Tuesday, June 30, 2020
McGrath versus Prideful Grim Reaper
Amy McGrath Defeats Charles Booker and Will Face McConnell The Grim (Cheating) Reaper in Kentucky: Ms. McGrath, who raised over $40 million, won the Democratic primary by narrowly holding off a candidate who had harnessed energy from the protests over racial injustice.
"In choosing Ms. McGrath, however, Kentucky Democrats are hewing to a careful course, putting forth a well-funded political moderate with military credentials in a red [read, regressive] state."
Imagine NYC spread across 328 million
Coronavirus Live Updates: As Officials Fight Vaccine Skepticism, Fauci Warns U.S. Could Hit 100,000 Daily Cases: Top U.S. health officials testified to Congress about the virus. New York added California and seven other states to its quarantine list. The European Union is set to reopen its borders but plans to bar travelers from the U.S., Brazil and Russia.
[There are 8 million people in the "naked city". Unfortunately, the USA's 328 million includes rebellious partisan idiots who screech "freedom" and refuse to wear masks. Obdurate idiocy could translate into "freedom to perish" in an overburdened, inadequately-funded "healthcare" system.]
Monday, June 29, 2020
Natural Selection Unmasked?
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" ~ Patrick Henry.
C*N*servatives value their rebellious "liberties" more than life? Fine. It's their choice to flirt with natural consequences, including death. The average functional IQ of Americans might, as a result, rise.
However, willfully sickening, perhaps killing, innocents (non-C*N*servatives) is unconscionable.
However, willfully sickening, perhaps killing, innocents (non-C*N*servatives) is unconscionable.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
WOKE Dystopia
"Perma-offended woke twats" = the holier-than-thou hypocrites of anti-social media.
2016 Jonathan Haidt on Social Just-Us Wankers and the New Pro-Victim Morality > .
2019 Jonathan Haidt: 3 Terrible Ideas Weakening Gen Z, Damaging Universities and Democracies > .
"Stunning Fragility" & Vindictive Political Correctness
2016 Jonathan Haidt on Social Just-Us Wankers and the New Pro-Victim Morality > .
2019 Jonathan Haidt: 3 Terrible Ideas Weakening Gen Z, Damaging Universities and Democracies > .
Where DUH = dangerous, counterfactual idea:
DUH 1: What doesn't kill you, makes you weaker. [religionism ~ you cannot cope/find meaning/achieve moral rectitude without devotion to Jebus/Gawd.]
DUH 2: Always trust your feelings. [religionism ~ ignore the evidence, belief, particularly fervent belief, guarantees salvation]
DUH 3: Life is a battle between good people and evil people. [religionism, period = mistakes, personal bad behavior are attributable to possession by Satan.]
Friday, June 26, 2020
"We Are The Future!" crow the young
Technically accurate, but not necessarily a reassuring thought ...
"Li Zhensheng, a photographer who at great personal risk documented the dark side of Mao Zedong’s [youth against elders] Cultural Revolution, producing powerful black-and-white images that remain a rare visual testament to the brutality of that tumultuous period, many of them not developed or seen for years, has died. He was 79."
But his excitement quickly gave way to anxiety. What began as a political campaign aimed at consolidating power soon engulfed the entire country, unleashing decade-long turmoil that upended Chinese society. Factions of radical youths known as “Red Guards” roamed the country battling one another and perceived “class enemies.”
Countless historical sites and relics were destroyed in the name of stamping out China’s “feudal” and “bourgeois” culture. Mr. Li began to have doubts after witnessing Red Guards in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang ransacking churches and temples, burning scriptures and criticizing monks."
“No other political movement in China’s recent history lasted as long, was as widespread in its impact, and as deep in its trauma as the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said in a 2018 interview with The Times."
Still, he took a step closer to the goal in 2018, when the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press published the first Chinese-language edition of “Red-Color News Soldier.” Though it was distributed mainly in Hong Kong and Taiwan, some copies found their way to mainland China through unofficial channels.
“Some people have criticized me, saying I am washing the country’s dirty laundry in public,” Mr. Li said in 2018. “But Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past [though rebellious authoritarian thugs have staged a Ne0-Nazi resurgence], America still talks about its history of slavery [though the partisanship of authoritarian thugs has increased in backlash to reactive protests], why can’t we Chinese talk about our own history?”" [Why? In twisted Confucianism [state-mechanisms before society], authoritarian repressive-instincts currently dominate governmental policy.]
"Li Zhensheng, a photographer who at great personal risk documented the dark side of Mao Zedong’s [youth against elders] Cultural Revolution, producing powerful black-and-white images that remain a rare visual testament to the brutality of that tumultuous period, many of them not developed or seen for years, has died. He was 79."
...
"“I was excited like everyone else,” he recalled in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. “The happiness was real. We felt lucky to be living the moment.”But his excitement quickly gave way to anxiety. What began as a political campaign aimed at consolidating power soon engulfed the entire country, unleashing decade-long turmoil that upended Chinese society. Factions of radical youths known as “Red Guards” roamed the country battling one another and perceived “class enemies.”
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"By the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1976, tens of millions of people had been persecuted and up to 1.5 million had died according to some estimates. Many were driven to suicide.“No other political movement in China’s recent history lasted as long, was as widespread in its impact, and as deep in its trauma as the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said in a 2018 interview with The Times."
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"Mr. Li’s lifelong wish was to make his fellow Chinese remember the Cultural Revolution. That mission became more difficult in recent years as the Chinese authorities reversed efforts to reckon with modern history, resulting in what some have called a nationwide collective amnesia.Still, he took a step closer to the goal in 2018, when the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press published the first Chinese-language edition of “Red-Color News Soldier.” Though it was distributed mainly in Hong Kong and Taiwan, some copies found their way to mainland China through unofficial channels.
“Some people have criticized me, saying I am washing the country’s dirty laundry in public,” Mr. Li said in 2018. “But Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past [though rebellious authoritarian thugs have staged a Ne0-Nazi resurgence], America still talks about its history of slavery [though the partisanship of authoritarian thugs has increased in backlash to reactive protests], why can’t we Chinese talk about our own history?”" [Why? In twisted Confucianism [state-mechanisms before society], authoritarian repressive-instincts currently dominate governmental policy.]
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Too thick to realize that the dead don't vote?
The question refers, of course, to Idiot-in-Chief, who is planning ego-boosting rallies despite the risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2 among those deluded enough to support him ... and, even worse, among those who would neither attend one of his me-me-me rallies or vote for the worst UNpresident in US history.
A Plague of Willful Ignorance: [Ignoramus-in-Chief] has empowered America’s anti-rational streak.
"The moral of this story is that America’s uniquely poor response to the coronavirus isn’t just the result of [beyond] bad leadership at the top — although tens of thousands of lives would have been saved if we had a president who would deal with problems instead of trying to wish them away.
We’re also doing badly because [as Asimov said] there’s a longstanding anti-science, anti-expertise streak in American culture — the same streak that makes us uniquely unwilling to accept the reality of evolution or acknowledge the threat of climate change.
We aren’t a nation of know-nothings; many, probably most Americans are willing to listen to experts and act responsibly. But there’s a belligerent faction within our society that refuses to acknowledge inconvenient or uncomfortable facts, preferring to believe that experts are somehow conspiring against them.
DUHnocchio hasn’t just failed to rise to the policy challenge posed by COVID-19. He has, with his words and actions — notably his refusal to wear a mask — encouraged and empowered America’s anti-rational streak. [Because only those devoid of rationality would vote for him.]
And this rejection of expertise, science and responsibility in general is killing us." [Stupidity is dangerous, alas.]
We’re also doing badly because [as Asimov said] there’s a longstanding anti-science, anti-expertise streak in American culture — the same streak that makes us uniquely unwilling to accept the reality of evolution or acknowledge the threat of climate change.
We aren’t a nation of know-nothings; many, probably most Americans are willing to listen to experts and act responsibly. But there’s a belligerent faction within our society that refuses to acknowledge inconvenient or uncomfortable facts, preferring to believe that experts are somehow conspiring against them.
DUHnocchio hasn’t just failed to rise to the policy challenge posed by COVID-19. He has, with his words and actions — notably his refusal to wear a mask — encouraged and empowered America’s anti-rational streak. [Because only those devoid of rationality would vote for him.]
And this rejection of expertise, science and responsibility in general is killing us." [Stupidity is dangerous, alas.]
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