4doorsmorewhores
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4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Why would Mr Musk or any other owner be forced to sell their stake to PMC corporations and not other rich people share his goals or ideology?
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Very nice
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
If my 12 year old daughter was groomed and then fucked by a 19 year old athlete I probably wouldn't be concerned about the judge being too mean in some meaningless statement.
They just replaced the word neckbeard with incel and carried on the same while never acknowledging the hypocrisy of either of them under the body/sex positivity movements they love or anything like that.
I don't want to be class reductivist. But no shit it's not a mainstay of warfare - because the methods and norms of warfare are set by the ruling elites and they obviously don't want to be in the firing line of reciprocal action. Do you think the 50,000 American guys that died in Vietnam would have preferred a series of assassination attempts on leadership or key figures to stem the spread of communism, even if it meant that Kissinger or William Rogers might have their cars blown up (I have no evidence or intuition that this would me more effective, nor do I intend to defend that position), or would the ungentlemanly breaking of norms upset them too much?
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
fellow rhyming username enjoyer
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
I'm not particularly sympathetic to the MAGA/right coalition, and I agree with many of the systemic and political factors others here have analyzed well. That being said, isn't the most obvious effect which is taking place here the result of left wing progressive politics constant demonizing of white males? It's not like we're a small group of society - we matter and there are a lot of us. Young people are less established in their politics and identity - they had to go somewhere, and cultural/political/media environments have spent most of the time telling them that they are greedy vain loathsome lazy stupid bumbling rapists, despite men and boys falling further and further behind in any number of key factors in that time frame (not to mention skepticism of these progressive claims at face value —that society was mostly fine as-is in the 60s etc and these critiques miss the mark — which I'm sure we're all familiar reading this website).
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
He gave a speech to some union today and was cracking jokes. Did Kate Middleton do that the 3rd day after she was in hiding? I don't remember.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
are you uglier than her or about the same or is she uglier than you? also how tall are you and do you have good hygiene?
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
If you would be willing to explain where I am wrong or even lay out what your belief or thought is I would be happy to read it. Hope this helps.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
Do you believe that the winner of the 2024 presidential election will only win because they were anointed by voters on November 8th? That seems like the weakest-possible stance.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
This is a bait and switch argument. At first the claim was "The party has current problems because instead of healthy party politics deciding leaders, they anoint whoever has the most name recognition or seniority in the previous regime", now it's "After a somewhat rigorous and unpredictable primary process with votes and wins all over the place, eventually they coalesced around a candidate who they thought was best (And who did in fact end up winning), which proves he was anointed"
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
Why should we think that they are incredibly focused on their appearance? Juries typically don't have that level of spotlight, and often have the opposite - being sequestered or the subject of media bans or privacy mandates. This seems like the weakest possible version of the argument, that some of the people in Austin are progressive, so we can assert that every or anything they do is performative. This is still lacking any reason to believe it's for appearances. I find it much more convincing that voters naively believe a single municipal law will solve homelessness or will stop the big mean border guards in their tracks.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
I don't think I'd describe anything he does as being the face of counter-culture. He starts half his routines with extended "Aren't black guys way better than white guys at sports/sex/whatever" (Seriously, watch any of his specials or youtube clips, he can't go 2 minutes without complimenting black guys), went back to host the show that cancelled him, and even did some bud-light grovelling after the boycott controversy.
He's a safe progressive with edgy vibes, way closer to Bill Burr than Jim Breuer
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
I believe you've done a motte and bailey by conflating the common public meaning of performative with a dictionary sociology meaning.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
How does it not matter, and how does that make your point stronger, and how can something be sincere and also performative? My assumption is based on what you wrote, nothing is built-in.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
I appreciate the dozen different irrelevant counter claims or suggestions that the opposite may be true, but I think this all demonstrates why accusing random strangers' actions of being performative is just a boo-outgroup exercise.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
Yes, genuinely held beliefs probably have some philosophical or moral reasoning that has led to a broadly consistent set, rather than ones which are sharply contradictory or inconsistent.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
I don't think it's clear that the causation of these issues all flow in the direction you suggest. Isn't it more likely to you that twitter (a large, lowest common denominator website) users' beliefs about these popular (the president, harvard, and the olympics) issues are reflective of the real-life happenings?
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
How do you know it's performative progressiveness and not the genuine beliefs of the people which act that way? Is there any way to test for this?
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
Wasn't that already the case? Incel as a popular phrase was coined in the 90s by some lesbian, do you remember hearing any panic or concern about it in the 90s or 00s before it became an issue for some men?
4doorsmorewhores
11mo ago
I don't understand the objection to posting and discussing hours-long interviews posted by a major journalist. Argument to moderation? But it seems proportional to me to have a bias towards sources which are disseminating the most information. You could similarly point out that 100% of themotte.org content is discussed on the internet, why not have an in-person or telephone portion? Because that's the medium that works.
4doorsmorewhores
11mo ago
How can we be certain that they didn't give those instructions? If you're resolute in that claim then I'd like to see some evidence or a strong intuition. All we know is that they tried to hire Mrs. Johansson, were unable to, made public references to the film 'Her' with respect to the AI voice, and then hired someone who subjectively the majority of people conflate the voice of with Mrs. Johansson.
If this was a more mundane dispute, say about a restaurant acquiring a hamburger recipe, all of these facts would probably lead us to believe there was an effort to get the goods without due permission. Adding in the prior of this particular company playing very loose with intellectual property rights and ownership pushes it to very likely that they did what everyone here is suspecting them of, and certainly if it was entirely innocuous, they did themselves no favours showing the contrary of our suspicions and made no effort to show anything dispositive in that respect.
4doorsmorewhores
11mo ago
We have correctly and broadly recognized that you can impersonate someone by using someone else's voice. This is the Siri equivalent of hiring a 55 year old teacher who just happens to be named Taylor Swift to endorse your brand of makeup
Here's when a snack company did the same thing to Tom Waits:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/waits.html
This is so under-analyzed, I think the exact opposite could be asserted. This will force large PMC corporations to sell, as the wealth tax will be harder for them and their shareholders to deal with, as they are less liquid than Johnny P Billionaire—as the structure of their firms demands that all money be invested efficiently unlike individual billionaires— this will lower prices and allow rich individuals like Elon Musk and the like to step in and rein in control.
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