Actually I myself am not in favor of calling children "innocent." That's a sort of value judgment whether people intend that or not.
They are immature. They need to be protected because their immaturity means they can't protect themselves. Their immaturity means they don't yet have good judgment. They don't have all the life skills, nor physical strength, nor opportunities to escape dangerous situations. These things need to be nurtured by healthy caregivers and systems.
The natural traits of childhood--curiosity, adventurousness, affection, trust--make them extremely vulnerable in every possible way. They need to be protected from harm. They need to be taught healthy ways of navigating through life.
Further to your points, all excellent to a fault 👌
🗨 We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~~Bertrand Russell [lo & behold, a good half a century back!]
@SCA - fair comment, and what you say is true. My comment was aimed specifically at schools that are "sex educating" little kids, and trannifying their minds. Those conversations have NO place in school. Until a kid gets to about 10+ they should not be hearing that nonsense.
Which is especially why I dislike that word "innocent" when used about children. It creates a mental image of a sort of wall of thorned roses lest the real world get in.
The real world is always there, and kids are watching and listening and learning from the very first moments.
Maybe it seems like semantics here but I strongly feel otherwise.
Safety freak. You stink of that particular neurosis. I bet you’re white. Good lecture, though. When I encounter instruction like this, I always imagine looking up at the speaker. And he looking down.
Very thoughtful and good. Because they are young does not necessarily mean they are all kind, and we see that every day, every hour. They need all kinds of guidance and example and it is so easy with the best of intentions, with all our adult imperfections, to send them off the path.
Weather without guilt, sports without politics, jokes without scolds; this is the world I want. We can build the parallel systems. Let's shine the light on what can be so that people do not fear to leave behind that which they hate but know.
Another sanctimoniously delivered blinding glimpse of the obvious. Many comments come from a place of cozy idealism. Your cold-water refutations--the POV-of-SCA reality police counterpoints--are reading with the comfort and understanding of a wet blanket. Wishing for a return to innocence for kids is a good thing. The American South is also a parallel system for what ails the degenerate, woke liberal society. So says me. Deal with it.
Yeah, welcome to Lousyana; Demonrat goobernator John Bel (the wrong) Edwards is as bad as any other Demonrat goobernator. We try to ignore him, but then there's that "law" thing. He's proof that not every vet's service is honorable and some of them are just authoritarians following other authoritarians. Everyone's life he ruined during Covid-1984 should weigh heavily on his soul in the lake of fire.
Now or 150 years ago? We lost the principle of self-determination under Lincoln, but there were plenty of abuses in the South and the North. We need to take the good, leave the rest, and do good work.
I'm in favor of helping people who want to be helped.
Example: yesterday, I went into a store to inquire about a wood burning stove. Young man in his 30's helped me. Really nice guy. Mentions his dad is a super prepper on 60 acres of land. He seems... open to information, so we get to talking about he poison death jab. The young man got the poison death jab last year, but will take no more. I turn him onto zelenkos z stack site, and talked to him about ivermectin. Opened his eyes.
There are a lot of good, decent people out there who made unwise decisions. They didn't want to see the unjabbed die, they didn't shame anyone, they didn't discriminate. They just wanted things to go back to normal, and believed the lie. I don't want them to perish.
I know some young construction workers who got jabbed. They wanted to be able to go back to bars. For the most part they didn’t care I wouldn’t wear a mask or wasn’t jabbed. But that wasn’t the bulk of people I know. Especially at my age and social strata - 70+ well to do middle class For the most part they leaped into Nazism.
We should all be in favor of that. God bless you for being light and salt.
The people who just want to cover up their evil and continue to do harm don’t get a pass. But some may genuinely be repentant. By their fruits you will know them. Genuine repentance of past evils is a good thing. We are seeing God uncover many things these days, not the least the evil that so easily ensnares us. May we give mercy where it is needed, as we hope to receive it ourselves.
I think part of the difficulty in articulating what we are "for" is that so many of us have one, simple want: just leave us alone to live our lives in the way we see fit. Let us make our own decisions. Let us decide what risks we wish to take. Let us decide what information is mis-, dis-, or factual. Just leave us alone.
Yes and no ..Some say our commitment to and concept of ‘freedom’ is a really fragile and an unprecedented historical achievement, (~150 years only !!) eg. Martin Hagglund in his 2019 book ‘This Life’. Seems like we’ll have to fight hard to keep the ‘idea’ of ‘freedom’ alive at all. We are rapidly adapting to ‘unfreedom’ as normal.
'Simple' does not mean 'easy' especially when lots of would be overlords are trying to take it away. It takes more than commitment to keep it. But as for the definition, I believe it is pretty simple.
I've got a feel good story to share. Last night as I was handing out candy to a ton of children in my brand new neighborhood in South Carolina, I ran very low and my bucket neared empty. (I had misjudged how very many kids where nearby and didn't buy nearly enough.). Not one, but two children dug into their own bags and dumped large handfuls of candy into my bucket so other kids could have some. THIS right here gives me hope for the future.
In Victoria BC it takes about eight years to build a concrete rental building. You buy the land, get plans done, get approvals, do your construction docs, line up financing, and then build. Then you rent it up and get take out financing. This is if you are pushing hard the entire eight years. These Marxist revolutionaries think they can bring down the man in November and by March they’ll have a socialist paradise. If you tear a society down you would have fifty to seventy years of hardships before you get something good going. They’ve never built anything. They think their ideas are what builds something.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG! Thank you so much. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time :-) what a great video. And, I couldn’t agree more. Let’s assert our values. And say what we stand for. Honor, courage, commitment, integrity, tolerance, accountability, creativity, fairness, respect, kindness, forgiveness. And peace. Let’s lead by example. and speak up when we see bad behavior. Thank you, Gato, for leading by example and being such a great inspiration :-)❤️
I want all govt to stay in its lane and only attempt to do (security, police, fire) that for which it can demonstrate it is the superior provider. For everything else (roads, bridges, construction, development, licensing, waste management) I want the government to act only as wise regulator and transparent contract manager.
Speaking of wise regulation, I want more of that. The trick about wise regulation is that it avoids and averts actual problems.
Government understands exactly zero about how the economy works, how businesses arise, and how jobs are created. I want them to stop pretending otherwise. (Basically, "stay in your lane," see above.)
I want people to be treated as, and to act responsibly as, individuals. I don't want to hear about skin tones and lived experiences and privileges and oppression. There is a huge spectrum of quality & behavior across both sexes and all races. Quit pigeonholing (for political gain) people into color prisons. We are, all of us, so much more than that; in fact that thing (skin tone) is the least relevant item on the list of irrelevancies.
Almost there, but there's one vital thing you left out of "I want all govt to ... only attempt to do ... that for which it can demonstrate it is the superior provider."
That missing component is, of course, constitutional warrant for the thing in question. For example, if the FedGov could demonstrate that it was as superior provider of K-12 education (stop laughing!!! it's just a hypothetical!) that would NOT mean it was legitimate for it to take over education from the States. Instead, it would mean it was time to break out the constitutional amendment process once again, and see if you could convince a supermajority of your fellow citizens to grant the feds that authority.
I'm not sure we need Constitutional amendments for each slice of governmental activity. But it is a sickness of the system that unelected bureaucrats can create, via administrative law (whether in states or the Fed) regulations which (always) have unintended consequences and collateral damage.
And it's another sickness that incredibly inexperienced and ill-informed (but oh so confident) lawmakers, whether legislative or administrative, see no problem whatsoever with starting a hearing by saying, "What the country needs is a law which . . . ."
What the country needs, surprise-surprise, is some restraint.
Perhaps my ideas are more kumbaya than realpolitik, but if we could just get these conservative, wise, careful models out there for a trial run, and then find out that cities & states run this way provide better lives for their citizenry, then it might spark the change we need.
Of course we do; it says so very clearly right in Amendments IX and X.
Not *micromanaging* amendments, of course, but some kind of authorization to act in a given area. Take for example the subject of alcohol consumption. Our ancestors where legally/politically honest enough to realize that NOTHING provided Congress the power to legislation against the personal consumption of alcohol products (though it clearly could have banned interstate commerce in such products*.) So they actually followed the rules-for-amending and got the Feds the legitimate power to do so. Some years later, having realized this was a very stupid own-goal, they did it again to mostly undo that earlier amendment. Now, where is the comparable amendment allowing the feds to criminalize personal consumption of cannabis products?** (Hint: there isn't one.)
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*Such a ban would have complied with the letter of the Commerce Clause while thoroughly violating its spirit. The whole point of federal paramountcy here was so that states COULDN'T erect trade barriers, not so that the feds COULD.
**Not at all a fan of such consumption, but that doesn't make me want to let the feds legislate against it w/o any valid constitutional authority.
It's the same thing I've wanted since I realized in the 90s that Microsoft (and other companies) wanted to own the digital space and monopolize it.
I want America to move into the digital age.
That means I want open-source systems as the default.
I want open sourced algorithms as the default.
I want this culture of openness to overpower the elements of the government that abuse the laws permitting secrecy.
Right now America is still falling into the trap that China embraced, where the digital realm is centralized and allows for centralization of power unlike anything any western goverment was ever intended to see or deal with.
The only answer is the same answer that Linus Torvald came up with. The same answer that Richard Stallman came up with. The same answer that Thomas Jefferson put pen to paper for. And it is in direct opposition to people like Bill Gates (and always will be).
That's my state! Go Tennessee!
I'm in favor of bad cats.
I'm in favor of good dogs (sorry Bad Cats...)
I'm in favor of children being innocent again.
I'm in favor of justice going "blind" again - everybody is equal under the law.
I'm in favor of eating too much on Thanksgiving day.
I'm in favor of random acts of kindness.
I'm in favor of chocolate.
I'm in favor of telling a-holes to f-off.
I'm in favor of genuine real love.
I'm in favor of open, honest debates.
I'm in favor of loving our country again.
i'm in favor of humor again, without fear of offending someone.
Bill Maher finally letting it rip: https://twitter.com/kingojungle/status/1587198753043251203?s=46&t=9VXXj_FH2lnNcy_DsWlUCg
"I have my Fuck the Patriarchy t-shirt. And my check from the Patriarchy to pay my rent" 😂😂
Bc it’s true.
He’s way late to the party ain’t he? Still don’t like him!
I don't like him either but that was funny. Really funny.
That was awesome! And quite accurate! Too bad he hasn't truly been red-pilled.
Actually I myself am not in favor of calling children "innocent." That's a sort of value judgment whether people intend that or not.
They are immature. They need to be protected because their immaturity means they can't protect themselves. Their immaturity means they don't yet have good judgment. They don't have all the life skills, nor physical strength, nor opportunities to escape dangerous situations. These things need to be nurtured by healthy caregivers and systems.
The natural traits of childhood--curiosity, adventurousness, affection, trust--make them extremely vulnerable in every possible way. They need to be protected from harm. They need to be taught healthy ways of navigating through life.
They need to be valued because they are children.
Further to your points, all excellent to a fault 👌
🗨 We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~~Bertrand Russell [lo & behold, a good half a century back!]
Perfect quote.
They're really trying to exterminate the capacity to think and to refute nonsense.
I'm with you! Those who do not value the children need to be called out .....and, dealt with accordingly!
@SCA - fair comment, and what you say is true. My comment was aimed specifically at schools that are "sex educating" little kids, and trannifying their minds. Those conversations have NO place in school. Until a kid gets to about 10+ they should not be hearing that nonsense.
I understood your intent.
Which is especially why I dislike that word "innocent" when used about children. It creates a mental image of a sort of wall of thorned roses lest the real world get in.
The real world is always there, and kids are watching and listening and learning from the very first moments.
Maybe it seems like semantics here but I strongly feel otherwise.
Safety freak. You stink of that particular neurosis. I bet you’re white. Good lecture, though. When I encounter instruction like this, I always imagine looking up at the speaker. And he looking down.
You delicious boy, you.
Very thoughtful and good. Because they are young does not necessarily mean they are all kind, and we see that every day, every hour. They need all kinds of guidance and example and it is so easy with the best of intentions, with all our adult imperfections, to send them off the path.
That wasn't quite what I meant here.
Ah. Was what I meant though.
100% agreement except
Go Dawgs ;-)
good luck on Saturday - should be an EPIC game!!
Go Vols!!! Love it.
VFL!!! GB🍊!!
good ole rocky top (wooo!)
I'm in favor of getting pineapple OUT of pizza.
I’m in favour of Debbie’s in favors! 🤩 With a caveat SCA so beautifully explains ↓↓
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/state-what-you-are-in-favor-of-as/comment/10151482
For words are forever tricky for the different connotative baggage they lug for different us 🤷Watch your words, as they famously say 😉
Weather without guilt, sports without politics, jokes without scolds; this is the world I want. We can build the parallel systems. Let's shine the light on what can be so that people do not fear to leave behind that which they hate but know.
That parallel system would be called the American South.
No shortage of dreadful things happening in the American South.
There's no magic paradise anywhere. Human beings are found everywhere.
Another sanctimoniously delivered blinding glimpse of the obvious. Many comments come from a place of cozy idealism. Your cold-water refutations--the POV-of-SCA reality police counterpoints--are reading with the comfort and understanding of a wet blanket. Wishing for a return to innocence for kids is a good thing. The American South is also a parallel system for what ails the degenerate, woke liberal society. So says me. Deal with it.
With great amusement.
Yeah, welcome to Lousyana; Demonrat goobernator John Bel (the wrong) Edwards is as bad as any other Demonrat goobernator. We try to ignore him, but then there's that "law" thing. He's proof that not every vet's service is honorable and some of them are just authoritarians following other authoritarians. Everyone's life he ruined during Covid-1984 should weigh heavily on his soul in the lake of fire.
Now or 150 years ago? We lost the principle of self-determination under Lincoln, but there were plenty of abuses in the South and the North. We need to take the good, leave the rest, and do good work.
Well said!
I'm in favor of helping people who want to be helped.
Example: yesterday, I went into a store to inquire about a wood burning stove. Young man in his 30's helped me. Really nice guy. Mentions his dad is a super prepper on 60 acres of land. He seems... open to information, so we get to talking about he poison death jab. The young man got the poison death jab last year, but will take no more. I turn him onto zelenkos z stack site, and talked to him about ivermectin. Opened his eyes.
There are a lot of good, decent people out there who made unwise decisions. They didn't want to see the unjabbed die, they didn't shame anyone, they didn't discriminate. They just wanted things to go back to normal, and believed the lie. I don't want them to perish.
I know some young construction workers who got jabbed. They wanted to be able to go back to bars. For the most part they didn’t care I wouldn’t wear a mask or wasn’t jabbed. But that wasn’t the bulk of people I know. Especially at my age and social strata - 70+ well to do middle class For the most part they leaped into Nazism.
The majority of people I know are over 50. All but a handful are uninjected.
I know one person over 70 who is not injected.
We should all be in favor of that. God bless you for being light and salt.
The people who just want to cover up their evil and continue to do harm don’t get a pass. But some may genuinely be repentant. By their fruits you will know them. Genuine repentance of past evils is a good thing. We are seeing God uncover many things these days, not the least the evil that so easily ensnares us. May we give mercy where it is needed, as we hope to receive it ourselves.
I think part of the difficulty in articulating what we are "for" is that so many of us have one, simple want: just leave us alone to live our lives in the way we see fit. Let us make our own decisions. Let us decide what risks we wish to take. Let us decide what information is mis-, dis-, or factual. Just leave us alone.
But that translates to being *for* freedom.
That wasn't so hard!
Correct. Freedom is the absence of coercion. Pretty simple, really.
Yes and no ..Some say our commitment to and concept of ‘freedom’ is a really fragile and an unprecedented historical achievement, (~150 years only !!) eg. Martin Hagglund in his 2019 book ‘This Life’. Seems like we’ll have to fight hard to keep the ‘idea’ of ‘freedom’ alive at all. We are rapidly adapting to ‘unfreedom’ as normal.
'Simple' does not mean 'easy' especially when lots of would be overlords are trying to take it away. It takes more than commitment to keep it. But as for the definition, I believe it is pretty simple.
Yes, I think you’re right.
And lo, the wisdom of the ages was spoken. Let all take heed, harken to these words, and be told.
Dude, like totally.
Lol, true!
the left, the marxists, the rich truly fascist and powerful, elected and not elected, do not
wish to see you live like that because it frightens them and deeply offends them.
The right have plenty of things that offend them too regarding people making free choices.
Each side wants to compel people to make the choices each side thinks are right.
Not all that many people in the scheme of things who actually do value and want to protect real freedom.
I've got a feel good story to share. Last night as I was handing out candy to a ton of children in my brand new neighborhood in South Carolina, I ran very low and my bucket neared empty. (I had misjudged how very many kids where nearby and didn't buy nearly enough.). Not one, but two children dug into their own bags and dumped large handfuls of candy into my bucket so other kids could have some. THIS right here gives me hope for the future.
Love this so much.
Thank you for that video! 😂
Made my morning!!
Be the security guard. (Don’t fall for the hammer.)
"Criticize through creation" - Michelangelo
"Create through relentless criticism" - Every Marxist since 1900
‘Destroy destroy destroy them when everything is rubble let’s create a utopia’.
In Victoria BC it takes about eight years to build a concrete rental building. You buy the land, get plans done, get approvals, do your construction docs, line up financing, and then build. Then you rent it up and get take out financing. This is if you are pushing hard the entire eight years. These Marxist revolutionaries think they can bring down the man in November and by March they’ll have a socialist paradise. If you tear a society down you would have fifty to seventy years of hardships before you get something good going. They’ve never built anything. They think their ideas are what builds something.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, regulate.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG! Thank you so much. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time :-) what a great video. And, I couldn’t agree more. Let’s assert our values. And say what we stand for. Honor, courage, commitment, integrity, tolerance, accountability, creativity, fairness, respect, kindness, forgiveness. And peace. Let’s lead by example. and speak up when we see bad behavior. Thank you, Gato, for leading by example and being such a great inspiration :-)❤️
Let me state my views as simple positives:
I want all govt to stay in its lane and only attempt to do (security, police, fire) that for which it can demonstrate it is the superior provider. For everything else (roads, bridges, construction, development, licensing, waste management) I want the government to act only as wise regulator and transparent contract manager.
Speaking of wise regulation, I want more of that. The trick about wise regulation is that it avoids and averts actual problems.
Government understands exactly zero about how the economy works, how businesses arise, and how jobs are created. I want them to stop pretending otherwise. (Basically, "stay in your lane," see above.)
I want people to be treated as, and to act responsibly as, individuals. I don't want to hear about skin tones and lived experiences and privileges and oppression. There is a huge spectrum of quality & behavior across both sexes and all races. Quit pigeonholing (for political gain) people into color prisons. We are, all of us, so much more than that; in fact that thing (skin tone) is the least relevant item on the list of irrelevancies.
Government must be “shrinked”….and fast!
Almost there, but there's one vital thing you left out of "I want all govt to ... only attempt to do ... that for which it can demonstrate it is the superior provider."
That missing component is, of course, constitutional warrant for the thing in question. For example, if the FedGov could demonstrate that it was as superior provider of K-12 education (stop laughing!!! it's just a hypothetical!) that would NOT mean it was legitimate for it to take over education from the States. Instead, it would mean it was time to break out the constitutional amendment process once again, and see if you could convince a supermajority of your fellow citizens to grant the feds that authority.
I'm not sure we need Constitutional amendments for each slice of governmental activity. But it is a sickness of the system that unelected bureaucrats can create, via administrative law (whether in states or the Fed) regulations which (always) have unintended consequences and collateral damage.
And it's another sickness that incredibly inexperienced and ill-informed (but oh so confident) lawmakers, whether legislative or administrative, see no problem whatsoever with starting a hearing by saying, "What the country needs is a law which . . . ."
What the country needs, surprise-surprise, is some restraint.
Perhaps my ideas are more kumbaya than realpolitik, but if we could just get these conservative, wise, careful models out there for a trial run, and then find out that cities & states run this way provide better lives for their citizenry, then it might spark the change we need.
Of course we do; it says so very clearly right in Amendments IX and X.
Not *micromanaging* amendments, of course, but some kind of authorization to act in a given area. Take for example the subject of alcohol consumption. Our ancestors where legally/politically honest enough to realize that NOTHING provided Congress the power to legislation against the personal consumption of alcohol products (though it clearly could have banned interstate commerce in such products*.) So they actually followed the rules-for-amending and got the Feds the legitimate power to do so. Some years later, having realized this was a very stupid own-goal, they did it again to mostly undo that earlier amendment. Now, where is the comparable amendment allowing the feds to criminalize personal consumption of cannabis products?** (Hint: there isn't one.)
--------------------------------------------
*Such a ban would have complied with the letter of the Commerce Clause while thoroughly violating its spirit. The whole point of federal paramountcy here was so that states COULDN'T erect trade barriers, not so that the feds COULD.
**Not at all a fan of such consumption, but that doesn't make me want to let the feds legislate against it w/o any valid constitutional authority.
Oh. Humor. I remember that.
They used to have that on television every night. It was nice.
Yes Yes Yes!!! I love this! That is the America I love! 💕
this injected positivity in my tail today. and tomorrow. 😻
And the next day💕
I'm in favor of ...
growth through humor and joy.
Of recognition of one's worth and the celebration of the worth of others.
Of encouragement in merit and
a hand out to stumbles
Of vitality through positive nourishment, whether that be food, activity, laughter, etc
OF acceptance of our being a Spirit having a Human experience.
Of brilliant and deep conversations that stir minds and spirits.
Of finding common within...community.
Kids know best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rK0kZFkg
She was freakin’ awesome! Thank you for this, Yuri.
And a little child shall lead them….
It's the same thing I've wanted since I realized in the 90s that Microsoft (and other companies) wanted to own the digital space and monopolize it.
I want America to move into the digital age.
That means I want open-source systems as the default.
I want open sourced algorithms as the default.
I want this culture of openness to overpower the elements of the government that abuse the laws permitting secrecy.
Right now America is still falling into the trap that China embraced, where the digital realm is centralized and allows for centralization of power unlike anything any western goverment was ever intended to see or deal with.
The only answer is the same answer that Linus Torvald came up with. The same answer that Richard Stallman came up with. The same answer that Thomas Jefferson put pen to paper for. And it is in direct opposition to people like Bill Gates (and always will be).
We’re all Satoshi!