to democracy. Government without checks will become autocratic. Even with checks it may also become autocratic because the tendency for those in power is to let power go to their heads - as we witnessed during COVID lockdowns. So ONLY democratic institutions can check power. Because ONLY democratic institutions can be reformed to suite the many rather than the few. Because of all I wrote above: Liberty depends on democracy. You pretend you can have liberty without democracy. You fool yourself. Can you name me a single example of liberty without democracy? No. So if the point is liberty, then the point must also be democracy. Because democracy is a precondition for liberty.
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  1130.  @WhiteCavendish  And I actually said that without democracy there is no liberty. Absence of a functioning democracy was the reason why they were able to enforce COVID lockdowns. Add to that: democracy is more than just a voting system. Democracy is a system in which all voices are heard, and the elites are not able to railroad their COVID, climate, transing, or whatever agendas. So liberty, and free-speech are essential for democracy too. Liberty is not the telos of a republic: public wealth and welfare are. BTW: "pure democracy" - is an abstraction, therefore a fiction. I talk about the world as it is - not as it's written.
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  1131. So..., Q: What was the mechanism which enabled such authoritarianism? A: Unaccountable politicians, bureaucrats and experts. When people get power it goes to their heads. Once we give them such power they abuse it. This is half the story of world history. Unless we can make them more accountable and representative - I don't see how to otherwise stop their abuses.
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  1132.  @WhiteCavendish  It has nothing to do with respect. It's about force and power. There is no constituency to promote liberty.
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  1133. 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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  1134.  @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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  1135. There are no trans-people. They're a myth. Not a creation of media and press; but a fabrication by the Leftist academy financed by billionaires such as Soros. An anti-social ideology to fit the anti-social ideal-vision of the modern academy.
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  1136. "has almost universally led people to assume..." <- No. I don't assume everything has substance to it unless I know the author or they provide a link to their substance. Where is your link to the long substantial critique of almost everyone you're claiming here?
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  1137. It was having a bad effect on civilization, but not only Twitter: all social media.
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  1138. Isn't "current policy" supposed to be public information?
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  1139.  @Cunnysmythe  When you censor something you are pro-censorship. There's never an excuse to censor legal speech and ideas. Un-"freedom of reach" is censorship. BTW: Almost everyone claims to support free speech. But when you converse with individuals, you'll discover they usually want to ban various legal speech. Paradoxical but real - most people are inconsistent. This is why I conclude Voltaire was right - free-speech even for my enemies because - the alternative is a public sphere run by agenda-driven billionaires and politicians. BTW: I am still banned on Twitter. I am not a terrorist, pornographer, bot, "troll", politician, child abuser, ..., blah.
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  1140. I'd love to hear the argument you presented to the Russians for such cooperation. Perhaps you recorded the Russian reply to your point and would like to post it here for us?
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  1141.  @Holly_Fae  Did you mean to say Russians need to listen to John Lennon? I don't.
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  1142. If burning a Koran is hate speech why isn't it also hate speech to put a video up burning a poppy on Rememberance Day? Reckless incitement isn't "free speech". Speech is about ideas. If you want to challenge an institution - please do it with an idea.
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  1143. Marc Sidwell comes across as the classic toff elitist. When asked about a disagreement he suggests the fault is with Twitter: if only we great unwashed masses weren't rioting on social media (or whatever other evil we get up to). Perhaps toffs will pressurize Twitter to ban trouble-makers? - that's exactly what this Tory government did! What a surprise - who could possibly expect toffs to censor their critics?. Never saw that coming! Sidwell then proceeds to eulogise Johnathan Haight - the very same guy who makes claims he cannot defend, and doesn't bother to defend but uses influence to cancel people who refute him. Classic toff behaviour - I can see why Sidwell admires Haight.
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  1144. Destiny is a fool. Anyone who claims Trump is "Fascist" is insane.
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  1145. There are many problems with appeal to authority. 1. Authorities can be wrong: mistaken or dishonest. 2. Authorities may be simplfying complex or uncertain arguments & evidence to justify dubious policy. 3. So instead of appealing to an authority - why not repeat the argument made by that authority. In which case - if you know the authority's argument - why are you "appealing to authority" in the first place? 4. AtA is routinely used to by-pass discussion and reason. Which I assert is bad for: democracy and civil society. 5. Authorities may want to simplify an argument to short-circuit a policy discussion 6. Those who cite an authority rarely know what the authority's argument is. They try to end discussions over policy by claiming the: "issue is settled"; because "X knows ...", and X has decided. So AtA is a way to by-pass an argument. One does not provide the authority's rationale, one simply says Professor X knows and Z is the policy Professor X favors; or Y is the argument Professor X showed (without you having to give that argument). Very often - those citing the authority haven't the faintest idea what Professor X said nor do they care. 7. So: AtA is routinely used by elites to shore up their power. The puppets and minions of the elites resort to AtA so often, and so routinely that - along with monstering (ad hominem) AtA is one of the most common, and evil, logical fallacies. Try to make it your habit to never appeal to authority. Instead - learn the argument and cite the evidence. If necessary, get yourself a notebook to summarise your point (I'm sure you have one already!) Because each time you rely on AtA, you make it easier for charlatans, authoritarians and anti-democrats to hide bad arguments behind AtA.
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  1146. Candace Owens is right, but possibly for the wrong reason. Joe Rogan is wrong, also for the wrong reasons. Joe Rogan told a lie. He said the vast majority of scientists believe in man-made climate change; means he thinks the vast majority of scientists are climate alarmists. Scientists are skeptics. They believe nothing Scientific American says. Scientific American is a woke pseudoscience publication. Two people talking about climate change who don't know the evidence. BORING.
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  1147. CO2 has nothing to do with mass extinctions, nor climate temperature rises. No evidence shows a link with CO2 to either. CO2 and H2O(g) [water vapour] - the two demonized "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere are both essential to life on earth. They are the gases of life, not death. Plant photosynthesis is the basis for life on earth. It makes carbohydrate (glucose) from CO2, H2O and sunlight. CO2 is literally the gas of life. Your comment on the "Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event and the Late Devonian" is a literal lie. Sure atmospheric CO2 rises and falls. When global ocean temperatures fall, CO2 is sucked into the oceans (from the atmosphere). When global ocean temperatures rise, CO2 is expelled from oceans into the atmosphere. CO2 follows temperature changes. Atmospheric CO2 does not cause surface temperature changes on earth. "87% of scientists said humanity are causing a climate change tipping point" <- reported by Scientific American, according to Joe Rogan. <- This is an outright lie. Shame Joe never studied science; he'd be able to debunk this junk.
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  1148.  @jjoohhhnn  The "Triassic-Jurassic was completely caused by CO2 emissions" It happened 201 million years ago. There's no reason anyone would think CO2 is to blame for it. Yet you declared CO2 at fault. I ask every climate researcher I find for their best empirical study showing atmospheric CO2 warms the climate. No one has such a study. How do you believe without evidence? How do you expect to convince a doubter like me without evidence? I don't think you do. I think you expect to bamboozle, bully and cancel.
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  1149.  @jjoohhhnn  This is a waste of time. I asked you to cite your strongest empirical support for CO2 causing climate "heating" or warming; or whatever you call it today. You have nothing. I'm tiered of communicating with people who have not solid evidence but misrepresent science as the opinion of University egg-heads and media opinion-formers. If you have no study showing CO2 causes warming then you have no science.
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  1150.  @jjoohhhnn  I accept the Permian and Triassic-Jurassic extinctions. I dispute the cause.
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  1151.  @jjoohhhnn  No one disputes these ancient extinctions. But you cannot pin the blame on CO2. CO2 emissions increased. So what?, that indicates a volcanic cause. Vulcanism increases albedo, which makes earth colder.
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  1152.  @jjoohhhnn  First you tell me the P-Tr boundary was 201 mya. No it wasn't; that was the Tr-J boundary. The P-Tr boundary was ~ 252 mya. Now you tell me the P-Tr boundary is associated with sea level rise (due to GHG global warming). Elsewhere I read the P-Tr boundary is associated with a sea-level fall - possibly signalling a severe glaciation (cooling). All the while you tell me I don't know a thing. I know enough to tell when someone is making it up, and pretending expertise they don't have. I'm tired of your fibs.
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  1153. Brave New World is a paradoxical Utopian (distopian) novel. But at the end of his life Huxley fell for fallacy and wrote an actual Utopian novel called Island. I've read both but I think I'd rather live in Brave New World than Island! I joke. TBH, I could not suspend disbelief to believe in Brave New World. In contrast Island is way more plausible (realistic). So being an actual Utopian novel (rather than a mere warning) Island is a dangerous book as many people will take it seriously - as Huxley intented us to. Island was his (anti-Capitalist) manifesto.
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  1154. Just annoying. I had to stop listening after 30 minutes because it was going no where. Rory squirms out of everything and Chris asks him no really difficult questions.
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  1155. No. They will blame Moasad and the CIA. Anything but Islam.
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  1156. What 'retaliation' are you threatening against me? BTW: I'm just a innocent bystander who supports, and voted for NONE of psychos in this conflict. Why are the Russians spending so much effort destroying Ukraininan civilian infrastructure when their beef is supposedly with politicos?
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  1157. Have any CRT activists attempted to validate their belief that "racism is the main organizing principle of society"? In my experience, it is not. In order for me to "believe them", and to accept their ideas I'd need to take a leap to faith. I'd need to believe them ahead of my life experience! By "validate" - I mean to convince, in a scientific way, with actual empirical evidence.
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  1158. Young people are taught at university that truth is a myth. It's another way of telling them "truth is a lie". The education system is messing with our heads.
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  1159. What toxic chemicals would those be? Can you name some of them? No. I didn't think so. Environmentalists have you terrified of ghost chemicals - you can't name and aren't even sure are there.
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  1160. Any mediocre programmer can make a fast language "slow". Seen it done lots of times.
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  1161. 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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  1162. "The unfinished puzzle of The Enlightenment" ? <- The real puzzle is why so many believe in this "unfinished Enlightenment puzzle". It's a myth. Because it never existed. It's pretty much a post-modern invention - due to the pomo belief that Marxism was the natural heir to the Enlightenment.
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  1163. Sociopath is hardly a term used by psychologists. I mean - few studies define it. I disagree about psychopaths being born with physical deficits and also disagree with this trauma version of its aitiology. I'm told psychopathology is a developmental result of inconsistent parenting - where the kid never learns the difference between right and wrong - because parents don't treat their bad behaviour consistently.
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  1164. Pinker just said Putin and Trump have the same values. He must really hate Trump.
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  1165. Modern Social Justice is not Marxism, but is like Marxism, in how it a) polarizes everything. You're either for (change) or against it. b) this simplifies everything. SJWs are binary thinkers. Everyone is for or against; this corresponds to a worldview of victim or perp. Original postmodernism was somewhat against binary thinking, so didn't get on well with organized revolutionary Marxism; or with any narrative of certainty. So, modern SJW theories are, paradoxically, radically at odds with actual postmodernism as it was in the 1960s/'70s/'80s.
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  1166. The BBC's main purpose is to gaslight the public with elite propaganda. I'm an old codger now. 70. For my entire life, BBC never aired a single honest programme on climate change. They aire countless, anti-human, climate crisis propaganda. This direction in favour of bias is editorially imposed at BBC. BBC are shoddy. They're not even journalists. They're fraudsters.
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  1167. Twitter is moderated by algorithms. In addition it has: - a reporting feature. Any tweet can be reported and, if the report is valid, you get 1 strike against you. "3 strikes and you're out". If you make 3 mistakes, and each is reported you lose your twitter account. 1st strike - 1 day suspension 2nd strike - 1 week suspension 3rd strike - potentially permanent suspension.
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  1168. There are two genders: male and female. "Cat" is not a gender. The domestic cat or house cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is a species, not a gender. Like humans the cat has 2 sexes.
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  1169. 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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  1170. It's more Kafka than Orwell. In Orwell the spooks are ordered top-down with a masterplan. In Kafka, the cops or spooks persecuting Josef K made it up along the way.
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  1171. Can we also assay the "standard" greenhouse gas model which the self-styled "Scientific Consensus" tell us predicts the "climate crisis", which we can't see in the data? I think assaying this GHG model is more important as "stopping the climate crisis", which isn't happening, is costing us trillions of dollars.
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  1172. 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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  1173. The Tories - who've been promoting this grift and scam for the past 13 years are "lefties"?
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  1174. If they want a woman director and star - why not also a female audience? We need a Star Wars RomCom. Seriously, if the motivation behind this is marketing to vary the demographic audience, then find out what women want. Judging by their reading, women seem to like RomComs, mysteries and thrillers; but not action adventure. The new director is clearly nuts. "Making men uncomfortable" - do horor genre, not action adventure, or combine both.
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  1175. What supermarkets will be selling trans milk?
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  1176. Suppose somebody believed they had a demon in their head which was destroying their life by thwarting everything they try to achieve. Perhaps they might conclude that medical treatment to exorcise the demon is required? Maybe a surgical procedure to remove part of their brain might do the trick? Should we allow people to self-diagnose as demonically infected? Should such people be able to demand a lobotomy, for example, to make them happy, and fulfilled?
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  1177. They'll identify as transwomen - if challenged. Once they find the get out clause, they all be part of it.
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  1178. Anti-trans conversion therapy is gay maintenace therapy.
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  1179. If he wanted to, Sunak could ban this dog breed overnight by putting a new statutory instrument through parliament. Such S.I.s are usually passed in minutes, often with little debate. Instead we get these long, very drawn out advertising campaigns. This video is not about banning a dog breed; it's about persuading people to vote Tory despite 13 years of betrayal and harmful policies by them which made the lives of many people harder.
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  1180. If challenged sex offenders can just call themselves "transwomen"! Oh!, they already do?
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  1181. "Progressive Labour"? They are progressive to the extent the left turned "progress" into a swear word which really means "regress".
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  1182. Are they really far left or is it more a case of mindless authoritarianism?
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  1183. One point. The Jim Crow Laws - against black people in the USA. Began in the 1890s and stopped in the 1930s. (no new Jim Crow Laws after the 1930s) So this kind of racism didn't take off until social Darwinist ideas had got underway later in the nineteenth century; more than 3 decades after Darwin published his key book.
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  1184. He also forgot that the public do not trust the media, and it was under 14 years of Tory rule that the media became ever more distrustful as it became packed with ever more toff wokes.
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  1185. What's the evidence base for intersectionality? Where's the empirical research, and what statistics were used to find correlations leading to firm conclusions? How is intersectionality falsifiable?
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  1186. Psilocybin is a class A controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The chance of doctor prescribing ANY class A drug is very low.
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  1187. "Universalism - I'm not a believer in" - Ben Shapiro But univeralism is, almost, constitutive of Christianity. How did Ben forget that, and why can't Lex call Ben out on it?
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  1188. No one wants to talk about NAZI or Hitler's real beliefs. People are happy to simply condemn them as evil, racist, capitalist stooges, ... NAZIs as servants of Yaldabaoth - the evil demiurge of Marxist gnosticism - viewing Marxism as a (different) kind of gnosticism in which capitalism is its Yaldabaoth. Today: Environmentalism and woke are also gnostic cults. Political gnosticism always seem to be animated with a very Manichaeism version of gnosticism rather than the mystic form.
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  1189. Preventing men using women's private spaces is not "fanaticism". Yes: 99% of the time there's no problem with transwomen in the Ladies. But it's the 1%, or so, who are a HUGE problem, because self-ID allows any old pervert to ID as trans and pose a threat. When just ONE gets away with it, other psychos will follow; the 1% grows.
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  1190. At one stage, Andrew blames Postmodernism. It's not. The originators of pomo whouldn't be able recognize these spoit kids as their progeny. Seems to me some daft people got a cauldren, mixed in some postmodernism, a bit of Frankfurt School (I not going to call it critical theory because it's uncritical cubed), some gender theory, some ideas from racism, a bit of Marxism, loads of intersectionality and intersexualiy, tonnes of vivtimhood batshit. Mixed up a concoction which is pure poison to the mind. Designed to paralyse their opponents; but which has, instead, zombiefied the perps.
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  1191. Joe makes a point about people having to work hard; but that's only part of it. Western civilization began with the Greeks. The fascinating thing about Greek society was how competitive they were. The didn't only compete at sports in their Olympics. The Greeks competeted in poetry, play writing, pottery, art, ... In everything. Competition enabled their excellence. Western societies must defend and promote excellence; otherwise we lose it. Apart from competition and open markets - what other ways can we achieve excellence?
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  1192. In a way, ownership and curating ideas were always a preoccupation of power. Just look at the history of Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Aztec ideology, the Soviet system, ... In the 20th century, Western academia fought long and hard to free itself from power and state control, to become 'free'. Yet with that freedom it instituted its own totalitarianism!! The takeover by pseudo-Marxists is not simply the long march through the institutions. Institutions have their own self-totalization. Consider, during the great European Enlightenment, ONLY ONE philosophe/lumière was an academic: Kant, practically the last and supposed culmination of it! Not by choice, David Hume, for example, applied for many academic jobs but was constantly rejected. Critical thinking is alien to institutions. This doesn't imply anarchy and defeat. Instead we have to look at how funding, and empire-building corrupted academia. How this empire building by academia destroys critical thinking. How to stop that.
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  1193. CNN - making it up; as usual.
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  1194. I think families with 3 and more kids should be especially rewarded because we're now facing a population crash. The reproduction rate in, for example, Japan, is now down to 1.2 per woman. For a sustainable population it needs to be at least 2.
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  1195. 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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  1196. But Maoism is not a religion it's a political system. Students' Maoism may use many of the same psychological or neurological pathways as religion but it does not necessarily originate from the same practices (and that seems unlikely); and because it has some things in common that does not mean everything is in common.
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  1197. There are several forms of vitamin D. Vitamin D3 is an "inactive" form. It will be stored in fat cells. Your body will make the active form of vitamin D in your kidneys from vitamin D3 as required.
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  1198. I was going to make the point that grahene is electrically conductive too; as well as being thermally conductive. Silicone-based thermal pads are insulators. Honeywell PTM7950 thermal pads are recommended to those who aren't happy with electrical conductivity. But remember: the metal top of the CPU and the heatsink itself are also electrically conductive. For CPU cooling - use the thinnest pad you can find.
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  1199. One can't be "environmentally conscious" and hi tech at the same time. Hippy-dippy wind and solar power don't support 24/7/365 electricity.
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  1200.  @idorus  = OTT narcissism
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  1201. So what's the difference between postmodernism and cliché? Is it that pomo is "irony", and irony is cliché which knows it is, whereas mere cliché is just itself - ignorant of its true nature?
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  1202.  @joshnic6639  They are mindlessly throwing excrement at Peterson. This involves Googling bad stuff said against Peterson and repeating it. It's what the Left does = trash other people by repeating memes and slogans.
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  1203.  @ludwigwittgenstein5054  Postmodernism is a set of misconstrued anti-philosophical notions. Fortunately, there's no postmodernism in Peterson.
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  1204. These critics of JP definitely seem to be motivated by ressentiment of JP's book sales and video views!! Their video is a hopeless authoritarian, statist, collectivist, and anti-capitalist diatribe against Jordan Peterson. I'd have thought by now that the disaster of the Chinese Communist Party destroying freedom in China with COVID lockdowns would've warned you off this stale, dogmatic, anti-freedom socialism. You are ALSO wrong on 'ideology'. You apply it to ALL ideas. That's wrong. All ideas are NOT ideologies; Were they, then everything is ideology and the word becomes a mere floating signifier; or synonym for 'ideas'. After all, aren't all ideas wrong in some detail? Instead, let's look at it as Marx did. he wrote of "capitalist ideology" he implied it was a false ideology; false because it benefited the capitalist but not the worker. Not saying he was right; but Marx clearly believed he had truth on his side; and that there were false ideas (or sets of ideas = ideologies) which needed exposing. Can a bunch of pomo critical theorists entertain such a Marxian concept of ideology? I doubt you can. If you dare try you must first ditch your anti-humanism, and pomo epistemic fragility. BTW: "Climate crisis" is a good example of a one size fits all gibberish non-solution being straight-jacketed onto subjects it doesn't fit. An ideology driven by billionaires with a distinctly anti-human agenda. A far bigger evil than Jordan Peterson; who, to the best of my knowledge, has harmed NO ONE. "Climate crisis" / climate change / global warming is an ideology backed by some of the richest people on earth. Potentially very harmful to humanity. Q: Any chance our radical lefties will stick their necks out and take on a real evil? A: No. I already know you will stay in your lane like useful idiots do.
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  1205. I don't understand why she's living here; UK-KK is full of white people. We have to question the BBC's judgement in giving a job to someone like this in the first place. Whoever recruited her should be sacked.
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  1206. Fake. She looks more like she's laughing than crying. Her sentiments are either hollow, virtue signalling or "ironic" (AKA piss-taking)
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  1207. "the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary movement (NRx)." -- Triggernometry 1. "Dark Enlightenment" is "anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic"? <- I do not think it can be. The Enlightenment was a movement for rationality, skepticism, and empiricism. It was mostly egalitarian and pro-democratic. All the important Enlightenment thinkers were: egalitarian, pro-democratic, rational, skeptical (of the authorities, and received wisdom), and empiricist. 2. Anti-Enlightenment - has rarely been a thing. For example the NAZIs were an anti-Enlightenment movement but one can only take that so far. 3. "Dark Enlightenment", if such a thing exists, would be a movement which is post-Enlightenment, in the sense that such a Dark Enlightenment movement would build on the lessons of the past. It would want to go past the Enlightenment without making the blunders of the NAZIs (anti-Enlightenment), or Bolsheviks (post-Enlightenment). Because the Bolsheviks failed does not mean every post-Enlightenment must fail. Al lot of the criticisms Yarvin makes of Western Democracies - e.g. "we can't build anything" are not criticisms of Democracy as such. They are criticisms of our tolerance of protesters - which is a feature of diversity and inclusion - not a criticism of democracy.
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  1208. They're not all narrated by robots; but the content seems to be made by robots.
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  1209. "We dealing with people who don't know what they're going to do. They're just going to pull everything down then wing it." <- It's worse than that. They believe nothing works; or perhaps they cannot point to or cite anything they think works. So they can have no confidence that anything else, after the teardown can be made to work.
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  1210. Yes. Nice of you to finally notice.
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  1211. Sabine is happy to monster scientists outside the 'consensus'. I've listened to her monster scientists - calling them 'climate deniers'. She even said 'denier' in her video above! So - a scientist who needs to stay within the 'consensus' in order to be published - avoids non-consensus terms - but he's monstered anyhow, for admitting it! Q: Why is he being picked on? A: The 'consensus' want you to believe that 'the science is settled'. Meaning that it's all been figured out; and 'they' - the consensus - have all the answers. But they also want you to think this consensus does not exist, so that all scientists - intuitively - agree on it. The Consensus denies its own existence (as a censoring institution). Patrick Brown just explained how this: climate consensus; works. It polices language in climate science by controlling publication. Scientists using the wrong language are monstered as 'climate deniers', and told that deniers will not be published. Big Brother publishes under as MiniTrue, but if anyone dares explain how MiniTrue works they're instantly labelled a terrorist and traitor!
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  1212. 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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  1213. Can one still call a hairdresser or beautician a groomer?
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  1214. Grant Snapps strikes me as the kind of bloke who'd con his own grandmum if his bosses incentivized it. I don't believe a word of his drivel.
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  1215. 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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  1216. I think the "long term plan" is to invest in India rather than China, in future.
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  1217. 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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  1218. In UK, Psilocybin and MDMA are both classed as "class A drugs". The most highly restricted and, supposedly, the most dangerous. 'Psilocybin extract' since the Misuse of Drugs Act, MDA 1971. MDMA since 1977 when the MDA was amended. UK law says drugs are 'classified' as "dangerous drugs", or "otherwise harmful". One aspect of "otherwise harmful" is "socially harmful". None of these terms are ever explained in detail. The short legal description is all the explanation there is of why they're considered so dangerous! [ UK 'classified drugs' are like USA 'scheduled drugs' ]. In 2006 when the committee who classify drugs were asked to explain, to the Parliamentary select committee on science and tech why Psilocybin became a class A drug, they could not answer the question. Cost-benefit calculations were never behind these classifications. The law is all based on "expert opinion" (just like lockdowns were). When one member of this committee (who recommend the classifications), David Nutt, later published something approaching a cost-benefit analysis he, basically, sacked himself from his (unpaid) post. WARNING: I've known two people who took LSD and/or Psilocybin "recreationally" and went (temporarily) 'mad'. They were hospitalised for 2 weeks each. Please don't treat magic mushrooms as toy.
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  1219. Slavery began in the middle east - in Mesopotamia and, even: Egypt ( Two lands known as the "cradle of civilization" ). Typically after conquest in war or as a consequence of debt. Also: some people were literally sold into slavery by their parents. It's all there in the Bible: “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not be freed as male slaves are. If she proves to be displeasing to her master, who designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed; he shall not have the right to sell her to outsiders, since he broke faith with her." In ancient times nearly all energy work was basically muscle power: human or animal (oxen). The 18th century invention of the steam engine paved the way for the 19th century abolition of slavery. The country where the steam engine was perfected, also abolished slavery afterward.
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  1220. They banned Internet indecency in 2005 - AKA child porn - under the pretext of stopping child abuse. NOT ONE single free-speech organization (globally) resisted this because none dared use an argument which could be twisted to make one appear to defend child porn. Building on these bans: critics of transexual grooming were banned everywhere on social media so we got an epidemic of rapid onset gender dyphoria among young people mostly driven by Tumblr gaslighting. Today, the main US doctors organization : the AAP (of 70,000 members) prescribe ONLY one treatment for gender dyphoria = hormone blocking, sex change hormones and sex change surgery. Traditional counselling is demonized as "conversion therapy", and "hate speech" to be banned - as the AAP have effectively done for their members. Journalists - who once argued for free-speech - are different people today. Once they began with, at best, a high school education and they were generally working class. Today they are often the kids of multi-millionaires with a long list of academic career points - people who instinctively support authoritarianism. I kind of agree with Greg. The ideas behind free speech were born in The Enlightenment. Left, Right, Greens and Liberals have been murdering The Enlightenment heritage for 50 years now. The future is bleak.
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  1221. Do NOT give aid away for free. Do not make people dependent on you. It's bad for the recipient. The USAID expose now reveals how bad it's for the USA. It turns your - politicians into kleptocrats - media into psy-ops - recipients into beggars Instead - maybe teach people how they can better run things in their own country by funding a US School there. Or give them favourable trading terms (zero tariffs), so that some manufacturing can be established, OR ...
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  1222. Sam Harris undermines his own arguments by his advocacy of man-made climate change. By how he advocates. Sam doesn't bother explaining any evidence for the influence of humanity on the climate - perhaps because there isn't really any - there are mathematical models - but none of the modellers bother with scientific validation (empirical tests and falsifications). Sam advocates for the human influence by claiming he, and his mates, have more authority. He basically cites people who he calls 'experts'; but none of his experts argue from evidence either. Sam has the a militant left attitude - we know we're right - we don't debate - we tell people what to think.
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  1223. Human activity is NOT causing climate change. Climate changes are, 99%, a function of changing solar activity; often mediated by changes to global cloud density. 99% of people promoting climate hysteria know nothing of the climate system. This whole show is just an excuse for Kyle Kulinski to parade as ethically superior while spouting globalist anti-human shit at us. He accuses "climate deniers" of being "anti-intellectual". I deny man-made climate change because it's a pack of lies, often funded by billionaires to gas-light and guilt-trip humanity so that globalists can present us with their fake energy solutions; and rip us off with their inefficient, subsidised renewable energies whilst transferring taxes from them to us (AKA energy taxes) As for my "anti-intellectualism" - I spent the best part of 2½ years studying the climate daily for about 4 hours per day; reading scores of books and papers on it. So that pumped-up, pointless, egotistical cowards like Kyle may throw shit at me. During that time I came to understand how earth's climate system works; it has nothing much to do with humanity.
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  1224. The lesson you should've learnt from Animal Farm is that individuals will game the system to take power, and will lie unless there are systems of accountability and openness to expose their lies.
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  1225. Surely you can manage a sip of bubbly?
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  1226. Woke are basically narcissists. They believe only they have a right to speak, and the rest of us should shut our mouths - unless we're echoing their lines. Their fundamental inability to talk/debate with anyone about anything is due to their narcissism. When one contradicts or questions a narcissist on any point - they turn to some sly tactic - such as an accusation of bullying against you. This same behaviour is the main thing we see from wokes.
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  1227. This is bullshit.
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  1228. It's Democrats who ban books because they think youth must be brainwashed with woke hate. Hence, any books not explicitly leftwing, left-identitarian or woke are never bought by the DEI "gender & diversity centre" library in the first place. Effectively banning those books. This leaves students with a twisted & biased education; devoid of facts but overloaded with pseudo-theories; and with no good practical skills. An abuse of students by neo-Marxist "educators" which messes up their minds and their education so badly they cannot function in the real world - which may explain why so few on woke courses graduated and barely half the graduates got jobs afterwards.
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  1229. We should try to make things which work. <- Liberals speaking. It's not substantially different from what most conservatives want. Except: Feel good, liberal, authoritarian measures will not make things work. Tell the Liberals to back off with their psychopathy.
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  1230. You can easily figure out who the "harmless" psychos are: they won't be lying, stealing, defrauding you.
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  1231. Psychopaths are often flattering. Some of them use outrageous flattery. They may not mean it but they say it. I'm also told that psychopaths are often "good at sex" too. They have more sexual partners than the rest of us. I think a fair bit of what Todd said may be nonsense. Eh psychologists - don't guess this - do some research!!
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  1232. They're poor, uneducated, frightened and divided. Yes, they are; and the left keep them that way by supporting climate scaremongers, woke bullies, and race-baiting anti-racists. Well done lefties. Tony Benn would be turning in his grave looking at the modern left.
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  1233. 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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  1234. Joe Rogan comes across as a deranged climate nutter here; trying to bully Candace into agreeing with him. Candace stands firm. Rogan's claim that human activity is causing a "climate tipping point" is gibberish. The only "evidence" for this are climate models. Climate models, like COVID models, are not "science". Models are opinion. Opinion, often leading to catastrophic policy outcomes such as population lockdowns. The sun causes climate change not the man. In the last 40 years, the solar magnetic fields became stronger as part of a solar cycle. The stronger solar magnetic field(s) deflect more cosmic rays away from the solar system; allowing fewer to affect earth. Such cosmic rays help seed clouds; allowing more clouds on average to cover earth. More clouds reflect more sunlight back to space. Fewer cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere result is less cloud cover - which reflects less sunlight back out to space - allowing more sunlight to warm earth's surface. We know it's clouds because we put satellites up to measure them. Global cloud cover fell by as much as 8%. That's what caused the climate to warm since the late 1970s. The fall in global cloud cover is a FACT. FACTs are the basis for science; not models, nor opinion polls.
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  1235. Correction: I don't think Jacques Derrida made phallocentrism his core idea. Derrida's younger feminst critics of the 1970s, promoted phallocentrism as an Ur-slur. It was something they accused Derrida of.
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  1236. 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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  1237. I don't think they get beaten up. If you think it's a serious problem, show us the statistics.
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  1238. 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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  1239. Britain is like a bent football game. Kemi has completely taken her eye off the ball and she thinks she's playing against Labour or Reform. Our goalie, put there by our bent manager: Starmer, is just letting opps score gosls for fun. The coach: Miliband, won't even allow us to take a vehicle to the game because he's obsessed with "cutting carbon emissions". So we have to walk there and we get knackered before we're on the pitch. The referee & linesmen award free kicks and fouls against us for fun. Our actual opponents : the globalists, have only one fear : they may fall down laugthing at our pathetic, self-inflicted, plight, and be unable to beat us more completely. The Goon Squad or Monty Python wouldn't been able to write this; they'd not be able to figure whether it's farce or tragedy.
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  1240. I think 1000 IU / day to too little. Ten times that is safe. Toxicity? Only seen with vitamin D levels of 100,000 IU / day, or more, taken for several months.
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  1241. The real enemy of free speech today is Big Government/Big Business alliance - not Islamic nutters. The Government has been killing free speech forever because they hate open and free debate. Government also enable Islamic terrorists by being their apologists. It's Government telling us that free speech can "scar and maim", as they pile lie on top of metaphor on top of exaggeration. Hardly surprising that words used by, and laws enacted by, politicos encourage fundamentalist outrages.
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  1242. 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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  1243. I, maybe, disagree on your choice of "Beyond Good and Evil", I'd picked "The Geneology of Morals" instead. Thanks for the list. Some appealing books there which I wouldn't otherwise look at. I think debate and logic are mostly practice. It's very hard to exclude bad logic such as fallacies because one has to entirely exclude common sense thought - given what a bad example the media set - that cannot be easy for the average person today. Re: Skeptics. Pagden goes into that in detail. I think there are 3 big movements in Skepticism: Greek, Enlightenment and Postmodernism. Ancient Greek Skepticism was indeed radically skeptical. But it died with Western Philosophy when Justinian closed the non-Christian, Athenian schools. Skepticism ware reborn with The Englightenment and, from the first day, it had a new target. Englightenment was skeptical of the Christian Aristolean tradition of Natual Law. Englightenment thinkers nearly always defered to empirical facts - although sometimes, as in Rousseau, they made their "facts" up. The workd "skeptical" re-entered US thought largely due to the work of Michael Schermer (who isn't, stricktly, even a philosopher, but does teach a course on Skepticism 101) Yet prior to Schermer: Postmodernism had already repainted modern thought with a deeply skeptical brush. Postmodernist skepticism seems, to me, to go back in time to the radicalism of the Ancient Greeks - in a shared contempt for the real. It's also radically Anti-Western, Postmodernism could also be seen as a 2nd go at the Enlightenment, but targetting the West (as avidly as most of the Enlightenment has targetted Natural Law); and also having a sisterhood of victims in contrast to Enlightenment's Cosmopolitanism of Equals.
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  1244. "What is gender?" <- How long is a piece of string?
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  1245. The first anti-porn activist I ever encountered was a feminist. Authoritarian feminsts never understood why libertarians defended porn. We didn't support porn, we opposed the authoritarianism. In their support of transing, the modern left managed to put together an authoritarian argument in support of something akin to porn.
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  1246.  @MattNolanCustom  Back to those D-O events I mention below. According to your "logic", the AMOC should collapse with every one of those. Did it? No need to answer, I know it didn't.
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  1247.  @MattNolanCustom  We all agree the AMOC has collapsed in the past. We disagree it can collapse in the near future.
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  1248. q: How did he get that job? a: We believe he played the victim card better than anyone else with : "I survived conversion therapy" (his claim, but I don't think any evidence backs it).
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  1249. America Betrayed Oppenheimer? <- Wasn't it more likely the other way around? How do you think the Soviets got the A-bomb and H-bomb so quickly after 1945? Oppenheimer being a known Communist Party member ..., I put 2 + 2 together.
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  1250. What a pathetic argument. Who is this crazy Dr Ben Miles?
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  1251. He said : "diflurodichloro methane", but he meant: Dichlorodifluoromethane. It has the formula: C.Cl2.F2 , which has a molecular weight = 121; which is 4 times heavier than air (MWt = 30). Note: Cl = 35.5, F = 19, C = 12. C.Cl2.F2 = 12 + 2×35.5 + 2×19 = 121 So the freon is not a "light gas" as the presenter said. It is relatively heavy. Nor do freons cause a hole in the ozone. There was never enough freon in the atmosphere to do that and it could never have risen to such high altitudes in sufficient quantity. Furthermore - far more chlorine is released naturally into the atmosphere (from the sea & volcanoes) than freon (millions of tonnes of Cl2 per year !). Chlorine is a lighter gas (MWt = 70) and chlorine is just as "harmful" to ozone; in that it catalyses the decomposition of ozone in a free-radical reaction; just like he "evil" freon is theorised to.
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  1252. This endemic language of "you're all racists or facists" is a defense mechanism because socialism has never been shown to work. "As a right winger you must be trying to trick us" <- Yet you just spent ages meticulously explaining to us that the left are not stupid! To the right-winger who only sees failure to debate, group-think, foul insults, ... it must seem that lefties are stupid. Ressentiment and group think explain the left.
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  1253. They're written by cluster B kids.
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  1254. Isn't it called evo-psych? That's their name for it. Had I gone to so much trouble to create a brandname for my ideas I wouldn't want to switch to another so quickly. What does Google think? Behavioural Genetics - About 38,500,000 results (0.62 seconds) Evolutionay psychology - About 120,000,000 results (0.53 seconds) Evo-psych it is !
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  1255. IMDB claim "Olivia Wilde is a modern day renaissance woman" Take that Jordan Peterson !!
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  1256. Listening to this is horrifying. It's describing mass cultural suicide; presumably driven by what looks like: sociopathy, misanthropy, and borderline psychopathy. I know these leftists - must have motives which make sense to them - in their heads - but in practice - what we witness are todlers wailing at the world. They won't debate me, explain to me why they think I'm wrong. All they can do is shut me down. The reasons they give for shutting critics down look like they've been cribbed from the worst excesses of Maoism and Stalinism. What am I to make of it? Leftists come across as cowardly, authoritarian monsters.
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  1257.  @achaeanmapping4408  Liberalism was more of a practical, than philosophical project when it began. Back then, rights to free speech, vote, fair trial did not exist. You could say: "That was then, now we have those things". To which I'd reply: "that didn't stop the Nazis taking them away".
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  1258. The exercise demonstrates just how moronic their idea of socialism is - it is basically Statism
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  1259. "I actually hard a hard Time finding people talk about phallogocentrism" <- Because it's not a thing, it's a word. Not every word ever invented refers to something real. When I say not a thing - I do mean - not even a serious idea. Thanks Feminists for fucking up our heads.
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  1260. Those are your life-changing books. My list won't be yours'.
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  1261. Twitter bans are mostly done by programs. No wonder you can't communicate with them. Employing people to monitor your posts is dead expensive. Perhaps bans are in response to a complaint made about you by another person?; which they respond to by running automated checks on your account. The most obvious reason another twit has to complain about you is you said something someone disagrees with. A common twitter ban is when they say you may be using automation invalidly. In other words that you are a robot (your account is being run by a computer!). Incompetence at Twitter is a better explanation for their bans than malicious SJWs spying on you.
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  1262. If it wasn't for free-speech we'd not know who the liars and fraudsters were. Were I a grifter, free-speech would be my first target.
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  1263. "Women can have a penis" <- Some women are already penises; real pricks.
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  1264. Your Putin quote goes on far too long. Yawn. BTW: After the Second World War ended, the soviets kept that part of Poland they took in 1939 but chopped off pieces of Germany to give to Poland. These parts Poland (ex-Germany) were then ethnically cleansed of Germans by expelling them to East Germany. Do you have an episode on the ethnic cleansing of Poland post-1945 yet?
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  1265. Sounds like someone's jump-cutting the interview! Like a 1960s Avant-garde movie!!
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  1266. I think you should've found someone else with a less smirking voice. She also sounds like an entitled, woke zombie. The Elon Musk story is simple. His son was radicalized into transgenderism. Must was lied to by doctors and experts; so he stood by and didn't stop it happening. Must will not forget it. Opposing transgender psychopathology is not right-wing. It's pro-human. Once someone submits to hormone blockers, alt-sex hormones and surgery they'll be a medical patient for life.
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  1267. Does Martin also explain: - critical race theory - transing gaslight - climate 'crisis' - COVID scam? If not, I think a third edition is in order. Nostalgia - I'm just nostalgic for the days when the left were vaguely rational. The right have always been about power, top-down, and 'consensus'.
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  1268. Maybe Disparu is wrong? What if they are NOT making Rings of Power only for the woke, maybe they're making it for the rest of us? Maybe they think that we're ignorant & our heads need to be re-engineered - that by watching Rings of Power we will imbibe it to become woke? For example, social constructivists believe everything about us is a product of our social upbringing - woke are social constructivists: - by watching girl-bosses boss, the female audience become their inner girl-boss - by watching men always fail every bloke watching becomes content with failure
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  1269. Climate sensitivity, sometimes called ECS (equilibrium climate sensitivity) is a non-empirically derived number, used in models to tell the model how quickly it's model climate will change. Model, model, model. I would have a tiny bit of faith in models were modellers to attempt some kind of empirical test for their models or their ECS. Why can't Sabine look into that - empirical validation of climate models - it'd be a fascinating topic: why is so much effort put into modelling when so little effort is put into their validation? I used to think this was a specific flaw of climate modelling, but now | see it as a disease of physics too.
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  1270. 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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  1271. I think Google put climate change warnings on ALL videos which mention climate.
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  1272.  @Jezza_One  Isn't it also on every video which mentions "climate"? - even on alarmist videos too.
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  1273. "Reverse racism" for when new racists think of themselves as victims of prvious racisms or descriminations. For example, Previous racisms were, mostly, either or elitist or eugenic - based on the principle that the racists were better. Woke don't think they're better. They don't think like most previous racists. They think they're victims and their victim status makes them more worthy. We could call it woke-racism or victim-racism if you want. It's just a label - not a real description. It does not fully describe actual individuals who suffer from it.
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  1274. "National security threat" - I assumed that back in early 2020 UK government were treating it as a national security threat, and a possible biological war product lab leak. Because the political leaders assumed worse-case scenarios [ on no evidence ]. I think that in nearly all scenarios worse case scenarios were about 1% or 0.1% likely. As such, to assume such an expensive (in economic terms) scenario - based on no real evidence - makes no sense if it really was a crossover from bats. But a eugenics agenda by the elites seems to be assumed here too by the interviewees. Given the elites deranged Net Zero agenda, a eugenics scenario against us now seems more likely than a mistaken belief of a biological war agent.
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  1275. When asked why he cheered Trump's account being closed, he wanders off into an endless cul de sac. When you censor, you need to be careful that it's "harmful". Here's Jordan Peterson's defence of free speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpB6eDG5WnY Love to hear Sam attempt a refutation of that with his weasel words, obique non-arguments, and pretend skepticism. "Charlatanism" - Sam's description of people he hates. Hey Sam, let's hear you refute JP.
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  1276.  @serpentines6356  TPTB - The Powers That Be, AKA The elites. I can't talk to Greta. A section of the Left have been chanting "the planet is being destroyed by us" for so long they've picked their brains in self-hate.
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  1277.  @serpentines6356  I don't think there is a climate crisis. Models are the only evidence I've seen for it. But the models aren't based on sound science. Earth's climate is controlled by the sun, not the man.
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  1278. It's a bandwagon. Groupthink manufactured by grifters to scam a living by mining academic grants.
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  1279. No one gets to define a label owned by another group. When the group who coined the term - for themselves - now refuse to accept the idea ever existed. I think Susan N is right. We need to analyse woke. It's history, connections, political uses, ...
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  1280. Oppenheimer's protests against nuclear weapons? Are you talking about the letter to the president promoted by Oppenheimer's younger brother which basically ruined that brother's career. I wasn't aware of any other protests - my bad - must've read the wrong biography.
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  1281. 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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  1282. Who are these people "rejecting everything on the grounds it's got statistics in"? Please name names. I'm a skeptic. I reject bad statistics, bad data, and bad methods in general. There's a lot of bad stats out there.
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  1283. It's as if our civil servants are implementing the second world war OSS handbook "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" - published by CIA in 2008 after a FoI request: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
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  1284. Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Nobels of this world have been doing it for over a century. Some of it is more social engineering than charity. A video of Rockefellers who've promoted green ideology and trying to control energy infrastructure would be fascinating.
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  1285. Alex cited Hanlon's razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (or incompetence). But surely the experience of woke refutes this, especially with all the woke plagiarized PhDs now being exposed. Today, Hanlon's razor is refuted. BTW: Sci-Fi author Clarke said: "Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". It became known as Clarke's Law. Andrew Gelman reformulated it for academia as: "Any sufficiently crappy research is indistinguishable from fraud". Andrew Gelman has woke plagiarism down to to a T there.
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  1286. This program is nonsense. It is politically correct historical revisionism. Romans became Christian after emperor Constantine well before the fall of the Empire at the start of the 5th century. The Anglo-Saxons were not Christians. Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity is well documented at the end of the 6th century. The Romans also did agriculture in an entirely different way. They had huge estates. Those estate owners didn't just give their land away. The Anglo-Saxons really came here. Europe was invaded: by Vandals. Goths, Visigoths, Franks, ... They didn't exterminate the previous population. They installed themselves as rulers. Wherever barbarians installed themselves as rulers they took on characteristics of the conquered. For example: Italy of 520 was ruled by an Ostrogoth king yet it still had Senators (as the Romans had). We know the Vandals (originally from what's now southern Poland) conquered and migrated to North Africa to make kingdoms there. In fact still talking Poland. More recently: We know in and after the second world war, Russia took a big piece of Eastern Poland and gave Poland a slightly smaller piece of Eastern Germany. In 1944 there were about 11 million Germans in that piece later given to Poland. About half fled West (many in 1945), and three-quarters of the remaining 4 million were ethnically cleansed (by Communist Poles) moving to what became East Germany. By 1950, 3155000 German civilians had been expelled and 1043550 were naturalised as Polish citizens. Summary: 1 million remaining in 1950 from 11 million Germans who'd been there in 1944. Just because no one documented ethnic cleansing in the 5th and 6th century England doesn't mean it never happened.
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  1287. "We changed the tilt of Earth's axis and didn't notice" <- Nonsense claim. We did not.
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  1288. Unless Biden's paying the Taliban you can't blame him.
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  1289. Dr Tracey implies it may be dangerous to take more than 2000 IU vitamin D daily. Where did she get that number from? I think it's a made up number. Many decades ago: a study was done which fed 250,000 IU /day/person to a group for many months. After a few months some of them developed vitamin D toxicity symptoms. Later, another study was done with a group fed 60,000 IU/day/person for many months. It found some also acquired toxicity symptoms. I'm unaware of any study which showed toxicity with less than 50,000 IU/day doses. I personally take 8000 IU daily. It's the largest dose I can get in the UK. I think we should assume such studies have been done (< 50,000 IU/day/person) but the results are unpublished because nowt bad happened. Otherwise, perhaps someone can quote a study showing toxicity at less than 50,000 IU / day? If so please cite that study. Way more people suffer vitamin D deficiency. 99% of you living at latitudes far from the equator need to take vitamin supplements in winter. I live at 52°N.
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  1290. The story of how Trump bought Twitter seems plausible to me. $44bn for a loss-making web site employing less than 10k people! Made no sense to me. You may hate Twitter now, but prior to Musk buying it I was banned for life from it - so were about a quarter million other people - mostly because we'd questioned COVID authoritarianism and gaslighting. Why does The Times think suppporting free speech is right-wing? How does mass banning of Twitter users prevent misinformation? I never made any racist posts on Twitter, nor incitement. But this joke of a journalist just accused me of being a racist right-winger. This is attack on free-speech & democracy by intellectual pigmys pretending to be journalists. This journalist clearly did no good research. I suspect both these presenters are spooks - they promote mass spying and censorship. BTW: I was banned from Twitter on the orders of ex-spooks. Read Michael Schellenberger for the truth behind the Twitter mass bans.
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  1291.  @Rusheman13  It was just playing with words - for once. I'm usually more precise than that; I prefer to pick other's rhetoric to pieces.
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  1292.  @supernenechi  You or your mates don't get to redefine Fascism as you please. I studied enough Italian and German history to know what Fascism was. History tells us what the definition of Fasism is; not academics in Ivory Towers making stuff up to further their careers.
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  1293.  @pew6534  Read your history. The term "fascism" was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini's movement, the Fasces of Revolutionary Action. Mussolini having just been expelled from the PSI { Italian Socialist Party } because he supported world war one. In his 1916 book in Germany, Johann Plenge replaced the "ideas of 1789" [rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism] of the French Revolution, with the "ideas of 1914": duty, discipline, law and order, which he argued were the basis for "National Socialism". So 1915, and 1916. In both the Italian and German cases Facism began as a new kind of socialism, with explicit anti-Capitalist ideas. So calling any non-socialist a "Fascist" is dishonest slander. No one get's to retropectively redefine Fasism. You erase actual history when you do that.
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  1294.  @pew6534  Your comment is a simplistic way of putting words in someone else's mouth. I didn't say "Nazi" nor "fascist" in my comment above. So I could not have said "the Nazis weren't fascists" <- You wrote that.
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  1295.  @pew6534  If that's what you meant, why didn't you just say it the first time? I think the Nazis believed themselves to be soclialists = "national socialists". Socialism is a 'broad church'; so the NAZIs were certainly socialists by definitions which count. NAZIs were NOT international socialists; but were certainly identity socialists. Given all politics today is identity politics, who would ever dare call NAZIs "not socialist"?
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  1296.  @pew6534  I don't identify as such. Do you identify as such?
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  1297.  @maxv9464  Do you have a definition for neo-Nazi compatible with Tom's descriptions? Are any of the "potential Fascists" Tom's teaching you to spot included in your neo-Nazi definition? Do you think I'm a "potential Fascist"? Or is your purpose of Tom's post to fuel paranoia in order to recruit left wing cultists?
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  1298.  @maxv9464  "actual swastikas" <- why do I think you're lying to me?
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  1299.  @maxv9464  I apologise to you then. I'm sorry I said you lied. I wrote hastily. However, I also see confederate flags there - that doesn't mean the Confederate army reformed and renewed the civil war. It means people like their symbols - especially, sometimes, when the symbol upsets other people. In much the same way that punks, rockers and wiccan people wear clothes to distinguish them - these right wingers wear symbols. The right often call the punks, wiccans and such "satanists". That does not make them actual satanists either. Nor do I call someone wearing an ankh an actual ancient Egyptian religion cultist.
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  1300.  @maxv9464  So: - is a person wearing an ankh a neo-Ancient Egyptian religious follower? - is someone wearing all black clothes a neo-anarchist? Unless we talk to them we can't really know why they're displaying these offensive symbols (swastikas). Oh but - you refuse to talk to them don't you? So you don't want to know. So don't pretend to me that you're a fount of wisdom.
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  1301. This is not Satanist. It is Marxist.
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  1302. Re: "Heidegger's attractivness to Nazism". Nazism was a return to nature in ideas; and profoundly Malthusian. We see the Malthusian aspects of Nazism in their: - belief that economic parity for Germans with US Americans, is absolutely limited by the amount of agricultural land available to Germany. Hence their desire for more land by conquest. - Nazi eugenics - obsessions with renewable power - support given them from German environmentalists (AKA conservationists) The modern Green movement are also intrinsically driven by Malthusian, anti-human concerns. The other connection between Nazism and the modern Green movement is authoritarian politics. The form of authoritarianism is totally different with each. The authoritarianism in Modern Environmentalism is 'soft'; not hard. Witnessed by how they by-pass the will of the people at every stage of politics. By supporting the transfer of power to NGOs, trans-GOs (such as the UN and EU), and GOs (e.g the US EPA), laws passed with no democratic debate nor mandate (E.g. the UK Climate Change Act), ... Societal support for modern environmentalism is surface deep. Hardly anyone votes for them; we have more important concerns. Because they get so little support in democratic institutions the greens by-pass democracy to drive their agenda forward behind the scenes. By capturing institutions, and politicians. In debate, Greens trash freedom of Speech, and are rabidly censorious. The climate movement refuse to debate anyone who's not in with their 'climate crisis', and they have NEVER debated their real political oppenents: people like me who see environmentalism for the social cancer it is. They drive their agenda forward by capturing politicians; not by arguing for their ideas at the grass-roots, or electorally. So the environmentalist disdain for debate is easily understood. It's just pragmatic politics. Green politics is power in action. Heidegger has come full-circle: with greens we see the embrace of power for its own sake - because embracing democracy is far harder.
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  1303. People like Trump because - he's not a neoliberal like Bush & Clintons. - he didn't actually invade any more places - he piss-takes the Left - he has a common touch - media hate him; as the media grew more conceited & dishonest media's hatred of Trump turned into a plus for him. - Make America Great Again. Why do they hate this. Do people like Harris really want to drag America down further? I was personally disappointed by Trump. He knew the 'climate crisis' is fake but did nothing stop the government promoters.
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  1304. You should not trust Brian Cox. He's an ideologue for some bad ideas.
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  1305. The "far, farout alt-right", AKA libertarians. Why does everyone on the left see a race war brewing? Only people promoting it are woke far left who will be rejected. Nor do I see a renaissance of Liberalism because it's dead in academia. Despite my criticisms, this is a good talk by Lindsay; explaining where the CSJT Hydra came from. Thanks James.
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  1306. "Millions of human sacrifices to please the Sun God" <- No. Aztecs did not sacrifice to "please the sun God". "According to Aztec cosmology, the sun god Huitzilopochtli was waging a constant war against darkness, and if the darkness won, the world would end. The keep the sun moving across the sky and preserve their very lives, the Aztecs had to feed Huitzilopochtli with human hearts and blood". Aztecs believed their human sacrifices were needed to keep the world working. When the Spanish banned human sacrifice the Aztec priests literally told them that such a ban would end the world.
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  1307. Speculation piled on speculation. Is there any empirical research supporting this midwit idea?
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  1308. Climate change - is not, significantly, caused by mankind - is not leading to ice loss in Antarctica. In fact in 2020 we measured the coldest Antarctica ever. Re: the timelapse video of Antarctica 'losing ice'. Somewhere is always losing lice. Somewhere else is always gaining ice. Antarctica has high seismic activity. Ice loss in the video is likely due to underwater volcanic activity locally warming the ocean. - Al Gore corrupted science, by giving all research funds to man-made climate "scientists" (who became corrupted by this money and turned into propagandists), and by lying about climate change. - The purpose of climate change is to scare us into using less energy. It is anti-carbon fuel propaganda. Same people who scare us over carbon fuels also want us to stop using nuclear power. If they win we'll be driven back into stone age lifestyles. The explanation of the 'greenhouse gas effect' given here is wrong. It is called a greenhouse gas effect. It has nothing to do with greenhouses.
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  1309. Christianity can be symbolically true but not literally so.
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  1310. Re: Freedom of Speech. We should concentrate only on defending free speech for other people who favour human flourishing, or who present actual evidence. If we really do favour flourishing we must give the greatest respect to evidence. If we make descisions on bad evidence, the result will not lead to any kind of flourishing - not in the long run. Re: People with strong opinions blocking one. By now, I've come to regard people with strong opinions who won't defend themselves against their strongest critics as psychopaths, or some other variety of grifter.
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  1311. Is travelling through the West Bank a crime punishable by murder?
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  1312. Postmodernism is a weird thing. In the 1970s, when the term became popular, postmodernism was a new radical skepticism. Paradox - Over the previous half-century, postmodernism turned into a kind of canon of the Left. Basing their careers on idea laundering, there's now a whole new inquisition of academic lefties on YouTube policing postmodernism - literally telling me "you're not allowed an opinion on postmodernism because you're not an expert (on it). You don't have a PhD in (some by-way of) postmodernist ideas". No one is is allowed to disagree with radical skepticism; especially not Enlightenment, evidence-bound, skeptics such as me, nor Dr Saad. The Left are going into fits over people such as Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad, Stephen Hicks and Peter Boghossian mortally criticising postmodernism for the pile of dog shit it is. Since when were radical skeptics intellectual policemen? Perhaps Wisecrack is making "ironic" videos taking the piss out of radical skeptic ideas such as postmodernism by policing the ideas with his definitions. Maybe Wisecrack misses what postmoderns claimed? I don't think Jordan Peterson refers to Althusser, and the French Left of half a century ago so much as he does the modern Left. This is obvious to everyone - except self-styled 'expert' Wisecrack. Postmodernism is "out of fashion"? So Wysecrack is calling pomo an intellectual fashion? To the people behind Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, and anti-Westernism in genderal, pomo is far from a dated fashion - it's a dogma they can't see past.
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  1313. 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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  1314. We look on human rights as a good thing. But many people don't realize how different human rights became in the last 45 years. In 1979, positive rights were invented. Such rights are actually privileges, which in practice, impinge upon other people. In contrast: human rights prior to the modern era were 'negative rights'; and did NOT impinge on others they protected people. 'Negative rights' = civil and political rights such as freedom of speech, life, private property, freedom of religion, habeas corpus, a fair trial, and the right not to be enslaved by another. 'Positive rights' = economic, social and cultural rights such as food, housing, public education, employment, national security, military, health care, social security, Internet access, and a minimum standard of living, ... Difference between Positive and Negative rights. To take an example involving two parties in a court of law: Adrian has a negative right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is prohibited to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x. In contrast, Adrian has a positive right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is obliged to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x. A case in point, if Adrian has a negative right to life against Clay, then Clay is required to refrain from killing Adrian; while if Adrian has a positive right to life against Clay, then Clay is required to act as necessary to preserve the life of Adrian.
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  1315. We'll only know they quit the culture war after their movies cease spewing culture war narratives at their audience after getting back to entertaining instead. We need a year of that to declare a trend. Maybe you should embargo your broadcast for 13 months?
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  1316. I'm not on the right. I'm permanently suspended at Twitter - and not for political posts. I post facts on issues Twitter wants to lie about.
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  1317. I'd add - be consistent. When father scolds so must the mother and vice versa.
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  1318. 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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  1319. The Addams Family was created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. Originally as 150 single-panel comics, about half published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from their inception in 1938. Family members were unnamed until the 1964 TV series. The TV series was a kids comedy series. So Jenna Ortega was wrong. Having said that, I actually prefered Ortega's take on it.
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  1320. The headlines are often clickbait, asking rhetorical questions - which the video NEVER answers.
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  1321. 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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  1322. (1) I think your presentation regarding Foucault is wrong. Foucault did not deal with philosophers. He did not write about them and rarely spoke much detail about them. Foucault certainly did not expound other philosopher's ideas, to tell us which ideas he favoured. He never admitted to having an epistemic method. Occasionally Foucault will name drop an idea of Nietzsche's. Foucault's trick was to write about history, to cherry-pick from history and imply that much is hidden or lost, That he, Foucault, was uncovering what really happened - which had been hidden from us by "power". So, Foucault applied a positivist historical method - lot's of citations, etc. Here we have the big problem with Foucault - most other history - also written using a positivist methodology - disagrees with Foucault's history! Who are we to believe and why? (Foucault or his critics?) This is significant because Foucault is the most cited author in academia. (2) "This is a way of thinking about what real justice and real democracy looks like" <- Wisecrack Ha, Wisecrack reveals he's a secret Marxist! Real this and "real" that are Marxist code words (especially "real democracy"); and he knows it. (3) Peterson's basic criticism of Postmodernism and the Left is : 1. The Left's justification was that they would make everyone wealthy. They would end poverty and inequality with the socialist economy. 2. After the late 1960s the Left gradually gave up on their communist utopia. They lost all faith in the superiority of the communist economy. 3. If the Left don't believe in their own vision, how are they to sell it to the rest of us? 4. So the Left colonized postmodernism to cherry pick its bones. To take what was tactically and strategically useful or could be applied (e.g. "truth" is a myth or logocentric fallacy) - and, coincidentally, to bury those deconstructions of logocentrism which might question the Leftist Project. Leftist arguments changed from upfront - "we're aiming for socialist utopia" - to Motte-and-bailey / entryism. Some of these Motte-and-bailey ideas are CRT, Gender critiques, Green critiques, ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy As an example of motte-and-bailey? Wisecracks' pomo presentation above is such and example! So the Left apply pomo ideas where and when it suits them. At the same time, they blank-out radical pomo ideas which are unsuitable or harmful to them. The Left apply means-ends rationality - using any argument they have to advance a position - even to the extent of routinely lying about society. - there is a climate crisis - white fragility is a huge problem in society - males can be "born in a female body" (and vice versa) These leftist ideas are not just wrong - they are lies, and were always lies. The Left rely on pomo to justify the lies rife in their politics.
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  1323. Where can I find a list of Android Phones upon which GrapheneOS will install and run (and have been tested to do such)?
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  1324. The elite don't have a positive message - that's why they were transing kids (well - supporting transing of kids).
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  1325. Sound like a "conspiracy theory" to me.
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  1326. Nick Joicey: Currently: Director General of the Cabinet Office's Economic and Domestic Secretariat Previously: 1995 to 1996: Journalist for The Observer newspaper 1999 and 2001: Private Secretary and Speech writer to Gordon Brown (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer) 2001 to 2003: delegate to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington 2004 to 2006: head of EU policy team Director for International Finance at HM Treasury January 2014: Director General for Strategy, International and Biosecurity at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. July 2018: Finance Director General at Department for Work and Pensions 2019: Honoured as Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for services to the environment
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  1327. Q: Was that because of LSD? A: Evidently so. Although people generally recover from acid and mushroom madness after a few weeks. Syd didn't so much go mad as drop out of the music industry. Some people aren't made for it.
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  1328. Yes
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  1329. A good sleeping pill will have a short half-life. Such that, by the time one wakes up, the effects of the drug will have worn off. Unfortunately, such short half-life sleeping pills are called 'date-rape drugs', and are effectively banned. So when I went to my doctor to demand sleeping pills I was given Tamezepan - a benzodiazapine with a longish half-life (Average half-life 10 to 15 hours). After taking it once, I woke up next day in a daze which slowly wore off. Using my (sharp) mind is important in my job, so that was a no-no. The only short-term sleeping drugs I can recommend as effective will all be banned. I won't name them. It looks like useful sleep drugs will be hard to get. What should people with insomnia do? I gave up drinking caffeine drinks after 10am. Caffeine half-life is ~ 5 hours. Which means that: after 5 hours half of it is left in your system. After 10 hours only one quarter, and after 15 hours only one eighth remains. So, in my example, by 1am the next day only one eighth of that caffeine was left in my system. Caffeine has that unfortunate property of keeping you awake at night. It is used in tea, coffee, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Red Bull, ... Never drink it before you go to bed. Ideally - stop drinking caffeine drinks after mid-day. Given you're a caffeine drinker, you'll notice that sometimes you ARE able to sleep at night. So the effect of caffeine in preventing sleep isn't 100%. It can be mitigated by other factors such as: strenuous physical activity, eating carbohydrate meals, taking a benzo. I think most people with insomnia: - drink too many caffeine drinks after noon, - don't get enough physical activity, - or don't eat big meals in the late evening. Unlike Dr Marks - I cannot recommend sleeping pills. The suggested half-life of ambien is: 2 to 3 hours. So after 8 hours, about 3 half-lifes have passed. One eighth of the original dose is still in your system when you wake. Ambien is much better than Tamezepan. When your doctor gives you a sleeping pill ask him/her what the half-life is. Do not accept anything with a half-life longer than 3 hours.
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  1330. "I used to debate people all the time on social media. I used to think it was something worth doing." It is something worth doing. But for yourself. For your own benefit. Because, good debating makes you a saner person. You learn to think sanely, to recognize BS, and debunk it. That's because - in order to debate - you must learn how to think sanely, recognize both good and nonsense arguments. This does not mean you must debate every nutter on the Internet; that's obviously wasting your time. But you should be able to debate people with important ideas - ideas which might affect society. PS: although there are literally hundreds of possible logical fallacies (wrong arguments) people can use against you in debate. In practice most nutters resort to the same bad arguments: * projection - they imagine you as someone you're not; with ideas, motivations you do not have! Most people argue against "strawmen" * insults and labelling. People insult / label you. denier, x-phobe, racist, sexist, ... ^ bullying. People try to shame you into repeating and believing their arguments by applying moral blackmail against you. * argument from authority. THIS expert says Z, therefore you must believe Z. They, themselves will never explain the detailed evidence or argument which Z supposedly has. Most people resort to logical fallacies in a debate, so never learn to debate. You should practice debate simply to master it. This mastery is like an intellectual vaccine. It protects you against the nuttiest arguments sent your way.
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  1331. People promoting voluntary euthanasia People promoting mandatory helmets for cyclists. <- same people.
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  1332. They don't call themselves liberal. The call themselves "progressive" - a phrase beloved of intolerant totalitarians.
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  1333. Just Stop Oil's policy is to increase the price and scarcity of energy. Many of them think humans are evil and animals holy. Their cause is toxic to humanity, otherwise known as the Green / or Sustainable, future. Climate change is: natural, not man-made.
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  1334. "I read your columns every week" !! <- I read her when she first started writing in the Guardian and thought she was a clever writer. I praised her back then. But she stuck with the Guardian and those thick tribalists brain-washed her into becomming one of them.
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  1335. "1. Explanatory. That is, it explains what is wrong with society (as opposed to a Traditional theory, which explains how the world works)." <- So, if a theory cannot find something wrong with society then it's "uncritical"; and presumably, morally evil? As such all theory must become CT to fit the one size fits all plan for ideas eastablished by academics.
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  1336. You are now an LGBTQIAN+. The "N" means "NOT into bestiality." You better hope they don't add a second B.
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  1337. 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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  1338. 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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  1339. 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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  1340. Harris will say he did not try to "silence others" - as he never personally did that. But, Harris certainly supported politicos and administrators who did silence others. So, once again, Sam comes across as a fraud.
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  1341. Anyone who ever has a conversation with a Muslim man will understand that by now.
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  1342. We did NOT stop global warming. Humanity has practically no effect on global warming, or cooling. Thunderf00t - is talking through his rear end, and sucking up to global elites. He hasn't a clue how earth's climates work, and clearly doesn't give a damn either.
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  1343. I think the point of "social contagion" is that the promoted meme has a built-in seed of censorship. When someone accepts one of these woke memes they also accept the necessity to censor heterodox thinkers and non-believers. Without censorship a bad meme will not multiply as it will be exposed for gibberish. Woke memes are often victim memes: "If we don't censor - terrible things will happen to victims". Hence the outlandish claims: - words are violence - people who try to refute woke are "hateful" - those who don't want expensive renewable energy are DESTROYing the planet. - those opposing race "equity" policies are "white supremacists" (even when they're black) So Helen is right about defamation. The woke are intrinsically defamatory because defamation, and demonization of opponents is intrinsic to how these new extremist memes spread.
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  1344. I wrote a blog article in reply to Sabine. With recommended readings on the topics of ideology, noble lies, and groupthink: https://greenfallacies.blogspot.com/2024/01/reply-to-sabine-on-climate-change.html
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  1345. The boss of the BBC is a Tory directly appointed by the Government.
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  1346. I would find it remarkable if the BBC didn't call themselves "public broadcasting".
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  1347. They're probably terrified of putting on the battlefield. Every knocked out T-14 means one less arms deal to a country like India, and those arms deals are worth a fortune to Russia.
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  1348. Intelligent people are - in many ways - MORE susceptible to ideologies like woke than the rest of us. Because intelligent people are just smart enough learn the woke system. Fortunately there are also some people smart enough to debunk, deconstruct and critique woke. But this DDC of woke is hard because they're forever trying to ban us.
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  1349. Using stupid arguments in an argument is possible. One can even con smart people like that. Especially if you argue around ethics such as: "saving the climate", BLM, or equality for transsexuals.
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  1350.  @chrismartinez8285  Everyone who accepts argument from authority is stupid. They literally don't think for themselves.
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  1351. "World's greatest scam" <- Oh really? Stoicism is NOT the world'd greatest scam. When you lie to us like that - you delegitimize yourself. Bye.
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  1352. "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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  1353.  @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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  1354.  @mesolithicman164  The US did not start this war. The Russians did.
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  1355.  @shaunpatrick8345  "Coup"? In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests (known as Euromaidan) began in response to President Yanukovych's sudden decision not to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), instead choosing closer ties to Russia. Earlier that year, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) had overwhelmingly approved finalizing the agreement with the EU. In January and February 2014, clashes in Kyiv between protesters and Berkut special riot police resulted in the deaths of 108 protesters and 13 police officers, and the wounding of many others. Protesters occupied government buildings throughout the country, and the Azarov government resigned. So the President subverted the will of the people. Leading to violent protests, leading to the government resigning. Not a "coup". It fails to me the definition of coup because it was NOT sudden; and it wasn't a small group of protesters, not a military faction. I am not an EU fan. I was even sympathetic to Putin prior to 2014. But he's shown himself to be a thug, Russian nationalist, and to disregard democracy. Corruption is thriving under Putin as never before.
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  1356.  @shaunpatrick8345  The Ukraine President over-ruled the congressional delegates (parliament). So was it first a pro-Putin "coup" in November 2013? One month after the so-called Febuary 2014 "coup", Putin annexed Crimea. So maybe Putin wanted that "coup" to happen?
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  1357. Not only Zinn. Michel Foucault's histories are also somewhat inventive and influential. If you're going to write social history, you'll be forever generalizing about life for the majority. The clever leftwing historian picks out rare events and generalizes them by writing as if most people in history are experiencing those things. They also compare history with the present and treat the present day as a norm; so condemn history because people back then, failed to live up to utopian ideals.
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  1358. 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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  1359. I'd like to recommend MDMA - to break the ice - but I can't as it's a class A drug in UK.
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  1360.  @boozecruiser  Libertarianism? "civil liberties are for teenagers"
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  1361.  @drozycoder2007  Who said "just take it"? I said, make sure you take it - as well - as whatever else you do.
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  1362.  @drozycoder2007  A drozy coder who's always indoors and never gets sunlight should especially take vitamin D. BTW: Vitamin D is more of a hormone than a vitamin. Chemically: it looks just like a hormone.
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