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[mentalgongfu2]

82_28 said:

It's like throwing a second soccer ball onto a field of five year olds -- they'll chase after that one too.

[Peregrine]

OP ED:

Pandora’s Box is filled to the very tip-top brims, like a suitcase that requires your full body weight to make its zipper function.

[smiths]

if i come back, don't rub my face in it – LBO

[IanEye]

One time I'm kicking this shitty misleading discrediting thread title-This thread is poison. Blow away, 8bit. And take your fictitious 'hijackers' with you.

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[Peregrine]

Nordic :

Seriously, it's kind of annoying. Or maybe I'm just grumpy.

I couldn't resist...

[Project Willow]

:threadhijacked: I'm in ur thread not being an idiot.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

In other words, Bizarro hijackers. "Ha! Me NOT CARE if passengers inform US Air Force! Me just LAUGH if jets shoot us down! Failed hijacking good hijacking - in Bizarro world!"
...

Mohammed "Don't Care" Atta, insouciant deathloving evil Arab genius.

[JackRiddler]

I'm not a liberal, i'm a social democrat actually pretty upset by a lot of liberal projects, or, more accurately, think they've outlived their welcome and are increasingly preventing progress, and that only the uglier liberal projects really remain, but sometimes people get those things confused, especially conservatives of the "Need a sense of a people" stripe.

Sunstein, however, is a big-L Liberal, as in, Libertarian. He's a paternalistic libertarian: he wants "market solutions" to encourage better behavior. Which makes him an elitist with a sense of noblesse oblige. Significantly, both his current wife and ex-wife are smarter than him, and they're still of the same exact persuasion, this kind of "I went to Harvard" bullying-not-bullying you policy worldview.

But all that means is that it all re-capitulates the same crap about "noble lies" that the Straussians were just out in the open about. It's inherently aristocratic; whether you support a right-leaning or left-leaning social/foreign policy is secondary to it. The only place where the term "false left/right dichotomy" applies is here, to Sunstein and his ilk; for them, policy is more an aesthetic choice, because when the chips are down, both the Obamaites like him and the Neocons like the Public Interest edit staff still call for the same neoliberal economic political responses to the same social problems. Cassandra Sunstein advocates for a "benevolent hegemon" that lobbies for UN sanction to bomb the shit out of countries for abusing women's rights and then opening them up to free flow of unrestricted hot money; tools like Donald Rummy advocate freeing the shit out of countries that harbor terrorists to open them up to free flow of unrestricted hot money. The difference is that Sunstein thinks Freakonomics is a neat book and Rumsfeld is reading "Machiavelli and the Art of Golf" and let one of his dominatrixes borrow his copy of The Book of Virtue or whatever it was called. Same shit, the only difference is whether or not you've got a silver or a gold lining on your flag lapel pin.

Again, it's aristocratic nonsense. It's not going to go away--not, at least, before these people wreck the train or all of Latin America goes communist and then uses the Mexican majority in the US to make every Northeastern Establishment goon cry in his last gently-warmed glass of 30-year bourbon while he looks out his window at the pitchforks and torches and thinks, "Jesus, they're ruining the lawn. I used to hire Latinos to fix it. What a stupid thing to think now."

[Seamus OBlimey]

If you're right, you're right. If not, you learned something - c2w

[MacCruiskeen]

I used to blog, but I decided to go back to barking at cars.

[Perelandra]

To get a little more reductionist we can just cut to the chase and assume that anybody who is given favorable TV coverage and press during a campaign is not on your side, and that everything the government tells you concerning geopolitics, politics, science and economy is a lie. You'd be 90% correct and never have to lift a finger doing any research.

[Allegro]

MacCruiskeen said here wrt the scale of the universe:

That website fosters delusions. It made me feel insignificant.

ditto

[nathan28]

Basically, this is another tout of the all-pervasive superpowers of the trained-within-an-inch-of-their-teeth agency demi-gods who can tell over the phone if your telling the truth. What a bargain at a mere million dollar retainer! Human lie detectors! Keen-eyed analysts! CIA-style techniques! Deception detection and deflection!

Though honestly, I thought the CIA was reknown for reading your mind with a bucket of water and some leather straps.

[Allegro]

justdrew

and this is on top of the existing "deadly floor mat" recall.

Look - if this happens to you.... put the damn thing in neutral for phucks sake, pull over and turn the engine off. Then adjust your damn floor mat...

Too good!

[Peregrine]

MacCruiskeen:

Have machines finally become intelligent?

Maybe they're developing a moral sense too. Maybe Bill Gates' washing-machine will eat him. Maybe Obama's microphone will yawn in his face, or laugh.