ClaytonB
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Wow, thank you Governor Abbott for doing the right thing here. This was an obviously politically-motivated prosecution. But there was nothing remotely "beyond reasonable doubt" about the case against Perry. For a year afterwards, the prosecutor didn't have any reason to believe that anything other than self-defense occurred. But when the political-winds changed, they charged Perry. He should never have been charged, let alone convicted. Absolutely disgusting, transparently political prosecution. We cannot know what was going through Perry's mind that night, but God does and he will have to give an account for his actions to God on the last day, and I trust that God is competent to judge even the most difficult cases and, whether he did anything morally wrong in this case or not, I hope he is right with God (as I hope for everyone).

Dead or alive.

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It's not really about that, either, it's about the absurdity of Clown World. We're all supposed to just act like 2020 didn't happen now that we're going into 2024. Well, some of us actually have a functioning memory. So, if 9/11 conspiracy theory is laughably absurd, so is the 2020 election of Resident Joe Biden. Equally unbelievable.

LOL true... :tears:

Sure, the percentage was a little lower but those 30M additional votes is the very thing being highlighted here. The numbers are so fabricated that, even with Biden's lower percentage among blacks, he still had more total black votes than Obama. Which is just silly. And while US population is growing, it's not growing at a rate of 30-million new voters in 8 years. US pop in 2012 was about 314M. In 2020, it was about 331M. That's a total increase of 23M people. Obviously, even many of those are not voters. But Joseph R. Biden, masked up in his basement, or waving to a parking lot of honking cars as a "drive-in political rally" was such a compelling political prospect that he drew crowds and crowds of first-time-ever voters to go to the polls, in droves. Politics is truly amazing. So amazing, it's not even believable...

So, we sadly seem to be going into a crack-up phase in libertarian philosophy as applied to the current world-stage. The long-running Israel-Palestine "conflict" has been a ticking time-bomb of sorts, in respect to libertarian philosophy. Basically, we were never going to escape this turning into a question of theology. Let me explain... (Long post hidden): Hoppe is one of my favorite philosophers. Hoppe is right in respect to the modern situation ("Israel" has no right to do what they're doing) but, with that said, his views on the ancient history of the Israelites are problematic and I will explain why, and how this shows how the Israel-Palestine conflict does not bode well for the future of libertarian philosophy. Let's start with the principle of non-aggression. Non-aggression is basically kindergarten morality -- you can't hit other kids. If you hit another kid, and they hit you back, you are the one who will be in trouble, not the kid who hit you back. Pretty simple. It's amazing how hard it is to explain this simple concept to the mass of the public *all of whom* went through kindergarten and understood this principle at one point in their lives. Hoppe's view of the history of ancient Israel (that the conquest of Canaan was a fundamentally aggressive act) shows the approaching breakdown. If you do not believe in God, then Hoppe is completely correct -- a group of humans invading the land of another group of humans and killing them off in order to take that land is just aggression. And that's why Block is wrong, and Hoppe is right in respect to the current situation. The supposed genetic/historical justifications given for the current occuption by the proponents of Zionist "Israel" are absurd, just as Hoppe states, because they are also made on an atheistic basis. But the problem arises when we try to analyze all of human history from this atheistic starting-point -- neither side can actually prove its point.

This is the Internet 2024.

While it is widely believed that the Nazi party was responsible for massive, aggressive war campaigns in Europe, mass pogroms against the Jews and mass slaughter of political dissidents, especially Christian Germans who would not join the Nazis on grounds of Scripture and conscience, that was actually all done by the much lesser-known and far more evil Naci-party. Nazi is short for "National Socialist Party", where as Naci is short for "National Capitalist Party". The Nacis were far more evil and murdered far more people than the Nazis who, being good socialists, were actually harmless little puppies.

"Nearly two-in-ten voters who cast a ballot for Biden in the 2020 election (19%) were Black, identical to the share of Clinton voters in 2016 who were Black." Source] Biden got 81.28M votes in 2020. Source] 0.19 x 81.28M = 15.44M votes In 2012, 13% of voters were black and they broke 93% for Obama. The total number of votes was about 126.8M votes Source] 0.13 x 0.93 x 126.8M = 15.33M votes

Still more believable than that Joe Biden got more black votes than Barack Obama... :tears: :tears: :tears:

Yes, this belongs here:

Them: THEY MADE THE AI IN THE MOVIE!!! Me: :shrugging: I never used to pay much attention to the quiet people. I always assumed that they just liked to be left alone and to leave others alone, in return. I assumed that they were just nice, but quiet. Now I understand that quiet people are actually psychopaths. Maybe not all of them, but certainly enough of them to create effectively infinite demand for a service whose true purpose can only be summarized as: "Please, God, never make me have to speak to another human being again. Just murder everyone and leave me here by myself to talk to machine instances pretending to be human because that is so much more tolerable for a psychopath like me." What is wrong with this generation? None of the people I grew up with were like this. Or maybe a few of them secretly were, but at least they knew to keep their psychopathy to themselves. Now, AI-fueled misanthropy is the new Wokism. All of these omnicidal AI sychophants are crawling out of the woodwork from every corner of society in synchrony. Where did they all spawn from, and when?! "It was public school"... no, because I've been to public school and my friends were all educated there, and they weren't a bunch of omnicidal maniacs. "It's social media". No, that explanation doesn't work, either, because I was a fully-grown adult when the social-media boom began, and while I saw the transformative effect it was having on my generation, it never actually had a chance to "bake in" to the social fabric. So, it was a hype fad, but it didn't reach the level of truly inter-generational burn-in. Clown World is like what I would expect to happen if you fast-forwarded the circa-2010 trajectory about 3-5 generations. But it happened literally overnight, like a snap of the fingers. I went to bed one night in non-Clown World, and the next morning, I woke up in Clown World. WTH is going on?!

False. The specious arguments in favor of a magic-earth-daddy who's going to make everything into Utopian paradise-on-earth by the wave of his magic scepter -- which amounts to nothing more than clubbing people over the head according to his own whims and interests -- is what "fails to take into account human nature". It's a great story for those who currently hold the scepter. But as with any Ring of Power or Iron Throne, the only thing it creates is a universal war-of-all-against-all to hold that pinnacle of power. To have it is to be a god in human terms. All others, but the man-god who holds the Ring of Power, are but slaves. It's true that getting on a megaphone and shouting, "Hey everyone, we're doing anarchy now! OK?! So, stop trying to grasp the Ring of Power! 1-2-3... GO!" will not work. But this is a complete strawman of what philosophical anarchy is arguing. Rather, philosophical anarchy begins with realism about the political order. A royal house, for example, is practically indistinguishable from a large, monopolistic corporation. It's a profit-maximizing institution, where its sense of "profit" is far more general than just dollar amounts. Thus, every State that has ever existed is really just a market competitor in the market of sovereign territory. Some competitors were very successful, as the Romans, others were annihilated, as the Carthaginians. From this vantage-point, we are not critiquing the State from the artificial distinction typical of Republican think-tankers between "public sector" and "private sector", as though anything "private sector" is inherently good and anything "public sector" is inherently bad for reasons unknown. No, the critique is much more rational than all that. One of the best starting-points for people who fall prey to the "inevitability" argument and other worn-out talking-points, is Hoppe's argument that social democracy is objectively inferior to monarchy. This argument is frequently misunderstood as though Hoppe is arguing for monarchy. No, it is not an argument for monarchy but, rather, an argument against democracy. What is the problem with democracy? In short, democracy converts territorial boundaries, public finance and government decision-making into a tragedy-of-the-commons. In the case of a monarchy, most of these interests are at least internalized. The monarch has a strong interest in preserving the asset value of the public lands, even if those lands are not legally categorized as "Crown lands", that is, even if they are not the private property of the monarch. That is because the monarch is an indirect beneficiary of the value of all land and assets under their territorial power. Philosophical anarchy is just the result of extrapolating this reasoning process to its logical limit. Monarchy is better than social democracy, but the monarch still socializes or externalizes many aspects of the social order by virtue of the power of monopoly. In many ways, social democracy itself is the inevitable historical failure-mode of monarchy... as the monarch creates an ever-more centralized bureaucratic hierarchy of monopolistic privileges, the more vulnerable the teetering tower of tyrannical privilege becomes to collapse into some kind of collectivism or other. More often than not, it's the second-most powerful man besides the monarch who provides the nudge required to topple the tower, and is best positioned to reformulate a new government with himself at the top, in the aftermath. This entire category of social order is inherently self-destructive and unstable. It necessarily results in an endless cycle of revolutions and (as a corollary) massive, scorched-earth campaigns as the rivaling civil war factions each take opportunistic swipes at the other, trying to weaken their opponents whenever they get the opportunity, destroying any long-run value (capital) which may have been built in the interim. The alternative to this is, rather than having one king, to...

:rolleyes:

SCOTUS doubles down on judicial abuse of authority. Unfortunately, this reduces the chances that we can find a gentler resolution to the current impasse than abolition of the Federal government and re-constitution to replace it with a government that will actually carry out the will of We The People instead of serving the plutocracy in exchange for $$$. But if there is no other resolution, so be it, there is no other resolution.

Yep. Someone screenshotted an OpenAI job-listing requiring "10 years experience with GPT"... a technology that has barely been around for five years now.

Memers go on autopilot when the memes make themselves ... :tears:

I normally don't comment on this stuff because it's rarely edifying, but I'll take this opportunity to break it down. Buckle up, because you're about to get some truth-download... First, most men are sexually selfish, especially young and inexperienced men. This means that they just "go for it" in bed. As a result of being inconsiderate of their partner, their partner is left sexually unsatisfied. She may keep quiet about it, or she might complain but, either way, she generally doesn't "get off", certainly nowhere near the frequency that he does. After a while, she loses a lot of the interest she originally had in sexual intimacy because it's purely an act of service, there is little or no enjoyment in it for herself, except by proxy. Proxy-pleasure is still pleasure, but it's like eating tasteless food. It's just something you do, it's not something you enjoy in itself. As a result of this, married people and long-term couples report that "men are more interested in sex than women" and this becomes a widespread false-belief. The more traditional a society is, the more widespread is this false-belief, because the less challenged male selfishness in bed is. As a result of this, women are attributed sexual trust that would not be attributed to men. This includes with small children and other situations where there is a potential for sexual abuse or misconduct. When we see headline statistics like the above quote, this is seen as terribly shocking -- aren't women just sexual primroses who are more interested in social functions than in the bedroom? In reality, the female mind is arguably more sexually twisted than the male mind. Statistics like "90% of juveniles who report sexual victimization are abused by a woman" is a manifestation of this reality that is only jarring to us because of the widespread false-belief in the general sexual-apathy of women, which flows from the sequence of cause-and-effect I described above. In short, women are sexual freaks, no matter what appearance they put on to the contrary, even in private. I'm not proposing any solutions here, just throwing some light on the problem.

Jared Bernstein reboots on camera while trying to explain how the Fed puts money into the economy. What he seems not to understand is that the Fed is not the government. The Fed buys bonds from the government and this increases the supply of money because the Fed has the monopoly from the US Congress to just print money. When the Fed wants to contract the money supply, they sell bonds (to the open market). While the purchases of government bonds are done "on the open market", it's just a charade... the Fed's purchases ensure that the government will be able to sell all the bonds it wants to sell. The Fed makes the demand for US government bonds effectively equal to infinity. "Interest-rate targeting" is just a charade since if the government wants to sell more bonds, it can just call up the Fed and ask them to lower the interest rate and buy more bonds, which the Fed will happily do. It's just a very elaborate shell-game. Oooo ya boy print dat monayyyyy...

Took longer for this to happen than I had anticipated. It's been about 23 years since 9/11. The only headline that is powerful enough to cause the meatheaded moron-energy behind the post-9/11 tyranny to stop and THINK about what they're doing, is when a servicemember gets killed. That is the only thing that has any chance of making them stop and think. And now here we are. 23 years is a long run, and much longer than I thought this ride would last. But no matter how precise the sniper-shot made by those who have been claiming these past 23 years that "WE NEVER MISS".... sooner or later, a miss was INEVITABLE. Sadly, that miss has come in the form of an innocent servicemember being gunned down for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. And I will just assume the police were just "following procedures". Do you see the sick tragedy of the whole situation? One group of men literally "following procedure" as they were trained in cop-school, point-for-point, shooting an innocent servicemember. This is the contradiction that was baked into the post-9/11 tyranny from day one, and this tragedy was absolutely inevitable. I will grant that the cocksure, oracular tyrants who architected the post-9/11 tyranny are a much better sniper-shot than I thought they were. But they aren't perfect, and only absolute divine perfection would be sufficient to justify the architecture of tyranny that they built. TEAR IT ALL DOWN, IMMEDIATELY. There is nothing stopping us from waking up from this "what if we had Orwells 1984 in America"-nightmare THIS VERY INSTANT. NOTHING STOPPING US! Wake up, America! Stop going along with the never-ending ritual of child-sacrifice called "the Military-Industrial Complex". STOP fetishizing the security-production industry. They're literally just security guards. I don't mean to take away one iota of the nobility of service, I know why people honor it, and the reasons for which it is honored are good reasons. But the Neocons gamed and hijacked our natural patriotic sentiment. They literally sat down in a smoke-filled backroom sometime in the 1990's and they war-gamed this shit out, to the uttermost degree. They played every variation of "if they go there, we go here, but if they go here, then we go there" through the exponentially branching paths of all the ways that the American public might try to throw off the shackles of post-9/11 tyranny. They are demons straight from the pit of hell, nothing else! So, they took your own patriotic sentiment, and they war-gamed that to twist you up in pretzels to sign away your frickin right to writ of habeas corpus, a 1,000 year old right of Western jurisprudence that so far predates the Constitution that the Founding Fathers didn't even think it needed to be mentioned any more than they should need to define that water is actually wet!!

The news just won't give me a chance to breathe... :LMAO Made a meme for this...