Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

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  1. rhythmdevils

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    that’s a more rational account of BLM than has been used previously in this thread. I used it because of the frequent references to violent BLM protests in this thread.

    I’m trying to make a rather nuanced argument neither advocating for killing or vice versa. Just pointing out discrepancies in the reaction to 1/6 that are questionable. We can move on.
     
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    @sachu and @MuppetFace appearances on the same day?? Awesome so good to hear from you old buddy.
     
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    It's nuanced but unfortunately many groups have been thrown into the BLM bucket.

    The "category" that I dislike the most is "professional protester" (usually white and from suburban neighborhoods*) who latch onto causes which are not their own to cause destruction. For example "indigenous people day of rage" for wanton destruction.

    These people are not BLM and should be shot on sight because they are a shit-stain on true causes.

    *Poor white people without rich parents don't have the luxury of protesting - they are too busy and tired working. It's like what I've observed in the 90s when I lived in Santa Cruz. Hippies were never from poor families.
     
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    HEy man!! great to see you being active and thanks! Been busy chasing other hobbies and life.. you know how that shit goes. :)
     
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    LOL, I figured you take a peek eventually. Looks like life has taken you to new horizons and far away from audio stupidity. That is good. I apologize for not being surprised. People come. People go. People drive-by. People come back. People go again. I simply act like this is normal - because it is. Change doesn't phase me.
     
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    As long as you’re still part of team ortho ;)
    getting away to other things sounds good. I hope you’ve been well!

    :piratemug:
     
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    ALWAYS!! :punk:My latest acquisition is the Audeze Penrose to use with the PS4.. still trying to buy a PS5 (my Christmas gift from the wife actually) oH yeah.. i got married. Refuse to pay the scalpers :mad:

    All things considered...heck am blessed. :drunk:
     
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    Might be worth reiterating that disagreements here don’t change anything and aren’t personal. I’d still loan gear of any cost to @YMO or @crenca and of course @purr1n without hesitation.

    cheers
     
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    I'm in the middle of this debate. I do wear my mask, even knowing that it won't prevent me from getting Covid. However, FL law is a giant mess on what a town/city/county have authority over a mask mandate. From my interpretation of FL state law (and some of my attorney friends agree with me on this), the final say on anything mask mandate is the FL Governor, since he is in charge of the Executive Branch of the state. I think we know at this point that FL will not do a hard core lockdown again due to the real reason is state revenue (but they are selling it as political reason against Democrats). I personally have issues when a local government is trying to do a mask mandate when per their town/city/county charter they actually don't have the authority to do it. That's the big thing for me, does a government even have the authority to do it. Personally, I'm sick of local governments trying to get around their own laws/ordinances that they wrote in order to enforce something that they don't do. Jacksonville/Duval is under a mask mandate, but our Sheriff (who is a separate elected official from the Mayor office) will not enforce the mask mandate since that isn't their job.

    Most people who are normal (at this point per LP party standards I'm normal) just wear a f'ing mask. It isn't hard to do, and most don't make a big deal about it (which I don't, I make a deal about who has authority to do it). At my LP party meeting on Tuesday we have a few guys who will 100% refuse to wear a mask, and will do their shopping business at the counties above/below Duval since those two counties (Nassau and St. Johns, which St. John is the richest county by average in the state) do not have a mask mandate at all. One guy made a video talking about how to claim medical exception to not wear a mask.

    I'm big on property rights, so if a business want to refuse service if a some doesn't wear a mask then that's fine. At this point this Anti-Mask stuff is becoming more popular in FL. We even have people who are moving to FL because due to this stuff:
    • Democrats in their states killed their livery-hood thanks to their lockdown orders.
    • Democrats keep overtaxing them on welfare and other services which sucks.
    • Democrats keep restricting their freedoms.
    • Everything above is the reverse in FL.
    I can't stress how many out of state tags I'm seeing on the road. Those cars who parked in my apartment from CA, NY, NJ, IL, VA, MA, etc. do have their vehicle tags flipped to FL tags. The "get the government off your back and not being forced to do shit" message is working with people. There's a reason why Desantis is hitting the Anti-Lockdown-f**k Mask Mandates stuff hard, because FL continues to grow at a daily rate and it is a working message compared to the "Cold/Democrat/High-Tax" states. This is also good for the FL Government since their main revenue comes from sales tax (since we have no income tax, which is our selling point), and they need consumption in order to keep the state government running (dirty secret of the FL government under the GOP: They love to spend your money just as much as the Democrats from the North). Do another heavy lockdown with mandates and state revenue will go to poop.

    I'm not saying this is the right message to have (I think it should be more in the middle here), but it is the message that is working. Tell that to a lot of NY'ers and they will call FL heaven. No more tax and spend Democrats, no more Cuomo, f**k the lockdown/mask orders that killing their businesses, f**k the generous welfare state to lazy assholes who don't wanna work (with some of them using the N word here and there since this is New York), low property/business taxes, and super easy to run your business in FL with low labor cost (for now....). There's a reason NY'ers are bailing to FL even more now, and as a good benefit to the FL GOP, easy new voters for them. There's a reason in FL election standards Trump winning FL was a landslide. Most of the pissed off NY'ers say f**k the Democrats even if someone a liberal Republican (they exist more often than you think) and say the country was much better under Trump.
     
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    I'm hopeful because this is a consensus approach through a process, and thus less likely to be blocked by the courts or special venture capital interests. The problem with Trump was that his methods seemed arbitrary and capricious. However, I'm not holding my breath since Biden was part of the Obama administration, which along with the two past administrations before, rolled over when it came to matters China.

    I don't see a lack or urgency either. The US isn't taking the China threat today as seriously as the Soviet one in the 80s. Probably because a lot of white people in government think yellow people are dumb and funny like Jackie Chan and underestimate them. Biden did slip "Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids" after all. That tells me a lot about his inherent beliefs already.
     
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    Of course not, there were not many financial incentives for NOT taking Soviets seriously.
    In the case of China's threat: you cannot make people understand anything if they are being paid generously for NOT understanding it.
     
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    I guess you realize the double redundancy of that phrase, huh?
     
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    Not precisely. There is Trump shit espoused by the man himself. Then there Is the stupid Trump shit that people keep digging up and won't let go of. At some point, we need to move on. Personally, I feel it's a breath of fresh air to hear a POTUS, whether I disagree with his policies or not, who actually sounds like a POTUS - not some buffoon from a reality TV show. I want to move forward, not look back. I don't know why people want to keep looking back. We are still stuck in the middle of a pandemic and need solutions right now. And longer term we have the Red China Communist hegemon to worry about.
     
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    It wasn't that I chose Texas nor that my family was courageous in any way. In general, my wife and I can get restless and don't mind a change. This predisposition seems to be passed on to my kids (they were excited about the move). I am karmically inclined to find great jobs, but to have the industry I land in crater within a matter of years after I establish myself. Not complaining because I've always been paid well and respected by my peers. After needing to change out of necessity so many times, one gets used to it.

    With respect to leaving California or the "choice" of Texas, I cannot say that I am totally happy about it because it's always a pain in the ass to upend and move. I guess I am happy because Texas, or this "small town" of Corpus Christi I landed in, turned out to massively exceed my expectations. Living in liberal California for so many years, one cannot avoid getting a distorted view* of other states, particularly "Red" states. The fact is people are people no matter where you are in the world. I've always been around good people, or maybe that is just my worldview. We just moved into a new construction which reminds me of when my parents got a new construction in the late 70s in the Almaden Valley in San Jose, California. My youngest is about the same age I was at that time. (Good luck finding new construction in California, or at least new construction not near a hill that is going to burn down).

    If had a choice (that is an extra million or two, or five - or I was friends with the Newsom or Pelosi families), I would have stayed in California. The problem is that California is middle-class hostile. Anyone with a family with mouths to feed can tell you how stressful it is living in California and how much worse things have gotten in the past five years. If you run a business (we make a little from SBAF), then California is even more oppressive. I did not leave California. California left me.

    Again, I didn't move away from California to Texas. California left me (as it has done to many many others).

    *e.g., conservatives are racists, southerners are only nice to your face, Texas is about oil and wants destroy the environment, so many guns make incidents like shootouts at the O.K. Corral occur on a daily basis, etc.
     
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    I’ve traveled through the US extensively photographing and just traveling. Been to all 50 states. I definitely agree that people are people at least in person. Like I said I’d probably be happy in Montana or Alaska or Colorado or Washington State or Oregon etc. I’ve felt very at home in most red states I’ve been to. I like the country and small towns. People in Alaska are very kind to each other in a way they are not in California. You can still hitch hike there.

    Californians are snobby to each other and are more interested in putting up fences than building community.

    white people I also find to generally be less community oriented than other cultures. White neighborhoods are so boring compared to for example neighborhoods in Brooklyn Ive lived in where people are out in the street way more. But small towns are more like this too even when mostly white.

    I guess I’m racist

    Glad you acted on your unhappiness though and I still find it courageous even if you downplay it. ;)

    as far as not talking about Trump it’s kinda hard because it’s still current news with the impeachment but I resisted posting something yesterday to respect your wishes as this is your thread. And I knew what each of you would say anyways ha
     
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    I lived in Almaden Valley in the 1980s and worked at IBM Almaden Research up on the hill. Bought a house and don't remember how much, but it must have been easily under $100K. Just checked on Zillow and it says $1.3M.
     
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