ArjinFerman
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Who? I think you’ll find that the subjects in each of these sentences are actually different people with different incentives.
Every institution has different decision-makers in it, with various incentives, it's still completely normal to talk about the decision made by the institution as a whole.
For example, did you know that neither Scotland nor the UK are actually in the EU?
And? The EU is still importing Russian oil, pushing safetyism, and driving out investment. The only axis where they're not-quite-so-bad as the UK is freedom of speech, and it's probably just a question of waiting a few years. And the fine in question is actually being levied by the EU anyway.
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28d ago
I'm sorry how is that a counterexample to anything we've posted so far?
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28d ago
To what extent is this applied fairly in England? E.g. if someone posts "death to the Jews" or "English people should all die in a fire," do they get Big Brother knocking on their door?
What do you think? They're still dragging their heels about the rape gang fiasco, you think they'd do anything approaching fairness regarding Muslim shitposting?
Where do you see these claims, specifically, and what have you looked into?
We recently discussed the case of Graham Linehan, though my favorite example is some blokes getting arrested for arrenging trans flags to look like a swastika. The UK in particular is documentably so bad, that at this point the burden of proof is on you to show that they are being reasonable.
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29d ago
I guess I'm not sure we're much of a compound organism anymore.
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29d ago
Deterrence doesn't work if your threat was already carried out before you even made it.
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29d ago
A position like "more smart prosocial immigrants, but fewer stupid violent ones" will be ejected by the former camp because the "fewer" part just diluted and muddles immigrants-good sentiment; likewise, the latter camp will eject it for the "more" part having the same effect on immigrants-bad sentiment
Executive function doesn't enter into it. The issue is that the two tribes have no reason to trust each other, and that there are too many people with the "accept compromise, but keep fighting" mentality, so the only rational strategy is to swing the status quo as extremely to your side as possible (even beyond what you might actually want), and then fortify it as best as you can.
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29d ago
This might be true in the sense that there might have been a lot old shacks that have fallen into disrepair, but if something was well-built, it wasn't ugly by design the way things are now. Even 16th century social housing projects are reasonable to look at.
I still think the problem of 'how to get good immigrants' is easier than 'how do we fix our industrial policy' or 'how do we make our people have more kids'.
I don't think there's enough good immigrants to go between Europe, the US, Japan, Korea, and if China ever joins that club, you can forget about it. I'm also pretty sure that deindustrialization and depopulation are deliberate policy, rather than innocent bumbling around by the bureaucrats.
Could be. Happened with Trump 2016, Brexit and Modi 2014.
Nothing quite so drastic, but an educated urbanite won't be caught dead sharing no-no opinions in public, so even their relatively low numbers just won't become apparent in conversation. Though funnily enough it might come up with parents fretting over the political opinions of their kids, their sons in particular.
I really don’t think there’s an equivalent on the right. The idea is preserving order through continuity, in principle.
Eh, there's plenty of people, even semi-organized groups, that share the fears of being genocided and that fantasize about the Boogaloo, there were even lone wolves that actually killed people. What you don't get is the sort of "no one is in favor of political assasinations, Chud, but teehee isn't it great that someone rid us of that turbulent priest" reactions that you could see on the left.
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30d ago
Europeans are proud. Trump has taken a sneer-and-condescend approach towards European politics. It's a bad strategy towards any institution. But, it's catastrophic towards Europe. I visit Europe every couple of months. Yes, urban educated circles aren't a representative sample.
"Aren't representative" isn't even the half of it. Educated urban circles aren't even representative of educated urban circles, anyone with 2 braincells to rub together is in full Havel's Greengrocer mode, and the ones that do actually side with the regime are having palpitation over populist parties getting more and more mainstream.
They need immigrants.
Any country that bothered publishing statistics on the subject showed that non-European immigrants cost more money than they bring. The whole idea of solving our financial issue with them was ridiculous from the start.
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30d ago
What exactly were you expecting, given the marking scheme for this assignment? Why are you still looking for ways to shit on the student, now that it's abundantly clear the issue is with this professor / this university / the absolute state of academia in general?
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1mo ago
It would, if the top of the class isn't what it used to be, no?
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1mo ago
It can't be the first time, or any time, because it just doesn't fit the criteria for being an instance of the general case you claim it fits into.
Where did anyone argue against increasing standards? Where did anyone even show that the discussed case was an attempt at increasing standards to begin with?
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1mo ago
It is not college-level writing.
It isn't, or it shouldn't be?
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1mo ago
Do you disagree that "both parties are unarmed and in an enclosed space" is the modal practical scenario where any martial arts training actually makes a difference?
If we're talking men vs. women, yeah. Ages ago (possibly before moving offsite) someone posted a compilation of "girlfriend shocked at the strength differential between her and her boyfriend" Reddit threads, where silly playflighting games somehow gave the girls the idea that they're roughly equal to their boyfriends, and their world suddenly shattered when for some reason or another the boyfriend picked them up like a kitten. Technique can be important, but it's just not going to be a factor in a fight between average man and an average woman. Your 50th percentile woman (after training) vs 80th percentile man strikes me as extremely unrealistic.
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1mo ago
Say what you will about psychology, but if I submitted an essay based on Biblical inerrancy to a geology class, I would justifiably expect a low score.
If psychology was like geology, anyone bringing up the concept of gender would have to be treated as harshly as anyone bringing up God's grand design as an argument (note: there's nothing in her essay about Biblical inerrancy).
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1mo ago
Ran into another one of those "package covers 99% of my use cases, but god dammit wouldn't it be nice to have that 1%" situations. Not a big deal, but all workaround feel a bit ugly. Otherwise still trying to figure out if unifying local and external api views makes sense.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
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1mo ago
It's not meant to answer them. All they're doing is asking OP to give some time to the best pro-trans argument, which in their estimation is transmedicalism.
You can dispute that trans-med is representative of the average trans person, and say that the Queer Theory wing of the trans movement has most of the power and influence. Hell, you can even question the validity of the diagnosis itself like I do, but I don't see how you can say they conflated any of the claims you listed with the main claim they actually made.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I don't recall Amadan explaining that to me, but maybe I just forgot or only glanced at his reply at some point
Here.
It doesn't really change my point, thought the fact he's not banned right now is something I'll keep in mind.
Your point was about unfair moderator action, and you linked to that post as an example. What's the point of even "keeping it in mind" if you claim it doesn't change your point?
The conversation I linked is a great example of him not being hostile to anyone involved in the conversation, while people like Amadan are using tons of personal attacks.
For Amadan I can count "you are either being astoundingly clueless or just flat out disingenuous", and maybe "you have actually spouted a ton of bullshit", though applying your criteria it doesn't count since it's an attack on his claim, not on him.
For Darwin it's making a false claim, making another false claim to support the first one, and than declaring "I don't give a fuck about the claim being true". If that doesn't fit your definition of "hostile" I don't know how to convince you. Either way please explain to me how is having issues with this sort of behavior in any way "nebulous".
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1mo ago
I really don't see things recovering from where we are. We're kinda due for a big one, so the only winning move is to take power just before/after a crash happens, so it can't be attributed to you, and recover from there.
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1mo ago
Ok, another way I would formulate their point is "the 'trans cult' is not relevant to the average trans person, so please don't limit your discussion of the issue to internet crazies, goofy academics, etc.". This would give you half a point on claim 4, but only half, because "and in fact, every person that declares oneself 'trans person' is automatically suffers from that condition by virtue of that declaration" is not stated anywhere or even implied. Trans-med's are kinda on the outs of the progressive movement precisely because they disagree with that claim.
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1mo ago
Darwin was banned for a long time at some point. Is he unbanned now? I thought it was a permaban, but maybe I'm misremembering.
He was banned for a year back on Reddit. He got a clean slate after we moved here, and never got a long term ban after that. And you know that. It was explained to you by Amadan.
I've never seen an example of him getting hostile despite asking people multiple times for examples of his worst posts.
It's the very conversation you linked.
Consistently left-leaning posters have much higher moderator scrutiny and can follow all the rules and still get banned for frivolous rules that plenty of right-leaning accounts violate all the time.
A sentiment completely detached from reality, stemming from left leaning posters being too used to Reddit.
A great example is Darwin, who was a prolific left-leaning poster.
...who isn't banned.
There was plenty of consensus that he was "bad" in some nebulous way, but when I asked repeatedly what was wrong I was only ever given vague runarounds and examples of posts that proved my point like this one, where I disagree with Darwin's political point, but in terms of debate etiquette and rule-following his detractors are massively worse than he ever was.
What's nebulous about this? He confidently asserted something as fact, was shown that he was wrong, and then got hostile about it. Do you think this is good behavior? Why are you even claiming his political point has anything to do with why people think he was bad?
Didn't you say that you actually looked into several of them, specifically related to the UK and free speech?
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