I have noticed something odd about our society with this virus scare going on.

govols comments on Mar 20, 2020:

Appreciation for different sorts of people during different sorts of crises isn't quite the same as hero worship, and hero worship isn't quite the same as deferring personal responsibility. Personal responsibility isn't the same as public obligation and accountability to ones community. The need for heroes is very real and examples of regular people "just doing their jobs" ALSO being heroic are a great comfort in times of doubt. If I flipped a switch that turned off the global economy, I could stop the spread of all disease in a month; it would kill a few billion people. In times when basic human interaction is abnormally risky, "just doing your job" is a small but important act of heroism.

Absogoddamnedlutely

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

I would hate to be stuck with a supply that large of specifically Scott toilet paper. I'd almost rather be reduced to unmatched socks.

Absogoddamnedlutely

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

Nonpartisan thoughtful person...yep, covered.

Gun control advocates plead: now's not the time to buy firearms.

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

Now is the wrong time to NEED to buy a gun. Now is ALWAYS the wrong time to NEED to buy a gun. Funny...as I peck a neighbor is (hopefully) getting range time. Shots are ringing out in the near distance.

Texas Bakery Selling Poop and Toilet Paper Cupcakes. [twitter.com]

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

Wow. I hope they sell millions.

A new angle to the understanding of Gandhi: The relevance of Gandhi in the capitalism debate - ...

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

People often lose track of the fact that "The Economy" is supposed to be a tool that serves society, rather than the other way around.

Anyone else watching their hard earned investments fall like a rock?

govols comments on Mar 19, 2020:

I'm not watching.

To the extent that it's possible please shop local small businesses for your necessities rather than...

govols comments on Mar 18, 2020:

I'll add some selfish reasons to help it gel: You will become a regular, a patron, and a friend to an industrious individual with a name. In times like now the relationship itself will become a emergency resource. By having this resource, you can serve as a resource to your more personally important relations. By focusing on how you can serve your local community by MAKING IT LOCAL, you can in turn make it PERSONAL, and thereby make of yourself a service provider to those most directly important to you.

I had a feeling.....

govols comments on Mar 18, 2020:

Like the poor, the assholes will always be among you....

Pennsylvania gun stores remain open as non-essential businesses asked to close- [bearingarms.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

Gun shops and liquor stores. Essential.

ANNOUNCEMENT: If you have run out of toilet paper - Whatever you use in lieu of toilet paper do NOT...

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

"in lieu" toilet paper... LOL

My salute to them.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

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

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.

West Virginia has no cases of Coronavirus.

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

It has so far worked for me.

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?"

Can it be fixed so that Opening Posts are dated?

govols comments on Mar 17, 2020:

It worked!

What the...! American Shoppers Queuing Around The Block For Guns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

govols comments on Mar 16, 2020:

This is what happens when you realize you haven't the means with which to defend your apocalyptic toilet paper stash.

What we learned this week...

govols comments on Mar 16, 2020:

I'm hoping it brings down many universities, forcing masses of classes online where some of the bullshit is so much less persuasive without the charisma and cult of the professorial class.

"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.

What is the "Q" ?

govols comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Search qanon

Just Trudeau is pleased to announce that he is not yet showing signs of the Covid 19 virus.

govols comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Daaaaaamn.....

My new absolutely favorite version of In A Gadda Da vidda - no kidding.

govols comments on Mar 14, 2020:

This was really well put together. Thanks for turning us on so I could tune in.

Gun stores start to feel pinch as ammo flies off shelves... [bearingarms.com]

govols comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Every time I shoot I replace the ammo by one box more. Much the same practice built our pantry.

How declining institutional trust makes it harder to address a pandemic.

govols comments on Mar 12, 2020:

This is what happens when trustees don't trust us. We don't trust them back.

Canada May Need To Institute A Temporary Universal Guaranteed Income.

govols comments on Mar 12, 2020:

1% of 14 million is 140,000 lifetimes of human contribtions. It's being overblown but shouldn't be dismissed.

[facebook.com]. Anybody who raised young children knows how true this is.

govols comments on Mar 11, 2020:

love it.

Jordan is great on having solutions for the lost generation of today.

govols comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Popular culture IS psychology. The rituals of the social cult in which we're embedded IS the received mode of our psychological formation. He's been all into pop-culture like Disney, how its stories retell our traditional lore.

Coronavirus is a huge story, so journalists must apply the highest ethical standards in how they ...

govols comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Thanks.

Are you for concealed or open carry, and why?

govols comments on Mar 11, 2020:

I generally carry concealed, but I am more physically comfortable with an open carry holster. TN is considering constitutional carry, and I'm hoping that'll make open carry more common.

What's your take on this article?

govols comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I'm for Trump v Sanders because they're both assholes with real popular support and the largest part of the establishment hates them both.

Coronavirus US: How canceled classes and events and self-quarantines save lives, in one chart - Vox

govols comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Steve Bannon has a podcast on which this very idea was discussed today. One of them have to be wrong, right?

Post-modernism: Book Burning Reinvented The woke mob - which went on the attack over the Jordan ...

govols comments on Mar 9, 2020:

I don't think there's any stopping it, short of figuring out a counter-revolutionary idea that can even more easily infect the mind of the mob. The Theory at the very bottom is solid, no matter how circular the upper level ideas have become.

Political correctness is a mental deodorant.

govols comments on Mar 6, 2020:

There's something brilliant going on here.

These videos are good for a laugh until you think about the fact an idiot like this has been ...

govols comments on Mar 5, 2020:

My "favorite" insane congressperson was Cynthia McKinney. She was an outlandish guest last year on a white nationalist podcast in which her and a host went batshit about the deep state and other taboo topics. It was just an insanely jarring conversation. https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/03/24/ex-congresswoman-cynthia-mckinney-makes-common-cause-with-white-supremacists/

Finally, a political view I can get behind...

govols comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Here.

Info for Costco Shoppers

govols comments on Mar 5, 2020:

That's unfortunate.

Just want to remind everyone: The difference between a moderate Democrat and a progressive ...

govols comments on Mar 4, 2020:

It should also be said that the difference between a "moderate Democrat" and a modern "conservative" Republican is the same: time preference. Conservatives defend today as basic traditional values the very progressive agenda the moderates "came around" to help bring into policy.

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.

Will racism/the idea of race ever become a thing of the past?

govols comments on Mar 3, 2020:

It seems like we require a new socio-psychological technology if we're to really integrate toward a species level shared identity. We really aren't equipped to think of all of us as "of a group." I am simply not---period--one of seven point something humans; I'm one of several dozen neighbors; several dozen sectional identities within the United States; several dozen ethnic Christian denominations, etc.; but I'm simply not one among several billion humans on an emotional level. Logic won't fix it. Reason won't change it. A giant alien space invasion might, but beyond that, some new emotionally salient "revealed" way of seeing would be required for me to see Yankees as the same as Southerners.

Will racism/the idea of race ever become a thing of the past?

govols comments on Mar 3, 2020:

As far as I'm concerned it is self-evident that there are several basic, broad, obvious evolutionarily differentiated, largely continentally based sub-species within the human population. This fact is the culmination of tens of thousands of years of population isolation within varied environments and within the various social structures each sub-population developed to increase survival toward positive reproduction rates. As population isolation decreases, mongrelization will increase. Toward what result? Time will tell.

Most people, it seems, still don't see this as being relevant.

govols comments on Mar 3, 2020:

Goddam.

Foster youth are especially at risk for sexual abuse. - Big Think

govols comments on Mar 3, 2020:

This really is a "break-down of the family" sort of issue. I read a story about a feminist who wants to move toward institutional surrogacy for all children. Her idea is that by eliminating entirely all family structures and making child rearing an institutional function of the whole of society, the cost/task of caring for and socializing children can be fully shared by everybody rather than imposed mostly upon women. The synthesis of Brave New World and 1984 is a lovely way of becoming....

There is no reason that people of different religions or none could not live together without ...

govols comments on Mar 2, 2020:

History suggests otherwise.

Tennessee Governor pushes for constitutional carry... [bearingarms.com]

govols comments on Feb 29, 2020:

I'll make a few calls in support.

South Carolina Closing Poll Stations Without Notice

govols comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Why in the hell would the article not link to the precinct changes rather than just bitch about them? Why do progressives always think voters are too stupid to vote, but then work so hard to turn out voters? https://www.scvotes.org/south-carolina-voting-information-page https://www.greenvillecounty.org/VoterRegistration/pdf/Feb292020PPPpollingsites.pdf

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules Facebook and YouTube are not bound by the First Amendment- ...

govols comments on Feb 27, 2020:

If every other fucking business is bound by "civil rights laws," why the hell aren't they bound also by the first and most basic enumeration of individual rights laid out in part in the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

Gateway Pundit.

govols comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Only?

Do you support Project Blitz?

govols comments on Feb 27, 2020:

I can't say I support them, but I have no objection to people of faith attempting to form associations and to petition government on behalf of their common interests. It's sort of exactly how our system is designed and intended to function. I'm pretty damned sure a better system could be established and ordained, but not in this time by the current people who might desire it.

Islam is not a race! Stating the obvious you are still a racist.

govols comments on Feb 27, 2020:

There's no such thing as islamophobia and racism has no meaning.

Take a look at this new website. [newdiscourses.com]

govols comments on Feb 26, 2020:

Deep dive....

Ooh!!! Compelling arguments on atheism and the moral case against eating meat

govols comments on Feb 26, 2020:

It has to be done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlCauYhW8_E

I'm sure everyone who cares about free speech and media bias will come to David Wright's defense any...

govols comments on Feb 26, 2020:

What's to defend? He admitted the obvious. So did his network. They punished him for exposing the network's dishonest propaganda reporting designed not to present truth but a narrative that will draw face time.

I don't think that right wing nuts care about income inequality. [huffingtonpost.ca]

govols comments on Feb 26, 2020:

I don't think you're reading from right wingers, but instead from liberal globalist "conservatives."

We need to get Eric Weinstein a group his ability to make sense of some of the more science based ...

govols comments on Feb 25, 2020:

https://idw.community/group/EricWeinstein

I won't vote

govols comments on Feb 24, 2020:

The dems and their left wing are exactly going for division. Enjoy!

Are you in one? 😁

govols comments on Feb 23, 2020:

I'm in one,but not like that one. Neither of us are wrong.

TruNews Has Been Banned (subsequent to Trump signing the "Anti-Semitic" paper?)idental Dissent

govols comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Okay, how in the hell did you wind up at occidental dissent?

Bolsonaro Hails Killer of Marielle Franco As 'Hero'

govols comments on Feb 18, 2020:

An award from 2005? Has dude been convicted yet or is he still a suspect?

Trump Calls For End To Student Loan Forgiveness Program

govols comments on Feb 18, 2020:

The story says specifically that the proposed rule change would apply to future rather than current borrowers.

Klobachar says mandatory buy back is not confiscation [youtu.be]

govols comments on Feb 13, 2020:

You can't buy back what was never your own.

I am in a relationship with a woman who is dying.

govols comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Maybe cultivate a pattern around meals or hobby or culture interest that builds an expectation of regularity?

Aren't you behaving like a morally superior person?

govols comments on Feb 7, 2020:

I think I have something like moral dysphoria. I've been exposed to so much depravity that I've built a disgust tolerance.

An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

govols comments on Feb 6, 2020:

I tend to vote for as much disruption as possible. Having grown up learning how to use the card catalog; watching it become obsolete in the information age; and witnessing how the circle jerk between "the expert class," the bureaucracy, and the media, actually fabricate the public opinion required to create and implement policy; I just vote to break the framework by any means necessary.

Government should repeal out of date laws... [reason.com]

govols comments on Feb 5, 2020:

I'm more along the lines that all legislation should have a maximum ten year expiration date, and after the first renewal require a 2/3 vote for subsequent renewals.

Brainstorm request – how does Identity Politics work.

govols comments on Feb 4, 2020:

Individualism is a substantial aspect of modern western ideology and tribalism is a substantial aspect of evolutionary psychology. Identity politics allows the individualization of tribal ideology. It's internally logically consistent and rationalizingly attractive to the emotional realization that neither fairness dogma nor the blank slate theory are consistent with reality.

Hi All, I'm a Professor in the College of Education at Boise State.

govols comments on Feb 4, 2020:

You should look into rebel wisdom on YouTube. There are several conversations along these lines, and there is some contact information available. Maybe reach out to some of those for network opportunities.

Wow... Is this how Christians see atheists in America?

govols comments on Feb 2, 2020:

Imagine being a personalty type that's maybe high in conscientiousness, low to moderate emotional stability, a low to moderate openness to new ideas and experiences. Keeping in mind that a vast amount of American common class culture even still has Christianity pretty deeply embedded right down into its roots; the vast changes to technology and the near annihilation of regard among the culture making institutions for religion as a whole, Christianity writ large, and for openly expressed and practiced Christianity in particular; the fact of so much academic work expressing current social and cultural establishment and institutions as inherently hateful, racist, sexist, etc., and that especially Christian white men are largely the blame for all of the oppression ever experienced by any people, anywhere, any when, ever. Now, start tearing it all down over the course of only a couple of generations, always accelerating and revealing new and exciting ways that the very structure of American culture is in fact, quite literally evil. Now, lets remind ourselves of the vociferous assault from the "well-educated New Atheists" on the ignorance of the superstitious masses who could be led to enlightenment if they could only be educated on the wisdom of the modern age of reason. Enter fucking internet and mass information, facebook and twitter, the magnification of SJW and the insanity of gender-studies as presented from the fringes. Most of which is coming from self avowed atheists who think they're bringing the world toward progress. While I don't agree with the comments above, I understand the perspective from which they arise.

Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump. [areomagazine.com]

govols comments on Jan 28, 2020:

I would really enjoy seeing some liberals like James engage with the actual "right." There are flaws in liberalism, all the way down. There is no "arc of History" bending toward justice. There is no blank slate. There IS a common humanity, but the things we have in common are our universally "missing something," and our otherwise complete lack of universals. The Enlightenment is failed.

This group wasn’t to everyone’s liking when they first came on the scene.

govols comments on Jan 27, 2020:

This song has AMAZING bass.

This group wasn’t to everyone’s liking when they first came on the scene.

govols comments on Jan 27, 2020:

I did yes. Now you do Guns n Roses: Coma... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNGPkOVaBE=10

Moments like this really give me a good laugh.

govols comments on Jan 27, 2020:

I'm not going to read the book, but I'm not ganna pile onto the idea that somebody who wrote one and got 7 figures for the right to publish it being a halfwit, either.

Federal Judges could be banned from joining the Federalist Society- [thefederalist.com]

govols comments on Jan 27, 2020:

Freedom of association has long been dead. Might as well apply the new normal to those who helped bring it about.

Libertarians Forged an Alliance With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

govols comments on Jan 26, 2020:

What are your other examples?

Libertarians Forged an Alliance With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

govols comments on Jan 26, 2020:

How does what keep happening?

Trump Opens Door to Cuts to Medicare and Other Entitlement Programs

govols comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Yea, so. Your thoughts?

A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity [areomagazine.com]

govols comments on Jan 23, 2020:

I think the authors have developed a great comprehension of the (post)modern left but have failed to as closely examine the "work" being done on the (new) right. The fact is many on the right are postmodernists. Many have studied the same philosophies as the left, identified the same problems with modernity as the postmodernist left, and having also studied science, also understand the complexity of the modern age AND the human condition. The right isn't all filled up with premodern feudal traditionalists. Much of their case for tradition is based on the fact that they think no two individuals OR populations are equivalent; the only notion about "Enlightenment" they reject is its evolution toward complete atomization, individualization, and its modern assumption that equal humanity can overcome the un-equality among individuals themselves. They tend to think that pitiably few of us can develop a functional set of productive values from reason and science, but instead need cultural institutions to mold into our personalities a meaningful manner of being. The right is doing its work in and from philosophy, psychology, sociology, genetics, neurology, anthropology, and many other arts and science. A big problem is that science leads to sometimes dark conclusions, and when it does, the modern enlightened classical liberal tends to discredit the scientist rather than do the work required to overturn the results of their work. The modern enlightened classical liberal has his own ideological blind spot; he's come to worship his own narrative. He fails to recognize that many of his own deeply held beliefs are the product of his own inculturation.

Admirers???

govols comments on Jan 22, 2020:

WTF?

New York Times endorsement virtue signals between two far-left female Senators.

govols comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Far-Left is a place in time as well as on a political scale. If one holds even 2000s era ***liberal*** views, many Democrats today are "far-left."

Why I like Daniel Dennett This may not be the appropriate group but people here seem ...

govols comments on Jan 21, 2020:

I think the only way to deal with free will is to just accept that it's the reality we experience and we might as well just do the free will and be done with the question. Science needs cause and effect, and humans need the affect of cause and effect. We cause the world of tomorrow to become, through our actions today. Free will? It sure seems to be the case, and sitting in the basement eating cheetos doesn't make for very profound tomorrows...or todays.

[youtu.be] Straight forward truth

govols comments on Jan 21, 2020:

It's all but self-evident, if one but sees. The permanent government, deep state, cathedral--whatever named--is the ruling system of the vast minority over global affairs. It's the system by which two different realities are described to the children brought up to run it, or to suffer it. "The Revolution" is complete; long live "The Revolution.".

The idea of capitalism is a logical absurdity

govols comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Okay, I understand every bit of that essay but got nothing from it. I don't find a point.

Joe Rogan Is Voting For Bernie! - YouTube

govols comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Hell, I'm probably voting for Bernie in the primary.

I'm fucking livid.

govols comments on Jan 20, 2020:

ok boomer. just to bump...

I'm fucking livid.

govols comments on Jan 19, 2020:

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

Washington's Woke Task Force [youtube.com]

govols comments on Jan 17, 2020:

This is, from another thread, Moral Grandstanding.

Thunderstruck - Peter Bence

govols comments on Jan 17, 2020:

This was terrible...on my laptop. I went as soon as possible to my TV and its sound extensions to listen to about four or five of his stunning arrangements. I could actually hear David Bowie though the piano with Mercury flowing around and through Under Pressure. Just...stunning. Thank you.

Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States

govols comments on Jan 17, 2020:

My grandmother Sarah would not have been surprised by the upsurge in anti-Semitism during the past few years. “Scratch a goy, you’ll find an anti-Semite,” Maybe the above opening to the linked article has something to do with it. Live as a tribe, always identifying as "us" to everybody "other," and that shit will get turned back on you.

Interesting: Interviews with Japanese Gen Z at a coming-of-age ceremony in Tokyo

govols comments on Jan 17, 2020:

I've felt for a while that the "coming of age" ceremony is something unfortunately lost to at least American culture--maybe most of the west? I don't know. Women get something of it naturally with their first monthly visitor, but even that doesn't really any longer signify anything like "you a grown-up, now--act like it. In current times we have tradesmen with years of experience at 25 and students the same age who've never had a private sector job, still in university and on their parents' health insurance. There's nothing to set cultural marker on the closing of childhood.

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.

This looks Interesting... Anyone see it yet? [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jan 16, 2020:

I would love to see this. When I realized that most of my body is empty space (like, 99.9999% or some shit) I started down terribly disturbing rabbit holes. Like, over half the cells in a human body aren't human. There's like 1000 times more non-human bacterial DNA in a typical human than their is actual human DNA. If you rub your hand together they never actually come into contact. No human ever to exist actually touched anything he held in his hand. Even something as intimate as sex involves no actual contact. Reality is weird enough without multiverses and strings and spin and such stuff.

Jordan Peterson. "Choose Your Sacrifice." A story with Peter Pan. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Goofy porn Pan/Tinkerbell was almost as funny as sad.

UK.

govols comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Could you please link the original source in your posts; I try like hell to not "twitter."

Veganism - a big business opportunity?: Why are vegan diets on the rise? - BBC News

govols comments on Jan 15, 2020:

EVERYTHING is a business opportunity. In fact, almost ANYTHING can be turned into a consumer commodity. I like to point toward the anti-capitalism T-shirt, bumper sticker industry. I've considered multiple web-sales sites, each catering to different right/left ideological segments; each idea gets a freebie "Anti-" product for its counter site.

What is the allure of the socialist ideology to the youth of the West?

govols comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Well, I have an idea that they're disconnected from the English/Scottish Enlightenment notions that are sort of foundational to individualism. It took a while for the right mix of ideas to be stumbled upon, but "studies" finally criticized and demoralized the west enough that "studies" ideas of hyphen-identity could be installed into the brain framework where love of culture and country used to run. The current collective identities aren't the desired "working-class solidarity" but it's close enough--apparently--but they're close enough to load socialism on to.

I see chat boards in some groups.

govols comments on Jan 14, 2020:

I don't function at the velocity of chat. I don't "chat" in real life much, don't read quickly, and never learned to type.

I find it highly interesting how if you mention anything negative about Donald Trump on IDW, ...

govols comments on Jan 14, 2020:

There is plenty negative to be said about Trump, but much of the negativity is about stuff known to voters prior to the election, or that has been made up and shown to be false since the election. Part of the instantaneous arguments on behalf of negativity seems to be that it's either churning up old shit, misdirecting new shit, or parroting of talking points. It's tiresome, and appears to have become "triggering" for some. Much of it appears to be intended to "trigger." Besides, you got to support something, and Trump's a thing. A better thing--in some ways--than the current possible alternatives

We must be free to call Jesus gay - spiked (Have you signed the petition?)

govols comments on Jan 14, 2020:

I wonder what protests might erupt if a theological personification of evil was depicted as gay...

For some time I have been struggling with the best way to define the terms atheist, theist and ...

govols comments on Jan 12, 2020:

Can you show me an example of any culture in which god(s) isn't normativly assumed to be real?.

We are so woke!

govols comments on Jan 11, 2020:

That's classic already.

Ughhhhh!!! Australia fires: Thousands demand bold action on climate change as protests sweep nation ...

govols comments on Jan 10, 2020:

Cheers.