tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post7545355572644933883..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Links 3 June 2022Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-42308525363982778552022-06-03T22:00:58.998-04:002022-06-03T22:00:58.998-04:00True, but if you were shilling for him, would you ...True, but if you were shilling for him, would you mention that?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-68688566253186405112022-06-03T21:28:09.991-04:002022-06-03T21:28:09.991-04:00A perfect example of a younger leader with no new ...A perfect example of a younger leader with no new ideas.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-89089338677794465832022-06-03T14:53:37.555-04:002022-06-03T14:53:37.555-04:00Sounds to me like Levin ("a senior fellow at ...Sounds to me like Levin ("a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute") is shilling for DeSantis (age 43).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-75216326437815716992022-06-03T13:12:41.056-04:002022-06-03T13:12:41.056-04:00Honestly, how many new ideas have you heard in the...<i>Honestly, how many new ideas have you heard in the past decade that you want to see implemented faster?</i><br /><br />We've got plenty of OLD ideas on our plate that we still need to actually deal with - civil rights (racial, sexual, etc), voting rights, environmental rights, homelessness, mass shootings, fixing our broken justice system, demilitarizing the police, fixing economic inequality, fixing our crumbling infrastructure, fixing our broken education system...<br /><br />"New ideas" as a requirement is such a cop-out. People have been suggesting sensible solutions to our problems for <i>decades</i>- but the powers that be just shoot them down and never implement them.<br /><br />And that makes sense, given that the powers that be are all around the age of 80, on average. They don't WANT "new ideas" - they want old ideas, the same old ideas that have been the cause of reflexively blocking those "new ideas" for half a century until they're no longer new, and can thus be written off as "tired old ideas that don't work" despite no one ever actually trying them.<br /><br />That's the difference - we don't need "new ideas", we need "things we haven't tried". But until the powers that be die off and get replaced, we'll continue to refuse to try "new things" (even if those things aren't "new ideas" anymore).G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-47939107016862946192022-06-03T09:05:02.771-04:002022-06-03T09:05:02.771-04:00Re: Russia attacking EUrope - can't speak for ...Re: Russia attacking EUrope - can't speak for other countries, but definetely the sense in Poland - expressed in forums, by journalists, analysts etc - is that Ukrainians are bleeding our common enemy and that this is our war - that it's better when our howitzers, tanks and drones are fighting THERE instead of here after few years.szopenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096688483881484656noreply@blogger.com