On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:58:24 PM Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
The punishment for being a Koch is having to associate with other Koches. :-#
Hear, hear.
Though, oddly enough, one of the Koches is gay and apparently a thoroughly decent person -- who sadly is obliged to deal with the others, who despise him for his sexual orientation. As I said, they're a particularly odd family.
Money gives people the freedom to do things. People like us have the freedom to own and do most things that people reasonably desire (healthy food, comfortable house, car that's not too old, occasional vacations, etc). Of the things that we could do there are many that we wouldn't choose to do because we have to deal with the consequences. People like the Koch brothers have the freedom to do all manner of unreasonable things and little consequences, people that rich can literally get away with murder. I expect that the Koch family would seem a lot less odd if they had the same resources as you or I and the same need to get along with other people. That said, for a long time I've wished that all my best friends and worst enemies would be able to spend a few years earning dot-com money in Amsterdam. I expect that I could learn to get along with any enemies who survived. ;)
You should watch some of the videos by Ron Reagan. I think that like me you will have more respect for his father afterwards.
I'm not entirely sure that would help. You see, the elder Reagan was also governor of my native state, and rather a disaster at that, IMO.
From what his son says he was a good father. That's one difficult job he apparently completed without disaster.
Of all the things you listed, not reading twitter etc seems to be your biggest lack. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on there.
I do dip into Twitter, very selectively. See, for example, the many tweets enshrined in my .signature blocks: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/sigs-rickmoen.html But, to reiterate, my problem is not with Twitter; my problem is with people getting their worldview from Twitter. Tweets are about the world's worst substitute for any of the other ways of understanding national and world affairs.
I expect that more than a few Ivy League graduates vote for Trump.
[citation needed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8dejYAPKXs Princeton Mom is defending him. She can be relied on to support almost every right-wing stupidity. I could go through the list of presenters for Fox News etc and find out who graduated from an Ivy League university. But really my claim doesn't need supporting evidence. It's just not plausible that a group of people as large as the graduates from all those universities are all universally intelligent and decent people.
FWIW, polls suggest that Trump's current electorate are overwhelmingly poorly educated.
But with a minority of well educated people. The closest I ever came to a fist fight with another member of the Linux community was one occasion when I casually mentioned that I like Mike Moore. It turned out that one of the guys in the room was somewhat mentally ill, he turned red and started shaking at the mention of Mike's name.
The reason that seasteading etc have never taken off is that even the anti-tax extremists know that a country run by people like themselves would be a horrible place to live.
More's the pity. I'd like to declare some artificial island Galt's Gulch, drop the lot of them off, and let them work things out.
You forgot to mention sending plenty of guns and liquor. ;) -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/