Fact checking on the Internet may not be as reliable as you think [youtube.com]

govols comments on Jan 10, 2020:

The only truth on the internet predates the internet. For every fact you can find its opposite presented. It's quite the prank, really.

Anyone else see the common thread with today? I can't believe there are still people this dumb.

govols comments on Jan 10, 2020:

I see that one over on the right...

Tucker down some Tucker with two in a row.

govols comments on Jan 10, 2020:

2 million. Way to go, Joe.

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govols comments on Jan 10, 2020:

That's pretty screwed.

Don’t know if you follow Prof.

govols comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Nope. Didn't. Do now.

Actress rescues and deprograms member of a British cult!!! [thebeaverton.com]

govols comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Well, that bites, doesn't it? Wow... That's F-ing funny.

“Viva La Vida” (1954) is thought to be Frida Kahlo’s final painting.

govols comments on Jan 9, 2020:

I like it but don't see the "themes of fragility, change and death."

Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating arson's role in Australian bushfires | Australia...

govols comments on Jan 8, 2020:

So, does this mean arson and inadequate fire prevention practices aren't factors?

Photoshopped?

govols comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Who is she?

Who is the world’s no. 1 bad guy? | The Outline

govols comments on Jan 8, 2020:

The world's number one bad guy HAS to be Genghis Khan. His war efforts killed something like 10% of the global population. 40,000,000 people, give or take. He raped enough women and killed enough "indigenous" males that his descendants currently alive number around 16,000,000; that's just among the male population. His method can only be described as a terror campaign. He would besiege a city-state, demand surrender, and any that failed to do so would pretty much have all of the women raped in front of their men-folk, and then the men all killed.

Are you a descendent of any of these people?

govols comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Yep, that's some diversity. The outfits are a trip. Of the names I'm aware, the interweb says one might have origins in France and the others appear to be Welsh, English and Scottish. The fact of over half of my clan being rooted in Southern Appalachia suggests possible Scots-Irish for part of the Scottish. Nobody in my family cared enough to document anything, and all of us identify as simply Children of the South.

HighQ's gone, it seems.

govols comments on Jan 8, 2020:

It seems so.

Just discovered this channel on you tube - think replacementism.

govols comments on Jan 7, 2020:

I know her. Bunny holes....

VICTORY!!! CNN admits fake news by failing to defend against the Covington lawsuit, and settling ...

govols comments on Jan 7, 2020:

They paid to avoid being subjected to pre-trial discovery...to avoid their methodological dishonesty being made public?

What Bret Weinstein Gets Wrong About Group Selection – The Evolution Institute

govols comments on Jan 7, 2020:

I would love to see this conversation. To the extent I accept the premise of evolution, multi-level selection seems self-evident. Bret often seems to play coy, and doesn't well enough distinguish his thinking from "group-selection."

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govols comments on Jan 7, 2020:

DON'T HIT PLAY!!!!

I find nothing more bourgie than the intellectual left as exhibited by Weinstein Salon of the true ...

govols comments on Jan 7, 2020:

I don't pay much attention to the "conservative" personalities, most especially the current events commentators. I often wonder if many of the pundits have ever done hard work or even spent time with working class people.

Is religion adaptive?

govols comments on Jan 6, 2020:

This is too convoluted a topic without some discussion of terms and ideas. Because of the Theory of Evolution, "adapt" carries so many variations of meaning. Religion, in and of itself, does no such thing. Religiosity might be an evolutionarily adaptive trait among humans. A given belief system might provide one population an advantage over another population that collectively follows a differing belief system. Changes to social, political, or natural environment might alter knowledge in a manner that changes to belief systems must be affected in order for it to better inculturate believers to successful behavioral strategies. Religion isn't, itself, self-changing. (Had to edit to include "self," there.) The circumstances of populations are changing, and thus, too, are the array of "reality describing narratives." Successful narratives come to displace narratives that no longer promote societal success. For starters.

Is religion adaptive?

govols comments on Jan 6, 2020:

I have an idea that religion, in as much as it provides a center around which society revolves, is adaptive. I'm not sure "religion," per se, is necessary, but it serves ***some*** function that seems to me to be very much necessary to the overall cohesiveness of a culture. I have, also, an idea that the fact of well over half of every population being merely average or below in intelligence gives some existential advantage to a narrative form of social expectation for individuals within to internalize. One of the interesting things about the story form is how it appeals to almost any level or type of intellect. Is religion adaptable? Yep. The world over, cultural beliefs have developed over time as the natural and, especially, social environment evolve. One thing I notice is that as religiosity declines, it's more and more difficult to locate a cultural center that a super-majority of a given society can voluntarily agree on.

[zerohedge.

govols comments on Jan 2, 2020:

This actually might be positive, in a twisted way.

Identity Politics: Christianity Without Christ

govols comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I haven't come across any better explanation. Privilege Theory is a fabricated faithed-based shame cult with no place in its theology for forgiveness or absolution.

Bouaaaaaaaaahahahahaha. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 29, 2019:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transgender-man-gives-birth-non-21177808

Now now...means just now not now but later now...in a bit now...soon.

govols comments on Dec 29, 2019:

Sounds like "Island time."

Is this logical? Is there any flaw? Any room for argument?

govols comments on Dec 29, 2019:

I think a lot of "definitions" are missing.

Asking for My Pronouns is Offensive - YouTube

govols comments on Dec 28, 2019:

It's a trap. In using the power/oppression "theory"--even as a tool against itself--is to give the "theory" credibility.

If Trump built a Mar-a-Lago in your state and gave you membership, would you support making the ...

govols comments on Dec 27, 2019:

WTF?

Individual rights are the most important rights.

govols comments on Dec 27, 2019:

The individual right to make voluntary associations is in conflict with the individual right to join such an association where the existing members prefer to exclude some individuals. Which individuals win?

Is this true, I mean did she really say it?

govols comments on Dec 24, 2019:

It isn't true.

Are you a "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" person?

govols comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I offer Merry Christmas, but generally answer in kind.

Giving some thought to the Pelosi strategy/gambit.

govols comments on Dec 20, 2019:

I'm pretty sure the current congress can't impose itself on the next one. It would have to be passed again after Jan 3, 2021.

Are you in favour of ethnonationalism (ethnic-nationalism)?

govols comments on Dec 19, 2019:

Is the concept of "nation" a socio-normative reality? If so, is it built around a deep historical shared populational experience? Isn't something like that a basic definition of "ethnicity?" To the extent that governmental structures arise from such social customs, isn't that the ethno-national state? Isn't that A REALITY across much of history? Isn't it still reality across much of the globe today?

Bouaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 19, 2019:

It's frustrating every bit as much as it is funny. Ignorance should hurt worse.

Buzzfeed...Master piece.. grin [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Is he checking out her boobs?

And Tucker continues to point out the strange, strange behavior of the Democrats.

govols comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Who just got terminated?

Why not a back house ?? LOL [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 18, 2019:

This is crap.

There have been many many derogatory memes thrown around and many many contemptuous comments posted ...

govols comments on Dec 18, 2019:

I'm not so much "irritated or annoyed by her," exactly, but by her use. I don't like the use of poster-children.

Not only is the Black Woman in the video astoundingly IGNORANT, she is an unhinged, Criminally ...

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

"Step up, and shut people up. There is no room for hate...." Yep. I've heard that before. And the question ever remains...who defines hate and tolerable speech on this day?

Gen Z is more anti-Trump than millennials, polling shows

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

All I can say is, good. Gen X, Y, Z, M, will get the government their parents deserved...good and hard like we did. I'm certain I failed to do my part to preserve the culture I inherited from my parents, and I get to witness the ramifications. As will "the children." Over and over again. PROGRESS!!!!!!!

Tory MP makes history as world's first openly gay Muslim to be elected

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

That seems like "hook, line, and sinker," to me. Somebody swallowed something.

The End Of the Family.

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

The US exports "culture." The world will catch up, eventually.

Quillette.

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

I doubt the mountain of evidence is very well including men in committed relationships, or women who are sluts. My experience suggests that the evidence is more based on children than adults. Grown ups make and live up to commitments.

Change my mind affirmative action is Racist. [youtu.be]

govols comments on Dec 17, 2019:

A good conversation.

They also raided a donut shop later in the day and found donuts.

govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

A headline at google in the past day or three was that a raid found 400 rounds of ammunition. 400 rounds? Really? Somebody needs to be more diligent with their inventory.

A Third of America’s Economy Is Concentrated in Just 31 Counties

govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

I wonder where a third of America's happiness is concentrated. Or a third of its virtue. Or a third of its value.

How could you not be?

govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

Bemused.

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govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

And then you play with "Me." I'm not the same "me" that I was at 20, but I'm still "me." The identity didn't change, but the objective person did...all the way down. "Me" isn't an object.

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govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

That was FUN!!! Thanks..........

Politically speaking, there are two types of people; thinkers and feelers.

govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

I'm not sure I buy the first premise, that there is some significant number of us who are primarily thinkers rather than feelers. If some number of us do happen to be thinkers, I'm not sure that our behavior is nearly so much based on good thinking as well heeled guts.

I cannot comprehend how anyone today can justify hatred of another ethnicity.

govols comments on Dec 16, 2019:

Well, pick a Western cultural or social issue that you consider to be important. Examine it for any deficiencies that you can identify as such might be measured from a traditionalist perspective. Dig into the origins until you find where things began to "come apart," or, in other words, where things began to upend social norms and expectations. Jew are well known to be statistically over-represented in an array of culturally influential professions from legal theory to academia to entertainment, marketing, and general merchandising. Everywhere you find disruptions you're almost statistically guaranteed to find some highly placed and well regarded Jews among the avant garde. It takes no effort at all to expose oneself to an abundant body of literature through which to explore the various efforts to establish and explore the "Jewish Question." I've read stuff about medieval interbreeding for purposes of elevating status, all sorts of stuff. Add to that the very real cultural "Othering" that Jews often practice(d) upon the cultures into which they "infiltrated," their tribal tendencies--real or imagined--and you get some shit that is easily looked at through a conspiratorial lens if one is inclined toward such perspectives. It can readily be discovered as self-evident if one ever comes to "see" it. I mean, hell, the notion goes all the way back to their (and for many of us, our) historical religious texts. A Jew sold into Egypt as a SLAVE and he winds up second only to Pharaoh...and it power and influence maybe even above Pharaoh. It's just a really easy leap to make if it's a path one stumbles on.

This is Piñatex® - Fabric made from pineapple leaf fibres

govols comments on Dec 15, 2019:

I think it's the scale-up that makes it hard to bring things like this to market. Somebody has to take a pretty big risk that the suppliers can keep up with production.

How the Collectivist Right Won the Battle of Ideas - Areo magazine

govols comments on Dec 14, 2019:

I enjoyed that; thanks.

Socrates was a postmodernist.

govols comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Imma toss again, cause. Well, cause.

Johnson in, Corbyn out. For better or worse, time to move on.

govols comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Watching with interest. This really is a big deal. For better or worse.....

What is the Alt-right?

govols comments on Dec 12, 2019:

It's division by zero: undefined.

Hello.

govols comments on Dec 12, 2019:

@Naomi, below is a link to a new interview/conversation between Benjamin Boyce and Stephen Hicks. It's really good because Hicks takes Postmodern Thought out of scare quotes and does some pretty damned good analytics into its foundations, permutations, and useful applications. Toward the end they get into how some synthesis might be built in the current era. A great talk that I think you might enjoy because it brings the topic out of politics (for the most part) back into philosophy, psychology, sociology, and cultural implications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEGMoQkgXf8

What gives, you guys? Health insurance costs are up 20% this year.

govols comments on Dec 11, 2019:

Total cost of healthcare cost is not the same as insurance cost. How in the hell 46% of any segment of the population is satisfied with total cost is another question.

It is curious why anti-Jordan Peterson trolls waste so much of there time trolling this website and ...

govols comments on Dec 11, 2019:

It sure seems that many critics are ill informed on the source material. I'm as guilty as most, if not as frequently.

Ok. What's your take on Greta ?

govols comments on Dec 11, 2019:

Honestly, I think she is something of an avatar for so many people today who rely on "authorities" to provide their world-views. She's utterly convinced that science is settled and we're all about to die. You can find the same convictions all over the WWW. She just happens to be the one who sells tickets. It's all about the clicks, whether that's views on the internet, t-shirt sales, or windmills.

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.

“Moderates” are congratulating themselves on limiting the scope of the articles of impeachment, ...

govols comments on Dec 10, 2019:

Cat shit. Cat farts, on the other hand...

I stopped using plastic-containing teabags and have been using loose tea leaves, but I can't deny ...

govols comments on Dec 10, 2019:

I didn't know tea bags had plastic. I wonder if coffee filters do.

What are your gut feelings? Trump impeachment: Democrats unveil formal charges - BBC News

govols comments on Dec 10, 2019:

It's really all up to the representative in the house; they can politically impeach on just about anything they can dream up and pass on a simple majority vote. The senate is supposed to determine whether the facts demonstrate the impeached to be guilty of whatever the house impeached him for. Precedent says otherwise in the senate, that instead the senators have every authority to dismiss the accusation as not highly enough abhorrent behavior to justify the house's determination. I doubt the house impeachment managers will persuade the senators to remove the president. Personally, I don't think he's done anything that's any more improper than several of his predecessors.

“If he had evidence of his innocense, why wouldn’t he bring it forward?

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

A comment like that should disqualify from office.

The IDW Community should be about holding civil discussions on a variety of topics that affect our ...

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

I have neither time nor patience to do this on a phone, but I'll offer a point for consideration: the BoR has been largely incorporated to include the States. This has come to include local governments to a point they often haven't the power anymore to enact decency laws that were widely in use in times past. With global information in the sweaty hairy palms of men, women, and children everywhere, it isn't any wonder that modernity blinds us to the usefulness of traditional social enforcement of common decency mores.

This is you, isn't it? Be honest. 😁

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

It isn't me...but it resembles me.

So how is this IDW experiment going? Not much evidence of intelligent activity.

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

It seems that virtual society has a hard time developing meaningful culture. I wonder if it has something to do with not watching or experiencing a good ass whipping.

Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee is still appeasing CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in Tennessee, ...

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

Incomplete information. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-enhancing-state-local-involvement-refugee-resettlement/ The order is to the federal Depts. to establish the rule and procedures to gain consent from States and localities, and to make said consents public. The order is to do so within 90 days of order. Order dated Sept. 26, 2019. The way it reads, no action is equal to withholding of consent. I need better information.

Just some good British humor.

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

That's hilarious.

The Trump Cult There has been an outbreak of cult-watchers among Democrats, as they all parrot ...

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

This came up here a week or so ago and I hadn't heard about before. Seems staying away from the punditry suits me.

NAMIBIA VOWS TO GRAB FARMS FROM WHITE FARMERS. [kioo17journal.blogspot.com]

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

How many times are we gonna have to watch this story unfold into famine?

It's not really Harris "vs" Peterson, it's more aimed at being Harris "and" Peterson having a ...

govols comments on Dec 9, 2019:

Harris is a materialist. To him we're meat sacks, and any meaning we make out of the world is just chemistry. Alter environment, alter chemistry, make meaning empirical rather than spiritual. He may even be right. We ain't gonna be living like it, though. We might very well DIE of it, but we won't live like it.

"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.

Alright.

govols comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Nope. I can't interpret the mediocre translation fast enough to pay attention to what I'm reading.

Alright.

govols comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Doesn't work on phone. I'll take a look next time I'm on the laptop.

Is the world aware that we don't have a free press (controlled by powerful elites.

govols comments on Dec 6, 2019:

It isn't left or right, it's that there's an infinite amount of opinionated and biased information--some of it intentionally deceptive and manipulative--that no one person can decipher any meaningful truth from it all. Free speech is cool as hell, but it presently results in overload. Free press...overload. No matter how much we try, it's impossible to know wht information is even useful, much less true.

I found this one shared by my severely disabled friend. Would you sympathise with her sentiment?

govols comments on Dec 6, 2019:

It's just Woke. https://motherwiselife.org/blake-lively-amy-schumer-reposted-words-need-next/

Trump hikes fees nearly 5X on immigration records in USCIS Genealogy Program.

govols comments on Dec 5, 2019:

If the story means enough to you to share it, source it from a site that isn't paywalled.

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

govols comments on Dec 5, 2019:

How go the lessons?

Billy Connolly - on F-Off! - YouTube

govols comments on Dec 5, 2019:

Maybe not a GRAND master, but most certainly one of the masters of comedy.

Save the 2nd: a new gun rights group more than just a passing thing- [ammoland.com]

govols comments on Dec 4, 2019:

The NRA needs this. Thanks for making me aware of the effort. If it works out I may let go of my contempt for the organization.

"A man's intelligence is inversely proportionate to the complexity of his watch.

govols comments on Dec 3, 2019:

I read that quote a different way. I didn't think first about a time piece, but about a watchman or the night's watch. The complexity or simplicity of the circumstance sometimes determines how a person or a people are judged in hindsight. Sometimes the wise or brilliant decision happens to be the one we're reduced to when we can't find any choices.

Speech is simply a communication tool, no?

govols comments on Dec 2, 2019:

I haven't read too much of Plato, but enough to see the merit of his expression of ideas through dialogues. It begs you into the conversation. I put out unfounded thoughts all of the time, and any doubts of arguments turned against them gives me ways to examine that I otherwise mightn't have come to. The vast majority of philosophy is based on examining questions that really have no empirical answers. It's a running conversation of bloviating bullshit that's been going for thousands of years, and I'd hate to see it ended by limiting the kinds of thoughts allowed expression to "just the facts, ma'am."

Socrates was a postmodernist.

govols comments on Nov 30, 2019:

I'm just gonna toss this back to the top to see if anything more comes of it....

Western Journal Commentary.

govols comments on Nov 29, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/curious-moviegoers-loving-pro-free-speech-movie-no-safe-spaces-mainstream-critics-hate/

It's hard to grasp the influence that Jordan Peterson is having on the western world.

govols comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Which ideas were they about?

Do we underestimate the stupidity?

govols comments on Nov 27, 2019:

I don't. I assume the limits are boundless.

Should 16 year olds be allowed to vote?

govols comments on Nov 26, 2019:

As long as they're a deduction on their parents' taxes, or on their parents' insurance policies, no. Children shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Calvin & Hobbes

govols comments on Nov 26, 2019:

There's a plan...and it has a punchline.

Prager U. Michael Medved. "Should Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving as a Day of Gratitude?

govols comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Any American who doesn't spend a few moments each day wallowing in profound gratitude is a horse's ass. Thanksgiving is all about gathering to share the experience, whether it's the gratitude or the horse assedness. Find a way in your heart to pull off gratitude; it's easier and feels better.

Guess what!!??I’m in a cult! CNN says so. It’s called America, bitch.

govols comments on Nov 25, 2019:

Link, please.

Half the people in America think you are wrong, and yet you don’t want to btalk about it ?

govols comments on Nov 25, 2019:

I dropped out.

Do the podcasts you enjoy stop, skip and pause at strong arguments against leftist viewpoints?

govols comments on Nov 25, 2019:

I tend to download stuff when I have WiFi to avoid streaming.

Google employees protest the company’s “attempt to silence workers” - Vox

govols comments on Nov 23, 2019:

So their globalist overlord attempts to shut down workers, the workers protest in outrage. When the same globalist overlords order them to shut down nationalists the workers cheer, and dive enthusiastically into the work. Welcome to the world you're helping to create, Google workers.

‘Richard Jewell’ Film Paints Press as ‘Reckless, Corrupt, Immoral’

govols comments on Nov 23, 2019:

Ya think?

NRO/AndrewMcCarthy: more info on that leak from the Justice Dept IG leak. [nationalreview.com]

govols comments on Nov 23, 2019:

The longer this goes on the less I believe anything will come of it; no heads will roll no matter how much it's deserved.

Do you believe Trump's AG on Epstein killing himself?

govols comments on Nov 23, 2019:

Epstein didn't kill himself.

Fake News 101 When Don Trump Jr’s new book “Triggered” hit the top of the NYT’s ...

govols comments on Nov 22, 2019:

The only reason they had to so quickly make the accusation is that it's a common tactic among the left PACs to do the same for books by people on their own side. Everything they accuse their opponents of, they're guilty of. Russia collusion, Ukraine corruption, obstruction, witness tampering...DNC...guilty. Look!!!! Trump!

Curiosity from the Far Side

govols comments on Nov 22, 2019:

Damn.

Here comes the judge. Did you know impeachment is not a legal proceeding?

govols comments on Nov 22, 2019:

I've always known it was a political process in the House, but I consider it more a legal process in the Senate. I think the Constitution really reads in a way that says the House can look at actions by the president, and if the actions are criminal, but not "High Crimes," not impeach. If the actions are NOT crimes, but mis***demeanors***, misbehaviors, even poor decorum in performance of the Office of the President--if rank enough--can be impeachable should the House so decide. It's a political indictment for the representatives of the people to determine. The Senate I look at differently. In the Senate, the matter of whether the offense is worthy of impeachment is not in question. That question isn't on trial, but already determined. The question for the Senate is whether the President actually committed the deeds which the House accuses. It's my opinion that the Senate has no more right to judge the determination of the House than any Jury has to determine the legitimacy of the Law or a trial judge's instructions. Current jurisprudence shuns the notion of Jury Nullification, and as such, the American People should hold the Senate to the same rules the Courts expect of citizen juries. Clinton was guilty of everything the House brought to the Senate. The Senate took it upon itself not to acquit the president, but to nullify the authority of the House to determine if presidential demeanor was impeachable. That's the current precedent. Given that, the Senate today gets to judge the validity of the accusations rather than whether the president behaved in the manner of which the House accuses.

What was your first motorcycle and what was your first car?

govols comments on Nov 21, 2019:

First car was 68 LTD 4 door hard top. First motorcycle was a 91 Miata.