Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Was referring to the person that flipped off a Cybertruck driver that they didn’t even know, for no reason other than a story playing in their own mind. Flipping someone off means, “fuck you”. That’s vile. And ” vitriol” is a word that means, “the expression of anger or hate” So, accurate. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 06/09/2026... drove all human development and innovation, and war has been a constant feature of human (and many primate) societies for as long as history and archeology can tell, with few exceptions. Capitalism cam much later, followed by the crony capitalism and corporatism of today. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 06/09/2026In particular, the confederacy (originally composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca) was explicitly founded by the Great Peacemaker to end generations of bloody inter-tribal warfare among themselves. The point is profit, private property, and trade were the engines that ... 110
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Let's start by separating the principles of private property, trade and profit, which I am citing, from capitalism, which you are railing against. The first predate the later by millennia. Then please reexamine your claim that those three societies were peaceful. Two were not. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We’re not done. You’re trying to open a massive can of worms. I’ll go into it a little, but not tonight. 👊 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Haha, there’s no value in you and I debating such a massive subject here. As I hinted at, our facts and beliefs are probably so different that it’s as if we’re living on different planets, each deeply convinced that the other is ignorant of The Truth, and just plain wrong. 200
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Tax over and above what I’d vote for and consider reasonable, enacted In the name of “collectivism” by a populist government voted into power by the recipients of the money, ie “tyranny of the majority“. Could be exorbitant income tax, or a confiscation of wealth like reparations or a wealth tax. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026NO, that’s a bad analogy. A better analogy is I drive down the street but I have to give every other car I pass a dollar under threat of violence because The Authorities have determined that those people (who just so happen to be The Authorities’ voter base) deserve that dollar more than I do. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Or perhaps I have a different view of “that stuff”. It’s highly likely that each of us has a very different set of “facts“ that we believe to be true, and also highly likely that we’re both convinced that we’re right and the other is totally wrong, for … reasons Anyway, +1 on the “no road rage”. 👊 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Unfortunately, yes. Throughout the history of our species, humans have suffered at the brutal hand of Nature, and at the brutal hand of their fellow man as we organized into clans, tribes and eventually global political structures and institutions. We should never stop striving to end suffering. 010
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Good point. Those things can exist in a number of different economic systems, including for example, the crony capitalism and corporatism that dominate today. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I understand that you believe that stuff. This isn’t an argument about that. I’m simply asking that people don’t let their beliefs about a large shareholder in the company that makes a given car spill over into vile or vitriolic personal aggression against the driver or occupants of said car, lol. 300
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There are dark times ahead. Wait until you understand the real implications of a fiat monetary system and current global debt levels.😬 But this is a conversation about bringing children into the beautiful turbulent river of human history. Hard times produce heroes and humans will find a way. 110
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Good point. I should have said “Recall, my only real request was that people not let their political beliefs - or unfounded assumptions about a driver’s personality - manifest into ugliness and vitriol spewed upon the rest of society.” Thanks for the correction. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Haha, yes whatever that was, it wasn’t subtle. Try speaking directly, as an adult. You’ll be understood more often that way. I’m happy to listen if you’ve got something to say. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ha! I’m right again! Thanks, Frank, have a great day my man.static.klipy.comExcited Baby Yelling 'YESSSSSSS!!'ALT: Excited Baby Yelling 'YESSSSSSS!!' 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Doubling down, I see. My guess is you’re willing to double down on pejorative attacks and labeling forever without once offering a coherent point or argument to my position. Please prove me right or wrong. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026… tax payer money to its executives, vendors and employees, but didn’t do anything to change my situation. 😉 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sounds eerily like the vax “not-mandates” where people were free to not be vaxxed as long as they didn’t mind not having a job or being able to participate in society in any meaningful way, lol. Beside if I did that, some well-meaning lib would call me “unhoused” and create an NGO that funneled… 200
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I completely disagree but I’m open to hearing your argument. Please cite one or two examples. 110
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ah yes, the old “personal attack” deflection. It seems to be the main go-to on this site when people are uncomfortable with an expressed view, but for some reason avoid addressing it directly, opting instead to throw labels, pejorative descriptions and Identity politics. It’s so tiresome, Frank. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Haha, that’s fair, and I’ve already expressed my support for your right to believe and purchase what you want. Recall, my only real request was that people not let their political beliefs manifest into ugliness and vitriol spewed upon the rest of society. 🙏 200
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Toyota. I like it a lot, my next car will probably be a Toyota as well. You know, you can just buy a car that makes the most sense for you. You don’t really need to examine your politics to do so, you can just think about how you plan to drive it. 210
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I wish collectivists would at least use the more accurate phrase “forceful, involuntary transfer of wealth, carried out by violence or the credible threat of violence“ rather than the simple benign-sounding phrase “transfer of wealth” 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I agree with guardrails and robust regulation, intelligently designed and consistently, effectively enforced. We should all fight the cronyism and corporatocracy that exists today. Your other collectivist statements are too broad for me to accept at face value. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I get it. You believe that Musk is a Nazi, and that somehow the profit from Tesla trucks somehow supports Nazi's, and the people that drive Tesla trucks somehow support Nazi's. What I'm asking is that you experience those delusions privately without dragging the real world into it. Thank you. 400
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Having massive cognitive bias and twisting reality through a lens of your own political refraction is normal and human. It's your right to believe whatever distorted reality makes you comfortable. But when it comes to interacting with actual people in the actual real world, please stay sane for us. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Of this I am 100% convinced: there is no changing your mind. We will have to fight you as we've fought all collectivists throughout the ages. And fight we will. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What? I thinking that screaming is inside your head, lol. 200
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No irony in being a dick to someone you don't even know because .... you assume they're a dick. 🙄 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please don't share your vitriol and ugliness with the world that way. The world is a better place without it. Thanks. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please don't share your vitriol and ugliness with the world that way. The world is a better place without it. Thanks. 400
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please don't share your vitriol and ugliness with the world that way. The world is a better place without it. Thanks. 300
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Your argument is with the global chattel slavery trade and the destruction of the environment, and those are noble arguments indeed. But your argument is not with profit or private property. Without those things you'd be living in squalor, if you even lived at all, unable to make ANY argument. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Congratulations on the kid and grandkids, that’s so awesome! 👊 Don’t worry so much, everything is going to work out. The adventure of humanity will go on, with all its beauty and ugliness, marching ever upward in choppy cycles. 210
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If benefits were distributed by need rather than by the merit of whosoever created those benefits, there wouldn’t have been benefits to distribute in the first place. There wouldn’t only have been fierce political bickering over who “needs” the scraps of whatever meager benefits might exist. 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Human ingenuity and cooperation exist absent the profit motive, but the profit motive is a accelerant. Without the profit motive humans would not have evolved past small, cooperative clans at constant war with each other. The vast, vast majority of great human innovations were done for profit. 210
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s our goal and destiny to procreate. That’s the successful completion of the Circle of Life. Listen to your biological instincts. Move life forward and die fulfilled. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Have you heard of The Fourth Turning, by Strauss and Howe? They put a formal argument around what you just said. It’s worth reading, or at least looking at an AI summary. 010
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Use your agency. Lose the hate and the victim attitude. They’re doing you no favors. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yes there are bad people in the world, but I urge you to explore your bias and look for balance in your perspective. Perhaps get off social media and take up a sport or hobby that’s social, and focus on your health. 100
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is an amazing time to be alive. We have greater wealth and opportunity than our ancestors could have possibly imagined or dreamed of. 030
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We wouldn’t have achieved those things at without the principles of private property, trade and profit. 320
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why don't we just call it American History then, and tell it. Why does everything have to get a racial label? 000
Dad's Advice @echowander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've never heard of anyone believing that though. Have you? Where did you hear that? 000