Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Here Comes The Cramdown 69
Let us be clear and non-pretending. The RNC, a private corporation run by U.S. multinational corporations, billionaires and donors who control it, is a private club--who construct the rules of affiliation according to the interests and demands of the benefactors.
The RNC club, the right side of the UniParty corporate structure, has zero consideration or interest in the opinion of voters forced to register in their affiliation.
The CTH website analysis mostly rings true. The funny part is the overt pro-Trump bias. In a rematch with Biden, I would certainly vote for the fully-alive candidate. The only genuinely interesting candidate at the moment is https://www.vivek2024.com/ but I deem him only slightly more likely to prevail than, say, Bernie Sanders, for reasons alluded to in The Famous Article.
"God is real"? Please, the guy is a freak. (Score:1)
That kind of jibber-jabber has no place in real governance
And he does Bitcoin!
We need sane people, not these nutcases
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That kind of jibber-jabber has no place in real governance
Which is how one rationalizes agreement with d_r that killing the unborn and carving those born live is somehow a swift call.
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Religion is the greatest cause of conflict, but I will grant its effectiveness in crowd control, and it keeps the bankers in business... And speaking of "carving", I'll assume you are uncircumcised
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Chortle to your heart's content, do what makes you feel good. Life needs no meaning to exist, it just does, because it's inevitable, not for some ethereal "meaning" that masquerading philosophers dream up to sell you
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Life needs no meaning to exist
Certainly accurate pertaining to Nature in general. Were one interested in reducing people to livestock, this would be cited as "true". But if there is no meaning, there is no right/wrong, and everything is fine. Dahmer is fine.
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Were one interested in reducing people to livestock..
Your "leadership" depends on it, got you all herded up, just go to the airport to see your livestock..
But if there is no meaning, there is no right/wrong
To put it nicely, that is utter bullshit. No point in arguing things you don't want to understand
and everything is fine
Can be, if you (the collective) want it to be
Dahmer is bullshit too, but by all means, go nuts
People know they can do better and live easier, more pleasurably, but nobody wants to give up their personal little fiefdoms, right down to your "nuclear"/patriarchal family, the very root of authoritarianism... moooo
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People know
How? How do they know? Is it all magic assertions?
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Some people practice what they know, others are just marking their territory. Do you belong to the latter group?
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Some people practice what they know
How?
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by doing it
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Standing by for the typical evasion
Sorry, but you're projecting again
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Standing by for the typical evasion
Sorry, but you're projecting again
...for example.
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Please, don't be like him and make me repeat everything all over again, just go through the myriad of previous posts. I'm not interested in the ant mill
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And that's fine. We can stop there.
There is nothing offered but mid-grade trolling, as far as I can tell.
Or was the trolling the thrust of your argument?
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No troll... I'm just not interested in talking in circles. Brain and sphincter are all we got. You guess which is boss
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I'm just not interested in talking in circles.
I have not understood otherwise, but okay. You win.
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What did I "win"? Nothing has changed...
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The climate has changed.
Oh, that's only because humans are blowing so much smoke
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Do you know somebody who is?
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- People asserting constant climate
- White supremacists
It is almost as if both of these strawmen were merely propaganda constructs.
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Sorry, white supremacists are a thing, you're just in denial, kinda like the climate deniers
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I said that I've never encountered them
Yeah, a fish doesn't see water either.. very difficult to believe
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Not mine... mere observation
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Funny to hear you say "imaginary"... I don't deal with "imaginary" except in math. "Imaginary" is your shtick. What are these "boogiemen" you are talking about?
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What are these "boogiemen" you are talking about?
These "White Soup Rim Assists" whom you seem to think are everywhere, but I've never quite personally encountered.
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've never quite personally encountered.
:-) can hardly expect you to notice, but to be in denial, well, that's your issue
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Heh, not only do they exist, but somebody found that the condition might be curable [insider.com]. There may be hope yet.. Better living through chemistry, babe
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Nah, nothing like that. I just expect that more credence be given to observation of events than to religious fairy tales, but I will grant your religion makes a better crutch, its financial success proves that.
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You weren't amused? So very sorry...
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Oh, and you are the one asserting "magic" with your religious doctrine free of any evidence.
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Oh, and you are the one asserting "magic" with your religious doctrine free of any evidence.
I offered a non-religious model based upon a well-known psychological model.
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Standard centuries old crowd/herd psychology.. Nothing new there. Applies to everything we are doing, even on the personal level, we are pretty well synced all around the world, probably all across the universe where standard physical law (god) applies universally, indiscriminately
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Fully alive? (Score:2)
I know your team threw family values out the window years ago but I didn't realize that taking the seven deadly sins as a to-do list was now worth extra points.
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Zombie Joe is a derelict meat puppet
So what if he is, he is serving his purpose, to keep the game running. 50 years in the business is nothing to sneeze at
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Well, you gotta grant, they're honestly and openly corrupt, and still get 98% of the vote. Everybody makes their own choice. Whaddaya gonna do?
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Everybody makes their own choice. Whaddaya gonna do?
Well, I put together what I think is an interesting framework for discussing the topic, but there seems little traction for the ideas.
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Your "framework" is a tiny little box of limited ancient superficial ideas, dismissing others out of hand. All choices are personal, regardless of motivation, that's what separates humans from other life forms
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Your "framework" is a tiny little box of limited ancient superficial ideas, dismissing others out of hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs [wikipedia.org] is less than a century old.
All choices are personal, regardless of motivation, that's what separates humans from other life forms
Fully, 100% agree here.
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Your instant need to deflect toward Trump is a tell
Deflect? Trump is the topic. You were directly stating that you will vote for Trump over Biden, and pretended that you could somehow call him "fully alive" by comparison. Between the two old men one is is vastly better physical health and it is not the younger of the two.
I would think you would not be such an enthusiastic celebrator of gluttony; is it not on the list of the 7 deadly sins?
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Deflect? Trump is the topic.
Oh, hogwash. Trump is mortal and his heart will beat its last. Trump is just a specific instance of the high school popularity contest GARBAGE that we are offered in lieu of substantive policy debate.
But, in your defense, this is social media, so: go on with yo' bad self.
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Trump is mortal and his heart will beat its last
Aside from the cult followers who would lay down their own lives to extend his. But even if we ignore the extreme zealotry of his followers, you still aren't addressing the facts that
Yet to are trying to claim that his is somehow more "fully alive" than someone who actually exercises.
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Aside from the cult followers who would lay down their own lives to extend his.
What a disgusting assertion.
you still aren't addressing the facts that
- Trump is a total moron
- Trump is clinically obese and overall in poor health
If these are indeed facts, one would expect you to offer a credible link to support them.
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Aside from the cult followers who would lay down their own lives to extend his.
What a disgusting assertion.
What were the proud boys doing with their body armor and guns on January 6th? Were they not there to spill blood to extend the presidency? Automatic weapons are not required to tour the capitol.
- Trump is a total moron
- Trump is clinically obese and overall in poor health
If these are indeed facts, one would expect you to offer a credible link to support them.
The first one is trivially easy. He was an incoherent gaffe machine throughout his presidency. He often had simple facts staggeringly wrong, and seldom showed any capacity for learning or the least shred of curiosity.
The second is also quite easy. The WHO defines obesity as a BMI of 30 or above. In 2019 th [google.com]
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vastly less intelligent and curious
You think that matters in this business?
Does he score more points on this imagined scale by virtue of the number of failed marriages and extramarital affairs he has had?
Probably so... Whose fault is that?
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Between Trump and Biden, the only fully alive vote is voting for a third party candidate, particularly one aged 35-40.
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I'll probably vote straight GOP...
Heh, never said you aren't a team player, but you just pointed out why your Article V is a fatal mistake. You can't expect to be taken seriously (aside from being a threat) when you're just supporting the incumbency
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DNC/GOP is the incumbency... Obviously you are not attacking the incumbency if you (and d_r) are going to vote for it
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"Vote, vote, vote," you say. "Not like that!" when anything with an (admittedly low) probability of success comes into view. I submit that, as with the Transmanian Devils coming after the children, a no-kidding Article V that requires 2/3 of the States to ratify *could* wake up voters. At the moment, we've doubled the debt in the last decade or so, and seem intent on getting all Fibonacci with that already astronomical nu
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Probabilities don't matter, unless you're merely strategically gambling.. keep playing the same numbers, eventually they'll come up, right? Aside from that, I'll assume you know the definition of insanity
And the "debt"? Your Article V? Please! Just stop it [youtube.com]... That should be actionable enough for ya...
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I'll assume you know the definition of insanity
I mean, the current course, replete with fake women jiggling ersatz boobs on the White House lawn seems to meet the "nucking futs" criteria.
Just stop it
Great clip, but--hear me out--an individual is not 300+ million people. You're playing Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" games, so maybe review the Newhart clip.
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an individual is not 300+ million people
Keep making excuses... play along to get along
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an individual is not 300+ million people
Keep making excuses
No, seriously: the singular is not the plural. But please, tell me again that **I** am the obtuse one. It's such a pleasant tune.
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tell me again that **I** am the obtuse one.
Well, of course you are. You're just following the crowd and making excuses for your personal choice to do so. Apparently you will follow them right off the cliff and deny doing it until... splat... and then all your problems are solved
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You're just following the crowd and making excuses for your personal choice to do so.
Nothing says "following the crowd" like standing athwart it, apparently.
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standing athwart it
But you aren't, you're just flowing down the river, confirmed it with your intended vote for status quo