reg Abbott (perhaps) was not so weak in personality as DeSantis or Thomas. Gregg Abbott was severely injured. He was paralyzed. By no fault of his own when an oak tree fell on him. Abbott had been jogging after a thunderstorm. More sane than me, I jogged during one. An oak tree apparently had been weakened and was in a state of advanced decay and should have been removed already. It fell on Abbott. We would all be angry. We would all want justice. But eventually we would go beyond the stage of anger. He might have been a champion of rights for others. Abbott certainly was (is) intelligent. He argued before the supreme court, he won before the supreme. David Souter complimented him for being very effective and without needing to stand at the podium. His legal arguments are cogent, or seem to be to be so. If I didn’t always think his briefs were on the wrong side of the present I would probably be convinced. He, unlike DeSantis, can stab a spiral steel rod into humanity with full impunity and smile while he is doing it. If others hate because they were hated, too afraid to fight back and want to wield the sword of political vindictiveness, to return the venom spewed on them during their childhood.
But this is not Abbott. His venom is not because he felt lesser, but he was made lesser. His body became deformed and he suffered in agonizing pain. He is not only paralyzed but his frame is inserted with steel rods to even maintain its shape and they are painful, but without he would be a mind in a void with no physical control whatsoever. He would be a Stephen Hawking, a vital intelligence without a functioning body.So why didn’t he?
I can’t know, can I? But he suffers physically and he delights not in taking away the rights of others, he wants to make them hurt physically. He wants to deprive the worker from water; he wants parents to lose their children to gunfire because he was unable to have his own. He delights in the pain of the parents of their loss, but equally in the inflicted deaths on the children. He doesn’t want other women to bring forth children his wife couldn’t bring forth to him. It’s not as much about abortion being illegal for Greg Abbott, it’s to create an environment where a woman who is pregnant will suffer the most possible, maybe even die. So that he can lie in his bed and curse God that he is defeating him, he is defeating him, he is proving to God that torture is acceptable and planting his (God’s) own commandments on the capital grounds in mockery, twisting his knife into the very God he says gives him the moral right to be the satanic force he is to the citizens of Texas. He denies others all sexual pleasure because sexual pleasure was stolen from him and tries to argue sex for any reason but procreation is profoundly wrong. All, all because he hasn’t had the ability to have sex since the day that tree crushed his body. But it crushed his brilliant mind and twisted it more severely than the bullied frightened childhoods of a Thomas or a DeSantis.
I make massive psychological assumptions in the above paragraphs. But my basis for this is simple. I think psychology, or the way a person acts can usually be found in pretty simple examples of behavior. Stokely changed from an ideology of following Dr.King in peace, to being a proponent of black people defending others because he saw too many beaten when they offered their cheeks. Experience plays on a personality and the outcome is the actions of a human being. I really don’t think it’s more complicated than that.
The injury allowed Abbott to sue the homeowner and a tree service company, resulting in an insurance settlement that provided him with lump sum payments every three years until 2022 along with monthly payments for life; both are adjusted for inflation. Abbott has said he relied on the money to pay for nearly three decades of medical expenses and other costs. In 2003 Abbott took office as Texas attorney general. In 2003, Abbott supported the Texas’ legislators move to cap non-economic damages for medical cases at $250,000, with no built-in increases for rising cost of living.
It - epicaricacy - comes up in the discussion distinguishing, ah, bad from evil: bad guys hurt people for reasons e.g. money, evil guys hurt people for fun.
Geolibertarianism - Radical Markets! = egalitarianism; land > labor + capital
Yvne = epicaricacy or, more commonly, schadenfreude; we have these words, honest. I'll note in your defense the Windows spellchecker didn't know the word 'epicaricacy', huh. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicaricacy
Anj example?
reg Abbott (perhaps) was not so weak in personality as DeSantis or Thomas. Gregg Abbott was severely injured. He was paralyzed. By no fault of his own when an oak tree fell on him. Abbott had been jogging after a thunderstorm. More sane than me, I jogged during one. An oak tree apparently had been weakened and was in a state of advanced decay and should have been removed already. It fell on Abbott. We would all be angry. We would all want justice. But eventually we would go beyond the stage of anger. He might have been a champion of rights for others. Abbott certainly was (is) intelligent. He argued before the supreme court, he won before the supreme. David Souter complimented him for being very effective and without needing to stand at the podium. His legal arguments are cogent, or seem to be to be so. If I didn’t always think his briefs were on the wrong side of the present I would probably be convinced. He, unlike DeSantis, can stab a spiral steel rod into humanity with full impunity and smile while he is doing it. If others hate because they were hated, too afraid to fight back and want to wield the sword of political vindictiveness, to return the venom spewed on them during their childhood.
But this is not Abbott. His venom is not because he felt lesser, but he was made lesser. His body became deformed and he suffered in agonizing pain. He is not only paralyzed but his frame is inserted with steel rods to even maintain its shape and they are painful, but without he would be a mind in a void with no physical control whatsoever. He would be a Stephen Hawking, a vital intelligence without a functioning body.So why didn’t he?
I can’t know, can I? But he suffers physically and he delights not in taking away the rights of others, he wants to make them hurt physically. He wants to deprive the worker from water; he wants parents to lose their children to gunfire because he was unable to have his own. He delights in the pain of the parents of their loss, but equally in the inflicted deaths on the children. He doesn’t want other women to bring forth children his wife couldn’t bring forth to him. It’s not as much about abortion being illegal for Greg Abbott, it’s to create an environment where a woman who is pregnant will suffer the most possible, maybe even die. So that he can lie in his bed and curse God that he is defeating him, he is defeating him, he is proving to God that torture is acceptable and planting his (God’s) own commandments on the capital grounds in mockery, twisting his knife into the very God he says gives him the moral right to be the satanic force he is to the citizens of Texas. He denies others all sexual pleasure because sexual pleasure was stolen from him and tries to argue sex for any reason but procreation is profoundly wrong. All, all because he hasn’t had the ability to have sex since the day that tree crushed his body. But it crushed his brilliant mind and twisted it more severely than the bullied frightened childhoods of a Thomas or a DeSantis.
I make massive psychological assumptions in the above paragraphs. But my basis for this is simple. I think psychology, or the way a person acts can usually be found in pretty simple examples of behavior. Stokely changed from an ideology of following Dr.King in peace, to being a proponent of black people defending others because he saw too many beaten when they offered their cheeks. Experience plays on a personality and the outcome is the actions of a human being. I really don’t think it’s more complicated than that.
The injury allowed Abbott to sue the homeowner and a tree service company, resulting in an insurance settlement that provided him with lump sum payments every three years until 2022 along with monthly payments for life; both are adjusted for inflation. Abbott has said he relied on the money to pay for nearly three decades of medical expenses and other costs. In 2003 Abbott took office as Texas attorney general. In 2003, Abbott supported the Texas’ legislators move to cap non-economic damages for medical cases at $250,000, with no built-in increases for rising cost of living.
from https://ken856.substack.com/p/the-weirdest-thoughts-from-august?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
It - epicaricacy - comes up in the discussion distinguishing, ah, bad from evil: bad guys hurt people for reasons e.g. money, evil guys hurt people for fun.
To be clear, you can, of course, be both; a smart evil guy will find a line of work that compensates him for his proclivities.
Typo: Plausiably
Geolibertarianism - Radical Markets! = egalitarianism; land > labor + capital
Yvne = epicaricacy or, more commonly, schadenfreude; we have these words, honest. I'll note in your defense the Windows spellchecker didn't know the word 'epicaricacy', huh. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicaricacy