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ahem I have announcement to make!

Anyone using coinbase, I'm trying to utilize my invites for Compound but none of my meatspace acquaintances are into crypto.

hell yeah

The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
The Geography of Nowhere - James Howard Kuntsler

Do not confuse the moon with the finger that points to it

None of those things are actually qualifications for becoming president.

You've already stated that you've had your mind made up before even starting this conversation. Did you ever hear the one about why you shouldn't wrestle with pigs?

Enumerate the qualifications for becoming president.

You could run, but according to your own line of reasoning, you might want to work on how you present yourself.

Education =/= training? And, as long as they are doing the job they were hired to do, I do not hold them to a different standard, no. Just because an elected official doesn't do the job the way y o u would like them to doesn't mean they aren't doing it.

So, if I'm understanding your line of reasoning correctly - compassion and understanding are to be a given? And if this is true, your response to the lack of either of them is to withhold them yourself?

Ostensibly any citizen of the United States could become president, so long as they meet the qualifications, so holding an individual to different standards simply because they occupy an office doesn't really add up.

For the sake of argument, could you explain your reasoning? Engaging in foreign conflict precipitates domestic divisions.

I don't know about you, but the lack of foreign wars over the last several years has been pretty nice.

election?

https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1326199695836844034?s=21
https://keyt.com/news/crime/2020/11/09/man-cited-for-driving-car-into-trump-caravan-injuring-two-in-santa-maria/
Who wants to wager this guy isn't going to get the Fields treatment?

The press is validated by a consensus mindset. They gain legitimacy through the attention paid to them rather than the authenticity of their reporting. Legacy media borrows on their reputations as a form of credit in order to delegitimize alternatives.

There is a dim realization, somewhere in his mind, that he deserved to die when he was run down by Bryan Smith

"Preaching alone - the mere advocacy of ideas - cannot bring about important, long-lasting changes in the behavior of human beings, unless in a very small minority."
-Theodore John Kaczynski, Anti-Tech Revolution

To expand on this - we find ourselves at the tail end of a generations-long policy of passing the buck and appeasing the masses. However, as the masses become increasingly disjointed in their interests, efforts to appease become diluted and ineffective 1/2

There is a natural inclination to buck control. Once control mechanisms are identified, they become targets for attack. Censorship by the left will naturally lead to physical expression by the right. Action, meet reaction. Not all consequences are equal.

Once sufficiently diluted, appeasement is no longer viable, and alternative controls are explored. Psychic astroturfing, such as celebrity endorsement, is used to corral acceptable thoughts into narrow channels, distributing conflict away from TPTB

2021 is a year of consequences