Politics: October 2023

Thursday, October 26, 2023

EV subsidies

The cost of producing electric vehicles (EVs) is far higher than the prices they are being sold for. Nearly $22 billion in federal and state subsidies and regulatory credits suppressed the retail price of EVs in 2021 by an average of almost $50,000.
Thanks to an unlawful multiplier, EVs receive nearly seven times more credits under federal fuel efficiency programs than they provide in actual fuel economy benefits.
Regulatory credits with bonus EV multipliers from federal fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards and state EV sales mandates provide an average of $27,881 in benefits per vehicle for producers of EVs.
Home and public charging stations used by EVs put a significant strain on the electric grid, resulting in an average of $11,833 in socialized costs per EV over 10 years, which are shouldered by utility ratepayers and taxpayers.
Direct state and federal subsidies for EVs average $8,984 per vehicle over 10 years.
TPPF Releases Study Exposing the True Cost of Electric Vehicles (texaspolicy.com)

Overall, Americans overwhelmingly support Israel over Hamas. A whopping 84 percent of respondents told pollsters they favored Israel, while just 16 percent favored Hamas. Among older Americans over 65, an astounding 95 percent supported Israel, and just 5 percent said their sympathies lie with Hamas. But among young people age 18 to 24, things looked quite differently.

Just 52 percent of this group said they supported Israel, while 48 percent said they supported Hamas. Yes, that's right: Nearly half of young respondents said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians, including women, children, and infants, in a chilling and sadistic manner.

You'd hope for the sake of the future of our country that these young people are somehow supporting Hamas despite the group's violent actions. But you'd be wrong. In an even more shocking finding, the Harvard-Harris poll revealed that 51 percent of 18 to 24 year olds said Hamas's violence against Israeli civilians was justified, while just 49 percent don't think so

Here's where things get... strange. In the same poll, 62 percent of young respondents agree that what Hamas did to Israel was "genocidal." So, a hefty chunk of young people in this country believe that genocide against Israeli civilians is justified. What the hell?

An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas's Slaughter of Innocent Israelis | Opinion (newsweek.com)

This is not normal. Such a moral perversion is not an organic belief that naturally emerges among decent people. On the contrary, it's in large part the consequence of a corrosive and malevolent "social justice" ideology that's being spoon-fed to young Americans on college campuses.

In this depraved worldview, which Elon Musk has dubbed the "woke mind virus," the world is divided into two groups of people: oppressors and oppressed. Black people, for example, are oppressed in America. So, under this lens, Black Americans cannot be racist: They can only be victims of racism.

Meanwhile, "misgendering" someone is violence, even though it doesn't actually involve any violence. Actual violence in response to this speech is justified as "self-defense."

Truth, and therefore morality, is subjective, in this worldview. Hence the normalization of the innocuous-sounding but actually Orwellian phrase "my truth," "your truth," or "his truth."

This heierarchy-obssessed perspective does not actually describe reality. In the real world, there are shades of grey.

Socialism Does NOT Work | Daniel Hannan | Oxford Union

The History of Police in America and the First Force

The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places, says Potter. These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the "collective good."

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

Jordan Peterson Makes the Case for Capitalism

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

What Can You Do If a Mob Surrounds Your Car?

Re: Bet NO ONE told you this about Canola Oil

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I have seen much that I would regard as paranoia about "seed oils". I wanted to present research that counters all the negativity about Canola Oil. It claims that Canola Oil has health benefits similar to Olive Oil. I use both. This is interesting because Canola Oil is much cheaper.

I am always open to new research. One problem with Internet articles and videos is that most of it is hearsay and opinion presented as fact. I have to be careful with videos like this because they could be misinterpreting the studies. When possible, I try to find actual scientific papers.

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> I've read and viewed exactly the opposite regarding canola oil. Many researchers say the mere fact that canola oils is a manufactured oil made from the canola plants (seeds) is reason enough not use it.
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>> https://youtube.com/shorts/ik7IfpsnnIE?si=ieL4YkkL0wyHS93G

Friday, October 20, 2023

HP is scraping the bottom of the barrel

Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus

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From: Albert

It's interesting how he thought we would have a workstation at home that would connect to the mainframe. A desktop/laptop PC can do this using the internet, but operate independently using software. Imagine if someone told him, the workstation idea would fit in your pocket and be taken for granted as your phone because it would be part of your mobile smartphone.

It was a good statement about the future. Are we better off as a society? We should be, but are we?

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 8:48 PM John wrote:
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From: Albert

Most Americans can't understand why Israel has decided to conduct such a ferocious counterattack to Hamas' attack on them. This doesn't show American's concern Hamas or the Muslim world. It shows our naivety about the Arab world. While we worry about the next "critical" social issue such as personal pronouns, safe spaces, nose rings, hair dye, climate change and Trump; the rest of the world thinks in terms of live or die. Americans fail to realize 1/3 of the world's population search for animal dung and flammable items to heat their homes and water. We have carried complaining to a fine art and the rest of the world is tired of hearing our whining/whimpering over every little thing.