Meanwhile, JP has MILLIONS of fans and is finally happy in life. While you have zero fans and is angry all the time. Open your mind. There is a reason more and more people are becoming conservative everyday. Because it's a happier, more fulfilling life. Trust me, once you decide to find new perspectives on life. You will never look back and it's a great feeling!
Joseph Goebbels had 83 million fans, Sophie Scholl had almost none. Yet, history has come down on her side. I would not equate who has the most fans to who is on the morally correct side.
Your life must be incredibly depressing. There is a reason why more people are becoming conservative. Because it makes people happy. They finally see a new perspective on life and realize they don't have to live their lives angry all the time. I mean you wrote all this and literally no one cares. Meanwhile, JP has MILLIONS of followers and is happy. Unlike you people. Just open your mind for once and you will finally understand.
" 'Let's kill all the lawyers' is a line from William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. The full quote is 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.' It is among Shakespeare's most famous lines, as well as one of his most controversial. Shakespeare may be making a joke when character 'Dick The Butcher' suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers." ~ Wikipedia
"I display the times; I appeal to the age
The public is never advantaged
Certainly, mankind has not sacrificed its rights;
If mankind dared but to listen to the voice of its heart, changing suddenly the language,
It would say to us, as it would to the animals of the woods:
Nature created neither servant nor master;
I seek neither to rule nor to serve.
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings." ~ Diderot (Translation by user Xocet on DU [via history.stackexchange])
Some governments seem to want or claim to want to encode in their rules they call laws (as if they are somehow immutable, like the laws of physics) what appear to be called something along the lines of 'rights for trans people'.
They appear, however, to look more like excuses for yet more micromanagement of their captive populations and maybe even attempts at divide-and-conquer, or at least foreseen and unforeseen consequences that might threaten that effect.
In this case, I offer at least one of Jordan Peterson's examples as illustration incidentally.
If some members of communities like 'trans', 'woke' or whoever wish to leverage the fundamentally-coercive-and-corrupt State legal apparatus in their interests it might help them to understand, or understand better, that that has costs, including possible boomerang effects, that may be unaffordable in the long run.
'Slippery-sloped' ('crossing the line') concerns expressed in this article seem to support my point.
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." ~ Malcolm X
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky
“ Some governments seem to want or claim to want to encode in their rules they call laws (as if they are somehow immutable, like the laws of physics) what appear to be called something along the lines of 'rights for trans people'.
They appear, however, to look more like excuses for yet more micromanagement of their captive populations and maybe even attempts at divide-and-conquer, or at least foreseen and unforeseen consequences that might threaten that effect.”
No conservatives are the ones doing that:
In Texas, the Republican governor and attorney general declared providing children with gender-affirming care was child abuse. The state then commenced investigations into families who’d sought such treatment for their trans children. This happened outside of any process to determine the best interests of children and ignored the masses of evidence that gender-affirming care is safe and healthy for children diagnosed with gender-dysphoria. It ignored the fact that the mainstream medical establishment supports gender-affirming care, meaning that the parents being accused of child abuse were only following mainstream medical advice on the best treatment for their children.
This was authoritarian because the governor and attorney general were substituting their personal authority for any fair process of determining the best interests of children. It was arbitrary and sudden, penalizing parents for behavior that wasn’t only legal but believed by the parents and all major medical organizations to be in their children’s best interests. It had fascistic undertones because it involved ginning up unreasonable fears about a minority group, targeting them for punishments that were completely outside the norm for other families. As in the USSR and Nazi Germany, it resulted in families fleeing their homes out of fear of governmental persecution.
Just a quick comment for now in the middle of the read...
I listened to the second video and didn't find it 'transphobic' per se, if that is the concern or argument...
I have read and considered the argument(s) against 'male trans' suddenly getting into 'female' sports and am inclined to agree, at least with the apparent main point about living most of one's life as a 'male' (so to speak, hence the single quotes), what with the physical benefits of added testosterone and muscle-mass-building, and the unfair competition when that person decides to 'compete' against 'females'.
In your and others' cases along similar lines, I might be tempted to caution against using too many possible 'doublespeaks' like 'conspiracy theory', 'transphobia' and/or 'white patriarchy' and the like, lest it risk corrupting both your readership's reading and perspectives as well as your own.
I say this as a non-subscriber: Is there a way to keep non-subscribers from commenting on substack? This Gary idiot sure isn't paying in, he's got nothing invested in you or this blog. Kick him out.
Or do the something awful method. Pay subscription to comment, revokable for any reason. It is a documented fact the multi-comment human spambots like gary will drop tenner after tenner for the privilege of being 'canceled' by the 'woke mob'.
Unlike you apparently, I'm a (new) subscriber and these were my first and only comments... which have a fair bit more calibre than yours, incidentally, and speaking of spambot-level quality.
That Eoin kept mine might suggest something about his approach/sense of ethics, and in contrast with what your comments seem to suggest about yours.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." ~ Noam Chomsky
I have noticed that many people are prone to rounding off a square peg's corners to fit a round hole or, IOW, twisting something to fit their schemas.
Just because someone thinks they heard something doesn't necessarily mean that that's what was uttered or meant.
What's reality?
"In psychology and cognitive science, a schema describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them." ~ Wikipedia
The 24 second video is obviously out of context though.
In any case, if we are talking about the military, military training and fighting some hypothetical war and Sears leverages a particular perspective (not necessarily correct) on the so-called 'Woke'-- perhaps those who get easily 'uncomfortable', need 'safe spaces' and may have been called 'snowflakes'-- then his 'comedy' of the Woke as the easily-losing side in such a hypothetical war would seem to stand to reason.
One concern might be for Eoin's ostensible 'agitprop' hereon and elsewhere, which, paradoxically, could hurt the very causes he seems ('virtue-signals'?) to support.
Vaccine mandates are an escalation too, incidentally, especially in the contexts of the coerced-public-publicly-funded virus-research lab-leaks and the lack of surrounding transparency.
Hereon. Look at this fucking doofus over- and mis-using the biggest word he could find on thesaurus.com. Where are the rightwingers who've read enough books to know that the biggest word isn't always the correct one?
Meanwhile, JP has MILLIONS of fans and is finally happy in life. While you have zero fans and is angry all the time. Open your mind. There is a reason more and more people are becoming conservative everyday. Because it's a happier, more fulfilling life. Trust me, once you decide to find new perspectives on life. You will never look back and it's a great feeling!
Joseph Goebbels had 83 million fans, Sophie Scholl had almost none. Yet, history has come down on her side. I would not equate who has the most fans to who is on the morally correct side.
Your life must be incredibly depressing. There is a reason why more people are becoming conservative. Because it makes people happy. They finally see a new perspective on life and realize they don't have to live their lives angry all the time. I mean you wrote all this and literally no one cares. Meanwhile, JP has MILLIONS of followers and is happy. Unlike you people. Just open your mind for once and you will finally understand.
You definitely seem happy! This article about the stuff you said doesn't appear to be bothering you at all!
Artistic License?
" 'Let's kill all the lawyers' is a line from William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. The full quote is 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.' It is among Shakespeare's most famous lines, as well as one of his most controversial. Shakespeare may be making a joke when character 'Dick The Butcher' suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers." ~ Wikipedia
"I display the times; I appeal to the age
The public is never advantaged
Certainly, mankind has not sacrificed its rights;
If mankind dared but to listen to the voice of its heart, changing suddenly the language,
It would say to us, as it would to the animals of the woods:
Nature created neither servant nor master;
I seek neither to rule nor to serve.
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings." ~ Diderot (Translation by user Xocet on DU [via history.stackexchange])
So the fact he called for killing trans people isn’t a concern? But I guess concern for you is not really doing any research on the subject: https://medium.com/@davidallsopp/trans-athletes-guarding-against-disinformation-61aa3185427d
https://aninjusticemag.com/activists-attacking-trans-athletes-keep-targeting-cis-women-instead-cb6948e6a9fe?gi=c1360409f3c9
https://tuckerlieberman.medium.com/bad-faith-conversations-to-marginalize-queer-and-transgender-people-a615ec3b3dfe
Just another thing that comes to mind...
Some governments seem to want or claim to want to encode in their rules they call laws (as if they are somehow immutable, like the laws of physics) what appear to be called something along the lines of 'rights for trans people'.
They appear, however, to look more like excuses for yet more micromanagement of their captive populations and maybe even attempts at divide-and-conquer, or at least foreseen and unforeseen consequences that might threaten that effect.
In this case, I offer at least one of Jordan Peterson's examples as illustration incidentally.
If some members of communities like 'trans', 'woke' or whoever wish to leverage the fundamentally-coercive-and-corrupt State legal apparatus in their interests it might help them to understand, or understand better, that that has costs, including possible boomerang effects, that may be unaffordable in the long run.
'Slippery-sloped' ('crossing the line') concerns expressed in this article seem to support my point.
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." ~ Malcolm X
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky
“ Some governments seem to want or claim to want to encode in their rules they call laws (as if they are somehow immutable, like the laws of physics) what appear to be called something along the lines of 'rights for trans people'.
They appear, however, to look more like excuses for yet more micromanagement of their captive populations and maybe even attempts at divide-and-conquer, or at least foreseen and unforeseen consequences that might threaten that effect.”
No conservatives are the ones doing that:
In Texas, the Republican governor and attorney general declared providing children with gender-affirming care was child abuse. The state then commenced investigations into families who’d sought such treatment for their trans children. This happened outside of any process to determine the best interests of children and ignored the masses of evidence that gender-affirming care is safe and healthy for children diagnosed with gender-dysphoria. It ignored the fact that the mainstream medical establishment supports gender-affirming care, meaning that the parents being accused of child abuse were only following mainstream medical advice on the best treatment for their children.
This was authoritarian because the governor and attorney general were substituting their personal authority for any fair process of determining the best interests of children. It was arbitrary and sudden, penalizing parents for behavior that wasn’t only legal but believed by the parents and all major medical organizations to be in their children’s best interests. It had fascistic undertones because it involved ginning up unreasonable fears about a minority group, targeting them for punishments that were completely outside the norm for other families. As in the USSR and Nazi Germany, it resulted in families fleeing their homes out of fear of governmental persecution.
Hi Eoin,
Just a quick comment for now in the middle of the read...
I listened to the second video and didn't find it 'transphobic' per se, if that is the concern or argument...
I have read and considered the argument(s) against 'male trans' suddenly getting into 'female' sports and am inclined to agree, at least with the apparent main point about living most of one's life as a 'male' (so to speak, hence the single quotes), what with the physical benefits of added testosterone and muscle-mass-building, and the unfair competition when that person decides to 'compete' against 'females'.
In your and others' cases along similar lines, I might be tempted to caution against using too many possible 'doublespeaks' like 'conspiracy theory', 'transphobia' and/or 'white patriarchy' and the like, lest it risk corrupting both your readership's reading and perspectives as well as your own.
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I say this as a non-subscriber: Is there a way to keep non-subscribers from commenting on substack? This Gary idiot sure isn't paying in, he's got nothing invested in you or this blog. Kick him out.
Or do the something awful method. Pay subscription to comment, revokable for any reason. It is a documented fact the multi-comment human spambots like gary will drop tenner after tenner for the privilege of being 'canceled' by the 'woke mob'.
Sit down, Karen.
Unlike you apparently, I'm a (new) subscriber and these were my first and only comments... which have a fair bit more calibre than yours, incidentally, and speaking of spambot-level quality.
That Eoin kept mine might suggest something about his approach/sense of ethics, and in contrast with what your comments seem to suggest about yours.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." ~ Noam Chomsky
Ah yes the war crimes apologist: https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/16inn29/the_hypocrisy_of_noam_chomsky_id_like_you_to/k0kpp9s/
Great man to quote about tolerance.
I have noticed that many people are prone to rounding off a square peg's corners to fit a round hole or, IOW, twisting something to fit their schemas.
Just because someone thinks they heard something doesn't necessarily mean that that's what was uttered or meant.
What's reality?
"In psychology and cognitive science, a schema describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them." ~ Wikipedia
Ok what does he say here: https://youtu.be/PP7K8QqmmUg
The 24 second video is obviously out of context though.
In any case, if we are talking about the military, military training and fighting some hypothetical war and Sears leverages a particular perspective (not necessarily correct) on the so-called 'Woke'-- perhaps those who get easily 'uncomfortable', need 'safe spaces' and may have been called 'snowflakes'-- then his 'comedy' of the Woke as the easily-losing side in such a hypothetical war would seem to stand to reason.
One concern might be for Eoin's ostensible 'agitprop' hereon and elsewhere, which, paradoxically, could hurt the very causes he seems ('virtue-signals'?) to support.
Right, he's just saying it blatantly instead of implying it. Still, it's an escalation.
See my previous comments hereon.
Vaccine mandates are an escalation too, incidentally, especially in the contexts of the coerced-public-publicly-funded virus-research lab-leaks and the lack of surrounding transparency.
Again it seems you are concern trolling: https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/scicheck-still-no-determination-on-covid-19-origin/
Hereon. Look at this fucking doofus over- and mis-using the biggest word he could find on thesaurus.com. Where are the rightwingers who've read enough books to know that the biggest word isn't always the correct one?
^ Translation:
"I have no real argument and (so) will also engage in name-calling." ~ AnonymousBosch
Translation: “I refuse to do proper research”: https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/scicheck-still-no-determination-on-covid-19-origin/