Science & Political Science

[Champakian]

[Woke Science: for everything including abortion, child-rearing, climate change,
crime, diet, economics, mental health, pandemic, sexuality, and vaccines.]

Postulate: The certainty of myth.
You can have supreme confidence in a thing
when you don’t quite know what that thing is.
Michael Flynn

I say, A=A.
My counterpoint says, you have no A.
I reply, I have A from a scientist(s), I follow the Science.
Counter says, you must wait for the bureaucrats to declare A=⌐A or A=A.
I say, the bureaucracy is not Science.
Counter point informs, Science is consensus and
consensus leads to common-sense measures by politicians.
I ask, then do we not have political science trumping Science
by the simple directive of consensus that A=B (i.e. A=⌐A)?
Yes says the Denier. I cannot have your denial of Science harm me.

 

[Champakian]

Moved to first post.



Y'all have a nice day now.

 

[bellisarius]

Well done.

 

[Champakian]

Thank you.

 

[Champakian]

Woke Economics 101

https://reason.com/2022/01/09/comic-frederic-bastiat-belabors-what-should-be-the-obvious/

 

[Champakian]

More in, we must protect us from you, based on political science thinking:

https://reason.com/2022/01/07/colleges-use-omicron-as-justification-for-shutdowns-and-surveillance/

 

[bellisarius]

Followed on from the above link.

Some Fixes are no fixes at all.

 

[Champakian]

Google, Covid, Omicron and You

The concept of mass formation psychosis as an explanation for our lingering nonsensical covid hysteria was brought to the masses by Dr. Robert Malone on Joe Rogan’s podcast in late December. Malone contextualizes work done by psychologist and statistician Dr. Mattias Desmet on the conditions necessary for mass formation to set in, and explains why many of those conditions are being met right now.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...-content-on-mass-formation-psychosis-n1548151



DuckDuckGo.com

 

[Champakian]

Followed on from the above link.

Some Fixes are no fixes at all.

They'll never admit it which is why they are pointing fingers
instead of the usual fingers in ears act when they hear
anything contradictory to A=⌐A...

 

[Champakian]

On the criminalization of politics by the woke:

Shootings are out of control!

Of course, when a Democrat shoots up Republicans at a baseball practice:

IT WAS TRUMP'S RHETORIC TO BLAME!

A=⌐A

And the story was quickly dropped, but Gabby Giffords lives forever, just like January 6...



... what violence? Peaceful rioters with a few Republican plants to make us look bad!

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...-epic-viral-rant-against-her-network-n1548048

 

[bellisarius]

They'll never admit it which is why they are pointing fingers
instead of the usual fingers in ears act when they hear
anything contradictory to A=⌐A...

Yeah, a situation where they correctly point out the problems and then go on to address a fix that will have no effect on the problems. <shrug>

 

[Champakian]

The Glazier V The Tailor: The Iron Law of Unintended Consequences
(even when driven and fueled by altruism and passion
[speaking of which, see my next post]).

 

[Champakian]

More on the Woke Science of Covid

Waking up is hard to do!

(Bastiat strikes again!)

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/20...hes-party-over-covid-school-lockdowns-n503924

 

[bellisarius]

Waking up is hard to do!

(Bastiat strikes again!)

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/20...hes-party-over-covid-school-lockdowns-n503924

The use of the word "Tribal" more or less sums up the "progressive" left.

 

[Champakian]

And it is very hard for tribes to form leagues,
but it is easy to promise that you will unite...


Conflicting concepts comfortably compartmentalized.

That tribe divides! We would all be united if my tribe was in charge!

Every failed ideology needs a black hat to point at...

 

[Champakian]

Why Woke Science and A=⌐A

When this is all over and we look back on the COVID panic, the thing that will really stand out is that we let people die—my guess is hundreds of thousands of people—for two reasons:

(1) During the Trump presidency, leftists used their media power to destroy any possibility of effective treatments lest COVID become inconsequential and Trump get reelected.

(2) After the Trump presidency, leftists used their media and political power to mandate vaccines to separate the obedient from the disobedient, to get people used to giving up their bodily autonomy, and as a trial run for using climate “emergencies” as a way to jettison the Constitution and achieve complete totalitarian control over the American people.

Andrea Widburg

 

[The_Trouvere]

Social scientists cannot prove their theories with controlled, repeatable experiments the way chemists and physicists can. We cannot go back in time, choose a different policy, and measure different results.

Social scientists usually condemn assertions found in The Bell Curve. Those who have made a scientific study of IQ know that what Charles Murray says is true, although they are usually afraid to say so publicly.

 

[Champakian]

A nit has been picked!

We deny the very idea that A can even exist...



This explains/defines why the "soft" sciences have become so woke.

But they attack math too as being Racist and it's a hard Science.

 

[bellisarius]

A nit has been picked!

We deny the very idea that A can even exist...



This explains/defines why the "soft" sciences have become so woke.

But they attack math too as being Racist and it's a hard Science.

They're going after biology too, especially genetic biology.

 

[Champakian]

Indeed.

Nihilism and Nietzsche, you just can't know anything,
but still you act as if what you feel should be true,
because ⌐A validates your feelings and A is
an invalidator and that's just not fair,
because all opinions are equal.

Sounds a lot like moral relativism...

Thus to Justice Sotomayor, it feels like 100,000 children
and to Justice Breyer it feels like 750,00 cases
which is just as valid as any other number!

That's why the Chicomms say, "Hey,
we only had one case yesterday,"
because that validates them!

 

[bellisarius]

Have you been watching China? Apparently it's finally dawned on Xi that you can't have economic freedom without following it up with political freedom. So he's dong every thing in his power to shut down the economy. What a guy!

 

[Champakian]

"Indeed, men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge
to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which alike can look for
salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger
when their aid may be required.”

—Thucydides, on the stasis at Corcyra



(Hat tip: Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/09/...iracies-cabals-and-insurrections-good-or-bad/ )

 

[Champakian]

Have you been watching China? Apparently it's finally dawned on Xi that you can't have economic freedom without following it up with political freedom. So he's dong every thing in his power to shut down the economy. What a guy!

I've often pointed out that a rising middle class will be the bane of the CCP,
and just like with the free countries where the youth of privilege agitate for
a "fair and just (woke)" tyranny, the newly affluent children of that emergent
middle class will agitate against a restrictive tyranny.

It's all about the perception, in both cases, that government
has put restrictions on their upward mobility...

 

[bellisarius]

It's going to be fun watching him try to stuff the Genie back in the bottle.

And, of course, the America "Progressive" is learning nothing from this.

 

[Champakian]

There is only the left-wing desire through any means necessary to obtain,
increase, and use power to alter the Constitution and our long-held traditions and
customs of governance, especially when the majority in a constitutional republic opposes
such efforts. The lesson then is that all means are justified to obtain morally superior
ends—with the caveat that only leftists can be morally superior.

As a result, sometimes “dark money” cabals and “unfolding” conspiracies of “powerful
people,” who vow to rid the world of Trump, successfully can and should “change rules
and laws” and again “control the flow of information” and modulate “protests” and
coordinate private enterprise “ resistance.”

But what of the supposedly clueless public? What of the non-powerful people, the
clingers, the dregs, and the irredeemables, the smelly in Walmart, and the toothless who
have no inkling of such a smug, hip “shadow campaign”? What of those without Mark
Zuckerberg’s billions, or Silicon Valley’s control of “the flow of information” or vast sums
of “hundreds of millions in public and private funding”?

They are left with only the surreality that sometimes elected legislatures passing laws to
require a voter to present an ID is “racist” and “voter suppression,” but at other times
private “cabals” and conspiracies of “powerful people,” who outside of government and in
secret, should certainly be “changing,” “steering,” and “controlling” voting procedures
and the media coverage of such efforts.

In their deplorable ignorance, they are to accept that sometimes 120-day big riots are
admirably not “tranquil,” but smaller one-day ones are terrorism and insurrection.
Sometimes unarmed suspects, with a long record of meritorious military service, lethally
shot by a policeman deserved it, as the law enforcement shooter becomes heroic and
the victim demonized and slandered, as the killing is no indictment of policing. But then
again, sometimes unarmed suspects, with lengthy arrest records, who die while in police
custody are deified, as the death contextualizes ensuing riots and mayhem.

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

[source in post #230