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Comment Re:Unless Trump dies he's going to run for a 3rd t (Score 2) 248

NOPE. The keyword is "interpretation." Which means any pathetic embarrassment for a reason or even unjustified ruling (they are not required to give any explanation) can destroy pretty much anything written no matter how clear.

The 2nd Amendment does not give the right to arms; if you have reading comprehension, you can see that it's for a well regulated militia not individuals. That was misread into the BS it is today in the most blatant fraud before the presidential immunity ruling. See an honest chief justice concur: https://youtu.be/hKfQpGk7KKw?s...

Comment Re:Chatbot - response for other readers (Score 1) 359

Actually, I'm surprised at the quality of the bot's citations. I would have expected Rush Limbaugh or other stupid hack. The last "intelligent" book along such lines I saw was bloated BS fluffed up to confuse and sound smart. Like a con-man I met who was a fake professor from the UK. Interesting guy... caught, jailed and deported for the 3rd time last I heard, 2012. He's probably back again, rich, and with another rube wife. His marks were under-educated, largely right wing.

So...when the human "bots" sound just like AI bots, have we reached parity? I would think we could do Charlie Kirk already... sometimes he made me think of an evil version of Eliza; other times he just channeled debate prick tactics.

Comment Re:Ah yes woke Harvard (Score 1) 359

The 17th amendment:
maybe it sounds bad but have you seen the type of person who is popular in the state government? Who would they pick to be a senator?
Not the best people... it was a problem and powerful wealthy people could control the state gov enough to pick their man - back then some folk were rich enough to control a state. So, people passed the 17th. They failed to pass an amendment to curb ridiculous wealth expanding to the point of threatening the federal government. Today that is a major problem. It's still harder and more expensive to sucker the voting population and consolidate the media than buy off government officials.

MAGA = mega retard

Comment Chatbot - response for other readers (Score 1) 359

Even more insidious to have bots assign a ton of homework... and to cite people that take so much time to debunk; efforts with elements of truth burred which sometimes looks like an intellectual DoS attack where making shit up is fast and limitless and truth, logic, facts are hopelessly limited - and creating plenty of doubt in common sense reasoning often benefits the attacker; allowing them to further isolate and divide.

The problem with a lack of healthy REAL discourse, is only growing worse with tech. Bots like this and intellectual propaganda sources are destroying hope. All sides are impacted. The "left" can be isolated simply because the "right" has gone insane and pointless to engage which as a result promotes the left from getting high on their own supply which results over time in them being more isolated and becoming as much at risk for extreme delusions as the "right" is already. The rare extreme "woke" leftist does exist and they ARE TOXIC freaks I have had the misfortune to encounter and in an academic setting too...they also are adept at using that system to severely punish opposition. Millennials being so simple, makes this extremely difficult. That generation tends to leap to binaries without much depth; more than other generations. I've written them off.

Who started this problem is more of an academic exercise (it's the right) but it creates problems when 1 "side" is allowed to isolate and get extremely delusional. So, we have more divided factions who rarely get exposed to each other and avoid being controversial and offensive when they are. This includes religious groups who get too confident in their faith leading to violence eventually when doubts are brought up. Righteous certainty is dangerous stuff for any humans to have.

Comment Re: Chatbot (Score 1) 359

Chatbot spitting out more talking points again with the huge bias they are starting to have at increasing engagement by getting you to talk more.

FYI to others: social promotion is pushed by bad parents from all groups and bending to them happens in many schools; including private schools, who can get away with being more blatant about it BTW.

Comment FROM A THINK TANK? (Score 1) 359

These intellectual whores attack actual places of legitimate intellectuals because their bosses told them to do so and why are we citing them?

Most todays private institutes, especially those created after The Powel Memo are just a mask covering up a private company for marketing and lobbying. They can't reliably boss around university staff to push their agenda so they create a false source they can cite and promote as equivalent to academia. These fake sources do more than just junk science, they now dominate the news media as "expert" sources while professors are overworked and attacked if they make the time to participate in any topic that has industry shills. The academics need their reputation while the whores are free to do just about anything for their money; making it an unfair match. They can fudge their numbers and lie with little consequence... and likely their funders have other places that can smear and attack from.

Comment Re:The dumbing down of America (Score 1) 359

No, Trump is just CRAZY and a dunning-krugar example; little need to read... and he's so poor at reading aloud you can tell when he is reading his teleprompter.

The worst thing for a narcissist is to fall apart slowly; his vision is failing because he's OLD and he doesn't want to be seen as weak wearing glasses so there are moments where he's physically unable to read but doesn't want to say he can't read without his glasses or very large print.

When the UK PM handed him a letter from the King, Trump made him tell him what was in the letter and awkwardly dodged having to admit he couldn't read it.

Comment Re:A key “elite” blind spot (Score 1) 359

ha. I'm a rare bird, the propaganda and marketing are targeted to large groups and so most of it does not work on me. I have no tribe, almost everybody else does. I didn't have a childhood or teen group to identify with. I don't identify with white males I grew up with in my community simply because they looked like me. I don't have a tribal identity and I am an actually real individual if not kind of a non-conformist on purpose.

Science replaced my religion at about 10 years old. The fictional character I looked up to was not Jesus, but Spock. Yes, I said fictional and I was raised Catholic; they tried their best to "save me". I did extremely well in critical thinking, symbolic logic, math, and programming... and every science. I have studied propaganda and psychology. I'm more grounded in reality than 100 conservatives combined. Oh, and I will fight with "woke" liberals about gender bullshit until they cry. There is a huge corporate slant to US media and it has been "conservative" -- the liberal media bullshit is playing the ref and it worked. still works too. both sides crap works well for the simps. not me.

If you think it's all gone crazy liberal, youre out of touch with reality. Just because pop culture has gay people all over and now they are pushing trans or trying to... doesn't make the important media (news) liberal. corps don't care and conservatives need scapegoats and outrage bait-- they don't really care either. they want power and topics that relate to that must be controlled; the rest is distraction. I frankly don't care about LGBTQXYZ just leave them alone to do whatever, it's a tiny tiny minority group that even if they were toxic, they are so minor as to not really be any threat. It's just a target to scapegoat and punch down upon. I don't care if you used to be a man; if you did it right, I would never notice. and you'd be 0.001% so I'd probably not even meet you. just leave them alone. WTF is wrong with these cowardly suckers? at least with the jews in germany it was a significant portion of the population; but people here are so stupid they freak over a rounding error worth of people being scapegoated. There are to antifa gangs to fear... besides the only people who hate anitfa are fascists...and now their rubes.

Comment Re:Part of a Larger Issue (Score 1) 359

Russian Subversion. Once past the point of no return, there is no known cure; it'll spiral into collapse. It's slow but effective and has been going on since the cold war with only a bit over a decade break between collapse and Putin restarting the program and then making it bigger than ever.

It's all about undermining institutions and trust while setting factions against each other in the society-- in many ways it's a weaponized version of Russian dysfunction. If you read the facebook ads from 2016 Russia bought; and I read ALL of them, you can see their classic subversion tactics. They poke up and promote fanatics on all sides while setting them against institutions as well. BLM to hate and be violent (failed) and distrust the system-- while promoting racist hate and violence (worked) and distrust in the system. Nothing to help anarchists etc, but plenty that could nudge others closer to them. Oh, and crap like the pope endorsing trump; religious manipulation for the "right" and oddly not for the left.

You can find former KGB talking about subversion. Problem is, they don't know shit about stopping it. nobody really does know a way to fix a broken society afterwards... it continues regardless of government changes etc. It's a true actual culture war.

Reality has a liberal bias because reality changes and conservatives are stuck in the past.

Comment Re:A key “elite” blind spot (Score 1) 359

The whole game has SHIFTED TO THE "RIGHT" since the 90s, gradually. One would think the accelerated rate a decade ago would make it more visible but this has proven not to be the case.

People actually think there is a left shift proving how delusional and gullible people are. Time has shown how much further things can be pushed more quickly and the bottom 1/3 still are suckered while 1/6 are "undecided" to the point one has to wonder if they are not far more stupid than previously thought.

The corporate consolidation of communications with it's owning of the "right" has largely promoted that side they own; even when attacking they normalize their people and marginalize the opposition.

FYI- Trump pardoned 1000s of the worst Afgans setting up a disaster -- which if he had been president during HIS "deal" to withdraw sooner than Biden's delayed date, it would have been far worse but the media would have downplayed the whole disaster like everything else he does wrong. Every few days is another distraction they fall for... No Epstein files or client list... the client list is all but forgotten and they were the ones who spent years hyping it all ! Even now it's a dem hoax, because people are too stupid to realize they made it.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 81

The arguments are similar to "Innocent until proven guilty." Look into precepts like that; which are illogical but have cogent arguments for such policies.

It is not that hard. Racists will circumvent any simple policy or law you set because it's incredibly easy when you decide any aspect of the process. This went on 100s of years. Games with definitions and interpretations are learned by children with their parents or school's rules. They also learn that "common sense" will catch and stop them while the letter of the law is easy to game. This is why some intellectually honest judge is needed over a rigid algorithm (literal or strict constructionist bs.)

Then you have unconscious biases which people naturally do simply with natural preference towards the familiar; race has nothing to do with it - if you are uncomfortable and unfamiliar working around women you will prefer men. If you worry you'll be too tired or drunk and say what you really think and get in trouble, you'll prefer "one of your own" but even without that simply a choice between comfort level will be a factor in any "gut" decision. Hell, your music taste preferences are all familiarity. Sure these things go too far with touchy hyper sensitive people (most millennials.)

Affirmative Action was destroyed by heavy sustained propaganda so then it changed to DEI. Which is now under attack. The name will change and repeat...

The illogical position of instituting counter bias is reasonable because you can't logically counter the problem against being gamed into meaninglessness. You have to force a counter measure at least until the problem is greatly reduced. Then you can stop until it becomes a problem again. which it likely will. Could be hair color next time... except it's not stopped enough to change into something else. Not that lesser things like clothing fashion don't happen forever... but that is enough of an issue people do dress code policies and uniforms. The guilty bias is unavoidable for almost everybody but the most Vulcan of us which is why the innocent bias is formal policy.

Humans are always deluded children; except when they are actually children.

Comment TIPS NEED TO DIE (Score 2) 61

This whole tip BS is to promote the tipping culture further when it needs to die like the RACISTS who promoted the whole thing into the culture.

It is along the same line of thinking of setting up donations as a replacement for health insurance. Or depending on private charities for welfare (so small it's almost a rounding error) or friends/family for unemployment support (for now, we still have unemployment insurance...Project 2028 should kill it...)

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