That's just it... the majority was not shouting for years. I still don't think they are. The majority might not like it but they sure aren't shouting.

It doesn't take a majority. A loud group can get a reaction.

It is exceedingly rare for a corporation or org like the IOC to do anything that would be overtly against the masses. They do little things and people in them are a different story but this is yet another signal.

That's my point actually. The vast majority just go along to get along until they are forced to think about things or something like an election exposes widespread sentiment. The signal shifted. Is a better way to phrase it probably.

So are we gonna see widespread boycotts of the games now? I mean if what we have been told over a decade now is morally correct that should be the response.

Won't happen. There has been a shift. Organizations like the IOC are anything but brave. They have adjusted based on their finger in the air. They sense the winds of change.

Mike Judge was right again.

"There oughta be a law" is a bipartisan illness.

I took a pretty hard tumble playing Pickleball last year. Just cracked a rib but weird stuff can happen. I'm no where near 76.

The very fact that we can't be sure about stuff like this is a sign of a deep problem in our world.

I don't think these people could generate more Jew hatred if they tried. It really seems like this is the goal sometimes.

Yeah... and the Libertarian party is considered weirdo by normies so it's all relative. We are in a time of flux. More and more young people are disillusioned with both parties. The said thing to me is how many of them are following obvious frauds. At least to me.

Love to see projects like this. I've learned a few things from the guy behind this over the years from his networking channel on YouTube.

Should work fine offline. It's based around a local chatbot. Done a bit of work like this myself and the models don't require online access. In fact, most of the chatbots now have addressed issues with older models by adding online search so that is something you have to add. That said, I have yet to try this out myself. Saw it the other day.

I hope so.

Taxation is theft isn't in the overton window. Nor is anarchism.

Well, you aren't wrong but I actually mean real pragmatic people that just want to be free but aren't going to cut off their own nose to spite the state. I fall into that category. Taxes are theft but I am not diluted enough to think facts will stop the thugs from putting me in a cage. I also don't go around calling everyone a statist cuck. Most don't even know what the state is. They think Thomas Massie is an extremist.

I would consider someone like Tom Woods a pragmatic person more so than Rose. But I like and find value in both. There need to be both types. You have people that slowly warm up to ideas and others that need to be shocked to wake up.

But, I think one of the worst things about humans is the "narcissism of small differences". Which is pretty much the libertarian movement.

Also common in most religions. It's a human trait.

I welcome the absolutists and the pragmatists

LOL. Rose, yes. Darth... no. Just poking the bear a bit

"Actually libertarians" Rose makes a distinction.

LOL 🤣

"The Libertarians" as if that were an actual thing.

Oh I can only imagine the pearl clutching. One of their darlings was a monster. Shocker. And those orgs live on virtue signaling.

The bad thing about this is that it all shows that exposing monsters does hurt a movement. After all, that's why so many don't expose this sort of stuff when Christian leaders are the monsters. Or the civil religion has a lion that eats the cubs.

genuflecting

You really asking this. We know why. This is what public figures and the public do now.

The question is, do we learn to NOT lionize leaders? Will we learn that putting men on pedistals enables this kind of behavior. It's a pattern that is so obvious it doesn't feel worthy of attention.

Cesar Chavez news is blowing up in Central California.