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WTF is wrong with the left?

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3105 on: March 06, 2023, 10:47:36 PM »
Myth: the NRA started as a militia type group to protect Republicans and freed slaves from Democrats / the KKK

Fact: the NRA started as gun safety advocacy group.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3106 on: March 06, 2023, 10:50:38 PM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on March 06, 2023, 09:57:03 PM
SBF has not been convicted of anything....yet.

lol I noticed that and decided not to correct it.

as connected as his parents are, he caused a lot of rich people to lose money, so he's screwed.

The Hassan Minaj Daily Show interview with Kevin O'Leary is pretty good, but he made one error. He got into it with O'Leary about "retail investors" vs big VC's like O'Leary. O'Leary says that 80% of startups fail, Minaj argues he shouldn't be selling the dream to retail investors.

But the people who got the most screwed in the FTX debacle weren't retail *investors* - they were retail *customers*. Even if you consider bitcoin an "investment", and whether bitcoin is a good investment or a bad investment, those people had bitcoin, which may fluctuate in value, but when FTX went kaput they lost their bitcoin. Their investment didn't go south, their brokerage did.

Pets.com was a bad deal for investors - caveat emptor - but the customers paid for dog food and got dog food. FTX screwed their customers - including people whose deposits were US Dollars. O'Leary keeps deflecting, but he was a paid spokesman for a fraud.

(That guy's backstory is pretty crazy too - he made his money by buying some small children's software company and basically destroying Hasbro by tricking Hasbro into overpaying to buy it from him).
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3107 on: March 07, 2023, 12:18:02 AM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on March 06, 2023, 09:42:40 PM
Of course.  But there was a story today of some 9x felon, on parole for a weapons charge, who.was arrestsd for threatening some.16 year old girl on the L who was just trying.to get  to school. Lock that fucker up and throw away the key.

A better solution would be for nichi the felon whisperer to have some guided mediation events
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3108 on: March 07, 2023, 09:49:38 AM »
Quote from: Custard on March 07, 2023, 12:18:02 AM
A better solution would be for nichi the felon whisperer to have some guided mediation events

There you go assuming things and putting words into the mouths of others. Is IVMP your mult?
 
I am personally not much into group guided meditation events. I don't have any objections per se.

Meditation training would probably be beneficial while that person is locked up. It is not either / or.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3109 on: March 07, 2023, 09:50:40 AM »
Quote from: illiniray on March 06, 2023, 09:52:48 PM
Then see what the Vipassana prison mission can do with him.

Attn custard.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3110 on: March 07, 2023, 10:45:31 AM »
Quote from: Custard on March 06, 2023, 09:35:49 PM
Shame someone didn’t teach George Floyd Buddhist meditation

It is interesting how many people think Floyd deserved to die for passing a fake 20 and having an anxiety attack when the police arrived. And, of course, Chauvin was just doing his job.

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin probably typify the failures of our criminal justice and mental healthcare systems.

I am not talking about trendy meditation retreats, although I don't have a problem with those.

The underlying principles of right (mental) effort/exercise, right mindfulness, and right concentration have a variety of therapeutic applications that are already being used in some contexts.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3111 on: March 07, 2023, 12:58:58 PM »
Quote from: Custard on March 06, 2023, 09:35:49 PM
Shame someone didn’t teach George Floyd Buddhist meditation

Wow, that might be the most callous thing I’ve ever read on this forum. Congrats.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3112 on: March 07, 2023, 01:58:42 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on March 07, 2023, 09:49:38 AM
There you go assuming things and putting words into the mouths of others. Is IVMP your mult?
 
I am personally not much into group guided meditation events. I don't have any objections per se.

Meditation training would probably be beneficial while that person is locked up. It is not either / or.

It was a joke man
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3113 on: March 07, 2023, 02:03:08 PM »
Quote from: Custard on March 07, 2023, 01:58:42 PM
It was a joke man

Meditation, achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, and karma are not funny, Custard.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3114 on: March 07, 2023, 02:05:24 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on March 07, 2023, 10:45:31 AM
It is interesting how many people think Floyd deserved to die for passing a fake 20 and having an anxiety attack when the police arrived. And, of course, Chauvin was just doing his job.

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin probably typify the failures of our criminal justice and mental healthcare systems.

I am not talking about trendy meditation retreats, although I don't have a problem with those.

The underlying principles of right (mental) effort/exercise, right mindfulness, and right concentration have a variety of therapeutic applications that are already being used in some contexts.

I don’t think Floyd deserved to die. I do think he (like Chauvin) was mostly a piece of shit and didn’t warrant martyrdom/the burning/looting of a bunch of major cities.

I don’t think the burning/looting/rioting would have been nearly as bad if it weren’t for the angst and anxiety that had built up as a result of the pandemic and the lockdowns.

It also wouldn’t have been as bad if the message from the left was that this behavior was A-OK, because ultimately it was happening under Trump’s watch, and they’d rather burn the country down with “mostly peaceful protests” than have him get re-elected.

The world could have used a lot more meditation in 2020, that’s for sure.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3115 on: March 07, 2023, 02:10:47 PM »
Quote from: Custard on March 07, 2023, 02:05:24 PM
I don’t think Floyd deserved to die. I do think he (like Chauvin) was mostly a piece of shit and didn’t warrant martyrdom/the burning/looting of a bunch of major cities.

I don’t think the burning/looting/rioting would have been nearly as bad if it weren’t for the angst and anxiety that had built up as a result of the pandemic and the lockdowns.

It also wouldn’t have been as bad if the message from the left was that this behavior was A-OK, because ultimately it was happening under Trump’s watch, and they’d rather burn the country down with “mostly peaceful protests” than have him get re-elected.

The world could have used a lot more meditation in 2020, that’s for sure.

It wasn’t because George Floyd “deserved” martyrdom because of his character as a person. It’s because he was a human being who was robbed of his life needlessly by callous police officers. This happens too often in our society. Particularly to people of a certain color.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3116 on: March 07, 2023, 02:15:40 PM »
Quote from: Custard on March 07, 2023, 02:05:24 PM
I don’t think Floyd deserved to die. I do think he (like Chauvin) was mostly a piece of shit and didn’t warrant martyrdom/the burning/looting of a bunch of major cities.

You've just described 75% of the US population, at least. He happened to die, on camera, and a lot of people realized that they are one random event away from getting killed by a Chauvin like piece of shit, and they probably won't be on camera when it happens.

Think about it - I don't personally like guns, but there are 400 million of them in the US, so there are millions of motor vehicles out there with guns in them. Cop pulls someone over that has a gun, and the cop is a bit addled, you could die, just for exercising this constitutional right and exceeding the speed limit.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3117 on: March 07, 2023, 02:17:40 PM »
Quote from: Custard on March 07, 2023, 02:05:24 PM
they’d rather burn the country down

That's some grade A hyperbole there. We went to Portland a couple months ago, I have a buddy who lives 6 blocks from Frank Ogawa plaza and visit him monthly. Strangely I saw no burned out buildings and the Starbucks were all open.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3118 on: March 07, 2023, 02:37:00 PM »
Quote from: murphstahoe on March 07, 2023, 02:17:40 PM
That's some grade A hyperbole there. We went to Portland a couple months ago, I have a buddy who lives 6 blocks from Frank Ogawa plaza and visit him monthly. Strangely I saw no burned out buildings and the Starbucks were all open.

How about the Walmart?
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #3119 on: March 07, 2023, 02:49:22 PM »
I haven't attended any protests, but know a few who did. According to them, the violence was isolated and agitated by extremist groups, mostly anarchists.
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