Originally posted by samhainit started in south africa, but yeah it is kinda Portuguese 🙂
Do you guys have Nando's over in the States? It's a Portuguese chicken place, it's so popular over here it spawned the phrase 'a cheeky Nando's', as in 'Let's go for a couple of pints, then we'll have a cheeky Nando's'.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I like extra crispy recipe. But, you're right: so much saturated fat and fat in general.
Yes, saturated fat is bad but trans fat is the worst. Not sure if their chicken has any trans fat in it or not.
Some people are so obsessed with "eating right" that they pull the skin off of chicken before eating it lol. Screw that shit. Once I've made the decision to splurge I go all out.
Originally posted by dadudemon👆
This is a very interesting take. And I agree with it whole heartedly. I am accepted by the conservatives despite my liberal/leftist positions. They are more open to the science that contradicts their positions. They have far less hate, anger, and insularity.All around, they (conservatives and Libertarians) are just far more pleasant to be around. It is emotionally and mentally exhausting to constantly have to put up with the SJW virtue signaling, self-righteous platitudes, close-mindedness, and hypocrisy.
Summary: Auth-Lefties are the scourge of human society in the western world.
One of the major problems is that most of these Auth-Left types genuinely think that they're liberal left. They think their beliefs will take them closer to freedom and liberty, when all it will actually do is create new authoritarian bureaucratic systems to be abused by both apolitical opportunists and crazy ideologues.
But if you're opposed to any of their beliefs then you're THE ENEMY!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M HEARING YOU SAY THIS! I'M SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THIS!
Originally posted by Scribble
👆One of the major problems is that most of these Auth-Left types genuinely think that they're liberal left. They think their beliefs will take them closer to freedom and liberty, when all it will actually do is create new authoritarian bureaucratic systems to be abused by both apolitical opportunists and crazy ideologues.
But if you're opposed to any of their beliefs then you're THE ENEMY!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M HEARING YOU SAY THIS! I'M SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THIS!
How do you feel about the Auth Left and their weaponization of their ideas by using cancel culture?
Technically, it is still libertarian to cancel someone. Because their arbitrary stances, that are constantly changing, is not codified. So it is technically not authoritarian. They are still operating within a free market and the employers, of their own volition, are terminating the contracts or the employment of the people they "cancel."
Originally posted by Scribble
I think that was the case at the start of this year, but Biden looks older now, and personality-wise, Bernie is still pretty spry, whereas Biden just seems constantly confused and bewildered by the very existence of words.
Not physically imo.
When they speak though, Bernie's far more lucid.
Originally posted by Scribble
True, Bernie's heart attack did seem to physically shake him a bit. But he still always seems pretty full of life, it's impressive for a lad of his seniority.
I love his semi-crazed-passion-filed ranting style of talking.
I still hope Biden brings in Yang and/or even Buttigeig into his cabinet, the US needs younger smarter people. Those two could potentially do great with executive experience under their belts in a few more election cycles.
Originally posted by dadudemonIt's complicated, as it all happens in the public sphere, but it comes off very 'dictatorship of the proletariat' when used in that way. I have deep concerns with how cancel culture is going, especially after the cancelling of Johnny Depp for the crime of being beaten up by his psychotic girlfriend and then framed as an abuser. In combination with a lot of the anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight etc. stuff that is slowly bubbling toxically away on the surface of a lot of the supposedly 'well-meaning' current social justice movements, it's only going to get worse, I think.
How do you feel about the Auth Left and their weaponization of their ideas by using cancel culture?Technically, it is still libertarian to cancel someone. Because their arbitrary stances, that are constantly changing, is not codified. So it is technically not authoritarian. They are still operating within a free market and the employers, of their own volition, are terminating the contracts or the employment of the people they "cancel."
I think it's all still philosophically authoritarian, even when Libertarians use it. Tbh, I find a great many issues with Libertarianism. To me it just seems like liberty for corporations / companies, not for the individual. Libertarians claim to hold the individual in high regard, but I don't see any of that in their ideology; I see 'freedom', but not 'liberty'. "You're free to get whatever job you want, you're free to pay for all your own healthcare; your employer is free to fire you for any reason they like, and you're free to die in the ****ing gutter, parasite"
Imo pure Libertarianism is just a shortcut to tyrannical corporate oligarchy in a very Kafkaesque mode.
Originally posted by dadudemonYeah, this is the sh1t the moderate Left had best get a handle on.
It is emotionally and mentally exhausting to constantly have to put up with the SJW virtue signaling, self-righteous platitudes, close-mindedness, and hypocrisy.
I regret that I likely won't be around 40 years from now, to see how the Revenge Left will react when they're the ones being looked back on and judged.
You will. And if the Revenge Left is taking it poorly, and if you remember, raise a glass for me and think, "Mindship, you'd've loved this." 😉
Originally posted by RobtardIn the case of a Dem win, if Biden (or Biden's team, I'm not sure how 'there' he is rn) takes this opportunity to bring in some of the new faces and give them some opportunities to show their skills / levels of competence, that would be a pretty decent outcome.
I love his semi-crazed-passion-filed ranting style of talking.I still hope Biden brings in Yang and/or even Buttigeig into his cabinet, the US needs younger smarter people. Those two could potentially do great with executive experience under their belts in a few more election cycles.
Even though I don't like AOC, I'd appreciate seeing her working alongside Yang, Buttigeig and others to try to create a new, more dynamic side of the DNC. I think the Dems are in a transitional mode at the moment, seeking a new identity, figuring out how best to work in the post-Trump era; Biden may be the last of his kind, so I hope if he wins he uses that power responsibly to try and usher in a more ideologically diverse DNC.
Originally posted by Mindship
Yeah, this is the sh1t the moderate Left had best get a handle on.I regret that I likely won't be around 40 years from now, to see how the Revenge Left will react when they're the ones being looked back on and judged.
You will. And if the Revenge Left is taking it poorly, and if you remember, raise a glass for me and think, "Mindship, you'd've loved this." 😉
Ahh, man, that's a sad thought.
But I will. I will raise my protein shake and toast that news article to your honor.
Originally posted by Scribble
It's complicated, as it all happens in the public sphere, but it comes off very 'dictatorship of the proletariat' when used in that way. I have deep concerns with how cancel culture is going, especially after the cancelling of Johnny Depp for the crime of being beaten up by his psychotic girlfriend and then framed as an abuser. In combination with a lot of the anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight etc. stuff that is slowly bubbling toxically away on the surface of a lot of the supposedly 'well-meaning' current social justice movements, it's only going to get worse, I think.I think it's all still philosophically authoritarian, even when Libertarians use it. Tbh, I find a great many issues with Libertarianism. To me it just seems like liberty for corporations / companies, not for the individual. Libertarians claim to hold the individual in high regard, but I don't see any of that in their ideology; I see 'freedom', but not 'liberty'. "You're free to get whatever job you want, you're free to pay for all your own healthcare; your employer is free to fire you for any reason they like, and you're free to die in the ****ing gutter, parasite"
Imo pure Libertarianism is just a shortcut to tyrannical corporate oligarchy in a very Kafkaesque mode.
I agree with all of this. That's also my issue with Libertarianism.
Unchecked libertarianism just ends up in a corporatocracy.
It ends up being the opposite of libtertarianism in function. The more "free" the market, the less free the market becomes as it becomes dominated by unchecked corporate powers. The corporations game right now is to appeal to be as woke as possible because the modern world is high as f*ck on self-righteous "woke culture." Everyone is vying to outdo the last on how woke they can be.
The only way to combat this is to get rid of at-will employment, make it illegal to punish and/or terminate someone based on the things they do outside of their job (but if they are on the clock using company resources and they post racist shit, fire them with extreme prejudice).
The only exception would be a job that is specifically and directly about public relations and public image. None of this indirect loophole crap where an employer tries to say "well, everyone employee represents our public image so 24/7, they must do, act, and say in the way that we deem is best." How about no? Since those positions consistently change, you're not able to predict what your employer will demand 10 years down the road when it is now considered woke to allow yourself to be cock-slapped in the face by a transgendered hobo. "You are sexually repressed and your male privilege is unchecked! You MUST do and say as we dictate! How bigoted of you to unrighteously judge the transgendered homeless!"
We must regulate employers to bring them closer to equality with employees.
The UK is already ahead of us - I love it. I loved hiring people from the UK. We had to have employment contracts and part of the hiring process was negotiating those things. At one of my old jobs, the CFO tried to fire the director of the European market just because that director consistently pointed out when the CFO would make stupid, financially, unsound decisions (odd, right?). The CFO could NOT fire him because of the details in his contract. I loved it so so so so much! It was the best thing ever!
I'm sure that the leftists in the future will rewrite history as leftists are known for doing and claim that the crazy virtue-signalling authoritarian sjw types of today were actually "right-wingers" or, better yet, that the sides "switched" at some point like the leftists of today claim happened with the Civil War, slavery, and the KKK lol.
They've already managed to convince most otherwise intelligent people that the Nazis were "right-wingers" (which clearly wasn't the case, they just weren't as far left as the communists) so I'm sure they could pull that lie off as well.
Remember what Hitler said: "If you tell a lie big enough and long enough and loud enough people will eventually start to believe it" or something similar.
He also said people are more willing to believe a big lie than a little one.