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| 2020-12-10 |
| [The other McCain] Some readers have noticed that I have barely commented at all about the legal wrangling over the presidential election. My post on Monday ("The Margin of Theft") laid out a few points of circumstantial evidence pointing toward fraud in "battleground" states. If you believe Democrats stole the election, I’m totally with you, but the real question is what can be done about it and, because I’m not a lawyer, I am not qualified to estimate the likelihood of success of efforts to challenge the results. Nothing I might say here is going to influence the court decisions. We have on our side commentators who are eminent attorneys and law professors, fully qualified to speak on the subject, so that there is no need for me to contribute my two cents’ worth of uninformed opinion. You can go on Twitter and find plenty of ignorant opinions on the election. Personally, I’m avoiding the hair-on-fire screeching hysteria, which strikes me as irresponsible and unnecessary, and which also possibly might be harmful to my mental health. Not joking here. Self-awareness is crucial to good mental health. You must be aware of your own vulnerabilities, the tendencies that might lead you down the escalator to the abyss of stark raving lunacy. And I have assessed that this post-election imbroglio is tailor-made to make me crazy. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #5 /\ Male pattern paranoid schizophrenia and memory loss, but I eat my broccoli and drink lots of water. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-12-10 08:33 |
| #4 Me, I've settled with functional insanity long ago. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-10 08:28 |
| #3 So basically this means: 'So your democracy is gone, so what! Deal with it. But don't go nuts.' If there ever was a time or thing to go nuts over, it is now and this is it. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-12-10 05:46 |
| #2 some people are teetering on the brink of craziness Join the real world, pal. It has always been this way. And there have always been many who are just plain nuts. US society is being deformed to the point of no longer being conducive to its founding principles. For the rest of us, this too will pass, perhaps taking many of us with it. |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2020-12-10 04:30 |
| #1 So I click on the link to arrive at the Sawgrass Park and what do I see? A quote running along the length of the banner, from a famous anti-Communist: "One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler Is this author telling us to "shut up"? If not, then why is he arguing against the need to speak and "write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth"? If we stop speaking the truth, we will sooner or later begin mouthing lies. At some point we will either come to believe in those lies, or else we will be forced to lead double lives, as people in the old Warsaw Pact countries did. One truth for the world inside the four walls of your tiny little state-issued apartment; another truth for everywhere and everyone else. Only someone who never went through communism could possibly think that this 2nd outcome is going to lead to anything but depression, despair and eventual madness. |
| Posted by: Gleregum Dribble1710 2020-12-10 01:05 |