ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
How do you know they got caught easily, rather than it being a fluke due to abnormal incompetence? Do you find nothing odd about the smooth transition from lack of examples of it happening being proof that you're right to an example of it happening being proof that you're right?
ArjinFerman
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13hr ago
I'm not asking you to be friends with anyone, I just think if you're going to label things, you should label them properly.
ArjinFerman
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13hr ago
The sort of tribalism you describe is far older than anything remotely resembling secularism, and "identity" does not have to involve bespoke marxian analysis.
As far as I'm aware for most of history people had a much stronger sense of collective identity, and they were fat less secular than nowadays.
Oh yeah, I remember thinking I should look into that. Actually the murder rate started dropping from it's absolute peak when he became mayor. Maybe it's a coincidence, but something like a quarter of the entire country lives in the capital, so it's plausible.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
How is identity "secular morality"?
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
What evidence would you expect to see, if there were more people trying out this scheme, and getting away with it?
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
This combined with the recent Puerto Rico case serve as good evidence of how hard getting away with such a widespread conspiracy would be
If she doesn't get caught, there's no evidence of it ever happening.
If she gets caught, that's evidence of it not happening on a wider scale, because more people would be caught.
Impeccable logic.
ArjinFerman
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23hr ago
...or leave the ECHR. The Brits are already floating the idea...
I’m not sure it did. See section 3. If those stats are right, the murder rate peaked four years before Bukele got the presidency, and three more years before he started imprisoning everyone.
There are two problems with that:
- The peak that the murder rate dropped from was absolute insanity. The "stable" level before it was still a deranged 3rd world level of murder.
- The annual statistics obscure what actually happened. People look at the yearly rates, then check the year Bukele took office, and conclude that by the time he showed up El Salvador was already on a neat downward slope. What they don't check is the month he took office - it was June - so he had a full half of a year to implement his approach to law enforcement, and for it to bear fruit. The monthly statistics bear this out, there's a massive drop in homicides the very moment he's sworn in, and the whole reason it looks like 2019 is part of a downward slope, is because of what happened during that year. Prior to Bukele, El Salvador was on track to stay at the ~50-ish / 100K homicide rate that was "natural" to it. There's another massive drop exactly when he did start imprisoning everyone.
Also, I don’t get the impression his campaign was actually focused on one weird trick. Running a general law & order message isn’t that weird.
I follow him on Twitter, dude literally reposts "fix everything easily switch" memes.
By the same token, there’s no one weird trick to Sweden’s policy. It’s not like someone ran on a single issue of opening the gates. Liberal policy plus world events equaled a ton of migrants.
"Liberal policy" is the "one weird trick". Look at a map. Tell me how Syrians end up in Sweden, but somehow skip Denmark or Poland without someone trying out a "one weird trick" (which was them literally inviting the Syrians over, along with Merkel and her "refugees welcome" bit).
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Airdropping migrants into the outback, Fortnite style, buys you nothing.
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The whole point is it gets you fewer immigrants at worst, and people who cracked terraforming at best.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
So is it freedom of movement that's demanded, or deeper labour market integration? IIRC, even between EU countries, freedom of movement does not imply you get to stay anywhere you want long term, unconditionally.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
The road to hell is paved with agitators certain their one weird trick would bring about the revolution clean energy a balanced budget ethnonationalism.
Worked for El Salvador.
In the case of Sweden, it was literally regularly cited as an example of progressive utopia back in the 00's, until they became a meme after a different type of one weird trick.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
And the EU has repeatedly been very clear on the matter: if Switzerland wants to keep its current level of economic integration into the EU, freedom of movement is not optional. All bilateral agreements will be dissolved if freedom of movement goes.
I'm not following. Why couldn't they leave the borders open for EU citizens, and close them for anyone else? Or even if absolute freedom of movement is non-negotiable, there's all sorts of stuff you can control, like work permits, residence permits, and welfare.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
- Step 1: conscript Somalians
- Step 2: invade Somalia with your conscripts
Problem solved.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Now ingenuity can make it work but the empty space is unused for a reason.
"Make this place liveable, and you can stay" doesn't sound like bad criterion for a residence permit.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
The headline pic fell victim to abbreviation. The full text probably would be too clunky to fit, so the cut it up without realizing it makes no sense anymore. The tweet they reference in the headline is a bit lower on the page.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Call me a Western supremacist and racist but on Feb 27th I did not expect Iranians to come out looking more decent.
Maybe you haven't been paying too much attention to them - I've been mildly impressed with Iran since the Global War on Terror days under Dubya - or maybe it's my own bias - I have nothing but contempt for western elites. Perhaps a bit of both.
It's not like Hegseth has bad facial features or that I get the ick. It's that his entire shtick is shit. His… ah, I've already covered that, didn't I. Aesthetics is correlated with holistic value.
My personal opinion on the matter is that paying too much attention to aesthetics got us Ursula von der Leyen, and the entire European establishment.
I see where you're coming from, and there's something to be said for the argument. I'll even add that I hope we end up with someone better after Trump leaves office. President Hand Grenade was fun as a protest against the treasonous ruling class, but someone like him is not viable when you want to actually wield power, rather than permanently play the plucky underdog.
I concede I should have added the third line, for example: "and then Trumpists fucking lose, having debased and betrayed themselves for nothing".
No argument there. I've been calling this whole affair a disaster since day one.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Throwaway, upon everything we've seen while I was out – do you think calling Trump and Hegseth, these two powerful men in particular, swine and worse – was undeserved?
Compared to who? As long as it's the Iranians I can agree, but none of this is new for Western, or any other sort of leadership. There's another post of yours that has not only aged well, it reached out back in time and is perfectly applicable retroactively:
Well yeah, this is about culture. I am not appalled by the civilian death toll, 170 is rather low for a major operation as far as these things go. Pete offends me aesthetically.
It's all there is to it, and all there ever was.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
A filter doesn't change shoulder or jaw width or whatever
Aee you sure? I think I've seen examples of land whales trying to pretend they're slim hotties via filters. Aren't there literal sex change filters?
Have you had a look at her Instagram? Or her photos on Google?
Yeah, they look mostly passable, with a few being a bit uncanny valley, though maybe it's because I was primed.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Or look at her Instagram (apparently she's in Paris, which is good to hear).
The website famous for people posting their unfiltered photos?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
I genuinely don't know what to believe anymore.
It's simple, the thing to believe is: we don't know. I think the only issue with the report is that they sensationalized the number in the executive summary, and the way they phrased it later on was fine.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Much like with woke, I'd be careful about declaring an end of world-dominant ideologies the first moment they stumble after an uninterrupted winning streak. I can grant that the ruling elites seem to be nervously coughing about the slogans they were pretty enthusiastic about a mere few years ago, but they set into motion some rather large trends, and I'd say they are likely to continue on the strength of inertia alone. See, for example, the screeching about NY congressional elections, things like this are only likely to keep happening more, not less. Same applies to talk of "muh chips" reindustrialization, be it in Europe, or the United States for that matter - hopefully I'll be proven wrong, but so far it's all just a meme.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
But also:
"Taken" doesn't code 'the outsiders are harming us' i.e. whites, but this movie does.
You can have two very similar stories going over the same beats, but having two different messages.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
I haven't seen Citizen Vigilante but in regards to Taken I would say that this attitude says more about you than it does the movie.
I thought he's saying there is no race angle in Taken, but there is in Citizen Vigilante?
This bit here:
I don't think "secular morality" - without any qualifiers - does that, and the instances of it that do don't seem to appear more frequently than religious morality that does the same.
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