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Re: The Intellectual Dark Web
« Reply #75 on: July 30, 2018, 02:06:09 pm »
And, we have been deliberately and effectively dumbed down.  Heck, people don't even recognize thinking when they see it now.
I have been watching a lot of Tucker Carlson on you tube lately. I wish I could say I am amazed at the intellectual dishonesty of the left, but I am less and less surprised every single day. They refuse to answer straight forward questions. And not just on one subject, but a wide array, every thing from gun control to illegal immigration.
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« Reply #76 on: July 30, 2018, 02:10:41 pm »
I have been watching a lot of Tucker Carlson on you tube lately. I wish I could say I am amazed at the intellectual dishonesty of the left, but I am less and less surprised every single day. They refuse to answer straight forward questions. And not just on one subject, but a wide array, every thing from gun control to illegal immigration.
I have been enjoying the cognitive disconnects which permeate television programming. One recent one whined about an annual whale hunt in the Faroes like it was the holucast (visit a slaughterhouse sometime, where land mammals are harvested), limited now to a catch of 800 and regulated, but maintained that the hunt which had been going on as a way of life since the Vikings "wasn't sustainable".... 9999hair out0000


(Just send in that $19 a month, though and the world's problems will be solved.)
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« Reply #77 on: July 30, 2018, 02:25:15 pm »
I have been watching a lot of Tucker Carlson on you tube lately. I wish I could say I am amazed at the intellectual dishonesty of the left, but I am less and less surprised every single day. They refuse to answer straight forward questions. And not just on one subject, but a wide array, every thing from gun control to illegal immigration.

I like Tucker and watch him regularly, but he doesn't go after them like he should.  There's many times when he should have the facts at his fingertips and be able to destroy their arguments, but he pulls his punches.  Assuming he has those punches.

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« Reply #78 on: July 30, 2018, 03:05:02 pm »
I like Tucker and watch him regularly, but he doesn't go after them like he should.  There's many times when he should have the facts at his fingertips and be able to destroy their arguments, but he pulls his punches.  Assuming he has those punches.
Right now my two favorites are Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder. Here is the thing I can't understand how does anyone in their right mind debate Shapiro. He always bring a Howitzer to a knife fight. He is armed to the teeth with facts and reason. And Crowdr is just drop dead funny. I love his "Change my mind" segments.
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« Reply #79 on: July 30, 2018, 03:14:23 pm »
Right now my two favorites are Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder. Here is the thing I can't understand how does anyone in their right mind debate Shapiro. He always bring a Howitzer to a knife fight. He is armed to the teeth with facts and reason. And Crowdr is just drop dead funny. I love his "Change my mind" segments.

Agreed on Shapiro and Crowder.

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« Reply #80 on: July 30, 2018, 03:29:39 pm »
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« Reply #81 on: July 30, 2018, 04:01:42 pm »
We have our own sub-board now.  If you want to post a specific video/article for discussion, you can make a new topic under this sub-board.

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I have been thinking about this a lot over the last 24 hours and, although I have no objection to the creation of this sub-board, I think I won't be spending a lot of my time listening to/watching people who already see things the way I do.  I think I will spend my time trying to convert those who don't instead.
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« Reply #82 on: July 30, 2018, 04:03:51 pm »
@Sanguine @Smokin Joe @roamer_1

I have been thinking about this a lot over the last 24 hours and, although I have no objection to the creation of this sub-board, I think I won't be spending a lot of my time listening to/watching people who already see things the way I do.  I think I will spend my time trying to convert those who don't instead.

There is no better place to do it, @Bigun!  I hope to see a lot of guests from Twitter viewing it.  Please linger!
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« Reply #83 on: July 30, 2018, 04:10:11 pm »
There is no better place to do it, @Bigun!  I hope to see a lot of guests from Twitter viewing it.  Please linger!

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I'll definitely be checking in from time to time but likely won't be spending a lot of time watching youtube videos.
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Re: The Intellectual Dark Web
« Reply #84 on: July 30, 2018, 04:14:11 pm »
@Cyber Liberty

I'll definitely be checking in from time to time but likely won't be spending a lot of time watching youtube videos.

I hear ya!  (But not perfectly.  Tinnitus from all that shooting in my misspent youth.) :MiniGun:
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« Reply #85 on: July 30, 2018, 04:24:05 pm »
@Sanguine @Smokin Joe @roamer_1

I have been thinking about this a lot over the last 24 hours and, although I have no objection to the creation of this sub-board, I think I won't be spending a lot of my time listening to/watching people who already see things the way I do.  I think I will spend my time trying to convert those who don't instead.

@Bigun, I can see how you might think that way, but some of the thoughts and/or combination of thoughts are quite unique and edifying.  Some fascinating stuff in there.

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« Reply #86 on: July 30, 2018, 04:27:40 pm »
@Bigun, I can see how you might think that way, but some of the thoughts and/or combination of thoughts are quite unique and edifying.  Some fascinating stuff in there.

@Sanguine

I have no doubt that is true but the hour is late and there are only so many hours in a day.
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« Reply #87 on: July 30, 2018, 04:29:00 pm »
I like Tucker and watch him regularly, but he doesn't go after them like he should.  There's many times when he should have the facts at his fingertips and be able to destroy their arguments, but he pulls his punches.  Assuming he has those punches.

Tucker Carlson's technique is to let them bring themselves down.
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« Reply #88 on: July 30, 2018, 04:30:19 pm »
Tucker Carlson's technique is to let them bring themselves down.

Ah - sort of like the GWB method of maintaining the high ground?

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« Reply #89 on: July 30, 2018, 04:31:55 pm »
@Cyber Liberty

I'll definitely be checking in from time to time but likely won't be spending a lot of time watching youtube videos.
I have a bit too much going on to spend much time on videos--I'd already have to have 48 hour days to take care of it all and get a nap.
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« Reply #90 on: July 30, 2018, 04:37:36 pm »
I have a bit too much going on to spend much time on videos--I'd already have to have 48 hour days to take care of it all and get a nap.

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I hope at least some of that relates to making a living!
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« Reply #91 on: July 30, 2018, 04:42:26 pm »
Ah - sort of like the GWB method of maintaining the high ground?

One important distinction:  Tucker snaps the trap shut when they hang themselves, W thought that was in poor form, so he let them escape.  Half the time I wasn't convinced W thought he was correct.
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« Reply #92 on: July 30, 2018, 04:44:50 pm »
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« Reply #93 on: July 30, 2018, 05:07:38 pm »
@Smokin Joe

I hope at least some of that relates to making a living!
Unfortunately, it is far more time consuming looking for suitable work (at suitable pay rates) than just working 14 hour days, and then there are the honey-do s that come with being home....
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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« Reply #94 on: July 30, 2018, 05:14:41 pm »
Unfortunately, it is far more time consuming looking for suitable work (at suitable pay rates) than just working 14 hour days, and then there are the honey-do s that come with being home....

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Hang in there my friend!  This to will pass!   :beer:
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« Reply #95 on: July 30, 2018, 06:00:53 pm »
One important distinction:  Tucker snaps the trap shut when they hang themselves, W thought that was in poor form, so he let them escape.  Half the time I wasn't convinced W thought he was correct.

I get frustrated because the trap-snapping is sometimes so subtle I'm not sure anyone "gets it".

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« Reply #96 on: July 30, 2018, 06:09:13 pm »
As for Rubin and Crowder:

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I just listened to about 20 minutes of that and found it to be unbearably boring.
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« Reply #97 on: July 30, 2018, 06:14:28 pm »
@Sanguine

I just listened to about 20 minutes of that and found it to be unbearably boring.

Interesting.

However, I would have started with this one: 
http://youtu.be/s6Ku_3wBsNg

Crowder can be an acquired taste.

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« Reply #98 on: July 30, 2018, 06:46:07 pm »
There is no better place to do it, @Bigun!  I hope to see a lot of guests from Twitter viewing it.  Please linger!

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« Reply #99 on: July 30, 2018, 07:31:30 pm »
BAIXIN on twitter has been having fun tweaking the  liberal hidiots.

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