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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: April 30, 2016, 3:19 pm
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=6331.msg95223#msg95223
date=1452719980]
It has always been my contention that the reason northern
European countries have been willing to be so heavily taxed is
because they perceive that they get what they're paying
for...that the government has, for most of the last half
century, lived up to its promises, and a workable, fair social
contract has existed.
I have also believed that this has come about, or has been
possible largely because the population of those countries is
ethnically homogeneous, or has been until fairly recent years.
I contrast that with the way we in the US have not done so well
with universal health care, old age pensions, and disability
benefits. A lot of that is a real or perceived unfairness that
some people pay more than their share and others, who may not
pay anything receive more from the social welfare system.
I predicted that this would happen in Sweden and Norway and
Finland if they allowed immigration to create a permanent
underclass with a different language and different values from
the mainstream.
Guess what? I was right. I can't help but feel the slightest bit
of schadenfreude, since those Nordic countries have always been
so adamant about their lack of racial discrimination and their
PC stance on diversity.
Welcome to our world, y'all.
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No you weren't right. The TRUE welfare queen caused expenses
that are undermining the economies of the Western world are NOT
the social costs you have been propagandized to believe (along
with the cleverly disguised racist notion that only ethnically
homogenous populations can "support" a social safety net).
If you ever bother to compute the visible and INVISIBLE (but
easily quantifiable) SUBSIDIES to VARIOUS industries (NOT just
the fossil fuel industry, though they are one of the BIGGEST
recipients of WELFARE from the BIGGEST welfare queen system -
the USA corporate giveaways - in the world ), you would then
start to see that the social safety net cost numbers are PEANUTS
compared with the corporate welfare.
People like you REFUSE to see how ALL government research on
almost EVERY invention out there, and the R & D needed to make
them technologically and financially SUCCESSFUL, have been
HANDED OFF to connected elite corporations for a song, ALWAYS
bypassing we-the-people, who paid for all of this, when the time
to sell the product to us arrives.
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Frankly, your ideological blinders are fascinating in their
sturdiness and amazing ability to discount and discard real
expenses that we-the-people are charged for.
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Good luck with your "real world". Now I understand why MKing
frequently tries to ingratiate himself with you. Scratch the
surface, and under your apparently Guru inspired sympathy for
the downtrodden of the world, you agree with MKing's "real
world" Predators 'R' US world view.
AND, you are always looking for material to "fix the facts" in
support of your ideology.
I'm going to be prick here, Eddie. I think, though I may be
wrong ;D, that I have finally figured out how you tick. You, at
some point in your education, were convinced of the efficacy of
game theory in human relations.
Game Theory, as you know, is what the Defense Department AND
Wall Street uses to justify excluding absolutely any altruistic
behavior in competitive strategies. It was created by an
autistic mathematical genius IDIOT who worshipped Spencer and
did not understand Darwin.
The problem with game theory in the REAL real world is that it
fails to model it properly. By totally excluding altruistic
behavior (except as a ploy to sucker the opponent into a
position of weakness [img
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/>it is doomed to, not just fail miserably, but to degrade the
[i]sine qua non conditions the species engaging in it requires
for perpetuation.[/i]
YOU DO NOT understand that, Eddie. YOU are sold on Game Theory,
as are most Capitalists, Libertarians, Wall Streeters and, of
course, the Military Industrial complex.
You ALL are WRONG. But you talk a good game (theory). ;)
Every time you fine fellows try to finger social safety nets as
"welfare queenery" or "someone else's money" (Thatcher greed is
good idiocy) OR "bad for the economy", while WILLFULLY ignoring
the MASSIVE corporate welfare queenery, you just want
brainwashed average Americans to act against their best
interests, AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT (see below).
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Darwin would not be amused with Game Theory.
Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism and neurobiology
mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat.
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The FACT is that we, as a species, WILL NOT SUCCEED
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if we CONTINUE to exclude
altruism (involving ALL LIFE, not just our family!) from our
modus vivendi.
Have a nice day.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: May 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
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[center]Big Ag Forces Firing of Long-Time Farm News Cartoonist
>:([/center]
Marion Nestle, Food Politics | May 6, 2016 9:49 am
I love cartoons and was appalled when I read this tweet:
Romenesko
✔ ‎‎@romenesko
"I am no longer the editorial cartoonist for Farm News due to
the attached cartoon..."
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12:07 PM - 2 May 2016
Here’s the offending cartoon:
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In a Facebook post the cartoonist, Rick Friday, explained:
I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the
attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a
large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned
in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement
with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor
and cancellation of It’s Friday cartoons after 21 years of
service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000
households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.
I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon.
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That’s okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see
that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech
and free press really are in the country.
The Des Moines Register explains further:
[quote]The CEOs at the ag giants earned about $52.9 million last
year, based on Morningstar data. Monsanto and DuPont, the parent
of Johnston-based Pioneer, are large seed and chemical companies
and Deere is a large farm equipment manufacturer.[/quote]
Profits for the three companies, all with large operations
across Iowa, also have declined as farm income has been
squeezed. After peaking in 2013, U.S. farm income this year is
projected to fall to $183 billion, its lowest level since 2002.
U.S. Uncut adds more details:
Friday received an email from his supervisor at Farm News,
informing him that he would be fired, citing he was “instructed”
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/>by a superior to not accept another cartoon from Friday. The
supervisor told Friday that “in the eyes of some, Big Ag
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cannot be criticized
or poked fun at.”
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It also published Friday’s cartoons based on his firing. Here’s
one:
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Friday has done other cartoons like this. It’s not surprising
that he has corporate advertisers upset.
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How to help?
Consider a quick note to Farm News about how badly Americans
need a free, independent press to discuss farm issues.
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Here’s the publisher’s contact information: Larry Bushman at
lbushman@messengernews.net.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: June 17, 2016, 3:23 pm
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[center]Agelbert NOTE: Happiness equation proves that water is
wet and selfish people are made, not born. Ya mean you didn't
know that before you took calculus?
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[center]This is the updated equation to predict happiness, where
t is the trial number, w0 is a constant term, other weights w
capture the influence of different event types, 0 < γ < 1
is a forgetting factor that makes events in more recent trials
more influential than those in earlier trials, CRj is the
certain reward if chosen instead of a ga mble on trial j, EVj is
the average reward for the ga mble if chosen on trial j, and
RPEj is the RPE (reinforcement prediction error) on trial j
contingent on choice of the ga mble. The RPE is equal to the
reward received minus the expectation in that trial EVj. If the
CR was chosen, then EVj = 0 and RPEj = 0; if the ga mble was
chosen, then CRj = 0. The variables in the equation are
quantities that the neuromodulator dopamine has been associated
with in previous neuroscience studies. The additional term w4
relates to advantageous inequality (guilt) when the reward
received by the subject Rj exceeds the reward received by the
other player Oj, and w5 relates to disadvantageous inequality
(envy) when Oj exceeds Rj. Credit: Robb Rutledge, UCL[/center]
A new equation, showing how our happiness depends not only on
what happens to us but also how this compares to other people,
has been developed by UCL researchers funded by Wellcome.
The team developed an equation to predict happiness in 2014,
highlighting the importance of expectations, and the new updated
equation also takes into account other people's fortunes.
The study, published in Nature Communications, found that
inequality reduced happiness on average. This was true whether
people were doing better or worse than another person they had
just met. The subjects played gambles to try to win money and
saw whether another person won or lost the same ga mbles. On
average, when someone won a ga mble they were happier when their
partner also won the same ga mble compared to when their partner
lost. This difference could be attributed to guilt. Similarly,
when people lost a ga mble they were happier when their partner
also lost compared to when their partner won, a difference that
could be attributed to envy.
"Our equation can predict exactly how happy people will be based
not only on what happens to them but also what happens to the
people around them," explains one of the study's co-lead
authors, Dr Robb Rutledge (UCL Institute of Neurology and Max
Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing
Research). "On average we are less happy if others get more or
less than us, but this varies a lot from person to person.
Interestingly, the equation allows us to predict how generous an
individual will be in a separate scenario when they are asked
how they would like to split a small amount of money with
another person. Based on exactly how inequality affects their
happiness, we can predict which individuals will be altruistic."
For the study, 47 volunteers who did not know each other
completed several tasks in small groups. In one task, they were
asked how they would like to anonymously split a small amount of
money with another person that they had just met. In another
task, they played monetary ga mbles that they could win or lose,
and were told that they would see what another person received
from the same ga mble. In this way, subjects could get the same
or different outcome from a social partner, sometimes getting
more and sometimes getting less. Throughout this experiment,
participants were asked how happy they felt at regular
intervals.
The results showed that people's generosity was not dependent on
who the partner was or which partner they said they preferred.
This suggests that people were acting according to stable
personality traits rather than specific feelings about the other
player. On average, people whose happiness was more affected by
getting more than others, something that might relate to guilt,
gave away 30% of the money. Those who were more affected by
getting less than others, something that might relate to envy,
gave only 10%.
"Our results suggest that generosity towards strangers relates
to how our happiness is affected by the inequalities we
experience in our daily life," says Archy de Berker (UCL
Institute of Neurology), co-lead author of the study, "The
people who gave away half of their money when they had the
opportunity showed no envy when they experienced inequality in a
different task but showed a lot of guilt. By contrast, those who
kept all the money for themselves displayed no signs of guilt in
the other task but displayed a lot of envy. This is the first
time that people's generosity has been directly linked to how
inequality affects their happiness. Economists have had
difficulty explaining why some people are more generous than
others, and our experiments offers an explanation.
[i]The task may prove to be a useful way of measuring empathy,
which could offer insight into social disorders such as
borderline personality disorder. Such methods could help us
better understand certain aspects of social disorders, such as
indifference to the suffering of others." [/I]
Explore further: 'Happiness gap' in the US narrows
More information: Robb B. Rutledge et al, The social contingency
of momentary subjective well-being, Nature Communications
(2016). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11825
Journal reference: Nature Communications search and more info
website
Provided by: University College London search and more info
website
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: August 22, 2016, 6:15 pm
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[center] The[font=arial black] Modern Invention
[/font][font=times new roman]of the Medieval
Executioner[/font][/center]
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August 21, 2016 By Medievalists.net
The Modern Invention of the Medieval Executioner
Lecture by Joel Harrington
Given at Vanderbilt University on May 7, 2015
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[quote][font=times new roman]We all know the hooded, ominous
figure of the medieval hangman, but in fact that image owes much
more to nineteenth-century imaginations than to any historical
reality. After a brief description of a real sixteenth-century
German executioner, based on his personal journal of forty-five
years, this lecture will explore the legal, artistic, and
literary origins of one of the modern age’s most recognizable
stereotypes, as well as how this has helped distort our common
understanding of the European Middle Ages. This lecture will
explore this topic as told in part in Harrington’s most recent
book, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame
in the Sixteenth Century (Picador, 2014).
Joel F. Harrington is Centennial Professor and Chair of the
Department of History. He as published widely on various topics
in social, legal, and religious history, particularly dealing
with Germany during the early modern era (ca. 1450-1750).
Projects currently underway include a study of the late medieval
mystic Meister Eckhart and a comparison of the early modern
prosecution of infanticide and witchcraft.
Professor Harrington has taught a variety of graduate and
undergraduate courses at Vanderbilt since his arrival in 1989,
including the history of Christian traditions, Reformation
Europe, religion and the occult in early modern Europe, and
early modern social history.
From 2004-2011 he served as Vanderbilt’s first senior
international officer (Associate Provost for Global Strategy), a
full-time administrative position, and before that, from
2000-2004, he was Director of the Center for European
Studies.[/font][/quote]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: September 11, 2016, 4:20 pm
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[quote author=azozeo link=topic=7955.msg112383#msg112383
date=1473618129]
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Interesting. As a veteran of some serious syncope episodes prior
to my pacemaker implantation, I wish to inform readers that they
way Hillary collapsed is precisely the way you pass out from
syncope. It could also be a stroke but strokes usually take
minutes, not seconds, to knock you out.
In syncope, your heart just stops in its tracks. About 10
seconds later, you are unconscious. The heart starts up on its
own about 15 seconds later. Syncope is NOT a heart attack.
I just wanted to add that, minutes prior to a syncope, you feel
fatigued and you get paresthesia (tingling in arms and head).
This is because the heart is already stopping and starting for a
second or two, not enough to knock you out, but enough to reduce
the oxygenation in your extremities (tingling and pin pricks).
Hillary could have started to feel woozy, taken out, and then
had the main (15 seconds or more) syncope at the SUV.
UPDATE:
I just found this. This doctor seems to agree with my diagnosis.
8)
[quote]
Hillary Clinton almost fainted. I’m a doctor. It’s really o.k. |
Dr. Jen Gunter
10 hours ago - Hillary Clinton left early from the 9/11
commemoration in New York as ... With near syncope it is pretty
easy to intervene, as Mrs. Clinton's team did, and prevent the
faint. ... breath as I am pretty confident that if Mrs. Clinton
did have shortness ... with symptoms consistent with vasovagal
or orthostatic syncope, ...[/quote]
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Agelbert NOTE: The vasovagal syncope is the one where the heart
stops. The Orthostatic syncope is caused by low blood pressure
(hypotension) from rising up quickly from a sitting or squatting
position. Also, soldiers at attention in a formation sometimes
lock their leg muscles inadvertently causing loss of blood
pressure. They keel over and wake up embarrassed. I DOUBT
whether Hillary's syncope was orthostatic.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: September 12, 2016, 2:52 pm
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[quote author=azozeo link=topic=7955.msg112437#msg112437
date=1473706292]
So I have a question here ....
Is there a medical relationship between Parkinson's Disease &
Vascular Dementia ?
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Dementia can be the result of several different disease causes.
Parkinson's is just one of them.
But as to the "Pneumonia" diagnosis, it is TOTAL bullshit.
Pneumonia has SLOW acting symptomology. It is breathtakingly
arrogant for the propaganda liars to claim Hillary passed out
from pneumonia. ANY brief study of the symptoms of this disease
will show that Hillary, if she had pneumonia on the day she
passed out, would have had BREATHING and COUGHING and FEVER
symptoms prior to the 9/11 photo op. Her team would have given
her some powerful medication. It is possible that she had a
reaction to the DRUGS in her system, which induced a syncope,
but in either case, it points at RAPID LOSS of OXYGENATION.
Pneumonia doesn't DO ANYTHING RAPIDLY, PERIOD.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: September 13, 2016, 1:10 pm
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=7955.msg112505#msg112505
date=1473775460]
I'm not sure aspiration pneumonia (actually a pneumonitis,
caused by inhaling (aspirating) vomit) is a bad call. It isn't
the same as "regular" pneumonia at all really, but since lay
people don't know the difference, it's a way to make it sound
like a fairly minor problem (bacterial pneumonia) with a
definitive treatment. Meaning Hillary would be well in a couple
of weeks (nothing to see here, move along). That isn't the case
with aspirating stomach acid, which would be a continuing
problem, and potentially fatal if she has a bad episode.
I have followed all the anti-Hillary stories about her coughing
fits and momentary lapses of coherence while speaking, and I
think there is SOMETHING going on, something that's definitely
being soft-pedaled. I'm guessing whatever medical records are
released will be massaged to make the situation seem more minor
than it is. I don't think she'll be off the ballot unless she
drops dead.
[/quote]
[quote author=monsta666 link=topic=7955.msg112447#msg112447
date=1473711058]
[quote author=agelbert link=topic=7955.msg112446#msg112446
date=1473709665]But as to the "Pneumonia" diagnosis, it is TOTAL
bullshit. Pneumonia has SLOW acting symptomology. It is
breathtakingly arrogant for the propaganda liars to claim
Hillary passed out from pneumonia. ANY brief study of the
symptoms of this disease will show that Hillary, if she had
pneumonia on the day she passed out, would have had BREATHING
and COUGHING and FEVER symptoms prior to the 9/11 photo op. Her
team would have given her some powerful medication. It is
possible that she had a reaction to the DRUGS in her system,
which induced a syncope, but in either case, it points at RAPID
LOSS of OXYGENATION. Pneumonia doesn't DO ANYTHING RAPIDLY,
PERIOD. [/quote]
I don't think her having pneumonia is totally implausible. Let
me tell you I have had a heart attack AND pneumonia in my
life-time and I say that my bouts of pneumonia gave me a greater
degree of breathlessness than the heart attack. The first time I
caught pneumonia it actually caused me to collapse on the ground
after pushing myself physically. The fall was similar to Hilary
had she no aides to catch her so I think it is possible to fall
like it especially if one pushes themselves to the limit. Let us
not forget she is a 67 year old woman so quite likely the
symptoms could be worse on that front. As for coughing,
breathing and fever she could have been given some medication to
reduce those symptoms. In any case though it is all speculation
and it is possible she has something other than pneumonia
however I would not discount the idea she has it. Time will tell
what she has. If this is a one off episode then it lends
credence to the idea it is just a bout of ill health but if she
has continued episodes especially in the coming months then
something more sinister is at foot.
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Monsta,
Your argument ignores the fact that Hilary was NOT pushing
herself to any sort of limit. You also ignore that fact that you
did NOT pass out and she definitely did. Her symptoms are
typical of syncope, not pneumonia, of any sort. I am older than
Hillary. I know EXACTLY what a syncope is and what it feels
like. I stand by my view that she had a syncope.
One thing nobody here wants to talk about is the FACT that
presidential candidates (and all presidents for the past 50
years or so) are "medicated" (i.e. ON something) out the wazoo
on a regular basis.
Eddie talks about different types of pneumonia, yet neglects
drug interactions that can frequently cause syncope. In fact, ER
visits for syncope in general, and most collapse situations, ARE
drug interaction related, regardless off whether the dosage is
considered an OD or not.
I stand by my view that Hillary is taking pep pills. I don't
know if they caused her syncope or not, but pretending that is
implausible is ignores Occam's Razor here.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: January 28, 2017, 1:56 pm
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UB said, [quote]agb, degraded DNA aside are you saying horses
shouldn't be ridden, sheep shouldn't be sheared, and dogs
shouldn't be used to round them up or find fugitives or lost
hikers or drugs or lead blind people or just keep their owner
physically and psychologically healthy by taking them for a walk
and warning them the House is on fire or greeting them when they
get home?[/quote]
Nope. According to the Wayne study, the wolf/dog was associated
with mankind for as much as 80 to 100 thousand years WITHOUT any
greater DNA degradation than what happens in the wild from
Natural Selection. That is because mankind's relationship was
mostly empathic and provided happiness and protection to both
man and dog. That bond will remain. No special INbreeding is
necessary to provide that.
But 150 years ago, we went off the deep end and started super
specializing the dogs. That was WRONG. It made life a lot
easier for ranchers and hunters. It made some people a lot of
money. So?
In the light of today's scientific discoveries, it was
unethical. We know that now. We should not perpetuate or
celebrate unethical behavior just because it is profitable.
Beyond companionship and empathy, [b]both traits present for
thousands of years without more than the very gradual, and
hardly measurable, normal Natural Selection degradation of the
DNA of wolf/dogs[/b], all the other functions can be done quite
well, or better, by robots. That is ethical. And by the way,
many different dog MIXED breeds (because mutts are SMARTER) make
great seeing eye dogs. Diverse DNA dogs (Mutts) can provide all
the mutual companionship and protective loving relationships
both these fine animals and humans crave. Kennel clubs are
unnecessary and unethical.
What I am saying is that we should stop creating artificial
founder effect box canyons, that are deleterious to these
animals. JUST BECAUSE WE CAN.
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[quote]All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be
observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to
be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not
confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already
have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a
given time.‎
Appears in 62 books from 1950-2008[/quote]
When Darwin dreamed up his theory, several mistakes were made
with the best of intentions (see quote above). BUT NOW, we know
better. So NOW, we have to EAT CROW and admit that we WERE
GRIEVOUSLY WRONG.
It's hard for breeders to admit that. Palloy said he was sad
because he could not find a "suitable stud" for his Dalmatian bi
tch. He does not get it.
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One of the
deleterious "founder effect" genetic box canyons is precisely
the incredibly damaging act of using sperm from ONE "ideal" dog
from a "pure" breed to inseminate several females of the same
"breed". That is one of the two WORST THINGS they could do (that
they STILL DO!) based on DARWINIAN "pure" bloodline CRAP. The
other thing is breeding for dogs to achieve a modified phenotype
in stature.
That said, the breeds are there now.
I certainly DO NOT recommend killing them for any reason.
I certainly DO recommend providing them with the happiest and
healthiest living conditions possible.
I certainly DO NOT recommend castrating or spaying them just
because they have genetic disorders. That too, is ASS BACKWARDS
DARWINIAN THINKING. They should ALL be encouraged to OUTbreed
with mutts. NO "pure" bred dog should be allowed to mate with
the same "breed", PERIOD.
The whole dog show IDIOCY should be eliminated.
And for those special working breeds that love to do what they
were bred to do, let them keep doing it! As long as genetic
testing indicates that no FURTHER accelerated DNA degradation is
going on, rescue dogs and riding horses, as well as dogs for
protection are okay. Even herding dogs like the tiny Corgi are
okay IF we STOP all Inbreeding NOW.
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They exist. We are at fault. Let them do what they were bred to
happily do. But let's NOT compound the error, OKAY?
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I also think is high time we STOP the "pure" breed NONSENSE (see
ENRICHED URANIUM) and started showing some respect for SCIENCE
and GENETICS by labeling the Genetically Diverse Dogs (GDD) with
relatively few inherited disorders as TOP DOGS
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instead of the pejorative
"Mutt" label.
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I won't hold my breath waiting for Palloy to sign on to that...
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
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The fake news is coming from inside the White House! [/move]
By Hunter
Saturday Jan 28, 2017 · 10:00 AM EST
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SNIPPET:
What's clear, then, is that the Spicer-led White House press
room will be moving toward more relaxed definitions of "news"
than even Facebook is currently comfortable with. Will LifeZette
use their new status to inquire of Sean Spicer as to whether the
"Clinton Body Count" will be a topic of White House
investigation, or if Jim Hoft's team wishes to re-litigate
Obama's birth certificate yet again, or if one of those
Macedonian teenagers we have heard so much about during the last
campaign will get the opportunity to insist that the president
re-examine whether that children murdered in the Sandy Hook
shooting were truly dead, or—as some gun advocates believe—the
whole thing was staged by the federal government.
But there's another catch here too. It won't just be conspiracy
theorists squeezing their way into the White House press room.
As Sean Spicer works to ensure the administration's preferred
hoaxers make it into one room, Trump's ex-Breitbart chief
strategist is attempting to fill the offices elsewhere in the
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
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[move]"Trump’s lies, and his urge to tell them, are pure Big
Brother crude, however oafish their articulation."[/move]
[quote]You may have heard that George Orwell's book, "1984" is
once again, for the first time since 1948, the top selling book
in the United States, in the wake of Kellyanne Conway making her
iconic "alternative facts" quip. In Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s
America Adam Gopnik, also of the New Yorker, unabashedly
compares Trump's bullying and lying to Orwell's antagonist, Big
Brother:[/quote]
[quote]There is nothing subtle about Trump’s behavior. He lies,
he repeats the lie, and his listeners either cower in fear,
stammer in disbelief, or try to see how they can turn the lie to
their own benefit. Every continental wiseguy, from Žižek to
Baudrillard, insisted that when they pulled the full
totalitarian wool over our eyes next time, we wouldn’t even know
it was happening. Not a bit of it. Trump’s lies, and his urge to
tell them, are pure Big Brother crude, however oafish their
articulation. They are not postmodern traps and temptations;
they are primitive schoolyard taunts and threats.
The blind, blatant disregard for truth is offered without even
the sugar-façade of sweetness of temper or equableness or
entertainment—offered not with a sheen of condescending
consensus but in an ancient tone of rage, vanity, and vengeance.
Trump is pure raging authoritarian id.
And so, rereading Orwell, one is reminded of what Orwell got
right about this kind of brute authoritarianism—and that was
essentially that it rests on lies told so often, and so
repeatedly, that fighting the lie becomes not simply more
dangerous but more exhausting than repeating it. Orwell saw, to
his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only
secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a
way of asserting power.
When Trump repeats the ridiculous story about the three million
illegal voters—a story that no one who knows, that not a single
White House “staffer,” not a single Republican congressman
actually believes to be true—he does not really care if anyone
believes it, even if, at some crazy level, he does, sort of.
People aren’t meant to believe it; they’re meant to be
intimidated by it. The lie is not a claim about specific facts;
the lunacy is a deliberate challenge to the whole larger idea of
sanity. Once a lie that big is in circulation, trying to reel
the conversation back into the territory of rational argument
becomes impossible.
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Full article at link:
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