I've been reading an illustrated bible to my son a few pages at a time. We're early on talking about Joseph, I think the son of Jacob.
I'm calling him "No coat guy" because every problem in his life seems to revolve somehow around a coat. His dad gets him a nice coat? His brothers sell him into slavery and then steal his coat. The pharoh's wife gets ahold of his coat? She accuses him of surprise buttsex and he goes to jail. I have to assume that next he'll find his mother in bed with a coat or he'll find out a coat ended his home country or something.
Like... If I were this guy, I'd swear off coats for life. "No coat guy"
I'm calling him "No coat guy" because every problem in his life seems to revolve somehow around a coat. His dad gets him a nice coat? His brothers sell him into slavery and then steal his coat. The pharoh's wife gets ahold of his coat? She accuses him of surprise buttsex and he goes to jail. I have to assume that next he'll find his mother in bed with a coat or he'll find out a coat ended his home country or something.
Like... If I were this guy, I'd swear off coats for life. "No coat guy"
I think I agree with your first post, and the first 7 words of your second.
too much got too serious on the Internet, and that includes politics, and that includes lolcows, and that includes encouraging people to kill themselves.
So I shall, like Thanos, snag some infinity gauntlets. One for my left hand, one for my right.
And in my left hand, I administer the message "go kill yourself" to 50% of the fediverse without any prejudice, chosen between every man woman and child.
And in my right hand, I administer the message "lol ur politics are wrong and you're stupid for believing them" to the other 50% who were spared from being told to kill themselves.
And in my center hand (wait where did that come from), I have a third infinity gauntlet. This one is for taking shit offline, for calling the cops on people you don't know, for calling their employers, for calling their families. That one is for taking shit too seriously, for thinking your online shitposting is an actual movement and not just a digital bowel movement you probably made while taking an actual bowel movement, for trying to get websites shut down or people kicked off of platforms. This center infinity gauntlet I cast it into the fires of Mt. Doom! (wait when did we get a set change) Even if I have to hack my own arm off to do it! (ok well im back to 2 hands at least)
too much got too serious on the Internet, and that includes politics, and that includes lolcows, and that includes encouraging people to kill themselves.
So I shall, like Thanos, snag some infinity gauntlets. One for my left hand, one for my right.
And in my left hand, I administer the message "go kill yourself" to 50% of the fediverse without any prejudice, chosen between every man woman and child.
And in my right hand, I administer the message "lol ur politics are wrong and you're stupid for believing them" to the other 50% who were spared from being told to kill themselves.
And in my center hand (wait where did that come from), I have a third infinity gauntlet. This one is for taking shit offline, for calling the cops on people you don't know, for calling their employers, for calling their families. That one is for taking shit too seriously, for thinking your online shitposting is an actual movement and not just a digital bowel movement you probably made while taking an actual bowel movement, for trying to get websites shut down or people kicked off of platforms. This center infinity gauntlet I cast it into the fires of Mt. Doom! (wait when did we get a set change) Even if I have to hack my own arm off to do it! (ok well im back to 2 hands at least)
"it hurts!!!"
"You're darned right bucko! This is life! And life is hard!"
"Fuck you! Give me drugs!!!"
"That's what people think! And they're wrong! Life is hard, but you gotta bear it, and if you bear that load then you'll find something more important to you than drugs!"
"Fuck yoooou I want a divorce!"
"Oh, so ya think you want to run away from your problems? Think that's the answer? Well let me tell you, sunshine! You start running away from your problems, then you'll find out that you haven't rescued your father from the belly of the whale, and then you end up becoming a tree full of snakes and they sent you off to the gulag!!!"
"You're darned right bucko! This is life! And life is hard!"
"Fuck you! Give me drugs!!!"
"That's what people think! And they're wrong! Life is hard, but you gotta bear it, and if you bear that load then you'll find something more important to you than drugs!"
"Fuck yoooou I want a divorce!"
"Oh, so ya think you want to run away from your problems? Think that's the answer? Well let me tell you, sunshine! You start running away from your problems, then you'll find out that you haven't rescued your father from the belly of the whale, and then you end up becoming a tree full of snakes and they sent you off to the gulag!!!"
Reminds me of this episode of Criminal minds where one of the character calls Hochner (the stereotypical straightlaced G-Man) out for being a narccisist. Then he and his entire team go around calling out all his faults "I have no sense of humor..." and he goes on for like 5 minutes then finishes "But I do listen to my team. He's clearly trying to send a message." The "List agent hochner's worst qualities" brainstorm is one of my favorite moments in the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGq2rX2E4UY
In the same way, you can say a lot of things about both men, lots of legitimate criticisms including ones that they directly admit to. Just not this one specific thing they absurdly get accused of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGq2rX2E4UY
In the same way, you can say a lot of things about both men, lots of legitimate criticisms including ones that they directly admit to. Just not this one specific thing they absurdly get accused of.
Think about the fact that they call guys like @RekietaLaw or Jordan Peterson, who have both been married for a long time and had multiple children incels.
People who can't maintain a healthy relationship of any kind calling people with long happy marriages incel is one of those absurdities you really have to appreciate.
People who can't maintain a healthy relationship of any kind calling people with long happy marriages incel is one of those absurdities you really have to appreciate.
"do the right thing! End your bloodline and ensure you never participate in raising the next generation of children!"
Huh... No.
Huh... No.
Pierre Poilievre is the new leader of the conservative party in Canada. He was one of the few people in parliament supporting the trucker convoy, he's consistently spoke about balancing budgets and monetary problems.
There were a few good options, but I think he's the best. Now he just needs to win the next election.
There were a few good options, but I think he's the best. Now he just needs to win the next election.
The federal reserve was created in 1913. The real fiscal irresponsibility happened after Nixon "temporarily suspended" the convertibility of the dollar to gold, ending the Breton woods system that had been the global economic system since world war 2.
Now that isn't to say that Nixon or Reagan or any of the people after them were the very first people to be big spenders. FDR famously threatened the supreme Court in order to get his various social programs through, and many people point to Lyndon Johnson's Great society platform as the beginning of the end. Eisenhower warning us about the military industrial complex ended up being more important than we thought, not just because the military did end up with a inordinate amount of power, but because the perpetual wars and trying to pay for them ended up becoming one of the impetus for the elimination of the gold standard and ultimately the perpetual debt machine that we live in.
That being said, I think that neoliberalism and it's close friend neoconservatism ended up becoming the ideological base from which the military industrial complex was really able to ramp up. America might have been able to support strong social programs, but it couldn't support strong social programs at the same time as trying to support a military larger than the next 20 countries combined and bases in 97 countries.
Now that isn't to say that Nixon or Reagan or any of the people after them were the very first people to be big spenders. FDR famously threatened the supreme Court in order to get his various social programs through, and many people point to Lyndon Johnson's Great society platform as the beginning of the end. Eisenhower warning us about the military industrial complex ended up being more important than we thought, not just because the military did end up with a inordinate amount of power, but because the perpetual wars and trying to pay for them ended up becoming one of the impetus for the elimination of the gold standard and ultimately the perpetual debt machine that we live in.
That being said, I think that neoliberalism and it's close friend neoconservatism ended up becoming the ideological base from which the military industrial complex was really able to ramp up. America might have been able to support strong social programs, but it couldn't support strong social programs at the same time as trying to support a military larger than the next 20 countries combined and bases in 97 countries.
No shit? It's almost like they're selling the idea of environmentalism instead of anything meaningful, and we slurp it up because it's easier to do that than to do the hard work of real shit.
I don't understand why the hatred of Hayek. Ultimately it wasn't Hayek but Keynes ideas that built the economic system for the next century. The unlimited spending and money printing is a criticism and prediction made by Hayek against the establishment, so the biggest problem is one he was explicitly against before it was widely understood.
So could you clarify somewhat?
So could you clarify somewhat?