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Technology is making us stupid.Without “tech gurus” modern society would grind to a halt. To name one.
Technology is making us stupid.Without “tech gurus” modern society would grind to a halt. To name one.
How do you think lefties should fix the problem of being unhappy with lefty policies and laws?
We need to be clear on the problem.
Is the problem like you said....that they are too stupid to vote gop?
Blah blah TDS blah blah run away. Lol
You refuse to have an honest conversation. I tried but now you want to deflect yet again. No matter what you say, lefties in lefty cities are not happy with their lefty governments.
LOL. Lefties are protesting because they aren't happy with lefty governments!
Technology is making us stupid.
Blaming "Democratic cities" for a variety of things is nice, if it makes your toes squiggle, but there isn't a single conservative city in the country.
Cities frighten conservatives, and that's a good thing, because Democrats don't want conservatives in cities.
Democrats are too busy working in cities. They're producing goods and services that are then traded across the world. They are taxed on their income for the work they do. The federal government then sends these taxes in the form of subsidies out into the hills, trees, and valleys, where conservatives hide from minorities and make furious posts about Democratic cities.
And I for one don't mind helping the hill people, as long as the Democratic cities meme keeps them where they should be.
Zero conservative cities. And yet the Democrat cities meme persists among the hill people.
Just thank us for subsidizing your fear and leave it at that.
We're liberals. We're glad to help . . . as long as you stay in the hills where you belong.
Let us do the heavy lifting.
Colorado Springs. LOL
There are no conservative cities in any state.
Just stay out of our way while we maintain the economy for you, thanks a bunch.
A city with 2/3rds Democratic voters is a Democratic city.
No one ever in the history of mankind ever suggested that a city needed to contain 100 percent of Democratic voters in order to be a Democratic city.
Take a logic class. And while you're doing so, punch yourself in the face 700 times, because it really seems to work with people like you. And if it doesn't, then a service has been provided for the rest of us.
This thread requests non-morons!
Only non-morons!
If you're a moron, go post in the the Comet Ping Pong thread!
If you're a moron and you post here, then it tells me that you're too much of a moron to realize that you're a moron, and that's something worse than being a moron. In any case, I want you elsewhere.
So do that.
No subhumans allowed.
The sad statistical fact is that more than half the population will always be averagely or less smart. Averagely or less resistant to indoctrination. Averagely or less moral, humane, intent on self-improving, hard working, diligent, and capable of love.
Averagely or less capable of building a better world.
So always, in every generation, there will be a natural trend towards averagely dumb or dumber. Hence, there must in every generation be something to counter this trend, or all of humankind will eventually end up joining the cause de jure, spouting variations of "No, YOU're stupid!" in threads they post on the web.
Yeah, sure they are, must mean they are righties then, just a bunch of trump supporters eh....
Lefties are protesting because they aren't happy with lefty governments!
Blaming "Democratic cities" for a variety of things is nice, if it makes your toes squiggle, but there isn't a single conservative city in the country.
Cities frighten conservatives, and that's a good thing, because Democrats don't want conservatives in cities.
Democrats are too busy working in cities. They're producing goods and services that are then traded across the world. They are taxed on their income for the work they do. The federal government then sends these taxes in the form of subsidies out into the hills, trees, and valleys, where conservatives hide from minorities and make furious posts about Democratic cities.
And I for one don't mind helping the hill people, as long as the Democratic cities meme keeps them where they should be.
Lefties are protesting because they aren't happy with lefty governments!
Yep. Only Democrats live in cities. And only city folk produce goods and services and are taxed on their income. And Democrats don't want conservatives in cities. And only prostitutes can get AIDS.
Looks like you've got the world figured out. :coffeepap
Right, but then your proposition that
b + c > a ---> society is doomed to get dumber
fails by contradiction, we could just as readily conclude
a + c > b ---> society is destined to get smarter
:thinking
Averagely? I think you're possibly on the downslope yourself.
Lefties are protesting because they aren't happy with lefty governments!
I know the general statistics on urban vs. rural. I don't know how professionals in "Republican cities" fare versus "Democratic cities" or even how to reliably define either.But one flaw you don't explain is why 'city slicker lawyers' in Republican cities don't produce the same money as in Democratic cities, why in apples and apples (no pun intended on New York), Republican cities do so much worse than Democratic cities - instead, you compared cities and rural.
I'm not necessarily opposed to doing this. Although any kind of artificial wealth transfer needs to be modest and used only to help the poorest of the poor. As I'm sure you're aware, artificial wealth transfer of any kind really, really ticks people off.You also didn't really offer a solution - 'they shouldn't complain'. OK then. Why can't we agree on taxing the people who society helps get the biggest rewards, people and companies, the most? And then more of that wealth can benefit the rural and other people, and actually result in a more productive economy, a bigger pie for everyone.
If it makes you feel any better, I consider a good 95% of what people call "social progress" circa 2020 to be regressive anyway.That would require that the average, who decide who is numerically superior, are equally capable of making society progress and regress.
My contention is that it requires a lot of work to get the average on the side of progress, whereas all it requires to get them on the side of regress is to do nothing.
Billions of people take this technology for granted, not thousands. Now, how many of those people can fix that technology or understand it. Not many. What is the effect of this technology on society? Is it positive? Look around, maybe it’s having a negative effect. People are behaving rather stupidly. Just my 2 centsAt a societal level that is nonsense. Computer technology is embedded in everything and is responsible for making thousands of things people take for granted possible from TVs to cars to medical care and innumerable other things.
On an individual level if you let “technology make you stupid” that my friend is on you. Computers and microprocessors are tools. If you misuse them you have no one to blame but yourself.
Billions of people take this technology for granted, not thousands. Now, how many of those people can fix that technology or understand it. Not many. What is the effect of this technology on society? Is it positive? Look around, maybe it’s having a negative effect. People are behaving rather stupidly. Just my 2 cents
I don’t abuse technology but I see young people doing it. They are always on phones. Always. Wonder what future this shall bring?
Blaming "Democratic cities" for a variety of things is nice, if it makes your toes squiggle, but there isn't a single conservative city in the country.
Cities frighten conservatives, and that's a good thing, because Democrats don't want conservatives in cities.
Democrats are too busy working in cities. They're producing goods and services that are then traded across the world. They are taxed on their income for the work they do. The federal government then sends these taxes in the form of subsidies out into the hills, trees, and valleys, where conservatives hide from minorities and make furious posts about Democratic cities.
And I for one don't mind helping the hill people, as long as the Democratic cities meme keeps them where they should be.
When I was a young man I literally spent hours talking to my girlfriend on phone. Are kids today really any different? They don’t talk they text. Or IM.
I don’t know about you but my phone has made my life immensely easier and more productive.
Consumer technology aside modern society is not possible without computers which is something the poster I was responding to doesn’t seem to grasp.
If it makes you feel any better, I consider a good 95% of what people call "social progress" circa 2020 to be regressive anyway.
Hopefully we don't socially progress ourselves right over the edge of a cliff.