mousepad wrote:AdamB wrote: Fox News
you a cnn guy? That doesn't shine a good light on you either
Nope. I'm a "they are all liars" guy. VT isn't the only person who just absorbs what he shoveled in his direction, once a preference is established, I think it is now endemic in the US.
I just start with the idea that everyone has a different perspective, I love seeing different opinions on a topic and am willing to consider whichever one has done the best research, using data, and being logical. Exactly why I started research into peak oil with the brand name PhD's way back when. When dealing with the sciences, no point in paying much attention to bobble head advocates and amateur hour folks. But opinions on things like politics, well, the bobble heads love that one because it is all opinion, with an occasional splash of facts, and can be argued in either direction, almost equally.
The entire brave new world of deliberate misinformation and alternative facts is just lethal to most folks being able to figure things out. VT falls right into that category, regardless of why, or when it happened to him. If a Democan was involved, it is bad. Doesn't' matter what the topic, if a Republicrat was involved, it is good. End of story. Now, he doesn't tend to pull the same mindless gibberish when discussing most economic ideas and other things, including peak oil. But politics? Dead ringer for mindless anti-Democan, and nothing more. It isn't a surprise who his go to source of information is for political commentary.
Current example, Uvalde. NRA convention going on in Houston, 19 kids are dead, Fox News staff were all shaking their heads on air, oh yes, quite bad, what are we going to do about crazy people, quick clip of Senator Cruz being all serious on air somewhere, yes, we need good guys with guns to stop bad guys with guns. Makes sense, I understand that claim, the problem is all the good guys with guns were standing outside the door wetting themselves about maybe getting hurt if they went in...so they stood around and waited until the mentally deranged had killed everyone over the course of an hour, asked a janitor nicely for a key, and then snuck in to see how many coffins they would need. Plus 1, as the good guys with guns finally got around to stopping the bad guy with a gun. Applause all around for the good guys with gun argument. That was Fox News, my parents love the stuff every since they became MAGA folks in 2016. Until the story changed and it turned out the good guys were all cowards and busy following orders, just like those nice men in the Waffen SS in Germany as they shuffled folks off to the concentration camps...who...us? Just following orders.
CNN? Non-stop anti-gun as best I could tell. Pretending that political reality is any different this time than all the others. Oh my, McConnell...maybe he'll think about doing something this time. Lets ignore whack-a-doodle people causing guns to kill people and focus on folks needing to be whack-a-doodle at 21 before we want them to acquire a firearm and shoot up school kids. Yes! A background check! Yes! It'll save ChiRaq!! Well....except most of these shooters are generally clean in the criminal record department, so good luck with spotting them early as a solution. Not quite as deranged on what is going on as Fox News, but close and just 175 degrees out of phase.
And don't ask me what the solution is, because I don't know how to cure American gun whack-a-doodle any better than the next honest person. The best idea I've heard since Uvalde was to require all guns to be locked away if there are underage kids around, and this would prevent like 50% of all children getting killed or being killed by them. Sounds like a seat belt and airbag type argument that can save thousands of lives a year with a basic safety thing, but nope, can't be having a adult solution stick its head in between the guns for everyone and guns for no one crowds.
So...call it research, and a trained ability to think without prejudice. I find that method works best for me, and making sure I cast a wide net for ideas and information. It was good enuogh to figure out why peak oil was a fraud 15 years ago, and when done right it doesn't tend to let one done with little social stuff either.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"