KevonLooney

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Why do most people refuse to accept that they are wrong

I have come across a lot’s of people like these. like 99% of them. Sometimes it makes me think twice if what i am saying is wrong? What’s wrong with them. Is it so hard to swallow your pride and acknowledge that the other person is speaking facts? When they come to know they are wrong they proceed to insult/make fun of...

KevonLooney,

Not necessarily. Both people can be correct, but arguing just to “win”. Both people can also be wrong.

KevonLooney,

“Tolerance”

I’m surprised it took this long for the “T” word to show up. People tolerating your ideas doesn’t mean they have to agree with them, or listen to them, or respect them.

You are confused because you said something that people reacted negatively to. Respect is earned and is not just handed out. If your ideas are insulting, don’t expect a warm welcome.

KevonLooney,

paradigm of tolerance

A regular Karl Popper over here.

KevonLooney,

Well that was wild. I think the best thing to remember from this is that religion is not going to give you “advice” like a friend would. The Bible doesn’t know whether you should get a different job. It’s not logical, it’s emotional.

If a loved one dies or you have to make a tough moral decision, that’s where it can help. Same with any philosophy. You wouldn’t ask Immanuel Kant some boring question, so why ask God? No He doesn’t care about your football game. Sorry.

KevonLooney,

Best description I ever heard:

He looks like someone tried to draw Pitbull from memory.

Dale

KevonLooney,

Hello BiggusDickus@aol.com,

Thank you for being a customer today.

KevonLooney,

You mean Tony Todd? He’s much more famous for being Candyman. Also, he played older Jake Sisko.

“I shall try some of your burned, replicated bird meat.”

KevonLooney,

Kate Mulgrew played “Mrs. Colombo” in a spinoff the Colombo team didn’t like. She was way too young and has an 8 year old child. She would have been pregnant at 15-16. It was nuts and was cancelled.

KevonLooney,

In Singapore, minimum wage is based on your race (country of origin). For a domestic worker, they literally tell you to pay some people less money.

KevonLooney,

Or in a small walkable town. They exist. You don’t need a 100,000 people city to have easy access to apples.

KevonLooney,

I have directly been told lots of nutty things. Just yesterday someone told me that my nickname in a video game was affecting my lag. That doesn’t make any sense.

Why does this bother you unless you actually have an issue with women? The fact that you’re complaining about it indicates that it is meaningful to you.

KevonLooney,

But less brake pad wear. The regenerative braking reduces a lot of the need for brake pads.

KevonLooney,

Every mechanic who’s worked on one? Everyone who’s owned one?

KevonLooney,

There were many people who supported Mao in the 60s and 70s, mainly because the terrors of the Cultural Revolution and the failure of the Great Leap Forward were not really known in the West.

China was a closed society. Academics didn’t even travel there. That’s what they mean when they say Nixon “opened up” China in 1972. Prior to that, people only knew what the Chinese government told them about the country.

KevonLooney,

That’s wrong in the context of the Chinese civil war though. Mao and the CPC didn’t win because they had more guns or a more powerful army. In fact, the KMT almost wiped them out several times.

According to their own lore, they were more inspirational to the local people, who supported them in return. Mao specifically said “The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.”

You can read it in Mao’s own words: www.goodreads.com/…/113625.On_Guerrilla_Warfare

But this has been known from the days of Napoleon. A gun doesn’t win a war, the idea wins the war. That’s where ballots and debates come in.

KevonLooney,

You just said:

the Chinese civil war was not fought with ballots or debates, it was fought with guns, on both sides.

Ultimately, the people with the guns hold all political power in society.

That directly contradicts Mao’s idea that guerillas are supported by the people they live with. If the people withhold support, guerillas become like a fish out of water. Ordinary people (without guns) actually exercise more power in this scenario.

By focusing on guns instead of class, you are not using a Marxist or Neo-Marxist framework to analyze the civil war. You are using a Realist or Neo-Realist framework, similar to Henry Kissinger. Marxist frameworks believe class is much more important than guns.

The statement “political power flows from the barrel of a gun” is almost anti-Marxist in the way it completely ignores class conflict.

KevonLooney,

True. I mean, it’s sad for her to be with someone who’s got such a low bar. Does the dishes? Honey, you can use a machine for that. I’m doing them right now!

That’s the opposite of why people stay together. Usually people say, “Well they have trouble doing the dishes, but at least our major beliefs are similar.”

Honestly she seems pretty similar to her husband in how illogical she’s being. He’s like, “Well Republicans might be terrible socially but they might lower my taxes!” She says, “Well he votes for people I despise but at least those dishes got done!”

They are similar people in that they both make bad life choices. So maybe it works?

KevonLooney,

Being ignorant of policy and perceiving any slight as a personal attack is a sign of a right wing voter. You know those studies that show conservative voters have higher disgust reflexes? This guy is the poster child. Downvotes?! The horror!

KevonLooney,

The person you responded to doesn’t understand statistics. As long as your sample is random and unbiased, you don’t need to sample the whole population.

Think of someone cooking. They just taste a little bit of the food to adjust the spices. If they mixed it up evenly, they don’t need to eat the whole thing to get an idea of how it tastes. That is the basis of random sampling.

KevonLooney,

Caring about downvotes? You’re still in reddit mode dude…

KevonLooney,

This dude is just a troll with a day old account and negative karma. One more for the blocklist.

KevonLooney,

Scientists have been looking for funding since before the scientific method existed. Leonardo Da Vinci had patrons

KevonLooney,

Well these questions are mostly for people to LARP about how tough and self-sufficient they are. No, society wouldn’t collapse because we didn’t have electricity for 99% of our time on Earth. Electricity was a luxury as recently as 100 years ago.

Number one issue is, can electronics be fixed? If yes, temporary issue. If not, and we are literally without power (for some magical reason) we just need a million more horses to cart food around. There wouldn’t be much looting. The new iPhone won’t work and how are you going to get away with anything bigger? Guns and locks still work without electricity.

I personally would start buying up property from people ignorantly fleeing cities. Most major cities are built on great harbors or waterways for sail and steam ships. People will try to farm, fail at it, and just buy from farmers like before. Food will move by boat first to major ports. Every prepper in the middle of nowhere will sit in a bunker eating canned vegetables while the rest of the world goes on with their lives.

You don’t actually need Facebook and Tik Tok. You won’t die without it. You’ll just read the same gossip in a magazine.

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