So, the good news from this week is that immigrant families are not being kidnapped, separated, and thrown in cages anymore. They’re just being kidnapped and thrown in cages. But together, so that’s an improvement, I guess. The ludicrous nature of what passes for progress in a fascistic society is on display once again as we’re supposed to consider it a victory that peaceful people now get to go to the gulag as a family unit. Color me unimpressed.
Tag: lying
A Response to Bruce the Anti-Libertarian
I ran across a letter to the editor written in response to a libertarian’s letter. This raving statist’s letter was a treat to behold. Rarely have I witnessed this much dishonesty in such a small space. Kudos to him!
Getting Rich by Supplying Demand
The reason that so many people have refrigerators is because profit-driven businesses tried really hard to make refrigerators that most people can afford. The businesses did this to profit themselves, not to be altruistic toward others.
Captivate Audiences One Person at a Time
Great speakers and performers go one step further in applying individual focus, beyond the best practice of simply speaking to an individual. They bring disproportionate value to one audience member out of a crowd of many.
Encouragement as Bad as Discouragement
In our society, we commonly and appropriately demonize discouragement because we see it as someone interjecting themselves into this exploration. Discouragement is a tool to distort the exploration of a child in favor of the insecurities and self-interest of the discourager. It is a means of the adult trying to live through their child. Discouragement is someone trying to tip and distort the scales within the ecosystem of a child’s discovery process. The last paragraph also perfectly describes the problems of encouragement.
You’re Always Speaking Up (Even When You’re Silent)
At all times, you’re taking a stand for or against something. There’s no such thing as a neutral place in ideological space. No matter what you choose to do or refuse to do, your underlying worldview will bleed through.
Give Your Mind a Lunch Break
A steady diet of substantial concepts is necessary for supplying your body of work with the fuel that makes it grow and go. If working, hustling, and creating is how you exercise, then reflecting, meditating, and reading is how you need to eat.
Forced Association Compounds Bullying
Bullying behavior emerges from the incentives of cultures and systems. By punishing bullies and making strict rules, you will often just make it so another brand of assholish behavior emerges.
Rubio and Warren Join Forces Against Working Folks
In April, a year after its introduction in the US Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the US House of Representatives passed the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, “an act to increase the role of the financial industry in combating human trafficking.”
Holy Pole Quilt, or Else!
A guy who lives across the street from my parents assumed I would be on his side. A new convenience store/truck stop in the area apparently doesn’t fly Holy Pole Quilt. This offends the man.