@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 I'll conclude this wan attempt w a few replies: 1. IBID. I have detailed a number of points in this thread. I do not think you have addressed any of them, any further than to dismiss them outright, or claim some fear of being silenced. 2. You are not forthcoming about your
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 2/ allegiences. Shifty and shifting. I wonder if you are part of the Q cohort, and you [sort a'] beg off, indicating no. But then defend & propoate their nonsense...
Ditto some other "sources" of yours.
3. I find it disingenuous how easily you dismiss everything that stands in
4. I do not take the opposite position from you. That there is corruption & all manner of problems is indisputable.
Unlike you, I do not have a slavish devotion to a tribe, and thus am quite free to know more, &
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 4/ to look at the range of facts and opinions from across the spectrum. You cannot.
I surmise that to let anything contradict the received wisdom (today, who knows what it will be tomorrow?) is to unravel the entire edifice of lies.
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 5/ assess things on their merits, trying to understand what is true, how it is true, where are the tricks and even lies, in an argument...What & who is trustworthy, and why.
As opposed to trying to prove a predefined opinion.
Thus my point, & accusation about the Flat Earthers.
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 6/ As a final retort, impotent against your thick wall of rejection of anything that might unsettle your deep sense of absolute rightness re your conspiracies & tribal devotions:
Even if stipulate your conspiracies, which are not, as I intended to acknowledge, not completely
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 7/ wrong, IMO, the conclusion you draw about Trump being the answer is outright ludicrous.
What you have to ignore, dismiss and explain away (though you NEVER explain anything, you are more of the outright dismissive type) is IMMENSE.
Trump is a fraud & a con.
He is no savior.
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 8/ I have no hope that you will ponder this for even the length of time it takes to read it...
but I hope, over time, you may remember that somewhere in the dimming past, there was someone who cared enough to engage you not in derision or hyperbole, but as a citizen, trying
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 9/ to shine a little light in the contradiction that is Trump.
That maybe, when it gets so blatant who Trump is... and not only Tr but the authoritarian/dictatorship using him as a Trojan Horse, is so clear that it allows for a glimmer of a contrary thought to occur.
Maybe....
@tommy_pane One last shot at registering something that might loosen your grip on this:
I I wish you c/would find something that actually resembles a plan in the Trumpian catalog.
Something more tangible than the bombastic demagoguery & claim to destroy something that many of the Trumpian
@tommy_pane 2/ faithful actually depend upon. It’s very similar to the tea party holding their angry outrage at the government trying to fix healthcare well demanding they don’t mess with their Social Security or Medicare.
The astonishing ignorance in the Trumpian hoi polloi is concerning.
@tommy_pane 3/ But that wasn’t really the point I intend to make here. Just a final observation of the quality of thinking that goes on in this stirred up, mob-based, outrage that Trump is so adroit at stoking. It really is his super power.
And like a mob, and like authoritarians we know
Such unmitigated bullsht and smoke to cover the most obvious of defects of your 'dear leader'.
No...it is not hard to conceive... it is impossible.
You live in one of two fantasy worlds. I don't know which is worse.
@tommy_pane@Sava02387485 2/ The simplistic nature of your "thinking" is so remedial I am beginning to wonder.
You think the entire American health care system needs only this one thing: "remove barriers to direct contact..."
In reality, it actually takes thought to implement even such an airy idea.
@tommy_pane@Sava02387485 3/ I imagine you laughing your ass off thinking you can just say such unmitigated BS and think it will fly...
But, on the other hand, it does demonstrate, in primary colors how vapid not only Trump is, but his most dedicated followers & believers.
A key point:Climate issues are not subject to our political divisions
We have entered deep into #Systemic issues that are not und at the levels we are having the discussions.
Thus we are perpetually surprised.
We are perpetually unprepared.
We are not learning at the right level
The issues we are embroiled in today...
They are too big for our small-minded "red/blue" thinking. They are immense, & require a level of (re)thinking that, thus far, transcends our abilities to act...(given the stubborn reluctance we demonstrate on far less complex issues)
Of course it is facile to say this or that one idea/factor/function is the "Key"....
But certainly one of the keys to all of these issues of this quality is to recognize that in fact all of life is integrated, and is integral to the well being of all life
@plainjan2@medit8now@stevebenen@MaddowBlog 1/ What is remarkable re the Any Rand framework is it requires the underlying societal framework to attach onto to draw resources, energy & labor from in order to function.
Then it sets up stupid simplicities like “you can just do this all on your own just be like John Galt“.
@plainjan2@medit8now@stevebenen@MaddowBlog 2/ It is the ultimate capitalistic move to “privatize the profits and socialize the costs“.
It is the flaw in every “success story” that attributes iconic success to an individual or company.
It is why they cannot stand the observation “you did not create all of that yourself”.
@plainjan2@medit8now@stevebenen@MaddowBlog 3/ The end of that is as you say, the selfish ethic. The incredible deception & Self adulation that “I did all this, and therefore I am amazing”.
The lack of accounting of total cost & consequence allows the ruse of “I am the smartest in the room” ..which may be true to a point
@tfamerica3000@LizInTheB@tommy_pane He is a serious person. IMO.
Who often says & holds things that are not serious...But seem so within the framework of his beliefs.
It is why I keep pounding, or kept, I am done, on the walls trying introduce another premise into the mindset.
But such things are not subject to
@tfamerica3000@LizInTheB@tommy_pane 2/ rational contemplation...Not if you do not want to be rational...And to be rational, or different, is to be threatened with expulsion from all you know & believe to be true.
This is the nut of the problem that will shred the country.
The underlying value difference so long
@tfamerica3000@LizInTheB@tommy_pane 3/ buried, or suppressed, have broken out and are demanding attention. But more than attention, all power.
This force has been growing for a long time. The internal weakness in America, its own long drift from the core enlightenment values not only of liberty, but the
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000 Quick Response #2:
By way of doing a better job of setting the framework of my POV on these matters.
I think @TimothyDSnyder has a clear handle on the times.
The book "How Democracies perish" is essential @anneapplebaum has clear & personal experiences w these breakdowns of
The pattern here is obvious and not to be dismissed out of hand.
This along w the very long discussion/debate starting from the enlightenment times concerning
@tommy_pane@tfamerica3000@TimothyDSnyder@anneapplebaum 3/ the meaning, as well as the balance of liberty/freedom what is government, what is citizen, what principles must be in the a' priori place in order to have a free society, while also having a society..
The complexities are many.
Largely conscribed by one's 1st principles.