lol he's on track to send his party to #4 if an election were held today. He's on track to seeing the separatists as the #2 party in parliament he's screwed up so bad.
The only thing powerful here is his epic failure as a prime minister.
The only thing powerful here is his epic failure as a prime minister.
I was going to post the "inside of you there are two wolves. One is gay. the other is gay. you are gay" but I don't see to have it so here is an insanity wolf from 2020 instead.
We're like the brave, virtuous white knight who is also deeply retarded.
The evil sorcerous attacks the thief with a heart of gold who is protecting puppies and the dumb knight yells "Stop, evildoer!" and slays the thief because obviously you have to protect the weak, and obviously the woman must be the weaker one, so have at thee knave!
The retarded knight isn't always bad. If there's an evil dragon he's your guy. A big guy in black armor who kicks commoners out of the way for fun and takes the long way to his destination to get as many kicking opportunities as possible? Our shining white knight is on top of it. There's even been times when the dumb knight reformed someone, like that time there was a samurai who was honorable but misguided and needed to be beaten in battle using the knight's most powerful attack not once but twice to convince him to stop and listen.
Managing a complex balance of power where if any one faction gains too much power it will lead to an actual immediate genocide? Politics are for the king and queen who employ such a knight, not the knight himself. I tend to think the knight isn't just the military, but the society whose democracy sees things in simplistic ways and so won't support complex political moves in a region. The king or queen isn't around, just the knight screaming "I'll save you!" and making things way worse.
The evil sorcerous attacks the thief with a heart of gold who is protecting puppies and the dumb knight yells "Stop, evildoer!" and slays the thief because obviously you have to protect the weak, and obviously the woman must be the weaker one, so have at thee knave!
The retarded knight isn't always bad. If there's an evil dragon he's your guy. A big guy in black armor who kicks commoners out of the way for fun and takes the long way to his destination to get as many kicking opportunities as possible? Our shining white knight is on top of it. There's even been times when the dumb knight reformed someone, like that time there was a samurai who was honorable but misguided and needed to be beaten in battle using the knight's most powerful attack not once but twice to convince him to stop and listen.
Managing a complex balance of power where if any one faction gains too much power it will lead to an actual immediate genocide? Politics are for the king and queen who employ such a knight, not the knight himself. I tend to think the knight isn't just the military, but the society whose democracy sees things in simplistic ways and so won't support complex political moves in a region. The king or queen isn't around, just the knight screaming "I'll save you!" and making things way worse.
Even if those rules were added, weren't half the stories about how complicated the world is and how the laws could end up having massive unintended consequences?
I think I read a bunch of Azimov when I was younger, but it was long enough ago that I can't recall the specifics.
I think I read a bunch of Azimov when I was younger, but it was long enough ago that I can't recall the specifics.
I have this intuition that the spoiled rich kid aweegie who killed the United Health CEO will turn out to have hurt his back doing some retarded rich kid stunt like base jumping or extreme stunt biking.
Marxists who think this is an example of class consciousness are obviously about as out of touch as marxists usually are.
Marxists who think this is an example of class consciousness are obviously about as out of touch as marxists usually are.
Every time people judge a middle eastern leader for being a bad guy, they take that leader out and it turns out the bad guy was actually holding back an even worse guy.
Leftists are suggesting a mass presidential pardon for every illegal immigrant.
I'm thinking though, that doesn't actually change anything. It isn't like anyone was going to be charged and convicted, they're just going to be kicked out of the country -- and as far as I know you can't pardon your way out of kicking a foreigner out of the country.
It's like "Congratulations, you're not going to jail, but we weren't going to throw you in jail, just back to Guatemala."
I'm thinking though, that doesn't actually change anything. It isn't like anyone was going to be charged and convicted, they're just going to be kicked out of the country -- and as far as I know you can't pardon your way out of kicking a foreigner out of the country.
It's like "Congratulations, you're not going to jail, but we weren't going to throw you in jail, just back to Guatemala."
Most of humanity knew how to live lives that made them happy, but we deconstructed and tore down all the things that made us happy because they were also the things that were difficult and would hold us to account to standards. People thought that once you removed standards and taking responsibility for things that all that's left is happiness, but in reality it's at least trying to hit high standards and at least trying to take responsibility that is the only thing that can help you achieve lasting happiness.
I don't want to be misunderstood as saying there's no such thing as mental health issues, but the *crisis* we face is separate from that. People have always been mentally ill, but it wasn't a civilizational crisis until we tore down everyone's meaning, values, and sense.
"Mental Health" is in some ways a community issue, where individuals are sick because the culture is sick, and common morality is a community solution, helping everyone pull in the same virtuous direction.
Most people who think today is particularly unique don't understand history. We had a lot of technology through many different eras. People had high levels of social cohesiveness during the modern era that preceded the postmodern era we live in where most of our technologies already existed. It was the collapse of meaning in the postmodern era that seems to have correlated with the crises we face.
I don't want to be misunderstood as saying there's no such thing as mental health issues, but the *crisis* we face is separate from that. People have always been mentally ill, but it wasn't a civilizational crisis until we tore down everyone's meaning, values, and sense.
"Mental Health" is in some ways a community issue, where individuals are sick because the culture is sick, and common morality is a community solution, helping everyone pull in the same virtuous direction.
Most people who think today is particularly unique don't understand history. We had a lot of technology through many different eras. People had high levels of social cohesiveness during the modern era that preceded the postmodern era we live in where most of our technologies already existed. It was the collapse of meaning in the postmodern era that seems to have correlated with the crises we face.
I have used the metaphor of China as the West's picture of Dorian Gray. We stop manufacturing anything, we let them burn all the fossil fuels, then we pretend we aren't actually doing it because all the "sins" are contained in the photo.
We have seen some people on the right start to criticize video games and gamers who consume those video games, and they are surprised when they start to get backlash. If you want to go Anita Sarkeeaian on us and start telling gamers why they're bad people for liking things they like, then expect some backlash.
Reality is, the alliance between gamers and the right is and has always been fragile. It is contingent on the idea of "if you can sod off and leave me alone to enjoy what I enjoy, we can be friends". The left used to have the same deal, but they got too big and tried to renegotiate the terms of the deal. It turns out people who just want to do their thing, largely alone in a room by themselves don't want people who aren't even in the same room yapping at them.
I think it's surprising number of the people on the winning coalition on the right at the moment have similar views, that they just want to help whoever will leave them alone.
Now it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask what's the point of having a bunch of people on your side who by definition don't really want to follow your ideas. Besides the fact that you always need supporters whatever system you're living under, the fact is that once you have someone ideologically, cultural osmosis happens regardless. A lot of gamers are looking at changing regardless because upon being exposed to ideas that are fundamentally good they choose willingly to follow those ideas without being attacked into it. As an example, a record number of Bibles are being sold right now, many to first time buyers. That's the new coalition putting their noses down and doing their homework without being prompted.
Reality is, the alliance between gamers and the right is and has always been fragile. It is contingent on the idea of "if you can sod off and leave me alone to enjoy what I enjoy, we can be friends". The left used to have the same deal, but they got too big and tried to renegotiate the terms of the deal. It turns out people who just want to do their thing, largely alone in a room by themselves don't want people who aren't even in the same room yapping at them.
I think it's surprising number of the people on the winning coalition on the right at the moment have similar views, that they just want to help whoever will leave them alone.
Now it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask what's the point of having a bunch of people on your side who by definition don't really want to follow your ideas. Besides the fact that you always need supporters whatever system you're living under, the fact is that once you have someone ideologically, cultural osmosis happens regardless. A lot of gamers are looking at changing regardless because upon being exposed to ideas that are fundamentally good they choose willingly to follow those ideas without being attacked into it. As an example, a record number of Bibles are being sold right now, many to first time buyers. That's the new coalition putting their noses down and doing their homework without being prompted.