brenthutch
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Funny you should mention that. Let me share with you some of my "white upper middle class privilege". My dad was the chief of staff of personal for the Army's Depot Systems Command (DESCOM). After I finished active duty and before I started college, I applied for a bar back position at the officers club at one of the posts my dad was in charge of. He picked up the phone and made some calls. He let it be known that under no circumstance was I to be hired because of the potential of the appearance of favoritism. No worries, I spent the summer as a landscape and construction laborer. I checked my privilege 33 years ago.
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You are correct, my response was a bit tongue in cheek. Good on you for noticing and calling me out. My larger point was not to illustrate the difference between jaywalking and murder but rather the difference between rich law breaking and poor law breaking. I believe in the blind application of the rule of law. When exceptions are made for ones station in life we open the door for ridiculous notions such as affluenza. We start out with the noble goal of carving out a space for the disadvantaged and end up protecting the wealthy and privileged from justice.
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Ok I agree, he is an idiot, coward, carnival barker and conman. Even as a heavily armed conservative libertarian, I am in full agreement that Trump is a threat. Especially to conservative leaning libertarians. Thank you for your reply, however I would like to hear from someone with a different point of view.
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I think you have put your finger on the problem. Illegal immigrants and the rich parents in question, just want a better life for their children, laws be damned. Jeb Bush said it was just an expression of love. How can you hate love?
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Trump is an idiot and a coward. I would be happy to discuss with anyone with a different view.
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We have been having this discussion for more than a decade and a half, and all things considered, my predictions have been more accurate than those of my detractors. Artic summers ice free? WRONG! Declining Polar bear population? WRONG! Growing desertification? WRONG! Declining food production? WRONG! Maldives under water? WRONG! Less expensive electricity from "free" wind and solar? WRONG! More hurricanes? WRONG! Increasing rate of sea level rise? WRONG! More droughts? WRONG! More wildfires? WRONG! More tornadoes? WRONG! Snow a rare and exciting event? WRONG! California in a state of permanent drought? WRONG! Lower Brazilian coffee production? WRONG! I could do this all night long but I hope that you get the point. Goodnight guys
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Cellphones took two decades, not two centuries. Fastest car on the road? LOL! Let me ask you a question. In a race from Los Angles to Los Vegas, what will win; high speed rail, the Tesla tube, the Tesla S or my Honda Accord coupe?
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Tesla sales down 31% in the first quarter 2019
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If you think wealth = intelligence, you haven't been paying attention. BTW thanks for the tall long wall analogy, that was pretty tight.
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Electric cars have been in development for nearly two centuries, their time has come and gone. They may remain in limited use for short range urban commutes and of course virtue signaling, but that's about it.
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Exactly like long high walls! Yes we currently have the technology to create a 50 foot high wall and an alligator filled moat from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. Would it help prevent illegal crossing? Most certainly. Would it be supported by a zealous slice of the population? Yes. Would it solve our immigration problems? No. Would it be a massive waste of money? Yes. So yes, exactly like long high walls.
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Progress indeed. So now you concede that while the GND is not impossible, it is impractical. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impractical im·prac·ti·cal /imˈpraktək(ə)l/ adjective 1. (of an object or course of action) not adapted for use or action; not sensible or realistic. As long as we are discussing courses of action that are not adaptable, sensible nor realistic we remain in the domain of magical thinking.
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You misspelled practically
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"Weasel Words There are certain “weasel words” that modify the meaning of what you’re saying to the point that you appear to be saying one thing when you’re actually saying the exact opposite. Weasel words and phrases include “may,” “might,” “could,” “can,” “can be,” “virtually,” “up to,” “as much as,” “help,” “like,” “believe,” “possibly,” and similar qualifiers that create enough wiggle room for a rhino." Sounds like every warmist paper ever published.
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Now look at who is being weasely. It is nice of you to finally admit that my failure to embrace the GND, is not due a misunderstanding of the physics, economics and political realities but rather my lack of imagination. The challenges your side face are quite the opposite.
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According to your logic, the advances in aviation in the 40s and 50s would have lead to rutine 737 trips to the moon by now. Not all progress can be extrapolated ad infinitum.
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The snark on my part was uncalled for, sorry. Seriously, I will be in line to buy an EV as soon as they are as inexpensive, reliable, versatile and fun as conventionality powered vehicles.
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Wow! I stand corrected, now that is a number that fundamentally changes everything.
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I just have one thing to say about Americans embrace of electric cars....1.74%.
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If population and government intervention was the driving force behind innovation, China would have kicked our butts. Anyway my point was to disprove the notion that just because the US has failed to embrace electric cars doesn't mean we are stagnating.
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That would have been a valid approach. However the was no mention of the Obama administration, and it was discussed in a segment called "Trump on Earth"
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Great movie
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No, I love innovation. In 2018 the USA, with its tax cuts and deregulation led the world in innovation with 55,981 international patents. Norway, who you would like us to emulate, didn't even make the top ten.
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Just got done listening to the Alleghenie Front on my local NPR station, during a segment they call "Trump on Earth", they were discussing how a judge shut down "the administration's" decision to approve a Wyoming oil and gas lease by claiming insufficient consideration was given to climate change. One small problem, it was Obama's administration NOT Trump's. At what point does an omission become a lie. (please let's not go down the "what about" rabbit hole)
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America did not become America by copying Norway.
