September 22nd, 2018 12:29 PM (humor. sorta’.)
—“Basically, I consider liberal deniers of truth to be like retarded peopleâand as such, they should be treated as such, and although they should be allowed to live, they get no opinions on anything of import AND shouldnât have any rights to anything determinative.”— Michael Val Hietter
September 22nd, 2018 10:33 AM
Not only is ethnocentrism the optimum group evolutionary strategy, but duplicity (parasitism) is the optimum outgroup strategy, since it avoids the cost of conquest and replacement.
September 22nd, 2018 12:19 PM
ON THE DEATH PENALTY
Reposted by @[100015734649811:2048:Ryan Williams]
—“The problem with the modern state is not that it uses the death penalty so much, but rather that it uses it far too little. Property in toto serves as a useful metric for what crimes merit the death penalty. if you use fraud, deceit, or some other non reciprocal criminal means of enriching yourself at the expense of the commons above some arbitrary number, say 5x the average lifetime taxes paid by an average taxpayer, you should face execution. Under such a scheme, nearly every tech monopolist, the Walton family, Bezos, any of the financial elite, nearly every politician and most high ranking bureaucrats would be liable for death. NYT editors lie in the newspapers and it costs 5x the taxes paid of average worker? Boom. no more problem with lying editors at the NYT. The whole West faces the double problem of a violent, dependent underclass and a parasitical, exploitative oligarchy controlling business and politics. Such measures might seem unduly harsh, but they are necessary. Brazil shows why they must be implemented, Singapore shows that they work.”—-
September 22nd, 2018 7:10 PM
[A]h. That is the question. Whether tis human to err, or to err because one is not yet human.
😉 (I had presumed the former, but come to understand it is the latter.)
September 22nd, 2018 8:53 AM by Dane Clum
—“What is not mentioned is why WHITE women have been targeted by pulling on their heart strings, while it hasn’t happened to women of other races. To me it makes more sense to say: White people have higher empathy, and women have higher empathy than men, and lower awareness of the threats posed by incoming populations. Therefore, this current situation is a reflection of white societies empowering women in the sphere of politics to a much larger degree than other societies.”—
September 22nd, 2018 11:23 AM [A]ll three species of homo (mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid) were incredibly successful. The Dravidians and Australoids were successful but not competitive. And it certainly appears that the Australoids and their relations nearby actually devolved for some reason – perhaps lack of competition. The steppe and desert have been increasing aggression for thousands of years, and pushing evolution outward from the world center of trade (intersection of trade routes). My argument suggests, that humans have INCREASED in aggression and theft by VIOLENCE has only been SUBSTITUTED by theft by indirection (externality). And humans are now competing by externality. And that pro-social behavior is a cover for competition by externality. ie: A mask.
September 22nd, 2018 3:07 PM PATTON’S SWORD [G]en Patton did extensive study and competition with swords, and as far as I know his mixture of saber and rapier is the final word on the matter if for no other reason than we don’t chop while riding on horses any longer. I have used foil, rapier, and saber and while one can exert more force with a saber, the rapier, it’s length, and it’s double edge simply mean that opponents are kept at a distance, and you are much, much faster than they are. The basic utility of the Machete, Saxon, Bowie are fantastic, but they are closer ranged weapons than the fast sword. While we all love our longswords they are primarily for use against armor, and gave way to harder metal with faster swords upon the arrival of gunpowder. And the saber was eventually replaced by a second pistol when soldiers could afford it. Why? Well, I see a lot of knife and machete fights in the world thanks to the ubiquity of smart phones. Apparently no one in the third world has learned to fight with swords.
September 22nd, 2018 8:49 AM
—“For the last 1500 years history has been a north sea family feud. Large men in beards arguing about who gets the cod fishery created the market that caused to world to progress. it’s an anglo-celtic-germanic-nordic-franco world and everyone else just lives here.”— Ryan Williams
September 22nd, 2018 10:39 AM
THE SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY (CONFLATIONISM)
by William Empson
1 – The first type of ambiguity is the metaphor, that is, when two things are said to be alike which have different properties. This concept is similar to that of metaphysical conceit.
2 – Two or more meanings are resolved into one. Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
3 – Two ideas that are connected through context can be given in one word simultaneously.
4 – Two or more meanings that do not agree but combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the speaker.
5 – When the author discovers his idea in the act of writing. Empson describes a simile that lies halfway between two statements made by the author.
6 – When a statement says nothing and the readers are forced to invent a statement of their own, most likely in conflict with that of the author.
7 – Two words that within context are opposites that expose a fundamental division in the author’s mind.
September 22nd, 2018 1:44 PM [N]ote that all groups are split into classifications other than homo sapiens. There are at least three and arguably four species of homo sapiens. There was a movement to group humans and chimpanzees but chimps and bonobos can interbreed, and Europeans, East asians, and africans can interbreed.