Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=;D1aYoJg[MHIV\cFdG^e9FU5[F2hIijDO7J470dMQQ7KJ4R`5ADBYnBCODD059b9oOKOZ<7F X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:35:46 -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> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Message-ID: <66564e31$7$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1716932145 reader.netnews.com 1258343 127.0.0.1:54597 Bytes: 2945 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. Nah I don't need a new religion, a new vacuum cleaner, and I've kinda had too many enjoyable relationships with attractive young women over my life to ever drum up the amount of pissed-offness required to be a solid sales lead for right-wing populism. it's cool. I'm good.