That bit about having to talk to leftists like children hits close to home. I had to do that to have conversations with family before eventually giving up.
I'd add "pleasant" after "make". Most mass media women can't make expressions because of the botox, and "normal" (if that term can be applied any more) women in public are mostly screeching hysterically about some made-up bullshit. Seeing a woman just happy to be alive and not expressing hatred for some bullshit they heard about on the internet is so rare.
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I hope Katie Porter wins. So much content is going to come from that, it could even rival Trump. That is one crazy fucking bitch.
'I have found that you can really get away with quite a lot just by adopting a particular affect when talking to liberals about controversial topics"
When I lived in Eastern Asia, I used a similar technique in helping Eastern Asian execs deal with American and European home offices (which were mainly populated by liberals). The Asians were mystified as to why every time they told the corporate office that something wouldn't work in their country, they were told that they were "a can't do person. We need can do people!"
I would be asked, "why don't they want to know that their plans won't work?"
Oh sweet child you can never say that.
I would teach them to break the news first by being excited about the stupid idea du jour then shifting into a tone of frustration. They had to convey that in a better world with smarter people the brilliant idea would succeed. But tragically we don't live in that world in country X. If only we did. Convey through tone and body language that you are worried the country/customers aren't worthy of such a brilliant idea.
Massimo Pigliucci, perhaps the leading stoic scholar and author, is a Maddow-tier TDS-having boomer whose stoic routine includes a healthy dose of online anti-Trump crash outs.
Stoicism is just a shield from behind which the “stoic” indicates, “I’m not crashing out. I’m a stoic. I’m just giving objective, detached analysis. But you non-stoic disagreeing with me, you’re the one crashing out.”
Or, as Seneca famously said, “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.”
There are robots available for straw- and rasp-berry picking, so that whole argument is moot anyway (except for growers too poor or stingy to invest in the new tech I guess).
Over here, many strawberry-farms offer deals where you pick X kilograms for them, in return for x kilograms to take home. Works quite well. Maybe something for USA growers to consider, if they can sell it to the effluent classes as some kind of integration-climate-feminist-homolesbotrannie-thing.
Dangeld (Danegäld in modern Danish) is kind of funny, if you know a bit of the history. It was a tax, and as all taxes it was at heart "pay up or get hurt and we take your stuff", but the reason the Danes (and Swedes and Norwegians) were able to extract it at all from far more populous regions was this:
The local rulers, such as Aethelred the Unready (and a lot of other lords in what is now England), had made their realms vulnerable via misrule. There's a lesson there for moderns, about how to keep raiders from your door and lands, but it's not very politically correct.
(Just imagine if the Danes had come claiming rights of asylum instead...)
And anyway, the sort-of fratricidal spat known as the Norman Conquest settled that business.
I’m defending Gorsuch. He is lionizing our founders and saying look to our founding documents to understand American values or the creed. He is absolutely not saying saying American values are anything you want them to be or that you cannot ask someone to define them. Also, if you like a small dash libertarianism and small gov with your conservatism, Gorsuch is your guy.
What you just said about people living here without adhering to and honoring American values is true very often. A question to ask are what are American values. That’s what Gorsuch was trying to answer I believe. I just didn’t want Gorsuch taking a fall he did not earn haha.
A great post with readable content all the way through. I was scratching my head at the tweets, but started chuckling at the Tweets of the Week at the end.
Jenny Holland's essay on Cole Allen made me laugh. I actually think the fact that he was such a complete dork prevents people from really being mad about what he tried to do. I suspect that even Trump just shook his head and sighed when he was told what happened.
And no kidding on Spencer Pratt's piece. That dude seems pretty awesome to me. Maybe he should join the rest of the media herd and become a professional Substacker. It boggles the mind how these truly awful candidates are somehow the frontrunners. Are Angelenos really this stupid?
Lap Gong's thing was interesting because it speaks to what's happening over here in North DFW. It's easy enough to complain about the proliferation of low-skill, sketchy immigrants from the third-world being smuggled in by traffickers, but it's a little trickier to make the case against high-skill immigrants who really do add value to a community, H1B and ethnic cartels notwithstanding. It's easy enough to say that a place like Ireland, the UK, or Germany is losing its soul, but a boring largely white suburb that's only been around for a few decades at most? Meh, it might be time to spruce up our math skills and learn to hustle.
My boy Alan is always a pleasure to read, and he speaks to a real problem that we should never forget. The NGO bloat and the welfare services (and the accompanying fraud) are costing us billions year after year and we just kinda shrug at this. Vance has a golden opportunity to look really good by bringing in his bros from Silicon Valley cutting all of it and shipping out these parasites. In truth, the only thing holding us back from clean, affordable world is ourselves.
I said on a podcast a while back that I was working on an article that was meant to be maximally persuasive to libs on the high-skilled immigration issue but I think Lap lapped me.
Heh, I see what you did there. I still think there’s plenty of room in this conversation to weigh in. I’m currently reading Camp of the Saints, which has me thinking about this challenge. I’ve already read so much about the book that I assumed nothing new would actually come of reading it, but no, Respail is getting to something deeper than dealing with immigration from the third world. It’s really a matter of best managing and coping with our many blessings in the West. Anything short of open borders seems cruel and unjust, and it requires a fairly developed moral and political framework to have a rational response. Sadly, the Left (and some of the Right) is too hollowed out and brainwashed to cognitively handle the issue.
In a sane society, classrooms of kids would take field trips to help harvest the strawberries: a blend of free, (low-stress) child labor, education, and community service. Everybody wins. Well, except for all the forces that benefit from a massive pool of immigrants mulling around.
If the midterms are even close, that 60 Minutes tweet explains why. We're told that right-wing billionaires have been buying up media properties like CBS. Redditors pat themselves on the back for cancelling their Paramount+ subscriptions because they think it's a fascist network now. Yet 60 Minutes is still cranking out "white people bad" content.
Either these "right-wing billionaires" aren't as right-wing as we're told, or they don't realize that just owning a thing doesn't change the thing. You have to fire all the true believers and tell the new people what to do if you want the content to change.
You don't understand, he reached a level of stoicism where he can crash out over politics, without even feeling a single emotion the whole time
Water in the desert for chuds who lost access to twitter. Thank you for your service. Fake stoic holiday also subjected his own father to a struggle session for supporting orange man: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/ryan-holiday-struggle-session-stoic
That bit about having to talk to leftists like children hits close to home. I had to do that to have conversations with family before eventually giving up.
My family abandoned me like a boss
"It's because they make facial expressions."
I'd add "pleasant" after "make". Most mass media women can't make expressions because of the botox, and "normal" (if that term can be applied any more) women in public are mostly screeching hysterically about some made-up bullshit. Seeing a woman just happy to be alive and not expressing hatred for some bullshit they heard about on the internet is so rare.
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I hope Katie Porter wins. So much content is going to come from that, it could even rival Trump. That is one crazy fucking bitch.
'I have found that you can really get away with quite a lot just by adopting a particular affect when talking to liberals about controversial topics"
When I lived in Eastern Asia, I used a similar technique in helping Eastern Asian execs deal with American and European home offices (which were mainly populated by liberals). The Asians were mystified as to why every time they told the corporate office that something wouldn't work in their country, they were told that they were "a can't do person. We need can do people!"
I would be asked, "why don't they want to know that their plans won't work?"
Oh sweet child you can never say that.
I would teach them to break the news first by being excited about the stupid idea du jour then shifting into a tone of frustration. They had to convey that in a better world with smarter people the brilliant idea would succeed. But tragically we don't live in that world in country X. If only we did. Convey through tone and body language that you are worried the country/customers aren't worthy of such a brilliant idea.
The execs were amazed it always worked.
The thing I find most offensive about the KKK cartoon is that Clarence should be way darker under that robe.
Thank you for your service, Dudley!
Massimo Pigliucci, perhaps the leading stoic scholar and author, is a Maddow-tier TDS-having boomer whose stoic routine includes a healthy dose of online anti-Trump crash outs.
Stoicism is just a shield from behind which the “stoic” indicates, “I’m not crashing out. I’m a stoic. I’m just giving objective, detached analysis. But you non-stoic disagreeing with me, you’re the one crashing out.”
Or, as Seneca famously said, “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.”
NRP is like queuing Ram Jam’s “Black Betty” 100 times.
I gave my wife “White Knights and Reviling Wives,” and now she won't speak to me. Some people just can't handle self improvement.
I just read the title to mine and she got mad
There are robots available for straw- and rasp-berry picking, so that whole argument is moot anyway (except for growers too poor or stingy to invest in the new tech I guess).
Over here, many strawberry-farms offer deals where you pick X kilograms for them, in return for x kilograms to take home. Works quite well. Maybe something for USA growers to consider, if they can sell it to the effluent classes as some kind of integration-climate-feminist-homolesbotrannie-thing.
Dangeld (Danegäld in modern Danish) is kind of funny, if you know a bit of the history. It was a tax, and as all taxes it was at heart "pay up or get hurt and we take your stuff", but the reason the Danes (and Swedes and Norwegians) were able to extract it at all from far more populous regions was this:
The local rulers, such as Aethelred the Unready (and a lot of other lords in what is now England), had made their realms vulnerable via misrule. There's a lesson there for moderns, about how to keep raiders from your door and lands, but it's not very politically correct.
(Just imagine if the Danes had come claiming rights of asylum instead...)
And anyway, the sort-of fratricidal spat known as the Norman Conquest settled that business.
So Gorsuch seemed to be saying something close to opposite of what that guys post was saying.
I’m defending Gorsuch. He is lionizing our founders and saying look to our founding documents to understand American values or the creed. He is absolutely not saying saying American values are anything you want them to be or that you cannot ask someone to define them. Also, if you like a small dash libertarianism and small gov with your conservatism, Gorsuch is your guy.
Eric's critique still applies though, right? Nobody is getting deported for not adhering to a creed.
What you just said about people living here without adhering to and honoring American values is true very often. A question to ask are what are American values. That’s what Gorsuch was trying to answer I believe. I just didn’t want Gorsuch taking a fall he did not earn haha.
pretty much
Or are you defending Gorsuch here?
A great post with readable content all the way through. I was scratching my head at the tweets, but started chuckling at the Tweets of the Week at the end.
Jenny Holland's essay on Cole Allen made me laugh. I actually think the fact that he was such a complete dork prevents people from really being mad about what he tried to do. I suspect that even Trump just shook his head and sighed when he was told what happened.
And no kidding on Spencer Pratt's piece. That dude seems pretty awesome to me. Maybe he should join the rest of the media herd and become a professional Substacker. It boggles the mind how these truly awful candidates are somehow the frontrunners. Are Angelenos really this stupid?
Lap Gong's thing was interesting because it speaks to what's happening over here in North DFW. It's easy enough to complain about the proliferation of low-skill, sketchy immigrants from the third-world being smuggled in by traffickers, but it's a little trickier to make the case against high-skill immigrants who really do add value to a community, H1B and ethnic cartels notwithstanding. It's easy enough to say that a place like Ireland, the UK, or Germany is losing its soul, but a boring largely white suburb that's only been around for a few decades at most? Meh, it might be time to spruce up our math skills and learn to hustle.
My boy Alan is always a pleasure to read, and he speaks to a real problem that we should never forget. The NGO bloat and the welfare services (and the accompanying fraud) are costing us billions year after year and we just kinda shrug at this. Vance has a golden opportunity to look really good by bringing in his bros from Silicon Valley cutting all of it and shipping out these parasites. In truth, the only thing holding us back from clean, affordable world is ourselves.
I said on a podcast a while back that I was working on an article that was meant to be maximally persuasive to libs on the high-skilled immigration issue but I think Lap lapped me.
Heh, I see what you did there. I still think there’s plenty of room in this conversation to weigh in. I’m currently reading Camp of the Saints, which has me thinking about this challenge. I’ve already read so much about the book that I assumed nothing new would actually come of reading it, but no, Respail is getting to something deeper than dealing with immigration from the third world. It’s really a matter of best managing and coping with our many blessings in the West. Anything short of open borders seems cruel and unjust, and it requires a fairly developed moral and political framework to have a rational response. Sadly, the Left (and some of the Right) is too hollowed out and brainwashed to cognitively handle the issue.
In a sane society, classrooms of kids would take field trips to help harvest the strawberries: a blend of free, (low-stress) child labor, education, and community service. Everybody wins. Well, except for all the forces that benefit from a massive pool of immigrants mulling around.
Ryan outed himself over 2020 and the jibbies. Certain one who doesn't walk the talk.
If the midterms are even close, that 60 Minutes tweet explains why. We're told that right-wing billionaires have been buying up media properties like CBS. Redditors pat themselves on the back for cancelling their Paramount+ subscriptions because they think it's a fascist network now. Yet 60 Minutes is still cranking out "white people bad" content.
Either these "right-wing billionaires" aren't as right-wing as we're told, or they don't realize that just owning a thing doesn't change the thing. You have to fire all the true believers and tell the new people what to do if you want the content to change.