This is why I hate liberals

Conservative - one who cherry picks a single person, arbitrarily proclaims them symbolic of a political party, then assumes the sample set of one is exemplary of everyone who describes themselves as liberal, and this is done for the purpose of demonizing a position which is too sound to be defeated intellectually.

Yup, the stench of vitriol is indicative that a conservative is near.

The world is becoming increasingly more liberal as the callous old codgers die off… and it’s going to suck to be you in the midst of that lol

Democrats constitute the majority of americans, so how can the majority refuse to have a conversation with themselves?

People are increasingly moving away from your position because they disagree with it and your side hasn’t provided any compelling reason to change their minds.

Maybe, but they honestly do not need to.

The stats insist they are ignorant. It was the founding fathers’ bright idea to give the peasants power, but the problem is the peasants aren’t educated. And as they get educated, they move away from republicanism.

Both sides do it, but philosophically, power is consolidated with republicans because the socialization of power is spreading the power thin among the people vs concentrating it in the hands of a few. The labels don’t matter; what matters is the philosophy.

They feel they are working for a righteous cause, so they demonize the opposition, but having a righteous cause is antithetical to their own philosophy.

Righteousness; the assertion of good and evil; the belief that some things are incontrovertibly true, independent of evidence, is the dogmatism underpinning republicanism.

Republicanism is not the same as democracy. Republicanism includes guarantees of rights that cannot be repealed by a majority vote.[7] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republica … ted_States

That’s dogma. “This _____________ is true regardless what anyone else thinks about it.”

Perogies are good! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

The world (nature) has given the europeans so much that it doesn’t get credit for.

Because they have nothing to do with the machinery of the economy. In order for the economy to function as a monetary system, there must be redistributive mechanisms in place; hence the focus on class. The economy must function properly for the benefit of society.

Race, religion and sex have no association with economics, but class does.

See? You’re challenging the facts. Why is it only you who is contesting this? If anyone could show that domesticated animals existed anywhere else, the theory would be gone, poof!

The only contestable point remaining is whether or not the domesticated animals made any difference. I think they did and I think you think that too, which is why you’re still not accepting that domesticated animals didn’t exist elsewhere.

But the cold was an advantage that selected for intelligence because one had to use wits to survive it. Overcoming cold is a surmountable challenge because clothing and shelter and food storage is possible for primitive people to pursue, but the heat is an insurmountable problem that could only be addressed with biological adaptation, such as the ability to sweat.

People in the heat cannot overcome the heat with intelligence, but are selected for the ability to run after prey or otherwise find the food that cannot be domesticated or farmed.

Essentially, all one could do in africa was run after an animal until it became heat-exhausted. None were fit for domestication, probably because migration was essential to follow the water and rains. There is no problem that intelligence could solve for them, so it wasn’t selected for.

On the other hand, farming was something people could get better at by being smarter. All the food led to big communities, politics, science, philosophy.

If you want to select for intelligence, provide a problem that can be overcome with the implementation of intelligence and supply the extra nutrition to power it.

They stumbled upon it, settled, then became stronger and smarter and more able to defend it.

Me neither.

I guess there is merit to regulating who comes in and who doesn’t, but if a few slip by, I don’t see the big deal. There are always acceptable losses with any scheme.

Anyway, the thing that got this whole debate started was the woman complaining that she’s told to go home when she’s born in the US. Or Trump saying a judge shouldn’t be a judge because he’s Mexican when he was born in NJ.

I think this is less about legality and more about a war on brown people without regard to where they were born. And I think a lot of people are suspicious about it like me. I mean, they never complain about illegal Russian immigration or possible Canadians flooding the border. Even if they are illegal, no one would care because they’re white.

If we don’t take advantage of cheap labor, then some other country will and because they did, they will be ahead of us. Offshoring to china was the best thing for everyone: it provided jobs to impoverished people and supplied americans with products cheaper than they could make for themselves. The problem was the republicans not distributing the profits properly.

I’m just saying that if korea starts beating-up japan, it is not in our best interest to let that happen. But if Russia wants to reclaim Ukraine, why should we care?

Why should they have it extremely hard? Because seeing them suffer makes you feel good. It’s not their welfare you care about since you’re making it extremely hard on them. It’s not economically viable to specifically make it extremely hard on your customers. All you care about is punishing people and that was my point from the beginning. It’s the “baby video” I posted often on here where the kid is more concerned that the other kid gets less, even if it means he/she also gets less. youtube.com/watch?v=FRvVFW85IcU

Conservatives are willing to hurt themselves so long as it means they can hurt someone else more. I have yet to meet a conservative who didn’t.

They even made a meme about it pics.esmemes.com/i-vote-republi … 783265.png

You can ban theft because not many people want to steal.
You can’t ban booze because too many people want to drink.

You can prohibit economic exploitation by simply putting the taxes back how they were for 50 years. Problem solved; go play golf. FDR had it figured out a long time ago and most of our problems are simply a result of undoing what he did.

Oh hell. $10/hr is no kind of life and you may as well not bother plugging 10 holes when you have enough fingers for two. Essentially we’re born into a world where we’re presented with two options: go make someone rich or starve. A true independent would never support that. Talk about authoritarianism, you’re proposing people participate in your system or face death as alternative. Where the hell is the free choice? You can’t compel people to work and claim free-market. Actually, the “free” market is reliant upon the compulsion to work in order to feed it the profits it needs.

A true free market wouldn’t have compulsions to make a profit and compulsions to avoid starvation as essential mechanisms, but would be totally voluntary and free from compulsion from any perspective. The only way to make work voluntary is to make it nonessential.

Yes that’s true. I figured you’d point that out.

I can see that. The engineer is creative in a different way. Athletes can also be creative. There are 9 forms of intelligence blog.adioma.com/9-types-of-inte … fographic/ I suppose we can be creative with respect to each of them.

lol

Maybe they were naturally gifted. Mozart could play song backwards while carrying on a conversation and from just one hearing of the song. They might not have had to think too hard to create that music

Maybe. Have you researched it?

@Serendipper

Firstly, I meant democratic politicians, secondly, 50% of Americans can be open and honest with the other 50% or not.

Brexit, Donald Trump, Giuseppe Conte, Jair Bolsonaro.

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If republicans are absolutely committed to liberty, no matter how impossibly absurd, democrats are absolutely committed to equality, no matter how impossibly absurd (nowadays more so racial, religious and sexual equality than class equality unfortunately), whereas altho I have my preferences (at times and in places), I recognize multiple moral values, from liberty and equality, to equity (fairness) and fraternity (brotherhood, culture, ethnicity, race), making me an ethical pluralist, I’m also an epistemological pluralist.

@Serendipper

Nowadays the world blames Europeans for everything and praises us for nothing.

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everything must function properly for the benefit of society, family, must function properly, eating and drinking, must function properly.

Race, religion and sex have implications for, not only economics, but education, healthcare, family, politics, law and so on down the line, and economics, education and so on have implications for race, religion and sex, for there’s meaningful differences between the races, religions and sexes.

@Seredipper

When the proofs for x theory over y are as plain as day, scientists, tend to go with x, however, when the proofs for x theory over y are murky, rather than suspending judgment, or attempting to synthesize x and y, scientists tend to go with the more PC and Profitable theory, as well as the simpler, more attractive one.

While I doubt the theory is meritless, it may be (sub)consciously intentionally or mistakenly exaggerated.

And are you sure the theory is uncontested? Maybe it has some detractors that just haven’t gotten any book deals.

Sometimes science is cut and dried, but oftentimes it’s highly interpretative and contestable, with multiple theories vying for dominance. This’s especially true of social science and even more especially of metanarratives.

Right, natural selection made Europeans smarter and stronger in many ways, which had something, if not everything to do with our success.

They were smart enough to know a good thing when they saw it, so they stuck around, and fought like hell for it.

More like a dozen million.

I don’t think Americans randomly go up to her and tell her to leave.

She probably goes around insulting Americans, telling them their ancestors stole and stumbled into everything they have, and so they need to give it all to non-whites.

Firstly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigrant_population_of_the_United_States

Secondly, the average Canadian speaks English, shares many cultural values with Americans, and is more affluent, educated and less crime prone than your average Hispanic, and so less of a threat. While it’s necessary to vet both Hispanics, and Canadians before permitting entry, it’s more necessary to vet Hispanics. And while the Canadian population is about as crime prone as the American, it’s still better for America if only law abiding, productive Canadians are permitted. Unproductive Canadian criminals are not America’s responsibility, they’re Canada’s.

Lastly, it’s not just Hispanics being deported:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/russian-diplomats-expelled-the-list-of-countries-punishing-moscow-grows.html

https://www.kcra.com/article/immigration-crackdown-leads-to-deportations-of-europeans/10288871

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/26/europe/full-list-of-russian-diplomats-expelled-over-s-intl/index.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/irish-man-brought-to-us-as-child-to-be-deported-from-boston-1.3365980?mode=amp

I contest that, a huge minority of people steal.

http://www.shopliftingprevention.org/what-we-do/learning-resource-center/statistics/

Right, if you can prevent worker exploitation, you can prevent welfare exploitation.

Again, it is wrong to give the abled something for nothing, and It is wrong to let people on the dole have kids, so we’ll prohibit it, and we’ll just get tougher and tougher on them as necessary to prohibit it.

So what are we driving at here? That liberals are dogmatic and consequently refuse to discuss their perspective? Dogma is the core of conservatism.

And all are petering out. It was the older rural people who went for those populist notions and they’re dying by the day while young liberals are turning voting age. All that’s left to do is decide if you want to join the winning side or go down with the ship.

Btw I was looking at my local school class photos on twitter and while the older students are 70/30 white/mexican, the kindergarten photos are nearly 100% mexican. I am unable to extrapolate how life will be in a decade when uneducated rednecks are replaced by educated wetbacks.

What I’m saying is that liberals base fact on consensus, so if the majority of people want to change a law, there is a mechanism to change it. But with conservatives, if someone made a law 200 years ago, there is nothing we can do about it because it’s dogmatically held regardless of what anyone thinks about it since what is right and wrong is not a popularity contest.

Allegiance to the constitution is allegiance to article 5 which states the constitution can be changed with a majority vote, so appeals to the constitution are irrelevant when determining right and wrong. IOW, the constitution cannot underpin gun rights because if the constitution were always assumed true, then article 5 would be false. It’s like a “this statement is false” kinda thing where if the statement is true, then it’s false and if it’s false, then it’s true.

So a democracy is the only way that makes sense because we first need to decide if owning a gun is a right and then decide if the constitution should be amended by popular vote, which is the constitutional thing to do. IOW, there are no rights that cannot be repealed by majority vote and to assume so is antithetical to the constitution.

That’s just how the world works. No one thanks me for the good things I do, but they jump all over me when they disagree. All feedback is negative. I guess it’s presumed that you know you’re superior, so you don’t need congratulations for it, but they think you need to be aware of the bad things.

True, but I’m not sure what family is anymore and if it’s important. Sometimes I think parents are the worst thing that can happen to a child. Family is good if family is functional, but if not, then it’s probably better not to have one.

How does race, religion, sex connect with economics?

I see what you’re saying and maybe they do want it to be the case for egalitarian purposes, but still we must have a reason that whites evolved larger brains and the domesticated animals, grains, fertile soils + cold weather selecting for it makes a nice tidy theory.

You seem to be counter-suggesting that whites became genetically superior, not by environmental luck, but some other mechanism… maybe chance or divine will? Surely the people themselves cannot be credited with guiding their own evolution because how is a stupid thing able to be smart enough to make itself smart? So that leaves chance and divine will, and genetic chance is the same as environmental luck, and divine will is presupposition of a god, which is luck because the god does whatever it wants like nature does.

[i]The Parable of the Sower:

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”[/i]

So, natural selection gets the credit and not white people.

But they were made smart because of where they were. Then, after becoming smart, they said, “Hey, this looks like a good place to be!” And because they were smarter, they were able to defend it… until they got bored and decided to sail around imposing their wills on those who weren’t as lucky. Then they rounded up some slaves, built monuments, instituted capitalistic feudalism, monotheism, which divided the world into good and bad and deemed most folks bad because “broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be that find it.”

lol

I remember watching Cheech and Chong which was set in the 70s that showcased a mexican family alerting “Ia migra” to give them a free bus ride to Tijuana for a wedding. I mean, it was just funny and no one ever had a cow about it. youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-lRbddXsA

Now in 2018 we send troops to the border with instructions to shoot anyone who throws rocks?

Lots of whites say “love it or leave it” to other whites, so it wouldn’t be hard to see a white telling a brown to go home over something as simple as a min wage debate.

I think with that you have cemented the brown/illegal association that I was referencing. Being illegal isn’t the problem; it’s being brown that’s the problem.

Right, whites are preferable to browns because of affinity/kinship.

That makes sense.

No but hispanics are associated with deportation in pop culture.

Prevalence of Drinking: According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.1 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.0 percent reported that they drank in the past month. niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-healt … statistics

It’s easier to ban theft than ban drinking.

Why?

If you make it harder on them financially, you’ll get more kids. The response of every organism to stress is reproduction. Heck, we can predict whether women will be attracted to masculine or feminine men by observing the healthcare ranking of their country.

Isn’t it relevant that these Caravan and in general left-beloved migrants “demand” entry into the US?
That “demand” would definitely disqualify them from being expected to ever understand American law, let alone keeping within its confines.

“Heck, we can predict whether women will be attracted to masculine or feminine men by observing the healthcare ranking of their country.”

Interesting notion.
What about the Philippines and Thailand? These seem to me tranny central. I do believe they have above average health care for the region.

Complaints about teargassing terrorists.
We can also use bullets, if thats better?

I see your point, but those who adhere dogmatically to the rule of law are inhuman machines per this talk:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbhTDVVyQc[/youtube]

A couple points meriting particular attention:

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and I want to suggest you first of all
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that a person who believes in absolute
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laws is liable to be quite dangerous
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because he puts rigid structures in a
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place of higher honor

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so you see a person who takes the laws
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absolutely seriously becomes inflexible
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and therefore mechanical and therefore
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inhuman

I’m not sure what it means to be human, but the meaning cannot be synonymous with machinery because the two are juxtaposed.

So I would think that even though they are desiring and telegraphing intent to break the law, that in itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing especially considering that their intentions aren’t nefarious.

Plus, everyone has broken the law at some point, so let he who is without transgression cast the first stone… or rubber bullet.

How can a person who has broken the law use the argument that a lawbreaker is incapable of keeping the law?

So if a lawbreaker can keep the law within reason, then why can’t members of the caravan?

I recently became familiar with the work of Hernando de Soto in my quest to find a conservative economist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar

[i]As the Nobel prizes rolled out this month, I hoped that de Soto, born in 1941, would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. French economist Jean Tirole, who used game theory to analyze markets, was a worthy choice, and has more academic publications to his name than de Soto does. But de Soto’s efforts in advancing entrepreneurship and raising living standards in developing economies around the world make him a leading contender for the prize.

These days, with terrorists taking back Iraq and entrenching themselves elsewhere in the Middle East, it is helpful to see how economic systems can be used to fight back. We’re not using boots on the ground, so why not use economics? If people have jobs, homes, families and a life where they can progress, they become less willing to rebel.[/i] marketwatch.com/story/this- … 2014-10-15

The takeaway is: people who have a life, won’t raise hell.

So either let them in or go to where they are and fix the situation because if we don’t, we’re just creating a bigger problem down the road.

I don’t know. I’m sure exceptions to the theory apply, but I also don’t know much about those countries to provide any clarity.

I believe the theory says women in countries with poor healthcare will be attracted to masculine men because the testosterone provides resistance to disease, etc which is obviously not a problem when healthcare is adequate. It should also work on a micro scale in that even though women live in excellent countries, she may live in an impoverished pocket.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894896/

We investigated the relationship between women’s preferences for male facial masculinity and a health index derived from World Health Organization statistics for mortality rates, life expectancies and the impact of communicable disease. Across 30 countries, masculinity preference increased as health decreased. This relationship was independent of cross-cultural differences in wealth or women’s mating strategies. These findings show non-arbitrary cross-cultural differences in facial attractiveness judgements and demonstrate the use of trade-off theory for investigating cross-cultural variation in women’s mate preferences.

Here is an article with some commentary livescience.com/10967-natio … faces.html

Projecting into the future, as healthcare improves, we may see more feminized men which should result in a slight drop in IQ, but since women tend to be more educated than men, it’s possible that the population will be smarter even though some members have less brain power.

Interesting notions - I do think that you are leaning to what would lead to anarchism, if you’d give people who think they have rights which they do not too much benefit of doubt.
The rights the migrants invented and claim will come at the cost of the states power to grant its citizens their constitutional rights. If people can just claim whatever they think they deserve from a foreign country, and the state will just obediently nod and let them in, why have a government at all?

“The takeaway is: people who have a life, won’t raise hell.”

I believe this is a misconception. Take for example, Colonialism. People who could build ships to cross the Atlantic and even the Pacific wouldn’t have been poor, they would have “had lives”, and these people arguably raised more hell than anyone else ever did.

In general I think big time criminals like Al Capone definitely have/had lives, and they got to having these lives by raising hell, and they kept raising greater hell to keep up their lifestyle.
Same for the big banks - these are wealth people that can’t find anything better to do with their wealth but create wars in other lands — raise all kinds of hell. Etcetera.

In general I think any nation that has the ambition to protect its citizens should protect is sovereignty and its borders. I don’t think giving in to demands of foreigners at the cost of the needs of ones own population allows for a long future.