2D3D
1d ago
I am boringly centrist and it is simply because they did not include the fun questions like 'are some races less worthy of existing' or 'would you kill' or 'is capital punishment justified'. Maybe the really heinous stuff is beyond what can be published online, but I'd really like a polcomptest to really just fucking commit.
2D3D
3d ago
Keep geniuses hotties and femboys, shoot everyone else at the border. There is literally zero downside to this rationale.
2D3D
4d ago
I find the pretense of caring about employers a sanewashing exercise, a firmer straw grasped in the sea of bad excuses of why the state is wrong to enforce borders. "Its hypocrisy!" is currently the complaint of choice because "its morally good!" got destroyed as an argument by voting populations repeatedly. The enemy is the evil white man, so every effort must be made to support those the evil white men hate, which is what sets me as a good white man away from the evil white man.
This complaint that ICE is bad is proceduralist wheelgumming. Whats the end objective of this complaint? Better ICE practices? Deporting actual criminals exclusively? Noninterference with peaceful protestors? Every wargame ends with "never deport illegals". Garcia Zarate killed a US citizen and for that he was acquited of his crimes and deported just like his previous deportations and allowed to saunter back in effortlessly. Complaining that ICE is targeting US citizens is just the latest attempt to stymie any attempt at The Bad Guys (white men) getting any win at all.
2D3D
4d ago
Agreed. The blues do maintain narrative and legal escalation dominance and population level coordination, while kinetic red advantages are restricted by appetite for really going full ayatollah.
You know what reds CAN do? Abbott 2.0.
The blues communicate their love for their precious migrants so much, just keep bussing them over. Unlimited bus tickets to the lands of milk and honey and love that the blues specifically say they want to encourage. If the migrants are such a massive economic advantage shouldnt the blues be racing to get every single body coming over. The reds can totally just bus them over!
2D3D
4d ago
Widespread social censure and denial of services without vetting. It is clear the somalis are exploiting lawfare with the help of activists, the solution then is to punish the facilitative ecosystem. This ridiculous attitude of dropping a case just because of a minor procedural hiccup on race grounds is a ridiculous self inflicted wound and it is the festering pustule that will destroy the USAs ability to coordinate against internal system wide defectors let alone external stressors.
2D3D
4d ago
Bring back Cops. That was effectively early bodycam footage days but with a cool voiceover and better editing. Most people being arrested are shitty people, this blue belief that every criminal is just jean valjean stealing a loaf of bread to get by will be regularly battered by continual evidence of pantless gangsters being assholes.
2D3D
4d ago
Neither side really cares about the national project anymore. To the blues the land they inhabit is filled with evil white men who should be destroyed so that peaceful browns can be nurtured by the Good White Women, while the reds think the land is filled with traitors that would happily keep destroying anything that made the land viable so long as college guilt complexes can be resolved. There is no national unity proposed by either side, no common cause. There will be no civil war but at the same time there will be no civility, just islands of globohomo blues talking to each other among a sea of disgruntled reds.
2D3D
4d ago
Please, the blues have zero appetite for civil war. They want to cosplay as revolutionaries but won't ever pull the icky trigger themselves. By observed action the blues want to lawfare and shame the wielders of force, especially the Minnesota National Guard, to be the embodiment of Tim Walz Good Guy With Gun that will stand against masked fascist. Trump gives the blues animating purpose in finally fighting the saturday morning evil white man villain cartoon of the 2010s, a categorical evil with his army of jackbooted thugs all with ontologically evil motivations. Its the moral high of getting upvotes on instagram for #Resistance, and they feel especially virtuous because this time they put on boots to go outside. WOW SUCH SACRIFICE.
The absolute zero attention blues paid to Iranian protests and in fact continued support for Hamas just shows what the priority is: cosplaying Good Guy against the evil empire. Europeans screamed that fully legal deportation flights of convicted rapists were already illegal, so what difference does it make to forego restraint.
2D3D
4d ago
One reason to be charitable to republicans is that they do not actually wish for the foreign labour to have any rights at the expense of locals at all. The illegal worker is a resource to be exploited and discarded, not a soul deserving care and nurturing and resources. Any illegal on a chicken farm must be well behaved because his own peers will enforce the law to keep the gravy train going. For blues illegals breaking the law is the incentive to give even more resources as restitution.
2D3D
4d ago
Thats right guys, supercop dredd can solo arrest 30 bodies a shift, not like we have endless bodycam vid of an arrest requiring 2 to 3 vehicles and 2 to 3 agents each.
2D3D
4d ago
Look I participated in Occupy Wall Streets Zucotti Park protest because I wanted tacos and there was a hot chick smoking a tea cigarette there. If you've got nothing better to do and you know the fuzz aren't going to crack your skulls a protest can be hella fun. Getting a critical population mass so it isn't just single issue weirdos CAN be an intoxicating environment to be around, like a rave with less open drug consumption and better music.
2D3D
4d ago
Their legality should have been conditional on good behavior. Punish the Somalis first then go after the moralizing Pat Buchanan types that let them in under the name of jesus but didn't actually follow through with any active support. Though thats not the fault of the evangelicals that the somalia just lied about embracing jesus and found it bafflingly easy to just continue lying with the active aid of other whites that found it useful to hold an entire population of system defectors up as a cudgel against their proximate enemy.
2D3D
4d ago
Europeans actions betray a desperate hope that the world can be stuck at maybe early 2014 where US and Russia were friendly trading partners and no one cared about migrants. Davos took a disgruntled canadian with a chinese card in his back pocket to flip the bird at trump, while europeans spent the entirety of 2022 onwards both begging for USA to commit to fighting back against Russia while simultaneously refusing to punish Russia with any tool that could either be permanent or harmful to Europeans themselves. The revealed preference is to have someone else punch Russia just hard enough to forget this current regrettable state of affairs and return to the glory world where Europe could grow fat on Russian gas and moralize to others about rights.
If Europe could smack Putin down and help Ukraine as Europeans worried about Russia seem to vocally express, fucking just do it. No, Europeans are disinclined to act because it lays bare the clearest division: Hans will have to risk something just so Mohammed can reap the benefits of his sacrifice back home. The European governments are paralyzed from within: a single stroke of pen can make seizure of Russias assets legal just like how Russia seized European assets, and that same stroke can add a footnote to suborne ECHR to any domestic law. The only robust conclusion is that European leaders do NOT want to confront Russia, do NOT want to address their migrant issue, do NOT want to take responsibility for their own defense and expect the USA to bear the brunt. The European people may have genuine sympathy for Ukrainians being attacked by africans and dagestanis impressed into Russian service, but the sympathy ends where any European must sacrifice anything meaningful that robs from either locals about to Notice the problem of the migrants or migrants who riot over getting boring White People food instead of their own michelin grade culinary masterpieces.
2D3D
5d ago
Is the left willing to die for migrants more than the right is killing to kill for migrants? The calculus of the state is, for now, bafflingly still on 'migrants can to kill US citizens and we will defend the migrant', a brake on tensions while pressurecooking animus. What happens if the state says "fuck it, you guys settle it how you want."
2D3D
6d ago
Arbery is the case that SHOULD have rallied people, he was just a jogger that got shot for being in the wrong neighbourhood. Breonna was in the wrong place when her dipshit boyfriend shot back at police. Instead the rallying point was an overdosing career criminal who got recasted as a gentle giant, because he providing the spark for 4 years of US anger at Trump which was accelerated by COVID and progressives thought they could harness the energy for their revolution. They did, they succeeded, and the revolution failed. This next revolution will fail again, whether it will fizzle early or burn cities again is another issue.
2D3D
6d ago
"See! Democrats could care about the border and be humane about it! You republicans just love brown people suffering! Wait what do you mean Abbott is bussing them to my suburb? Biden said the border was secure, its just 2 million migrants camping in Eagle Pass, Texas is big why don't they stay there"
2D3D
6d ago
Most media prioritize local first instead of hypothetical deep pocketed foreign markets. Its just the math of cultural familiarity and limited upside from investing in the tastes of foreigners: hollywood tried selling pro China stuff to break into the market and for that we got Pacific Rim Uprising, which lost domestic gross for negligible xibucks, just like Iron Man 3 or Transformers 3 failing to capture mainlanders with the power of supplicating. Similarly China or Japan also prioritize local markets first. Only Korean Hallyu really committed money to the attempt and it just helps that Koreans are already shamelessly shallow so everyone they promote is already good looking, unlike Japs who have the weird crooked teeth for their idols and weird 80s hairstyle for the guys.
Frequent failures at breaking to overseas markets is hardly unique to China, it just is thermostatically relevant because China is relevant. Organic niche successes lack state push, so they escape notice.
Though since you're mostly westerners here, I'll leave one weird tidbit for you: there is one specific niche that was being pushed state level, and to roaring success until about a month ago (maybe). The Thai Culture Ministry has been very lax with who they disburse funds to, and some money ended up flowing to Boy Love dramas, with little state invervention against this unexpected success. It is HUGE in womens circles that were starved for prettyboys eyefucking each other after China cracked down on danmsi few years ago, and I'm sure western women watch it in large but hidden numbers. The only reason asian prettyboy rotting of womens minds may be halted is because Heated Rivalry exists.
2D3D
6d ago
You specifically state that the CCP restricts bottom up engagement. China may be invisible at engaging the world, in which case their shit just sucks too hard for people outside to care about (a valid take indicative of preference shaping) or the Chinese propaganda effort is just not working - which is a less valid take since it assigns intent where none reasonably exists. Chinese media isn't interested in getting money from foreigners, when theres 1.4 billion people domestically.
granted, the Chinese state DID make an attempt at engaging the world directly for awhile, and those efforts sucked shit. Confucius institutes, hypernationalist movies with weird foreign tokenism (The Great Wall, Wolf Warrior 2, probably some other crap not worth remembering) and the brief time Zhang Ziyi was let out her cage were all probably attempts to directly showcase CHINA AWESOME, to manifest failure.
Right now many China boosters are mainly antiwokes holding up the proximate enemies greatest threat as proof of the failure of their foe, not necessarily admiration for Chinese products or media. Chinese vidya and donghua has escaped the parties notice for now and is baller as fuck, but thats the domain of weebs, so obviously beyond cultured intellectuals such as ourselves.
I swear to all of you guys though on the bottom of my overweight ass, if you want to experience true China domination, go eat their supermarket sandwiches. Chinese supermarket chains on the mainland must have kidnapped the best Japanese food scientists and forced them to make unfairly good food, and it is shockingly price to quality effective. Something about supermarkets just seems indicative of Real Quality Of Life to my animal brain, and cracking the supermarket quick food aisle is what made me convinced Japan was a real country just like how the costco chicken is proof of US dominance.
2D3D
7d ago
I'm of the view that nobody can get to know China when the CCP so seriously restricts organic engagement from the bottom up with top down censorship and control
Perhaps try talking to Chinese people? The great firewall is one way restricting Chinese from accessing google or facebook, they've got wechat and bilibili and xiaohongshu. Nothing stopping you from shitposting on XHS to see whats up there, mainlander degeneracy is pretty top tier brainrot that doesn't need translation to understand.
Its not that Japanese are any less inscrutable than Chinese, whatever caricature of the Japanese or Korean people that has been internalizes as a representative modality is almost purely inference. Talking to westerners makes it sound like Japanese offices are filled with dead overworked corporate lifers and panty vending machines while Korea is the end boss of narcissistic consumerism.
Seriously, its like none of you guys here whining about China or Chinese people actually met anyone based in the mainland. No one is obligated to talk to someone for the sake of it, but assigning population level mystique is a category error. Talk to chinese people online, they're much more retardedly normal than you think. Less nefarious intent on dominating westoids, more shitposting on shopping livestreams.
2D3D
8d ago
Seems to be an exercise in semantic gotchas rather than interrogation of fundamental cognitive tensions. Honestly I thought there'd be more multilayered scenario trees to determine robustness of belief. I love trying to get the secret bad ending of those, or at least pretending one exists. Playing tbe Pathways UK game made me wish I could elope with a racist purple haired goth.
2D3D
8d ago
All sinic cultures have abysmal birthrates. Female empowerment both economically and standards wise is causal for birth rate fall, not govt policy. Then theres the insane academic environment that makes parents reluctant to have kids. Asian society overweights property and education to a crippling degree, and mass empowerment just means village peasants internalize the incentive structure of their more educated brethren. Maybe if we want to really bring birth rates up we need to let the upper class have multiple wives for dynastic purposes, and the womens clans receive shares of the wealth based on number of offspring, as is traditionally the case. Isnt that basically what happened with the milk tycoon.
Seriously the only way to stop this rot is to let subcontinental and MENA migrants have a fast tracked promotion carveout in newspapers and judge allocations. Otherwise these people get ton continually pretend their pets are Progressive Liberals Like Us But Brown.
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