Re: OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam!

On 29/05/2024 7:42 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:35:46 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 5/28/2024 5:07 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:02:38 -0400, bitrex wrote:
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I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
reading the journals that contain them.
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But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
"highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
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Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
in the head and you got your PhD, easy.

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That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort  believe it's only
permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
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Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
substance and 99% sales.

 The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
world, and they need to be managed.

Left-wing philosophy has no delusions about human nature.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in
"
“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
― Mikhail Bakunin "
That dates from the 1870's and the debate about why Karl Marx's ideas about the leading role of the communist party weren't good for socialism.
Bakunin wanted politcal power to be based on local assemblies - he's the father of the cooperative movement - but his also anarcho-syndicalism attracted a few psychopaths.

Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
Walmart and Amazon.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentacostals are still with us, and killing their kids by not letting them get blood transfusions.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney