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42m ago
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Yeah, this is about right. From the other side, this juxtaposition is about as compelling as comparing trendlines of American workplace accidents resulting in loss of limb to Canadian hospital amputations and thinking it will BTFO the commies who support OSHA. ("More people are dismembered each year by Canadian doctors than by American factory floors!")
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11hr ago
I can't say I remember what exactly happened (did our stewards ever outright list what the Reddit overlords demanded of them in the end?), but I was under the impression that it was about much more than that, and there were specific demands from admins to ban particular opinions (content, not tone). Moderating on tone used to be touted as a core principle of this community, and it served it rather well, if you compare the quality of top posts when it was in place vs. now. Do slurs serve any purpose other than either pissing off those they are directed against (and their allies), or inducing camaraderie among those who know them and oppose those they are directed against? I don't see how gratuitously provoking irrational anger in some subset of readers could possibly make this forum better for its stated purpose, nor how allowing some users to bond over any shared identity (other than perhaps being a high-decoupling turboautist) would.
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22hr ago
Is there any sort of objective data on this?
I'm so looped out of the modern state of film that I had to google to even find out what she looks like, but she doesn't look less attractive to me than the median highly praised by men film star from back when I actually watched films, like, say, Keira Knightley. On a forum like this, opinions are doubly suspect; people's political opinions influence their aesthetic ones more than they tend to realise, and so I would expect many of the same people saying "slender teenage boy lacking in femininity" towards someone who apparently has a reputation for being a diversity casting prop to be gushing about her cuteness if she were a based and redpilled MAGA princess instead.
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1d ago
Are we going to ignore the elephant in the room that is AI? It is bound to do something to the university system, even if it is just further decoupling the college experience from hard skills. If humans do not intellectually contribute to the object-level problems in the workplace anymore, then there can not be any pretense that any job requirements for them are about anything other than manners, that is, how they relate to other people; and so college will have to go all in on its role as finishing school.
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1d ago
I think we've had this discussion here more than once before, but there's a general failure of theory of mind between men with "tits and ass, more is better" preferences towards female physique and those with "thin and elegant, strong but fragile" ones, with each suspecting the other of preference falsification or being somehow fundamentally defective.
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1d ago
Your gloss is pretty good (and, unironically, I appreciate that you theory-of-minded me fairly there). In my defense, I don't think you were saying what you mean when you chose to use "foid" either; and I don't think I've been exactly hiding my long-standing frustration with how the community rewards and moderators allow free-wheeling use of slurs in service of right-wing positions (as long as they are not crossing the window frame against racism that was already in place ca. 1980). In this situation, detached sarcasm feels like the only available outlet.
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1d ago
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The parent poster fantasises about stoning, a punishment that is only known/relevant in our cultural context due to its preservation in the memetic time capsule of the Levant ca. 500BC that is Old Testament Christianity. The reference to Jack Chick, as one of the most internet-famous proponents of Old Testament morality, is apt enough.
(All the more so because I don't even think the Old Testament, or other historical texts, tend to opine particularly strongly on transsexualism or crossdressing per se. Once you get into "apply Old Testament punishments to modern American bugbears, while entertaining the belief that this is a human universal" territory, Jack Chick becomes a very iconic choice indeed.)
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5d ago
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I didn't realise we were running a DEI program to increase right-wing representation in tribal brainrot here.
If we do it too hard, the betrayal will be great when it inevitably comes out that our latest 3x AAQC awarded MGTOW knuckledragger faked his CV and is actually secretly a stay-at-home husband for a muscle mommy female CEO.
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5d ago
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I might be out of the loop there, but does this term actually have a more specific meaning or is it just "woman" with a layer of incel sneering ("woman (gross and stupid in the way women are)")?
For her, all of it - literally all of her waking time - is emotional pattern matching. "Does this thing go in the "make me feel good" bucket or the "make me feel bad" bucket?. That's it. That's the rubric. There isn't even the introspection done to determine how and why she has developed various emotional attachments. Not to "Freud a Foid" too hard, but does Elon remind her of the kind austic guy she dated in college who was bad at sex yet still ended up awkwardly dumping her? Is Trump "an asshole" because he is literally the same age as her estranged father?
Paragraphs like this make me think that if you want to really understand your outgroup, talking to someone like a divorced elder millennial woman is a fundamentally misguided approach, for you in particular. Your story could be more or less glossed as "this person believes things that are diagonally opposed to what I believe. I don't see a coherent way that anyone could arrive at this, but well, she is a primitive, pathetic creature that is not at all like me. I figure she believes those things for some primitive creature reasons". You are making it entirely too easy for yourself, and wind up with a conclusion that is largely useless. What you should instead be doing is seeking out people that are the most like you, who you will not be tempted to explain away as motivated by feelings or daddy issues, and still come to the same conclusions. There is no shortage of male contrarians out there who also sympathise with the DSA, find Elon disgusting and think Trump is an asshole. Try to talk to them, and understand why they believe those things.
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6d ago
Well, there are, but iirc they are the people (associated with each housecollege) you get sent to for a stern talking-to (or more) if you engaged in mischief such as copypasting your supervision work or pennying Stephen Hawking (PBUH), not part of the research hierarchy.
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6d ago
I assume the mystery is where such an implausible story could have come from and why a certain group of people (including ones who seemingly staked their good name on it) would so tenaciously maintain that it is true, and the resolution is that there was a real story that served as a basis and got warped by a plausible misunderstanding.
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7d ago
The parent post was only talking about spousal visas, not whatever process there is for other relatives. I don't see why bringing in parents/siblings shouldn't be restricted.
(Quick Google search, on that matter, suggests that annual number of spousal visas issued is about 15% the number of annual naturalisations in the US, so it can't be that big a factor.)
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7d ago
How many instances do you think are actually IQ 85 citizens inviting "another random person", as opposed to the probably far from random person that they chose to make pivotal to their self-actualisation and life plans? A $200k cash charge would filter out not just 85 IQ citizens with mail-order brides, but the vast majority of native/foreign couples. Do you think your candidate wants to explain to his electorate why they should be denied a freedom that almost everyone in the developed world enjoys?
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7d ago
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In concurrence with @Terracotta below, I can't feel anything other than second-hand embarrassment for this article. The author spends, per Firefox's reader mode estimate, "33-42 minutes" whining. All these things apparently just happened to him and his tribe out of nowhere. It does not even occur to him to ask the question where exactly his people went wrong, if they could have done anything different then or now, or to consider that they might have any sort of agency at all.
On that matter, chances are high that his bewildered grandma was in the class of people who were calling another sitting president as "Obongo" in their FB posts (but calling the current one "Fuckface von Clownstick" is where moral degradation truly has gone too far?). I'm yet to see an instance of that tango being danced by a single dancer.
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7d ago
Or you could just move to the libertarian utopia of Somalia, where state capacity is low and you do not have to pay taxes to government.
This does seem like a dubious dichotomy. The statecraft of prosperous countries has converged to a remarkable degree, but that doesn't mean that "the way prosperous countries do it" and being piss poor are the only two options. Complain about absolute monarchy in 1000 AD, and your snarky interlocutor might have suggested that you just move to the anarchist utopia of Greenland instead!
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7d ago
I did have the sense that Land Economy's bad reputation was more founded on the sort of people who chose it (the stereotype said directionless and dull scions of the landed gentry, whose parents perhaps figured they would have to make some high-level decisions about the use of their inherited land holdings one day) rather than the substance and rigour of what was being taught.
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8d ago
Don't forget revenge porn laws that allow them to nuke anybody who publicly shares photos that these women themselves transmitted.
In the context of what you are responding to, this seems rather like an arson-murder-and-jaywalking complaint. They are destroying internet anonymity, and I'm not allowed to repost their old OnlyFans pics anymore!
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8d ago
Markets: I consent
Investors: I consent
Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
I'm of course aware of the meme template you are invoking, but surely it applies to every instance of regulation. If there were no consenting market or investors for, say, selling cocaine, slaves, thalidomide or rat meat labelled as "beef", then banning those things would not be necessary. Conversely, the meme presumably is not funny in its original context to people who do think that Jesus/Allah/middle-aged ladies have a right to restrict the sexual dealings of consenting adults. While it may serve as a catchy package to convey the memester's value system on the topic, it rarely conveys any information or insight that would force someone else to change their judgement of a situation based on theirs.
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10d ago
Unlike the other topics discussed, though, the gun control thing doesn't even parse as particularly right-wing outside of the American context (except insofar as we're all living in amerika). Generally, on the balance, right-wing means authoritarian means more rights for narrower groups and less rights for the masses.
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Out of these, I'm not sure anything other than child benefits count as a valid example. Abortion laws restrict female behaviour, but I don't see how they would "make relationships and children look like a better choice for men" - if anything the possibility of a pregnancy that you won't be allowed to abort adds a risk factor to relationships for men (who would be on the hook financially and often reputationally) as well. At least in Germany, the tax breaks for the married are essentially designed in such a way that they reduce the tax on the difference between the greater and the lesser earner, so men in a marriage only benefit to the extent that they pay more than their equal share into it and you might as you well see it as a tax credit for subsidising your wife. A 0<x<1 fraction of negative money is still negative money.
That being said, my meta^n-contrarian streak aside, I agree the original post should not be in this list. When reading something with the AAQC label, I hope for something a bit more rarefied than a standard internet argument, even a winning one; but a refutation of an assertion (which a supermajority of the community already clearly disagree with) with three unsurprising counterexamples and the claim that you have never personally seen a counter-counterexample is something you can find just about anywhere. This seems like a pretty egregious case of AAQC being used as a "super agree", with mod complicity. (Sorry to @faceh, whose post wound up being the jar of skub through no fault of his own.)
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11d ago
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Yeah, sure, but the same can be said about the Holocaust. (How much sleep did people lose over the Khmer Rouge, or Stalin's mass starvation campaigns?)
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12d ago
Sometimes, when the cultural gap is too wide, your conspiracy theories don't land as intended.
Famously, when the Japanese in WWII got a load of the finest anti-Jewish propaganda, their reaction was something like "that's awesome, how can we harness this power".
Now, what do you figure is the outcome if you tell the Japanese that thing about reptilian overlords?
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12d ago
Well yeah, isn't Hawaii one of the most brazen recent examples of conquest-colonialism? The only thing standing in the way of a morally justified reconquest there is that there is no nation that can reasonably claim to stand for the original inhabitants anymore.
Do you believe life would in fact be better, per your own value function, on the balance if inexplicable fences were always and everywhere respected as suggested in Chesterton's parable? You might have gotten some more decades of prohibition on homosexuality (until some threshold of medical advances is met), but you might also have gotten another 300 years of Mesoamerican human sacrifice culture (I figure it took at least this much until science had gotten to a point where it tried to give plausible rational explanations for why that tradition emerged and persisted).
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