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Mona Charen: Why The Champ scares me.
2014-03-23
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Welcome to "The Club", Mona !

Posted by: Flavising Dark Lord of the Gepids   2014-03-23 14:04  

#3  Spot on 'no mo uro.'

The only thing I might add is a good dope dealer knows his neighborhood sales boundary. He tends to not disrespect his fellow dealer or become an interloper by invading another dealer's turf. He uses the same brutal enforcement techniques within his realm as the dealer in the adjacent neighborhood. He's essentially no different that the other dealers, he too is bent on control, but perhaps not as heavy handed as other dealers. Bottom line; he's the same animal, simply servicing a different clientele, hoping to get in a little golf, keep his lawyer on a healthy retainer, and survive.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-03-23 07:37  

#2  Because he's a moron in charge of the World's strongest military?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-03-23 06:36  

#1  Besoeker, the problem is one that has existed in the West since at least the time of the Vikings and the Muslim conquest of MENA.

People who are pseudointellectuals and pretend polymaths, who have told themselves that they are the smartest and most informed and best intentioned, lack the ability to understand that there is not a mere single type of personality or a single outlook on life and politics. They also have taken up belief in something that is patently incorrect; that they have such amazing intelligence and salesmanship oratory skills and that their worldview is so awesome that they can convince anyone (because, remember, we are all pretty much alike underneath our skin) that "if I'm nice to you, you will be nice to me."

This, despite the fact that you can pick up a Kindle version of books on Meyers/Briggs for less than 5 bucks, which pretty much explodes that theory.

How smart can they actually be when they have this sort of data available and cannot put it into practical use?

The reality they never seem to understand is that for a certain personality type, if you are nice to them, it actually makes them view you as weak and it actually encourages MORE aggression, not less. So many example exist from history that it can only be incompetence or willful ignorance if they are unaware - Muhammed, the Vikings, Tamurlane, Alexander, Napoleon, Hitler, etc.

But for the faux intellectuals to admit that dynamic removes one of the basic foundations of their secular faith and worldview, so they refuse to believe until the bombs are going off in their face.

If it were only their faces that were blown up, that would be one thing. The problem is they'll get a lot of the rest of us killed too, and it's all so preventable.
Posted by: no mo uro   2014-03-23 06:25  

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