wmw999 2,444 #26 April 10, 2024 Along with eugenenics advocate Donald Trump, as quoted in Minnesota Quote "You have good genes, you know that, right?" Trump told a mostly white crowd of supporters in Bemidji, Minn., on Sept. 18. "You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn't it? Don't you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we're so different? You have good genes in Minnesota." Wendy P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,465 #27 April 10, 2024 38 minutes ago, wmw999 said: Along with eugenenics advocate Donald Trump, as quoted in Minnesota Wendy P. I mean that is why Brent won't vote for Trump, he is a lefty like Pol Pot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,990 #28 April 10, 2024 1 hour ago, brenthutch said: You forgot eugenics, forced sterilization, involuntary euthanasia and partial birth abortions and some left wing superstars: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and our very own Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger. So you have never seen an example of what you have based your argument on. Sad! Perhaps get sources of information other than FOX News. Or (and this is extreme) perhaps just go out and talk to some of the people you hate. You might learn something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeWeber 2,720 #29 April 10, 2024 7 minutes ago, SkyDekker said: I mean that is why Brent won't vote for Trump, he is a lefty like Pol Pot. He'll vote for Trump for the money, as others here will for the unborn children, and swear from the rooftops that he wrote in Howdy Doody. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,990 #30 April 10, 2024 53 minutes ago, wmw999 said: Along with eugenenics advocate Donald Trump, as quoted in Minnesota Brent is OK with THAT kind of eugenics. The reasonable, white-people-are-better-than-black-people sort. Not that racist Jews-are-inferior sort. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnhking1 96 #31 April 10, 2024 1 hour ago, wmw999 said: You have good genes in Minnesota." Must be Levi's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,026 #32 April 10, 2024 4 hours ago, JoeWeber said: You're joking, right? How old are you? Since forever women can have all of the penises they want. You attributed the quote to the wrong person. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,026 #33 April 10, 2024 4 hours ago, SkyDekker said: So you were trolling. Got it. I It's what trolls do. What did you expect? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,465 #34 April 11, 2024 23 hours ago, kallend said: It's what trolls do. What did you expect? I expect him to be as serious as Republican lawmakers in the US Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,444 #35 April 11, 2024 1 minute ago, SkyDekker said: I expect him to be as serious as Republican lawmakers in the US Holy crap I thought this was a joke. Wendy P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,465 #36 April 11, 2024 Just now, wmw999 said: Holy crap I thought this was a joke. Wendy P. The HOOHA act is no joke. Republicans are serious hardworking politicians. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,990 #37 April 11, 2024 14 minutes ago, wmw999 said: Holy crap I thought this was a joke. Up next: Freedom for Freezers, Fryers and Formica Furniture act Blender, Barbeque and Blow Dryer Bill of Rights Campaign to Cancel Condemnation of Can Openers, Crock Pots and Curling Irons Dishwasher, Doorbell and Dryer Declaration of Independence Stop the Hairdryer and Humidifier Holocaust act No More Murder of Microwave Ovens and Mixers law Thank God we have a Congress willing to work on the toughest alliterative problems Americans face. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #38 April 13, 2024 On 4/11/2024 at 3:53 PM, SkyDekker said: I expect him to be as serious as Republican lawmakers in the US It's all about religious freedom; The GOP is sponsoring these bills at the behest of The First Church of Appliantology. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
winsor 236 #39 April 13, 2024 47 minutes ago, ryoder said: It's all about religious freedom; The GOP is sponsoring these bills at the behest of The First Church of Appliantology. L Ron Hoover anyone? 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolfriverjoe 1,523 #40 April 13, 2024 3 hours ago, ryoder said: It's all about religious freedom; The GOP is sponsoring these bills at the behest of The First Church of Appliantology. Is Ron Popeil their patron saint? While he didn't make 'durable goods' type appliances, his stuff was pretty miraculous* *Miraculous in both the claims of what it could do and the fact that it would be a miracle if any of those claims actually came to pass. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coreece 190 #41 April 14, 2024 On 4/10/2024 at 12:13 PM, brenthutch said: What do you think I meant when I said “the problem with progressivism is too much is never enough” Prevalence-induced concept change: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/06/harvard-researchers-may-have-answer-to-why-youre-never-satisfied/#:~:text=The answer%2C Harvard researcher Daniel Gilbert says%2C may,reduced%2C humans are inclined to redefine the problem. "We solved the problem! Now let’s unsolve it. . . By several measures, including rates of poverty and violence, progress is an international reality. Why, then, do so many of us believe otherwise? The answer, Harvard researcher Daniel Gilbert says, may lie in “prevalence-induced concept change.” . . .as the prevalence of a problem is reduced, humans are inclined to redefine the problem. As a problem becomes smaller, conceptualizations of the problem expand, which can lead to progress being discounted. “When problems become rare, we count more things as problems. Our studies suggest that when the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326048713_Prevalence-induced_concept_change_in_human_judgment that when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by broadening his or her definition of the signal—and therefore continues to find it even when it is not there. From low-level perception of color to higher-level judgments of ethics, there is a robust tendency for perceptual and judgmental standards to “creep” when they ought not to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 2,190 #42 April 14, 2024 34 minutes ago, Coreece said: By several measures, including rates of poverty and violence, progress is an international reality. Why, then, do so many of us believe otherwise? There is forward motion and there is backward motion. What there is not is standing still. That is the nature of progress. Without progress there is only regression. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeWeber 2,720 #43 April 14, 2024 39 minutes ago, Coreece said: “When problems become rare, we count more things as problems. Our studies suggest that when the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all. How do you square this with your Christian beliefs? 40 minutes ago, Coreece said: that when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by broadening his or her definition of the signal—and therefore continues to find it even when it is not there. Same question. Coreece, this is the essence of primal belief systems of which Christianity, your personal belief system, is dominant locally. All of us, me included, experience the numinous and the transcendent in our lives. I think that's normal. But the finding of what is not there thing is where we diverge. Do you believe what you just posted or not? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,489 #44 April 14, 2024 On 4/11/2024 at 10:55 PM, wmw999 said: Holy crap I thought this was a joke. Wendy P. This is the party of DeSantis - a man who introduced a tax incentive to persuade people to buy gas stoves… because they are more dangerous than the alternative. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,489 #45 April 14, 2024 5 hours ago, JoeWeber said: How do you square this with your Christian beliefs? Careful now. Sounds like you’re just trying to tear the guy down without committing to any opinion of your own. That would be bad, wouldn’t it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #46 April 15, 2024 L. Ron Hoover is going to be mighty upset! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites