The impeachment is playing into Trump's hands. Guilty or not it's priming the "us against the world" mentality that permeates his fans. The romance will defy justice.
Trade and the difference that culture makes. Civilisation evolves the coast where the countryside is more a product of nature and biology. When the cities collapse the eternal peasant will remain in the fields sowing the seeds of the next civilisation.
That sounds like a great idea because realistic self-appraisal is your whole area, just remember it's seven years bad luck when you smash it to pieces.
The trade war and tighter borders are two things we would hopefully retain from the Trump era. If you don't learn anything from Trump there will be another one.
I would wait and see if he notices me the mere mortal. I can’t wrap my head around the idea that creation centres on the Earth. Can’t wrap my head around the idea that anybody on earth has a special connection with the universe and it’s not just a motivating fairytale designed to control the simple-minded by promoting confidence, loyalty and fanaticism.
Not literally, no. It's not constantly the right time for everything that's why we live in the moment. It's never too late is a spur to do something we should have done sooner the implication being that we are running out of time.
None of which means that you don’t have to pay your car tax and are free to vandalise other people’s property.
And there’s an argument coming between chavs and traditional right-wingers over what Britain First means. The response to keeping out desperately competitive mass immigration should not be setting a new low for ourselves. Right-wingers must practice the personal responsibility they preach like I say keeping out desperate Poland is not a green light to sink. On the contrary it will lead to a Britain that cannot afford you to be the least you can be.
Which is the problem with global capitalism and the confounding of today’s right. Nationalism wants to protect the western advantage ensuring that the American gets the job instead of the best man for the job. America First means that Americans come first even if they’re slower than other the runners.
And rightly so. It’s not like our professionals are in open competition with the whole world. Through a variety of trade unions, regulations and customs highly-skilled immigrants are kept out of their jobs. They have an invisible border around themselves which is why they don’t favour the national border.
I’d stop shy of calling poverty a choice but it’s considerably more of one than it used to be.
Expanding the franchise used to open up talent but I think egalitarianism has reached the law of diminishing returns. At what point does the equality of opportunity surpass the breadth of investment worthy opportunity? Historically most people were poor and giving them a chance came with a ton of working class come good. Giving the chavs the same chance will not result in the same uplift. If you mine for long enough you deplete the mine and it’s the same story for equality. That bottom 20% of the gene pool is what remains at the bottom of society and the more you try to get out of it, the less you’ll get back. These are not people you can expect to upskill or take a long time thinking about who they vote for or anything else for that matter. Exceptions always exist but the introduction of primary education and the end of child labour lead to a more skilled and responsible generation of adults 120 years ago because they had untapped potential. It was the first chance people with potential were given and they made good on it for that reason. Today there’s been so many chances that poverty is more of a choice, they choose a worse life for themselves and their children because of a temperament of twisted pride or lack of ability to do anything in the real world. Often both.
Not everybody could retrain as a software engineer or be responsible enough to own their own car let alone their own house. The more chances we are all given the less able the poor are. Egalitarianism discovers the chav.
I hope that AI outpaces our ability to create meaningless jobs. Work used to have more of a point for almost everybody where today if some were to be fired, the rest wouldn't have to work that long at all.
You could make national service civic and include teaching people about money in that, but the important thing is to be around people who inspire you. All walks of life converging for a bit is the making of a country.
And bring back national service because it’s two birds, one stone. Not only does it make welfare less of an entitlement because it’s a contribution, it would also bring the rich and poor into proximity. The gap between rich and poor - in every sense of the word gap - is what leaves society without guidance.
There's a town near me where all the wives are better looking than the husbands, and all the daughters are way cooler than the sons. But it's a millionaires town. And whilst they might not be that difficult to get into bed, the daughters won't marry you unless you're richer than they're dad but they will forgive you walking and talking like him - i.e. awkwardly.
The man and woman should be equally advantaged by their looks which in reality means a male 7 marries a 6 and a male 9 marries a 7. Women gets twice the "in" for what she looks like and consequently makes half the effort with her personality and relationships(on average).
Women being more religious inspires the thought that it is a pedastel to protect manic self-esteem from the truth. Religion provides drama, indifference to the truth and a special connection to the universe because without these things there would be despair.
Think of religion as a depressive reality-avoiding pedastel. It could be the case that it attracts not the flat rationalism of mild depression but the emotionally irrational. The religious character is that manic oscillation between joy and whipping yourself, a self-esteem all over the place that looks above to higher powers for a desperately needed sense of control.
At minimum the religious are more likely to sound optimistic at least in public. Atheists are less likely to do PR. Self-serving and self-promoting lies encounter greater feelings of skepticism and guilt in a depressed or atheist person. Why? Because you are not that important in the grand scheme of things. Religion is all about man being partial to himself, it is favouritism for you at the expense everything around you(including objective reality) .
Intelligence is a good guess and a good guess is based on how much one can gleam from a clue. You can't really shine a light on intelligence without blinding what it does. No, the intelligent person shines a light on the great unknown. Minimal information, instruction and education are no barriers to your simple and accurate description of the answer.
Everybody makes mistakes - particularly when they're desperate and the world seems unnerving. This wouldn't be the first time that somebody perceived as a bit of a character turned out to be completely insane anyway.
Although people don't need to think, it is a thinking man's world. Google is the biggest library on earth and there's a difference between seeing that way and Googling the answers. If understanding trumps mystery for you as a person, the modern age is a better time. If reason trumps confidence, same again.
That’s my best way to explain how an atheist person can be more sensible and reasonable yet an atheist revolution can be hell. You can’t just take the imaginary police force away overnight, atheism is a gradual calming of the blood and relaxation of the rules. Take religion away from the backward and what you’ll get is even more authoritarian.
When the right accuses you of bringing in immigrants to use them for their votes - which is that they’d do if they were you - is to be neither ignored or taken at face value.
The truth is that for every vote you import you give the right 3. Which is very kind of you but it’s not helping yourselves. The right will project and claim you support immigration for cynical self-serving reasons - if you were doing it for that reason then it’s a utterly incompetent self-serving - no, it’s more like a selfless own that guarantees victory to your opponents.
I say all this coming from the first and only country in the world where the majority of public regards atheists as more decent than the religious. And it's because civilised society has been around long enough for common decency to become second nature which wasn't the case in our younger religious selves. Practicality and fairplay are prized by the British and neither of these things lend themselves to religion. Those centuries of emotional repression are the reasons to be less religious in stark contrast to the dark continent of Africa where impulses rule everything.
Religion is like the higher rate of crime kept in check by greater police powers. It suggests a person who is more impulsive, more capable of telling themselves anything. Thou shalt not kill because you will be made to suffer for it is not quite the same thing as understanding that killing is wrong. Children of the religious are found to be the most cruel because they haven't fully developed the fear of getting caught when the fear of getting caught is the reason to always feel like there's somebody watching you. It's like MJ and his noncing.
People don't follow the rules like they used to because keeping to them depends on life being miserable and wretched anyway. You have to be more forgiving where there's opportunity, when people actually have the chance to do things.
In a choice between his mother and justice a good man chooses his mother. and religion exists to provide something you love more than your own family for that reason. Throw your children into the fires of Moloch, it will save Carthage.
Anyway as reason has increased religion has been rationalised down to monotheism and deism and gods that don’t really get involved as per the requirements of society. Throwing them to moloch has been liberalised and rationalised, you might force your kids to be unhappy for a real or imaginary benefit to civilisation but it’s not as severe as moloch.
More broadly apply that to all religion. They all exist to promote a sense of goalessness on Earth, to be content with things as they are even if you’re a member of one of Himmlers death squads. It’s a stress busting detachment from reality, religion does what a woman does without the woman.
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RE: ‘Instead of Destroying Trump, Impeachment Appears to Have Made Him Even Stronger’
The impeachment is playing into Trump's hands. Guilty or not it's priming the "us against the world" mentality that permeates his fans. The romance will defy justice.