7 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 245”
Wow. Just wow. Thatch weave. I did the same thing in Star Fleet Battles; a board game of ship (or fleet)combat. I used three ships and I did what I called braiding. My ships, because of the shields and weapon arcs,did it better than others when they tried it. No idea where that came from, but I guess I happened to think like a great mind.
17th Delende Est!!
I play very few tactical war games (I’m a grand strategy guy) but when I do, I see if the rules allow for real world to work. Usually I check vs the Thatch Weave. Lookin’ at you X-Wing
You say, rightly, that the culture war started in the 1950s when the collectivists decided to destroy the institutions that make our country great. I am reminded of a Glenn Beck point from way back when he was on Fox where he took out an original printing of the US Communist Party platform from the 1950s. It was stunning in the same way that “Rules for Radicals” is stunning in that it is all laid out in black and white. One of the things in the party platform was to destroy the nuclear family by bringing about no-fault divorce and working to increase the out-of-wedlock birthrate as well as the number of abortions. Reducing church attendance. Getting rid of prayer and studying the Bibles in public schools. Taking over the universities, especially the journalism schools, and thereby the press was in there too. Ditto the judiciary. The list goes on and on and it is astonishing how many of their plainly stated goals they have accomplished.
They thought that when they had accomplished all of these things, the workers’ paradise would emerge inevitably. But, Bill, you are so right when you talk about how This Time everything is different because of the internet, and because of the structures within our Constitution that the collectivists haven’t been able to destroy or change (except for the progressive amendments). They fought this war as if it were the previous ones, with the same old armaments, and even with all of their Big Tech infiltration they’ve failed to adapt. Even the things that were relatively effective, like their iconography during Obama’s leadership, were old-tech tools.
I have been watching the Netflix (?) series called something like “World War II in Color.” I have learned a lot because I have never been (until now) terribly interested in WWII, but because of your many discussions about this or that battle on TSL over the years, and now your discussion about how WWII led us into the Cold War (I’ve only managed one episode so far), it is now more interesting to me than it was. So I watched the episode about the Battle of Midway this week, and because of the depth of my ignorance about the basics (though not of the higher-level analysis that you have taught me over the years), I found it riveting.
And so now, when you make a comparison of the 2016 election to the Battle of Midway, whereas before I understood them both as “turning points,” I now more fully understand the depth of the analogy. So thank you, Bill!
I think that one of the reasons that leftists cannot follow the reasoning about free speech vs. hate speech (“what you say offends me, therefore by your reasoning must be banned”) is because they are only concerned about theoretical offense taken by theoretical identity groups. They don’t really care if an individual is offended by something they say themselves. They don’t see that as relevant, because only the group is important.
How can I find you in Star Citizen? I don’t have much experience in SC, but I’ve played arma and DCS for a while.
7 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 245”
Wow. Just wow. Thatch weave. I did the same thing in Star Fleet Battles; a board game of ship (or fleet)combat. I used three ships and I did what I called braiding. My ships, because of the shields and weapon arcs,did it better than others when they tried it. No idea where that came from, but I guess I happened to think like a great mind.
17th Delende Est!!
I play very few tactical war games (I’m a grand strategy guy) but when I do, I see if the rules allow for real world to work. Usually I check vs the Thatch Weave. Lookin’ at you X-Wing
You say, rightly, that the culture war started in the 1950s when the collectivists decided to destroy the institutions that make our country great. I am reminded of a Glenn Beck point from way back when he was on Fox where he took out an original printing of the US Communist Party platform from the 1950s. It was stunning in the same way that “Rules for Radicals” is stunning in that it is all laid out in black and white. One of the things in the party platform was to destroy the nuclear family by bringing about no-fault divorce and working to increase the out-of-wedlock birthrate as well as the number of abortions. Reducing church attendance. Getting rid of prayer and studying the Bibles in public schools. Taking over the universities, especially the journalism schools, and thereby the press was in there too. Ditto the judiciary. The list goes on and on and it is astonishing how many of their plainly stated goals they have accomplished.
They thought that when they had accomplished all of these things, the workers’ paradise would emerge inevitably. But, Bill, you are so right when you talk about how This Time everything is different because of the internet, and because of the structures within our Constitution that the collectivists haven’t been able to destroy or change (except for the progressive amendments). They fought this war as if it were the previous ones, with the same old armaments, and even with all of their Big Tech infiltration they’ve failed to adapt. Even the things that were relatively effective, like their iconography during Obama’s leadership, were old-tech tools.
I have been watching the Netflix (?) series called something like “World War II in Color.” I have learned a lot because I have never been (until now) terribly interested in WWII, but because of your many discussions about this or that battle on TSL over the years, and now your discussion about how WWII led us into the Cold War (I’ve only managed one episode so far), it is now more interesting to me than it was. So I watched the episode about the Battle of Midway this week, and because of the depth of my ignorance about the basics (though not of the higher-level analysis that you have taught me over the years), I found it riveting.
And so now, when you make a comparison of the 2016 election to the Battle of Midway, whereas before I understood them both as “turning points,” I now more fully understand the depth of the analogy. So thank you, Bill!
I think that one of the reasons that leftists cannot follow the reasoning about free speech vs. hate speech (“what you say offends me, therefore by your reasoning must be banned”) is because they are only concerned about theoretical offense taken by theoretical identity groups. They don’t really care if an individual is offended by something they say themselves. They don’t see that as relevant, because only the group is important.
How can I find you in Star Citizen? I don’t have much experience in SC, but I’ve played arma and DCS for a while.
Moved to appropriate thread.