Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Untitled

    http://benswann.com/police-use-of-force-drops-60-when-officers-required-to-wear-video-cameras/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-11 19:39:00 UTC

  • the day I agree with dianne feinstein has just arrived. there is now in hell

    the day I agree with dianne feinstein has just arrived. there is now in hell.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-11 14:41:00 UTC

  • WHAT IF I ENGAGED IN CRITIQUE TOO? (ridiculing libertarians) “Rothbardian Libert

    WHAT IF I ENGAGED IN CRITIQUE TOO?

    (ridiculing libertarians)

    “Rothbardian Libertarianism: Feel-Good religion for betas.”

    “Libertarianism: Social-Pseudoscience for aspies.”

    “Libertarian alpha wanna-be’s: The data’s the data: libertarians don’t get laid as much as conservatives and a lot less than liberals. Libertarianism is just an outlet for the sexual frustration of undesirable nerds.”

    “Believing in liberty and praying for liberty are indistinguishable in their results. Wanting and believing are excuses for not acting. They’re a convenient way of doing nothing and feeling good about it.”

    “You cant sell rothbardian libertarianism to anyone with any moral intuition. You’d have to be ignorant and autistic to be susceptible to that kind of snake oil sale. but apparently a few percentage points of the population are unintuitive, ignorant and autistic enough to be sold pseudoscience.”

    “Libertarianism as rejection of reality: Makes sense right? Why would you choose the Continental rationalist equivalent of Buddhism, as a means of providing yourself with psychological comfort other than because your intellectual abilities are actually not socially or reproductively desirable?”

    “Libertarianism is for pussies: if you really wanted liberty then you’d get a pack of people together and do something about it. But given that libertarians are largely social outcasts and wimps, they can’t. So they just read about it and whine a lot in the hope that some conservatives will come along and rescue them.”

    “The anarcho capitalist research program into the replacement of monopoly bureaucracy with competing private institutions has been fruitful. The libertarian ideological program to implement that institutional solution has been an utter failure by every measure possible.”

    “Libertarianism: the pretense of aristocracy for the weak. Sorry, but you can play intellectual dress-up but that doesn’t make you a warrior. It just means you have to earn a hell of a lot more money to get laid half as frequently as carpenter or electrician.”

    PROPERTARIANISM (action) vs LIBERTARIANISM (Prayer)

    “Liberty is the result of the organized application of violence to obtain that liberty by denying others access to that which we have obtained by our efforts. The only people who have earned liberty are those that have purchased it with their efforts. The only effort that earns one liberty in exchange with others, is the organization and application of violence to deny others access to the product of our efforts. Everyone else is merely a free rider – at best irrelevant, and at worst a thief. “

    CLOSING

    Now, that’s the kind of stuff I would do if I was just relying on sentiments. It’s fun. Really. Its incredibly easy. I can do it all day long. And others can use it over and over again. But I stick to analytic arguments. And maybe that’s wrong. Maybe that’s what I’m doing wrong. 😉

    So why am I trying to save this miserable failed nonsense from it’s own imminent demise? Eh.. Loyalty is a core conservative value. It’s genetic. I can’t help myself.

    lol (god that was fun. Now, back to work on serious stuff.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-11 10:55:00 UTC

  • Lee C Waaks You know you got me thinking about your idea of fallibility and I th

    Lee C Waaks

    You know you got me thinking about your idea of fallibility and I think you might be right. Let me work on it for a few days. Thank you. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-10 17:16:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2014/03/roughly-47-of-millennial-women-who-had.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 10:56:00 UTC

  • Why Refer To Rotbardian and Misesian Libertarianism as Pseudoscience?

    –“…why equate pseudoscience with hermeneutics, given hermeneutics is about textual interpretation? I didn’t follow that link.”– Davin Eastley

    [P]recisely because the origin of pseudo science is religion. The origin of textual interpretation is religion. The purpose of interpretation is ‘to find something new here’. Jewish predisposition for, and frequent authorship of pseudoscience, is the result of textual ‘interpretation’, rather than scientific experimentation. It is not hard to overwhelm the human ability to reason with pseudoscience. It’s pretty easy really. Thats why religion works. The purpose of: 1) Operational language 2) Internal Consistency 3) External Correspondence 4) Verification and Falsification …is precisely to make sure that we do NOT overwhelm our very (feeble) ability to reason. The purpose of pseudoscience is specifically to overwhelm our ability to reason. [O]perational language reduces any statement to that which is open to direct experience. The purpose of external correspondence reduced to empirical data is to construct something that is open to logical analysis. Logical analysis is for the purpose of reducing something to logical experience. Verification is for the purpose of confirming that all this complexity accomplishes what it claims. Falsification is for the purpose of making sure that we haven’t erred in our claims. The reason the constitution was undermined, in no small part was the introduction of scriptural interpretation into law, which must be, in all circumstances, limited to a) original intent and b) strict constructionism, such that any modifications to the law are not made by judges but by the people’s representative body. The common law requests judges to appeal to the legislative body when there is some unanswered question that they think needs an answer. Had this been adhered to instead of subject to interpretation, then classical liberalism (freedom) would have held until the population mandated the change, rather than the court mandating the change.

  • Why Refer To Rotbardian and Misesian Libertarianism as Pseudoscience?

    –“…why equate pseudoscience with hermeneutics, given hermeneutics is about textual interpretation? I didn’t follow that link.”– Davin Eastley

    [P]recisely because the origin of pseudo science is religion. The origin of textual interpretation is religion. The purpose of interpretation is ‘to find something new here’. Jewish predisposition for, and frequent authorship of pseudoscience, is the result of textual ‘interpretation’, rather than scientific experimentation. It is not hard to overwhelm the human ability to reason with pseudoscience. It’s pretty easy really. Thats why religion works. The purpose of: 1) Operational language 2) Internal Consistency 3) External Correspondence 4) Verification and Falsification …is precisely to make sure that we do NOT overwhelm our very (feeble) ability to reason. The purpose of pseudoscience is specifically to overwhelm our ability to reason. [O]perational language reduces any statement to that which is open to direct experience. The purpose of external correspondence reduced to empirical data is to construct something that is open to logical analysis. Logical analysis is for the purpose of reducing something to logical experience. Verification is for the purpose of confirming that all this complexity accomplishes what it claims. Falsification is for the purpose of making sure that we haven’t erred in our claims. The reason the constitution was undermined, in no small part was the introduction of scriptural interpretation into law, which must be, in all circumstances, limited to a) original intent and b) strict constructionism, such that any modifications to the law are not made by judges but by the people’s representative body. The common law requests judges to appeal to the legislative body when there is some unanswered question that they think needs an answer. Had this been adhered to instead of subject to interpretation, then classical liberalism (freedom) would have held until the population mandated the change, rather than the court mandating the change.

  • POSITION TOO : YOUR LIBERTY MAY BE VOLUNTARY BUT MINE ISN’T. I DEMAND IT AT THE

    http://therightstuff.biz/2013/01/23/fascist-libertarianism-for-a-better-world/MY POSITION TOO : YOUR LIBERTY MAY BE VOLUNTARY BUT MINE ISN’T. I DEMAND IT AT THE POINT OF A GUN.

    And that is the only source of liberty – ever.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-07 16:32:00 UTC

  • VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE

    http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-07 16:21:00 UTC

  • ARROGANCE TO INCOMPETENCE: “AN AMATEUR ON PAR WITH JIMMY CARTER” —“Having been

    ARROGANCE TO INCOMPETENCE: “AN AMATEUR ON PAR WITH JIMMY CARTER”

    —“Having been president for more than five years, we can now render some reasonable and informed judgments about Mr. Obama, including this one: he is an amateur on par with Jimmy Carter. And to see the crude and brutish Putin run circles around Obama—on negotiations over nuclear weapons, on granting asylum to Edward Snowden, on convincing Obama to undercut our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic, on establishing ties with Egypt, on strengthening the murderous Syrian regime, and now invading Crimea and threatening the rest of Ukraine—is painful for any American to witness. As House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers put it, “Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I don’t think it’s even close.” —

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-05 19:49:00 UTC