One of the reasons people don’t like liberty is the other side of the coin which is responsibility. Under liberty, you bear the burden over your own choices and can’t compel anyone else to provide for you.
“Trust science if it aligns with your politics; ignore it otherwise.” -absolutely everyone
Teachers unions are about giving your kids the least amount of education for the most amount of money.
I noticed an interesting incongruity in the last item in Luke 7:22 when Jesus lists the things people have witnessed him do.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.” Luke 7:22
Maybe it means poor in spirit and not money. Still, it’s interesting to note I don’t think Jesus ever miraculously gave people money (besides one coin in a fish).
Also interesting, because all those other maladies Jesus fixed are not ones we (for the most part) can do anything about, but we can make someone not poor by giving them money.
And we can also preach the gospel.
I’m not planning to get Cyberpunk 2077. Cyber sounds cool, but I have no desire to be a punk.
Instead of god mode, I hope Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has “Reagan mode.”
Finished the first draft of the third Superego novel. It’s leagues away from being readable to anyone else, but it’s got a beginning and an end and most of the middle.
I like to keep forward momentum, so my first drafts are filled with holes as I don’t like to pause to come up with made-up scifi names and if a section isn’t working, I just move on to the next.
I also usually decide on things that mean I will have to rewrite earlier chapters to fit, but I don’t go back and do rewrites until I’ve reached the end one way or another.
So it still has a lot of work left until it’s readable by anyone other than me. Then it will go to the alpha reader (SarahK), and after she approves I’m not embarrassing myself, to beta readers.
But, hey, it was five years between Superego and Superego: Fathom, and now we’re on schedule for a year or less between sequels 2 and 3.
I hope the new Call of Duty game where you shoot Commies for Reagan has a bonus level where you punch hippies.
Live your life such that you feel no obligation to defend any politician.
Man, I don’t know who wouldn’t be inspired by that Call of Duty Cold War trailer with Blue Monday playing while Reagan inspires you to action. Harkens back to a simpler time when we had real problems — Commies wanting to nuke us — and didn’t have to invent stupid ones.
And despite a realistic world-ending scenario constantly hanging over us, the 80s feels about a hundred times more optimistic than now. The thing this country needs more than anything else is perspective.
It’s weird now to think about how the promotion for The Mandalorian before it’s season 1 premiere didn’t include Baby Yoda at all. What was even in those trailers?
It’s a production that’s good at keeping secrets. No one seems to know anything about any episode before the day it comes out. And even though everyone knows Ahsoka Tano is in one of the episodes this season, not a single image has leaked.
Padme: “I can’t believe that Anakin would kill younglings at the Jedi temple. He’s only ever mass-murdered children once before.”
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes. No one else. Just them. If you ever hear anyone say an absolute, you should immediately kill them for being a Sith as they are the only ones who ever use absolutes ever. There is no exceptions to this rule.”
“Palpatine, you may have a point about how the Jedi are too quick to dismiss the Dark Side as evil.”
“Good to hear that. So would you like to murder a bunch of kids for me?”
“Would I!”
My kids put on Revenge of the Sith (according to my 5yo daughter, she loves the one “where Anakin kills Padme”), and it’s just impossible to watch and not make fun of.
UNLIMITED SATIRE!!!!
“Father, I sense there is still good in you.”
“Did I ever tell you how I once murdered a bunch of children with very little prompting?”
“Oh. No. I was dealing with all the facts here.”
There are two types of people who don’t actually care about masks: Those who refuse to wear masks and those just like to yell and mock those who don’t wear masks to feel good about themselves but don’t care about actually being persuasive.
People scream and yell about things not because they care too much but because they care too little — too little to swallow their own ego.
The whole focus of the left on Facebook and such is so so dumb. The core reason people despise the left isn’t because of what news they’ve been force-fed. They seek out the other news because they despise you and all your efforts to quash it will just make them despise you more.
In the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, I think it’s pretty inarguable that if Uncle Billy had never been born, things would have turned out great for everyone.
