tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3389454447369902226..comments2024-03-18T21:02:33.523-05:00Comments on Althouse: "The idea that [Steven] Pinker, a liberal, Jewish psychology professor, is a fan of a racist, anti-Semitic online movement is absurd on its face..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71559172688362831292018-01-14T21:55:37.843-06:002018-01-14T21:55:37.843-06:00He does still peer into shadowy places
https://mo...He does still peer into shadowy places<br /><br />https://mobile.twitter.com/climateaudit?lang=ennarcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53014544979299887092018-01-14T21:34:59.912-06:002018-01-14T21:34:59.912-06:00Wagner and moller i derived this from caldwells bi...Wagner and moller i derived this from caldwells biography of hayek,narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32648680439373950722018-01-14T20:34:51.490-06:002018-01-14T20:34:51.490-06:00So the trolls gets through multiple posts and I do...So the trolls gets through multiple posts and I don't?narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19329846701924828762018-01-14T20:31:36.430-06:002018-01-14T20:31:36.430-06:00Exactly buwaya, they don't understand that the...Exactly buwaya, they don't understand that the left is part of the dialectic and there is a natural evolution of thesis and antithesis. Much like Warner and moller re the Austrian economists of hayek and his predecessor Von misses.<br /><br />Its surprising fukuyama who fancied himself a hegel scholar missed this? It was not the 'end of history' but a rewind to 1917 if not 1848narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79979638886417331052018-01-14T20:19:31.478-06:002018-01-14T20:19:31.478-06:00Don't confuse the toothy one with facts, pinke...Don't confuse the toothy one with facts, pinker tabulate rasa template doesn't say much about human conscience as it is just another constructnarcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07128976398798678295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8288857493021981252018-01-13T10:47:15.444-06:002018-01-13T10:47:15.444-06:00 Friday night. Pedro got paid and hit the liquor a... Friday night. Pedro got paid and hit the liquor aisle at Walmart.<br />Stop by his local porn shop and pick up another inflatable friend.Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25366938135523446002018-01-12T21:27:45.118-06:002018-01-12T21:27:45.118-06:00You seem like a smart and thoughtful person, but y...<i>You seem like a smart and thoughtful person, but you know, don't you, that the more you engage with toothless the more IQ points you lose?</i><br /><br />Translation: You expose how weak your ideas are when they are actually engaged with someone who isn't required to exhibit a knee-jerk agreement with them. Engage more with obsequious, Republican bootlickers instead. They will bolster your bad ideas and bleat at them like the sheep that they are. Strength in herds! Baaahaaa! Baaaah!Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73290243898515967042018-01-12T21:18:09.969-06:002018-01-12T21:18:09.969-06:00@buwaya: You seem like a smart and thoughtful per...@buwaya: You seem like a smart and thoughtful person, but you know, don't you, that the more you engage with toothless the more IQ points you lose?The Godfatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10575359417766667457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1897270244782973032018-01-12T19:22:35.809-06:002018-01-12T19:22:35.809-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68828398110313808572018-01-12T19:21:41.238-06:002018-01-12T19:21:41.238-06:00I love that 7:17 PM comment!
But it really suffe...I love that 7:17 PM comment! <br /><br />But it really suffers from one small defect: It's just not quite opinionated enough.<br /><br />Try being a little less factual, a little more emotional, and way more opinionated.<br /><br />Then you'll have a comment that better suits your reactionary right-wing demeanor. <br /><br />It's hard to be in denial about the world if you can't have a tantrum every now and then about how little others - who've looked at <i>actual</i> data comprehensively, not just selectively - agree with you. bu bu you. bbbu buh buh buh boo boo. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83875209338463465752018-01-12T19:17:54.511-06:002018-01-12T19:17:54.511-06:00"Blah blah blah... blah blah blah.... "
..."Blah blah blah... blah blah blah.... "<br /><br />And ignorant too. Empty. Uneducated, inexperienced and uninformed. <br />A mass of vacuum and bile. Well, you have bile, I will give you that. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31709317800794629352018-01-12T19:17:17.087-06:002018-01-12T19:17:17.087-06:00And you're not conservative. So who's the ...And you're not conservative. So who's the fraud? <br /><br />You are. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42709931203574456942018-01-12T19:16:31.196-06:002018-01-12T19:16:31.196-06:00Nazi-symp. Nazi-symp. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33840012880938598882018-01-12T19:15:58.038-06:002018-01-12T19:15:58.038-06:00Nice anecdotes and cherry-picked opinions, Mr. rig...Nice anecdotes and cherry-picked opinions, Mr. right-wing 7:06 PM nut job. But you might want to tone down the rage. You're giving yourself away. Not humble at all. Not conservative. Just reactionary and in a proud state of ignorant denial about some basic facts concerning the world. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1488295548945129722018-01-12T19:15:40.918-06:002018-01-12T19:15:40.918-06:00"Own them, honey bu buwaya.
Fake"Own them, honey bu buwaya.<br /><br />Fakebuwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81106036075519836532018-01-12T19:15:22.559-06:002018-01-12T19:15:22.559-06:00" Invite your own back home, you furry old Na..." Invite your own back home, you furry old Nazi!"<br /><br />Fraudbuwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11287469941977686982018-01-12T19:13:39.635-06:002018-01-12T19:13:39.635-06:00Shorter 6:58 PM: Blah blah blah... blah blah blah....Shorter 6:58 PM: Blah blah blah... blah blah blah.... I know the Charlottesville marchers were right-wing Trump supporting Nazis but I'm too much of a proud old noob (despite my pretension to humility) to call a simple fact, a fact. <br /><br />Own them, honey bu buwaya. They're yours. Entirely and inexorably. Love them! Invite your own back home, you furry old Nazi!Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81870712762288145662018-01-12T19:06:30.054-06:002018-01-12T19:06:30.054-06:00"are superior to those held by people whose r..."are superior to those held by people whose reputations rest on accurately and cogently understanding the data. "<br /><br />I have posted plenty of data, and arguments about economic policy, and papers on these subjects, ad infinitum. You do not, of perhaps cannot, engage. <br /><br />The idea that people with data can extract some science out of this is absurd. No, really, it is absurd. It is the same hubris as that of the Soviets, who attempted to "plan" their economy. And their economy was a simple thing, mind you. And even then it only worked, sort of, because of all the little workarounds and vest-pocket arrangements their middle management, empirically, figured out how to sneak by their system. <br /><br />I know how this was done, very very well. My dad did plenty of business with Eastern Europe, purchasing machinery, and we knew many of these people and how their systems sort-of worked. Not, I assure you, as planned. <br /><br />You are, at bottom, a fraud. I call you out. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84464398846100653612018-01-12T18:58:35.842-06:002018-01-12T18:58:35.842-06:00"As the Nazis in Charlotteville were "co..."As the Nazis in Charlotteville were "completely, uniquely and inevitably" right wing."<br /><br />Hmmm. Francisco Franco's economic plan was based on Catholic Social Theory first expounded in Pope Leo XIII's rerum novarum, and implemented/interpreted by his Opus Dei team of advisers. This is not a bit unusual, as rerum novarum was quite influential as an element in the development of Italian Fascism. <br /><br />As it happens, the "Fascist" program of Francisco Franco, when fully implemented, amounted to a standard-issue European welfare state, in no way different from that of France. Spain had an easy time joining Europe because the only bit of it that was out of sync was its overt politics. <br /><br />Rerum novarum is also, as it happens, a foundation of "liberation theology", of several flavors, which have been used to justify left-wing revolutionaries. Interesting that communist guerrillas in Colombia had such an intimate connection to Franco the dictator. <br /><br />And this is just one source, and two threads. The world is not simple, and these things are not separable. <br /><br />One mans fascist is another mans communist. During the Spanish Civil War, the point at which, probably, all the competing ideologies of the century were most clearly delineated, the Nationalists, themselves a coalition, referred to their allies the blue-shirted Fascists as "nuestros rojos" - "our reds". <br /><br />Add all the other sources, threads, purposes, such as ethnic chauvinisms, and etc., and you get into, not separable categories, but a single stew, of more elements than you can identify. All reason and taxonomy are useless before this chaos. Any order you try to impose fails against a mass of exceptions and contradictions. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52985860236003112802018-01-12T18:49:40.761-06:002018-01-12T18:49:40.761-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21723671847141662282018-01-12T18:48:45.922-06:002018-01-12T18:48:45.922-06:00The world is too complicated and inherently chaoti...<i>The world is too complicated and inherently chaotic for anything but empiricism, which is the soul of conservatism. Conservatism is mere humility before the incomprehensible.</i><br /><br />Denying that tax cuts don't offset debt or that poverty is not overcome through willpower or that atmospheres aren't what allow for climates to exist is not empiricism. It's denialism. And there's nothing humble about pretending that your own lack of data and conclusions are superior to those held by people whose reputations rest on accurately and cogently understanding the data. <br /><br />If you had to stake monetary wagers on the truth/falsity of your outlandishly denialist claims - posted as they are on this site like so much watery diarrhea, I confidently predict you would promptly shut the fuck up and reduce the number of your overwhelmingly horrendous posts by about 90% at least. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26910643764433270132018-01-12T18:42:25.744-06:002018-01-12T18:42:25.744-06:00There are, actually, no good liberal ideas.
Ever...There are, actually, no good liberal ideas. <br /><br />Everything anyone in the historical left has proposed is simply part of the stew of components already historically present. A bit of this and a bit of that, with some hand waving ideology to glue it together. And tremendous reams of rationalization, afterwards, when things don't quite go as planned. <br /><br />There is no rationalism in public affairs. Any pretence of reason is hubris or snake-oil. The world is too complicated and inherently chaotic for anything but empiricism, which is the soul of conservatism. Conservatism is mere humility before the incomprehensible.buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4806993542318590772018-01-12T18:37:36.379-06:002018-01-12T18:37:36.379-06:00As the Nazis in Charlotteville were "complete...As the Nazis in Charlotteville were "completely, uniquely and inevitably" right wing.<br /><br />So what's your point? <br /><br />How closely aligned do you feel to them? <br /><br />Keep in mind that they feel <i>VERY</i> closely aligned to the same president/national leader that you find to be so superior to all his vanquished opponents, including the clown car containing 16 other Republican candidates running into 2016. They find him just worthy of their support, if not moreso, than you do. <br /><br />So go deal with that before you make it a point to partisanize the crazies. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11237578870164733072018-01-12T18:19:44.467-06:002018-01-12T18:19:44.467-06:00TTR: "I don't consider PC left wing. I co...TTR: "I don't consider PC left wing. I consider it nonsense and anyone who elevates identity politics above reason to be not only too stupid for categorization, but a waste of my time."<br /><br />Well, you'd have to, wouldn't you?<br /><br />I'm afraid it's completely left wing. Uniquely left wing. In fact, inevitably left wing.<br />Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42451673170015846202018-01-12T17:36:26.690-06:002018-01-12T17:36:26.690-06:00The whole point of making certain topics unmention...<i>The whole point of making certain topics unmentionable is because the Left is incapable of making rational arguments to support their positions. This is not necessarily because there are no arguments to be made, but rather because the Left is unable to make them due to ignorance and lack of practice.</i><br /><br />Why should it have to practice? In general the right doesn't believe in logical argumentation, <i>period</i>, let alone rationalism. And it has gotten much worse at it. So the left has been given every reason to become lazy in combatting the abominations of the right. <br /><br />There was no rational argument needed against right-wing hypernationalism, such as Nazism. It just needed to be destroyed. The Nazis did a lot of what the right does generally. Just surface observations that don't make sense and are designed to blatantly serve a more emotional and childish appeal. The climate denialists don't have evidence; they complain about trivialities around the margins of the obvious fact that climates don't exist without atmospheres. Tax cuts don't create enough growth to offset debt; again, something that the faith-based right, the Republican Anti-Fact Squad, swallows up whole. Poverty is not "curable" through mere willpower. There's no debating against those faith-based "reasoners."<br /><br />That said, Pinker's right. Occasionally there's a good idea on the right but every thought/statement has to be allowed the light of day, even when it's only to let the sunlight in to disinfect us of the perversions of right-wing thought. <br /><br />I don't consider PC left wing. I consider it nonsense and anyone who elevates identity politics above reason to be not only too stupid for categorization, but a waste of my time.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.com