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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Charles View Post
    Did that theory hurt? Really. Did it hurt? Did it hurt when you pulled it out of your ass?
    I don’t mean to be rude, but have you not been paying attention the last few years?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Barry said that "the theory that pedos infest the government" was pulled out of anticausal's ass. Barry can be irritating, but I'm more interested in my original question about Judge Jackson Browne. Why is she so obviously light on kiddieporn? I understand that kiddie and pedophilia may not be the same thing, but it's easy to spot the pattern, so why is she doing this?
    Without knowing anything about her, I’d say it’s a better than average chance it’s because she’s a Marxist. She may or may not have any specific predilection to pedophilia but it is a social norm and sexual barrier. Any forms of norms and barriers have to be removed, it’s the Marxist mental framework of deconstructing society and it’s power structures. Marxists “deconstructing” is like water flowing downhill, the final target is unknown, but you know what the outcome will be. You can’t rebuild a communist utopia without wiping everything away first. I don’t specifically know that she’s Marxist but she probably wouldn’t have been nominated if she wasn’t.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yngvi View Post
    I listened to her explanation, and it actually made sense here if what she said is true.
    Her reasoning was that laws for prosecution of child porn were passed before the internet existed and sentencing guidelines were based on the number of images shared (which typically meant sent through the mail).
    She said the guidelines recommended a maximum sentence for 12 images or more.
    In the internet age, a person sharing 12 images would be small time offender, not a large distributor.
    Today, we have prosecutions for terabytes of the filth...many times more images than a person could view in an entire lifetime. They also may count each frame of a video running at 60 frames a second as a separate image.

    In short, her explanation was that the sentencing guidelines are outdated.
    If that’s true than that does make sense in a certain regard. There’s definitely a use for child abuse material that the government utilizes in ways I’m uncomfortable with. The “USB of Child abuse” is the new “bag of crack” that gets planted when you need to arrest someone. It’s also practically impossible to improve the way it is now.

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    ZMM (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), p. 101 of his Bantam paperback, where Pirsig tells us:

    "The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones."

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    Quote Originally Posted by vkp78 View Post
    ZMM (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), p. 101 of his Bantam paperback, where Pirsig tells us:

    "The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones."
    I agree with this quote to some extent. It is interesting in any case and I haven’t read that in a very long time. What baffles me is watching otherwise reasonable people “guess” for what’s going on as if wild guesses are equivalent to educated guesses or “I don’t know”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    The way things are progressing, this may seem to be the logical conclusion, yes. However, it might be that the Biden administration is simply destroying the US as an unintended consequence, and the other guys are just going along. Like, it would be too costly for them to prevent an American collapse while the country is run by such belligerent actors. I like Russ Winter's takes on the ongoing crisis: Keeping Track of the Chess Game and the Sub-Zeros | Winter Watch
    This is a good bird's-eye view of the situation. I'll have to start reading this guy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Charles View Post
    I agree with this quote to some extent. It is interesting in any case and I haven’t read that in a very long time. What baffles me is watching otherwise reasonable people “guess” for what’s going on as if wild guesses are equivalent to educated guesses or “I don’t know”.
    We're completely surrounded by enemies of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Trying to guess what they're going to do next is prudent in my opinion, because it gives us the opportunity to prepare in advance with countermeasures...

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    This might help explain my position on asking questions, or "guessing."

    What is FMEA? Failure Mode & Effects Analysis | ASQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    This is a good bird's-eye view of the situation. I'll have to start reading this guy.
    Germany seems to be implementing the Morgenthau Plan all of its own accord. Medvedev today said that of course the Russians will be exporting food and fertilizer to friendly countries, so the idea of poor countries starving is turning out to be another massive media lie. Russ does good writeups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mkm5 View Post
    We're completely surrounded by enemies of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Trying to guess what they're going to do next is prudent in my opinion, because it gives us the opportunity to prepare in advance with countermeasures...
    To be honest, when has anyone ever prepared with countermeasures to these crazies?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subby View Post
    ...There’s definitely a use for child abuse material that the government utilizes in ways I’m uncomfortable with....
    Here is another "wild guess": I believe there is a high probability the intelligence agencies are selling child porn to fund their activities.

    Just a ridiculous wild guess, like when people began to figure out the CIA was running cocaine to fund its activities.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    Germany seems to be implementing the Morgenthau Plan all of its own accord. Medvedev today said that of course the Russians will be exporting food and fertilizer to friendly countries, so the idea of poor countries starving is turning out to be another massive media lie. Russ does good writeups.
    Germany is still a vassal state under occupation by hundreds of thousands of foreign troops.
    Historical Eastern Germany still belongs to other countries.
    They didn't finish paying WWI debts until 2010.
    They are still paying WWII debts and reparations.
    I do not believe Germany has any semblance of self-determination or that the German people have any say in what is happening.
    The modern Morgenthau Plan is being foisted upon them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GioFerrante View Post
    To be honest, when has anyone ever prepared with countermeasures to these crazies?
    Getting out of cities to areas where we can practice being self sufficient, amongst like-minded family, friends, and neighbors is a good start. Get out of banks, credit, debt. Prep in whatever way you can. Lift heavy and stack heavy. Get back to splitting firewood and dig a well with a hand pump. Lots of constructive ways to be prepared.

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