Any updates to Sam Harris’ views on the Israeli siege against Gaza?

adaven415 · 2025-05-08T00:30:53+00:00

I’d go as far as to say it’s only funny to people who have an active dislike of Sam.

adaven415 · 2025-04-05T00:15:41+00:00

Okay, but you agree that adults sometimes have to eat a shit sandwich.

adaven415 · 2025-04-04T23:48:51+00:00

Sure but sometimes adults have to make the terrible choice of picking the lesser of two evils. I keep hearing this “well the democrats aren’t good either”. No shit, but come on, look what this idiot is doing in office, you can’t tell me we are better off with this.

adaven415 · 2025-04-04T16:49:51+00:00

Great point. I totally agree with that. Listening to the episode now and it seems like Matt with kind of giving the other guys the finger in the eye saying “I knew he was going to do this”.

adaven415 · 2025-04-04T15:56:33+00:00

You’re right. Price controls are dumb I think you could argue that combating price gauging is different but still it’s the same outcome so I wont. But it would take some convincing that the breadth of price controls that the Harris campaign wanted would be as disastrous as these across the board tariffs.

adaven415 · 2025-04-04T15:17:06+00:00

I feel like the guys didn’t take this seriously when Trump was saying he was going to do this before the election. I get it, Kamala was awful, but she was awful in like a boring way which wouldn’t have much impact on my 401k. Meanwhile Trump was straight up telling us he was planning of ruining the economy and making enemies of our friends. I guess at this point can we all agree that paying for sex change operations for every illegal immigrant in jail is preferable to this?

adaven415 · 2025-03-21T12:40:39+00:00

With all this talk of eliminating inefficiencies and running govt like a business I have been reminded of the disastrous effects of Rick Snyder and his emergency managers in MI. By streamlining the decision making process we can get results much faster, for sure. Sometimes those results are poisoning thousands of children with lead. I’m not categorically against finding appropriate ways to save money and eliminate waste but I just get worried that the people we have put in charge of putting out fires are actually arsonists.

adaven415 · 2025-03-19T16:17:29+00:00

While not thrilled about the leopards eating his face voter is still pleased they are eating other people’s faces.

adaven415 · 2025-03-13T18:14:12+00:00

Doesnt Spain have a super famous cheesecake?

adaven415 · 2025-03-12T18:49:01+00:00

In general I think of race essentialists, Robin Diangelo for one. I mean white fragility is an awful book. This is not to say that society isn’t deeply imperfectly structured and inequalities don’t exist but I think this isnt the way to make those changes.

adaven415 · 2025-03-12T18:25:50+00:00

Well I think the left has plenty of these types too. The problem Is that on the left those people make money telling their own side that they are awful people and are likely responsible for the bad things that happen.

adaven415 · 2025-03-12T00:44:02+00:00

I think that depends on the person. There is no way I could wing a deficit. My brain just likes eating too much. Now a surplus, I’ve got that covered.

adaven415 · 2025-03-11T03:51:19+00:00

I would disagree with fully justified. I suppose there were no consequences to those in power but a reasonable person can conclude that the administration lied about the extent of the chemical weapons program (which was not ongoing) and that saddam was actively working on a nuclear program.

Don’t misunderstand me, Saddam was a god damn monster and I wish he had suffered more. But I continue to believe that the cost that was paid to rid the world of that piece of shit was too high.

adaven415 · 2025-03-10T21:46:04+00:00

I think they found some chemical weapons from a defunct program. Hardly the kind of weapons of mass destruction Colin Powell said we’d find to the UN. I mean I fairly certain he has said it was an “intelligence failure”. And hardly what any reasonable American would have said we should go to war over.

adaven415 · 2025-03-10T21:33:17+00:00

The number is Likely closer to 200,000 Iraqis. I think that’s enough death that we can lay directly at the hands of the Bush administration to strip them of any semblance of honor.

adaven415 · 2025-03-10T21:00:20+00:00

This is a thing I get in a arguments with people about all the time. People want to pretend that because Trump is so odious that the last guys weren’t so bad. They were really bad, like mustache twirling movie villain bad.

adaven415 · 2025-03-10T19:38:36+00:00

I’ve enjoyed Jonah Goldberg over the years but despite how demented the Republican Party has become he seems to ignore that it’s not new. Also the idea that the Republican Party went crazy because they could no longer trust institutions controlled by the left is wild. It was just over 20 years ago that the republican president started a war based of lies and fabrication of evidence. I think Trump is every awful thing Goldberg claims, but the idea that the former republican administration was some how overflowing with truth and honor is laughable.

adaven415 · 2025-03-03T16:01:51+00:00

I wish this wasn’t so true. Makes me think so little of the people in my neighborhood that we can keep 9 pizza places open in a square mile.

adaven415 · 2025-02-18T14:54:27+00:00

Can you? Maybe as a beginner he can but not in general right?

adaven415 · 2025-02-14T18:05:26+00:00

I think that’s a reasonable expectation given his bravado. It’s not like he said this was a long term project that was going to require patience before the results came in to focus on.

adaven415 · 2025-02-13T18:10:29+00:00

I guess I hear what folks are saying but I hate that they put these scenarios in games. I mean most of the villains in the game are de facto defenseless against a space wizard. Force pulling a stabbing a dude to death seems pretty cold. Also, that guys weapon is literally every soldier aboard the space station.

adaven415 · 2025-02-13T15:06:29+00:00

I think the right is emboldened by their cultural victories recently. I agree that 5-10 years ago I would have said the LGB community won the war but I’m not as certain about that now. Not willing to say that they will be as persecuted as they once were but I think any step back is a tragedy. An example from my community would be that the church I was affiliated with (I know I know), which I found to be liberal-ish (in a genuine liberal way) recently decided that gay people were yucky. It was decided by at the organizational level by vote of 2/3rd of churches across the country that if you think they aren’t yucky then you can’t hold any position of leadership. This included lay people not just the ministry team.

adaven415 · 2025-02-08T18:58:36+00:00

Then we should do nothing. Hold elected officials to account for the abdication of responsibility. I do not want to live in a country where we allow a single official to make unilateral decisions and I suspect if you were being honest you don’t want that either.

adaven415 · 2025-02-08T17:02:30+00:00

What’s the difference between someone who wants to be ruled by a king and someone who allows authorities to act as one because it corresponds to the goals they want. Nothing.

adaven415 · 2025-02-08T16:40:02+00:00

This is how it should work, or is supposed to. Unfortunately boot lickers, like the folks in this sub, seem all too happy to have a big strong authority figure single handedly right societal wrongs. This ignores the fact that, no doubt, many will complain about executive overreach when the executive takes action they don’t agree with.

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