Comments on: Rewarding failure in New York City

By: neo

neo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:13:11 +0000

Abraxas:

I don’t know whether there were updated versions of the test. But there might have been, and that question may have been in the earliest versions, which were in 1994. Warhol and died in 1987, and had been extremely famous for decades leading up to that. He was based in New York, and therefore especially well-known there, but he was very well-known everywhere.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:47:11 +0000

Ridiculous, absurd, offensive settlement, but that Warhol question probably should have been weeded out. I wonder, though, how many other questions were like that one. This wouldn’t be the first time lawyers skewed public opinion on a case by picking out the most outrageous detail and feeding it to the jury and the media.

By: ErisGuy

ErisGuy — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:53:27 +0000

This sort of thing is to be expected once the state establishes a new nobility (“protected classes”).

Can’t stop it without getting rid of the nonsense behind it.

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:00:40 +0000

And I guess Neo’s efforts are still working if we are still here.
Thank you, Neo.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:44:25 +0000

@ Rufus > “some percentage of those reading the exchange may be spurred to do some research”

This is the same reason Neo often gave for why she spent so much time replying to our late, unlamented, trolls – the rebuttal was for the sake of the readers, because (as we well know), the trolls never changed their narratives.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:26:32 +0000

Sure, the mind of the liberal tweeting the gibberish won’t be changed, but some percentage of those reading the exchange may be spurred to do some research.

@Rufus T. Firefly

Yes.

Why is this such a hard concept for so many pessimistic conservatives?

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:18:14 +0000

DavidFoster: “JJ…you were ex-military, right?…when you applied for the pilot training program at the airline, did you already have an Airline Transport Pilot rating, or was that part of the airline training program?”

Yes, an ATP was required. In those days, if I recall correctly, military pilots could get an ATP by showing 1000 hours of Pilot n Command time, an instrument card, and pass a test on air traffic rules/regulations.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:32:51 +0000

And wouldn’t you know it, here’s something related…from Don Surber:
“The riot that sent my family to the suburbs”—
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/the-riot-that-sent-my-family-to-the?r=1v5u0a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://instapundit.com/595661/
…in which Surber mocks Michelle Obama for saying the usual silly things.
– – – – – – –
Meanwhile, the universities—among them some of the most highly regarded—appear to be trying to commit suicide in more ways than one. Perhaps it’s a new variety of university “research”….
“University of Michigan Hosts ‘#PoliceFreeCampus’ Project As Shootings and Sex Crimes Plague School”—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-michigan-pursues-policefreecampus-as-shootings-and-sex-crimes-plague-school/
Yep, the “Harvard of the Midwest”.
Nuff said, I guess.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:12:40 +0000

Interesting book review on Legal Insurrection:
“…Untenable by Jack Cashill;
“The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/book-review-untenable-by-jack-cashill/
Key quote (from the book):
“The most overlooked variable in assessing community strength was the percentage of families headed by a married father. By 1982, that percentage was approaching zero in many Newark neighborhoods.”

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:46:26 +0000

Barry Meislin @ 10:51am,

Yes, the institutions have, by and large, abandoned science and results for emotion, but the institutions are losing their influence.

In a recent podcast comedian/Libertarian head of the Mises caucus, Dave Smith, made a great point about the recent Blaze TV event where Tucker Carlson interviewed most of the Republican candidates.

Until recently, CNN or Fox, or ABC/CBS/NBC would have a candidate on and question them on the amount of spending for Ukraine defense; “Should the U.S. spend eleventygajillion dollars on Ukraine defense or seventygajillion dollars on Ukraine defense?” But now something called Blaze TV and someone named Tucker Carlson can draw more viewers than those outlets and ask candidates to defend any amount of spending or defense on Ukraine. Candidates never had to face questions like that from anyone with an audience.

Candidate RFK, Jr. can go on Joe Rogan and tear down the CDC and Anthony Faucci and it (and clips of it) will be watched by tens or hundreds of millions.

I’ve been reading about more and more people replying with brief, well reasoned and defended, factual replies when liberals spout gibberish on Twitter. Elon Musk no longer deletes such rebuttals. Sure, the mind of the liberal tweeting the gibberish won’t be changed, but some percentage of those reading the exchange may be spurred to do some research.