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|    D to Salvador Mirzo    |
|    Re: OT: personal stories    |
|    27 Feb 25 15:21:35    |
      From: nospam@example.net              On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:              >> Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or do not       think       >> about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at       the       >> immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their       immediate,       >> knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(       >       > Quite right. And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.       >       > Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''       > Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.              True!              >> Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and       >> are leftists due to political power gains.       >       > And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and       > confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so       > than in others.              It will destroy itself in time. Since they have abandoned objective truth, and       built their ethos on being the most vulnerable group, they will go down in       flames and in fighting, since nothing can be resolved without any kind of       objective truth to ground discussions. Sadly it takes time.              >       > We should check whether she really got the money. Getting a lawsuit       > your way doesn't imply an increase in the checking account balance       > (until later).              Also true!              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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