ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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4hr ago
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How? I agree that the Hottentot Morality criticism would be just as incoherent if it was about Russians defending themselves from a Ukrainian invasion, adding that would just be reduntant.
"My side is good so anything we do is good and justified, the other side is not-us and thus is bad, anything they do is bad and unjustified, even if its the exact same thing we do"
I don't see where this is happening.
That's odd, I distinctly recall lots of people being killed not just as a direct result of, but in the name of the Enlightenment.
And while I'm sure extreme pacifists existed among Enlightment thinkers, I don't think "it's morally wrong to repell an invading army" was a representative view among them.
ArjinFerman
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6hr ago
There is endless material by conservative economists and other such experts on the matter. You can disagree with the likes of Hayek/Friedman/Sowell/etc but to act as if no coherent arguments exist whatsoever is simply a skill issue on your part. Why be proud of your lack of knowledge?
It's been a while since I read them, but I don't recall any of their material about why it's bad to redistribute money, that will get redistributed no matter what you do, to your preferred social causes, instead of to the causes preferred by the social liberals. Can you perhaps post a link or two where they've made that case?
I'm a reaganite libertarian, "my side" has been for belt tightening already.
Reagan did not tighten the belt.
"When Russians shoot Ukrainians, that's bad; When Ukrainians shoot Russians, that's good". Such Hottentot Morality.
ArjinFerman
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12hr ago
On top of that, there's the question of comparative advantage. Early Rats really wanted to brush it off, something something we did not do comparative advantage for horses. For a long time, we kinda did, actually. Maybe one day everything gets automated, but simple accounting dictates that we fire all the lawyers, and hand them a broom first.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I finished the switch to flipbook based explosions, and it does look a lot nicer. I found another flipbook for explosive rounds, and I kinda like it, but there's still something about it that I doesn't sit right with me, and I'll have to keep tweaking it.
I replaced the projectile sprites with some ai slop, and I think it does look a lot nicer, I'm still not sure about the grenade, though.
I also played around with particle render ordering for the projectiles and set it to youngest particle on top. Surprisingly this actually gave me the effect I wanted. I was under the impression that the particle age has no relation to the actual projectile age, as the projectile simulation is not done in the particle system, but somehow it works. One unintended effect is that the grenade comes out on top when you're still covered by the previous one's explosion, but that's actually quite helpful as it shows you where you are, and where the next explosion is going to be. I'm thinking of coming up with some filter that would show the player position even when covered.
Next stop: I'll try to finally add some UI.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Oh, you got me there. I read the factoid from a book written by their first post-soviet PM, I don't think be mentioned that, but I read it ages ago.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
that will likely stick through the next Democratic President.
Why is that a requirement? Democrats have the right to implement their own policy they win. It's their decision, and not the Republicans job to cast magical spells that are supposed to stop them?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Which Spanish law are you talking about?
The recent-ish migrant legalization decree.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I think most people take "mass deportation" to mean of migrants, not citizens. So you can say that.
I'm sorry, I've just been through a similar process with trans activists telling me I shouldn't use "woman" as a biological catheogry, because it's a social construct that refers to gender, and that I should use "female" for that instead, and, a few years down the line, telling me I shouldn't use "female" because it's offensive. I have decided not to give much stock to people policing my language since then.
This is not just my position, it's the position of even some immigration hawks like Farage, who pushed back on Lowe for much less radical claims than full remigration.
Farage is not particularly credible on the issue, and either way, what does the spat between him and Lowe have to do with what "remigration" means? Why should I trust your interpretation of the word, over AfD explicitly saying what they mean by it?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
This is going to shift the pendulum back towards "trusted" "publishers" and stuff, where there is some sort of quality gate.
People have been saying that since Unity first came out. It won't. We have user reviews, no one needs """trusted""" publishers.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
you have to file formal paperwork and pay a fee to your prior country to de-citizen yourself there, after you've become a US citizen, if you so desire
Most countries are actually fairly chill about this, and said fee is the usual price of pushing through the paperwork that you have to pay to get literally anything done. Ironically it's the US that's rather strict about it, and hits you with pretty heavy exit taxes, though more countries are starting to talk about implementing something similar.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Do we…not?
I actually thought we required renouncing other citizenships before letting someone naturalize.
I think there are some words to that effect that you have to recite when getting the citizenship, but no, they're dead letter, and the U.S. is perfectly happy with dual citizenships, as far as I know.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
The original question that drove this thread is "are AfD far-right?"
If that's what is driving the thread, than it has gone completely off the rails. Here's their position on remigration, I have admittedly only scanned it very quickly, but I am not seeing "remove citizenship from natural-born citizens and deport them on the basis of ethnicity" anywhere in there.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Too wordy. Also, what I could have done has no bearing on whether you are using the term as a front to oppose any kind of stricter migration policy.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
This works both ways. How am I supposed to know that you didn't mean mass mean mass deportation of e.g. recent asylum seekers and migrants?
There would be a civil war if we tried this. They're not going to just let themselves be expelled.
If we done it now, at worst it would be riots, not civil war. They don't have the infrastructure for sustained resistance. If we wait until we're a minority than yeah, which is why some of us are trying to raise the issue now, rather than wait.
Except for South Africa all your examples are in times of war
It was after times of war, but if you want something better fitting, Estonia stripped all ethnic Russians of citizenship after it left the USSR.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Is it not customary for parties in Germany to have a campaign platform outlining all their proposed policies? That's how it works for American elections. They don't have to fully follow it
Of course it is, but as yout second sentence notes, this is basically campaign slogans but with more words.
And if the question was just about their party platform, I'm confused why people are acting like it's some sort of secret knowledge.
It's been a while since I saw any, but campaign posters are usually about not doing the latest insane thing that the government did. They shut down nuclear power plants? AfD wants to keep them. They started a War on Diesel? AfD says Diesel is awesome. Some might call this knee-jerk contrarianism, but we arguably reached a critical mass where knee-jerk contrarianism is a functional program for human flourishing.
On top of that, I'm confused why this is demanded only of them. Every other party runs on empty slogans. Conservatives say: "strong economy", soc-dems say "solidarity", what the hell do either of those even mean, and how they're supposed to be achieved under the constraints the country is operating in remain a mystery, and that's without mentioning the fever dream madness coming from Die Linke and the Greens. Yet, it's somehow AfD and only AfD that has to have a fully fleshed-out plan for all of society.
I think they might find out what countries like Hungary found out... just because you block immigration, doesn't mean you magically fix the economy or birth rates.
Even if all they tackle is the migration issue, it will be a significant relief for the criminal jusice, social welfare and education sysyems.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
How is that taking civil rights away? Are borders themselves civil rights violations? Are taxes?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
She would probably also be thrilled at how much women have advanced in society.
I highly doubt it. Back then, what we have now was an "uncharitable strawman slippery slope" that conservatives would use the try and scare people away from social reforms. If you beamed a woman from back then to now, her reaction would most likely be to "oh my god, they were right", and to become a nun, for good measure.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Now they need to wheel and deal in parliament to make things happen
What's the sort of thing that they could (theoretically) make happen on the state level, by the way?
Or, suddenly thrust into the driver's seat, they self-moderate their populism
What do you think they would need to moderate to become more functional? There was a time when the mainstream had a credible claim on just being normal, and populists could be portrayed as whipping up greviances to grift their way to power, but these days are long over. Nowadays it's populism that's based on just being normal, and the mainstream that needs to be forced to moderate through the threat of populists taking power.
That's not very convincing. For one, it completely blows up your earlier framing, it's not about "defending women even if..." , it's about supporting them only when they're in the same class, and even the class issue falls flat when you compare it to the reaction to JK Rowling. She was just as popular as true crime is now, when she made her comments on the trans issue, and legions of women built their identity around Harry Potter.
Money is fungible, so the fundamentality of the difference is definitely overstated here.
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