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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 13, 2022 7:59:49 GMT -8
Thor: Love And Thunder — The Death Knell Of MarvelOh for god's sake. Don't ramble on about how movies are forwarding a toxic message and then continue to give your nickels to Disney. And from what I saw, The Mandalorian jumped the shark about four episodes into it. You're holding out hope the Disney schlock turns into something other than Disney schlock? What a putz. Man-up and pull the plug on your Disney subscription. If you can't do that then you have no business telling the rest of us about the woes of the liberal world. I have no doubt that the latest Thor movies are crap. But what an unfocused mess of an article.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 5, 2022 15:06:44 GMT -8
Another example of why competence is disappearing in many jobs. Trust in the government, medicine, science and just about all aspects of life and society is diminishing rather quickly. The reason is because excellence is no longer the benchmark for earning a degree, becoming an MD, promotion in rank, being licensed to fly a Jumbo jet and on and on. Planned chaos. Organic chemistry is too tough Frankly, I had to laugh when I read this, because it is my understanding that organic chemistry is a walk in the park as compared to inorganic chemistry. Defining deviancy down. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 5, 2022 15:56:15 GMT -8
More proof of coordinated idiocy and the increase of incompetence across our society. Equity grading |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 31, 2022 17:19:33 GMT -8
We are being led by people cursed with this. The heights of our government is full of these jerks. Dunning-Kruger Effect |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 28, 2023 15:02:38 GMT -8
More from Dr. McDonald summarizing what we've been saying for years: Killing Fat Kids |
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 28, 2023 15:38:19 GMT -8
A major problem with the America "capitalist" system is that it monitizes everything. Any new way to earn money for this or that special interest is jumped on and the government is brought it to cooperate and promote it. School breakfasts, lunches, gender surgeries, etc. etc.
A large percentage of businessmen are not stalwarts of morality, their watchword being, "If I don't do it, somebody else will." In my life I have seen a number of crooked businessmen do all sorts of bad things, but then go out and give money to this charity or that.
Now the complete medical system has dropped to a similar level. God save us. But in the meantime, we'd better get about saving ourselves.
I have been down with bronchitis for the last few days so I may not post again today.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 28, 2023 21:51:55 GMT -8
Lay back, take it easy, and get well soon.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 8, 2023 8:12:47 GMT -8
It's never been my proposition that the consumer is a dumb animal (Fat, Drunk, and Stupid). However, in the tail end of this video, Louis Rossman is talking about a service he supposedly offered that cost a couple dollars more but ensured a better product (replacement phone screens, in this case).
The main thrust of the article is about HP and what appears to be another one of their insane and abusive policies as reported by an element of the MSM. It's worth listening to. I was aware several years ago of this kind of abuse from HP from a customer of mine who related what he was gong through with his printer. His cyan, magenta, and yellow toner cartridges might be just fine, with only the black one needing to be replaced in his color laser printer. But the printer insisted he replaced all of them. And if he didn't (and only with 'genuine' HP cartridges, of course), his printer would stop working.
The story in this one is similar regarding some kind of "ink program." You would think they are making thus stuff up. But I'm pretty sure they are not. This is why Louis brought up the "contempt for your users" quote. That clearly exists at HP...and now Samsung (from other videos I've seen of his).
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 16:00:53 GMT -8
You know, I've heard a lot about Joe Rogan but had never listened to him before. What an ignorant douchbag. Here you are talking to one of the most intelligent and non-blinkered men of our time, and this kind of garbage comes out of this idiot's mouth: www.youtube.com/live/6T7pUEZfgdI?feature=share&t=1994This is exactly how the Left gained ascendancy...useful idiots. The leaders in the upper tier were successful in persuading the not-too-deep Joe Rogans of their feel-good propaganda. Sorry, I just had to get this out before my head exploded. The video link should start at the quotes above. Kudos for putting Peterson on your show. Maybe some of his ideas will make it through his thick, hairless skull. But, Jesus, if you ever needed to see in a microcosm how the Left became ascendant, this is it. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 11, 2023 13:35:57 GMT -8
I did not know about him until sometime last year. Since then, I have come across him in excerpts of his podcast played on others' shows. The man sounds much like he looks, an ignorant palooka, a bald Bluto. Nevertheless, he apparently earns millions. Further proof of the triumph of mediocrity, know-nothingism in the USA. Can you imagine his audience ? A race to the bottom. Feeding the lowest-common-denominator urge.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 11, 2023 14:27:19 GMT -8
Yep.
Now here's something I have to to careful about. You know I don't like them taking down statues of General Lee even if I disagree with his cause. There are special circumstances belonging to that statue, and others like it.
You are probably like me. I grew up with Dick van Dyke. Mary Poppins was, at the time, a very influential film for me. I'd never seen anything so grand.
It is thus probably best not to learn too much about your childhood heroes. But I came across this video made by a ninety-something Dick van Dyke quite by accident yesterday.
I don't know van Dyke's politics, but have always assumed he's just a typical Hollywood liberal. Well he reads “A Most Non-Political Speech” by Rod Serling which is, to my mind, a bunch of content-less twaddle (but would love a second opinion).
I was going to reply to Dick with something like:
It's an odd thing to present a "non-political speech" written by a Hollywood liberal (Serling). The Left (including what you call "Progressives") have politicized darn near everything...to the point where even having an opinion on a vast array of topics can get you fired and/or banned from social media.
It's all well and good to preach words whose content is, more or less, "Can't we all get along"? But the devil is always in the details. Is the price of "getting along" acceding to every far Left wing kooky belief out there?
Dick, you are, and remain, a hero of mine. I grew up watching your Disney films which were good, wholesome, creative, and just a lot of fun. But the quite politicized Disney of today produces stuff that it is not safe for children to watch.
I admire your long and storied career. You usually played characters who were happy, optimistic, and who just wanted to get along with everybody. And that makes you a good role model.
But that speech...I would ball it up and throw it away. It's a weak pastiche of pablum. I believe you could write something better and more meaningful, if only because of what is hopefully the wisdom of your years. And may you have many more.
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I'm just not sure I want to throw a match on gasoline.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 11, 2023 16:02:09 GMT -8
I guess the only star whose opinion I might have been interested in was John Wayne. It turns out he was a pretty normal, conservative guy.
I listened to the video and must say that I found the speech to be pablum. Sweeping generalizations about the great days ahead if we can only stick with the Hegelian progress of mankind. What bunk.
To make statements such as "hatred is not the norm" is lying about history. Momentary wishful thinking for political purposes. Leftists even admit this when they talk about conservatives' "fear and hatred of The Other." Serling is, not so subtly, saying conservatives are not normal. This defamation has only become worse in the Age of Woke.
Also, the claim that some say, "inequality is a necessary evil" sounds mendacious to me. I cannot recall ever having heard that claim. I have often heard that it is a fact that people are not equal in their talents, efforts or wills. That may be a sad fact of nature, but to turn that into a "necessary evil" is just wrong. Inequality is simply the way things are.
My impression was that the speech was one big piece of cotton candy fluff. A brief moment of sweetness, little substance, mostly air and bad for one's health. Too much will rot your teeth.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 11, 2023 16:53:15 GMT -8
Okay, thanks. I just needed a reality check. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting too persnikety. It helps to keep an open mind. I don't want to become a broken record. Well, Dr. Peterson couldn't have said it better. In fact, as brilliant as he is, we tend to regularly discuss matters at that level (but probably minus the tears and psychoanalysis).  I believe that quote came early in the speech. And it was as marker for what Serling was all about. Dennis Prager has written eloquently about one of the most idiotic aspects of the Left, the belief that "people are basically good." He also does a double-eyeroll at his fellow Jews (the liberals ones) who, even after the Holocaust, can believe such rot. Hatred is the norm. No, not just hatred. But it's an element to human nature. And it's not a bad element, per se. We should hate evil. Yep. Good point. And the reality is that conservative have to live amongst liberals. But liberals are known for being far more self-separating and creating bubbles for themselves. Does some bible-thumping church lady "fear and hate the other"? She probably does fear and hates the things that any rational and decent person should fear and hate. But, by and large, church ladies know people of all types. But liberals separate into groupthink bubbles where it then becomes quite obvious they "fear and hate the other," and at the drop of a hat. The left and liberals live by these Kindergarten nostrums. I thought Jordan Peterson had one of the best thoughts on this that I ever heard. In short: Equality is a result of freedom and there can be harms associated with inequality, and inequality can tend to be amplified. [Which we know regarding the tech giants, for instance.] But freedom is the best system we have. It's not perfect. But you are guaranteed to create a 100% hell the moment your goal it to stamp out inequality. So, in short, although Dick van Dyke is a beloved movie and TV actor, he (like Serling) has a lazy and ignorant philosophy that actively supports and greases the skids for evil. With all due respect, even cotton candy has taste. So I guess it would be useless to try to reply to him. Old dogs, new tricks. That sort of thing. It's like, "Dear Dick. Although this stale pablum may sound good to you because it flatters your sense of goodness, these lazy ideas, in fact, are the type that enable Communists and other monsters to stomp on people. Best wishes and thanks for Mary Poppins." |
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 11, 2023 17:58:47 GMT -8
Sometime in my twenties or early thirties, I came to the conclusion that the only way mankind could be "perfect" is if everyone became robots following some type of program which demanded complete conformity without deviation. This was before the Borg, but I think that is as good a representation as any. After that, I said, "who needs perfection?"
Sometime earlier, you mentioned that Peterson's being a professional psychoanalyst or psychologist gave him a certain amount of credibility to many sheep. I am sure this is the case. And while it is fine to have a degree in this or that academic area, this deification of certifications has gone beyond what is good and necessary to where it has become a curse and control mechanism of society. The moment someone is deemed an expert due to his degree, the lapdogs sit up and pant. The KFF fraud is the most glaring example of this.
We have forgotten that the older we become, the more expert we become in life. This being the case, we should be able to know through experience and reason what passes the smell test in most cases. Degrees in such things as Black-Queer-Perversion studies, Transgender transitioning and back, Feminism in Eighth Century Tibet are merely shams, which are used to give sick and talentless people a cudgel with which to beat normal people. They also spread their mis-education to the rest of society thus creating more people unable to produce much of anything useful. I am convinced you should cut the number of university students in this country by 2/3rds and improve the state of the nation. STEM degrees and even some of the humanities degrees are useful, but much of what is being taught is clearly rubbish, and worse, poison.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 11, 2023 19:53:42 GMT -8
Regarding universities:
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 12, 2023 12:04:13 GMT -8
This piece has some observations on hate and work as well as the squishy state of young Americans. Channel hate into productive work I liked this paragraph, which could be a word-for-word quote from R&T. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 12, 2023 15:14:35 GMT -8
They are catching up to us out there.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 16, 2023 12:00:38 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 3, 2023 17:56:12 GMT -8
The War on Breast FeedingAnd... Probably not the root cause of the social contagion of "transgender," but it could be a contributing factor. And this... And couldn't have said it better:
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 4, 2023 9:59:07 GMT -8
One wonders how much of this is a result of a dumbed-down education system and the huge influx of illiterate aliens from third-world countries? There is also the question of over-protection of children, who learn by playing and interacting with other children. This means that they sometimes get hurt. I am not totally convinced by the proposition that "soy" is at the root of this. China and Japan are big consumers of soy products and they haven't become more stupid. This was a very popular baby formula in Singapore and Malaysia when I living in Spore. There is no doubt that Singaporean children out perform American children at all academic levels. I believe the feminization of males across the advanced world is much more complicated. The education systems and softness of modern life have much more to do with this phenomenon, in my opinion. This started out with good intentions. Advances in canning and refrigeration helped avoid spoilage of huge amounts of food and enabled millions to eat better than ever in history. Unfortunately, capitalists are motivated by the profit and money took over. Feeding the public became merely a secondary concern. Hydrogenated oils are a case-in-point. What is done in the dairy industry with milk whey and lactose is also interesting. New products must be developed to consume what was previously a waste product. I agree with the writer's comments on that "medicine" has had a negative effect on us. In both cases, i.e. of food and medicine, the individual must take responsibility for one's own well being. Caveat emptor is a good rule of thumb to follow. |
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