Leslie-Anne

@Theelegantuniv2 Very good point

Calling normal emotions 'dysregulation' seems to be pretty common now. There's an underlying ideal of emotional flatness.

@melissabz321 💯

@Spjutr It’s one of those terms that’s misunderstood. Humans aren’t robots.

@drgurner Interesting, and I just learned a new word :)

@Spjutr High stress can produce anhedonic tendencies.

@0xRuzy It's not a good analogy because the gate in skiing is physically real. The gate isn't being suppressed, it's just being made more challenging. He's using that in a context where the control is on what can be said about reality (through comedy).

Jerry Seinfeld says he regrets claiming the extreme left suppressed comedy. Jerry Seinfeld: I did an interview with The New Yorker. Tom Papa: Mhm. Jerry Seinfeld: And I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy. Tom Papa: Mhm. Jerry Seinfeld: I did say that. Tom Papa: Yeah. Jerry Seinfeld: That’s not true. (laughs) It’s not true. Tom Papa: No? Jerry Seinfeld: No. Again, you want to go back. Let’s go back to our solid, liquid analogy. Tom Papa: Okay. Jerry Seinfeld: And the other thing that I have said about this: if you’re Lindsey Vonn, if you’re a champion skier… Tom Papa: Uh-huh. Jerry Seinfeld: …you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain. She’s going to make the gate. Tom Papa: Right. Jerry Seinfeld: That’s comedy. Tom Papa: Mhm. Jerry Seinfeld: Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. Tom Papa: Mhm. Jerry Seinfeld: You don’t make the gate, you’re out of business. That’s your job. You make the gate. The culture moves. People are different. They react differently. Your job is to make the gate. If you can’t make the gate, get another job. That’s what I think. That’s how I feel about it now.

@politicalmath He's as persuasive here as the comedy he's defending is funny.

I used to think the left suppresses comedy but after several very sober conversations with friends on the left, I decided that wasn't a very funny joke

There's a level of average passivity in a group beyond which bullies encounter almost no resistance. Healthy dynamics in groups rely on individuals who are not entirely passive.

@laurelmmmmm @DailySowell Interesting, I thought it was a more recent phenomenon.

@Spjutr @DailySowell I got that in 1980 in uni in Canada. The professors were already locked in on their dogma and hostile to anything out of their box.

Thomas Sowell on what’s wrong with education today: “Too many students are introduced to a certain vision of the world—for example, the capitalists are exploiting the workers.” “They just memorize that, and they talk about it as if it’s a known fact. There’s no developing in those students the ability to look at two different views and try to figure out which is correct.”

@laurelmmmmm 💯

@Spjutr But lies? Work, work, work.

No energy is required to sustain the truth. It's just there, acknowledged or not.

@ClemChambers The difference between thinking and knowing...

@Spjutr If you think you know, you dont, if you know you know, you probably might. Thats why simple is best. :)

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@ZubyMusic When a person has decided they don't want to like you, they usually find a way

You can genuinely offend some people just by being happy.

@ConceptualJames They converge on the intolerance for individual separateness and autonomy.

At the end of the day, Communism and all other totalitarian systems are not economic, social, or political theories. In a way, they're all idolatrous false religions, but at their roots are incorrect theories of human nature. To be clear, Communism is at its foundation an incorrect theory of human nature. It will therefore never work and will always kill and destroy. It shares in common with Fascism, other forms of socialism, Nazism, and lots of mondialist and New Age ideologies (think United Nations here) a simple incorrect foundation for human reality. These all assume humanity is a single organism (or "meta-organism") rather than a ln ecosystem of interacting individuals. All collectivism suffers this fundamental and basic error, so it will all always fail, no matter how it expresses itself (including in theocracies like Islam or Christian tyrannies). The idea is expressed most clearly in the "corporatism" of Fascism, per Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, posting that the whole society is a single body ("corpus," hence "corporatism"). The institutions are like organs, the individuals like cells, and the state and Party like the central nervous system. Everything works together for a common goal. Communists see this same model in "the people," who experience "inter-being" or "interdependence," which is the new mondialist and New Age way of putting it, but it's the same thing. We're all cells in a single body run by the state, all working harmoniously for everyone's success. Weirdo New Age mondialists at the UN like Robert Muller called not just humanity but the entire ecosystem of earth a "meta-organism" whose central nervous system is the UN itself. The UN's purpose as "World Brain," in Muller's vision, is to take control of the future evolution of man and the Earth. Marx called this "humanization" of man and Nature. The Fascists and Nazis embraced the same project to advance humanity to its next levels of human organization. It's all basically the same. It's also all wrong in basically the same way. Humanity, and human societies, are not like organisms. They are like ecosystems. The difference is that in a body, all the parts and cells work together by design to support the flourishing of the organism. In an ecosystem, individual entities and parts might cooperate, act symbiotically, compete, or predate. Dragonflies don't cooperate with mosquitoes; they eat them. And they don't cooperate with bats to eat more mosquitoes more efficiently; they compete in conditions that eventually reach carrying capacities and therefore scarcity. Your liver, heart, and kidneys do not do this. They serve specialized functions in a single interdependent organism. The fact that ecosystems thrive (or don't) is not the result of organic coordination but a property that emerges (or fails) because of individuals filling various niches, mostly opportunistically. Collectivist ideologies not only get this wrong but adopt the murderous belief that the people who aren't getting it wrong are the problem. Those people must be bent, broken, or destroyed until they believe or at least stop not believing. Of course, human beings have a high capacity for collaboration and intentional cooperation, to our mutual benefit, but that doesn't change the basic fact that societies are ecosystem-like. It just explains how we fill our niches. And it doesn't change. Collectivist ideologies like Communism are therefore wrong theories of human nature, doomed to fail, kill and destroy. It will not work this time. You and yours cannot make it work. You cannot crack the code. There's no code to crack, and trying just turns into cracking skulls in pursuit of total failure.

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