Gyroscopic Investing

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:59 am

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:43 am Getting back to the thread title, I came across this little diddy and thought some of you might find it enjoyable, funny, disgusting, or a bunch of crap. Pick your own descriptor.

Hmm, I have relatives who share a similar sentiment with regard to the raccoon remover, if even I recognize this as the racist Infowars rant.

https://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania ... aign-event

EDIT: So I don’t derail with follow up posts, I’ll add that I don’t think Hasids should have special rights, either. No separate swimming pool hours by gender, etc. There was a great 1990s article in the LA Times about friction in a famous neighborhood where loads of Orthodox had moved in. One of their shenanigans was walking in the middle of the street at night so as to not activate burglar sensor lights (= lighting a “fire” = work) on the Sabbath. Among the forefront of complainants about the influx: secular Jews. Good stuff.

Still, I don’t know if a hateful guy like Trump who stirs up the worst in people, and the worst people, is necessary to decide that Muslim women cannot have exclusive rights to a public pool one day out of the year. We can achieve that with swampy, non-hateful representatives.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:52 am Interesting, I did not realize that came from Infowars or I probably would not have posted it. However, those racoons are pesky! Do racoons live in a swamp with the alligators, water moccasins, and wine country moguls who live behind walls?

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:18 pm

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:52 am Interesting, I did not realize that came from Infowars or I probably would not have posted it. However, those racoons are pesky! Do racoons live in a swamp with the alligators, water moccasins, and wine country moguls who live behind walls?

If you liked the story, who cares where it came from? Baby, bathwater, and such.

stuper1 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:48 pm Well then I remain unconvinced that he is in fact hateful. I think he's just a guy who likes money and power, like most politicians. I don't think he's motivated one way or another by race. The media is always trying to paint him as the next Hitler, hateful of Jews, blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, etc. For Pete sake, the husband of his favorite daughter is a Jew -- actually she is too I believe, having converted for her husband.

Yeah, he wants to build a border wall and have a stronger no-fly list against potential Muslim terrorists. The media paints that as hateful. I think he does it because he thinks it's a good way to protect his own people, which is supposed to be his job after all. Of course, it also gets him votes from like-minded people, but isn't that how democracy is supposed to work?

I really don't see the hate.

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:39 pm
TDS is a terrible scourge.
Hopefully science will find a cure someday.

Trump and science funding

jacksonM wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:15 am This story says Trump is considering a military option in Venezuela but I'm hoping he's just trying humor Lindsey Graham who would probably be very much in favor. If there is a military option I'll be quickly switching from being a lukewarm Trump supporter to the "impeach the mother*****" side of the aisle.

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-fore ... e0185.html

jacksonM wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:15 am This story says Trump is considering a military option in Venezuela but I'm hoping he's just trying humor Lindsey Graham who would probably be very much in favor. If there is a military option I'll be quickly switching from being a lukewarm Trump supporter to the "impeach the mother*****" side of the aisle.

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-fore ... e0185.html

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:33 pm

jacksonM wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:15 am This story says Trump is considering a military option in Venezuela but I'm hoping he's just trying humor Lindsey Graham who would probably be very much in favor. If there is a military option I'll be quickly switching from being a lukewarm Trump supporter to the "impeach the mother*****" side of the aisle.

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-fore ... e0185.html

Well the article does say (in bold and more than once) that there are no signs that Trump is moving in the direction of military intervention. And to the author's credit, it doesn't even start off with "Sources say...".

So maybe the real question is: why get yourself all worked up about it?

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:27 pm
Tangentially related, before he became the Stoic philosophy author/guru, Ryan Holiday wrote Trust Me, I'm Lying, about how the media is manipulated, how to spot it, etc. One tactic used is getting a story play at a bottom-feeding blog/outlet with no journalistic integrity, which then gets picked up by bigger outlets who cite the original source. That's a big reason news organizations loooooooooooove Twitter and other social media. Or just emailing news organizations/using their anonymous tips button and lying to them directly. They're pressured to get stories out immediately, so they can't fact check them. They put them out, and then (maybe) put out retractions or modify them afterwards, but "there are no consequences for being wrong" as he says.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:36 am “I’m announcing a national emergency.”
“...I didn’t need to do this.”

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:43 pm I thought: God damn. The president of the United States is up there like a valley girl.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:27 am

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:43 pm I thought: God damn. The president of the United States is up there like a valley girl.

Was he sassy? https://youtu.be/TkTCTieHlzg

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 26, 2018 8:35 pm He never called "the press" the enemy of the people.
He called "fake news" the enemy of the people.

Isn't it odd that they never mention that detail?

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account

@realDonaldTrump

The New York Times reporting is false. They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

5:49 AM - 20 Feb 2019