Re: Challenge to Ajax and Subgenius
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:08 pm
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When? Right around the time they disabused your BS? What a coincidence.
Has ajax taken up comedy? This genuinely made me laugh.
Right on! And, as usual, you said it all better than I could! I especially like " Never let your ideology prevent you from doing what works." I have long believed that to be true.MeDotOrg wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:53 pmOne of my favorite quotes is Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. I would modify that slightly and say Never let your ideology prevent you from doing what works. If someone asks if I'm a Capitalist or a Socialist, the answer is I'm a pragmatist. Neither is the right answer all of the time. Countries should base their economic systems on what works. The answer is admitedly complicated, and defining what works is the rub. For so many years we have looked at the Dow Jones and NASDAQ as defining how we are doing. But for the vast majority of Americans, who don't scan the Dow at the end of every day, there are other measures of happiness like health care, sick days, good public transportation.
I was thinking tonight that a lot of the functions that we are now asking of government are things that we used to ask of unions. The cost of what we think of as Socialism was padded into prices we paid when we bought things tjat were Union made. As global supply chains have decimated the power of local unions, the quality of life crept down for working Americans, and the Union perks of their fathers and grandfathers are long gone.
It's funny, but when Communist countries start experimenting with Capitalism, there are invariably those who complain of backsliding, of not being true to the revolution. Economic systems should exist to serve us, not the other way 'round.
Of course, Ajax, because truthfulness is now political. To believe in reality means to be politically biased against DJT.Ajax wrote:Fact checks are politically biased and have lost credibility.
I was referring the Jacob Blake case. The media fact check says that it was true at the time that Jacob Blake was unarmed. That's just one example of a fact check proven false.Fact checks are politically biased and have lost credibility.
They're in prison because they didn't follow the President Trump's admonition to peacefully march. What they did was a disgrace.Many of your brothers and sisters of the right-wing will be in prison soon because of you,
What do you mean? How have Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh been able to be successful?Your coming "platforms" are doomed to failure, Ajax. They can't be successful because they are entirely parasitic.
CFR. Please link to the "media fact check" claiming that Jacob Blake was "unarmed". Then, please link to the incontrovertible evidence that Jacob Blake was "armed". THEN, show that the "media fact check" refused to update their information based on the evidence. And prepare yourself to write precisely as you present your case, because your chances of pulling the wool over my eyes are slim.Ajax wrote:I was referring the Jacob Blake case. The media fact check says that it was true at the time that Jacob Blake was unarmed. That's just one example of a fact check proven false.
I was referring to ^^^ this. Obviously, right-wing pundits and Trump himself have made insane amounts of money off of stupid people. I meant your "own networks", which I assume must include some kind of posting platform such that you can ban people. I'm saying that those kinds of platforms are ultimately unstable and won't scale well. Maybe you can prove me wrong.Ajax wrote:When we get our own networks, we'll exercise our rights as a private company to ban you just as Facebook and Twitter has done to us
After years of promoting obvious lies, Facebook and Twitter went on a rampage deleting material that contributed to the failed insurrection mounted by your right-wing brothers. To compare, the site that cam and others are posting these hilarious screenshots from called greatawakening.win went on a rampage deleting any and every negative comment about Q made today within five minutes of the "great awakening" not happening. You don't need to wait for future tech to provide you with a platform where folks like myself and Cam and Schmo will be banned. You've already got these sites. How long do you think I would last at LDS Freedom Forum, where you also post?Ajax wrote:the censorship, and cancel culture that defines the modern left.
I thought I’d circle back to this post and update it with:Gadianton wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:22 amCFR. Please link to the "media fact check" claiming that Jacob Blake was "unarmed". Then, please link to the incontrovertible evidence that Jacob Blake was "armed". THEN, show that the "media fact check" refused to update their information based on the evidence. And prepare yourself to write precisely as you present your case, because your chances of pulling the wool over my eyes are slim.Ajax wrote:I was referring the Jacob Blake case. The media fact check says that it was true at the time that Jacob Blake was unarmed. That's just one example of a fact check proven false.
In the real world, we update our beliefs when there is sufficient evidence to. Proving things false is an ordinary step in the journey to truth.