Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Bits: Kavanaugh Hearing; DJT explicitly admits losing in 2020; Arrogant oligarchs & their bad science

This 46 second video from the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing is good to know about.

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Lots of reporting about what DJT says is his usually language ambiguous language. He uses ambiguity to give him room to weasel out of what he says in case he makes a boo-boo. But this time, he unambiguously said that he lost the 2020 election to Biden. At ~0:10 to 0:32 of this 5:22 video, DJT says he lost "by a whisker", which is actually true.

"I lost" -- WTF??

Here DJT publicly denies his core lie. Stolen election!! That was the lie that underpinned his 1/6 coup attempt and has dominated his rhetoric since the 2020 election. That is why red states have been frantically passing voter suppression and election subversion laws, purging voter rolls and getting rid of voter data collection and analysis. They intend to steal the 2024 election in secrecy. 

Q: Will DJT and/or his campaign pull a classic DJT and respond with something like this?

Of course not. 
He obviously said what he didn't say!

Honestly, DJT may still believe it never was a lie. I guess that converts his assertion from bullshit (not a lie, which is knowing and intentional) to a mere falsehood. Stay tuned, politics fans. More malarkey to come. 
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Various sources have been reporting that billionaires see themselves as genetically superior and want elites like themselves to rule the world. One source reports:
Elon Musk has used his large platform on X to promote a theory that a free-thinking “Republic” could only exist under the decision-making of “high status males” – and women or “low T men” would not be welcome in it.

On Sunday, Musk re-posted a screenshot of the theory – which appears to have been conceived on 4chan in 2021– on the social media site.

The theory, written by an anonymous user, suggests that the only people able to think freely are “high [testostrone] alpha males” and “aneurotypical people”, and that these “high status males” should run a “Republic” that is “only for those who are free to think.”
“People who can’t defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism,” the post reads.

“Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘is this true?’ filter,” it adds. “This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.”

“Aneurotypical” is not a word but one can assume the original poster meant neurodivergent people.
Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take ‘control of human evolution.’

Sitting in their toy-filled family room on a sunny September afternoon, Simone and Malcolm Collins were forced to compete with the wails of two toddlers as they mapped out their plans for humankind.

“I do not think humanity is in a great situation right now. And I think if somebody doesn’t fix the problem, we could be gone,” Malcolm half-shouted as he pushed his sniffling 18-month-old, Torsten, back and forth in a child-size Tonka truck.

Along with his 3-year-old brother, Octavian, and his newborn sister, Titan Invictus, Torsten has unwittingly joined an audacious experiment. According to his parents’ calculations, as long as each of their descendants can commit to having at least eight children for just 11 generations, the Collins bloodline will eventually outnumber the current human population.
Aw, ain't that cute. But why only 8? How about 14? We can only hope that little Octavian, Titan Invictus, and Torsten will soon be joined by little Hercules, Artemis, Tiberius, Athena, Genghis, Loki, Ereshkigal, Augustus, Tiamat, Vlad the Impaler, and Donald Trump Jr. Jr. in the family herd. After they grow up, they will each make their own herd of genetically superior oligarchs! 

Ahhh! Hordes of genetically superior elites!
The pile of diapers is crushing me!

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