I voted for Hillary because she’s the kind of person that would do what is necessary. There’s the possibility of expecting bad faith overall but seeking a set of favorable policies. I expect Mitch McConnell to lie. But it isn’t the lying that bothers me, or violations of process. It is the values he represents that bother me.
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2022 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Republicans need to renew themselves (was: self-care) Tactical party switching might be a reasonable explanation, but one that will be easily verified, empirically, when all 1 million switch back before fall. Republicans switching to Democratic is easily attributable to disgust with Trump, not Republican positions and certainly not because of some kind of conversion to democratic positions. Again, easily verified by a reverse switch if and when Trump is no longer the candidate. The reverse switch would be especially telling if the candidate next time is a DeSantis or similar, as it would expose antipathy to the person, not the positions or governance. davew On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: My sense is that many of the "defecting" Democrats have switched to vote for the Republican candidate in the primaries who would be the most likely to be beaten by the opposing Democrat in the general election. So far, it hasn't seemed to work. On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 10:33 AM Prof David West <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: "The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman." Absurd!! Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican this year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became deluded cultists? The absolute worst thing about the American political system is the, de facto, two-party system that forces voting for something when you simply want to vote against something else. And it is the party apparatchik that personify "something" into a living breathing candidate. The vast majority (80+%) of voters then"hold their noses" and "swallow their disgust" and appear to vote for a 'person' when what they really want to do is vote against "something." [I am being deliberately vague about something, but it would be a mix of philosophies, beliefs, policies, laws, appointments, actions, oratory, etc.] It would not even be accurate to say that politicians and party apparatchiks "lost their way;" as they never had a "way" to begin with. To a person they are cynical amoralists who care nothing about acquiring power and winning the next election. McConnell and Pelosi are but the two faces of same Janus god. (Yes, I recognize that my rhetoric here is just as absurd as the quoted rhetoric that began this post.) davew On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 12:33 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman. Corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their own mummy cling to power by embracing this dangerous cult and by manipulating voter districts (gerrymandering). The GOP needs to renew itself. Here in Europe Green parties begin to replace the conservative parties. -J. -------- Original message -------- From: Sarbajit Roy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 7/2/22 08:58 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] self-care The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and outright lies. These pills are highly toxic / carcinogenic and Guttmacher was caught red handed by us for using fake accounts on Wikipedia to shape the "self induced abortion" article to depict it as safe and as an at-home remedy. We got Guttmacher delisted in India for about a year, but they made their way back through the USAID RMNCHA programs used to bribe foreign government servants to shape policy Sarbajit On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM glen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up in my feed: How to Give Yourself an Abortion https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to my oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, I'm poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient after surgery: https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11. (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.) Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite the excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? Despite my sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated follicular lymphoma? Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, shovel dirt, drink 5 pints without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job with a bit of time for hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't reflect what I feel on the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the slightest bad event would topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" is at best a misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. Fad diets, bottled water, alcoholism or pregnancy as an indicator for moral failure, etc. all point at that thing, whatever that thing is. 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