Political Discussions for "Adults"

~~jwb~~ · 08-07-2019, 09:38 AM

I'm just saying I don't exactly fantasize about sitting around on welfare. I know exactly the kind of **** I would get up to.

**Frownland** · 08-07-2019, 09:55 AM

I wouldn't just sit around either.

~~jwb~~ · 08-07-2019, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I wouldn't just sit around either.

What would you do?

**Frownland** · 08-07-2019, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

What would you do?

Take my music very seriously, chill and travel with friends, smoke, write a novel, meet people, fish, garden, camp, cook, drink, learn all the time, dick around on MB, hack away at my huge list of movies I want to watch/music I want to listen to, read, make instruments...

What you describe is what happens when you don't have goals or structure in your life. A job is a good almost hands free way of getting that since someone else is more or less in charge of that structure, but it's not the only way to get that fulfillment.

~~jwb~~ · 08-07-2019, 11:27 AM

I agree. Some of what you listed are examples of the sort of productive ways to occupy your time that I was talking about. Others are more like the sort of self indulgent, hedonistic impulses that I have trouble with when I don't stay occupied.

**Frownland** · 08-07-2019, 11:51 AM

Ja, hedonism only really works if you remember to eat your vegetables too.

~~Nebulous Passion~~ · 08-07-2019, 08:31 PM

This is pretty strange.

~~jwb~~ · 08-08-2019, 09:12 AM

Not strange at all. Very predictable. Joe has been getting crap from lefties for a while for not having enough of them on. He's giving in.

I even saw people on YouTube saying "maybe Joe is starting to see the light" when he had Cornel West on. What they don't understand is he's not a partisan, he's a soft ball interviewer. He'll throw the same soft balls to Ben Shapiro that he will to Bernie Sanders. But he manages to make interesting conversations out of it more often than not.

OccultHawk · 08-08-2019, 09:31 AM

Yeah

He’s like the an upgraded Larry King.

~~Nebulous Passion~~ · 08-08-2019, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

Not strange at all. Very predictable. Joe has been getting crap from lefties for a while for not having enough of them on. He's giving in.

I even saw people on YouTube saying "maybe Joe is starting to see the light" when he had Cornel West on. What they don't understand is he's not a partisan, he's a soft ball interviewer. He'll throw the same soft balls to Ben Shapiro that he will to Bernie Sanders. But he manages to make interesting conversations out of it more often than not.

I thought it was strange to see Sanders on a millennials podcast. Somewhat like if you saw FDR on TV.

Some of the people he's had on, like, Steven Crowder, you can't just throw soft balls at without garnering some criticism. Their ideas are so far outside the realm of honest conversation.

08-07-2019, 09:55 AM	#2462 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I wouldn't just sit around either. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

08-07-2019, 11:51 AM	#2466 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Ja, hedonism only really works if you remember to eat your vegetables too. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Yeah He’s like the an upgraded Larry King. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

08-07-2019, 09:38 AM	#2461 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I'm just saying I don't exactly fantasize about sitting around on welfare. I know exactly the kind of **** I would get up to.

08-07-2019, 11:27 AM	#2465 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I agree. Some of what you listed are examples of the sort of productive ways to occupy your time that I was talking about. Others are more like the sort of self indulgent, hedonistic impulses that I have trouble with when I don't stay occupied.

08-07-2019, 08:31 PM	#2467 (permalink)
~~Nebulous Passion~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 16	This is pretty strange.

08-08-2019, 09:12 AM	#2468 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Not strange at all. Very predictable. Joe has been getting crap from lefties for a while for not having enough of them on. He's giving in. I even saw people on YouTube saying "maybe Joe is starting to see the light" when he had Cornel West on. What they don't understand is he's not a partisan, he's a soft ball interviewer. He'll throw the same soft balls to Ben Shapiro that he will to Bernie Sanders. But he manages to make interesting conversations out of it more often than not.