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2023-09-07 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2023-09-07 08:36|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 He's right.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-09-07 10:05|| 2023-09-07 10:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Surprise is seldom a friend of human survival. "Worst casing" helps eliminate surprise.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-07 10:19|| 2023-09-07 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank Zappa said, "I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist." I try to live by the dictum that I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than bitterly disappointed. That's accomplished by managing my perspective and expectations.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-07 10:40|| 2023-09-07 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like no matter how low I set my political expectations I still end up bitterly disappointed.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-09-07 11:32|| 2023-09-07 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 See. That's what I mean. Some things really aren't worthy of any positive expectations at all...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-07 11:38|| 2023-09-07 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 We conservatives are not facing geniuses. We are facing a bunch of narcissistic halfwits who are not a tenth as brilliant as they believe they are, and who inherited their cultural positions instead of creating them. We’re not fighting a bunch of cunning Darth Vaders. We’re fighting a bunch of pronoun-obsessed dorks, many of whom can’t even do a push-up. And all the while, we got 400 million guns.

Well, yeah, that is encouraging.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-07 13:36|| 2023-09-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Consider "Dooming" as a Churchillian technique to wake people up to just how dire the situation has become! Sometimes, it is the darkest just before the lights go out completely!

Voltaire's epic Candide, is illustrative:

..." Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.[8] The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes Candide with, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-09-07 13:52|| 2023-09-07 13:52|| Front Page Top

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