Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:04:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:04:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7d400d302bc7051ef5523e6c9b8eee8b"; logging-data="3949310"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YPE4nElqD23/5YgBV9I3/H9X1g27QTYE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:KKpmLPmMpgxbw+4e9xQqfv6jcdc= In-Reply-To: <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3849 On 9/17/2024 6:11 PM, quadibloc wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 +0000, Don wrote: > >> Francis Bacon revealed his dream in _New Atlantis_. He sought to move >> beyond corporations to supranational scientism. So sciencey specters >> such as global warming and covid can be controlled by a scientific >> autocracy along the lines of these guys: >> >>     >> >> Oprah's a disciple of scientism: >> >>     "And it was miraculous to me that before you can practically >>     finish the requests, the answer has come back to you," >> >>     ... >> >>     "I think we should be disciplined and we should honor it and >>     have a reverence for what is to come and respect, because I >>     think it's going to change in ways that are unimaginable for >>     the good." >> >> Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come >> true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological >> ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say. >> Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears." > > Global warming is not an imaginary spectre. The science involved is > really basic stuff. > > And we've seen the consequences of Trump's anti-science mentality in > all the unnecessary deaths from COVID-19 he caused. > > I just saw an article giving more detail on those polls that say > Kamala Harris is ahead. > > 45% of voters favor Trump, 49% of voters favor Harris, a 4% lead. > > But if you split things up, and just look at typical Americans, > you instead get > > 55% of voters support Trump; 41% of voters support Harris. > > This is disastrous. It means the mainstream regular American > people, those with the best educational opportunities, aren't > competent to manage their own affairs any more. If Trump isn't > elected, it will only be because they had help... > > from Americans who can easily be prevented from getting to the > polls. And several states are trying to do just that. > > We don't know yet if the guys in the white hoods will make > their presence felt on Election Day to help with that. > > John Savard Any Global Warming is not caused by humans so your basic thesis is wrong. Climates change all the time. Just about all of it is due to that big fusion reactor in the sky that is so incredibly inefficient (1.8%) but works so well with it's 10+ billion years of fuel. Lynn