Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2207843)

Absolutely, my personal view is too many people are too loyal to one party or another, don't think or research, or analyze on their own. More emotion than intellect. I disagree completely with those who posted that a nation's citizens need to be protected from the truth by their elected officials. That implies elected officials have intellectual, educational, economic, and/or moral superiority and are fit to make decisions to "protect" their lesser advantaged masses. Simply not true, anyone can see that sets a nation on a path to ultimate failure, ultimate destruction. Frightening to think how we are going that direction. We create an idol out of a common man, we then throw all our deepest fears and insecurities on this "creation", then we "it" fails us, the great president or the great scientist who will save us, or the great general, is revealed to be just another, nothing special, man, we quake in our fears, and look for another. If anyone wants a 4 year liberal arts education in psychology, philosophy, fear as the one emotion that rules the world, and the foolishness of mass illusion and hysteria, all you have to do is watch the entertaining old movie.... Madagascar (the original one !)

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2208014)

Humans make a big mistake when they try to find that one great leader that will turn their lives around and make everything wonderful. There was a sci-fi movie about that called "Dune" where only one great leader could ride the giant space-folding WORMS. Mankind has NOT risen past the anthropological idea of tribalism, where the one (god-like) leader carries the nation on his (mostly) shoulders to ultimate glory. Think Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and the Kennedys.
........For myself, I would prefer a 3 or 5-person panel to be President of the US, not just ANY one person.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2208014)

humans make a big mistake when they try to find that one great leader that will turn their lives around and make everything wonderful. There was a sci-fi movie about that called "dune" where only one great leader could ride the giant space-folding worms. Mankind has not risen past the anthropological idea of tribalism, where the one (god-like) leader carries the nation on his (mostly) shoulders to ultimate glory. Think hitler, stalin, churchill, and the kennedys.
........for myself, i would prefer a 3 or 5-person panel to be president of the us, not just any one person.

Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2207856)

Great to learn something, would never have garnered that from the "news talking heads", or even a couple of our federal administration spokes persons. I had never heard the acronym and they sure made it sound "dark", "mysterious", lol, of course. I do believe though, that his particular cyber "friends" (again, so they say !) were all younger, and looked up to him as important, knowledgeable, etc. Too bad when a person has a change to be a positive role model, many prove to have "clay feet". Anyway, many entertaining hours of playing on line games and thanks for explaining " Discord ! Maybe you should explain to some of these "government spokes people", it's not ominous at all... good luck with that !

Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2207290)

A penny for your thoughts on the latest "leak" of classified intelligence information that effects our allies as well as us ! What do you think of the explanation that's it's actually a low ranking air force reserve member, more focused on on line gaming with teens than with his heavy responsibility by having access to our most sensitive intel ? A paid spy ? An immature air force member with "over his head" responsibilities ? A low lying fruit scapegoat for something even more complicated and covert than we can imagine ?

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2208108)

Heh - most of those "government spokes people" still don't understand the concept of social media.

Also - Discord isn't an acronym. It was named Discord because discord - the inability to synchronize - was something they were trying to solve when they were playing League of Legends and one of the Final Fantasy games, almost a decade ago.

As for my comment that you responded to, I was incorrect - they don't have "hundreds" of game servers. They have "millions" of game servers. They, being Discord.

Technically speaking, discord is a VoIP and instant messaging system. If you use Zoom, or Skype, or WhatsApp, then you are using something very similar to Discord.

Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2207843)

Absolutely, my personal view is too many people are too loyal to one party or another, don't think or research, or analyze on their own. More emotion than intellect. I disagree completely with those who posted that a nation's citizens need to be protected from the truth by their elected officials. That implies elected officials have intellectual, educational, economic, and/or moral superiority and are fit to make decisions to "protect" their lesser advantaged masses. Simply not true, anyone can see that sets a nation on a path to ultimate failure, ultimate destruction. Frightening to think how we are going that direction. We create an idol out of a common man, we then throw all our deepest fears and insecurities on this "creation", then we "it" fails us, the great president or the great scientist who will save us, or the great general, is revealed to be just another, nothing special, man, we quake in our fears, and look for another. If anyone wants a 4 year liberal arts education in psychology, philosophy, fear as the one emotion that rules the world, and the foolishness of mass illusion and hysteria, all you have to do is watch the entertaining old movie.... Madagascar (the original one !)