Followup, at what point do these (alleged) good ideas outweigh the harm from bad people with bad ideas?
I’ve posted it a bunch of stuff in a lot of different posts so please don’t take offense when I say ugh, but but a few that come to mind are Chinese tariffs, investment in AI infrastructure, fostering an environment of open competition amongst would be AI companies, allowing access to defense contracts from startup companies, particularly within Silicon Valley, demonstrated successes in doing things at a fraction of the cost as legacy defense contractors.
And I don’t know at what point the bad stuff from the bad guys will outweigh the utility of their activities and ideas that I agree with. I suspect this very dilemma has plagued mankind since before the written word. it’s a risk I’m willing to take….The risk being a willingness to support an idea, even though I don’t like who the idea came from.
If any one of those things go south, I’ll change my mind again. I need to be as unconcerned as possible about “ How does this make me look?”
Fair enough. I think you really overestimate how much people care about the person vs the idea, that's daxbot behavior. It's mostly a very deserved apprehension because they are a bad person.
With all due respect to you and everyone else on this blog, I think the norm here is to dismiss any idea if you don’t like the person that it came from. I think that’s how it is in most of our society. I think that the people who spend money on the media absolutely know and understand that they are fostering an environment, where we automatically reject anything from “ The other side.”
It can be a time saver, that is for sure.
I think the right thing to do is to attempt to evaluate each idea or proposal on its merit and decide whether or not going forward is it the best available option or not? I acknowledge that sometimes that’s impractical. I also acknowledge that sometimes it’s just emotionally very difficult to do. I fail on it all the time.
OK, I'll try to respond, but I'm an idiot so bear with me. I somewhat agree with you about the media part, but that is greed and not ideology. As far as individuals I think it's much more complicated. There is so many issues that no reasonable person can be expected to be knowledgeable about them all (as an example, see how ridiculous dax looks pretending to be an expert on everything). The issues I care the most about line up pretty well, at least pragmaticly, with the demoncraps. The issues that I don't care about or have a low knowledge of I tend to just defer to the knowledgeable. One example, trump 1.0 made a huge campaign promise for paid maternal leave. I 100% support this and did not care about the shithead proposing it. Sadly it was just campaign talk and nothing materialized as would be expected from a shithead.
I think it's absolutely absurd how Trump treats our allies, this has been a consistent demeanor for a decade. Instinctually I am against tariffs on Canada and Mexico. China is a different story, I don't mind playing tougher against them, and without knowledge or details I'm more open to it but with heavy scepticism based on trump being a shithead.
Now, that's a lot about me so maybe I'm just special but I don't think that's the case.
