Random Politics & Religion #22

And it had nothing to do with his education, skill, and negotiating power?

All of it was luck, or "being in the right place at the right time"?

Except I do, all the time.

I provide evidence, he doesn't accept it because it doesn't come from Mother Jones or Weekly World News. It doesn't mean I'm wrong and he is right, it means that he is willfully ignorant and wishes to stay that way to keep living in his alternate reality.

wait a second... are you contending that jk rowling, writing a wildly popular series of children's books, was based soley on luck, of which there is a finite amount of, and by coming up with HP she somehow lessened the physical amount of this luck in the form of other luck based ideas that are only possible through luck and that's why you aren't successful?

I don't know what we're talking about up in here but luck is real i'm like 0/105 on the kraken club bcnM

Of course there are standards to be met. You're being stupidly obtuse.

Considering the internet wasn't really a thing at the time, yes. This isn't as large of a factor these days because the internet exists. Although expecting people to be able to afford a potentially huge move to a more expensive place is ridiculous.

If he wasn't in SoCal as he was graduating college, he wouldn't have gotten his position at Boeing. And the only reason he was there was because he was sent to SoCal to live with his mothers family while his parents were getting divorced in MiseryMissouri.

Currently, Boeing has been downsizing pretty hard and last ones in are the first ones out. Meaning people who may be relatively close to him in job performance are being booted out simply because they haven't been there as long.

It doesn't mean your wrong or that he's right but you haven't done anything to prove that he's wrong and you're right... the "evidence" you've provided isn't conclusive or evidence at all... it's really the equivalence of Vic saying something like read this article on how trump can be impeached for the things he's done... so you know... conflicting opinions not evidence...

Who proved the entire dossier to be false again? No one? It is simply one piece of evidence, that hasn't been debunked by anyone.

Also, the FISA warrant on Page was issued legally, and had nothing to do with the Obama Administration. Its not "highly illegal." Whats your basis for that opinion again? Oh, that trash blog you posted listed out the requirements to obtain a FISA warrant, where is the evidence those requirements weren't met? No where? Where is the evidence the FISA court acted incorrectly? Made up? Where is the evidence that Clinton was involved? Made up?

Grassley sent Comey after reading an article. Not evidence of any wrongdoing. Simply asked questions. Thats all you have, questions. Not actual evidence.

Shooting in France, 3 police were shot and 2 have died. They're saying it's a possible terror attack but it could also be armed robbery that ended in a gun fight with police (or police were targeted intentionally)

The suspect was shot and killed and they're executing a search warrant at his house now

If I sourced an opinion-only article that doesn't provide the sources to back up their analysis, then you would have a point.

Too bad I do, even though you, along with The Wizard of Wrong™, choose to ignore it.

I've read what you posted and linked to and it's a far cry from anything being evidence that prove Vic would be wrong... you, like many others just choose to believe in what you want to then use anything you see to try and back it up whether it does or not... you have no actual evidence to back up your claims and the fact that you think you do is just sad... you should probably wait until actual vid cr comes to light in which you can then prove him wrong or not... it seems, at the moment, you just like telling him he's wrong whether or not he actually is and to be honest he might end up being... you're acting just as partisan as him ATM though...

Shooting in France, 3 police were shot and 2 have died. They're saying it's a possible terror attack but it could also be armed robbery that ended in a gun fight with police (or police were targeted intentionally)

The suspect was shot and killed and they're executing a search warrant at his house now

Well, you apparently think that luck or randomness played a large factor in your life. You don't accept any of your decisions to lead to any of your successes, which means that you don't have many successes to celebrate. Therefor the failure.

As for the status quo, you using luck and/or randomness as an excuse to justify your failures (see above) proves that you don't want to achieve anything, and want to stay where you are. Therefor, status quo.

Let me guess, some rich guy is oppression you for whatever reason you can think of today, right?

You're assuming way too much and managed to be wrong with most all of it. I'm not at all in a bad place in life right now, but there's a certain humility to be found in acknowledging the impactful elements out of your control that either helped or hurt. I think the sum of these impacts is relatively large. To me, that's not self-deprecating or self-pitying to feel that in any way because I don't see it as a negative thing. It's just how the universe works.

the only difference in our viewpoints is perspective

you are still clinging to the hope that you and your perception, in the grand cosmic universal scheme of things, matter... and that therefore this "empathy" that you have is tipping the universal scales towards the side of fairness.

where as I contend our entire existance as a species is meaningless and nothing that anyone does matters on the grand scale of the universe so empathy will never tip the scale because it doesn't have any weight in the physical universe...and the scale is broken anyways...well in the sense that it is a self correcting scale that automatically fills the side that is emptiest

and other than perhaps the physical imprint of leaving a few pieces of space garbage in the form of satalites and space probes scattered about the galaxy, we can't even begin to hope to dream of influencing anything really....everything else we have built will one day return to sand and ash

think about it, we colapse our entire solar system into the sun and in the process destroy the sun and probably nobody would notice.

some reptilian astronomer thousands of light year away might notice our small spec of a sun blinking off enough for them to do a double take and then clean off their glasses and then shrug it off

we're monkey sitting around smelling our own butts and wondering in vain if it matters how bad it smells. it doesn't

I don't know what sort of evidence you want.

Do you want video evidence showing Obama specifically telling Rice to spy on Trump?

Yes, all I have is circumstantial at best. That is unfortunately all I can ever have. However, if you have even the smallest shred of reason and intelligence, you yourself can see the ***in the smoking pile in front of you.

It's still a cop out, and not humble at all to not accept that you put yourself in the position you are currently in.

Good or bad, you made it happen, nobody else, and luck had little to no effect in how you got to the point in your life.

It's not a bad thing to deny your own accomplishments.

So then let me ask you this KN... you got that job as a CFO then you said something like you had an accident and could no longer perform that job... you'd put that squarely on your shoulders as your failure?

Correct me if I'm wrong on the reasoning for you not having the job anymore...