CDZ Words of wisdom from Warren Buffett

[Mac1958]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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[Mousterian]

That's rather profound, in this age of division.

 

[Tehon]

This was written in 1928 by Edward Bernays, the person that took Sigmund Freud's ideas about the mind and used them to manipulate people by inciting within them emotional responses to stimuli. The rest is history. The war is on the American mind. Has been for quite a long time now.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind."
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations

 

[JoeB131]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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I'm revising this because I didn't realize that Mac had put a fake quote in the CDZ.

 

[JoeB131]

This was written in 1928 by Edward Bernays, the person that took Sigmund Freud's ideas about the mind and used them to manipulate people by inciting within them emotional responses to stimuli. The rest is history. The war is on the American mind. Has been for quite a long time now.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind."
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations

I should have suspected Stormy Mac is promoting a fake quote.

 

[Tehon]

This was written in 1928 by Edward Bernays, the person that took Sigmund Freud's ideas about the mind and used them to manipulate people by inciting within them emotional responses to stimuli. The rest is history. The war is on the American mind. Has been for quite a long time now.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind."
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations

I should have suspected Stormy Mac is promoting a fake quote.

I am not suggesting that. Quite the opposite, whether the quote is real or not, the message is spot on.

 

[SweetSue92]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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Yeahbut words are LITERAL VIOLENCE

 

[JoeB131]

Yeahbut words are LITERAL VIOLENCE

No, they aren't.

What they are is incitations to violence.

Here's the big problem I have with Stormy Mac. He seems to think that when College kids don't want Nazis on their campus using their campus as a backdrop for noxious views, they are suppressing 'Free Speech", when they are doing nothing of the sort.

Now, if we are taking Nazis and throwing them in prison, THEN you might have a real argument we are suppressing free speech. But college kids saying, "No, we don't want the name of our campus associated with your hate", that's actually... kind of reasonable.

 

[jillian]

That's rather profound, in this age of division.

I think you’re missing his point

 

[jillian]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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Yeahbut words are LITERAL VIOLENCE

On what planet?

 

[JoeB131]

I am not suggesting that. Quite the opposite, whether the quote is real or not, the message is spot on.

I personally don't think it is...

20 years ago, Nazis were reviled and nobody would open declare themselves one.

Now they are invited to the White House as honored guests. And people like Mac will bemoan when colleges don't let someone like Richard Spenser or the "Bell Curve" Racist try to give their racism an intellectual bent.

The thing about it was, before Hitler turned millions of people into Ash and Lampshades, there was a whole school of thought in the Universities preaching White Supremacy, Social Darwinism, Eugenics and a whole slew of other toxic philosophies that Hitler put into action. It wasn't like Hitler came up with any of this crap on his own.

So, um, yeah, I'm perfectly good with the universities putting out the "unwelcome mat" to Nazis.

 

[SweetSue92]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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Yeahbut words are LITERAL VIOLENCE

On what planet?

On planet Lefty College Student, where 81% of them think "words can be violence". Because you know most of them are lefties, poor misguided sheep.

College Students: Speech Can Be Violence | National Review

 

[Darkwind]

My wisdom is greater.

Buy low, sell high.

/lp

 

[caddo kid]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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That's too bad because it is painfully obvious that our POTUS did not heed that very thoughtful message.

With the crap he spews daily on Twitter it is clear to see that words are daggers to der Fuhrer and he is being injured by those 'unfair' words at an alarming rate.

Gotta pick up those daggers & throw 'em back.

 

[Mac1958]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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That's too bad because it painfully obvious that our POTUS did not heed that very thoughtful message.

With the crap he spews daily on Twitter it is clear to see that words are daggers to der Fuhrer and he is being injured by those 'unfair' words at an alarming rate.

Gotta pick up those daggers & throw 'em back.

The words apply to both ends of the spectrum.
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[SweetSue92]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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That's too bad because it painfully obvious that our POTUS did not heed that very thoughtful message.

With the crap he spews daily on Twitter it is clear to see that words are daggers to der Fuhrer and he is being injured by those 'unfair' words at an alarming rate.

Gotta pick up those daggers & throw 'em back.

The words apply to both ends of the spectrum.
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Yeah? Please show me where anyone on the Right has claimed that "Words are violence".

Or has made desperate attempts to shut down speakers WITH VIOLENCE on multiple occasions.

 

[caddo kid]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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That's too bad because it painfully obvious that our POTUS did not heed that very thoughtful message.

With the crap he spews daily on Twitter it is clear to see that words are daggers to der Fuhrer and he is being injured by those 'unfair' words at an alarming rate.

Gotta pick up those daggers & throw 'em back.

The words apply to both ends of the spectrum.
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well, of course they do but a 'leader,' if they are actually a leader, should act like a leader; not like someone that is being controlled.

 

[Mac1958]

For everyone from college students to political partisans:
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That's too bad because it painfully obvious that our POTUS did not heed that very thoughtful message.

With the crap he spews daily on Twitter it is clear to see that words are daggers to der Fuhrer and he is being injured by those 'unfair' words at an alarming rate.

Gotta pick up those daggers & throw 'em back.

The words apply to both ends of the spectrum.
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Yeah? Please show me where anyone on the Right has claimed that "Words are violence".

Or has made desperate attempts to shut down speakers WITH VIOLENCE on multiple occasions.

You brought that phrase up, not me.

Perhaps you could calm down a bit.
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[DGS49]

The point is this: The Left has raised victimhood to a virtue. The more things you can find that are offensive, the more virtuous you are (unless you are a white male, then you are, by definition an "oppressor").

So if someone wants to come to a campus and give a talk about how abortion is a moral abomination, or how incarceration rates for Blacks are statistically warranted, or there are genetic justifications for women being rare among Nobel laureates, then those topics are considered "hate speech." Because "someone" might find them offensive.

Which is bullshit. Truth cannot be hateful, particularly on a college campus, where the bread & butter should be the free exchange of ideas, particularly controversial ones.

Do you get it now?

 

[Mac1958]

The point is this: The Left has raised victimhood to a virtue. The more things you can find that are offensive, the more virtuous you are (unless you are a white male, then you are, by definition an "oppressor").

So if someone wants to come to a campus and give a talk about how abortion is a moral abomination, or how incarceration rates for Blacks are statistically warranted, or there are genetic justifications for women being rare among Nobel laureates, then those topics are considered "hate speech." Because "someone" might find them offensive.

Which is bullshit. Truth cannot be hateful, particularly on a college campus, where the bread & butter should be the free exchange of ideas, particularly controversial ones.

Do you get it now?

Have you seen the Right do anything that would apply to Buffett's quote?
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