ArjinFerman
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I literally just want to figure out the most most efficient way to show the Boomers pushing the "just improve yourself and then women will flock to you" advice that this is horribly insufficient and increasingly divorced from reality.
You're not going to get very far with that. As anti-woke as this place is, a good chunk, possibly the majority, of the people here are progressive, and the only way they'll accept a criticism of progress is if you 50 Stalins it:
- Global warming can be accepted as an issue, because the solution is anything from galaxy-brained Green New Deals to maor nuclear power.
- The romance recession cannot be accepted as an issue, because the only solution that comes to mind is rolling back of progress
- Declining birthrates might be accepted as an issue in the future, particularly when it starts looking like artificial wombs are realistic, so we'll have a 50 Stalins solution to a progressive problem.
Other than that no one who doesn't fundamentally agree with you already will suddenly start, no matter the amount of evidence.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
How does this address the point that Biden's decline was obvious at the time that the book's author was complicit in it's cover-up?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
It will be, in fact, perfectly in their power to just continue Trump's policy. If they don't want that, they will be entitled to their decision, but it will be their decision.
Post repo, if gpt's solution doesn't work. Might take a stab at it when I have a moment.
Edit: oops, didn't see your edits when posting.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
How did they do Deepseek so quickly, if they're at such a disadvantage?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
If conservatism is when you refuse to address entitlements, blow up the budget deficit
Every post-war conservative seems to think it is.
What is Trump conserving exactly?
The population composition of the country, the definition of "woman" and "racial discrimination", children's genitals, classical architecture...
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Average guy on here, if you had fifty women throwing themselves at you, would you pick the top ten most attractive ones or would you sleep with all fifty?
I can tell you what I hope and pray I'd do, but I don't know if asking a bunch of wallflowers a question about getting attention like this will yield a realistic answer.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
You're talking to an Indian living in Europe, trying to dodge a marriage arranged by his auntie. If there's anyone here playing on hard mode, it's him... Well, on the other hand he is a doctor... Ok, so I don't know exactly what all that calculus comes down to, but if he's able to maintain some optimism, I think he's worth hearing out.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Trump spends more time with Elon
He had a debt to pay off to Elon, I doubt that Trump will be in any hurry to work with Musk again. If nothing else, two people with such massive egos don't tend work well with each other.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
I suppose I count as defending Hanania - I don't particularly like him, but I think hate for him here is absurdly overblown.
The hate he gets is just a result of people putting him on a pedestal. If it wasn't for that, he'd be indistinguishable from the blur of faceless Substackers that no one cares about. I wouldn't even care that he's calling himself "elite human capital", it's the fact that others agree with his self-image that is absurd, and warrants the reaction to him.
What corruption were the past few Democratic administrations engaged in that exceeded the level of magnitude and blatantness that Trump is now engaged in?
You really don't know? How can you claim Trump is worse if you can't even list a few things off the top of your head. I even gave an example in the other comment (though you did remove it when quoting it, so maybe there's some gaze-averting going on).
Even if you can list examples, why is your response to imply that makes Republicans immune from criticism now
This is why I originally said you're dismissing the argument that Trump doing better. Criticize him all you want, just don't act like MAGAs should be more outraged than they were about the previous administration. At least not without evidence.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Yes, but if they reverse his policy, the responsibility for that is on them. If the non-MAGA politicians want to act like "adults in the room" they need to stop blaming the parents for not hiding the cookie jar out of their reach.
I'm happy to talk about it, but I'm not willing to grant the assunption that Trump is obviously worse. I think we'd need some sort of standard to judge each administration's excesses, before we can decide which one is actually worse, and we don't even have that.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
What you're saying is that it continuing long-term is entirely up to the next administration. If they want to return to open borders that will be their decision, not Trump's.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
It specifically contrasted against Hunter Biden that Republicans spent years fishing for evidence against.
Are you talking about this paragraph?
Congressional Republicans spent years investigating Hunter Biden, the son of President Joseph R. Biden Jr., for trading on his family name to make millions of dollars, even labeling the clan the “Biden Crime Family.” But while Hunter Biden’s cash flow was a tiny fraction of that of Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Jared Kushner, Republicans have shown no appetite for looking into the current presidential family’s finances.
That's not a comparative analysis. Even assuming their conclusion is correct, I don't know how they made their comparison, and have no way of reproducing their result. Be my guest if you think Trump is more corrupt than Biden, but nothing you posted here can be a basis for discussion. You're just venting.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Well, hell, I'd at least think about voting for him if I thought he could or would carry out some of his grand promises.
He did actually stop immigration, though...
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
That's... what the NYT article was about?
I've only skimmed it, but I didn't see any sort of comparative analysis to the previous administrations, so it cannot back your argument.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
What? My position is that Trump is far worse in terms of corruption
I think you need something to back that argument, rather than assuming everyone agrees with you, and that anyone who doesn't is obviously wrong.
MAGA will never care about Trump doing bad things
Is MAGA worse than you in that regard? I don't recall you criticizing Biden (or his family / administration) much. Even about obvious things like hiding his cognitive decline.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
or otherwise claims something Biden did was somehow worse
(...)
Scandals and corruption used to be a thing that allowed the other party to come in and try to do better, but now they're used as a justification for the other side becoming even worse.
How can you dismiss the argument that he's doing better, just before complaining that people don't care enough about him doing better?
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
I think I recall either a bug report on github, or Zorba mentioning a glitch like this in the comments here. I might have even taken a look at solving it, but with no clear way to reproduce the issue, I think I'd rather do something more enjoyable, like repeatedly slamming my balls with a hammer.
Wildlife trafficking into Wuhan from places where bat coronaviruses occur naturally was very common and very poorly regulated, meaning even though these bat species weren't local, the market supply chains were.
Last I heard, the closest relative of COVID was found in a bat cave in Laos. Unless new info came out since, I find it hard to believe that the bats made it all the way to Wuhan without sparking the pandemic anywhere else prior. Coincidentally, I believe I heard that bats from that area were studied in the laboratory, so one plausible way that could salvage the wet market theory, is that a lab assistant was making some extra money on the side, and sold the bats at the market. But that is still a lab leak.
Studies from 2022 show early case clusters centering around the Huanan Seafood Market with positive environmental samples
Chinese studies don't have a good reputation at the best of times, even on non-political issues. It's extremely naive to believe a study on something so controversial would be done by the book, and with no pressure to come to the politically correct conclusion.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
What intelligence did the Germans have and bury?
The report you cite yourself? The point being made isn't that there was some evidence hidden from the public, it's that the available evidence favors the lab leak theory, which was dismissed as an insane conspiracy theory by the entire establishment.
Nor do I see what their motive for a coverup would be
Why does that matter? We know for a fact that it was not revealed to the public until 2025, as you say yourself.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
His point about the low caliber of right-wing discourse stands.
The discourse I'm familiar with is pretty high caliber, while Hanania is there throwing schoolyard insults, and crying when anyone returns fire. He is wrong, and a hypocrite.
Sure, I didn't mean that everyone at the motte is progressive, just a decent amount. Possibly a majority, but I'm less sure of that.
And I think RETVRNpoasters (of which I am one) will tend agree with him. Perhaps not on the specifics of the causes and the solutions, but on there being an issue, and the uselessness of boomer-tier "muh bootsraps" advice.
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