Doomsday Predictions -- Some History for the Coward

[ThatOwlWoman]

Earl thinks it makes him look smart repeatedly demeaning you with “sweetie” as if you were girl of six. But it only makes him look like an ass, a picture rounded out by the content of his argument.

I saw that and had the exact same thought. I applaud Mina for totally ignoring his attempts at demeaning her because he never has any way to rebut intelligent, research-driven. actual facts. That's why he chose to be a follower of the #MalignantMessiah aka #IMPOTUSx2 aka #TRE45ON.

 

[Grokmaster]

Mina was right. No way to know if Wald was wrong but he was far from alone in his view of the danger. Accomplishes nothing useful to dismiss him, but it's always helpful to replace dishonesty with truth, which is what Mina did with this thread..

WTF??? "NO WAY TO KNOW IF WALD WAS WRONG" ,,,ONLY IF YOU'RE A MATH-CHALLENGED IDIOT (aka: a "leftist; ).


He said, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George Wald"


LONG PAST THIRTY YEARS....HE WAS DEAD FUCKING WRONG.

 

[Lightbringer]

Since one of our posters was too frightened of people being exposed to facts to allow open participation in a thread, I figured I'd post here:

You've been here for a month noob, no one gives a fuck what you think about thread banning.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

There's a repeated pattern there, where developed nations got the benefit of decades of uncurbed consumption, then they belatedly get to work trying to curb it, and developing nations that finally would have had a turn are expected to follow suit. It's similar with greenhouse gas emissions.

My idea for dealing with this kind of thing involves all the major consumer nations coming together to set a common trade standard with regard to other nations, which standards could involve things like environmental compliance and labor standards, where meeting the standards would assure low trade tariffs (and failing to meet them would mean losing economical access to ALL the major consumer nations). Start out year one with a very easy standard, then ramp it up a bit every year, always keep each incremental step small enough that the easiest path will be compliance. Doing that, other nations can be coaxed to come up to advanced-nation standards much faster than they otherwise would.


The problem, though, is that the "new world order" loons lose their shit any time you talk about setting common policy on anything with other nations, insisting that it's a violation of American First principles and a breach of our sovereignty. So, they'll derail any effort like that, leaving the advanced nations in a situation where it's every country for itself, and countries like China can easily play us off against each other. For example, if Germany and the US each have separate policy with regard to China, then each knows that if it raises trade barriers against China on, say, automotive components, in order to punish China for bad conduct, the other will then have cheaper components in its cars and will be more competitive on the global market. As long as people can be kept paranoid about giving up sovereignty to any international organization, countries like China know that little will be done to confront them, because whoever tried to go it alone that way would only end up hurting itself.

You've put a lot of thought into solutions. Most of the rest of us are content to just point out problems. Thanks.

 

[Mina]

Earl thinks it makes him look smart repeatedly demeaning you with “sweetie” as if you were girl of six. But it only makes him look like an ass, a picture rounded out by the content of his argument.

People like that understand, deep down, that they aren't smart. As such, the name of the game is to try to taunt others into an emotional mindset where they can't deploy their superior mental skills effectively.

It's a bit like Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield's ear, in hopes of getting him angry enough to negate his superior boxing skills, or like a football player spitting and throwing racial slurs at an opponent in hopes that he'll retaliate with a penalty that gets him tossed from the game, or at least that he'll be too angry to execute the game-plan properly. The key is just to ignore it and focus back on the work at hand, which is the last thing the inferior competitor wants. He needs you down in the mud with him, because that's where he's at home, and he knows it's his only chance to even up the competition.

 

[Mina]

You've been here for a month noob, no one gives a fuck what you think about thread banning.

You cared enough to respond. So did a bunch of other people -- as you'll see, quite a few people waded right in to discuss. Turns out you're wrong. Live and learn.

 

[martin]

People like that understand, deep down, that they aren't smart. As such, the name of the game is to try to taunt others into an emotional mindset where they can't deploy their superior mental skills effectively.

It's a bit like Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield's ear, in hopes of getting him angry enough to negate his superior boxing skills, or like a football player spitting and throwing racial slurs at an opponent in hopes that he'll retaliate with a penalty that gets him tossed from the game, or at least that he'll be too angry to execute the game-plan properly. The key is just to ignore it and focus back on the work at hand, which is the last thing the inferior competitor wants. He needs you down in the mud with him, because that's where he's at home, and he knows it's his only chance to even up the competition.

Earl is addicted to Right wing politics as to a drug. Before the election he about lived here, pushing Trump. He disappeared for a long time after the election, probably in a kind of withdrawal. No longer. He's back and batty about it as before.

 

[martin]

WTF??? "NO WAY TO KNOW IF WALD WAS WRONG" ,,,ONLY IF YOU'RE A MATH-CHALLENGED IDIOT (aka: a "leftist; ).


He said, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George Wald"


LONG PAST THIRTY YEARS....HE WAS DEAD FUCKING WRONG.

Action was taken, as has been pointed out for the benefit of uninformed members.