jedrider wrote:Well, there are group psychopathologies which seems to penetrate an individual's psych to become worthy of restraint. How long before one's rants gets one into trouble? Well, with rapid transportation and guns available, we may see this come to pass.
‘Traitors Need To Be Executed’
evilgenius wrote:I wonder what the ongoing drought in the American West is going to do to this problem.
evilgenius wrote: Isn't it good to be a witness to history?
evilgenius wrote:Plant is looking for laughter.
evilgenius wrote:This is a great time is history for observing the relationship between the individual and the state. I think, ultimately, that is also where Plant is coming from. I tend to cut him some slack.
Plantagenet wrote:Politicians inevitably do dumb things.
Obama did dumb things, Trump did dumb things, and now Biden is doing dumb things.
If you can't see the dumb things they do then you aren't paying attention.
The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).[1] Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
Newfie wrote:
The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).[1] Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
Lefty Loonies
Right wingers
Anti-vaxers
Climate deniers
Flat Earthers
Etc.
There is always some extreme group that is sold on their position and unwilling to countenance any disagreement.
They are only a big problem when they take charge. But they are always a PITA.
EdwinSm wrote: Maybe people should consider North Korea as a model- it is Isolated and in the minds of the ruling few it is Great, and nobody is allowed to say otherwise.
EduardoP wrote:They lost, and are demonstrating a resolve that could lead to unimaginable outcomes, not seen since 1859.
Their willingness to "burn down the house", in order to subvert and derail the fair elective outcome frightens me to the core.
think it is pretty much a natural law following the S curve. You have flat out extremes at both ends and the broad middle is every shade in between. It doesn't just work for technology, it works for all other ideas too. Reactionaries at the bottom left, wild eyed radicals at the upper right and the rest stuck in between.
jedrider wrote:EduardoP wrote:They lost, and are demonstrating a resolve that could lead to unimaginable outcomes, not seen since 1859.
Their willingness to "burn down the house", in order to subvert and derail the fair elective outcome frightens me to the core.
Right on!think it is pretty much a natural law following the S curve. You have flat out extremes at both ends and the broad middle is every shade in between. It doesn't just work for technology, it works for all other ideas too. Reactionaries at the bottom left, wild eyed radicals at the upper right and the rest stuck in between.
Only making excuses. It is outright frightening how many people supported Donald Trump the second time around.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Either end of the spectrum, re denying reality, is a very bad thing.
rangerone314 wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:Either end of the spectrum, re denying reality, is a very bad thing.
They all are one reason why I am what my son calls, an "optimistic cynic" -- I'm optimistic that things will not turn out well.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
jedrider wrote:EduardoP wrote:They lost, and are demonstrating a resolve that could lead to unimaginable outcomes, not seen since 1859.
Their willingness to "burn down the house", in order to subvert and derail the fair elective outcome frightens me to the core.
Right on!think it is pretty much a natural law following the S curve. You have flat out extremes at both ends and the broad middle is every shade in between. It doesn't just work for technology, it works for all other ideas too. Reactionaries at the bottom left, wild eyed radicals at the upper right and the rest stuck in between.
Only making excuses. It is outright frightening how many people supported Donald Trump the second time around.
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