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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 29, 2024 11:25:55 GMT -8
Mr. Kung. That level of gullibility isn't natural. It has to be developed.
Well, that is undeniably true.
There have always been gullible people. And make no mistake, I think 99 times out of 100 that gullibility is just a mask for unrestrained greed. People are looking for something for nothing. They are trying to cheat.
Anyone of a normal (I dare say classical "Christian") mindset are "as wise as serpents and harmless as doves." They are already well aware of the innate dishonesty of much of humanity. A true Christian is not surprised at evil and deception because he knows this is a fallen world. He assumes the worst and is pleasantly surprised at the best.
We are breeding a bunch of avaricious, entitlement-minded people who are always looking to scam. And although you could couch such offers from companies as "promotions" (when they are true ones), I think the truth is that when people lose all their faculties of discernment (or appear to), you can be pretty sure they are looking for something-for-nothing and are pre-loaded by years of this socialist ethic to do so. That is socialism in a nutshell. We shouldn't be surprised at it because this is what it develops. It does not develop a worth ethic or sense of fair play. Instead, it teaches an individual that life is nothing but a scam, a zero-sum game, so they should get in on it too.
This is to distinguished from the old ladies scammed out of their bank accounts by a fake company calling and supposedly needing their password. What I see in your friend's friend is not gullibility but greed.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 29, 2024 13:23:39 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 29, 2024 15:33:15 GMT -8
Few people like to admit their mistakes. And the KFF lockdowns, etc., were indeed a scam. And most of society was as gullible as your friend's friend.
I think a singularly female element (hysteria/safetyism) was behind it, bolstered by giving free rein to the hysteria because masculinity had all but been eliminated from public policy.
There's the anti-Trump element in America, but that doesn't explain why nearly every other country walked in lockstep with the scam/panic. But the anti-Trump element was significant in our country.
But the moment of truth was swallowing down the first lie: "We need to 'flatten the curve'." None of us here bought that for a moment, even if we didn't precisely know what came next. And I'm really tired of so many conservatives doing a dishonest mea culpa with something like, "I was all for being cautious at the start, to flatten the curve." Sorry, bub. You flunked the test there and then. You bought into the (political) inflation of turning flu season into a new Black Death.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 20, 2024 8:20:08 GMT -8
This has been around for a while, but is worth repeating. Be offended |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 26, 2024 18:33:02 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 12, 2024 19:39:02 GMT -8
I have been giving some thought to the belief that feminism has had a baleful influence on not only our politics, but also our society as a whole. I believe one of the reasons is that women are not interested in honor the way men are. Honor causes males to act in ways which are often against their "best interests." It causes them to develop and accept rules.
Females do not concern themselves with such a concept which is (was) ever present in warrior cultures and was passed on to men as an ideal. Females are much more basic and focused on achievement of immediate goals regardless the attack against moral norms. The ends justify the means type of thinking.
I will have to refine this somewhat, but I think I am on the right path.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 12, 2024 20:43:19 GMT -8
This is completely correct and well-stated. Taking into account wimpy men and the occasional Margaret Thatcher, you describe a common difference between men and women.
As I've stated (and Dennis Prager has as well, more or less), a woman would lay waste to the world if it meant some advantage to herself or her children. A man, on the other hand, will do exactly as you said. He will adhere to rules that have a larger context than just self interest.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 13, 2024 21:44:40 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 14, 2024 7:43:07 GMT -8
Yes, that was a good article by Peachy and a hopeful trend among men. Here's another article that tells the same story. According to this Frank Luntz focus group, maybe even a few women are leaving the "idiot" category and getting smarter: |
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