I'll do a point by point rebuttal and confirmation on his "examples" , later but I point out now that #12 is a creation of His profession, defining homosexuality as a mental disorder, while "badness" is based on cultural norms and religious beliefs, which define "normal" and again, the shrink opinions reflect that.
Thus his sneering disdain is misplaced in the 21st century, though there certainly are cultures that would murder him for being gay, and the same ones, murder him for his religious heritage, based on his name, alone. See also #8.
Aka he's full of Sh$% & using the blanket lie method where "All x are criminals" fallacy, which is dishonest, and possibly insane.
Providing propaganda services for a terrorist organization is providing material support to a terrorist organization. Air time is not free. This is called an in kind contribution.
CNN executives, writers, and reporters should be arrested.
re: Hoot's post of Posted on Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 09:02 am: From Wannabe Shrinks Today.
1. Sure there is. Nearly impossible to measure, the numbers, but the Sahara Forest is a great example.
2. True, mostly.
Hypothetically, wiping all mankind off the planet by a combination of nuclear fire and biological weapons could have a small effect, And you can really mess things up by covering all the forests in solar panels, but that's a really large project. A hopefully impossible virus that prevents chlorophyll from working certainly would wreck the climate. And there are several geo-engineering proposals that might really ruin your day.
Bottom line is we aren't smart enough to predict the results of megaprojects to deliberately change the climate, and the "best" we can do is a short term change, at the cost of potential civilization destruction.
3. Most ILLEGAL Immigrants are a drain. It is a LIE and Propaganda to try to confuse or erase the difference between "an Iranian Doctor and his family who escaped the Tyrants, and legally moved here" ( my GP Doctor a while back ) and "military age infiltrators from Venezuela and MS-13 Gang murderers who Joe* Invited in illegally". Bottom line, 3 = logical fallacy, deliberate dishonesty.
4. Many Illegals Are. ( see above dishonest statement ) Thousands are many. A Majority? not yet clear, but previous to the Obama Invited Invasion, no. Bottom line Dishonest.
5. Yes. Obviously it's the Commie Culture Shift and refusal to accept responsibility for one's own actions. A recent phenomena, and ideologically driven in almost every case. ( As one pundit says, "Liberalism is a mental disorder"...I disagree it's "Liberalism" and Insist it's "Progressive" aka leftists )
6. Also true. See Japan. Low gun crime before and after legislation. If murderers can't get a gun, they use whatever.
7. Of course! Aspirin is dangerous! But the Autism myth is long disproven and the source of the myth is well known. ( A Brit Crank Doc who lied in a paper ) You have to be an idiot or Hollywood Starlet to buy the crud. But I repeat myself.
8. Yes. Just ask.
9. I'm going to point to this as Projection of the Author's Racism on everyone else. And a VERY Progressive/Left/Rich A&&hole version too. Every Latino I've known is a hard working person. So that has to come from "Mildred, The Servants Are So Lazy! I don't trust the maid not to steal my Jewelry!" types. And it's REALLY OBVIOUS who the Jew Haters are, politically, in the 21st century. See Columbia Hamas Indoctrination Center. Rich Democrat's Kids. ( The Rich Republican's Kids are studying, and would be rejected by the Divisiveness Exclusionary Intolerant mob )
( And the Black Part is Race baiting, pure & simple )
10. I disagree, but many do think so, although "sacrosanct" is religious baiting. Many I disagree with tell me it's pragmatic and tax based, or moral issues. call this a draw
I'd be happy to argue in favor of "unconventional" marriage, in a different thread, with respect and polite disagreement. Ditto my attitude that child rapists should be recycled into Memorial gardens.
11. True.
12. addressed above.
13. On Generosity, and responsible weapons possession, that's True. Well established.
On the rest, I disagree, we simply have the best system to make the good stuff possible, and almost all the bad things? I can point to a&&hats like the author for his ( Obvious ) Party's Bad Rule.
I point out NOBODY gets on a small boat and risks their lives to go to Communist Hells and Islamist Thugocracies. But the flow to Europe and the USA ( and Canada ) is massive.
( not counting retirees who go to cheaper places to live from the places the refugees die to go to )
End rant. Have a nice day.
( Full disclosure, I've had a mad on for this magazine since college days when they showed they were the lazy pop culture shrink idiot folk, with cover stories on how risk takers were crazy... bunch a cowardly drones! )
( did my agent get the script from you for this gig? I got your note about not mentioning the illegitimate children and the sexual assault suits, but I should ask about the Trans 3 month old and how happy Xir is, right? )
Rathergate, and the lying liars who still lie about lying and will until they are buried at midnight in a crossroads to keep them from rising again. ( or is that for vampires? )
The politics were more important than the truth. And protecting their sleezy reputations was Far More Important.
It's really triggering to lefties when I point out Trump is CNN & MSNBC's fault.
That I get they make money off sound bites, and Trump rules there, plus he was the sure, designated Loser against the Anointed Hillary. How by ignoring every other candidate, it's the Democrat Party Media that pushed Trump into the nomination, and because Hillary was sick for the last 4+ months of the campaign, plus the little issue of insulting more than half the country, she lost.
Btw, utterly irrelevant, but the Bad Guys in the video game Borderlands 3 are creators of a cult, and the magic boosted minions, the sub-bosses you fight, hard to kill mutated monsters called The Anointed. Just like Hillary.
I don't know what happened to Jonah Goldberg. He wrote a brilliant book on Regressive insanity, then National Review went Hard Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Understandable and Expected that a Klan Party Propagandist like the Bulwark guy spew lies for his senile hero. SOP. Scorpion and frog Parable.
And I really get not liking Trump. Not a fan of his shtick. ( peace and economy policies, sure! ) But you play the cards you're dealt.
It doesn't matter if I preferred that someone else got the nomination in '16. MSNBC & CNN ruined that by pushing Trump, Exclusively, refusing to cover any other candidate except to slander them. ( that they thought Trump was a sure bet loser was openly stated, repeatedly. )
Life has hard choices sometimes. Hillary or Donald? ( a friend insists I can't bit$% about Trump since I was openly "Anything but Hillary" and got my wish )
I'm not a reincarnation believer. ( feel free, you do you )
But in the Hard Choices world, I can speculate on past lives.
I'm inspired by the late Barry Sadler's Casca ( The Immortal Mercenary ) series of novels. The plot was... The Roman soldier who killed Jesus on the cross, was cursed to be a loser thug until Jesus returned on Judgement Day. That evening he killed his non-com in a fight over a prostitute, and is sentenced to death by hard labor in the mines. But He's now sorta immortal. The whole series is Casca fighting on the Losing side in every war for 2000+ years. And getting killed in every nasty way people have come up with. But coming back.
Well written with fair historic accuracy. The publisher tried to continue the series but the replacement writer wasn't very good. Ignore those later books.
So... My Imaginary Past lives?
I'd probably be a Ukrainian Nazi. Better than the Soviets, and that is such a slam on Stalin's Empire it's not funny at all.
I'd probably be the guy at Masada that snuck out to feed worms to the goat the Romans sacrificed to Mars, & to read the entrails, thus striking a psychological blow, but doomed to watch all my friends suicide while I was helpless outside the fortress.
Died cursing Custer for a sadistic fool.
Moved to Atlantis because I liked Island living.
And founder of a village in that great hot springs valley with the yellow rocks. What's that rumble?