The Sage Garden

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Oh, God. Wasn't he banned?

No, he just goes away for a while and then comes back, goes away and then comes back, like certain lingering venereal diseases, or a serial killer with the most petty and obnoxious MO imaginable.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The last paragraph is really the only highest-quality sage part of this, but the first two make for a nice slow buildup:

I have problems with both the goals and the methods of eugenics. While the desire to improve the genetics of the population sounds good, comparative advantage dictates that society is better off if people specialize in different skill sets. Thus, it does not really make sense to select for the same characteristics in the entire human population, except for possibly fatal genetic disorders.

With regard to implementation, both positive and (especially) negative eugenics seem to contradict their stated objectives of selective for genetic fitness, for if a trait is truly desirable one would think that such a trait would require no active encouragement to encourage its propagation.

While advocates of the welfare state seem to have a Pavlovian association of social Darwinism with eugenics, the irony I see is that welfare statism is itself a form of positive eugenics, only with traits such as sloth and dependency considered more desirable than productive economic output.

[Oakvale]

fascistii

[Morning in Atlas]

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I'd imagine this would what Snowstalker smoking weed would be like.

[Oakvale]

Bernie is a total brObot.  He was fine with Obama's peace drones and Wall Street bro-dom, stern words aside (i didn't get the memo where he challenged Obama for the nomination or ran as an Indy).  But when Hillary runs, it's unacceptable.  Bros b4 hoes!

He has missed an opportunity to talk about "br0ne warfare".

[Antonio the Sixth]

Bernie is a total brObot.  He was fine with Obama's peace drones and Wall Street bro-dom, stern words aside (i didn't get the memo where he challenged Obama for the nomination or ran as an Indy).  But when Hillary runs, it's unacceptable.  Bros b4 hoes!

He has missed an opportunity to talk about "br0ne warfare".

haha

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

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I'd imagine this would what Snowstalker smoking weed would be like.

Weed makes me a Hillarybot? I know what I'm staying away from then.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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I'd imagine this would what Snowstalker smoking weed would be like.

Weed? Try PCP. Just Say No, Snowstalker.

[traininthedistance]

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I'd imagine this would what Snowstalker smoking weed would be like.

Weed makes me a Hillarybot? I know what I'm staying away from then.

Not just a Hillarybot, a homophobic Hillarybot.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

A degenerate prostitute, like all Italians, of course. Remember, Berlusconi was no different to the false idol Renzi, or the tragically flawed (if well-intentioned) Mussolini himself - Rome has long been the Babylon of our age, so it is unsurprising that the Cuomo family has singlehandedly waged a shameful crusade against the white working classes of New York state for generations. Herr Cuomo's son merely continued this vicious task upon his succession as Il Duce.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Some position which is very broadly 'socially conservative' will always exist. But its content need not be the same throughout history: does the Southern revanchist eugenicist of 1924 have basically anything in common with his pro-life, natalist grandson in 2014, beyond a vague yearning for a (mostly illusory) past?

Which is why I am, as accused elsewhere, extremely interested in neo-reactionism, the 'Dark Enlightenment', Droite Nouvelle, etc. as possible emergent alternatives to the tired, stale social and moral populism of the Nixon/Reagan GOP. I will always find myself on the other side of the table from organized Christianity, but in certain contexts I could easily be a Rightist (though not ever a 'conservative').

[traininthedistance]

Liberalism, at least the most vocal, internet-focused factions, is becoming more and more like a cult, silencing heretics at every opportunity.

[MATTROSE94]

I don't know if this belongs here or not, but I am posting it anyway:

Well, I'm official.  Gun ownership should be banned.  Completely.  I'm done.  I don't care about hunting and home defense excuses anymore.  Go to ShopRite and buy an alarm.  Just ban the things.

[Oakvale]

There is no sage wisdom in that post.

[MATTROSE94]

There is no sage wisdom in that post.

I was under the impression that the Sage Garden was the place to post excessively liberal posts in addition to the depository for all examples of sage wisdom.

[Хahar 🤔]

No, the point is not to use this thread to burnish your moderate hero credentials.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

So it begins.

I have long maintained that Japan's slide back into imperialism and militarism is only a matter of time. And they're already securing a co-prosperity sphere as we speak.

[H. Ross Peron]

I'd say that willingly provoking a confrontation with Imperial Japan so that the United States could get involved in the World War is pretty abhorrent.

[Morning in Atlas]

There is no sage wisdom in that post.

[Morning in Atlas]

What a moronic tautology.

Buying individual shares is hardly ever profitable for single workers; a salaried worker doesn't make enough to buy enough shares to take in any kind of regular income from it. There is unequal investment capacity between an already well-heeled (or even already middle class) investor, who can afford the initial outlay for stocks, and the proletariat, who rarely can and who will almost always make more, and more immediately, with a used truck.

You are a retrograde.

[Meursault]

Am I somehow wrong?

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Am I somehow wrong?

Sage is not about the truth value of a post; it is about the ontological "size" of the truths.

[Simfan34]

Am I somehow wrong?

Sage is not about the truth value of a post; it is about the ontological "size" of the truths.

[TNF]

Am I somehow wrong?

You aren't, but again, the whole point of this thread is to condemn those of us who don't buy into the nonsensical liberal consensus of this forum.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

TNF, that thread was not exactly a spewing forth of anti-cooperative sentiment; rather, it seemed to me to be the opposite.