Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 1/5/2025 11:26 AM, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:09:12 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 1/5/2025 11:01 AM, john larkin wrote:
>

Deplorable is is deplorable does, man. What am I supposed to tell people
who think violent crime "is way up" when it's been going down for 50
years and that children are regularly getting sex changes, or whatever
nonsense some significant fraction of citizens choose to believe today.
"Yeah, you're right?"
>
Plenty of very well-to-do people seem to believe the same nonsense, so
it's not really a class-thing.

>
You invent people as targets for your need for contempt. You would
have been an ardent Nazi in the 1930's Germany. Tribal.
>

>
'Fraid people who believe nonsense of the type I mentioned are not at
all "invented", if you don't personally know any or have never met any
maybe it's cuz you live in one of the most leftist places on Earth? ???

 Humans are incredibly diverse.  You blame and mock (and imagine)
people who have different opinions than yours.

It's not about opinions like, what ice cream flavor is best or whether it's better to like golf or basketball. Trump built a political empire peddling fear of marginalized people and I think it's a particular tactic worth mocking, yes. Pretty disingenuous to shift the goalpoasts to some broad fashion of intolerance that's not the real issue, you know what this is about..

I think this intolerant diversity is evolved, naturally selected, as a
tribal survival mechanism. Probably your intolerance is genetic,
inherited; you can't help yourself.
 This tribal tendency for intolerance is why we have wars.

Perhaps your tendency to like flattery is inherited, you can't help yourself. Sounds kind of like you're blaming me for the existence of war which could be considered flattering in a certain light but I'll have to demure on that one. I don't think I have such power, my dastardly leftist genes or whatever aren't up to the task.

You are emotionally driven to believe that you are always right. That
attitude, emotionally selective blindness and hostility to ideas, is
toxic to electronic design. I guess that's why so few people are good
at it.
 

That's true, I even miss Jim Thompson from time to time. He was better at it than you