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Pongalh
26m ago
"But the morality they adopted wasn't egalitarian therapy culture with the State as mother, it was woke culture with the State as HR lady."
Good point. You may remember the age of "everyone gets a gold star" or "a trophy just for playing." The turn of the last ten years by progs has been far more discerning about whose esteem should get boosted.
Jiro
27m ago
Also there’s the fun phenomenon of GOP officials fearing right wing violence.
Your links are spin. They are deliberately mixing up fear of "retaliation" (meaning standard politician stuff), Internet death threats of the type every celebrity gets, genuine death threats that are not from right-wingers, and maybe something that actually qualifies but is cherry picked.
birb_cromble
28m ago
How's your magnesium intake?
I've noticed that I have restless sleep when I get deficient.
07mk
28m ago
I mean, how do you surprise your live in romantic partner with a political assassination? They really didn't see any signs?
If their household was particularly leftist, then explicit death threats aimed towards people who have opinions that they sufficiently disagree with being just background noise isn't unlikely. Given that he's an adult with his own gun already, I don't think keeping this a secret would've been hard for Robinson regardless, but even if he didn't keep it secret, it's perfectly plausible that his lover just had no reason to believe that it was anything other than the umpteenth hyperbole said by him.
Pongalh
31m ago
This goes way back. In the 90s I understood the Republicans as the daddy party and the Democrats the mommy party. That notion seems stronger than ever now, though.
JarJarJedi
31m ago
That means that a) either there are some secret repositories of content which a lot of people can access, but somehow nobody ever can publish anything from there and everybody who has access is bound by an unbreakable vow to deny their existence; or b) literally everybody discussing this does it without actually doing the basic thing like watching the content they are discussing. Which is extremely sad.
HereAndGone
31m ago
hydroacetylene
31m ago
Yeah, MAGA base doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for the guy because most people don’t understand root causes and the healthcare industry sucks for ordinary people.
Pongalh
33m ago
As the world shrinks into ruins, this cool detachment becomes harder and harder to sustain.
Gobsmacking hyperbole that unfortunately undermines your reality-based take on social construction and language
HereAndGone
35m ago
Were we in the forum I'd ask for a word with your husband
Eek! I am so terrified by the invocation of authority! Fortunately for me, I abide contentedly in blessed singleness, nor have ever had a husband, nor ever felt in the need of one.
And this kind of attitude makes me very glad that God made me as I am, freed from the desire for the desire of others. Are you seriously telling me you are going to go running to your daddy that some mean girl was rude to you on the Internet?
JarJarJedi
35m ago
What's the point? If you can't find multiple sources with a casual search, then clearly it's not something that had been important about him, either as a person or as a public figure. Most likely he didn't say it, and somebody just invented it or perverted what he actually said to mean the opposite. Maybe he did in a stupid moment and deleted it, who knows. It doesn't matter. This only is relevant if you subscribe to the idiotic "inner demon" theory - which most of the social media peoples do, of course, because it's stupid - where nearly everybody is actually a vile demon, but you can't exorcise the demon unless you have "proof", and when they finally say something that you can attribute to a vile demon, that "reveals" their inner true nature and this is the only thing that matters about them now and forever, and you can ignore everything else, and proceed to the exorcism. You just need to be on the lookout when the demon reveals itself.
Pongalh
36m ago
This seems far more plausible in the age of "audience capture" facilitated by parasocial media. That was just beginning to percolate in 2011
hydroacetylene
37m ago
Most people think highly of their partners and don’t want to believe they’re murderers? Intentional ignorance is a hell of a drug.
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
38m ago
If you define leftism as forced economic redistribution
This is an unhelpfully broad definition. This would include things like the Inclosure Acts, which redistributed common land to private landowners, or Sulla's proscriptions, which redistributed assets from Sulla's enemies to his allies. I could go on, but seizing the assets of people you don't like and giving them to people you do is a pervasive element of political conflict. Identifying that as the distinguishing feature of leftism is confusing, not illuminating.
Jiro
39m ago
I occasionally donate to GiveDirectly because I believe in their premise: that the administrative efficiency of just distributing cash directly is so high that enabling the occasional bad behavior is outweighed by all the good behavior it promotes and bureaucratic behavior it avoids.
Widely distributing cash changes the incentives. Cash works precisely because giving it out is rare and thus people are not incentivized to behave badly in a way enabled by it.
JarJarJedi
45m ago
Tyler Robinson trial probably not a lot - what matters for him is what relates to the murder, and the motive is easy to establish based on his own words alone, no need to dig deeper. However if the feds decide to go after his lover as an accomplice, there all kinds of weird shit may show up. Maybe even defense will bring it up - "you see, this guy is getting off looking at pandas, clearly he's bonkers and can't be expected to make a reasonable judgement".
JarJarJedi
50m ago
If it's just general retarded talk then indeed the internets are full of it and the feds aren't going to bother with it. But if it's specific talk like mentioning specific plan, specific weapons and specific discussion, like where to hide the rifle and which way it's better to run away, then participation in such chat may be trouble. Probably not for "never talk to me about this again", unless the feds have a particular reason to haunt this person, because the likelihood of making a case on such basis is very small. But from what I read his pals may have been a bit more supportive than that... If that's true, they may have some unlpeasant time ahead of them.
thejdizzler
51m ago
Figured out how to "reduce stress" on Oura ring readings. Basically need to make sure I take computer breaks throughout the day. Post lunch time walk, computer-free lab meeting, etc. have added a lot of restorative time to my days. This seems to be correlated with how I'm feeling as well.
Still waking up every single day at 4am. Usually manage to go back to sleep with a low dose melatonin, but is still annoying. My leading hypothesis is something to do with blood sugar, am trying to eat more fat and protein. Any tips/thoughts appreciated.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
Whoops, accidentally left a stray "the" in. Thank you for the correction.
No_one
1hr ago
NewCharlesInCharge
1hr ago
Not that Loughner wasn't deranged and assigning him to a political category is a fool's errand, but there were six killed in the shooting.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
From - not really because in general I would never buy anything based on ads alone. But I am using VPN that also had sponsored some youtube channels which I watched. I didn't decide to buy it because of that, but I can't say it didn't influence me in some way - it does have some alternatives which are also acceptable, and maybe if I've seen their ads I'd decide otherwise, hard to know. I.e. in general I'd never buy something I didn't previously know or research just because of ads, but I admit an ad can make me aware of something (which after research may prove worthy of buying, or not) or influence my choice between equally good alternatives. Didn't happen to me a lot but I have one example.
I sometimes call myself a centrist, even though I don't like the term because it's too redolent of 2-dimensional thinking and has too much baggage. When I do call myself a centrist, it's only because it's a convenient shorthand that other people quickly understand, not because I ever care about being in the center.
One thing's for sure. I am not some kind of hybrid of a leftist and a conservative. Lakoff is wrong about that. Indeed, leftism and conservatism both repel me.
I'm just someone who happens to have a bunch of political opinions and preferences, and some of them overlap with leftist ones, and some of them overlap with conservative ones, and some of them overlap with neither. My worldview is not any less consistent than the leftist one or the conservative one.
The whole idea that centrists are biconceptual is just wrong. Some self-identified centrists might be like that, but it is not true of centrists in general.
Unsurprisingly, I think that my views are better and more correct than the views of either leftists or conservatives. So to use an arrogant analogy: a man who thinks that 2 + 2 = 4 is not a mix between a man who thinks that 2 + 2 = 3 and a man who thinks that 2 + 2 = 5.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
2hr ago
I subscribed to Factor for about a year, I had a long commute so it was worth the time savings IMO and broke my Doordash habit.
I played raid shadow legends once for a bit. It was kinda fun, but ultimately more of a grind than I wanted was fine with letting it go.
Not from YouTube but I got ear buds that look remarkably similar to raycons but a Chinese brand I'd never heard of. They were cheap and let me play switch mini games in stereo, no complaints.
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