And I thought the best thing about Trump is that he doesn't have a good nature to be taken advantage of. That he may save us from the thoughtless beneficence of the most privileged people ever to have lived. This is the 21st century, you've got to toughen up.
Basically put they're going to use the power of nice hair to put the radicals down. Sunak and Starmer, the reasonable people are back and you can rely on that, you can bank on that.. the world is run by five or six men, and for heaven's sake we must let them get on with the job
And it's a bit weird for the tories to do this. To be on the side of the young against an obsolete and decadent system of spoil the baby boomers like mad before societal collapse in 2040. No longer can we assume the young will be on the left anymore. I wouldn't assume labour do anywhere near as well at the next election. These assumptions are as reliable as the bank of England's. We may back the tories for its somewhat lower rate of incompetent posh spaz too weak for the world today.
And I think the best example of inescapable change is the cat. The cat that is at one with each and every moment, everything just fine as is, still becomes a senile and endless meow. No matter how cool cats are - and there's good reason why the ancients worshipped cats - they're not timeless. Things never remain perfect and just fine as they are.
Change can only be noticed through the memory of the way we were. Change takes time in a very literal sense. The eternal present is more like when you see someone every day for forty years and you need a photograph from forty years ago to appreciate how much weight they've put on.
Of course they do it's just that the way of the animal wouldn't notice. And by that I mean living in the moment. You're not aware of who you were a moment ago if you live in the moment. Like the rank and file of china today or the people in Orwell's 1984, there's no recollection of the moment prior and therefore you cannot register change. Not registering change is not the same as no change occuring.
The truth is that you cannot right the wrongs of the past whilst being objectively worse than the past. And to be honest I think Trump is in the goldilocks zone of resentment towards the 21st century, he reads the crowd of popular ill-feeling.
18 must look seriously young through the eyes of a 64 year old man. I don't see this being tolerated forever. Epstein, Weinstein, Prince Andrew.. they were all the old normal
I think there'd be a low voter turnout if they field any other candidate but Trump. The only way Biden doesn't win is against Trump with a sense of crisis that triggers the overwhelming need to obey the power of personality. Biden wins if America continues to do alright economically and you retain the sense that you can have a debate about things.
Perhaps blame the baby boomers is the wrong way to look at it, maybe it's more accurate to blame the passing of the greatest generation who made the world a better place after world war 2. Perhaps the victors justice, the treaty of Versailles, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, are all what people would do if they didn't know any better. Beneficence towards the conquered is perhaps what the west understood after world war 2, but didn't after world war 1, and it has forgotten this all over again.
And use that understanding that unless we get things right things will turn out very wrong. Why can't the western-oriented bulk of Ukraine turn out like South Korea more than being like Iraq? And I blame the baby boomers for believing that things will go your way automatically. It means we didn't pay attention to Ukraine believing that things will automatically go our way. It's complacency, negligence
Well it did invade Ukraine but that doesn't mean as much as well-established countries thinks it means. These are badly drawn lines on a map that don't fit in a world of Russia bouncing back a bit
Some Ukrainians want to live in Russia particularly around the Donbas which has the deepest darkest coal mines in the world. Mines that surely belong in Mordor and don't fit with our ideas in the shire. Sauron would pay them better than we would.
And then you have the rest of Ukraine that's countryside and farming. It's not Soviet orc.
You have to be willing to study something really hard until it hurts your head, and then not use most of it. We often need students from abroad to go through that. Education is more about credentials, helping professions to become a closed shop, and selecting for a certain temperament of obedience.
It's the done thing to get a degree even if the knowledge is fast-becoming obsolete or irrelevant to begin with. Education is much closer to wearing the right shoes and I don't know if they ask you to get a degree if you want to kick a ball straight, but it's in the same area. A degree in art is a chance to work in something completely different. Personally I think it's because there's a lot less anyone can teach us in 2023, there'll be whizz kids running rings around you. The whole setup doesn't know, like 100 years ago
How do parents, one with dark blue eyes and one with dark brown eyes, have two boys one with light blue eyes and the other with hazel eyes? I'm the hazel eyes
People are not all the same at the end of the day and the Russians are not going to leap at the chance to be just like us. The west needs to get over it's 90s buzz, it's end of history line where everything is worked out and what's worked out is that everybody wants to be just like us. They want certain things we are able to do, such as producing enough ammunition for your soldiers, this is not the same thing as wanting to be us
How do they assess these submersibles for wear and tear? And how often?
Because it sounds like they've been sent down there in what amounts to a snow globe. To lose it on the descent suggested implosion to my mind even before the debris.
And for a similar reason I reject convict labour. It's not the law nor society's business to make a profit off the back of crime. You can't have an ulterior motive, a profit motive in giving any one verdict over the other. No verdict is safe unless you are independent of the outcome
I would defend the wall, talking about the wall, as a symbolic gesture. It doesn't need to actually be built for it to be a message to the world that they're not wanted. The idea speaks volumes but that is undermined by the fifth column within, the sanctuary cities and what not. If all Americans said build the wall and then didn't, I think that would work best.
Healthcare now that's different, something physically real has to happen there because banning medicine doesn't make people immortal. It less a triumph of the will sort of thing, more about facts than feelings, more about science than confidence
Gotta say that I prefer this over the immortalism of brain in a jar. Nothing could beat the tragedy of the supermen, literally the same people living forever and ever. Immortal brains in a jar would beg for death, immortality would be a living hell.
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And I thought the best thing about Trump is that he doesn't have a good nature to be taken advantage of. That he may save us from the thoughtless beneficence of the most privileged people ever to have lived. This is the 21st century, you've got to toughen up.