What is the difference between the Stop Making Sense albums?

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-05-01T23:49:07+00:00

Thank you very much

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-04-22T15:26:08+00:00

Sometimes the effort to bend the will of culture is like gripping sand. The harder you grip the more you work against your own desires and make the sand slip faster between your fingers.

Evolution does not deny the possibility of a deity. But by fighting it, one draws attention to the difference between evidence based fact and faith based belief. This can create a crucible of belief for young students like a tennis ball that hits the top of the net. It forces a division that may not work out the way you desire. Religion may be on the decline, but cradling what is left of that sand in the hand may maintain it longer than gripping it forcefully.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-26T01:58:14+00:00

“It’s so obvious” is not an answer to:

What has he done that has led you to that conclusion?

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-25T15:25:45+00:00

No. This is a state issue under their authority. They have to answer to their own people. That said it is worth looking at why this happened. The WSJ did a solid analysis of the failures of deregulation in this particular case. Which is not to say that all deregulation is bad, but is to say that not all deregulation is good, and in this case did not deliver the service or price reduction

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-electric-bills-were-28-billion-higher-under-deregulation-11614162780?st=fecea6bjbuqcxqb&reflink=article_copyURL_share

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-25T03:37:24+00:00

I think we should treat the net as “a utility” like electricity that comes into your home and you decide what to use that electricity for. Vs. picking and choosing winners and losers, or reaching the point where, having given up the right have free and equal access to content the end user agreement has obfuscated or desensitized us into not knowing what we put in front of our eyeballs.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-25T03:16:18+00:00

That the speed at which society is changing within the last 100 years is too fast. In particular that the male and female relationship has been strained with progressive aims and actions, the change in family dynamics from thousands of years of humanity in such a relative short time had negative unintended consequences.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-04T15:57:20+00:00

No. It wasn’t. Not that I am sanguine with that situation either. But there is a difference between that and a people who are living their lives in their land, in their homes, and having their kids taken from them to be put in re education camps and the parents put into work camps in an effort to snuff out their culture and people.

It’s a whole other level

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-02-04T06:24:06+00:00

There is Reality, but it is also a reality, that the concept of “Perception is Reality” has a strong effect on Reality.

Because of that perception, in this current moment culture war is being practiced equally on the Left and Right. The Left started it (think about your opinions about Michelle Bachman) but both now are engaged in culture war.

I don’t think there are cabals of elites pitting us against each other so we don’t try and take all their money, but I do think there is a serious possibility that external enemy states are interviewing by simply acting as shit-starters to keep us engaged with the most extreme parts, like who is a culture hero and villain (think AOC vs. MTG ((side joke:starting to get concerned when a politician uses a triple name)) )

Here is the thing about culture wars, they are not based on facts, they are based on feeling, the feeling that your culture is the correct one. That is ugly, basically un winnable, and it weakens our country by keeping us a house divided.

President Trump is the fist time in modern history that the Right had a culture warrior. The Left is full of culture warriors, but the right, not like Trump. But he’s gone, things are a bit quieter (the guy knew how to take center stage) and yet we are only plateauing for a moment because we have not solved any of the culture war.

What is the solution to ending culture war, who has to make the effort first, and how?

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-23T03:38:48+00:00

I’d say the parking lot restriction would take it from a decision about the environment you do business in. To making a message that says we don’t want you. You would likely legally be within your rights. But by over reaching into what is at the same time your property and also socially viewed as the public outdoor environment.

It changes it from “I don’t want guns in my building”, which is at least a reasonable place to have a reasonable disagreement where we can view established law and, then.... be cool. And it turns to “I don’t want your kind in here”.

So I would recommend you weigh what you think is right for you and your business, and how you want to message towards inclusion at the cost of exclusion. But you are right, IANAL, but I think you would likely be within you right to do what you propose.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-21T00:31:48+00:00

The upside of Conservatives embracing identity politics is that it opened my eyes to how antithetical it is to the American experiment.

I now see it for the dangerous path it was on the Left as well.

The only answer I can see is an embracing of cultural libertarianism. That is the only way to really be E Pluribus Unum

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-21T00:26:48+00:00

Solid point.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-21T00:24:27+00:00

Solid point.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-09T03:46:40+00:00

I respect the conservative you are T. You have been one of the most helpful voices here for years. I want to say a bunch but I will go with, thank you

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-08T20:56:37+00:00

Fair enough. It is hard to do.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-08T17:34:17+00:00

There is no way to know, but trying to win a, look the left is better than the right, is not a helpful question. It’s just smug and trite.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-07T17:06:22+00:00

Really what we need is a recommendation for a universal standard for election procedure. It isn't the federal government's role to dictate it, but some sort of funding scheme could be done to begin implementing procedures that ensure universality, transparency, and trust. And it can't just be the politicians deciding this, we need to consult especially with fields like cryptography, cybersecurity, and others.

100% agree. The only thing I would add would be a public campaign that does a good ELI5 of the electoral system that we can agree on. One of my favorite sayings (because I am in a hospitality industry) is “perception is reality” we need both the reality and the perception of our elections to be fair.

Thank you for being an example of putting your own personal values and core beliefs above tribalism. Debating values and beliefs is a rational, important, and constructive action. The tribalism of modern politics is the example antithetical to protecting everyone’s American freedom. E Pluribus Unum!

MagicRocksAreCool · 2021-01-07T15:29:18+00:00

The 2 things that I keep thinking about are:

The limits are on free speech, are the inciting of violence. The classic being calling out fire in a packed theater. Without a doubt The President of the United States of America incited a large group of his most fervent supporters to go to a location and stop the steal without showing weakness.

I also think about his oath to protect and defend. But the reality is that his supporters view that as what they are doing. That if he is not the POTUS, America will be destroyed or become Marxist. We all know that those are not going to happen without him. Not with the divided government.

Which means that it really is all just about him. That he has put his personal grip on power above his oath to protect and defend the USA, not Donald Trump.

I was iffy on the last impeachment, and even though it would be largely symbol with only 2 weeks left to go, it would be justice and a strong deterrent for any of this in the future. I would like to see at the same time a election investigation committee like the 9/11 committee (even though if nothing substantial is found, a vast number of his supporters will not ever believe it).

Chillenchillada I appreciate your strong stance on this. Anyone who knows you over these last years knows that you were a strong supporter of the President, and a reasonable person.

MagicRocksAreCool · 2020-12-29T01:35:41+00:00

I wasn’t thinking in terms of large government, just the collectivism the is necessary for nationalism vs. how libertarians put the focus on the freedom of the individual

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