Why doesnt Israel produce cars?

I think the US does it because they have to create jobs for people to maintain a voting block of people who vote for more jobs. Like American cars are shit, and the companies aren’t profitable, so the state subsidizes them with the result of giving a whole bunch of people this sense that they’re able to compete in that market and that they’re earning their pay by doing hard work. If you’re going to dupe the middle class into voting one way or another, then you’ve got to have a middle class, and in the case of auto manufacturing here…that group is subsidized by the taxpayer.

And I don’t think that being in the middle of a deal is evil. I used to grow weed and then sell it to people. Then one day I found a lot of people who had more than they could get rid of. So I stopped bothering with growing it because it wasn’t an efficient use of my time, and because I could buy way more than I could ever grow so I could flood the market locally and lower the price overall, thereby further extending my reach into the market as my customers now had prices lower than their former suppliers and could become suppliers themselves. Overall it did a lot to increase the quality of weed around here and it put a lot of money in people’s pockets…especially mine. Did I work as hard as when I grew it? No. Did I make more off it than the growers? Yes. Did other people have to adjust and get acclimated to new market conditions in the local area? Yes. Was it evil? I don’t think so, but even it it was I wouldn’t care that much. Evil exists, and people from all races and classes perpetuate it. It’s not something that’s associated with one group exclusively. I’m sure there are some evil jews, and some evil nazis, and some evil whatever kind of other people you can think of, but there are some good ones too…except the nazis I mean they’re kind of defined by their evilness. I believe that generally speaking, when we try and apply the attributes of a group to an individual that we more often than not will be mistaken. Broad strokes just aren’t worth a shit when it comes to making judgments about the character of a person.

Like it can’t be true that, “black people are like x” or “jewish people are like x”, or “capitalists are like x” or, “socialists are like x” because inevitably you’ll find individuals who don’t fit those criteria but who are part of that group. Like a black guy with a small penis who uses good grammar, or a jewish guy who isn’t looking for a job that required him to exploit the economy or control the media, or a capitalist who doesn’t dream of owning slaves, or a socialist who is willing to work hard but just wants some guarantee that they’ll get enough out of it to live with some dignity and security.

I don’t think anyone’s ever called me a nazi on the internet before.

Your laid back attitudes and open-mindedness make me sick, you’re basically Hitler.

" I’m sure there are some evil jews, and some evil nazis, and some evil whatever kind of other people you can think of"

This doesn’t work man. It just doesn’t.

In a fair world, it would earn you a slap.

My advice? Grow the fuck up. Get rid of “evil” altogether. It obscures far more than it illuminates.

Yes, Im perfectly aware.

Notice I inserted an emoticon. You are so deeply apolitical that one can never truly take you for anything at all in that realm.
In an ideal world, youd simply find that you have better things to do than try to be wise in politics. As you clearly do, also since, in politics, you are a, whats the expression, a babe in the woods. Not sure if I use that phrase right. But you are so naive it could be delightful, if it didnt align you with the most horrific malice in history.

If only youd actually know yourself, youd be a Trumpian force to be reckoned with.

If only you didnt begrudge yourself your privileges.

I mean I don’t think there’s some attribute that a person can possess that makes them inherently unable to act in a way that someone or another might call evil. I’m not even certain that the good/evil distinction is real. But even if it is, still…anyone can be evil…at least if they try hard enough and believe in themselves.

For not just this reason, but for many…I’m glad that the world isn’t fair.

I think the apolitical thing is a little tricky, although you may be right about me on that point. It’s sort of like when the news of the day is, “hey we have problem x in society, and here are some ways that it could be addressed”…I’m interested in weighing those possible ways of addressing the problem. I can’t stand it when everyone stops talking about those possible solutions and instead starts hurling generalizations at one another. Like nothing ever got done by screeching back and fourth about what’s socialist and what’s communist and what’s freedom and what’s capitalism etc. It’s just screeching. And it’s a huge red herring that distracts from a lot of problem solving time. I wouldn’t say that I’m naive about politics, but I would say that problem solving is a lot more complicated than simply picking an ideology and defending it all the way down to its actual flaws. No ideology is flawless, and defending one, whatever it is all the way down to its flaws is just kind of…well…you know…

Wait… are you advocating for socialism here? Like things should be fair? Everyone works the same job and waits in the same lines for bread? Fairness…what a crazy idea.

" I’m sure there are some evil jews, and some evil nazis, and some evil whatever kind of other people you can think of"

Please see it. I don’t think I could handle yet another notch down in my respect for the world.

It is a hormonal thing, like drugs. There is a thin chemical balance that keeps the leftist afloat in his own consciousness, and for this balance to remain intact, no actual value judgment can be undertaken. Otherwise the consciousness would stir and immediately swallow that tiny boatlet of the utterly frigid ego.
You and I have no idea how frigid an ego can be.

The first honest value judgment such a consciousness makes is cataclysmic and can wipe out that entire being.

You d think Im kidding. Strange days.

See, the mark of a smart man. Know yourself means know your limitations, know where you arent fully “there”. The typical leftist exists solely in terms where it, they, heshe, is not fully there.
Twilight zone. Dead eyes.
I know youre not one of these zombies.

Yes the thing with politics is that what state A considers a problem, state B considers an ideal situation.
Like the Republicans thought and still think slavery is a bad idea, and the Democrats thought and still think it the hallmark of civilization.
But my point is more general than that.
Do you consider mandatory insurance a gift from above or an existential problem?
You have your opinion on that, others have another opinion.

I have no ideology, I just love the US.

#-o

“No ideology” is like Nihilism, and in some ways not even that. It’s somewhat like the Buddha’s silence, if it’s possible at all. Maybe even death.

Everything is ideology in some form, even if yours is stripped down. The US is overwhelmingly ideological, overwhelmingly. If you had said you were merely partial to it, I might have let it slide, but to love it (as you clearly do)? No. Your self-knowledge would benefit greatly from seeing past your ideology, but I don’t think this is your intention. What I’m suggesting is Socratic, maybe even Cartesian, but I would hazard that what you want is more Nietzschean: to impose your will strongly on the intuitive level rather than the analytic. I hear that Foucault would also be partial to this approach, it just doesn’t make particularly enlightening philosophical discussion to whisper carefully to a bulldozer. Love away, if you like. But don’t present it as self-knowledge, and especially not as knowledge of others.

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Kim Kardashian agrees with that issues vs grand narratives thing. She pulled up her pants and went to talk to Trump. Guess what she got?

It rhymes with pesults.

Yeah? We’re comparing Robert E Lee to Hitler now?

Tf outta here…