25 thoughts on “BS Receptivity”

  2. Yea and I suspect hawkers of similar such substances are more likely to have or found jobs in the current white house.
    Also indicates that purchasers are receptive to the phrase “Make America Great Again”. MAGA must be just a paraphrasing of “Hope and Change”, I guess instead of looking to the future looking backwards.

    1. ‘Hope and Change’ is meaningless. It could have been used as legitimately by Hitler as Obama; certainly most of the Americans I know who voted for Obama didn’t get the kind of change they were hoping for.

      ‘Make America Great Again’ actually has a meaning.

      1. I probably should call Godwin law but lets play.
        Um question why did Nazis refer to themselves as a Third Reich ?, Is that not making the Reich/Germany great again and linking themselves to past greatness? Hitler was looking backwards to past greatness not paving way to future and change.
        And Um Edward care to try again?
        Maybe find a instance of Hitler saying something similar to “Hope and change”? Or are we just fact free?

          1. Shepard Fairey was notorious for plagarizing WPA posters and other Socialist Realism artwork from the 30s to create “modern” agitprop.

            Is that not making the Reich/Germany great again

            Everything the National Socialists touched, or that even superficially resembles them, is supposed to be permanently tainted? It’s long past time to apply the same standard to the actions of the Bolsheviks and other totalitarian flavors of Socialism and their modern apologists.

          2. Uh Huh Rand , yes the iconography of Poster that a independent artist made is similar, But what does that have to do with Edward Grants supposition that Hitler was more likely to say something similar to “Hope and Change”.
            I just pointed out in return that Hitler had said the German version of “Make America Great Again” though in that case it was used in a speech much like Bill Clinton has used Make America Great Again in his speeches, not as a slogan.

          5. Ha so “Livingspace” or “Land for Growth” is similar to ” Hope and Change” . Well let see unless the Nazi’s were intending to colonize the Moon, or Antarctica that space would of came at the cost of taking it from someone else. Depriving some other group of their Property and Liberty at the end of a gun is inherently evil and unchristian (Now is it natural order of things yea, something America has partaken in at times yes but need to strive to be better and for humanity survival need to expand and more efficiently use our resources than scrabble or ration among ourselves over limited resources). There is a lot more wiggle room in “Hope and Change” not coming at the cost of someone else. And I’m not here to defend Obama and his propaganda, more pointing out that it similar to Trump propaganda and that those who buy either propaganda is susceptible to BS.

        2. Don’t think you get to play the Godwin’s Law card while violating that law. But then again, that’s ehat Godwin himself does as it isn’t really a law, just a way for leftists to justify their attacks on others while silencing any criticism of their own totalitarian ideology.

    3. “Our results mirror other controlled studies that compared ibuprofen and omega-3 EFAs demonstrating equivalent effect in reducing arthritic pain. omega-3 EFA fish oil supplements appear to be a safer alternative to NSAIDs for treatment of nonsurgical neck or back pain in this selective group.”

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16531187

    4. Nice try, train driver, but short of the mark as usual.

      It’s trivially obvious by inspection that people of your general political persuasion are far more likely to be believers in nearly every non-/anti-scientific belief out there including, but hardly limited to: crystal healing, pyramid power, the superiority of “organic” food, astrology, tarot cards, fortune telling/psychic readings, mediums, the general goodness of anything “natural,” and the general badness of anything, “artificial,” “chemical” or GMO as well as vaccinations against disease. Then there are the crack-brained latter-day religions like Scientology and a number of foreign religious ideas that many adherents don’t even seem to realize are religious like reincarnation, karma, chi and feng shui.

      1. Don’t forget “vibes”.

        Funny how it’s the “party of science” that insists that gender is independent of chromosomes. They also have a tendency to believe in Economic Creationism, where all wisdom comes from a book written by some bearded old white guy.

        At least no snakes are harmed in the making of CBD oil.

        1. Oh God, yes – vibes. And I left “auras” off the list too. But the damned list is freakin’ endless as there seems no upper limit on the capacity of lefties to believe nonsense.

      2. Dick Eagleson
        Better off referring to our paleo host and not my vaccinated, white bread eating, pasteurized homogeneous milk drinking, Chik-Fil-a going, catholic sympathetic self. Though I strongly suspect that carbs and especially sugar are not good. One of the few “anti science” practices is my lack of getting yearly Flu shots but that more see the dismal effectivity of it. Guess also try to keep my drug(recreational and medicinal) intake as minimal as possible and prefer not going for antibiotic for every sour throat but will take NSAID. Closest to the new age stuff is I visited Sedona Arizona but never stepped foot in the crystal or new age shops in town spent most of time either out in Red Rock park or Jerome since Oak Creek was burning at the time. More interested in the cosmological constant and constituents of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, than the position of a group of stars on the axial plane on our annual trip around the nearby star. I recognize the VLA in various movies.
        In general have a natural suspicion of anyone who points to the past being better, that is very rarely the cases and often in limited fashion and the future is always better in the broad sense. That suspicion includes those pushing the noble savage or agrarian ideology . Strongly disagree with the Hair shirt, anti nuclear, environmentalist and believe the unicorn of non dictatorial socialism/communism will lead to stagnation maybe the time will come but no where close. Though I guess you probably are also off on what you think my political persuasion is too. Maybe want to rethink your inspection ability. There is a saying about assumptions.

        But conversely
        Anecdotally three of the biggest MAGA people I know personally from the moment he rode down the escalator , one goes and gets psychic readings yearly and puts stock in them, another reads her horoscope, Third is a lover of Whole paycheck and would drive many miles past cheaper grocery stores to find one and was interested in more than the bulk grains. Then their is Tom Brady. So to say one side of the political persuasion has ownership of quackery and bull shyte is myoptic.

        1. If you think a paleo diet is unscientific you simply haven’t done your homework. The Left, in general, aren’t paleo because paleo/keto/Atkins is pretty much the polar opposite of their favored “animal rights” and “plant-based nutrition” religions – vegetarianism and veganism, respectively.

          I’ve been on such a dietary regime for eight years now and am much better off than formerly in many respects. It’s no panacea – more than a half-century of eating junk is going to leave a certain amount of battle damage in its wake even if one wises up in comparatively old age. And it doesn’t compensate for eventual age-related decrepitude either. So it goes.

          Other than irrational dread, I don’t see why you would eschew flu shots. I always get them even though they don’t always work on what turns out to be the dominant strain in any given year. But sometimes the flu vax producers get it right. I haven’t had the flu in more than two decades and I don’t think that is entirely coincidental. In general, I have taken to getting any vaccination I can lay my hands on as I have a somewhat compromised immune system owing to having lacked a spleen these last few years.

          As a general thing, I think the present is better than the past. The past didn’t have the Internet or NewSpace for example. But the past was better in certain respects – many of which are quite significant – and it’s not out of line to say so.

          Entrepreneurialism prior to Sarbanes-Oxley was much less burdensome, for example. That’s important because companies have life cycles just as people do and we are generating far too few new, vigorous companies to replace doddering and corrupt wrecks like Boeing.

          In general, the vastly increased amount of statism encountered in everyday life in recent decades does not compare favorably with the past. In particular, the country was also much better off before the rise of malignant public employee unions.

          As to your MAGA friends, one can certainly find anecdotal examples that buck any general trend or tendency – Nancy Reagan comes to mind. Of course, she was showbiz before she was conservative. But, viewed at the 30,000 foot level, the adherents of New Age idiocies are overwhelmingly blue, politically. You may not have availed yourself of the crystal and pyramid emporia in Sedona, but of those who did I suspect the total who were Trump supporters could caucus in a phone booth – if any such are any longer to be found .

          I don’t know what you imagine your political leanings to be but, based on the evidence of your comment history here, they seem decidedly left of wing. If you think it unfair that you are constantly “mistaken” here for a duck, ceasing to quack like one might go a long way toward making your case. You might also perhaps want to contemplate the possibility that you actually are a political duck who simply has a case of political body dysmorphia.

    5. Engineer, if you imbibe the mind-rotting stew of junk economics, magical thinking and State-cultism that goes by the name of “liberalism” these days, you have no business looking down on the beliefs of others. I’d rather put m faith in essential oils than in your moonshine.

    6. Obama’s “Hope and Change” theme was particularly stupid, but then the claims of his exalted intelligence were always lacking evidence. First of all, “hope” is not a strategy and “change” is not always for the best. You can change from healthy to sick, from employed to unemployed, or from living to dead. Few would consider those changes as being desirable.

      Obama stated be wanted to “fundamentally change America” and he did in many negative ways. Fortunately, he was lazy. I was never one to criticize him for playing golf so much. He did far less damage to the country playing golf than he did when he was playing president.

    2. …fervent Neo-Luddite hatred of technology while loving their iPhones. Wanting their electronic toys powered by solar electric cells produced by … elves living in trees?

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