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>Most women have no interest in impossibly handsome 27 year old billionaires who don’t do the dishes.
How to distinguish between the impossibly handsome 27-year-old billionaire who really is interested in you, and the one who is seeing 5 other girls at the same time..?
>And Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available.
Maybe she doesn't "feel good" about wearing the same clothes in public twice (something British royalty are supposed to avoid doing apparently) and Republican fashion designers simply have not been making any clothing donations.
"Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available." Republican fashion designers? As we used to say in pickup baseball games, name three.
Children, women, infantilezed, "your" Obama, a decleration of Trollishness in the other, all chased down with this gem "It's clear to see precisely what Bias has yet to be Overcome here" in a blog named overcoming bias.
Thanks for the clarity, on why failure is always an option despite the availability of rational choice
The First Lady's spokesman could have said: "It is a traditional responsibility and privilege of the First Lady to show the world what American designers accomplish. Mrs. Obama is honored to be able to carry on that tradition."
The general quality of Obama flack excuse-making is low because they get challenged so little by the media.
This reminds me of Irving Kristol's remark that there are several kinds of truth. Some people are like children, and "can't handle the truth." Or at least, that's what most people really believe.
"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. ~Irving Kristol"
Your quotes above are white lies targeted at the masses because they need to be reassured that excellence and status are not important as simple, vague things that anyone can imagine they possess. The above speakers want to be liked by the masses, and the masses don't like people who remind them they aren't objectively admirable.
If you watch the book author video (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/..., you'll see the conversation is about whether women like to be dominated, not about how much domination a woman will accept in order to get how much wealth and looks in a man. The author says women like being told what to do on paper, and in fantasy, but not in reality.
Ha. Nice. ANd true. Honestly, if they're giving her the clothes for free, then wear them! And don't tell us any lies about why you're waring them. I can accept that you get them for free and love free clothes! ANd that book. Um yeah. Fiction for a reason. :)
It's in their best interests to believe it, so they do.
People, in general, are awfully damn good at fooling themselves into believing things that don't make any sense at all, as long as they think it's in their best interests to hold that belief.
You can't say that a person doesn't believe something just because the belief doesn't make any sense. Their biases can take over at the subconscious level and make them believe it.
I don't know for certain whether the people who made those statements actually believed them, but I do know that we can't be certain.
The first lady probably does pick out her clothes from a selection that the designers make available to her. It is pretty much the same as clothes shopping. Whatever criteria I use to select my clothes, I don't buy clothes from stores that I don't go to.
>Most women have no interest in impossibly handsome 27 year old billionaires who don’t do the dishes.
How to distinguish between the impossibly handsome 27-year-old billionaire who really is interested in you, and the one who is seeing 5 other girls at the same time..?
http://www.theatlanticwire....
>And Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available.
Maybe she doesn't "feel good" about wearing the same clothes in public twice (something British royalty are supposed to avoid doing apparently) and Republican fashion designers simply have not been making any clothing donations.
Yes. Obama was clearly the rational choice.btw are you related?
"Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available." Republican fashion designers? As we used to say in pickup baseball games, name three.
Children, women, infantilezed, "your" Obama, a decleration of Trollishness in the other, all chased down with this gem "It's clear to see precisely what Bias has yet to be Overcome here" in a blog named overcoming bias.
Thanks for the clarity, on why failure is always an option despite the availability of rational choice
Very interesting. A one-post troll on disqus gets (at present) 17 upvotes.
It's clear to see precisely what Bias has yet to be Overcome here.
The First Lady's spokesman could have said: "It is a traditional responsibility and privilege of the First Lady to show the world what American designers accomplish. Mrs. Obama is honored to be able to carry on that tradition."
The general quality of Obama flack excuse-making is low because they get challenged so little by the media.
Who said he was "their" Obama? Not wanting to insult Obama supporters doesn't mean one supports Obama.
This reminds me of Irving Kristol's remark that there are several kinds of truth. Some people are like children, and "can't handle the truth." Or at least, that's what most people really believe.
"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. ~Irving Kristol"
Your quotes above are white lies targeted at the masses because they need to be reassured that excellence and status are not important as simple, vague things that anyone can imagine they possess. The above speakers want to be liked by the masses, and the masses don't like people who remind them they aren't objectively admirable.
Is it true, or not, that kids and women voted overwhelmingly for your Obama.
Leave your liberal bias behind.
If you watch the book author video (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/..., you'll see the conversation is about whether women like to be dominated, not about how much domination a woman will accept in order to get how much wealth and looks in a man. The author says women like being told what to do on paper, and in fantasy, but not in reality.
Your comment has more likes than the parent! The Rationalists are winning!
Ha. Nice. ANd true. Honestly, if they're giving her the clothes for free, then wear them! And don't tell us any lies about why you're waring them. I can accept that you get them for free and love free clothes! ANd that book. Um yeah. Fiction for a reason. :)
Gotta take that jab at the enemy tribe! Stay classy.
Who, believes this stuff?
The same type of children and women who voted for Obama - believing he was "different."
In short, the same infantilized America so self-satisfied with its intellectual depth it believes it will endure forever.
It's in their best interests to believe it, so they do.
People, in general, are awfully damn good at fooling themselves into believing things that don't make any sense at all, as long as they think it's in their best interests to hold that belief.
You can't say that a person doesn't believe something just because the belief doesn't make any sense. Their biases can take over at the subconscious level and make them believe it.
I don't know for certain whether the people who made those statements actually believed them, but I do know that we can't be certain.
The first lady probably does pick out her clothes from a selection that the designers make available to her. It is pretty much the same as clothes shopping. Whatever criteria I use to select my clothes, I don't buy clothes from stores that I don't go to.