tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8655199673589968330..comments2024-03-28T18:39:34.211-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Humans believe the darnedest things!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50435604455484716692022-04-03T06:32:42.735-04:002022-04-03T06:32:42.735-04:00Thats good site for meThats good site for meModel escorts in Delhihttps://www.sriti.in/call-girls-in-Dwarka.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19889231952749174212022-04-03T05:52:36.374-04:002022-04-03T05:52:36.374-04:00greate a postgreate a postmumbai escortshttps://diyashetty.com/mumbai-escorts-sex/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37941755066685401602022-04-01T21:01:25.459-04:002022-04-01T21:01:25.459-04:00Nobody would care if all Somerby did was bash CNN ...Nobody would care if all Somerby did was bash CNN and MSNBC, two corporate entities with little relevance.<br /><br />Somerby says Dems should be nice to right wingers, do not call out racism or other types of oppression, do not engage in identity or gender politics. He says, without evidence - the evidence actually indicating the opposite, that being woke costs votes. He is basically doing a performance of Archie Bunker.<br /><br />C'mon, Somerby is a joke, whether his shift has been brought on by funding or ego, his posts are easily debunked nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65993553776257531752022-04-01T16:10:43.718-04:002022-04-01T16:10:43.718-04:00No one thinks the media is liberal. Least of all,...No one thinks the media is liberal. Least of all, those who complain about "the liberal media". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91236357823850132152022-04-01T14:47:05.247-04:002022-04-01T14:47:05.247-04:001:39,
What are you going to do about it? Understa...1:39,<br />What are you going to do about it? Understand how economics works? I'll take my chances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87037854970446107672022-04-01T14:16:26.913-04:002022-04-01T14:16:26.913-04:00In other words "No left wing news organizatio...In other words "No left wing news organization would do that, but a corporate news outlet that sells left and liberal viewers to advertisers has no issue with it."<br /><br />Maybe knock the side of your head a couple times, not too hard now, and it could at least temporarily right your ability to read and think clearly? May be worth a shot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89524059832262555122022-04-01T13:39:36.173-04:002022-04-01T13:39:36.173-04:00Another mind numbingly stupid and ironic comment. ...Another mind numbingly stupid and ironic comment. With extra irony. And pretending not to understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73613963661449586762022-04-01T11:19:06.175-04:002022-04-01T11:19:06.175-04:00Republicans are too stupid to know what irony is. ...Republicans are too stupid to know what irony is. Let's just call them numbingly stupid (and ignorant bigots), and leave it at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73599221716477623512022-04-01T11:17:42.091-04:002022-04-01T11:17:42.091-04:00CNN is a corporation, so they are Right-wing, like...CNN is a corporation, so they are Right-wing, like the rest of the media.<br />You don't really think they don't know that the country would be in a better place if elections were financed by public dollars, do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77789574870867921192022-04-01T10:08:59.315-04:002022-04-01T10:08:59.315-04:00Mind numbingly stupid and ironic.Mind numbingly stupid and ironic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78620317319188943802022-04-01T07:51:41.174-04:002022-04-01T07:51:41.174-04:00Who said that there are smart Republicans? I have ...Who said that there are smart Republicans? I have seen no evidence of that. If they don't believe crazy things, they are keeping quiet about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91349553009497725092022-03-31T22:21:42.318-04:002022-03-31T22:21:42.318-04:00Bob doesn't believe left wing beliefs are inco...Bob doesn't believe left wing beliefs are incorrect. He believes that large groups of people and corporations apply those beliefs in a knee jerk way, often because it's a way to get people's attention. <br /><br />It'd be very strange to assume that CNN really is about the struggle when they run advertisements from big insurance trying to attack their competing public Medicare plans. No left wing news organization would do that, but a corporate news outlet that sells left and liberal viewers to advertisers has no issue with it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11719155702207218232022-03-31T19:47:56.527-04:002022-03-31T19:47:56.527-04:007:16 great comment, all well said, thank you.7:16 great comment, all well said, thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47020353308329547632022-03-31T19:16:03.290-04:002022-03-31T19:16:03.290-04:00"In the past ten years, most of these bogus o..."In the past ten years, most of these bogus or misleading beliefs have involved issues of gender or race."<br /><br />This essay is an exercise in bothsides-ism, but the problem is that there is no equivalence between believing that there exists structural racism in the USA and believing that Hunter Biden built bioweapons labs in the Ukraine which Putin is trying to find in order to stop their use, aided by reptilians who may or may not be disguised as Trump and Putin, or nonsense about sex trafficking of children so that senate members can drink their blood and use adrenochrome to stay young by killing babies (a not very thinly disguised version of the blood libel).<br /><br />For one thing, there is evidence supporting the beliefs about gender and race that are held by the left. There is none on the right. For another thing, there is a historical continuity for the beliefs about race and gender, consistent with a civil rights movement that goes back to the early days of slavery (or the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain, for women's rights). Not so much, for the right wing nonsense that seems to mutate faster than the media can report the weirdness. And then there is the matter of degree of idiocy. <br /><br />For these reasons, Somerby is wrong about any equivalency between favored beliefs on the right and the left. He is wrong about the left believing ideas related to race and gender solely because it supports their cognitive identity, and not because there is a factual basis for left-wing beliefs. <br /><br />Cognitive studies are conducted in lab experiments or polls that do not translate well to real life situations (this problem is called external validity). In this case, it sounds like they used some measure of partisan affiliation as a variable to test its association with IQ or cognitive ability. Somerby is over-generalizing this (as he does almost everything he talks about) to mean that smart liberals believe more identity-enhancing stuff, and therefore complaints about racism and sexism are bogus. Science doesn't work that way, and this study does not justify such a conclusion.<br /><br />Further Somerby's own cherished belief is that gender and race issues are exaggerated, wrong, bogus, so that is what he himself is most strongly motivated to believe. To the extent that Somerby himself is intelligent, that means his cherished belief that left-wing issues are blogus must be more likely to be wrong too. <br /><br />I doubt the authors of this study intended it to be used to discredit other people's beliefs, on the grounds that if those others are smart, then their beliefs must be wrong because they are warped by identity enhancing cognition. There is nothing that cannot be undermined in this way, including Somerby's own premise. <br /><br />How do you get out of this problem of circularity? You acknowledge that beliefs have a truth value independent of what believers think about their content. There is an objective reality of climate science, for racism, for sexism, for any partisan issue, that exists separate from those who hold self-serving beliefs. It is that truth value that determines whether the views are correct or not, not the IQ of the believer or that believer's partisan affiliation.<br /><br />But Somerby is sunk in nihilism and you will not get him to admit that anything at all is true, since anything is possible. If he won't admit that the sun rises in the East, you won't get him to admit that slavery was bad for the USA, or that Jim Crow recreated slavery in the south, or that there are still race-related disadvantages that need to be eliminated in our society arising from our early history of slavery. He won't even admit that slavery began with the transport of the first slaves in 1619.<br /><br />And that makes today's essay an exercise in resistance to anti-racism and anti-sexism efforts in our society, not an exploration of how the human mind works -- something he has manifested exactly zero interest in, except today as a club to beat liberals with. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89727207123533052732022-03-31T19:14:36.845-04:002022-03-31T19:14:36.845-04:00FDR references an issue Somerby used to champion, ...FDR references an issue Somerby used to champion, back before he lost his moral compass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65552061895421970952022-03-31T17:15:09.014-04:002022-03-31T17:15:09.014-04:00Trump is a standard issue Reagan Republican, with ...Trump is a standard issue Reagan Republican, with all the bigotry and economic know-nothingness that entails.Bertohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00467132691948621846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44640625530704263082022-03-31T16:49:00.267-04:002022-03-31T16:49:00.267-04:00"Crazy belief has become a major problem on t... "Crazy belief has become a major problem on the right in recent years."<br /><br />Recent? In 1981 the GOP said cutting taxes would INCREASE government revenue. And the deficits exploded.FDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06987676214157655750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19946176278043474822022-03-31T15:29:05.894-04:002022-03-31T15:29:05.894-04:00You can trace when the media moved along from ques...You can trace when the media moved along from questioning the result of the 2020 election, to the date they started mentioning the deficit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4364220837045616242022-03-31T14:28:06.697-04:002022-03-31T14:28:06.697-04:00Uh...remember the REPUBLICAN defense of...what did...Uh...remember the REPUBLICAN defense of...what did sweet KellyAnne call them..alternative factsBarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14488393162133400235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77460985759321270262022-03-31T14:25:31.897-04:002022-03-31T14:25:31.897-04:00"Crazy belief has become a major problem on t..."Crazy belief has become a major problem on the right in recent years."<br /><br />Oh yeah, definitely. Just recently, did you see, dear Bob, one liberal super-genius soon-to-be Supreme Court judgess not knowing who the wimmins are? <br /><br />Crazy, crazy, crazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com