Michael Hardner

Yes 👍🏻

Ridiculous statement. A tattoo costs a fraction of rent. Strikes me that you probably don't know what rent is these days? I moderate local Facebook groups and they are filled with people who say they're getting evicted, and are looking for a room at an impossibly low rate. They didn't think about the housing market until they were forced to. Could you afford $1200 rent with $1800/month pay? People are strikingly unaware of what's happening.

It's disingenuous to not mention the pill as the single major killer of population growth in the west, is my point. Within a generation, immigration was increased and became a social issue...

A recent Economist podcast quoted a study saying mom's are spending 50% more time parenting than 60 years ago and that's with having more employment today. Fathers are spending even more than that as an increase. Screens are a way to give everyone a break... but there's a huge cost.

This is getting a huge amount of attention right now from public health and educators. And as a parent of two children in a family where all are addicted to our screens, in a community where everyone talks about this... it's perhaps the biggest issue in my life. ... I don't have any answers yet.

I get that. The thing is, I'm highly suspicious of trying to weigh the Valor of a generation. It seems like a no-win game. They've been doing it since my dad was born, seriously. There are too many factors to consider. I will of course allow that technology and the pandemic have had huge impacts, only that we don't know what they are. And this is not a political topic for me either

Radical Marxism bought and paid for by corporate America. 😃 Sweeeet...

I always defer to statistics. Apologies for not reading the original study.

Perhaps. But without reading the paper, only reading the daily mail version of events... It seems to be anecdotally reported by educators. Which is fine, but remember these are the same people you don't trust to handle students coming out as trans.

Whatever that source is... Seems pretty leftist. So, declining birth rates since the 18th century? How about since 1964? Anyway, population growth has been a mainstay of capitalism... "Sustainability" has not. The alternatives are definitely interesting though.

Glad to add some information. Cheers...

Since way before..

The dialogue usually goes like this: "Trudeau is a Marxist" Me: "What are your reasons for saying that?" "Ok, then, YOU'RE A MARXIST YOU MARXIST" I've explained my beliefs in our nation's institutions make me defacto conservative but a lot of people on here can't stand the idea of discussion.

Well Doug Ford continued his streak of unaccountability when he did zero to stop the Ambassador Bridge blockade. This from a party that murdered an Indian because he was protesting in a park. You expect too much.

...for sure, but intent matters too. Someone pocketing a bribe at the expense of my body is not ok.

Given the Democratic Party association with massive retail outfits, I wouldn't worry too much that they're planning to nationalize grocery chains. In fact they're trying to keep two major chains from merging. https://reason.com/2024/08/17/harris-joins-the-ftcs-food-fight-against-kroger-albertsons-merger/ One first has to decide where you stand on monopolies vs freedom to do business.

In the interest of good faith, I will help out Zeitgeist by contributing a valid question I saw posed: why did public health leaders discount the importance of masks early on. To my mind, I would conclude that this was indeed dishonest and done for the purpose of preventing a run on masks, which were in short supply for health workers. Understandable? Sure. Forgivable? Well, that can be rightly argued either way.

Absolutely I am. When monopolies start to challenge the purposes of capitalism, you often need only remind them of their place.

Conservatives HATE monopolies fyi. Do you think that your small business stands a chance against Jeff Bezos? Have you read Adam Smith?

@Zeitgeist a good analogy is 9/11.. a topic which formed my opinions on the public sphere to a large degree. Again, the criticisms were largely tied to nefarious motives rather than a failure of vision prior to the event and tactical errors on the day of. After awhile, I stopped reading criticisms because they were rehashing the same thing again and again.

I'm open to reading criticism but the dividing line is ... what was the underlying motive for actions taken. Almost every critical thread I have read has been hyperbolic in that area. If it's about incompetence then that's fair comment, however we were also dealing with extraordinary circumstances.

He quit on principles. So he was conservative.

Your opinion is on brand for your Holocaust denial... Sorry... questioning...

🤔 What an odd assertion. WHO FUNDS MEDIA has nothing to do with WHO CONTROLS MEDIA. Is there a particular group that controls media then? Maybe, to your mind, a people or religion... perhaps known to have dwelled in the desert at some point? Curious 🤔

Discourse depends on the communication landscape. When these change, it's like moving the furniture to find old dust beneath. Voting down the orange man won't clean that dust.