pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Ben's thoughts about some of our recent events. Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEUniversityofNevada Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 25 minutes ago, pokebball said: Ben's thoughts about some of our recent events. FIFH ”Why you shouldn’t trust your fellow Americans” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, THEUniversityofNevada said: FIFH ”Why you shouldn’t trust your fellow Americans” Shapiro does such a great job cutting through the bullshit to make his conservative point. 1 Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 minute ago, pokebball said: Shapiro does such a great job cutting through the bullshit to make his conservative point. That's what I like about him too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepingGiantFan Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 For about two years after leaving Breitbart News because he thought Bannon was a fascist, Shapiro was on an L.A. morning news radio talk show. Notwithstanding his annoying little brother timbre, I enjoyed listening to him. However, I'm very surprised that unlike many of his peers like Max Boot and Bill Krystal, Shapiro hasn't turned 100% against our Fake President and his Republican sycophants. I've accordingly lost a lot of respect for Shapiro since the Fake President took office. 1 Quote Boom goes the dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said: For about two years after leaving Breitbart News because he thought Bannon was a fascist, Shapiro was on an L.A. morning news radio talk show. Notwithstanding his annoying little brother timbre, I enjoyed listening to him. However, I'm very surprised that unlike many of his peers like Max Boot and Bill Krystal, Shapiro hasn't turned 100% against our Fake President and his Republican sycophants. I've accordingly lost a lot of respect for Shapiro since the Fake President took office. In the above video, he blatantly and firmly calls Trump out about his comments towards Dr. Ford. 1 Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, SleepingGiantsFan said: For about two years after leaving Breitbart News because he thought Bannon was a fascist, Shapiro was on an L.A. morning news radio talk show. Notwithstanding his annoying little brother timbre, I enjoyed listening to him. However, I'm very surprised that unlike many of his peers like Max Boot and Bill Krystal, Shapiro hasn't turned 100% against our Fake President and his Republican sycophants. I've accordingly lost a lot of respect for Shapiro since the Fake President took office. I've seen him call out President Trump a lot of times in various clips I've seen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwnrckr Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 It is interesting that someone can do a good job of cutting through bullshit and be full of shit at the same time. It's very postmodern. 2 2 Quote Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 35 minutes ago, smltwnrckr said: It is interesting that someone can do a good job of cutting through bullshit and be full of shit at the same time. It's very postmodern. How do you think Shapiro is full of shit? Is it simply the different political philosophy or something else? Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorCalCoug Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I really wish that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would’ve taken him up on his $10K debate offer instead of dodging it under the ridiculous excuse that she did. He would’ve eaten her alive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEUniversityofNevada Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 hour ago, pokebball said: Shapiro does such a great job cutting through the bullshit to make his conservative point. I like Shapiro. He’s a thoughtful guy. I often disagree with him but I agree with a LOT of what he says here. Especially with regard to free speech on college campuses and I’m sympathetic to his arguments over the treatment of Kavanaugh. His arguments about negative and positive individual rights are compelling but, like pure communism, I’ve always believed they are better in theory than practice. Your individual rights end at the point of my nose. When we have billions of people living in close proximity to each other, your individual actions can have profound consequences to my individual liberty. See pollution. We have plenty of examples throughout our history of individuals working collectively to deny individual rights to people in the name of free exercise of insert action. See segregation. See separate but equal. Government is people. Often flawed people but it is how we resolve our individual collisions between my liberty and your liberty. It’s a terrible system but it’s better than all the rest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwnrckr Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 11 minutes ago, pokebball said: How do you think Shapiro is full of shit? Is it simply the different political philosophy or something else? He has a shtick. IMO, by definition, if you have a shtick you are full of it. Quote Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 25 minutes ago, THEUniversityofNevada said: I like Shapiro. He’s a thoughtful guy. I often disagree with him but I agree with a LOT of what he says here. Especially with regard to free speech on college campuses and I’m sympathetic to his arguments over the treatment of Kavanaugh. His arguments about negative and positive individual rights are compelling but, like pure communism, I’ve always believed they are better in theory than practice. Your individual rights end at the point of my nose. When we have billions of people living in close proximity to each other, your individual actions can have profound consequences to my individual liberty. See pollution. We have plenty of examples throughout our history of individuals working collectively to deny individual rights to people in the name of free exercise of insert action. See segregation. See separate but equal. Government is people. Often flawed people but it is how we resolve our individual collisions between my liberty and your liberty. It’s a terrible system but it’s better than all the rest. His speeches make me think and he does present his opinions in a respectful way. That is refreshing today. Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokebball Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 23 minutes ago, smltwnrckr said: He has a shtick. IMO, by definition, if you have a shtick you are full of it. Shyt. I have a shtick Quote The World Needs More Cowboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, pokebball said: Shyt. I have a shtick Everyone on the board does. Guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepingGiantFan Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 20 minutes ago, pokebball said: Shyt. I have a shtick Me too. Maybe we're full of something. 1 Quote Boom goes the dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Shapiro is a smart dude but leans too much on straw-man arguments to be taken seriously, intellectually speaking. He debates well, but he's kind of like a pundit "plus" to me. Better than a Hannity or O'Reilly by miles but not someone I would read to sincerely educate myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Just now, toonkee said: Shapiro is a smart dude but leans too much on straw-man arguments to be taken seriously, intellectually speaking. He debates well, but he's kind of like a pundit "plus" to me. Better than a Hannity or O'Reilly by miles but not someone I would read to sincerely educate myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVGiant Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 hour ago, pokebball said: Shyt. I have a shtick Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVGiant Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, toonkee said: Shapiro is a smart dude but leans too much on straw-man arguments to be taken intellectually. He debates well, but he's kind of like a pundit "plus" to me. Better than a Hannity or O'Reilly by miles but not someone I would read to sincerely educate myself. 1 minute ago, toonkee said: Quoted yourself for emphasis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...