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What an odd comment.

I think I would crush it in an instant if I did. What's cool about it is how light it is. I have another two bikes for the jumps. Both cost $100.

Cool. Thanks. I hope to see you guys there.

I'm not making an effort to promote the epoch times. Honestly I almost forgot he's tied to them till you brought it up. It is good to see the idea wars between different kinds of actors and it is true that pretty much everything the Falun Gong do has to do with their idea wars with the CCP. So that is interesting to note. But I know there are people who have a bad habit of dismissing information because of it's source, and in general I think that is a bad habit on this site so I push back against the premise more broadly when I can.

No. Not really. I think creating a post-truth world is more harmful. The way you get around the "harm" of true information is by encouraging people to process true information more maturely. Not by hiding it. There is no harm in truth by itself.

So we need to shut people up who's information we percieve will give us outcomes we don't like? I guess the nazis gave that ago and if it worked for them I guess we should do the same. But if we have decided to live in a post-truth world of our own creation, how are we going to make an honest assessment of what true information is actually harmful. We could just be lying to ourselves about that too.

Here is a good rule of thumb. Never lie to yourself. Never hide from information. Anything else is just developing anti-intellectual habits.

It kind of reminds me of a quote from And Justice For All from Metallica. "Seeking no truth. Winning is all. Fighting so grim so true so real."

When both sides frame what is true or false by what will help them win that that's how you end up with a post truth world. Of course that can be easily corrected by lying to ourselves again and claiming that only one side has blame. There is nothing a lie to ourselves can't fix.

The media won't run wild with the idea that none of the parties have public approval when all media outlets work for at least one major political party or the other.

Why would party agents undermine the perceived legitimacy of the party they work for?

The intent of someone's speech, or even its outcome, does not make it incorrect. A culture of hiding from reality thinking in doing so it will give us certain outcomes is what this practice will create.

It's what they looked like, in the good old times.