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OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam!
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Cursitor Doom
2024-05-27 23:11:33 UTC
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"This ongoing degradation calls for a shift from traditional peer review
to rigorous live debates, ensuring accountability by having people argue
their cases in real time."

And not before time, say I.


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-
peer-reviewed-papers
Bill Sloman
2024-05-28 08:00:17 UTC
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Post by Cursitor Doom
"This ongoing degradation calls for a shift from traditional peer review
to rigorous live debates, ensuring accountability by having people argue
their cases in real time."
And not before time, say I.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-
peer-reviewed-papers
which is pretty much a copy of

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

In fact it seems to a recent minor event. Traditional peer review would
have dealt with it, but the "journals" that published the fake papers
clearly weren't doing that.

It's not all that practical to organise rigorous live debates when
authors and referees are spread around the world.

Cursitor Doom won't be aware of that because he has never published a
paper in a peer-reviewed journal, or refereed a paper submitted to a
peer-reviewed journal.

The clowns at Zero Hedge won't have either.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
bitrex
2024-05-28 20:02:38 UTC
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Post by Cursitor Doom
"This ongoing degradation calls for a shift from traditional peer review
to rigorous live debates, ensuring accountability by having people argue
their cases in real time."
And not before time, say I.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-
peer-reviewed-papers
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.

But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.

Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
Cursitor Doom
2024-05-28 21:07:23 UTC
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Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
bitrex
2024-05-28 21:35:46 UTC
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Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.

Nah I don't need a new religion, a new vacuum cleaner, and I've kinda
had too many enjoyable relationships with attractive young women over my
life to ever drum up the amount of pissed-offness required to be a solid
sales lead for right-wing populism. it's cool. I'm good.
john larkin
2024-05-28 21:42:43 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by Cursitor Doom
Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.

Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
Walmart and Amazon.
bitrex
2024-05-28 22:00:50 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by Cursitor Doom
Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.

It's a philosophy of sorts, no doubt a kind appealing to the people of
fading empires, in failing times throughout history.
Post by john larkin
Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
Walmart and Amazon.
I'd probably talk to a vacuum cleaner salesperson just out of some
amount of nostalgia, it's true.
john larkin
2024-05-28 22:21:18 UTC
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Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by Cursitor Doom
Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
bitrex
2024-05-29 01:18:18 UTC
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Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.

I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
john larkin
2024-05-29 02:20:35 UTC
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Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
bitrex
2024-05-29 03:11:45 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.

But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.

Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
bitrex
2024-05-29 03:16:52 UTC
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Post by john larkin
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
Big Police is a great example of a serious government "pork project", if
you will.
Cursitor Doom
2024-05-29 17:23:30 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that
ever was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords
work, depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and
bad stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might
be up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
So.... would you de-fund your local police?
bitrex
2024-05-29 21:05:13 UTC
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Post by bitrex
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
So.... would you de-fund your local police?
I don't know if they do traffic detail work in the UK but they pay the
local police here $100s an hour to stand around shooting the breeze and
playing on their phones at roadwork sites. Clearly many dangerous
criminals to be caught.

It would be better if the detail cops were actually good at directing
traffic but half the time they're not even paying attention to that, either.
Bill Sloman
2024-05-30 05:33:34 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that
ever was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords
work, depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and
bad stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might
be up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
So.... would you de-fund your local police?
Not the right response - they need to spend more money on hiring better
people and training them to perform more expertly.

Politicians aren't great at working out how to do this, and prefer to go
for quantity - which the voters can see - over quality, which is harder
to exhibit in places where lots of voters can see it.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
john larkin
2024-05-30 13:44:41 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
That's because the more good policing you have, the less you need.

Of course, it does no good to arrest criminals if they are set loose
the next day. Some of the really dangerous people around here have
been arrested 80 times.
Bill Sloman
2024-05-30 16:55:01 UTC
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Post by bitrex
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
been much different.
But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
wants lots more cops, too.
Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
explain.
That's because the more good policing you have, the less you need.
Of course, it does no good to arrest criminals if they are set loose
the next day. Some of the really dangerous people around here have
been arrested 80 times.
Then they weren't all that dangerous when they started their criminal
careers. Putting impressionable youngsters into prison with experienced
criminals can give them quite the wrong kind of education.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Bill Sloman
2024-05-29 03:24:09 UTC
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Post by bitrex
Post by john larkin
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Yeah maybe so, that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
And get shot or beaten up by them if they don't like your politics or
sexual preferences.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Cursitor Doom
2024-05-29 17:21:48 UTC
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Post by bitrex
I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and bad
stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might be
up. What can ya do
Hire more cops.
And come up with more imaginative and entertaining forms of capital
punishment. Why not make a Saturday night TV show out of it? Get some
miscreant up in front of the cameras and let him plead for his life to the
audience at home.
"This man has been convicted of robbing, stabbing and raping a young
family. You can spare his life by calling this number: 938938493893 - or
you can affirm the death penalty by calling *this* number: 82928392829"

Then read the results at the end of the show along with the winning state
Lottery numbers. Now *that* would be massively popular TV show format with
the People. I should patent that! :-D
bitrex
2024-05-29 01:24:15 UTC
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What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work,
depending.
"A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
Incidentally, I don't rewrite my whole life because some POS robs me.
Maybe a liberal would do that, idk.

I tend to go forward from experience like that in some confidence that
the POS will either rewrite _their_ life, or they're going to get it
much worse sooner or later. _I_ don't need to do shit.
Bill Sloman
2024-05-29 03:20:37 UTC
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Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.
The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.
Left-wing philosophy has no delusions about human nature.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in

"
“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute
power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
― Mikhail Bakunin "

That dates from the 1870's and the debate about why Karl Marx's ideas
about the leading role of the communist party weren't good for socialism.

Bakunin wanted politcal power to be based on local assemblies - he's the
father of the cooperative movement - but his also anarcho-syndicalism
attracted a few psychopaths.
Post by john larkin
Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
Walmart and Amazon.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentacostals are still with us, and killing
their kids by not letting them get blood transfusions.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Bill Sloman
2024-05-29 03:05:51 UTC
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Post by bitrex
I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown.
The bar is set a bit lower. You merely have to know a bit about what you
are talking about, which you can't manage.
Post by Cursitor Doom
Your sort believe it's only permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
You have populist right-wing sensibilities, yet you use a low-frequency
word like nuanced.

You are also addicted to fatuous right-wing nonsense to a degree that
suggests that you are probably clinically insane, but not flamboyant
with it, so you don't have to locked away to prevent you physically
attacking other people. Subverting them with vicious fantasies, doesn't
- as yet - constitute a recognised crime against the community.

Trump may yet do enough damage to change that.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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