ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
To be clear, I don't actually think either of the people I or Soteriologian mentioned are "the best X can produce", that was kinda my point. Sorry for the snark, but I didn't appreciate someone from the other side declaring who is supposed to be my champion.
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2hr ago
Lomez has an entire company dedicated to publishing abandoned books, and manages to do so without pizzas, glamour, or talking about his sexuality. Next!
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
That said, it's kind of a shame that Fuentes is the best the dissident right can produce.
Why? The best the left can produce is Hasan Piker, and the best the neoliberal center can produce is Destiny. Seems like everyone's roughly on par.
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11hr ago
Being given a handicap is the same thing as being given an advantage. It might be some British vs. American peculiarity, but I'm pretty sure it's valid.
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11hr ago
Nick never gave a straight answer.
I think the interview made it clear that Fuentes is, well, actually racist
Whatever gave you that idea? Was it Fuentes saying "I am racist"? How is that not a straight answer?
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23hr ago
As a fellow Siberian: put an electric blanket on your chair. A gamechanger in comfort for a fraction of the energy it would take to heat up the whole place. If your blood circulation is good, it doesn't matter if it doesn't directly warm your legs.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Alright, the local / API views are unified, made some fixes to the to the UI... looks like I'm past the point I was pre-nuking of my project (and yes, this time I have backups). Now the only thing left is some sort of an import / migration script from the old version. The refactoring was significant enough that this is essentially v2, and over time I managed to accumulate quite a library of Tweets, which I don't want to just drop.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Again, I am coming at this from the perspective that asking someone trying to work among Muslims to answer a question like this in public is hostile behavior.
For a given (very expansive) definition of "hostile", sure. The problem is that no one, and I mean absolutely no one, is under any obligation to be non-"hostile" to others. This sort of behavior is completely normal. Media, including public media, do it all the goddamn time.
He was in effect demanding that a woman he'd never met paint a target on her head.
And as for "deranged" - where I think it tips over into derangement is the fact that he specifically did this to a woman volunteering to fight Muslim domestic abuse,
The only people who are being offensive or deranged in this situation are the ones that would target the woman. Under no circumstances is the person asking the question describable as such.
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3d ago
What's baffling about it? Most European elites are on board for the same program. Particularly when it comes to free speech, they definitely do not see the UK as an aberration.
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3d ago
That’s why it’s foolish to present UK policy in a screed against the EU.
But the fine in question is EU policy? The bit about Scotland and Starmer was an aside at most?
The consumers of Russian gas are probably not steretypical Brussels bureaucrats
Did he say they're literally tanking their cars at Lukoil gas stations? The point is that they made the decisions that resulted in the EU buying lots of Russian gas/oil (part of why that chart you linked doesn't give the full story is that it's laundered through India, and other countries). This might be a necessity at the moment, but it's entirely a self-inflicted wound.
the safetyists in government are not upset about fining Twitter; the people who are upset are largely separate from the Musk haters.
Yes, the safetyists aren't upset at the fines, the safetyists want to fine Musk. That's the criticism.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
strikes me as exactly a case of what I assume dr_analog meant by cases that are "offensive to the point of derangement" such that, even if you don't approve of the laws, it's hard to feel too bad for this particular victim
That's insane. "Offensive to the point of derangement" means insulting and harassing people, not "being mean-spirited" or "not actually being concerned about religiously-motivated domestic abuse", if this was the actual standard, you'd probably have to arrest the entirety of the BBC, possible the whole of the UK government.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
It was a genuine question. Not everyone has the time to exhaustively get to the bottom of every culture war claim.
Didn't you say that you actually looked into several of them, specifically related to the UK and free speech?
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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3d ago
I'm sorry how is that a counterexample to anything we've posted so far?
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3d 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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4d ago
I guess I'm not sure we're much of a compound organism anymore.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Deterrence doesn't work if your threat was already carried out before you even made it.
ArjinFerman
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4d 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.
ArjinFerman
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4d 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.
ArjinFerman
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4d 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.
ArjinFerman
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4d 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?
He "deleted" it by editing it, so I think it's gone.
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