Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "JRE Clips"
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Incremental improvement: no refrigeration (and the poor nutrition that leads to), fridges with poisonous compressor fluids, fridges with compressor fluids that aren't poisonous but cause environmental damage at end-of-life, fridges with compressor fluids that don't cause problems.
Same deal: Walking, which limits peoples' productivity, lives, and freedom; horses, that can help us work and travel but take enormous dumps all over the place that breed diseases; internal-combustion cars, that help us travel and work but don't c**p so much New York needed to devote several city blocks to manure yards stacked dozens of feet deep, but the cars use leaded gasoline which cause diseases on a far less extensive basis; to cars that don't use lead in the gasoline anymore but cause some smog.
All in all, our problems are getting smaller, not bigger, but we're panicking more. Why is that?
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@matthewbittenbender9191 Let me lay it out for you again, slowly.
If "The vast majority of the documents that Snowden exfiltrated from out highest levels of security had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities" that means Snowden did not carefully vet the documents he published.
If "The vast majority of [documents that Snowden exfiltrated from out of highest levels of security] were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques, and procedures", that is literal criminal espionage targeting the military capabilities of the United States, and it is VERY illegal, for VERY good reasons, including the fact that American troops and civilians get hurt when that happens.
Look, did I read that wrong? Did General Dempsey mean something other than what I took him to mean?
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@copperbackpack2025 So, a large number of capable, independent-minded people, who are well aware of the how to get things done, suddenly find themselves without the ventures that were keeping them busy 80 hours a week?
So these productive people, who didn't consider politics as important as building something real in the world, may have recently had a rude awakening, regarding the abysmal incompetence of people operating at various levels of government, whose incompetence led directly to the economic catastrophe we find ourselves in?
So we may have a large pool of extremely useful people highly motivated to replace those incompetent government functionaries, from Gavin Newsom to Sandy Cortez to Ted Wheeler, and to step up to public service and make those public services work well to rebuild and maintain the small business orientation that has always made America strong?
Winston Churchill once said, "Therefore, in casting up this dread balance sheet and contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic and despair." It's easy to see ourselves, in our own situation, in that speech.
"What [Herbert Marcuse] called the [Long March through the institutions] is over. I expect that the Battle of [America] is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own [American] life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our [Nation]. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon by turned on us. [SJWs] know they will have to break us in this [country] or lose the war. If we can stand up to them, all [the world] may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the [United States] last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
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