Marshall Sutherland

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:31:21 -0500

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^The Economics of Political Correctness + Research

What happens when fear of social judgment stifles open discourse? Harvard economist Roland Fryer explores how the rising costs of speaking openly are reshaping intellectual debate on college campuses and beyond.

From anonymous apps to self-censorship, discover how modern social pressures are creating hidden economic incentives that influence what people are willing to say—and what groundbreaking ideas might be lost in the silence. Join Fryer as he makes the case for brave, honest dialogue in an age of increasing caution.

#video #cancel_culture #unintended_consequences

cancel culture unintended consequences video

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:15:30 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

This chart, from centrist Democratic pollsters Blueprint, offers a good rundown of the messages that hurt the [Democratic] party:

#politics

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Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:25:31 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

I learned about this last night. It is from March 2023. If these are still on the agenda, I could get behind most of them. Of course, the devil is in the details and there has been a big problem determining what is considered true and false. Would Ed Snowden be seen as an enemy of the state (5) or a defender of the people (7)?

#^Agenda47: President Trump’s Plan to Dismantle the Deep State and Return Power to the American People | Donald J. Trump For President 2024

1. On Day One, re-issue 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats.

2. Overhaul federal departments and agencies, firing all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus.

3. Fundamentally reform the FISA courts, ensuring that corruption is rooted out.

4. Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power.

5. Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the media to create false narratives, pressing criminal charges when appropriate.

6. Make every Inspector General’s Office independent from the departments they oversee, so that they do not become protectors of the deep state.

7. Establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure that they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people.

8. Continue Trump administration effort to move parts of the federal bureaucracy outside of the Washington Swamp, just like President Trump moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado.

Up to 100,000 government positions could be moved out of Washington.

9. Ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and regulate, such as Big Pharma.

10. Push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.

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Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:46:47 -0500

phani00 (hubzilla)

phani002242@hub.phanisvara.com

...big problem determining what is considered true and false.

exactly; i could get behind those points if they were enacted by somebody i considered sane. i'm afraid trump's definition of what is true or false, good or bad, will be 180 deg. opposed to mine.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:39:45 -0500

Tejan Ausland

tejan@hubzilla.monster

This sounds like a great list. I can see why they tried to kill him.

Like @phani00 (hubzilla), I am concerned with who determines what is truth and what is not. After all, a lot of the attempts to suppress or censor "disinformation" were actually attempts to suppress or censor the truth.

Free speech is paramount. But as far as dismantling the corruption in the federal government, I am all for it.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:37:09 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

A politician saying they won't touch Social Security is like a life guard saying they won't touch someone floundering in deep water.

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:48:39 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^x.com
Alexandros Marinos wrote:

If you voted Democrat and you are feeling that the election result is truly horrifying, do this one simple thing for your mental health:

Write down your fears of what might happen in the next 4 years on a piece of paper.

Re-read and check in on them every few months.

It will be a constant source of relief to you when you see that your fears will not, in fact, come true.

Then start asking why you had those fears in the first place and how you can prevent them from forming the next time.

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Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:49:40 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Or maybe you will find that only half come true which should also be a relief.

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:53:50 -0500

Tejan Ausland

tejan@hubzilla.monster

Or if you are cynical, you can keep track of these developments so that you are prepared. Because some of your fears might come true.

For example, if you crossed the border illegally and do not have papers, new policies could result in you being deported. And if your fears are related to that, those are real fears.

But as far as the country becoming a dictatorship, that is unlikely to happen because of how the political system works.

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:19:03 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Post-election press conference

Team Red and Team Blue offer their analysis and plan of action in this post-election press conference.

#video #politics #humor

video politics humor

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:44:08 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^Why Humans Require Community For Well-Being | Sebastian Junger

Today's interview is a special one, and a continuation of Thoughtful Money's exploration of other important forms of wealth beyond money.

As those who live to be 100 years old tell us, true wealth, the things that really matter in life, are a function of the following three things: fulfilling relationships, purpose and health.

Today's discussion will deliver hard on those first two, explaining how humans are evolutionarily wired for meaningful interaction with other humans, oftentimes in pursuit of a greater societal good.

When we do this, we are truly "alive" in the way nature created us to be.
So perhaps the modern epidemic of loneliness, anxiety, depression and demoralization is a predictable outcome of today's cultural dominance of the virtual, the partisan, and the superficial.

To help us better understand our evolutionary need for tribal connection and thereby our path towards authentic living, we have the great privilege of being joined today by National Magazine & Peabody Award-winning author, Sebastian Junger.

You may know him from his book The Perfect Storm which became a Hollywood movie featuring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg & Diane Lane. He's also written a number of other best-sellers including Fire, War, Tribe, Freedom and most recently In My Time of Dying.

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Fri, 08 Nov 2024 13:04:45 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

From this week's FOMC press conference:

Washington Post: Your predecessors have warned that rising deficits are not good for the country. What will you say?

Jerome Powell: The Federal government's fiscal path is unsustainable. The debt level currently currently isn't at existential levels, but its trajectory is.

It's not like problem isn't in plain sight, but no one does anything about it.

#Federal_Reserve #debt

Federal Reserve debt

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:59:39 -0500

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

#^How Vote Counting Impairs Grieving and Crushes Unity - Instant Grace 26 with Jim Babka

Our vote counting process is bad. Unnecessary complications have created unnecessary social consequences. It wasn't always this way! Jim explains how it was better in every voters lifetime. The loser's grief was better soothed; national unity was encouraged.