Comments on: Catching Up (plus Tweets)

By: nicky

nicky — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 19:40:36 +0000

I loved Ms Ocasio-Cortez victory speech, but was less convinced by the other ‘now this’ video of Ms Haider.
It completely failed to point out the difference between criticism (and fear) of Islam and anti-muslim bigotry. Maybe I’m a bit prejudiced, but I always think of Ayaan’s: “Political Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western democracy” (or something like it, citation from memory).
I think that is true, and any such video should address that. Not addressing it is actually part of the problem, methinks.

By: nicky

nicky — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:19:47 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. If it is a more peaceful country (less crime) and less extreme poverty, the effects are predicted to be less clear.

By: nicky

nicky — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:37:16 +0000

In reply to nicky.

I have also some reservations about “higher education for all”, depends on what you’d call higher education. But I think that all deserving (ie. good) students, must have the possibility to study further without getting into huge debt.
I’m just a bit afraid about hordes of students taking “xxxxx-Studies”, that will be of little use to them or society.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the 14 points is an excellent programme. If that is her programme, I’d unhesitatingly vote for her.
I’m always stunned that ‘medicare for all’ is still an issue. I mean it should be extended to ‘illegals’, it is not because someone is ‘illegal’ he/she cannot spread, say, TB or other diseases. How shortsighted can one get.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 20:35:56 +0000

In reply to nicky. I suspect most men see it a bit differently to women. More of a crossing-of-the-legs response. :-)

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 07:08:58 +0000

I find ‘the Snip’ not hilarious. Dramatic? Yes. Probably necessary or at least convenient? Yes. Hilarious? No.
Maybe I identify too much with the poor tomcat.

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 07:01:03 +0000

On the list of 14 points that Mr Hannity sees as negative there are only two I would not wholly agree with (meaning I see only 2 as possibly not 100% positive), possibly because I do not fully understand them.
– A federal jobs guarantee. Would that mean an incompetent federal administrator cannot lose his/her job?
– The last point, about curbing Wall Street gambling appears more or less ok, but I haven’t enough knowledge about Glass-Steagall to know if restoring it is a ‘good’ thing. I’d tend to say yes, but I’m no expert.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:53:42 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. Indeed!

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:12:13 +0000

In reply to Jenny Haniver. Jerry has posted about this on WEIT today. You've probably seen it by now. There are lots of good comments there.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 03:18:22 +0000

There are things Peterson advocates that I’m in favor of, which was why I was interested in learning more about him and what he thinks in other areas. And I’d been under the impression that he was an atheist or agnostic and skeptical of religious belief. But he plays it both ways with religion — and other things as well, and I began to question his, dare I say, values? For someone making moral arguments, the bases for his vociferous principles are set upon the shifting sands of equivocation. This then made me question his motives for the things he asserts that I do believe in, and I’ve come to think that, while we may agree on certain things, our motives are not at all the same (or so I think), and in this regard, one;s motives matter; so I’ve quickly lost any positive sentiments toward the man.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 23:56:51 +0000

In reply to Jenny Haniver.

I meant to email that debate to Jerry when I found it. We’ve emailed back and forth several times since then, and the link to the video is still sitting in a blank email waiting for me to send it! So he will see it, but probably not until tomorrow now.

On some things I like Jordan Peterson, but others I don’t, and this is absolutely dreadful. I was quite shocked when I saw it that he thought this way.

If anyone else is wondering what we’re talking about, here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrpiCsuv6w

I actually haven’t watched any of his stuff about women yet, but that was because I thought I wouldn’t like it. I am planning to at some point, but I want to wait until I’m feeling better.