Allow me to differ on corporations, John. They do on a daily basis perform censorship, be it what they term false information, which which, for example has reversed itself on what was pondered by many, included the orange haired real estate guy las year. That the Wuhan lab juiced up the Bat flu, probably, my guess, to wipe out rebellious Hong Kong? This view is now the reverse of the 2020 view, for some reason? On CRT, yes not the tube but rather a way of promoting one race over another, and indoctrinating children that Caucasian thinking, social norms and goals, political practice, and yes, the practice of science must be done away with. From my opinion, whatever that is worth, not good. My view is that whatever seems to work in a utilitarian sense of the word, in a John Hobbes manner, needs to take the forefront while ideology needs to shut the hell up and sit in the back sit and let the cause and effect people, do the driving.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jun 4, 2021 12:24 pm Subject: Re: Senator's "My American Story" Is a Result of Awakened-Bo Dark-Matter Body On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:17 AM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > the huge push for things like CRT Huge push? I think I'm better read than most people but I had to use Google to know what the hell you were even talking about when you mentioned "CRT", all I could think of was Cathode Ray Tube but that didn't seem quite right. Like the anti-vaccination movement, the anti-mask movement, the anti-Darwin movement, and the mythical caravan of aliens about to invade the southern border, this is an example of Trump pushing right wing people's buttons to inflame the idiotic culture wars. > and transgenders competing in women's sports I am a libertarian (small l, I'm not a member of the Libertarian party and never will be), and the first rule of libertarianism is mind your own business, and given that I am not a woman or a transgender or an athlete and I can't think of any way that issue could affect me positively or negatively so its none of my business, or yours. >and online media censorship Corporations can't do that, only governments can impose censorship, only governments can put you in prison for saying something they don't like. If I own a newspaper I can decide not to print your views but I can't put you in prison because I don't like your ideas. You have a right to say anything you like, but I have rights too, I have the right not to hand you my megaphone. And if you don't like my decision then buy your own megaphone. > people of a progressive bent are really those sort of liberals who seem to be highly tolerant of Soviet socialism. BULLSHIT. Maybe there was some truth to that in the early 1950s but not today. Soviet style communism is as dead as a doornail and has been for over 30 years, these days being an anti-communist is about as meaningful as being an anti-viking. > The second amendment basically scares the willies out of the modern >progressive, who seeks to impose sort of a national oligarchy against an >unwilling people at least the 75 million of us idiots who voted for the orange >guy. [...] My point in that observation is that we still live in a >nation-state age we still behave tribally You rightly vilify tribalism and nationalism and yet you admit to being a member in good standing of the most sinister tribe of them all, the fascist Trump cult of personality. Something does not compute. I just don't get it, after January 6 if I had voted for Trump I'd be ashamed to admit it, but you seem almost proud of it. But I do agree with your description of Trump supporters as "idiots". > which side are you on boy, which side are you on? You can be damn sure I'm not on the side of the personality cult, especially when the personality in question is that of a dishonest TV game show host with a room temperature IQ. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis ; -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0LfkccZDCM_PZPXbEdbsap6KBWyYHT3_C59VSHKFPpoA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1795406543.2532587.1622830839130%40mail.yahoo.com.
