Once you get beyond the surprisingly good job he did of defending Brett Kavanaugh during his hearings, I’ve never had a lot of particularly nice things to say about the late Lindsey Graham.
Still, I did love this story: This may seem like a big jump, but I thought about that quote when I read these comments from streamer Asmongold about an interesting Korean AI show concept that shows poor people crawling through cold pipes, facing harsh challenges, while rich people enjoy watching them from outside: Americans do have real enemies in the world. Iran considers us to be “The Great Satan.” Russia, China, and many other countries might not want all of us dead per se, but would they like to see us humbled, broken, poorer, and weaker? Absolutely. You might even legitimately have some crazy neighbor, jealous ex-girlfriend, or rival gang member that truly, specifically, wants YOU hurt, dead, or crushed. You might also have…Open
After years of defending, encouraging, and catering to the most radical people in their base, it has been interesting to see some of the more old-school liberals getting worried about the craziest members of their party starting to acquire some real power.
For example, here’s James Carville, who has sounded increasingly crazy himself in recent years, fretting over lunatic members of the Democratic Socialists taking over their party: Similarly, Bill Maher has increasingly moved from a radical to something closer to a voice of reason on the Left over the last couple of years: Other liberals like Rahm Emanuel and Mark Kelly have criticized Democratic Socialists because they think they’re too radical for voters, which is sort of like a Muslim condemning 9/11 not because it was wrong, but because it made Muslims less popular in the West. The truth of the matter is that liberals have been enthusiastically building this Frankenstein for a long time, and it’s hard to do anything other than…Open
One of the biggest problems most people have is that they ask the wrong questions about their life.
Guess what happens when you ask the wrong questions? You spend a lot of time trying to figure out the answers to things that don’t matter or that you shouldn’t be thinking about in the first place. That’s because if you try to ask your brain a question, it will try to come up with an answer, and some of those answers may be irrelevant, very damaging, or even put you in a no-win situation. For example, should you be asking yourself, “Why am I always such a loser?” No, because even if you’re the most successful person on earth, when you ask yourself a question like that, your brain will try to ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. You want your brain to focus on questions that will help you build a better life for yourself, not questions that…Open
One of the seldom remarked-upon things in modern life is how many things are controversial or extremely difficult, not because they’re innately hard to handle, but because a certain percentage of Americans have no morals or common sense.
That was something that came to mind when I saw this video: In the video, a Hispanic man is in the car with his family, and he gets pulled over by ICE. They have no idea why they were pulled over. When ICE comes up, he asks why he was stopped; ICE tells him that he looks like a target they’re after and asks for his ID. He gives them his ID, they look at it, realize it’s not who they’re after, tell them to have a nice day, and they go back to their cars. It was a very normal encounter. Humdrum and boring even. Why? Because the guy in the car didn’t act like a moron. Compare that to the people in Minnesota chasing ICE agents around with their cars, attacking them, smashing things up, resisting arrest, screaming abuse, etc., etc. The…Open
One of my favorite movies in the pre-UFC days, when your brain didn’t scream, “THAT’S SO UNREALISTIC” at you every three seconds when one guy was fighting off like 10 bad guys with his bare hands, was Steven Seagal’s Marked for Death:
In the movie, Seagal is a burned-out ex-DEA agent who is disgusted by the things he’s done to stop the bad guys and decides to retire and come home. Eventually, the bad guys in the movie, a Jamaican drug gang, make the horrible mistake of coming after Seagal’s family. That’s when he gets together with an ex-military friend of his, and he tells him this before they decide to basically wipe the entire gang out like they’re playing a game of Grand Theft Auto: “The way I look at it, you come home, mind your own business, watch your own yard. And then, if trouble finds you, you go after it, and you bite its head off before it does the same thing to you.” I may be the first person ever to say this before, but there was great wisdom…Open
While talking to a British reporter, Elon Musk made what I thought was an extremely important point about the “far-right”:
“You support not just the populist-right, but the far-right. Very fringe parties in some countries,” the reporter stated. “No, I support the normal people. What you call far-right, falsely…” Musk replied. “Falsely… you think is the normal person?” she asked. “Okay, yes. Literally, if you go back 10 or 15 years, those policies are completely normal,” Musk responded. It’s certainly worth noting that not so long ago, Elon Musk, who voted for both Clinton and Biden, was considered a hero of the center-left. Eventually, his criticism of the way COVID was handled, his opposition to censorship, and his attacks on “wokeness” turned him into a public enemy on the left and pushed him toward supporting Trump. Since then,…Open
First off, I don’t really know a lot about the guy who tossed out this asinine opinion.
Could it be what he really believes? Rage bait for X? It’s hard to say. In any case, I’ve seen the same thing said by enough economically illiterate people/socialists (but, I repeat myself) that it’s worth addressing: So, in order to answer the question properly, we should start by noting that working at McDonald’s is an entry-level job. It’s generally thought of as a place for high school students and people with minimal experience to learn the basics of work. This seems to fit fairly well with their workforce since, per an article about fast food workers in general (not just McDonald’s), about 30% of fast-food employees are teens and another 30.7% are 20-24. Although by some estimates, as few as 1-5% of McDonald’s workers…Open
In 1513, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book on statecraft and the wielding of power called “The Prince.” That more than 500-year-old book, which has just over 100 pages, is still considered one of the best books on foreign policy and leadership ever written.
In 1513, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book on statecraft and the wielding of power called “The Prince .” That more than 500-year-old book, which has just over 100 pages, is still considered one of the best books on foreign policy and leadership ever written. Of course, the book is also considered DANGEROUS and scary by some people because Machiavelli was a relentlessly practical realist who understood that wielding power is not for the faint of heart. Personally, I think Machiavelli had a keen understanding of human nature and is one of the most brilliant thinkers to ever live. After you read these quotes, you will understand why. 20) “He who becomes a prince through the favor of the people should always keep on good terms with them;…Open
Jonathan Haidt is a left-of-center social psychologist I’ve referenced a number of times before because he has done some amazing work on the moral differences between conservatives and liberals. Basically, Haidt would say that you can break morality down into six areas: 1) Care/Harm 2) Fairness/Cheating 3) Liberty/Oppression 4) Loyalty/Betrayal 5) Authority/Subversion 6) Sanctity/Degradation According to Haidt, the liberal sense of morality (ahem, such as it is) revolves around the first three areas in that list – care/harm, fairness/cheating, and liberty/oppression, while conservatives tend to weigh all six factors. Because conservatives get all six factors, while liberals only really care about three of them, this leads to…Open
One of the things I find interesting is that we’re always told conservatives are Philistines when it comes to the arts.
We just don’t care about the arts like liberals, who are always going on and on about the importance of pretentious, terrible pieces of artwork or how we must give more government money to art museums. Meanwhile, have you ever noticed the sort of art that conservatives tend to find beautiful vs. what liberals like? Conservatives tend to really like the classics. You know, old churches, detailed statues, and gorgeous women. But liberals? Liberals like to push ugly. Ugly art. Ugly characters. Ugly people. It was a couple of posts about comics that I randomly ran across that got me thinking about this : This is not confined to comics either. So much of modern art that liberals champion is hideously ugly garbage. There are many examples we…Open