Sunday School

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Unseen,

Is Trump a functional illiterate?

There is a mesage to be learned from this, but not what you may think. Government officials with that little self-awareness shouldn’t have control of health care or education.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

@strega – Yes, I was thinking of that when I read it.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.

“Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,” Mr. Lavrov said. “If we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did not play any instigating, let alone incendiary, role.”

For once, there is truth in Pravda and news in Tass..

Wars aside, Russia’s domestic economic problems aren’t the fault of Europe either. They have always been a static economy even with all their natural resources and always dependent on capital from the West, from the time of the Huns until the present.

But if Putin ever gets the revived Soviet Empire he wants, the U.S. and Europe will both go back to being scapegoats.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

Tariffs are where Trump has always been wrong, but if DOGE had gone as wild against Tariffs as they had on USAID, there would be other interests, both agricultural and industrial, who would be caterwauling as much as all the interests caterwauling over cuts to USAID.

Government should stay out of either subsidy or protectionism for any sector of the economy, at home or abroad. It shouldn’t take a DOGE to understand the folly of either.

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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

@jakelafort

I do read the majority of the books I list on Sunday School!! Here are a few more I would recommend.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

And one more that a friend has borrowed called The Irrational Ape, by an Irish science writer.

[_Robert_Participant]

I need to make time to read more. I am in 4 rock bands that each play a gig every few months and I am currently painting and repairing a 2-story house using scaffolding. Also managing our investments, that takes way more time than I ever imagined. I had dreams of retirement, just lounging around and sipping Mojitos, LOL. Ah hell, I would just get depressed about the stupidity epidemic.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Jake,

I can’t stand that guy. He is quite the linguist though. I have read passages of his very carefully and consider him a highly skilled sophist.

So are you trying to say that Chomsky is a cunning linguist? All right, I’ll let myself out.

Well, it would be a better use of his mouth than his speeches.

[jakelafortParticipant]

I started to read adult books at age 6. Just like Reg with 10k steps daily i stepped through at least an hour of reading each night. When i was into a book i would read all day on no school days. Even in college i was always reading. Going to law school is what screwed me up. Felt guilty if i was not reading law. Never got back to it as a daily routine.

I hated idea of being a lawyer. Took LSAT on a lark and scored well. Fooled myself into thinking i would get JD and do something nonlegal. My cousin who i ultimately partnered with in a law office was the one who suggested i take LSAT as i could not decide what the f to do to make a living. At age 12 he challenged my dad the atheist how he could fail to believe in god and it literally took my dad 2 minutes to deconvert him. Cousin went from an ignorant Catholic to a voracious reader and never stopped reading. My Aunt hated my dad forever more.

Am reading a Yates novel now. I think that Irish Ape book looks dope. The notion that critical thinking is the way to save humanity is what i have been thinking for a while. Just not sure humans are capable of that. And even if they get by academically in such courses will they apply it? Amazing no schools to my knowledge are based on that premise. Imagine how much more engaging school would be if in high school we are debating contemporary, historical and philosophical issues?

On the other hand it makes perfect sense that nobody no how wants to make central part of education how to reason. I should not have to finish that thought for you. And i won’t.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg and Jake,

Nowadays, the last place go to read any of those great-sounding works is a college library. Sad, these works would do the students and their Palestinian causes celeb some good.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Enco,

Check it out punk soul brother. Kind of an interesting article i am linking that links the jew hatred of the nazis and the lefty’s. Horseshoes. As i’ve indicated i prefer the far right/nazis who are not duplicitous in their objectives. Antizionism is not antisemitism? In which universe?

Demonization: when comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz – this is antisemitism, not legitimate criticism of Israel.
Double standards: when Israel is singled out by the UN for human rights abuses, while the behavior of known major abusers is ignored.
Delegitimization: when Israel’s fundamental right to exist is denied – alone among the nations.

The alarming thing about the obssession with Jew hatred masquerading as concern for Palestinians is how INFECTED the youngsters are including many Jewish youth outside Israel. Somebody somewhere will dismantle the patently ridiculous oppressor narrative. The thing is even if you can’t analyze your way out of a tiny lean to so that you know it is bs well goddamnit to snowflakes the Jews are among the most oppressed group in history. Let me stop..

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-844790

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Jake,

I tried reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time referred to in the article in college. After a few pages of that gibberish, I gave up trying to understand it. Perhaps that was the design of Martin’s dasein. The only thing the book is good for is a doorstop, preferably to chock the door for the knock on the door at night.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Is it unimaginable that Trump’s foreign policy is dictated by his fear Russia will show video of Trump in a humiliating act?

Remember how submissive his body language when he was with Putin?

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I wonder what he has on the members of his own party. I find it difficult to reconcile how so many Republicans are allowing themselves to turn their backs on almost everything the Republican Party used to stand for. Do they not get it that he is mesmerized by Putin? It does not really matter why but ‘all of a sudden’ they are standing up for Russia and NK?

Stalin once said “It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.”  Summary executions were common, making it extremely dangerous to show fear in battle. Why are they all enabling him?

When I saw and heard the rounds of applause – almost frenzied cheering at times – to his speech – I though of the video of Saddam Hussein when he consolidated his authority by purging the Ba’ath Party, executing potential rivals in a dramatic televised event.

Yes, I know that is extreme leap on my part but there was something off key about it. Maybe it was all the ‘alternative facts’ and the divisive nationalistic rhetoric? It was like they were going out of their way do outdo each other in their praise for their leader. The Reds are no longer under the bed because they are welcomed into the house now.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

That Dasein won’t last forever 😉

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