This Is Why You Don't Want Populist "Leaders"

Funny thing about the wingnuts here is they imagine the left would be willing to compromise our own best-interests just to...whatever, win some "battle" against them they believe we're in.

Reality is I don't give a f*ck what the blochers of the world think about anything in a general sense or whatever silly ideas they have today, they're a dime-a-dozen. I'd never so much as change my socks to "win" anything against the guy, much less hope anyone died.

like how Red Sox fans used to obsess over the Yankees constantly when the Sox sucked but to the Yankees the Sox were just another team, that they beat over and over again.

Only when their silly ideas become a nuisance, problem and hazard to more psychologically well-adjusted adults who emotionally matured past age 8 do I usually engage. Which unfortunately nowadays is a lot of the time.

The ones who hang out here are one fashion of college-educated middle-class American dickwad in menagerie of them.

Fallacy of excluded middle. There are two main ways to damage children, you put the child on a pedestal (let them eat, travel, party, and produce nothing and live according to their whims.), or you put the pedestal on the child (have them "grow up" fast.)

That both of these methods are bad is only a problem to parents who believe parenting must involve the use of a pedestal, somehow.

That's silly nonsense.

Cheers, James Arthur

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ry people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

zed their ideas to the public, but in reality almost of all them were monar chists and elitists. Many of them did not like the idea of parting with the King of England, they would have been satisfied with overthrowing the rule of Parliament over America. After independence, there was a real movement to make George Washington king.

uld never work."

nted by the state legislators and not elected.

Again, you're creating bogus boogeymen -- what great privileges do you imagine an Army doctor-in-training's son enjoys? A man literally who dug ditches with a pick and shovel, to pay for med school? My 'silver spoon' consisted of growing up poor, constantly moving, and striking out when I was 17.

But I loved and was loved, which were all the riches I ever needed.

I'm not sure who or what hurt you so badly, or why, or when.

With best regards, James Arthur

You're kinda nutty, you know that, right? If you were a little older I'd figure you had a few screws coming loose.

Police are local, nothing to do with the central government. (Unless you want a police state.)

But hey, if you fanatically believe the Queen of Premium Ice Cream loves you, should control you, plan your career, set your prices, etc., and can do it better than you could, go ahead and follow her on Twitter.

Cheers, James Arthur

Of course. Do you think an ignorant people, all trying to steal from one another, could self-govern?

What sort of things would a non-virtuous, ignorant population vote for? Can you point to any place where that ever worked?

Think about it. (These guys--our Founders--were deep.)

Cheers, James Arthur

As a young man I visited Dachau.

Please, lecture me about human rights.

Then tell me -- explain to me -- how a great leap forward two and a half centuries ago for most but not all (and which paved the way for all), was a crime worse than no leap forward at all.

James Arthur

Yep. A national mainframe running a fat-headed model can't ever adapt as quickly or efficiently as local PIDs.

Besides, who uses FORTRAN these days? ;)

Cheers, James

Not as well as James Arthur likes to tell us that it has.

Total nonsense. Distributed control isn't "no control".

Proportional Integral and Differential terms can be combined to control som e linear systems - if they have the right sorts of delays around the feed-b ack loop. It's built on a pretty simple model of the system being controlle d.

The fat-headedness usually comes from picking the wrong model.

Anything big enough to be useful has to controlled by distributed systems.

Anybody who wants a tried and tested routine for doing something complicate d and obscure. It's the algorithm that matters - not the language used to c ode it.

As usual James Arthur wants to sow the idea that free enterprise doesn't re lay on a central authority (which would have come as a surprise to the Koch brothers who saw themselves as exactly that) and is thus different from th e Soviet Union which did, where it worked well enough to beat the Germans i n WW2, but not well enough to deliver an attractive range of consumer good s after the war.

Socialist states that reject the leading role of the party (as most of them have been doing since 1871) do much better.

The US Constitution was a giant positive-feedback boost in the slow historical path of human rights. Of course it was imperfect, but it sure helped.

Fortran is an absurd, obsolete language. I use PowerBasic.

Silly tribal nonsense.

The 1788 US constitution was a small incremental improvement on earlier sch emes.

The fact that it was a written document let lots of people read it, and wor k out where it fell short. The arrangements it formalised had been around f or quite a while in places like the Netherlands.

It was based on Moderate Enlightenment thinking. People like Tom Paine and Ben Franklin had latched onto the Radical Enlightenment, which is actually self-consistent and has formed the basis of every subsequent constitution, but they didn't have any influence on the drafting of the 1788 constitution , which was written by people who had property and thought that only people who had property ought to have political influence.

In as far as it was influential, it was more as an example of what you coul d have rather than as an example of what you ought to have.

Which is almost as old, and somewhat less powerful.

Very unlikely you'd refer to yourself as a "benighted ignoramus" in that sarcastic tone if that were the whole story, or the real story. I've known a number of James Arthurs in my life and it never is.

Everyone's been hurt by someone, my man, it's a part of the human condition and if anyone's exempt I haven't meet them yet. I'd be perfectly happy to have a fully honest heart-to-heart about it sometime if you like. Unfortunately I don't expect you'd return the same courtesy.

I think some bullies, who enjoy playing the role of respectable citizen, don't appreciate it when "Daddy" is looking over their shoulder, as bullies tend to like being naughty boys, and Daddy tends to give naughty boys a punishment.

These tired lines don't work on me, bro.

I f***ed the Queen of Premium Ice Cream and her cousin, too. I'm not overly concerned about her. Trump and his violent incel fan club of WNs who want to shit up America with their angry neck-beard behavior concerns me.

Bunch of would-be mass shooters, the lot of them.

They murdered one woman during the event. And you're on their team.

Money governs, for the most part. A lot of Americans prefer it that way.

Speaking of "deep smarts" the total lack of implementing appropriate standards of continuity-of-government between the Obama and Trump administration on the latter's part with respect to the current crisis was an act so negligent and derelict-of-duty it's one more impeach-able offense, not much different than if they'd dumped the nuclear bomb codes in a public dumpster.