https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1
Friday, June 24, 2016
24-06-2016: meant to do more listening, but brexit got in the way (unrelated rants)
tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1
j reacts to youtube removing carriage returns from comments
in youtube's latest demonstration of illiteracy, it seems to have removed the ability to break over paragraphs in comments.
would you like to know my response? i will gratuitously utilize the reply feature by posting one paragraph per comment.
the problem here is the twitter mentality. if i could go back in time and kill the fucking idiot that came up with a character limit...
would you like to know my response? i will gratuitously utilize the reply feature by posting one paragraph per comment.
the problem here is the twitter mentality. if i could go back in time and kill the fucking idiot that came up with a character limit...
j reacts to bernie sanders' confounding insolence
"Bernie Sanders said Friday he will likely vote for Hillary Clinton for president in November, the strongest expression of support yet from the Vermont senator, but he left the door open that he could change his mind."
this is becoming farce. they just can't deal with the lack of expectation.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/politics/bernie-sanders-will-vote-for-hillary-clinton/index.html
this just in.
bernie sanders has confirmed that he would, in fact, brake if he saw clinton crossing the street.
that's something, anyways. back to you, bob.
this is becoming farce. they just can't deal with the lack of expectation.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/politics/bernie-sanders-will-vote-for-hillary-clinton/index.html
this just in.
bernie sanders has confirmed that he would, in fact, brake if he saw clinton crossing the street.
that's something, anyways. back to you, bob.
j reacts to affirmative action (with a canadian legal analysis)
i don't like affirmative action, either, frankly. it has an absolutely valid critique from the left. but, i think it's a kind of a short term necessity. i've made both arguments about whether this necessity has run it's course, and don't really have a strict opinion on it. i would love to wake up one day and say "we don't need affirmative action anymore". what is clear is that this day is not upon us. what is less clear is if we've made progress or not, and whether this is really the right approach. if we cannot expect progress to come from it, i think the approach should be abandoned and we should try something else.
as a social libertarian, i simply can't agree that this is ideal or an acceptable structural concession to the way society ought to operate. i think that it's best to break this down into three options.
1) the status quo, into perpetuity. that is: society is permanently racist, and we need permanent structural means to balance it out. that would mean we should have affirmative action forever. i absolutely reject this in the most forceful terms possible.
2) society is temporarily racist, and affirmative action is helping us make things better. we're not at the point where we can get rid of it yet, but we're seeing some progress and we should stick with it a little longer - so long as we keep in mind the the end goal of eventually abolishing it. i can live with this, if the evidence upholds it.
3) society is temporarily racist, but affirmative action is not helping us make things better. there has been no appreciable change in social attitudes or hiring practices. employers simply see it as a burden, try to circumvent the law as much as possible and ultimately want to go back to openly racist hiring policies. well, then why are we holding to it if it doesn't work? seems like we need to try something else.
the first option is wrong - that's just ideological. i refuse to accept that racism is normal or inevitable, so i refuse to accept the perpetual necessity of a policy that is only even worth discussing because it is ameliorative. i'm a social libertarian. i'm sorry. if it's working, it's a necessary evil - but i won't stop stressing it as evil.
it's two and three that i'm torn between. the court made a choice. i'm not convinced the evidence upholds it. but, i don't see anybody talking about any better ideas, either.
normally, when you put a policy in place, it comes with an assessment period at the end of it. what have the effects been? has this policy been effective? if so, what have we learned that can improve it? if not, what other ideas exist that might work better?
this issue is just stuck at the political phase. opponents never really accepted it, so advocates have never really stopped fighting for it. but, we're decades into it, now. it's time to stop and evaluate.
as a social libertarian, i simply can't agree that this is ideal or an acceptable structural concession to the way society ought to operate. i think that it's best to break this down into three options.
1) the status quo, into perpetuity. that is: society is permanently racist, and we need permanent structural means to balance it out. that would mean we should have affirmative action forever. i absolutely reject this in the most forceful terms possible.
2) society is temporarily racist, and affirmative action is helping us make things better. we're not at the point where we can get rid of it yet, but we're seeing some progress and we should stick with it a little longer - so long as we keep in mind the the end goal of eventually abolishing it. i can live with this, if the evidence upholds it.
3) society is temporarily racist, but affirmative action is not helping us make things better. there has been no appreciable change in social attitudes or hiring practices. employers simply see it as a burden, try to circumvent the law as much as possible and ultimately want to go back to openly racist hiring policies. well, then why are we holding to it if it doesn't work? seems like we need to try something else.
the first option is wrong - that's just ideological. i refuse to accept that racism is normal or inevitable, so i refuse to accept the perpetual necessity of a policy that is only even worth discussing because it is ameliorative. i'm a social libertarian. i'm sorry. if it's working, it's a necessary evil - but i won't stop stressing it as evil.
it's two and three that i'm torn between. the court made a choice. i'm not convinced the evidence upholds it. but, i don't see anybody talking about any better ideas, either.
normally, when you put a policy in place, it comes with an assessment period at the end of it. what have the effects been? has this policy been effective? if so, what have we learned that can improve it? if not, what other ideas exist that might work better?
this issue is just stuck at the political phase. opponents never really accepted it, so advocates have never really stopped fighting for it. but, we're decades into it, now. it's time to stop and evaluate.
phoenixkhost
News Flash left-wingers...calling people fascist, racist, and bigots does not work.
jessica
so, what if i call hitler a fascist? is that just an empty ad hominem?
let me guess. godwin's law, right?
i think the more important lesson for the left is that you can't argue with fundamentalists. rather, you have to make sure they just don't happen.
what's the cause of this? thatcher destroyed the education system in britain, and nobody did anything to rebuild it.
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jagheterjonteh
Free movement was not possible before, UK has never been a part of Schengen... I live in Europe and have visited the UK several times. Trade benefits will be worked out in Britain's favor, they are one of the strongest economies in the world. The UK has already benefitted from leaving, the pound has decreased in value and as an export country that is great news. Any other arguments I can demolish for you?
jessica
do you really think the uk is still an export economy?
i guess that's what happens when you use fifty year old textbooks in high schools.
jagheterjonteh
First of all, the UK is not a country. It consists of four nations, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Second, the UK export of 2015 was $503 billion, which is the 9th largest in the world. So definitely still an export country. You're not that Sharp are you?
jessica
it's a 3 trillion dollar economy that's entirely reliant on imports. there were conscious government policies to deindustrialize. the capacity to return to an export economy does not exist. this guy thinks he still lives in the empire. but, it's exactly what the problem is: mass ignorance about the reality of the uk economy in the current century, as a consequence of a horribly broken education system.
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jessica
while that claim is not going to actually come out in the numbers (rather, we will learn that conservative voters rejected the pleas of david cameron, which is why he has resigned), i think a moment of pause is required to point out that a big part of what has allowed for the rise of the ukip is the political vacuum created by new labour's swing to the hard right. euro-skeptic parties throughout europe have taken certain economic positions that are usually associated with the left and have been able to gain traction as a consequence of there not really being an actual left.
the mainstream parties are starting to adjust by reorienting themselves, but the damage may already be done. and, yes - trump is somewhat of the same phenomenon.
if you fear trump, you should take brexit as an ominous signal. the root causes are the same: thatcherism in britain, reaganism in the united states. you claim americans could not be so stupid? note that the british just proved they are that stupid, whether by accident or by design.
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jessica
see, what's happening here is that toza doesn't like being called a racist because it hurts his feelings. he'd prefer a more politically correct term, like "integrationally challenged".
:)
Broke Ass Dollar Store Ellen
calling racist people racists? how dare we!
all this political correctness making it hard for racists to be bigots without consequences, boo-hoo-hoo.
jessica
you need to be a lot more sensitive about their feelings. a difficulty accepting others is something that can be disabling on a day-to-day basis, which just exacerbates their existing problems. they need hugs.
News Flash left-wingers...calling people fascist, racist, and bigots does not work.
jessica
so, what if i call hitler a fascist? is that just an empty ad hominem?
let me guess. godwin's law, right?
i think the more important lesson for the left is that you can't argue with fundamentalists. rather, you have to make sure they just don't happen.
what's the cause of this? thatcher destroyed the education system in britain, and nobody did anything to rebuild it.
---
jagheterjonteh
Free movement was not possible before, UK has never been a part of Schengen... I live in Europe and have visited the UK several times. Trade benefits will be worked out in Britain's favor, they are one of the strongest economies in the world. The UK has already benefitted from leaving, the pound has decreased in value and as an export country that is great news. Any other arguments I can demolish for you?
jessica
do you really think the uk is still an export economy?
i guess that's what happens when you use fifty year old textbooks in high schools.
jagheterjonteh
First of all, the UK is not a country. It consists of four nations, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Second, the UK export of 2015 was $503 billion, which is the 9th largest in the world. So definitely still an export country. You're not that Sharp are you?
jessica
it's a 3 trillion dollar economy that's entirely reliant on imports. there were conscious government policies to deindustrialize. the capacity to return to an export economy does not exist. this guy thinks he still lives in the empire. but, it's exactly what the problem is: mass ignorance about the reality of the uk economy in the current century, as a consequence of a horribly broken education system.
(deleted)
jessica
while that claim is not going to actually come out in the numbers (rather, we will learn that conservative voters rejected the pleas of david cameron, which is why he has resigned), i think a moment of pause is required to point out that a big part of what has allowed for the rise of the ukip is the political vacuum created by new labour's swing to the hard right. euro-skeptic parties throughout europe have taken certain economic positions that are usually associated with the left and have been able to gain traction as a consequence of there not really being an actual left.
the mainstream parties are starting to adjust by reorienting themselves, but the damage may already be done. and, yes - trump is somewhat of the same phenomenon.
if you fear trump, you should take brexit as an ominous signal. the root causes are the same: thatcherism in britain, reaganism in the united states. you claim americans could not be so stupid? note that the british just proved they are that stupid, whether by accident or by design.
---
jessica
see, what's happening here is that toza doesn't like being called a racist because it hurts his feelings. he'd prefer a more politically correct term, like "integrationally challenged".
:)
Broke Ass Dollar Store Ellen
calling racist people racists? how dare we!
all this political correctness making it hard for racists to be bigots without consequences, boo-hoo-hoo.
jessica
you need to be a lot more sensitive about their feelings. a difficulty accepting others is something that can be disabling on a day-to-day basis, which just exacerbates their existing problems. they need hugs.
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