Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=eCDl3GRH=`ZTBYNk3=OSRZU5[F2hIijD_7J470dMQQ7[J4R`5ADBYnRCODD059b9o_KOZ<7V X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:00:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam! Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design References: <6656385e$6$1258324$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66564e31$7$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <1ljc5j1ufi53boeprkt29kslqcg95n293o@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: <1ljc5j1ufi53boeprkt29kslqcg95n293o@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 52 Message-ID: <66565412$1$1258340$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1716933650 reader.netnews.com 1258340 127.0.0.1:40845 Bytes: 3626 On 5/28/2024 5:42 PM, john larkin wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:35:46 -0400, bitrex wrote: > >> On 5/28/2024 5:07 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:02:38 -0400, bitrex wrote: >>> >>>> I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in >>>> conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some >>>> paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to >>>> reading the journals that contain them. >>>> >>>> But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a >>>> "highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its >>>> popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand. >>>> >>>> Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and >>>> degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at >>>> least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there >>>> to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the >>>> equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight >>>> in the head and you got your PhD, easy. >>> >>> That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one >>> should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a >>> degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort believe it's only >>> permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms - >>> which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities >>> who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh. >>> >> >> Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the >> same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses >> in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1% >> substance and 99% sales. > > The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to > understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the > world, and they need to be managed. What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work, depending. It's a philosophy of sorts, no doubt a kind appealing to the people of fading empires, in failing times throughout history. > Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with > Walmart and Amazon. I'd probably talk to a vacuum cleaner salesperson just out of some amount of nostalgia, it's true.