Universal inborn racism?

govols comments on Aug 15, 2020:

The ideas involved are both deep and ancient, and shallow and "modern." The deep and ancient seem to me to be also the more subtle and comprehensive. The ancients had a totally different world than we do, but understood cause and effect, and by the 500-400s BC were looking for causes more worldly than "The gods did it." I'm trying to get through Plato's Republic and through it follow the search by Socrates for the meaning of Justice. In it, he and his friends are building a mental model of a society that would by it very form result in a people constructed by intent to be at least absent of injustice. It's a screwed up society by our conceptions, but it pretends toward much of what the progressive project is attempting today. Of the shallow and "modern" ideas that're rejected by ancient assumption, two big ones are "blank slate" and "noble savage." Like, they formulate a fiction that divides people into iron, bronze, silver or gold souls, each with different potentialities. Iron souls are never going to make great leaders. The potential of gold souls is wasted when allowed or forced to slave away at the tasks more suited to an iron or bronze soul. The prevent the injustice of poor leadership of the city as a whole, those unfit to lead are fed a fiction to make them proud of the contributions that they can and do make. Also, and just as, or more importantly, it becomes critical to watch the children of each generation for indications of mis-born souls--souls born to stations to which they poorly suited. They actually design for identifying malicious or magnanimous mutants within the various classes and provide for upward and downward mobility. We're not blank slates; we must be trained to the benefit of the social good, but only toward maximizing each member of society given the nature to which each is individually vested. Individual natural ability rather than lineage. The iron or bronze soul can't be transformed by education and social alchemy into a golden soul with the natural nobility that could be developed into a leader with a great concern for justice. They had the good sense to understand that we ARE constructed by society, AND we also have individual natures, AND we have universal desires and needs, AND that in a just society there must be limits upon some while others must be elevated. They also understood some degree of complexity was required, and provided for the fact that a functional society had to have traders, had to have merchants, craftsmen, artist, farmers, teachers, soldiers, leaders... It needed institutions designed to identify the potential of individuals and to instill into the citizenry a certain pride of place stemming from a real institutional effort to elevate each to his fullest possible station. To bring this ...

And now, for something completely different...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

Reminded me of Ron White. "Roll em back up."

“I told you so.

govols comments on Dec 13, 2021:

So, does current year suggest that neither 1984 nor Brave New World were ever going to be expressed in reality? If written today, one might portray both visions simultaneously, somewhere along the lines of what? 80% of us living happily in Brave New World, and all but the smallest portion living out the extremes of 1984. Mos of the early dissenters would be turned by some special attention and some free shit, wouldn't we?

Where are you on this Map?

govols comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Don't recognize the landscape.

Open other end.

govols comments on Mar 7, 2023:

Civilization in the global American empire requires door instructions be posted on doors. This is totally okay.

I can't disagree: > Once an individual capable of thinking at the strategic level takes an honest...

govols comments on Nov 5, 2021:

This is exactly the thinking that's had me for a decade or two.

MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics ...

govols comments on May 11, 2021:

https://anthropology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/G.Jones%20C.Lee%20et%20al.%202021%20Viral%20Visualization%20pre-print.pdf

[foxnews.com] Why do so many atheist feel the need to force others to change?

govols comments on Sep 26, 2019:

It's a puzzle to me too. I'm not exactly an atheist, but I've dabbled in it almost all of my life. Most of the time I don't join public prayers to which I'm party, but I have generally made a practice of quietly meditating on the items brought up by the performer. A few things I've pondered over the years: The simple prayer of praise, delivered humbly to an authority on high, and how the person or group who would sue to prevent such a public performance would do so through an appeal to a powerful secular authority. The appeal to "give us this day...(the grace required) to forgive our trespassers," and how many of us struggle with that feat, and fail. The game day prayer to grant safe conduct, glory worthy grit and determination on behalf of our team and the community who support us, humility toward and respect for the opposing team and their fans, and basically a wish for this game and our play to reflect the way we would hope to live our lives and the way we would hope our communities would provide a fair and sporting environment in which to do so. The public performance of God praise has never been an intrusion for me, even at my least believing moments, because it is the way of my culture and a ritual worth sharing if one approaches from a perspective of awe at the blessings that culture itself provides.

"All RELIGIONS Teach the SAME THING!” (Response to Russell Brand) | What Do You Meme?

govols comments on Jul 29, 2021:

I like Russell, but we ain't one.

When I think of our VP, there are many words I think of to describe her; "mistress" has never been ...

govols comments on Apr 20, 2021:

When I saw that AP blurb I thought, what, whore?

[cnn.com] OK then.

govols comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Bless their hearts....

Google Play store suspends Parler as Apple threatens to follow suit within hours [independent.co.uk]

govols comments on Jan 8, 2021:

The next move will be to the dark web...the one with the really bad stuff most of us would never want to look at. After that it will be little local underground networks like early Christian house churches during the Roman persecutions. Great fun, eh?

Er.

govols comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Women did it. I say that only half jokingly. Feminism, womens-suffrage, women moving into the work place, doubling of the labor pool driving down wages, more caring-on-average personality types into government wanting to overbearingly mother the under-served, protection of the outer-limits of degeneracy until almost nothing is left to be ashamed of, and on and on and on......... It's the fucking matriarchy.

I'm fucking livid.

govols comments on Jan 19, 2020:

The last 10 minutes they just bomb the shit out of Boomers, too.

Only the 'shroom crowd knows how good it really is 🤔🤪🤣🫣🙊💩

govols comments on Aug 5, 2022:

Play both sides? Sounds like brain manipulation rather than head cleaning.

I haven't had a date in years.

govols comments on May 18, 2021:

Play stupid gamers, win stupid prizes.

Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Facebook My independent team of investigators looked into the ...

govols comments on Aug 23, 2019:

Interesting. Thanks.

I have a confession to make.

govols comments on Jul 21, 2021:

All around me in East Tennessee, out here away from the big city and with a very small employer, it seems like most everyone who isn't a militant peo-vaxer is practicing"don't ask, don't tell." I don't ever raise the subject in the real world. I only comment when asked directly.

Remember when Trump skipped that debate to raise money for vets?

govols comments on Nov 7, 2019:

The story you link doesn't say what you say it does.

Breitbart. "Barack Obama Fired All G W Bush Appointed Ambassadors in 2008."

govols comments on Nov 15, 2019:

2009, maybe?

[youtube.com] Thoughts?

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

On atheism, yes, many have really struggled with the fact that belief is fundamental to western morality, and that practice of religious faith and traditions is part of how the culture has historically grown and propagated across time. The big question for atheists is "Yeah, and now what the hell do we do?" There are many atheists who are attempting to demystify morals and ethics in a way that can serve as a practical "cult" to stand in stead for faith. Whether God revealed Himself to the ancients or the ancients invented Him to explain the world and to instruct social norms, I'm not sure that matters where the above is concerned. I'm simply unconvinced that any of us are bright enough to outsmart God whether He's the real deal or the sum of the moral and pragmatic wisdom of thousands of generations of humans, being, together.

True story bro

govols comments on Jun 7, 2021:

I've always sucked at identifying good hires. Most I've weren't worth what it cost to figure out they sucked worse at making stuff than I do at identifying good hires.

"Let's look at Marx as a thinker (i.e., not as the father of communism)." I like this professor.

govols comments on Nov 20, 2019:

If I set aside my prejudice (to the extent that's possible) I look at Marx as a step that was later taken as Truth. His was an "Enlightenment" criticism of previous theory. Like, he was a materialist, and on some level thought science and reason could explain society, culture, history, economics...everything. He saw flaws in "capitalism," flaws he understood to be fatal, and made a cut at what would follow. Empirically, capitalism IS flawed. It does cause stratification, and the losers DO GET PISSED about it. Damn...rabbit holes... His idea of a peasant revolution was off because the vast majority of workers were empirically better off than they had been as serfs. Still, when is the last time YOU consumed something that you created through your job? His description of alienation was pretty close. The notion that arose later that that his was mostly a classification error, that the wealth stratification wasn't the issue so much as power/oppression dynamics is a decent synthesis between prosperity lifting all boats and modern uber-wealth. What seems to screw it up is the complexity of production, distribution, and disparate demands and supplies across all markets and eras. His idea of a social organization to manage the complexities involved simply don't compare to the massive super-computer that the invisible hand of the market manages to be. Supply and demand actually works, to a decent degree, but every effort to centrally manage complex human economic and social systems from the top down have failed where ever and when ever tried.

Here is how far I am willing to go: I will use she/her, he/him as appropriate from the ...

govols comments on Sep 29, 2021:

I feel like that's about where I am. There's a youtuber I tend to agree with who says cut it off and we''ll talk. I'm not sure I'm quite that far, but I'm sympathetic. Honestly, I live in a place and manner that sorta minimizes my opportunities to find out many such things about myself.

I have a confession to make.

govols comments on Jul 21, 2021:

If I have a web stalker I'm to dumb to notice or they're damned quiet about it. But thne again I have usually only been a poster at one place at a time. I haven't commented on a comment section since msnbc shut down a huge forum network it used to host long ago.

Academic Agent - How Many Dissidents are there in the West? Estimated by AA. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Mar 21, 2022:

What do you think about how he determined what a dissident is? Non-vaccinated and neutral or pro-Russia on war? I suppose it varies at least by where one lives.

There are 4000+ members in this group, so I hope for 10?

govols comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Upon witnessing its utter inability to mount an effective defense against progressive illiberal ideologies, I've found myself unable to keep faith with, nor draw comfort from, the poetic proverbs of classical liberalism.

The editorial in Science magazine this week claimed that "The evidence of systemic racism in science...

govols comments on Jun 17, 2020:

"Why are the scientific areas studied more frequently by people of color continuously underfunded by the government?" Um, be specific.

NCAA Swimming Champ Caught In Possession Of Performance-Enhancing Testicles [babylonbee.com]

govols comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Dang.

THIS lecture explains why tens of thousands of people sat up and took notice of Jordan Peterson ...

govols comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Might have finally found the whole talk. https://youtu.be/TYPLo5pgNo0

Gotcha! 😆

govols comments on Jul 6, 2022:

Evidence for resurrection?

What are our thoughts on Joe Rogan endorsing Tulsi Gabbard? [youtube.com]

govols comments on May 9, 2019:

I'm probably going to pull a Dem ballot for the primary next year. I'm not going to make a decision until I see who's left at that time. If Joe thinks she's the best person running then I'm all for him saying so and voting accordingly.

"The Left may have thought up postmodernism, but the Trumpist right practices postmodernism"

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

Anyone speaking or writing on the topic of our new unknowable reality, and blaming only on one party or political identity, is part of the problem. They're not after a comprehension of truthful reality, but progress toward an agenda.

Isn't it convenient that this virus leads Canada a little closer to the UN OWG socialism utopia.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

These are the sorts of things that make me ask myself, "If it really were planned and being done on purpose, how would it look any different?"

I'm not trivialising the pandemic or the US election, but the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict ...

govols comments on Oct 12, 2020:

I don't watch typical corporate news media, but my daily scans of the headlines suggests the story is getting at least an update per day. I haven't paid much attention though. I tend to ignore conflicts around borders, tribes, ethnic splits, etc. Those seem to be the human norm, and too complex for an outsider to understand well enough to figure out justifications.

Experts claim that we will always be required to wear a mask and not have social interactions, even ...

govols comments on Oct 27, 2020:

THAT'S what got you suspended?!?

Who made God?

govols comments on May 28, 2019:

Part of the reason there even IS a God is that we can't imagine the complexity of our experience without there being one (or more). God said, "I am." We humans can't really conceptualize that notion. Everything has a beginning, a cause, a purpose...to even pretend to imagine a form of being that exists outside of our own limitations is simply that: pretense. Some things are incomprehensible, and that's the simplicity of God. We say, "WHY am I here?" God says, "I am." That's the difference between complexity and simplicity, and a manner of being that we mere mortals can't quite wrap our heads around.

Proud Biden Supporters

govols comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Thanks! (Hey, we all have our..... no.)

Another Hot quiz.

govols comments on Feb 28, 2023:

My uncle stuck it to his nose in the 50s. I used to use it to huff roaches in the 80s.

> Meghan McCain: Who knew Biden would turn out to be this awful? 75 million Americans.

govols comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Wait...SHE said *that*?

West Virginia has no cases of Coronavirus.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

It has so far worked for me.

Feminism is one.

govols comments on May 27, 2021:

I'm over fifty and still wear the same size clothes as when I was twenty. The same styles? No. The popular styles currently among many youth cultures? Oh, he'll no. Yeah, I'm a man, but I think the aesthetic applies to women, too.

I FINALLY LOST IT: unhinged rant after 21 months of HEARING THIS STUPID LINE - YouTube

govols comments on Jan 6, 2022:

He needs a clown pill. He needs a gut busting laugh.

[youtube.com] One of my favorite topics.

govols comments on Jul 29, 2019:

Yeah, this is wild. The more we learn the more we figure out how much we don't know. Evolution so well fits so much of what we think we know, or we've built so much of what we know on assumptions that haven't yet proved true.

A Day in the Life of Jordan Peterson (Fan Parody) - YouTube

govols comments on Nov 15, 2019:

Too much. No. Just right...........

BabylonBee: the Apostle Paul's KJV Bible is up for auction on eBay. [babylonbee.com]

govols comments on Jun 15, 2020:

Too much...

Come legally, they said.

govols comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Temporary Protected Status. Temporary.

MathLivesMatter

govols comments on May 13, 2022:

One would be pardoned for expecting these assholes to be competent with cancelling.

Let's be honest, it wasn't FAKE news, it was just a lie: > The Washington Post Issues a ...

govols comments on Mar 15, 2021:

It seems reality is constructed from lies. At least for most of us.

Unite the Right Organizer Says He's 'Rekindling' Ties to VDARE | Right Wing Watch

govols comments on Mar 4, 2020:

The great thing about sites like above is how they provide a clearinghouse for right wing content that's otherwise pretty well filtered from most widely used information spoon-feeders. "Hope not; hate" is another good one, along with SPLC. It's like they're free advertising for right wing presentations. It's really funny as hell.

"Model minority" Asian Americans becoming the "Yellow Peril"

govols comments on Mar 16, 2020:

One of the problems on this one is all of the retroactive offense being taken to previously acceptable language. Many are beginning to refuse to budge any longer. I do understand and take your point, though.

Was the American Revolution a progressive or a conservative movement? What is your interpretation?

govols comments on Mar 25, 2020:

It most certainly wasn't conservative.

Paradigm Shift on the Right?

govols comments on May 8, 2019:

I wonder at present if we even understand what the problems are. It seems like all of the chattering classes are simply trying to frame reality in ways that point toward all of the same old solutions. It seems like the more we try to scale up "classical liberalism" the more problems are created for the working classes of the nations that created and first established the ideals.

It would be funnier if not true.

govols comments on Jul 8, 2019:

I hope he sees this post. I hope he tests it.

PJW.. On the shootings [youtu.be]

govols comments on Aug 6, 2019:

We live in interesting times.

HA!!! The Mean Girl’s Group known as the House of Representatives (aka the People’s House) has ...

govols comments on Jan 14, 2021:

I think in the fullness of time this will go into the win column for Trump.

'As paradoxical as it may seem, defending tolerance requires to not tolerate the intolerant.

govols comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Tolerance used to mean an acceptance that even a poisonous periphery will exist, must, by definition exist. Tolerance was never the idea that normative be abandoned, or that normies take up or embrace deviant, licencious, or degenerant behavior, nor especially that normative be replaced by such amorality. Tolerance is the self destructive assertion that we'll resist the urge to witch hunt if you'll patrol your witches. You degenerates control your revolutionaries, we'll control our reactionaries. Don't? We'll eventually enjoy total war.

Is anyone here indulging in "pantry porn"?

govols comments on Mar 16, 2023:

There's a hell of a lot of collapse left in the empire, eh?

Did I hear; eat the rich? Anything Goes: Why You Might Have to Eat the Bugs [youtu.be]

govols comments on Sep 22, 2021:

This sounds like great fun.

Very Spot On...

govols comments on May 25, 2020:

That just pisses me off for some reason

[nytimes.

govols comments on Jul 23, 2019:

I think our "leaders" are resigned to bankrupting their grandchildren... or they're confident the collapse is imminent. "I have no faith in my ability to lead, and I no longer care about posterity." 20th and 21st century western ideals.................

Pastor Dana Coverstone shares his prophetic dreams from 6.

govols comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Well, I saved the contact info... I'll either deliver a thanks as possible, or check for a I was wrong video...Time will tell.

Moral grandstanding: Think twice before shouting your virtues online – moral grandstanding is ...

govols comments on Jan 16, 2020:

This article felt written from within the perspective it presented.

So yesterday, I sought out the Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson debate/conversation -hosted by Bret ...

govols comments on May 21, 2019:

These conversations are revolving around several broad ways of perceiving the world. Sam has this weird faith in human reason and the ability of science to eventually know the world well enough that we can reason our way to a moral truth that is almost physically real. Jordan and I disagree, I think in part because we both see that the human animal, given the reality of both bio- and psychological- diversity, a hell of a lot of us won't ever be able to pull off such a moral foundation intellectually. With Bret, the obvious reality that much off our moral landscape is adaptation, within both individuals and societies, to problems associated as much with the human-interaction-environment as with survival of the individual, community, and their offspring. I think Bret sees something I see. Jordan is right that the stories tell something important and that many people will need such stories as a short cut to reasoned ethic development. Sam is possibly right that universal ethical and moral thought might be able to enunciate the ideas better than ancient stories, but Bret and Jordan see a reality in which the only way such ideas could be widely disseminated and adopted would be through emotional (irrational) persuasion. There--a few thoughts to kick things off.

There isn't a political authority I respect today.

govols comments on May 13, 2020:

Respect is out the window. Respect involves trust and, really, fear. Trust? Probably never again in my lifetime. All that remains of my regard for authority is fear. To the extent that I represent the common man, the common man has lost all trust in the public institutions.

Drop Box Relationships

govols comments on Aug 20, 2019:

That's wrong...

There appears to be a small minority on the Right that supports the idea of breaking up the United ...

govols comments on Sep 14, 2021:

I don't disagree, but I've been a Southern Nationalist since I started developing a self identity as a very small child. Where I was raised they were shuttering textile factories for cheap clothes at Kmart and that sounded dumb to a five year old. The US has been ruling like an idiot my whole life.

Good Samaritan, or creeping socialism?

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

Helicopter cash. Sending checks to the unwashed masses rather than into the polished Wall Street, Global Finance, Corporate sewers is a far better stimulus/bailout than the recent ones for which we've been mortgaging future generations.

Question: can someone believe in both GOD AND SCIENCE when comes to things like, the earth's ...

govols comments on May 20, 2019:

I don't see a conflict between science and belief in God. The big problem (to me) is those who have a belief in Settled-Science , as if what the experts today think they know can easily be demonstrated wrong or incomplete.

How can i watch my wife slowly Die

govols comments on Apr 8, 2019:

How can I watch my wife slowly die? With love, anguish, and compassion, if you're really lucky. With support. With rage. With fear. With grace?

My salute to them.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

I will choke down my cynicism and simply say thanks for reminding me.

What do you profess in public? Where are you, really?

govols comments on Jul 23, 2020:

What do I profess in public? Doubt.

A call to arms.

govols comments on Feb 10, 2021:

What are you calling an action pack?

Dalai Lama says: I’m just a simple Buddhist monk but I’m trying to help others lead a happy ...

govols comments on Oct 30, 2020:

If evolutionary theory is remotely true, altruism arose probably because small parties within a species survived more reliably than other populations through a certain amount of cooperation. BUT there would still have been competition between populations and between species, and while "in-group" altruism promotes greater cooperation, it does so in part as a means by which one population out-survives the out-group in the greater competition. Altruism doesn't "scale up" because humans remain evolutionarily competitive within and between population. There is no "brotherhood of Man."

Glacier National Park Quietly Removes It’s gone By 2020 signs [zerohedge.com]

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R5-y0Dc1s

Change of tactics

govols comments on Jan 26, 2022:

Nobody I ask can tell me why US has such a hard on for Russia. The only justification I can come up with for any possible concern we might have for Ukraine is 90s agreements regarding nukes we recycled that once were controlled by Ukraine, and we promised to extend our nuke umbrella to ensure Ukraine border sovereignty.

I need help.

govols comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Totally rebutted by a meme? https://idw.community/idw/images/posts/23663_8ws99erv7kfbn97_full.jpeg?v=2

‘We need a rational left’ (who is liked by conservatives :))

govols comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I like Bret and many other liberals but I really want all of those playing at IDW to get on with their disciplines and making presentations of their subject matter instead of so much time at politics and speech.

It Was Done To Them On Purpose Interesting … I started out being a bit put off by the guy in ...

govols comments on Nov 10, 2022:

Milo benefited greatly from his public cancellation.

run Joe run

govols comments on Jun 1, 2021:

Daaaaaaam

So we decided to explore how wisdom (philosophy) relates to psychology.

govols comments on Sep 15, 2020:

You're kinda embracing the new role, aren't you? I've been on this for a bit, the whole free will and behavioral conditioning. I'm not sure where it's taking me yet. It feels like science is wrong about free will and Theory is wrong about constructionism. It feels like their is a human mind that exceeds the biological processes of the brain dealing with environmental stimuli. It feels like a weird mix of individual conscience as emergent from the phenomenological human experience of the expectations emanating from the culture within which the individual is formed. I am a product of my raising, but within the framework of that reality I have a certain amount of control over how I will fit myself into society.

I know most of you have noticed that we have had 10 years to fix climate change issues for the last ...

govols comments on Feb 12, 2021:

Weeee're meeeeelting to....ashes?

Once again... A guy talking about men issue to a girl that will go unheard. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Sep 11, 2019:

Damn.

My friend Mark Milliorn, historian & blogger, turns his attention this week to influential ...

govols comments on Jul 17, 2021:

So now there's a pre-war children's book next to CS Lewis's Discarded Image on my Kindle. Thanks. I'll try to remember to post a review when I finish.

It's getting worse. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Nov 5, 2019:

It has to hit rock bottom before it will admit it's problem.

CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY: Alabama Becomes 22nd Permitless Carry State [yoursurvivalguy.com]

govols comments on Mar 11, 2022:

TN did this recently. I'll renew my permit.

It's true...

govols comments on Mar 18, 2021:

yeah, I don't think I've gone a day without coffee since I was maybe 6 or 7 years old...

I wonder what so-called the perfect man looks like... 🤨

govols comments on Dec 14, 2020:

I'd post a picture but I'm kinda private in that regard.

AND Finally. .... The next slogan of Trump should be this...(I am inevitable !!) grin [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 11, 2019:

He's maybe the all time master of the troll.

What are your How To resources?

govols comments on May 10, 2019:

Forums on topic are outstanding resources. Examples...rv.net, mytractorforum, many jeep forums, etc.

Hello.

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I don't see it. Maybe you and other more active members just tend differently in conversation and purpose, but since the most frequent postrr9 are, Well, the most frequent posters, they're who you hear from....

This....would be EPIC LOL

govols comments on Jan 21, 2021:

Write the novel. That would be meaningful rightward artistic expression. Small imaginaries don't move reality, but big ones create the future.

I was considering something this morning.

govols comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I think in this case you're barking up a wrong tree, with the remotely possible exception of a tiny portion of those under consideration.

Republicans Do Human Trafficking To Own The Libs

govols comments on Sep 16, 2022:

It's a self-defensive distribution of strength expanding diversity. It's for the common good.

Sargon of Akkad fighting to lower the age of consent! Wow this is so creepy and sick - what's ...

govols comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Lots of people advocating for changing the age of consent regarding voting, abortion, sex reassignment. Whatever Carl is talking about isn't at all clear from the no context meme.

Now this, I have to say idiocy at its peak (unless I'm missing something here).

govols comments on Oct 24, 2020:

In the US, some states and/local governments did similar; the rationale here was mostly about fairness toward smaller specialty shops like book, electronic, sporting goods, etc. that were forcibly closed as nonessential. If they can't open then general stores can't sell "their" wares.

Either most of the world's leaders are stupid or they are under somebody's thumb. [theduran.com]

govols comments on Nov 1, 2020:

I wish a couple of dozen countries had implemented the phone book method of choosing leadership a few decades ago so we could have a "control group" on the idea that the elitist social networks are getting dumber.

Today if you care too, can we explore the mysteries world of TRUTHS AND LIES.

govols comments on May 29, 2019:

Silence is a reasonable choice sometimes.

Father's Day is rough.

govols comments on Jun 16, 2019:

A topic I know nothing about, and am frankly quite uncomfortable with. Still, if I could manage empathy I would offer it. You're going through shit that no parent should face and I wish none were. You're in my thoughts.

Interesting sack.

govols comments on Dec 23, 2021:

Cantaloupe?