News, goodness and great sex don’t pay for themselves (6-14-23)

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Doing the right thing isn’t always cheap and easy
04:00 NYT: A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/business/media/eric-spofford-new-hampshire-public-radio.html
12:00 How to connect by saying it with feeling, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Vzr7mnQJ0
24:00 News never pays, https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/06/news-never-pays/
26:00 Elliott Blatt shares a poem
28:00 Elliott’s been raped by car mechanics
30:00 Fatties vs addicts
39:00 Podcasts that are junk food for the soul
44:00 Parafisting relationships
46:00 Parasocial relationships, https://youtu.be/7og2_48D6FQ?t=77
1:07:00 When has a free state invaded a police state? A dozen times, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjK9U-ZVvGo
1:15:30 New Yorker: Daniel Bard Made an Improbable Comeback. Then He Had to Do It Again, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/daniel-bard-made-an-improbable-comeback-then-he-had-to-do-it-again
1:36:15 DTG: Interview with Mick West on UFOs and Conspiracy Psychology, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/

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The Greatest Song In The History Of Humanity By The Greatest Singer In The History Of Humanity – Sarah Brightman – Running (HQ)

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Luke Ford

I was sad and I was silent
In shadow of my soul
Ever seeking the horizon
For promises untold
I dreamed of silent oceans
And I sang of waters blue
With the crossing of angels
Brought forth to guide me through
To a distant shore so welcoming
Where I was free to roam
In a land of ancient mystery
That I could call my own
This is me and you
And we are running
To change the world
Where hope is shining through
Gaia’s green and blue
And we are running
To save the world
That we’re about to lose
We’ll be running
Watch it coming
Green is shining through
Love is rising
World’s colliding
Green is shining through
Shining, shining, shining

Comment: “When the chorus of voices in the background is singing along with Brightman, it reminds me of ABBA, quite a bit.”

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Why is the right so gay & stupid? (6-13-23)

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Trump stokes anger and fury, https://www.ft.com/content/0788c2f6-bfdc-43fa-84ca-86c4e98d211c
07:20 Two members of the Republican presidential field are gay (Tim Scott and who?)
10:30 Marco Rubio’s gay campaign
12:15 Marco Rubio’s foam parties
14:20 Nathan Cofnas on stupid right-wing movements, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XiywNnqhn8
18:00 Perhaps the number one millennial conservative philosopher, Cofnas can’t publish in legacy conservative outlets
48:00 How did Cofnas get a position at Cambridge?
50:00 Matt Walsh documentary What is a Woman?
53:20 Interview with Mick West on UFOs and Conspiracy Psychology, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/

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Do Free Societies Ever Start Wars With Tyrannies?

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

Dennis said that if Israel is a greater obstacle to peace than Hamas, it would be the first time in history that a free society wanted war.

In Athens vs Sparta, wasn’t Athens relatively free compared to Sparta and didn’t Athens launch the final war in that conflict?

The United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Iraq was a tyranny. America was a free country. And America started that war while Iraq posed zero threat to America.

The United States invaded Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Wasn’t this a free country invading tyrannies?

The United States intervened countless times in Latin America. Aren’t these more examples disproving Prager’s claim?

England and other European powers invaded countless poorer, less free, countries during the age of colonialism.

Here is Prager’s quote from the video above: “In modern history, every war has been between a free state and a police state or two police states. I can’t think of a 20th Century example of any other. Where in the world other than Israel does anyone ever argue that the free state doesn’t want peace and the police state wants peace? This would be the first free state in history to prefer war to peace.”

The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?

In the 1990s, the United States went to war with Serbia. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?

In the 1960s, the United States went to war against North Vietnam. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?

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Are You Holding Out For A Hero? (6-4-23)

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Filling the hole in your soul with heroes and gurus
06:00 Breaking erotic taboos
11:00 Decoding the Gurus: Elon Musk, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
15:00 Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins grievance mongering
18:00 RFK as an idiot detector, https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1665489483024719872
19:00 Elliott Blatt joins
26:00 Academic Agent
28:45 The Bone (SF radio station that plays hard rock), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSAN_(FM)
43:00 Gurus and parasocial relations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
48:00 Scholars vs gurus, Letters from The Rav (Part 12) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZ-1e-pDhg
50:00 Car salesmen quote different prices based on race and sex, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/car_salesmen_different_people_different_prices/
57:20 NYT: She Said Her Professor Sexually Harassed Her. His Wife Won Damages., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/asia/japan-sexual-harassment-women.html

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