@xahlee then why do human animals separated by millennia and oceans end up with (mostly) the same fundamental values? Doesn't that suggest values are not opportunistic, but biological / natural in origin?
@HiroProtagonist He didn't have a cellphone? There's a crisis and the first thing he thinks is, I gotta go get my Canon EOS to soak in the blood-buttered details? He's definitely media material.
@HiroProtagonist forgive my short term memory, but has anyone noticed FBI dad, teacher-at-same-system mom, and the kid was not actually there during the shooting, but somehow became a "survivor" spokesman? (By his metrics, I guess we're survivors of the school shooting, too. Maybe we should make t-shirts and march around.)
Elizabeth Warren took a trip to South Korea to shill for the military industrial complex. Much to my disappointment she didn't don a hanbok and talk about her Korean ancestry. 😞
@xahlee Many of his family (Norbu) live in my hometown. It's where CIA settled him in the 1950s. They are fairly corrupt business people, one of them is an outright scam-artist who charged outrageous fees for spiritual seekers to park in a field for a Kalachakra initiation ceremony. Brings to mind a quip by Utah Phillips, "... whole place lightning-struck by the peripatetic ruminations of the Tibetan ruling class in exile, ahh, lot of 'Buddhists' around there."
@gemlog I assume you meant israel, as .is is Iceland, which is hard to jacket with much evil. Israel is .il. If you did mean iceland, I amlooking forward to the essay on their evilness. :-)
@dcgirl How many immigrants from a given culture are required to achieve a peak Ethnic Food Satisfaction Index? They all show up with pots and pans to start restaurants? :-)
@xahlee SJWs are just the current "historical burp" of leftist authoritarianism. From my perspective, they're a bit like a virus who has done very little actual damage, compared to the benefits: strengthened immune system (more people on to the whole victimhood olympics game and similar neomarxist nonsense.)
They're also a warning: our society was susceptible to them, in my opinion, as a function of indoctrination largely from public education.
Be sure to look for my upcoming thinkpiece about how too many people on the internet feel the need to write articles about their takes and assume people want to read them.