“You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,” Luckey said in an appearance last year at Pepperdine University.
I’m not saying that this interview was conducted at gunpoint, but I might make a connection between Wilmore’s views on Trump and Musk? And who has control of Wilmore’s entire future at the moment.
It's pretty clear he's responding as any good senior pilot, technician, military operative, coal face "doer" responds almost all the time under any administration or command .. steer clear of politics, stick the to the technical stuff, avoid comment on anything "above pay grade".
It’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war.
Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.
According to this article, 200,000 kids are injured every year on the playground, and 15 die. I definitely romanticize some the past, but as with most things, it's probably mostly romantic.
In a lot of ways, I think the things outlined in the article, especially risk taking, are more mental than physical. You can be risk averse on that old metal gear and risk taking on the new plastic stuff.
But some of the descriptions, what fun is a slide that overheats? Who cares about the romantic notion that some kid might get burnt.
Some of that doesn’t even look fun, unlike the like giant wood labyrinths of the eighties, those I miss.
I suspect that Social Security is not long for this world and the results will be tragic. Anyone think we’ll manage to maintain it in this age of low societal cohesion?
Just thinking about writing this makes me think about how messy this stuff is.
But like, is there some long-term goal that there is world peace? And in that long term goal of world peace, is there some kind of international governing body?
And yeah, I guess in theory I think what you say is true, in practice, part of what makes a culture a culture are the sort of “decided questions” and one may not want to join a government that tries to enforce a different set of “decided questions” or undecided certain questions.
I’m sure some of the messaging would be to “liberate Canadians from their oppressive national healthcare system”
Something I find odd about pluralism - and maybe this isn’t strictly left/right but issue dependent.
Is it seems like the left is more sensitive to the paradox of tolerance. Like, well broadly speaking try to include everyone, but at your core, you also have to respect everyone else / abide by certain values.
Whereas as in this case, on the right, you get both a condemnation and a glorification of the nanny state in the same administration.
I think the core issue with political parties, even concepts like left and right, and most humans is they don't have principles that they stop and consider and test or would abide by if they didn't like the result ... they have sentiment.
Observing my own brain for a second, it seems like one of the risks of reading a lot of history is you can get the impression that we’re much more wise about how to deal with geopolitics than we are, because you are necessarily reading something that benefits from hindsight. I think people try and get at, what were people thinking at the time (there’s a whole exhibit in the world war 2 museum about the decision to enter the war) but that feels emotionally obfuscated by the fact that most of what you’re reading is post-hoc analysis.
But like 50 years from now, everything that’s going on will seem really clear.
I would imagine the logic from the HR director is something like “the reason you’re not as successful as me is you don’t know how to manage your time well”
