TheEncogitationer

Davis,

While it isn’t right to attribute chosen character traits to people for their immutable traits and while it isn’t right to degrade, diminish, and hate people for their immutable traits, ideas such as cosmologies, philosophies, ideologies and religions are all consciously chosen and espoused by human beings.

Thus, ideas and their…[Read more]

Kristina,

One small correction, the Wokeness advocate I meant to refer to is Robin Diangelo, not Beverly DiAngelo.

Beverly D’Angelo (no ‘i’ in the name) played Ellen Griswold in the hilarious National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise.   Beverly probably would tell some great “walks into a bar” jokes. 😁

Kristina,

So when someone makes a joke, you’re digging around to see if they “consciously identif[y]” as woke or pc? Or perhaps you expect them to identify themselves as such for you? Or is it when you see someone woke or pc and they aren’t making a joke at that moment, you assume they have no sense of humour? What, do you get to know them to figu…

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Reg,

We used two different sources, but the video was the same.  It was a scream watching Mr. Cobb stammer and “hammina-hammina” his way through the cognitive dissonance.😁

Yes, we are all Africans (hence my earlier reference to the Leakys, Mary and Louis, who discovered our earliest known Hominid predecessor “Lucy,” the Australopithicus in the…[Read more]

Unseen and Fellow Unbelievers,

Here it is 😁:

Kristina, I have never seen anyone who consciously identifies as Woke or Politically Correct have an ounce of humor in them whatsoever.  And they certainly couldn’t do a better lambasting on Mr. Cobb than he did on himself with his posturings of purity.

And if totally…[Read more]

Unseen and Fellow Unbelievers,

While any attribution of chosen character traits to immutable traits is bigoted, I say that making bigots the butt of humorous derision is a much better approach to dealing with bigotry than Politically Correct/Woke/Cancel Culture “hate speech” codes and mob violence.

Norman Lear made a career out of lampooning and…[Read more]

Jake,

Lemmie get this straight:

I come to a Pharmacy asking merely for a first appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination, not certain when, if any, are available, not certain how long the queue will be.

I, instead, get my first vaccination, my second appointment, a 15-minute monitoring for any bad side effects, and a smiling, friendly Pharmacist…[Read more]

Jake,

Do you always use false dichotomies, ad hominem, ad populum, emotional tirades, and straw-manning with all your opposition?  It does make discussions really tedious.

Reg,

Do health care professionals in France think that people don’t get sick or need care in August???

Look, we have vacations here in the States too, but the vacation time begins a year after full-time employment, depending on the hire date.  Consequently, vacation times vary from person to person and are typically scattered through the year,…[Read more]

Reg,

The Italian health system has universal healthcare for all citizens too.  If you don’t make a fuss about having a sticky plaster pulled off you knee they will give you Gelato for being molto bene.

IIRC, they were hardest hit in Europe when the initial COVID-19 wave struck.  And sweet death in a cup?  No thanks.  Too many of those and they’…[Read more]

Reg,

The French healthcare system is very good. It is government funded and universally affordable. As an European citizen I am entitled to access it, if needed, in the same way as a French person can access Irish health services.

15,000 deaths from heat-stroke in one month in 2003, mostly in hospitals and rest homes, in a supposedly developed…[Read more]

Robert,

What could possibly go wrong with leaded gasoline, selling booze and e-cigs to children or dumping toxins in the marsh just outside of town (like my own employer got caught doing).

No tears shed for removing Lead from gasoline.  The Anglo-American Common Law principle of Implied Warranty of Merchantability covers that and other dangerous…[Read more]