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Jan 31, 2024 - 10:00pm
Beaker wrote:
^^^ Deserves to be echoed. Thoughtful consideration of today's thought & opinion leaders is usually a worthwhile informative exercise, even if one is not a fan.
Up to a point. After a while, theyâre wasting everyoneâs time. Thereâs no mandate to always listen to Flat Earthers, for instance.
Setting aside preconcieved notions about personalities, this is an interesting discussion about,
among other relevant topics, spirituality and ways to overcome the mounting challenges facing our world. I try to look and listen beyond crippled or trivialized intellectual arguments to what is actually being said. If it wasn't meaningful in a constructive and/or positive way I probably wouldn't venture the scorn or disrespect of deficit interests. Disagreement with ideas is one thing. I don't always know what the other is but I certainly know the difference.
^^^ Deserves to be echoed. Thoughtful consideration of today's thought & opinion leaders is usually a worthwhile informative exercise, even if one is not a fan.
He's smarter than me so I'm sure I'm missing something but he makes one point *over here* that's maybe valid and then makes an observation *over there* and lets my brain connect the two as being somehow intertwined but I don't think they are.
But I'm not working too hard to parse what he said because the venue is sus. ;-)
I decided to watch/listen to the entire interview, as I was doing other desk work - just finished all 46:18 of it. I find his commentary weakly argued and largely incoherent - prime example: the hot garbage from 30:49 to 33:03.
Much of the interview was Brand defending himself against various accusations.
Brand's interview with Tucker keeps showing up in my newsfeed today. Okay.
He's smarter than me so I'm sure I'm missing something but he makes one point *over here* that's maybe valid and then makes an observation *over there* and lets my brain connect the two as being somehow intertwined but I don't think they are.
But I'm not working too hard to parse what he said because the venue is sus. ;-)
Brand's interview with Tucker keeps showing up in my newsfeed today. Okay.
Brand: We're being prepped for a hot war with Russia.
Me: That war is not happening, for many reasons.
However, there's a non-zero chance a hot war with China could break out. IMO, of course.
One summer many decades ago when I was in my early 30s I played on a softball team. On our team were twin brothers. During one game one of the brothers made some kind of error or baserunning mistake, I don't remember exactly what, and his brother yelled out from the bench, "YOU ASSHOLE!" Later in the game when one of them stepped up to the plate to take his turn at bat, someone called out from the stands, "Are you the asshole?"
Just because I point out that you're an asshole, doesn't mean I've been triggered.
Yep. They're trying to protect themselves from being identified as a sphincter by saying that if you point it out, you must be the one with a problem. What they are forgetting:
So you're both proctologists after all. Hanging out where the sun don't shine explains your pale pallors. At least now I know who to turn to when the shit hits the fan. To each they're own.
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Jan 30, 2024 - 7:29pm
islander wrote:
Just because I point out that you're an asshole, doesn't mean I've been triggered.
Yep. They're trying to protect themselves from being identified as a sphincter by saying that if you point it out, you must be the one with a problem.
What they are forgetting:
An elderly Winston Churchill finds himself alone in a train compartment with a comely young woman. They fall into conversation, and he says: âTell me, my dear, if I offered you a million pounds, would you sleep with me?â
The woman is a little taken aback but ponders for a moment and says, âWell, you are a very old man, sir, but obviously very distinguished. I would have to think about that.â
âWhile youâre thinking, let me ask you another question: Would you sleep with me if I gave you one pound?â
âMr. Churchill,â she responds, indignant, âWhat kind of woman do you think I am?ââ
âMiss, we have established what kind of woman you are. Now we are merely negotiating the price.â
I thought that was George Bernard Shaw at a dinner party
